me a. little . fishes g.w. news live from russia and britain intensified their war of words with those who were told our british colleagues you are playing with fire and you'll be sorry i don't back the united nations the russian ambassador launches a tirade against british allegations that moscow is behind an attack on a former spy and his daughter the british ambassador fires back saying all the

signs point to russia. also on his program here in germany a regional call deals a blow to spanish hopes of trying former catalan leader collis pushed for rebellion but judges are still considering the case for his extradition. hungary just saw its national elections this weekend could see a migration hardline of president viktor. coasting to a fourth term d.w. close to the capital good of parents. and also on the program south africa's jacob zuma to appear in court within the hour the former president is facing corruption charges the hearing comes just four weeks off of the ruling a.n.c. forced him to resign from office. and with another showdown expected today israel warns its aggressive engagement rules in gaza will not change g.w. meets a family there whose son was shot dead last week by israeli troops. i

. welcome my name's christopher spring a good to have you with us the war of words over the poisoning of ex-wives script his daughter is escalating at the united nations security council the russian and british ambassadors to the un faced off last night in a blistering exchange over the alleged nerve agent attack london is sticking to its accusation that moscow is the chief suspect in that attack russia denies any wrongdoing wrongdoing sara guy and u.s. proposal for weeks the british government has accused russia of trying to kill them now the kremlin is using the u.n. to go on the offensive. we're going to verbs with guns we're told our british colleagues you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry i don't think the british

investigators are grateful to the british government for their hasty and unequivocal statements and conclusions and along in blistering speech moscow's envoy reached for alice in wonderland to argue that it was russia who were the victims of a sloppy rushed and dishonest blame game normal subsequent sampson's first verdict afterwards britain's envoy was unimpressed firing back with a passage of her own there's another very good quote alice in wonderland this is sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast so i think that's the quite suits my russian colleague best it is the latest in a diplomatic war of words descend from ation claims and counterclaims that is showing no sign of letting up. all along. earlier a russian broadcaster eared what it claimed was

a telephone chop between you. and her cousin. but whether it was genuine or not even the t.v. station would not say where it came from is another matter. victoria later said she believed she was speaking with her cousin in hospital. yet it was not me who contacted her she phoned me herself when the phone rang i thought it was a call from a british number i thought it was a call from journalists. back in solsbury where this international poisoning scandal began police guarding the hospital beds of the former russian spy and his daughter issued a statement and her name my strength is growing daily the entire episode is somewhat disorientating and i hope that you respect my privacy nearly a square pile is not only a victim she is

a witness and her food recovery may yet prove vital in the search for the truth to go in charlottesville from film with me now in the studio to help us understand what's going on before we get going charlotte let's just listen to another clip that we have from the russian ambassador in the united nations security council last night he said something fairly remarkable let's listen to what he had to say movie true could bring us he could go no we talk is not copyrighted to russia in spite of the obviously russia name at the last minute is a name that was invented in the west for a line of toxic substances which is nothing new for experts and scientists. they were developed in many countries including the united states and in great britain. doris johnson in response to a question from georgia vella directly confirmed that great britain does have some

of that substance in ports and down she also had to put it down school in rebuttal don't use computers continuations so the russian ambassador to the united nations they're referring to an interview that w. news had with the british foreign secretary boris johnson just a few days ago in which he stated that the u.k. charlotte has a sample of the nerve agent not the chalk now was the russian ambassador coaching boris johnson actually first of all well the little ambiguous what boris johnson meant exactly when he was referring to samples now clearly the russian interpretation of this from what we've heard from the ambassador was that they were samples that that the u.k. had ahead of time let's just repeat what he had to say is great britain does have samples of that substance important down now the argument from russia has been that there is no evidence that it could only have been russia that could have done this it said other countries other secret service could have been responsible it isn't

necessarily the only country that could be in possession of an agent like this boris johnson in his interview may have simply been referring to samples that were that taken from the crime scene let's take a listen you argue that their source of a snuff edge and novacek is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly that's very the possessed sample something i look at the the evidence from the people from from porton down the the bardo they have the samples you do and they and they they they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said as they dogg. yes you see there is not clear exactly what was what was meant by samples but russia has seized on this too to undermine the u.k. argument and to add credibility to its argument the hague might not have been off

all the people could have done this help us understand the impact of this interview that our colleagues on an inch of i had with them the british foreign sector boss johnson you know undermining in any way the credibility of the government's argument that's certainly how it's playing out at the moment boris johnson has come under fire in the u.k. for his comments essentially for not being very clear about what the u.k. knows and what the u.k. doesn't know now in that interview he appeared to suggest that porton down had stated categorically that it's thought that russia was responsible porton down has now since come out and said actually we we haven't said that all we said all we know is that this was the. agents now the leader of the opposition the u.k. has has jumped on this to allege that boris johnson has been essentially overstating the u.k. case and is exaggerating he of course is going a lot further than the government line and he's even pointed the finger directly at pearson is being responsible for for ordering this attack that's

a great deal further than the reason may the prime minister is gone who simply said we think it's highly likely the russian or in some capacity was responsible for this either the order came from somewhere someone in russia for this attack or russia simply lost control of its nerve agent she says she left a bit more room for maneuver so to speak or is there really is going going full hold on what he's saying just briefly. that we now have this war of words escalating between russia and britain both each side saying the other side is lying who has the upper hand in this at the moment well i think a lot of people are looking very closely at how russia is playing this as i've been saying it's it's jumped on any holes in the u.k. argument and very sort of skillfully maneuvered to make him. the u.k. doesn't have a solid case right off the bat the u.k. got a lot of support for its claim that it's thought russia was responsible now that countries are starting to say actually maybe we do need to know what evidence what category

evidence you have that russia has is responsible we've had for example from the jem government coordinates of the russians they actually maybe the u.k. does need to come forward and play this up a little bit plenty more to come on this story i suspect to show that many thanks for helping us understand what's happening some people from these newsroom we're going to catch up now and some of the other stories making news around the world a brazilian john chance issued an arrest warrant for former president luis enough to the silver you want to give the twenty four hours to surrender to police and start a twelve year prison sentence for corruption on thursday the country's supreme court refused to bit by later remain free until all appeals against that sentence were exhausted. in britain a tax on sugary drinks has gone into effect as part of national efforts to improve people's health studies show that a majority of adults in the u.k. are either overweight or obese many drinks makers have already reduced their sugar

content ahead of the levees introduction. and in germany original court has dealt a blow to spanish hopes of putting former cattle on lead economists puts them on trial for rebellion the german judges say they would not consider extraditing. that charge of rebellion which carries a long prison sentence in spain he could however still be sent home to face a lesser charge of misusing public funds the decision is a legal precedent that could effectively boss banish all thought is from trying him for any other crime the court also agreed by the way to free perched owned by zero pending final decision on that lesser charge. another complicated story if you don't have political correspondent simon young joining us to break it down for us just help us understand exactly what the court decided this court in northern germany decided about this case yesterday in

a walk walk us through the reasoning of that ruling right well the court had to do was did so and with what mr good's demote he's accused of in spain is close enough to similar charges possible under german law to justify extraditing him to spain and in the case of war spanish locals rebellion will sedition the court says no that's not where as the spanish challenge of misappropriation of public funds does correspond to a similar charge that would be possible in german law so they've struck down the idea of rebellion but that they're sticking to the possibility of extraditing put jamal for misuse of public funds that's right and the extradition warrant has been issued on that basis but the court said we can. free mr project while we get more information that we need to actually look at that that charge see that it is substantial let's hear what the court spokes person actually said about this. stuff

and not the state criminal division has determined that the charge is a violent and not similar enough under german law to make the statute of high treason applicable to that. but the court has determined that pushed him on as the initiator of the referendum can be held accountable for acts of violence committed on that day that they hadn't so there are conditions he can't leave germany he has to report regularly to police and pay a bail of seventy five thousand euros but his lawyers say they want to get on and do that quickly so it's quite possible that mr predictable could be released today ok and what about the man himself or how is college put small reacting to all this well as he says would expect he's pretty happy tweeted last night a picture of him with his thumbs up see you tomorrow he said thank you everyone and his lawyer says that he's always had full confidence in the german legal system and

you'd expect all this positive reaction of course because the key thing here is that it seems that if mr bush the moment is extradited to spain only for misusing public funds that is the only chance that he can then be tried on what this means he's cleared away this charge of rebellion even in spain and that means the threat of a possible decades long prison sentence for him as also been taken off the table so it's verse ignace could go decision from germany and what does this mean politically. especially for berlin spain of course have been hoping to see germany carry out this extra extradition request on the terms that they've formulated so so is this causing irritations to three madrid in berlin well i think. what this does from berlin's perspective is it perhaps takes the heat out of this situation the new government not terribly keen to get involved in this in frankly the messy situation of catalans spain catalonia and spain struggling over independence

so now it's it's obvious to everyone the legal process has taken its course and as i say removing these threats of a lol jail sentence for mr bush tomorrow is by means that possibility of an ugly sort of long term burden on the relationship between germany and catalonia there's also been removed ok so many thanks for that some young from t w politics we have some breaking news coming in for you now a south korean judge has found former president park geun hey guilty of use of power and coercion was impeached and arrested back in march of twenty seventeen of a wide ranging corruption scandal the investigation revealed links between big business and south korean politics it prompted months of massive street protests the former south korean president could now face up to thirty years in prison the

sentence the has not yet been formally announced. now people in hungary are going to the polls this weekend in a closely watched national election prime minister viktor orban one of europe's loudest opponents of allowing in migrants and seeking a fourth term in our opinion polls show his party few desh has a comfortable lead but hungary's complex electoral system makes that outcome difficult to predict our correspondent funny is in hungary to cover sunday's parliamentary election she sent us this report from the capital past. hungary for hungary once the slogan mirrors the feelings of many feet as voters the governing party wallpapered the country to billboards like this. it's been two and a half years now since the station behind me the color to train station looks like this it was packed with stranded refugees and although hardly any has been granted asylum here in hungary since then it remains the main topic of the governing

fitness party. its leader prime minister viktor orban talks of an invasion by muslims he's campaigning with a message hungary first. i want to know are refugees to biggest concern of hungary and voters out of the elections when you guys eg i care about the health care system for example it's in ruins i mean that i'm sure many migrants wouldn't want to settle down here what's important to me is to make sure fi does doesn't win this election and i feel they're saying at the end. margaret's there are very aggressive especially with women. we won't let that happen. we meet a young journalist who has another concern. so i thought most media are controlled by foetus there's lots of propaganda everywhere opposing liberal democratic voices receive less space. to be

a reporter for the biggest leftwing paper. but it was shut down in twenty sixteen officially for economic reasons but former staff says its demise was the work of the government keen to silence a critical voice. in why did i don't see any political party and hungry right now that could start and opposition parties are not working together. we come to the outskirts of would have passed to meet with figures supporters hungry first resonates well here our. manager of an accountancy firm welcomes us his patriotism is clear for everyone to see he has three kids the family are devout christians i met them back in twenty fifteen when the migration crisis was at its peak what's changed since then. without them when there aren't that many migrants because the policies work to keep them out they're not a work force the culture does not fit with ours and having them here doesn't help

public safety because mr china and your theory agree that the issues such as corruption are problems in politics but he says they are nothing new for him the positives of a fetus government outweigh the negatives. we benefit greatly as a big family and years ago utility costs started to decrease that's also good for us. opinion polls but if it is firmly in the lead some in the opposition would consider it a victory if they manage to deprive over two thirds majority in parliament all agree hungary is heading for a fateful election. and that election coming up on sunday and it's taking place against the backdrop of a boom in the home care and economy more on that and all the other business news now from christopher now that's right christopher in this economic upswing in hungary is driven by domestic demand with private consumption at its highest level in three and a half years so let's take

a look at the bigger picture here for after hungry maybe a feeble recovery from the economic crisis two thousand and ten g.d.p. growth began to pick up steam and the chief robust growth of over four percent four years later now that moderate in the next couple of years was once again growing at four speed last year and that's showing on the labor market as well from a dismal eleven point eight percent in two thousand and ten the unemployment rate fell steadily throughout the decade to three point eight percent last year a level that economists consider to be full employment now prime minister viktor orban government tries to get all the credit for an apparent booming economy but the truth is more complex as the next report shows. the people of jo had hoped for better from the new street lights here in the suburb of the hungarian capital budapest they were supposed to be replaced by l.e.d. lights but hundreds of the lamps were never installed millions of euros have been earmarked for street lighting upgrades in hungary in towns and cities mostly funded

by the european union but the tendering process is controversial prime minister viktor orban son in law is said to have been effectively handed dozens of contracts of investigations by news websites defect thirty six are anything to go by. i was work the program the problem in this case is that the conditions for the contracts were fixed in such a way that only the prime minister's son in law would be able to fulfill them you need to know that in hungary e.u. funds are distributed by the government. hungary has a corruption problem the e.u.'s anti fraud office known by its french acronym olaf has advised the e.u. to reclaim the forty million euros lighting subsidies from hungary. the country has benefited greatly from its e.u. membership only ten years ago it was almost bankrupt wages there stagnant. funding has been the driving force behind its economic recovery by the end of twenty

sixteen brussels the channel to a total of forty eight billion euros to hungary the country is one of the biggest net recipients of funding in the block the e.u. also subsidizes a lot of investment in hungary something which encourage german firms to locate their three of the country's four biggest companies are subsidiaries of. hungry uses the e.u. cash to give tax breaks to foreign investors which also boost the economy and creates jobs. for more i'm joined by american car parties a journalist covering eastern european countries and he joins me from warsaw is prime minister viktor orban right when he claims all the credit for hungary's recent economic development well absolutely not i mean we have to say that congress economy is doing pretty well would be foolish to not make that we have to look at the situation as a whole ten years ago as we saw in the film right there. hungary is the g.d.p.

growth was minus that there was a recession and. now they're recovering and they have been recovering for a couple of years now so it's a good development in the sense that there is a healthy g.d.p. growth and they're taught about it as a government they really as we just saw also they are managing to get foreign investment into the country while at the same time doing some protectionist policies as well i mean i went to the northern hungary and city of recently and they're all very elated and very happy about having already there it's really improved their city. but at the same time of course is using all the e.u. funds to help his friends and his cronies do some good bit of nepotism there and that's the long run it's not going to be very healthy for the hunger in the economy now you mentioned the e.u. fund hungary is one of the use countries with the highest growth rate is also among the countries receiving the most e.u.

subsidies why is that whether it has been very poor or in the ninety's and early two thousand was the tiger of eastern europe and then it has been performing very poorly also around the economic worldwide crisis in two thousand and eight so all the funds have been decided then and then in two thousand and thirteen fourteen so the hungry get like around twenty five billion euros until twenty twenty from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty and then the negotiation next year will start again for the next budget period and it's going to be very tough for violent for any other hunger in government to maintain this high level of funding it's not going to be that way probably make a couple of thank you for your analysis turning to the united states where donald trump has doubled down on a possible trade war with china the president has ordered officials to examine

imposing an additional one hundred billion dollars worth of terry on chinese imports the move comes in light of what mr trump calls china's unfair retaliation two years imports yes terrorists posed earlier only hours before business leaders and investors around the world had welcomed signs of the escalation in the dispute . u.s. president trump proposed the latest terrace in response to china levying tariffs on u.s. cars and still he believes that was also in retaliation to an initial round of terrorist washings and put on chinese products critics warn that an all out trade war could hurt the u.s. farmers worried this is the one thing keeping an eye on what's happening out of washington what's happening with the markets that directly affects our lifestyle directly affects our pocketbooks and the way we planned for the following years are we gonna pay all the bills the sheer horror we got to buy a new piece of equipment. you know do you get your kids you know

a couple new pairs of shoes more than half of us live in exports go to china so for us farmers any escalation of this trade dispute means they'll while it's could be taking a direct hit but this is a spot that even the u.n. secretary general is watching closely. because of altered wars are always the best for those involved in the good war and for the international economy as a whole. we need to do in the international cooperation wherever there is a problem that must be all that must be to the cities and stuff in the world to overcome the problem so far there is no dialogue instead the tit for tat continues china's ministry of commerce has already announced countermeasures saying it's ready to fight the u.s. at any cost. and it's back to christopher and soccer news that's right christophe the first leg of the quarter finals of the europa league played out last

night. cruising to an easy home victory of a c.s.k. moscow for one the final score their lights edging past must say a pledge to madrid the favorites beating sporting lisbon lisbon rather to nil and to rome winning four two against the south's book turning to tennis now germany are in the spanish city of valencia for their davis cup codify. against spain world number one rafael nadal he's returning to action for the hosts he hasn't played since withdrawing from the strike open back in january germany will be led by their number one player alexandre spare if you reach last week's miami open final you may remember and ahead of the time. has been speaking to six time grand slam champion boris becker he is now the head of german men's tennis he believes things are looking good for the sport in germany we all might we're in a tennis boom in germany at the moment thanks to success in both the men's and women's game and she cab and go guys it's a world class players we have

a world class player and sasha why not we're working hard towards having talented eighteen in one thousand euros of course we have to get past football i don't know if that's possible but there is enough space for all of the sports tennis including all the tennis. plenty more to come in this program we're going to be back after a very short break to stay with this if you can. call it like we take football personally. your wedding. the best kicker here. and a lot of bosco talks about her life for byron munich star robert.

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strong big big coming up in the madness. growing in magnitude and frequency. once they start there's no stopping them. just starting april seventh on t w. welcome back you with the news in both in our top stories at the moment the war of words over the poisoning of exploit said their script all of his torso is escalating moscow's ambassador to the united nations warning that britain is playing with fire in one of his british counterpart reiterated her country's belief that the only suspect in this poisoning is russia. and

a german court has set up free to council on separatist leader calos push to move on bail that's also rejecting one of the charges in spain's extradition request germany's court said extraditing could small on a charge of rebellion would be illegal. turning to south african. where former president jacob zuma is appearing in court this morning on sixteen charges of corruption relating to a controversial arms deal that dogged much of his time as president the case centers on a two billion euro contract to modernize south africa's armed forces in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the charges which zuma denies include counts of fraud record cheering and money laundering back in february you may remember zuma as party the ruling a.n.c. forced him to resign as president for more we're going to go over to the big table where do the obvious tristin move is waiting very kindly she reports regularly of

course from southern africa for us christine sixteen charges relating to seven hundred eighty three instances of alleged wrongdoing break it down for us or because through these charges against jacob zuma essentially it boils down to the fact that former president jacob zuma is accused of having taken bribes from the french. in exchange for awarding big contracts to that company quote tile is and essentially he's going to be appearing in the dock with representatives from africa that is the coach here is facing charges there also facing those charges yes and that at the time he was a provincial leader and of course held a senior position within the a.n.c. . and then later he was of course deputy president under nelson mandela this all relates to an arms deal that goes back twenty years quite a long time why has it taken such a long time to bring these charges to court chris shortly before zuma became

president in two thousand and nine k. the charges that have been brought against him were dropped and at the time the prosecutor that dropped the charges save that he had found evidence that there was political interference in bringing about the charges in the first place zim his defense was always that people were trying to stop him from being the president so weeks before he was announced president of south africa those charges were dropped . the evidence that informed this idea of political influence was supposedly recorded telephone conversations off which the prosecutor at the time said could not be released to the public because there was sensitive information on them and so this is really when the case started against getting these charges reinstated because for example the country's main opposition the democratic alliance and other civil rights groups took this decision to court to say release those tapes so everybody else can be privy to what is this decision that that brings about this political interference so it took about eight years for those tapes to finally be released to the public when they were the d.a. and this went to the courts to say we don't see any evidence of political

interference in two thousand and sixteen a court came to the decision that dropping those charges against zuma was indeed irrational something by the way that he's legal defense conceded to and so we've seen him pursue this this litigation strategy of really pursuing all avenues possible to stop these charges having been reinstated since and of course was dealt a blow first in two thousand and sixteen when it was found that dropping the charges was irrational but then last month when the chief prosecutor now said that the state had a case a winnable case against the former president ok so a lot of political maneuvering over. a large number of years and we say now there are of course many many people in south africa who love jacob zuma his supporters have been demonstrating outside the high court in durban where and this is happening what is their perspective well their perspective is that the narrative that the charges against president zuma were always politically motivated and while

that is plausible chris the reality is that in posts using the charges in pursuing the investigation this was all done within the ambit of the law so yes there are several other people who who should have been charged perhaps who should have been investigated and zuma was perhaps targeted for political reasons which is a very plausible thing and many south africans will concede to that many politicians will concede to that even on the side of the opposition. but the argument on their part is that in conducting the investigation in later in stating those charges that was all done within the law so this isn't a person who's been accused out of a side of the ball the charges are genuinely and could could stick you think they could state you think there's a fair chance the jacob zuma will end up in prison there is a fair chance it just depends how long that will take and we i mean by the consolations that he's owed a senior counsel may just say that dropping the charges was irrational it was never an issue about the case of the state not having a winnable case but citing political influence which isn't enough to drop charges

as significant as these though it's not all that often that political big men like this one here jacob zuma the former south african president. put before a court and have to face charges how significant is this case both for south africa and for the continent as a whole i said yes i mean chris in south africa of they have been this feeling that the political elites were above the law people soul former president jacob zuma and others who are politically connected not seeing their day in court and it feel this perception that you know that the higher you rose above ranks that you essentially above the law and that's we see changing and it's sort of bringing this era of impunity to an end and this is what this largely symbolizes the reinstatement of this chart of the charges the a.n.c. came out and said that it was confidence that the criminal justice system in south africa was committed to to ensuring to assure and also of africans that no one was

above the law that we were all equal above the law and south africa remains a beacon in the region and surely a case like this will resonate in a region where a lot of people abused their power was in office and you'll be keeping tabs on that case for risk christine many thanks for helping us understand what's going on christine moon. regional expert for southern africa. we're going to turn to the middle east now where the israeli government has warned it won't be changing its rules of engagement ahead of planned protest at the border with the gaza strip later today this comes after the deaths of eighteen people last week when israeli soldiers opened fire on palestinian demonstrators our correspondent has been to the north of the gaza strip to meet a family whose son was among those shot dead last week. mohammed's life has been turned upside down his youngest brother was killed last week in the protests every mind of a life lost here in the north of gaza

a family is in mourning. and must see it over that if the march gives us our rights everyone should participate. but if there is no result and if i young people just die then we only have god to come. mohammed says that was standing next to him when he was shot in the head they were just a few hundred meters from the border fence despite his brother's death mohammad says he will keep on protesting for young people like him there's not much hope left in gaza i know go forward he and i took part in the protests all of us should participate as we should because there's no work there's no life and nobody cares about us it's about her was one of at least sixteen people who were killed by israeli sharpshooters during friday's protests israel said that it was not a peaceful march but a deliberate provocation by hamas which controls the gaza strip israel had warned

that any attempt to approach the buffer zone and fence would be met with a harsh response human rights organizations have sharply criticized the use of excessive force. a human rights lawyer from gaza was at the border we saw the. flurries i mean snipers were shooting at the forefront of the head or in the back. or a bit is the people men women began to fall tens of them were around us . it can be anybody. snipers. shooting. but people of all ages have continued to border area like here in gaza city hamas and other factions set up a tent city as a reminder of palestinian refugees. people gathering all ties and taking them to deport their plan to set them on fire to see it protestors from israeli

sniper fire. report from our correspondent in the region ten year crime and she's now on the line to give us more background about what's going to happen today tania last friday the deadliest day for gazans since the twenty fourteen war eighteen people killed today protesters gathering again water is the mood in gaza city at the moment. well people are going to. say it's at the moment because quite but what does a ten a lot of people. say they're expecting somehow the word one hopes of course for peaceful demonstrations or the protests on the border but people say that it's. protesters again with a house with phones for many here it is an important issue to go to these protests on the one hand of course politically hamas controls gaza to once

a puppet summit but when all the people here put it in the context of experience ten years of closure policy by. the people and if you know that what it is some attention now some of them i told you they will go but there was a weight behind most of them and they told me that they're afraid that their teenage sons participate in the protests let me have another young people that have been gathering there over the past week in the border areas they say they were going no matter what because they didn't see him as a choice they don't see a future and they would take whatever this could take to vote. tanya many thanks for that tanya cramer across phone and in gaza city at the moment giving us more background on protests expected later today. we're going to focus on germany now with chants that angela merkel's new coalition government in office for just a number of weeks the latest opinion poll from polling company in the map however

may worry the chance that it shows that germans are less satisfied with than before the coalition deal was agreed will turn to that in a moment first though here's what the survey found out about german views on russia's relationship with western countries germans were asked about the current tensions over the poisoning in britain of former russian spy sergei script and his daughter so the polls in for testing respondents how concerned they are with relations between russia and western countries since the script poisoning twelve percent of germans saying they were very concerned forty nine percent expressing concern over developments twenty nine percent. less concerned and just nine percent saying they were not concerned at all. one of our political correspondent transparent is in the studio to walk us through these figures what do these results tell us hants about the way that germans perceive

russia at the moment well obviously german relationships with russia have always been of particular importance in german history and in the german population there is a feeling that it's very important to have some sort of understanding with russia across all the ideological differences across all the borders on the european continent this is a feeling that's always been strong in germany one has to add that in eastern germany russia used to be a socialist fraternal country so i think in eastern germany there is some sense of sympathy as well for russia but even in west germany it is especially on the left amongst the surge democrats as always been this feeling that a channel of communication should be kept open towards moscow towards russia and that feeling is reflected in these results a large number of germans feel that there should be discussion and negotiation with russia and how is this playing into you know the current source of tension between

the west and russia the poisoning of sergei script on the former russian spy on his daughter hugo in britain you know did to these figures does this polling this recent polling give us any idea about which side germans are taking in this dispute i think you can say that in general this feeling that tensions with russia need to be overcome in some sense is increased by the script case because obviously at the moment tensions are increasing rather than decreasing in the relations between the west and russia so i think the feeling is that that there needs to be as i said a channel of communication i don't think can say that there's any indication here on what side germans or with germany are taking in this case i think for that it's too specific a case but the general feeling remains that germany and russia need to talk to each other ok so that was the main international issue. that this so if i in for terror steve looked at we're going to turn now to german national politics a new german coalition sworn in as you may remember just

a few weeks ago led again by chaunce langley macko now the survey ostracize fondant if they approved of macro's appointment as german chancellor and compare that result to figures from the start of the previous term as german chancellor back in twenty forty well in twenty fourteen as you can see her approval quite high at seventy five percent but this time around much much lower it's fallen to fifty seven percent so hence you know the government just a few weeks old angler machall her fourth term in office but there is this slide in approval is this a continuation of this magical fatigue well you have to see that we are comparing here the situation today and the situation four years ago and in those four years of political landscape in germany has changed completely there was the migration crisis there was the rise of right wing populism of the alternative for germany party in all in those four years the political landscape has become

a lot more fractured which we saw in the very long coalition discussions coalition the guys the actions that we had since the last election in germany in october took almost six months for a new government to be formed so all of these developments have happened in the last four years as a comparing map of standing four years ago when she was simply the person in charge who know where she is managed to cobble together another government. i think is not quite as significant a change in the sense you might even say it's amazing it's quite surprising that she still has an approval rating of close to sixty percent absolutely she's been in power for twelve years and still has as well over half of the german population backing her nevertheless those figures are sliding it would appear you know does. or badly for her is she going to be able to turn things around or you have to see it is her last term in office there's nobody suggesting that she's going to go on

governing for much longer than these four years and there's even a good chance that some time during this current government period before four years up she might give up the position and hand of a true success as she is in her new cabinet already indicating that she is trying to find people who could succeed as chancellor so if she manages to govern well in the remaining time that that remains to her and if you manages above all to arrange a succession smoothly then i think her approval will continue to be pretty good and she may end up giving up as john's lead heading of apollo. in a positive manner where you mention her cabinet government so let's have a quick look at that folding approval rating chancellor merkel that is also reflected in the german government's overall approval rating respondents here in germany off this question how satisfied are you with the government just thirty two percent of germans said they were either very satisfied or satisfied with the new

cabinet to decline all of nineteen percent over the previous month sixty four percent saying they were either dissatisfied or very satisfied now those figures is not particularly good handsome new lineup of ministers as we can see behind us empower i mean not all of them and you some of them of familiar faces but then this big slide of in approval ratings for the entire cabinet what's behind that well we had a six month period of trying to build a government this is what came out of it and in the first couple of weeks that these ministers have been in office there has been a continuation of the bickering that was going on before hand the government hasn't really started governing the new ministers have been trying to establish their own positions. rather than government positions so there's been a lot of infighting within the new government between its various constituencies various wings i think that has really damaged the. standing of the government as

a whole not much hope was being put into this government because it was such a difficult situation before it was formed and at the moment it's the new government hasn't really done very much to increase those hopes ok so it hasn't exactly hit the ground running branch from our political desk many thanks for walking us through all of that. now to the inspirational story of an indian couple with special needs who is setting an example for others many people with disabilities in india are stigmatized making it hard for them to find work and even harder to find a partner but not so for the woman we're about to meet she's encouraging others to overcome their inhibitions and actively look for a soul might. a life filled with moments of pure joy frustrating challenges. and true love.

everything in this kitchen is wheelchair accessible thirty year old margot has been a paraplegic since childhood life in india isn't easy for her and her husband deepak. but at least i've made the ground floor apartment in delhi disabled friendly. they can get by without assistance there's nothing like that there's no provision anything provided by government for domestic heading so we haven't but i've even yet because we know there's no point. actually has been disabled since she was eight when a surgeon said that a nerve in a back during a botched operation. most of them which it was unbelievably hard i wondered why i had to suffer while everyone else was leading a normal life i wanted the crying to swallow me up and often contemplated serious

site i continually asked myself why me you see why did this happen to me. well it is a look at the anyone i mean what i mean by me actually and deepak about become many obstacles deepak was born disabled in india families with disabled children don't receive government support but actually deepak made it through school and university working their way into the middle class. struggle issues a. family that it was a huge struggle and come from a poor family and have four siblings money was always tight and it's especially tough for people in india with that kind of background tanita. the couple met on facebook and married a year ago in. indian parents usually arrange their children's marriages that is unless they are disabled in these cases family and friends are reluctant to help the church of the stigma surrounding handicaps. induced believe in

karma disability in this life is seen as punishment for failures in a previous one. it's considered your fault. it's a deep seated belief even holds it. must be a card that plays a huge role in my life cause and effect we harvest what we sow sometimes karma is inherited from parents or grandparents but i do believe that my disability is the result of my karma and limitless sceptic i must go that the whole thing that they have. actually wants to show us what that means for her life. the bus stop in front of the house is supposed to be disabled friendly but it's in a bad state and wheelchair access is not possible. so actually waits on the street straight talk isn't passes by stare at the disabled woman no one officer help and even though she's in plain view the bus drivers don't

bother to stop and pick up. guards at the bar jo it's always like this you know you leave the heist in a good major headache but that's where the problems start there are no wheelchair ramps and if there are they're not usable we can't go on to the buses the match was a lot better but it's really hard just getting into the station only meadows said that john led to get will. actually has a car which he can drive using only her hands but last year she had an accident she didn't drive for a long while after that but now she's back behind the wheel and driving through work. all being said actually has a relatively good life she has a. and a job unlike most disabled people in india. it's really hard to find a job i work for the government that's not bad but my husband works for

a company it's almost impossible to get a job in the private sector he had so many interviews and many bosses saying quite openly they would hire disabled people. don't want. to fight again. after work goes going to a party it's a kind of a speed dating night for the disabled. i chose one of the few who is married here nevertheless she wants to meet up with people who are in a similar situation to her and of course have a bit of fun you know to the last few. days you like there aren't a lot of parties like this in india traditionally the disabled are too ashamed to go out in public were kept out of sight by their families that's why few have a partner everybody just expect

a normal bike now for him or her mostly the boys and their family expect to win to have love. but i. guess the party wraps up most of the guests head home to relative solitude. but i chose husband. she has luck and love in your life. a quick reminder for you of on top stories. korean president park. has been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion she was impeached in march of last year during a wide ranging corruption scandal revealing links between big business and politics . twenty four years in prison. the war of words over the poisoning of. his daughter. the u.n. . is playing with fire meanwhile his british counterpart reiterated her country's

belief that the only suspect in the poisoning attack russia. court has freed separatist leader. rejecting spain's extradition request. the rebellion challenge part of that request judges are still considering the case for his extradition on a lesser charge. you're watching news. back in just a minute with news for you especially on what's happening in south korea to stay with us.

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