big news live from berlin russia loses its bid for a joint probe into the poisoning of an ex by and now they are isolated the matter to the un security council russia remains the main suspect in the nerve agent attack a month ago the global chemical weapons watchdog says it cannot be part of the investigation also coming up brazil's former president lula da silva could soon be behind bars the supreme court now ruling projects his bid to delay a twelve year sentence for corruption and it's even worse facebook now admits the

data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared with a british company that consulted on the twenty six teams from campaign clubs in golf tiger woods is back and raring to go after this in the last two masters due to injury the former world number one returns to augusta for the first major of the year what are his chances. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the search for truth in the u.k. poisoning case just got more complicated russia says that it wants a united nations security council meeting on the nerve agent attack in which moscow remains the chief suspect this after moscow failed in a bid to join britain's investigation into the poisoning of sergei scribble and his

daughter the incident has sparked a diplomatic crisis and our coverage begins with this report. 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 piles 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. 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 what 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 actually was manufactured some like u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn arguing that that statement seems to contradict what foreign secretary boris johnson told g.w. during a march interview you argue that their source of north edge and novacek is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly that's driven possess samples of this well look at the the evidence we the people from from porton down the we. 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 darts 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 are now at their lowest point since the cold war. and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said that london cannot ignore moscow's legitimate questions over the scribal investigation have a listen. good you get it's been a while since we've seen such a blatant mockery of international law diplomatic ethics and basic decency we shall continue responding appropriately to unfriendly moves but at the same time we want to find the truth hurts you through the least and for more let's bring in kitty logan a journalist who is joining us from london so kitty you know russia for its part as

we just heard saying that the u.k. is throwing around baseless allegations and that the u.k. cannot ignore its questions about the investigation do they have a point well is certain is that russia is sticking by its argument it said all along there was not sufficient evidence to throw these accusations in its direction it is then stepping up its argument in recent days calling for that meeting in the hague yesterday and now the u.n. security council meeting it insists there is no russian involvement here that of course is not the position of the u.k. government it has stood by its position which is they say all things point to russia says the circumstantial evidence the physical evidence that russia produced and stockpiled this now they should not be shocked is they say a sufficient evidence to support offering more specifically and will britain be forced to make more of it public now. well that's the big question a lot of people are asking that now why can't the u.k.

government give more detail on this it may well be that some of the sources of information are intelligence sources which the government which is to protect one we know was the last hold down the scientists there have confirmed what the agent was they did not confirm exactly where it came from the government says it's pulled other threads to get that intelligence circumstantial evidence also historical context looking back at previous russian assassinations or attempted assassinations and it says it can only be russia and says it is only one conclusion to reach and of course the public has not seen this evidence whether it's be from the police investigation which is of course all going whether it be for mentality that is not in the public domain and that now is a sticking point the british government whether to reason may should come out with a little bit more information which is what of course russia's been asking for all along absolutely and they're actually asking now for a meeting of the u.n.

security council with regard to that how is that likely to impact the poisoning probe itself and the diplomatic crisis. well clearly the investigation the police the criminal investigation in the u.k. is going to go on regardless russia is sticking to its points and it will skin to just get to those points no doubt at the u.n. security council meeting later on whether or not it has the backing of other members of that security council remains to be seen what we've seen so far is the e.u. sticking by the british government was another european governments sticking by the british position it could well be that members of those governments have seen the same intelligence that the british government has seen but we simply don't know that all we do know is that russia is putting forward a stronger and stronger argument to defend its position and certainly not backing down getting logan in london thank you

now i've got a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world bollywood superstar solomon khan has been sentenced to five years in prison for killing endangered indian animals the court in rob stein convicted carnival legally poaching black bucks while filming in one nine hundred ninety eight khan who has always denied the charges is among the top ten highest paid actors worldwide. italy's president. has begun crisis talks with political party leaders will be to break the government's deadlock after inconclusive elections the n.t.s.c. five star movement on the far right and party won the most votes but during the campaign party leaders said that they would refuse to form a coalition together. and in sierra leone opposition candidate julian smart of bio has won the runoff election to become the country's next president he received nearly fifty two percent of the vote defeated candidate and former foreign minister

somewhere a mara said that the poll was marred by fraud and he plans to challenge the results . brazil's former president luis de silva could soon be behind bars the nation's top court has narrowly denied his request to remain free pending an 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 and 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 in the us your disability 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. resilience are equally divided in opinion outside the court and to move the protesters celebrated the court's

decision was. very narrow i love you shouts one demonstrator. others were upset by the ruling. on a system is no different we are really worried for the future of our democracy in our fragile country that actually by one we think history of institutional coups and impeachments. only me our democracy is weak that we have status. under lula'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 hunt 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. an outcry stuff over is here with the latest on a facebook scandal and it's worse than originally thought listen to the sarah over thirty million users more than previously claimed are apparently affected by the recent privacy scandal at facebook the social media network revealed that eighty seven million profiles may have been exposed in the cambridge another they got data grappa facing the worst crisis in its history facebook 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 on its corporate blog in a post the social media giant revealed changes to its privacy policy it also released figures about where users affected by the cambridge analytical privacies gundel came from the u.s. was the most affected but millions elsewhere are among those whose data may have been improperly shared after the u.s. uses in the philippines indonesia the u.k. and mexico are among the most affected we're going to 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. where you take a broad enough view of what our responsibilities and i was a huge mistake it was it was my. a mistake that mark sack of burger will have to

answer for in front of leading lawmakers in the u.s. on april ten and eleven the social media giants the whole will be testifying before the u.s. congress he will likely talk about how facebook uses and protects user data and its plans to limit user data accessible to other companies but with the social media giant not changing what it collects and shares some lawmakers may not be satisfied . so there's a lot to unpack here with me in the studio is my colleague to ponder. initially facebook said fifty million users were affected by this scandal now it says it's eighty seven million users how did that number change well obviously facebook didn't know how many people were affected or wasn't willing to say it at the beginning and that's what happened so obviously everybody just getting to find out the extent of this privacy breach if you can call it that. the fact is that

facebook has also said that the two milot two billion users on facebook can assume that their data has been perhaps compromised at some point and so that's something that could affect anyone who is on facebook right now that's certainly not good news while facebook and veiled in new privacy policy trying to explain more clearly to users the data that it gathers but it doesn't actually change what it collects and shares in light of the scandal why not why not well i think obviously the people at facebook and explain that better but experts broadly say that the you know the bread and butter of apple's business strategy to date the fact that they have all the data and that they can actually share it with whom ever they want and in this case of course something went wrong because the people who had they had trusted to maybe not take this data where doing just exactly that and that's what they're trying to change that now but there's obviously been lack of oversight you know from facebook. to begin with because we've trusted them with our data for

those on it anyway like myself and that's been the main issue here is really a major trust issue at this point as well and what have been reactions to this most recent revelations well of course a lot of people are just shocked by the huge numbers. report here in germany if anyone downloaded the app associated or linked to convert analytic sixty five people don't know that in germany but apparently three hundred thousand people may have had their information compromised in one way or the other through those sixty five is though we're going from that assuming that by thousand people you know more may have affected from each one person so one thing leads quickly to the other exactly ok what can facebook users do now about this whole issue well on april ninth which is coming monday facebook is going to publish a link and that will allow users to know first of all of the affected by the original article scandal and then of course they can also get information about

which apps are accessing their information at this point and change that so that's something that everybody can wake up to do on monday morning on a monday that is exactly what we have to wait a few days it's about time some people might say to ponder chamber thank you so much. now the u.s. government has signaled possible wiggle room in the most recent trade spat with china u.s. trade secretary wilbur ross said he would like to reach a trade agreement with china soon the president's economic advisor larry kudlow questioned whether the recently announced terrorists would ever take effect stock markets in the u.s. and asia posted gains on the news. well let's cross over to our markets right or frankfurt only bartz really how big is the sigh of relief that european investors are breathing amid these news. it's pretty big the share price gains. are sending a clear signal that the x.

here in frankfurt is going up by about two percent of the shares in euro land when you look at the euro stocks fifty for the most important shares also going up by about that margin and here in germany all the thirty shares in the dax are gaining some quite clearly and it's also becoming clear how big the relief is when you look at the other side safe havens they were in demand yesterday when there was great alarm and when there was great nervousness about the escalation in this trade conflict gold was much in demand all oil went down gold today as the safe if not in demand losing in value and oil recovering on prospects that the economy might not suffer as much as one regionally thought and all the carmaker dimer is holding its annual shareholders meeting today and the new biggest single stakeholder a dime learns chinese how's that impacting to me. yeah at least two food is the

founder of julie julie officially not behind his taking a stake of almost ten percent in dimer apparently him doing that but of course everyone suspects and and expects some sort of connection with that chinese out of manufacture and that raises suspicions that he might be abusing at some point his influence is a financial investor to siphon off to mine some important engineering information away from dime or or to make some sort of takeover timely which usually should shareholders are to see asked about but not in this case there's surely discussions on that he thought such as the c.e.o. saying lots of chances connected with three shifu but wouldn't like to see interests of their longtime partner in china by being run by the. frankfurt thank you. now the leaders of raw. turkey and iran have said they want a lasting cease fire in syria sara the story they can so much pressed often yes

that was in fact after a summit in ankara where they discussed plans for post conflict cooperation the three countries have sometimes had competing interests in syria's protected civil war but as other nations have vacillated in their meant the trio have stolen a march on western efforts to define the conflict and game in ankara iranian president hassan rouhani turkish president recha type of everyone and russian president vladimir putin all agree 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 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 back close. 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. and the white house has since added to trump's comments saying that the u.s. remains committed to the elimination of the so-called islamic state in syria and offered no timetable on troop withdrawal for more analysis on syria and the war on the so-called islamic state group i'm joined now by the editor in chief of the german middle east magazine sanath he joins us here in the studio thanks so much for being with us daniel thanks for inviting me so many actors with competing interests there in syria who holds the cards right now well i think i think we have seen this demonstration of power in korea and i think these three nations hold a great deal of the cards not all the cause of course of course the u.s. is still in the game other countries in the region are still in the game and let's not forget the syrian regime. all this narrative about a proxy war which is just being decided and even led by foreign countries makes us

forget that the syrian regime is still very much in control and is still playing the game successfully cynically successfully but it's still there so it's not only turkey and russia and iran because all these three countries as they might have different interests none of them as a political strategy on how to deal this with syria in the future let's talk a little bit more about that strategy and also where we are at this point in the conflict because you know they're having a post conflict cooperation summit right now too soon or are we entering the end phases here. well you know you could say you're and we are entering in the end they see if we are starting and game but i wouldn't say that this is a post conflict summit i think this was as i said a demonstration of power but it was also a work meeting to coordinate not to get into each other's way at least not too much and to make sure that somehow they can post and they can they can demonstrate a certain kind of sorts of sort of unity with regard to the u.s.

involvement which they want to leave let's talk a little bit more about the u.s. involvement let's talk about why the u.s. went into syria to begin with that is of course due to the so-called islamic state we know that the ultimate objective of the group was to establish this you know the so-called caliphate as they call it in the region now the group has lost most of the territory that they've once held how badly has been damaged well very badly i would say that it doesn't exist in its previous form anymore but i can tell you i'm in touch with people from the tribal areas where the used to rule the so-called islamic state used to rule and they're still there. they are being badly critically wounded and damaged but there is no political strategy as don't try and you could also see that some of his his leading officers were saying that maybe ninety percent of the so-called islamic state has disappeared but certainly not all of it

and i think there is a very very big chance that they might revive or other jihad as groups because they could claim that they are the only ones that are not currently working at the service or fighting at the service of any foreign power and one of the things that you know the powers have to have to consider fighting is what has survived here is their ideology of course you know both in the region and beyond we see in you know inspired attackers for example my so-called islamic state how can one win a war against ideology. we don't have the time to discuss this but i can tell you this is the one million dollar question. that all a radical is ation and to terrorism experts in themselves and it's a trial. game but certainly it needs a very very consistent strategy and a long breath but let me come back one more once more to this summit and to the u.s. position on this because it's very much related trumps promise was to fight to destroy

the so-called islamic state and he doesn't care about the complex situation on the ground post and. another promise was to push back iran evade interest in the region and i think we have to see even though it's sometimes erratic and sometimes not very coordinated i think this is the priority pushing out iran and i think he would be very happy to have a turkish and a russian role in syria as long as he can commit ok can fulfill this election promise editor in chief of the with magazine thank you thank you all the first golf major of the year starts on thursday and the masters is always a special event but this year there is an added buzz in the air at augusta tiger woods is back and after performing well in recent tournament he is one of the favorites to win the title but the field is wide open and many believe this could be the best masters in years the biggest name in golf is back after four back surgeries and i have four rounds to play this. year i got to go play.

let the chips fall where they may and hopefully. i don't want to but i got a lot of work to do between now and. with all the focus on tiger rory mcilroy is flying under the radar a bit this year mcelroy is aiming to join the most elite club in golf a masters victory would give him the career grand slam only five players in history have achieved the feat of winning all four majors. jordan spaeth is another one of the favorites at augusta the twenty four year old won here in twenty fifteen and knows that the key to victory is mastering augusta's notoriously tricky greens right see these greens my first thought isn't where's this part go my first thought is was the speed that's needed on this part and it a lot of times there's just only either this place or maybe you know a very small handful of others in the world that make you think that way sergio

garcia certainly knows how to handle augusta screens he won here last year in a playoff against another of this year's favorites justin rose and with world number one dustin johnson back in form this year's masters field really is wide open. and with that you're up to date on news i'm sarah kelly and thanks for watching. glow.

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