where to stand up for women's rights. now one and so down we three boys of egypt starting. on d w. this is developing news live from a day so joins in the mass expulsion of russian diplomats secretary-general against don't think. the military alliance ought to be expelled just follows the expulsions of more than one hundred russian diplomats in twenty seven countries also on the program. possible use of former separatist leader fast to never surrender the congress lawyer says his client will keep up this fight for independence as he

waits to find out whether he will be extradited from germany just back. i'm still gonna welcome to the program nights or has announced that he's sending home seven russian diplomats and denying the credit taken just three mole in response to the poisoning of a former double agent in britain an attack which london blames on moscow the move comes after twenty seven countries including britain the united states and many e.u. members said they would expel russian diplomats relations between the nato alliance and moscow were already strained of russia's annexation of crimea and involvement in ukraine and syria has nato secretary general to back. this sounds a clear message to russia but there are costs and consequences for it's an acceptable

and dangerous part on all behavior and it follows rosales a lack of construct a response to a cup and in soul spirit all are actions reflect a serious security concerns expressed by all allies on or part of the coordinated international effort to respond to russia will spearhead of years. of a dummy correspondent teri schultz is at nato headquarters in brussels welcome terry let's start with more of what the u.n. stoltenberg had to say yes secretary-general stoltenberg announced that nato has decided to expel seven diplomats out of the russian mission and block accreditation procedures for three more in addition it will force russia to reduce by a third the size of its mission here that's the second time that nato has forced russia to downsize the first time was after crimea was annexed in two thousand and fourteen so that means that

a maximum twenty diplomats will be able to staff the russian mission after today and what impact is this likely to have on relations between nato and russia. it remains to be seen what moscow will say about this it is planned that there would be a nato russia council coming up in the near future discussions were underway as to the agenda and the date and i suppose it's very possible russia will say that it doesn't want to speak to nato now if it's going to take what it will consider of a very hostile acts like this but secretary general stoltenberg was very careful to say that he hoped that dialogue would continue he pointed out that nato considers it important to keep a dual track approach that is to take stringent measures against russia for its aggressive behavior while at the same time leaving open the path to to talk but there was another message in stolzenberg stilton berg's words and that is that he mentioned specifically intelligence work done by russia so this is certainly

a message that won't be lost on the russians that stolzenberg said specifically reducing the mission was done to reduce the ability of russia to do intelligence work in nato countries so this is certainly a very strong message perhaps even stronger than it appears just from from the bare words and i would expect that the kremlin will have something to say about it so let's pick up on the points that terry most of these diplomatic expose some surprise i'm saying is that these diplomats are actually intelligence officers which does beg the question why is nato accrediting russian spies and what's the stated purpose that. i don't think you'd have any diplomat probably saying that they're crediting spies because that would be then shirking shirking their duties it's the belgian government who is responsible for actually issuing the accreditations but nato has to offer them a place and so cutting the number of russian diplomats of evony stripe will certainly in installed in berg's words reduce their capability to do that i think

that russia will respond very harshly but it's it's it's capabilities of having any sort of tit for tat action are limited when it comes to nato because nato doesn't have a big. mission in moscow it's got one military liaison officer at the moment and a nato information officer whose post remains vacant at the moment the rest are local staff i'm told so if moscow expects to have have any sort of dramatic expulsion activity it won't be against nato it will more likely be against these governments that have taken their own actions teri schultz of nato headquarters in brussels thank you i must take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world facebook boss mark zuckerberg has turned down a request to appear in front of a british parliamentary committee lawmakers want to question him about how millions of users details got into the hands of the london based political consultants in cambridge analytical you and i say she has been accused of harvesting facebook data and using it to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. election. is rumored to have visited china ported to trump whom

they strayed sources in beijing would only say that a senior north korean official had been in town if the rumor is true it would be the north koreans that lead his first visit since coming to power in twenty eleven comes ahead of meetings with south korea on the united states. in france two people have been charged with the murder of an elderly french jewish holocaust survivor eighty five year old mariel cannot was stabbed repeatedly and satellite in her apartment last week a judicial source says the crime is being treated as anti semitic. tensions a simmering in the balkans a day after cost of the expelled a senior serbian politician goes first prime minister has defended the move than the official have entered the country illegally and political party representing cost of serve minority responded by saying it would be droll from the government he used calling for calm and dialogue and has dispatched its top diplomats to the

region. here in germany the lawyer for detained catalogs separatist leader khan's putumayo says he will never surrender in the fight for independence from spain comment on so quick yes i spoke to the press after visiting his clients at the jail in northern germany first of all has been held essence being arrested are you hearing that warrant while travelling through the country it could take weeks for german calls to move on by the vama kotla made should be extradited to spain to face charges of rebellion if convicted he could face twenty five years behind bars . so i stuck a closer look at the legal aspects of this case christiane tanishaa is a professor of law at the humboldt university in berlin welcome to the date of the so in simple terms and it is actually dition as simple as we want him you've got him can we have him back place no no it's not as easy as that because the matter is now in the hands of the judiciary the german tribunals that have to decide on

whether he can be extradited and judges are totally independent they don't not do not obey any old is government so they're really independent and act according to all the relevant rules european new rules and german rules and so what will decide whether or not a college push among a is sent back to spain why i have great doubts as to whether he might be sent back to spain actually die did because. according to the european decision the european arrest warrant decision the offenses you know must be recognised as punishable under the law of both stites so he says charter sedition rebellion and misappropriation of public for this edition sedition is an. offense against the spanish law in germany we have also

some kind of. hole for hans addition but it's sedition against the german legal order that's totally different and on the other hand we have a long tradition in the sense that no extradition on grounds of political offenses this is a highly political offense and i am not sure that. he might be extradited on grounds of the charges everybody has that seems to care sedition and rebellion misappropriation of public funds just sounds like stealing well that sounds like stealing but misappropriation of public money because the organized elections that also that has a political note might be seen as forming a whole a compact hold together with the rebellion and this all will have to be weighed was a judge's so you're think it's unlikely that he'll be extradited. he might be

extradited on the just on grounds of misappropriation of public funds but then spain is in a very difficult situation because then in spades the scope of the charges is limited to baltic german judges because this is the way it works if you actually are that particular charge that is the charge that you must face in exile you're being presidency and no other charge maybe vote against him ok so if let's say that the extradition is successful and it is a misappropriation of public funds i mean what's he looking out when he gets back to spain. well then i think that will be a mine of fans that will not be too serious and for spain of calls of the main point is sedition and rebellion that is a charge brawled against him and if only it comes the misappropriation or misuse of public funds that is not really the heart of the matter ok very briefly united

nations human rights committee accepted a cultist push most complained that speight has violated his political rights isn't likely to have any impact i don't think so i don't think so and i'm i'm not very satisfied with that decision as you might go many if it has been taking i know nothing about it but it seems strange to me when i say well it's tough to set up a stiff email thank you very much for joining us professor professor christian television thank you thank you. for calling it bus right after thousands of syrians have been leaving eastern ghouta rebel held territory outside damascus it's been all but destroyed in a week's long bombardment by government forces observers say move the sixteen hundred civilians have been killed in the sage evacuation deals of a lot of buses loaded with fighters and civilians to head north. 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. but. the regime has displaced this 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 when 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 kuta 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. russian media reporting that forty one children were killed in the massive fire at a shopping center in siberia efficient the death toll now stands at sixty four

countries president vladimir putin visited the scene and declared wednesday a national day of mourning he blamed the high death toll on what he called criminal negligence the blaze broke out on sunday on the fourth floor of the complex in the coal mining city of a committal. in sport as a flurry of international football action tonight as countries seek to finalize their world cup squads ahead of this summer's torment in russia the pick of the bunch is germany against brazil pitting the reigning world champions against the team they defeated seven one in the twenty fourteen world cup semifinal a win for the hosts would made their record equalling twenty three games in a row without defeat. this is data on the news live from above and still to come on because she's garment industry is booming but why it is all love with actress and for children as young as thirteen we'll find out what that lives. perhaps in your business update the galut alphas in just

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