this is deja vu news live from berlin performing for peace some of south korea's best known bands play a rare concert in pyongyang the north korean leader kim jong il and tell state media he was deeply moved by the experience so what does that mean for diplomacy also coming up in syria rebel fighters are reported to have agreed to a deal to give up but she stronghold near damascus the plight of civilians trapped there remains unclear. what goes up must come down and out of control chinese space station pressure stirs we'll tell you where it landed and how beijing lost control

of the craft in the first place. and input it's like a football the race for the champions league place host hopped up on track frankfurt's top four hopes to suffer a blow at informed better brains and will bring you the best of sunday's german soccer action. i'm seeing so much going to thank you for joining us north korean leader kim jong un says his heart swelled after attending a rare concert n.p.r. by musicians from south korea it is the first such performance in more than a decade and some say a sign of improving ties between the two countries it also coincided with the start of annual military drills between the u.s. and south korea. sized careers k.

pop girl bands red velvet and girls' generation among others played the kind of music that has been taboo in the north. korean leader kim jong un was in the audience in the capital pyongyang and feeling the groove. over one hundred size korean musical artists came to perform in north korea for the first time in thirteen years things got really interesting at a theater in pyongyang when size korean performers sang about reunification. i hope that we can look at each other and feel deeply in our hearts that we are one . meanwhile assize korean taekwondo team gave its first performance in pyongyang since two thousand and two. on the political stage south korea's leader in is scheduled to meet with his north korean

counterpart on april twenty seventh to discuss the north's possible denuclearization us president donald trump is also planning to meet in the near future with the north's kim jong un. has also scaled back exercises between the u.s. and the south korean military. sunday's concert was held under the title spring is coming but to many koreans both in the size and the north hope this means peace is on its way. egypt is preparing to announce the official results of the country's presidential election incumbent abdel fattah el-sisi is expected to be returned for a second term in office after reportedly winning more than ninety percent of the vote critics say turnout was low and that al sisi had just one opponent a token candidate to give the election the appearance of a genuine contest that contender has already conceded defeat opposition groups had

called for a boycott of the vote. let's bring in correspondent ruth michelson who is based in cairo hiero thanks for joining us now opposition groups as we just said called for a boycott of this photo a head of the election they said it was a charade but international observers have said that it's been free and fair hasn't well i mean certainly when we saw citizens going to the polls by the standards almost international elections that is they were able to vote freely. but the same international observers also said that they were only here to observe the voting day and so it's and really the most important things that happened. prior to the vote you know long before the election really kicked off which was the. dislocation or. intimidation of five candidates he had intended to get on the

ballot to provide some kind of opposition to president. to rest and remain a tension one apparently to force and we understand that they were intimidated from even being able to get him out so that doesn't really give signs of a free and fair election no matter what happens in the day we said that turnout has been low ruth how important is that to r.c.c. . it's incredibly important president of the c.c. and state looking for hired hand out in order to show that there is a strong mandate for his second push through new reforms to tension and also to amend the constitution to allow him to continue for search term or even beyond. and you know we saw with the preliminary results last week that came out of thursday morning that turnout was given at forty percent and that c.c. was winning ninety two percent of the vote this was inexplicably revived on friday

to be forty two percent turnout and that sisi got one thousand six point nine percent of the vote which is exactly the same as he got in twenty four so what happens when the official results come out later this hour remains to be see barry our correspondent ruth michelson keeping us up to date from cairo thank you both. that's some other stories making news around the world russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said that russia is not responsible for any escalation in the route for the poisoning of a former spy he has accused britain and the u.s. of playing children's games russia has denied responsibility for last month's attack on expiry circus cripple and his daughter yulia. militants from the boko haram islamist group have killed at least eighteen people after they attacked a military base and two villages near the nigerian city of my duty dozens of people

were wounded officials said the militants fired mortars that troops on the base and suicide bombers detonated explosives in the villages. ethiopia's parliament has sworn in as the country's new prime minister ahmed is the first ethnic otomo to be given the post by the ruling coalition he's expected to implement democratic reforms aimed at defusing tensions with ethnic otoh most following years of anti-government protests by the marginalised. and nobel peace prize winner malala yousafzai has left pakistan after making her first visit to the country since being shot in two thousand and twelve he rose to prominence after taliban militants tried to kill her for promoting girls' education she said she plans to return permanently after completing her studies in britain. reports are coming in from syria that rebel fighters have agreed to leave their last stronghold in eastern guta progress

forces say they have reached a deal with the largest rebel group army of islam to pull out of the tour territory and some members of that group deny their surrender is an imminent but fighters from another smaller rebel group are leaving hundreds of people have been killed in fighting in eastern guta in recent weeks. the road to eastern ghouta passers by ruined buildings and abandoned lifeless villages. on the roadside corpses rebels that nobody has stopped to bury displaying victory signs assad soldiers approach the center of eastern go to the offensive has lasted more than a month with russian warplanes carrying out crucial air strikes. and. the rebel terrorists finally over the syrian army has been able to free eastern go-to we think our president. and the oversight of the for the last rebels are leaving the area the conditions of their withdrawal were

negotiated late into the evening many are now trying to get to the city of idlib in the north one of their last remaining strongholds. and her children were taking prisoner by the rebels for four weeks and held as hostages. in the end my son was ready to kill my daughter and me so they couldn't violate our semi more. than the hard. they beat them with rifle butts and stomped on them with their heavy boots and a horse can i live been then they grabbed my daughter and screamed that she was now married to one of the revolutionaries if she refused they would cut off her head and give it to me. said they were monsters sent me no means. more and more refugees are making their way through the card or out of east and go to more than four hundred thousand people were caught in the crossfire essentially

held hostage by rival groups with a common goal overthrowing the assad regime. many are now in the custody of the syrian army apparently the lesser of two evils. eastern ghouta now just a collection of ruins a region without people after the recapture of the region moscow and damascus are bursting with self-confidence and washington after announcing it would freeze millions of dollars in reconstruction aid is on the back foot what's left of the dead the homeless and many displaced eight years after the civil war began with a few isolated protests against the assad regime the president has almost finished bringing the country back under his arm grip. a defunct chinese space station has reentered the earth's atmosphere years after scientists lost contact with it a tiangong one was launched in two thousand and eleven and served as china's first

space station astronomers say it mostly disintegrated upon re-entry but people were fortunate not to have been hit by the remaining debris. after all but in over a year and asia the chang gong one disintegrated above the remote south pacific far away from human settlements astronomers a calling it a lucky escape. launched in two thousand and eleven the station had mocked a giant leap for china's celestial ambitions astronauts on board conducted experiments and practiced space dockings but the vessel stopped working in two thousand and sixteen and began orbiting closer and closer to earth west in space experts think china had lost control of the station something beijing denies. astronomers say the spacecraft mostly burn top upon re-entry but ditched some debris to the north of tahiti. they say the fears over where the station would

reenter the earth's atmosphere point to an issue that needs urgent attention. since yes i'm honored to have something like a degree removed because we are more than a force of five products of our lives in orbit. that means we have three solid objects or bigger stars which may later or. two in the atmosphere and i think we have to do it. with space junk only likely to increase the question is to whom does it fall to regulate the outer reaches of our world. and bonus like a soccer fan for travel to bremen in search of fifty points that could push them to the champions league spots but it was a going to be easy vetter were unbeaten at home since october i tracked had lost their last three games away from home and evenly matched door was and still.

florian cofield has been working to emulate the kind of success nico kovach has had in frankfurt unlike the former croatia international though cofield builds his team around attack two most a lady with a pinpoint cross does not to lose of which. one nil to brain in the twenty eighth minute a high quality goal you know high tempo game. in the second half frankfurt struck back with some style as well. kevin prince boateng with a snappy back heel assist for a look at your age. three minutes later the eagles nearly soared into the week your bitch threw on the republican who pulled a crucial kicks in how crucial this crucial use of it is crossed deflected high into the air by dabdoub around. and into the net. lucas with its key tried and failed to control the ball perhaps dazzled by the sun. frame and walked

off to one winners the trend under cofield just keeps going up. might suggest for to avoid relegation from the bundesliga but they played out a scoreless draw with a glad book side that appears to have given up on playing european football next season following a quiet opening half the second period had more to offer when the hosts briefly thought they'd taken the lead to alexander. in the last few minutes of the visitors almost break through but the game ended known a. few watching you did have you knew is still to come china hits back after the u.s. hikes levees on metal imports china announces punitive tariffs on one hundred twenty eight u.s. products including pork wine and fruit and there is more trouble brewing. also austerity has been the name of the game for many countries in europe recently portugal has opted for a different approach in the countries wine producers are benefiting. thanks coaster

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