this is news coming to you live from berlin russia gets better from the u.k. spy poisoning probe russia calls for u.n. security council tomes on the nerve agent attack in which it remains the chief suspect this after a global chemical weapons watchdog decides moscow cannot be part of the investigation also coming up. around in turkey pledged to speed up efforts to bring

peace to syria but the main power brokers in the conflict remain in all its over just how to do the. president backtracked on his call to withdraw all troops from syria but says the u.s. won't be there for long d.w. takes an exclusive ride aboard a u.s. aircraft carrier engaged in the fight it's not over yet. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. the struggle to discover the truth in the u.k. poisoning case is far from over moscow failed in a bid to gain access to britain's investigation into the attack on sergei screwball and his daughter now russia says it wants the united nations security council meeting on the nerve agent attack an attack in which moscow remains the chief suspect. wednesday's meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical

weapons in the hague did not leave moscow best pleased russia failed in its bid to become part of the investigation into the poisoning of this group of voted dined by among others the u.k. . russia and common with other countries on the executive committee has been sidelined from this investigation. we are told that we can only be informed about the result of the investigation done by experts of the c.p.w. in england. if the british wish it were. but knowing how our british so-called partners have behaved. we cannot count on their good will. move. them this is porton dine the british lab whose latest findings have been seized upon by moscow the labs head says they can't confirm the nerve agents are agent despite the british government's confidence it's our job to

provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nerve agent is where identified that it was from this family and that is military create their future but it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured some like u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn arguing that that statement seems to contradict what foreign secretary boris johnson told d.w. during a march interview room you argue that their source of edge and the truck is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly that was driven by says samples of these were to look at the evidence from the people from from porton down the the burgos they have the samples you do and they they they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy where so i said are you sure and he said there's no dogs johnson in the foreign office is stressing they see no contradiction between

those statements and the latest results from british chemical weapons experts u.s.p. pal is now reported to be recovering from the attack her father sergei is still in critical condition and relations between the west and russia and now at their lowest point since the cold war. russian president vladimir putin said it was down to britain to defuse the diplomatic spat by respecting international law. we must stay within the boundaries of sound political process but one based on the fundamental norms of international law this will make the world a more stable and predictable place. of more on this story let's bring in ethnic glee's he is the director at the center for security and intelligence studies in oxford does the russian president have a point in implying that the u.k. and its allies are not respecting the norms of international law. i don't think

he has a point and i think the words that he used. many people in the west not just the united kingdom but russia is still not taking this matter seriously as it should russia is the only country on the continent of europe that is changed borders by force it is the only country that has. done things in the continent of europe that should be completely unthinkable including being involved the deaths of perhaps fourteen individuals in the united kingdom itself who appeared to have fallen foul of the russian president is absolutely usual would be usual not to include russia in this way given its track record ok well let's get back to the poisoning case now that the u.k.'s foreign secretary seems to think the lab reports implicate russia the lab itself says it has reached

no conclusion about the origin of the nerve agent how do you explain the discrepancies in these statements. well i think people like me that is to say objective academic observers have got to be very focused on what the process needs to be in order to come to a firm conclusion with probability that borders on certainty that the to kill a country was responsible for the attack in sils three. months ago and the first thing that people ought be said was that the nerve agent has got to be identified once that is identified we can then use intelligence and other means to discover who is the most likely country to have been behind this remember the people who did this wish it to be secret they do not wish to be implicated this is detective work now what porton doubt has said has not confirmed well the british

foreign secretary barred jones it is said but it hasn't contradicted it they say that russia is the most likely source of novacek the because russia development of the chalk and ok chemical analysis is that this is not that shock but that by itself would never prove that russia was actually behind the attack that's another matter quite well the u.k. government insists that it does have evidence linking the nerve agent attack to russia with their credibility now being questioned why doesn't you can government make such evidence public. well it's a very good question and i think very short that you think your government will have to make public the intelligence it gave not to the leader of britain localization fati jeremy goldman but gave to the german chancellor the french

president the american president and so on and it is certainly clue couldn't true that the language used by britain's foreign secretary boris johnson has fallen short of the language you would expect the senior diplomat of a country to use he has said overwhelmingly likely that president putin himself was behind the attack to raise a prime minister has been much more measured and said that it is likely that russia was behind the attack people will rightly say where did the foreign secretary get this information from we would like to see it now he says twenty eight other countries have followed the british fleet but there's twenty eight foreign countries we're told what he said ok they definitely confirm then that twenty eight countries might want to think again but i got to believe that's the case i think thank you so much less ethnically there director of the center for security

and intelligence studies in oxford thanks for talking with us. now some other stories making headlines around the world today brazil's former president louisa not to live a syllable is facing the start of twelve years in prison the brazilian supreme court rejected his bid to stay out of jail while appealing a corruption conviction the ruling makes it almost impossible for a loop to seek a third term as president in elections later this year. in sierra leone opposition candidate junius. has won the runoff election to become the country's next president he won nearly fifty two percent of the vote supporters celebrated his victory in the capital freetown be prevailed over some more of a former foreign minister and candidate of the current governing party. and in sweden police are investigating a suspected arson attack at the portuguese embassy in stalk a home after

a large fire broke out there the building also houses several other embassies a spokesman said corteen people suffered minor injuries police have arrested one man in connection with the case. the leaders of stick of turkey syria and iran turkey russia and iran rather have said they want a lasting cease fire in syria that's after a summit in ankara where they discussed plans for post conflict cooperation the three countries have sometimes had competing interests in syria's protracted civil war but as other nations have vacillated in their ball the trio have stolen a march on western efforts to define the conflicts and gain. iranian president hassan rouhani turkish president richard everyone and russian president vladimir putin all the great that the conflict in syria needs a swift and peaceful resolution. how exactly that will happen was not revealed but

the message was clear. we share the view that syria must be held together and this bloody conflict by a stand in order to secure the country's future that's because the losers in this conflict are the citizens of syria. turkey also houses three million syrian refugees and would like them to return to their homeland. russia and iran are on the side of the syrian government while turkey supports the rebels as long as they're not kurdish forces the turkish military is advancing in syria to push out the kurdish military but he ran once turkey to eventually hand over the conquered territory back to the syrian army. another major challenge the syrian province of italy where many people including refugees and fighters from eastern guta have been moved to avoid the fighting however with more than one and a half million people there now it's turning into a humanitarian disaster the u.n.

says that certain groups are preventing it from delivering supplies need to learn from the close. of. it can become a battle so. it's full of civilians and they are. displaced all this is happening as u.s. president donald trump announced on tuesday that he wants the u.s. to get out of the conflict currently there are two thousand american military personnel there. u.s. president donald trump has made it clear he wants to get his country out of the syria conflict but after consulting advisors the white house is holding off on bringing home truths u.s. forces involved in the fight against so-called islamic state are engaging in missions around the clock in a d.-w. exclusive report our correspondent yuri was shot one on board the aircraft carrier u.s.s. theodore roosevelt to see the u.s.

military operation a close. from zero to two hundred fifty kilometer in just two seconds it's rush unbolted the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt in the middle of the persian gulf there are apt to a hundred takeoffs and they all fighter jets reconnaissance planes transport aircraft and helicopters. ready for the outfit smells like terrorists this is us fighting jets to call for the ride in syria sometimes as often as every few minutes and to that at any time of the day the aircraft carrier is the flagship of carrier strike group nine in addition to striking at the islamic state it's tasked with securing maritime routes combating pirates and facilitating humanitarian aid almost three hundred pilots brought our main drive is probably

our home country of defense for our own country flying is flying it's a matter of the mission of. trying to treat any different whether we're stand locally overhead this ship. it's all the same basically. what exactly the thing. item jets are targeting is a military secret leaving today with the pilots of carrier elwyn seventeen have flown three com but missions. recordings released by the guess army show the laser guided the bumps hitting their targets. why it's already six days a week here multiple goes and sorties a day and. a lot of those airplanes come back without ordinance and they're putting ordnance on target on the thread that isis is decisions on which targets to attack a mate at the command center of the u.s. led global coalition against islamic state the coalition consists of seventy five

member states and is headquartered in qatar as that is also where the rules both patrol route in the persian gulf is determined if necessary its pilots also fly at night but that makes takeoffs and landings on the short the deck particularly tricky. for the past four months of the crew of the tour de roos build has been fighting against islamist terrorists it's a fourteen hour working day on baltar the aircraft carrier. the wash it is twenty stories high below and above for the water line seventy aircraft and more than five thousand sailors and marines of the u.s. as children as well as one of the biggest warships in the world it's a huge fighting machine in the persian gulf and a symbol for you as military might up to twenty percent of all asked strike

selected by the global coalition are launched from the tell the roosevelt. its aircraft also provide cover for the coalition's reconnaissance and ground operations. change obviously in the land mass that has in the last three years or so that has decreased but i would tell you the ideology and the work that continues to exist in iraq and syria enables and allows us. the need to still fight them and we do it every day. despite claims from russian and u.s. politicians that the islamic state has been bled terribly defeated in the fight continues funding. for more on the syrian conflict and the fight against the so-called islamic state i'm joined here in the studio by serious specialist khalid always good to see you again give us a sense of just how much territory still controls today compared to what they had

at the peak of their powers. point isis controlled most of the euphrates river valley you know it's their thirty's vestey diminished mainly in the of the iraq you see down boarded but what's what has a place to isis it's not something to be to be probably go but there's a place that was is could this militia which have done before a predator he said that he jean which is bomb bombing post. and schools and killing civilians. in the dog was very sick there didn't she i didn't seem. move on to the syrian conflict itself a very very complicated conflict we've just seen a summit between three of the main players in that conflict turkey russia and iran they just met in ankara what do you make on the out of the outcome of that summit

again they have used isis to put three cents of cooperation and unity and put three themselves like the three musketeers fighting third ism but on the need that is but he could put it together calculations and quite conflicting interests in syria and then the iraq these three nations that have been historically a thoughts since ancient times when you look at how the syria conflict is progressed saying some say it's maybe heading towards an end game at this point how do you see the country's future in two or three years from now it's the it would be this really the for cation of population transferred ethnic cleansing of this when the population the fact that he had been in the west that would leave vast amounts of sin they would one option do their best to get to europe and get to germany because of the creation of his experion i know i believe in syria it's been sort of the fight with the help of leaving no room for and the democratic

government or any anti us that's in the so your assessment sounds rather pessimistic if i may you're saying that even if i ask is defeated even if the syrian conflict is brought to an and we are not going to see and end to the to the unrest and to the terrorism because organizations like isis a product of military dictate that is in the middle east they are out of the. out of the prison that is the art of the this in fresh eyes base of. from these regimes so what would you suggest then as a as a state as a construct. two way to approach this problem of sunni disenfranchisement and the dissolution of syria. you have to go back to to some sort of away from was scored he had his foreign policy and something to do with values

democratic values and this is a big question how does the democratic budget in this malaise thank you thank you so much for that analysis kind of jacobo way so he's a middle east analyst thanks so much. social media giant facebook revealed that eighty seven million people may have been exposed in the cambridge analytical privacy scandal now that's about thirty million people more than most previously thought now the company says it will restrict data that other parties can use. it is potentially the worst privacy scandal involving any social network and facebook has admitted its role. but it's clear now that we didn't do enough we didn't focus enough on preventing it and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well and that goes for.

foreign interference in election speech in addition to developers and data privacy . well you take a broad enough. what our responsibility and that was a huge mistake it was my our next mistake that mark zuckerberg will have to answer for in front of leading lawmakers in the u.s. on april tenth and eleven the social media giants c.e.o. will be testifying before the u.s. congress he will talk about how facebook uses and protects user data facebook has also released a new privacy policy it aims to limit user data accessible to other companies but the social media giant won't be changing what it collects and shares and that is something that could leave them low makers dissatisfied. now while u.s. president trump posted defiant messages on twitter has administration signaled possible wiggle room in the trade spat with china as

a result asian stock markets are posting gains this morning that after stocks on wall street managed a strong finish on thursday u.s. trade secretary wilbur ross said he would like to reach a trade agreement with china soon and the president's economic adviser larry kudlow questioned whether the amounts terrors will ever take effect. now for more on this i'm joined by york matters he is the head of the research unit of international economics at the german economic institute in cologne. you're going what will it take for this dispute to end who will give in first here what do you think. well that difficult to judge my thing to donald trump administration now try to maneuver themselves into a negotiation position with china on this topic go for an intellectual property troposphere rights and threatening terrorists is one of the options to negotiate

this and might this have just been the right strategy here i mean because there haven't been other countries that have been lamenting china's trade practices and the theft of intellectual property so is good this be the right way to go this strong and aggressive position well i think diplomacy would be of the better because if you threaten something and nothing happens you have to fulfill your threat in order to be credible so this threatens trade war. potentially global skate and this is really dangerous also obviously for the export oriented german economy so it's a dangerous way to walk right i mean you mentioned germany here it is a big trade partner both with the united states and china is there the the danger of germany being crushed in the middle here well obviously the. trade negotiator trade tradition ship between china and the u.s.

is direct germany's not directly involved but if there is a trade war if there was a trade war obviously germany would be affected because growth would decline in china and put potentially over the medium term in the u.s. as well and both are important export partners of germany and of the united sates not only has a big trade deficit with china but with germany as well do you think do you feel that pressure on german foreign trade or e.u. foreign trade will increase further down the line. well we heard already some indications of that donald trump has already threatened to impose tariffs on german automobiles. well this hopefully is only a threat in so far as also the steel tariffs now are more the u.s. exempted from them at least for the time being so i think as i said in the outset.

tries to threaten to put threats and threats into the room in order to get in the yoshi ation position as far as europe is concerned he also wants the european union to increase the defense spending for us for instance you know. germany economic institute thank you for insight. now spanish police have arrested former h.s.b.c. employ. me after he was convicted of industrial espionage in absentia the man claims to be a whistleblower johnny fled geneva with files that were later leaked to the media they were allegedly proving tax evasion by h.s.b.c. clients the is accused of an authorized acquisition of data financial espionage and violating swiss bank and business secrecy. and that's all for your business for now and it's sports with terry that's right

and as so often that means football kristoff we've got champions league for you liverpool stunned by in chester city three nil and the all english quarter final clash the hosts scored all three of their goals in a frantic first half midfielder. chamberland was among those who starred for you're going to top side liverpool travel to manchester next week knowing a single goal will leave city needing to score five but both coaches believe the time is far from over. reach islands and now we have three men up that's better than being three new down one of the present but it's not a decision everybody knows that as well we go to manchester city and they want to. strike back they didn't play bad tonight don't need to create. the meet the usual number of chances i think in this room these nobody except the guys was talking to you beliefs but we're going to go through two more who we're going to try to

convince ourself in this week to try in six days to try to do over again ninety minutes mood went. in the night's other quarterfinal barcelona round out easy for one winners over roma and own goal neither side of halftime made life comfortable for the hosts before pique added a third roma struck. but luis suarez put the game to bed with his first champions league goal this season barcelona travel to rome for the second leg next tuesday. and just a reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on d w news russia has failed to gain access to the investigation into the poisoning of expo. it's now called on the u.n. to hold a security council meeting the nerve agent of time. for now we have more for you at the top of the next hour thanks for watching.

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