this is news coming to you live from berlin russia gets back from the u.k. spy poisoning probe russia calls for u.n. security council talks now on the nerve agent attack in which the main suspect this after a global chemical weapons watchdog besides moscow cannot be part of the investigation also coming up brazil's former president lula da silva could soon be behind bars pres the supreme court narrowly rejects his bid to delay a twelve year sentence for corruption. and it's even worse than we thought

facebook now admits the data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared with a british company consulted on the twenty sixteen trump campaign. plus president trump backtracked on his call to withdraw all troops from syria but insists the u.s. won't be there for long e.w. takes a ride aboard the aircraft carrier u.s.s. theodore roosevelt engaged in the daily five against so-called islamic state. with . a low hum terry martin thanks for joining us. the search for 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 scruple and his daughter yulia now russia says it wants a 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 the of voted dined by among others the u.k. or. russia in 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. but knowing how our british so-called partners have behaved. we cannot count on their goodwill. 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 support the particular and their future is where identified that it was from this family. 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 this north edge and novacek is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly that was driven by says samples of the case when i look at the the evidence from the people from from porton down the the border they have the samples you do and they they they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself 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 now up to britain to diffuse 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's 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 his 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 that 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 that 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 a particular country was responsible for the attack in seoul's very. 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 johnson has said but it hasn't contradicted it they say that russia is the most likely source of novacek because russia development of the chuck ok chemical analysis is that this is not it 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 the government make such evidence public. well it's a very good question 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 could true that the language used by britain's foreign secretary or his johnson has fallen short of the language you would expect the senior diplomat of a country to use he has said is 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 lead but if 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 don't believe that's the case i think thank you so much less and frankly there director of the center for security and intelligence studies in oxford thanks for talking with us. headlines around the world today in sierra leone opposition candidate julius model b o 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 frito b.-o. prevailed over some more of a former foreign minister and candidate of the current governing party out police in sweden are investigating a suspected arson attack at the portuguese embassy in stockholm after a large fire broke out their building also helps us several other embassies a spokesman said fourteen people suffered minor injuries police have arrested one man in connection with the case. brazil's former president luisa not so little of the

silva could soon be behind bars the nation's top court has narrowly denied his request to remain free and even appeal for a bribery conviction he faces more than a decade in prison the decision has split the nation is the biggest name yet to be toppled by prosecutors in a massive anti corruption investigation. after a marathon televised debate brazil's supreme court was deadlocked chief justice carmen lucci a then cast the deciding vote rejecting luis enough to distil of his bid for freedom while his conviction is appealed. last year lula was found guilty of taking bribes and sentenced to twelve years in prison outside the court brazilians are equally divided in opinion. in prison enough impunity in this country enough lou that the thief is not above the law. others were upset by the ruling. so no system is more different we are really

worried for the future of our democracy in our fragile country. by one we think history of institutional coups and impeachments. only mueller democracy is weak if you have sadness. under lou let's presidency from two thousand and three to two thousand and ten brazil saw its largest period of economic growth in three decades millions were lifted out of poverty but after he left office a corruption investigation allege that top level politicians including lula and then president rousseff had received bribes in exchange for awarding state contracts. lula has claimed the charges are an attempt to thwart his bid for president in october. i am a victim of the largest to ridicule that a president or brazilian politician has ever faced. despite the

corruption allegations latest opinion polls show that lula would win the election by a wide margin but after the supreme court's ruling and facing the start of a prison term a political comeback seems unlikely. that italy it's been a month now since that country's inconclusive parliamentary elections and today the bid to form a new government steps up a notch with the main political parties unwilling to form a coalition the country's president is stepping into the debate and summoned party leaders for crisis talks to discuss moving forward here's a summary of worthing stand. all eyes are in italy's president said yamato rather to find a way out of the country's latest political deadlock. largely ceremonial the president's job is to appoint a prime minister with a majority in parliament but last month's elections failed to produce

a clear winner italy is no stranger to multi-party coalitions this time though it's different. and italians are concerned. when i do this country is undergoing a cultural drift that really worries me a strong drift which with the next government whatever its my cop can only get worse it's adrift affecting all of europe the whole world maybe i'm worried. i'm a bit worried because i think the politicians are playing around through much and in the end they're playing for their own interests not those of the country i think they'll all take a step back and make an effort to find a solution through the reader listener. the single biggest winner of the. five star movement led by luigi. originally pledged not to govern with other parties a position that they've since softened reaching out to the far right and to the left. but the center left of former prime minister my tail renzi suffered historic

losses and has vowed to go into opposition. the other big vote getter was an unwieldy alliance including the immigrant league led by. and the center right for its italia of comeback kid silvio about the sky. a potentially euro skeptic government in rome made up of. far right parties would be a nightmare scenario for italy's pro e.u. partners and also for many italians. you're watching d.w. news still to come our reporter here he was shot it was on board the aircraft carrier u.s.s. theodore roosevelt key launching pad for u.s. forces involved in syria. recent data scandal at facebook is worse than we thought crystal terry that's right over thirty million users more than initially claimed are apparently affected by the recent

privacy scandal at facebook the social media network revealed that that eighty seven million profiles my have may have been exposed in the cambridge analytic updater grap facing its worst crisis in the company's history facebook now says it will restrict the 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 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 election beach in addition to developers and data privacy . we didn't take a broad enough. of what our responsibility and that was a huge mistake it was it was my our next mistake that mark zuckerberg will have to answer for in front of leading lawmakers in the u.s.

able to ten and eleven the social media giant 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 no makers dissatisfied. no u.s. president donald trump opposed to defy him to messages on twitter his administration signaled possible wiggle room the trade spat with china as a result asian stocks 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 which is trying to soon and the president's economic advisor larry kudlow question whether he announced tariffs would ever take a falcons are that's rather well for more let's cross over to frankfurt and our

markets man only bart's really a sigh of relief among european investors as well. that's surely the case i don't think anybody was reckoning with such a quick relaxation of the tensions between the united states and china perhaps they were rattled by the market reactions but at least it's satisfying the nerves or it's easing the nerves of the people here in the market and. it's surprising that it is as it is that's shown by the extent of the recovery of the shares the dax here making good almost two percent and jumping over twelve thousand points lots of shares gaining quite well a potential mover of markets today the annual shareholders meeting of carmaker dime lower what will be on the agenda there. are pretty well everything when you take the share price shareholders are dissatisfied with that despite the fact that had

a pristine year two thousand and seventeen posting records where you look whether it was the number of cars sold or the turnover that they garnered with not and the record profits and they're also distributing more dividend than before much more than in the year before but shareholders are dissatisfied with the performance of the share partly to do with the die miller also has allegations against it in the diesel scandal not just the w not just other companies but time miller as well and it has a new shareholder from china food is the owner of gili he jumped in with just short of ten percent and that hurt the share more than it helped because people are asking you know what kind of long term consequences can that house for a dime learn the technology because of the chinese interests only votes in frankfurt thank you. spanish police have arrested a former h.s.b.c.

employee chinee after he was convicted of industrial espionage in absentia the man claims to be a whistleblower for johnny fled to geneva with files that were the. their leaks to the media they were alleged proven logically proving tax evasion of interest to see clients is accused of unauthorized data financial espionage and violating swiss bank and business secrecy rules. the first direct strain from london to amsterdam has completed its maiden journey it took less than four hours eurostar hopes its new route will entice both business and leisure travelers to switch from there so the rails from city center to city center it's just as fast as flying and with one way ticket starting around thirty five pounds the connection could be a game changer. the platform at london's simpang chris was mostly filled with officialdom just before the first amsterdam bound euro study pondered a little small party of tourists also managed to get on board for an on time to

cotch or. to london amsterdam route is yours does first network expansion since one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the trains began connecting various cities in france and belgium the amsterdam service is aimed at passengers who would normally fly. if we look at our experience in other markets in paris and brussels we seem to the customer doesn't value an alternative that we see at the moment is the airline's having a stranglehold on this marketplace so when customers are given to the city center to city said to this great trying to go with wife created the response we get is yes. customers tend to take. the first train to amsterdam aged almost on time but return passengers to london face delays due to a train change in brussels the u.k. is not part of the e.u.'s passport free shipping in zone and right now there are no

separate international boarding areas in amsterdam and rotterdam making passport control in brussels a must for u.k. bound passengers but. that's our business now back to tear off 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 all on bringing troops home u.s. forces involved in the fight against so-called islamic state are engaging in missions around the clock. correspondent yury or shadow what on board the aircraft carrier u.s.s. theodore roosevelt to see the u.s. military operation up close. from zero to two hundred fifty kilometer in just two seconds it's rush on ball to the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt in the middle of the persian gulf there are apt to a hundred takeoffs and day off fighter jets reconnaissance planes transport

aircraft and helicopters. lead to the altitudes smells like terrorists in this land this is where u.s. fighter jets take all for you in syria sometimes as often as every few minutes and to that at any time of the day the aircraft carrier is that the flagship of carrier strike group nine in addition to striking at the so-called islamic state it's tasked with securing maritime routes combating pirates and facilitating humanitarian aid almost three hundred pilots on bought our main drive is probably where home country defense for a country flying is flying a matter what the mission is. try to treat any different whether we're staying locally overhead the ship or going into iraq syria it's all the same basically i what exactly the fighter jets are targeting is a military secret meaning to date the pilots of carrier seventeen have

flown three com but missions. recordings released by the guess army show the laser guided the bumps hitting their targets. wind sorties six days a week here multiple. and sorties a day and a lot of those airplanes come back without ordinance and they're putting ordinance on target on the thread that isis is decisions on which targets to attack a mate at the command center over the u.s. led coalition against islamic state. the coalition consists of seventy five member states and is headquartered in qatar as that is also where the tour de roos petrol route in the persian gulf is determined if necessary its pilots also fly at night that makes takeoffs and landings on the short the deck particularly tricky.

for the past four months but the crew of the teodor who's built has been fighting against islamist terrorists it's a fourteen hour working day on baltar the aircraft carrier. who was ship 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 u.s. military might up to twenty percent of all asked reich selected by the global coalition launched from the tell the roosevelt. its aircraft also provide cover for the coalition's reconnaissance and ground operations. teaching change obviously in the 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 islamic state has been militarily defeated in the fight continues funny. some sports news now i would go up football champions league action liverpool stunned manchester city three nil and the all english quarter final clash the hosts scored all three other goals and their forensic first half midfielder alex. was among those who starred for you're going top side liverpool travel to manchester next week knowing a single goal will leave city needing to score by both coaches believe the time has far from over. and now we have three men up that's better than being three and one

of the percent 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 norm the usual number of chances i think in this room these nobody except the guys we stuck into you belief but are going to go through two more who we're going to try to convince ourselves in this week to try in six days. to try to lower games ninety minutes went. in the night's other quarterfinal barcelona round out easy for one winners an own goal either side of half time maybe i've come trouble for the hosts before p.k. added a third struck back late on but luis suarez put the game to bed with his first champions league goal this season to travel to rome for the second leg next tuesday. and just for go a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here today on the news russia

has failed to gain access to the investigation into the poisoning of. his daughter yulia it's now called on the u.n. to hold a security council meeting on the nerve agent attack. for sills' former president louise and children live in silver consume the orders to start a twelve year prison sentence this after the supreme court there really rejected his request for a maine for all appealing a bribery conviction. girl watching the news from berlin we have more at the top of next hour and of course all are stories online dot com thanks watch.

into the conflict zone confronting the powerful this week on conflict zone i mean somebody to talk to rob sicko mexico myself took his ruling fall to the a.k.p. she speaks for apology on schumer says the government assumes military operations in syria and continues to crack down on civil liberties. principals. next list. syria nov twenty

twelve zero zero zero two reporters fell into the hands of the islamic state their names were john cantley and james foley. the terrorist organization immediately exploited the opportunity using the hostages to dominate the headlines the islamists launched a propaganda offensive to the end of truth the hostages of islamic snake in forty five minutes on d w news. last the time of islamism is bangladesh on the brink of civil war we are still we are very scared we have to stay and it will be a good fight for his fight against differ from torn by domestic power struggles and the influence of islamist extremists on the country's democratic institutions now face a serious threat to this long day long we call for the name of law of islam of

violence when it's the headlines if this could get you know should the other issues be it is an offshoot of. bangladesh islam is on the starting april twenty first on t w. this week on conflict zone i'm in istanbul to talk to rob to come back to cut myself to his ruling party the a k p she speaks for a party on human rights since the parliament and is also a close confidant of president out as the government pursues military operations in syria and continues to crack down on civil liberties. these principles.