storm starting to pull something on w. d w news live from berlin a stiff punishment for south korea's former president are couldn't hang and sentenced to twenty four years in prison for corruption her dramatic fall from grace has worked to the nation for months we will take you to the south korean capital seoul for more. also coming up russia and britain face off at the u.n.

the war of words intensifies over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter plus u.s. president donald trump doubles down on a possible trade war with china u.s. officials are to examine another one hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on imports from the country beijing vows to fight the measures to the. i'm sorry kelly walked into the program. ousted south korean president park geun hye has been sentenced to twenty four years in prison on a conviction including coercion bribery and abuse of power in a verdict broadcast live on south korean television the court ruled part colluded with your friends to receive tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies and state agencies park was impeached. and arrested in march of last year

supporters of her death demonstrated outside of the courthouse for impeachment has divided south korea. the war of words over the poisoning of x five sergei scribal and his daughter is escalating at the united nations security council the russian and british ambassador to the u.n. faced off last night in a fiery exchange over the alleged nerve agent attack london is sticking to its accusation that moscow is the chief suspect russian allies any wrongdoing sara guy and yulia script for weeks the british government has accused russia of trying to kill them no the kremlin is using the u.n. to go on the offensive. we're going to do is we're going to 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

a long and blistering speech moscow's envoy reached for alice in wonderland to argue that it was russia who were the victims of a sloppy russian and dishonest blame game nor most of the quim sentence first verdict afterwards britain's envoy was unimpressed firing back with a pasha just her own there's another very good quote from 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 i'm sure all along. a russian broadcaster eared what it claimed was a telephone chop between you. and her cousin. but whether it was genuine or

not it even the t.v. station would not see where it came from is another muslim. victorious group hour later said she believed she was speaking with her cousin in hospital. yes it was not me who contacted her she phoned me herself when the phone rang i saw it was a call from a british number i thought it was a call from journalists who were back in soulsby where this international poisoning scandal began police guarding the hospital beds of the former russian spy under dos are 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. is not only a victim she is a witness and her food recovery may yet prove vital in the search for the truth

and for more we're joined now here in the studio by his very own charlotte charles and pale so we had here yesterday the sudden appearance of elian script all we had first on russian state television apparently in a phone call with her cousin and after that the statement on her behalf by the u.k. authorities what are we to make of it charlotte well this is a voice that say we've long wanted to hear of course there is so much still that is unclear about exactly what has taken place this amy on answered questions from the international community and as was said in that reports that a unit isn't just a victim she is also a witness so all eyes really are on what she now says in the coming days and weeks absolutely a lot of people paying attention to that a lot of people also paying attention to what russia has to say for itself we know that the russian ambassador to the united nations had some words for the u.n. security council yesterday and i'd like to listen in to that and then get your reaction there after. maybe joe could bring us he could build i know we talk is not

copyrighted by russia in spite of the obviously russian name the one who is a name that was invented in the west for a line of toxic substances which is nothing new but what experts and scientists. they were developed in many countries including the united states and in great britain. the forest johnson in response to a question from georgia vella directly confirmed that great britain does have some pools of that substance important down should also the baton school rebuild don't use computers continuations so we have there the russian ambassador poking some holes in the u.k. story there i'm referring to an interview that daughter bella conduct conducted with orus johnson. is he quoting johnson correctly here what's really interesting about that statement is it ties in very neatly with what russia has been saying all

along it claiming it had nothing to do with this attack and it says stance national community how can you be so sure that this attack wasn't ordered by other act as other foreign acts as even if peace is to be in his reference to say that many countries could have developed this new agents including great britain it appears even to be pointing the finger at great britain which you had from a number of officials now he was using as evidence that interview as he said that boris johnson gave to you but i think what's important is listening to exactly what boris johnson had to say so take a listen. you argue that their source of. navi choke is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly does through the samples of these look at the evidence from the people whom from porton the the burgos they have the samples you do they they they were absolutely categorically or

else the guy was so i said are you sure and he said they don't you know the crucial bit of that interview that being the question they have some pulls then of this nerve agent reply and they do what must be pointed out that is very ambiguous what boris johnson meant by samples could he simply have meant that the tree in the u.k. portadown has some pills taken from the crime scene or as russia seems to be implying here from the sound bite that we had before could they have had some pills that predated the attack russia jumping on not to fuel it is narrative that it's not necessarily responsible and that other countries may have access to this nerve agent previously so the u.k. may now be forced to clarify that matter right charlotte i mean how much does this interview the revelations that have come out of it how much has this undermined the ukase you know live here i really don't think that that can be overstated to be honest i mean boris johnson come under fire in the u.k. ready for overstating the u.k.

case somewhat people are arguing he's already pointed the finger at putin saying it's possible the president ordered this attack himself now this interview he gave isn't sticking to the official government line is going even further and by not providing clarity by being ambiguous on what the u.k. know is it's really undermining its arguments and it's allowing russia to to pick holes in the u.k.'s case so who had the nerve to chuck and when. from news we thank you so much. well back now to our top story on the corruption conviction of south korea and south korea's former president i have now joined by here young park news reporter from our iran news in seoul south korea welcome to you we know that there were several charges that the former president was found guilty walk us through about. this all central district court and then

ex-president have four years in prison and i know more than sixty million u.s. dollars now the point that i'm sure you don't see sixteen eighteen counts relating to bribery of use of power and even secret things that happened soliciting more than seventy two million dollars in bribes. to tax time song and to fund them your foundation and. and showed by her clothes. and also receiving rise out of the some some group. how are the people of south korea likely to receive this i mean do we have some initial reaction do they feel that the sentence is appropriate. well these sentencing is a little bit under the prosecution to just thirty years of time yet to find over one hundred ten million u.s. dollars for years more than what. the general public is knightly and so the sentencing. impeached president. was your use of candlelight vigils so he had to

have these others in this audience of. what message does this send to the country's future leaders because i mean there were already issues of corruption there were already tough sentences handed down before the case of park. you know charges. and not you know those allegations and charges and all and this was a nation that self created snow and the will disappear you know the case and not just how else to go kill her responsibilities presidents but also means that the longer these incidents lightly and no longer will the leaders the future. in such cases can be a very important day for history. well i thank you very much for putting it into context for us he didn't park from our news.

but i'll get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the trial of former south african president jacob zuma has been enjoined until june zuma is facing charges of corruption relating to a two point five billion dollar arms deal the former leader was met by supporters as he left the durban courthouse where proceedings were held a brazilian judge has issued an arrest warrant for former president luis the silva the order gives 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 remain free until all appeals against the sentence were exhausted a regional court in germany has ruled it would not consider extraditing putsch to mont on the charge of rebellion which carries a long prison sentence in spain but he could still be sent home to face it lesser charge of misusing public funds he's been granted bail pending pending

a final decision on a lesser charge. malaysia's prime minister has dissolved parliament ahead of elections expected to be held next month the polls are a major task for embattled prime minister and a job. by multibillion dollar corruption scandal. health officials in gaza say that three palestinians have been injured by israeli army fire on the second day of planned mass demonstrations at the gaza israeli border palestinian activists have been setting fire to tires along the border fence and hope that the thick black smoke will block the view of israeli snipers and tanks on the other side israeli government has warned for its part that it won't be changing its rules of engagement after last week's deadly clashes which saw israeli soldiers opening fire on hundreds of protesters in total twenty two palestinians have been killed in gaza over the past week and our correspondent

tanya kramer met a family whose son was among them and who was shot last friday. muhammad's life has been turned upside down his youngest brother was killed last week in the protests a reminder of a life lost here in the north of gaza a family is in mourning. today 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 calm the souls. one man says that god i 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 or no go forward he and most of all 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 if it was bad or was one of at least sixteen people 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 traitor is a man lying. flurries i mean the snipers were shooting at the forefront of the head or in the back. or a bit is the people men women began to four pins of them were around before us. it can be anybody number snipers. shooting.

but people of all ages have continued to go to area like here in eastern gaza city hamas and other factions set up the tent city is a reminder of palestinian refugees. you're watching news still to come on the program it is being billed as the art sale of the century with all proceeds going to charity will the rockefeller collection break the world's record at auction. but first it is over to christophe and bad news for some german industrial companies that is right sara their output fell sharply in february showing the steepest a decrease in almost three years overall industrial output was down one point six percent compared to the month before the plunge was led by steep declines in manufacturing and construction analysts have predicted a slight increase now the news comes just one day after germany's industrial orders also disappointed. war now with only bartz standing by at the frankfurt stock exchange really what's behind this decline. there's not the one fundamental

explanation for this it's easy to understand the trade war conflict it is not that was february too early for that but there is arson interesting explanations from economists one puts the flu virus epidemic which germany here at the heart of the problem and that went across the society across firms part of the explanation another part says the german association of industry and trade is the lack of capacity in germany and transportation that's important if you can transport your goods then you can't produce as much and you don't produce as much and the lack of skilled workers and this is something that germany is big businesses and small and medium sized businesses have been complaining about now for some time and some businesses have said that indeed curtails their their ability to meet

customers demands and some businesses we know small businesses for example don't know any longer go to the department of labor because they know they can't find skilled workers they're a big problem here in germany and one not easy to solve quickly only parts of frankfurt thank you for now we'll come back to you in a moment donald trump has doubled down on a possible trade war with china the president has ordered u.s. officials to examine imposing an additional one hundred billion dollars worth of terrorists on chinese imports now beijing announced to fight the measures at any cost that is only hours before business leaders and investors around the world had welcomed signs of deescalation in the dispute. u.s. president trump proposed the latest terrorist in response to china levying tariffs and u.s. cars and soybeans that was also in retaliation to an initial round of terrorist washings on put on chinese products critics warned 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 lojban 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 always the damage for those involved in the kid war and for the international we're going to be usable but we need to win the international cooperation whatever that is a problem that must be the that will that must be the season scotian the way 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 us at any cost. back to only parts in frankford where that only the market reaction has been somewhat subdued to the latest twists in this dispute tell us why. it's difficult to understand and i don't really understand it but i think part of the explanation can be found in the fact that the market is already corrected in a huge way since the end of february both tax and dow leaving record highs way behind them on the upside and haven't corrected me in a major way but people do believe that it's very possible that the trade conflict as collates they know donald trump just doesn't believe in negotiated rule based trade he puts stress on u.s. industry and he has an argument people say here in the widening trade deficit in february the u.s. deficit increased by another nine hundred million to fifty seven point six billion

dollars the largest deficit since two thousand and eight will have arts in frankfurt thank you now as you've just heard the u.s. trade deficit has been widening maybe even though u.s. experts were at an all time high in february among the products shipped overseas are u.s. automobiles but these days the country's two big automakers are showing their latest models at the minute a lot of show where they meet some unusual competition. the whole thing is reminiscent of a strip tease. it's supposed to be the american carmaker wants to seduce its buyers. i don't mean sixty. chrysler is right next door showing up it's s.u.v.s very comfortable during traffic jams and. there is also showing interest in the southeast asian market. the

russian car and truck maker gods is at the show as well it's a new competitor here. that was the ballots three years ago. we go step by step to do triage sometimes. but if he's through that there's leaks that movement was lost here and now we're. told this was a fun toy project. president to tear the president. out of. politics obviously play a major role in the car industry the other factor is of course. the sound of speach. it's back to sara the national election coming up on sunday in hungary absolutely people and hungry they are going to the polls this weekend and a closely watched national election prime minister viktor orban seeking

a fourth term in power opinion polls showing his party has a comfortable lead but hungary's complex electoral system makes the outcome difficult to predict correspondent funny char is in hungary to cover sunday's parliamentary election for us and she sent us this special report from the capital budapest hungary for hunkie only once the slogan to feeling so many be disposed towards the governing party wallpaper the country billboards like this it's been two and a half years since the station behind me the kelty train station looks like this it was packed with stranded refugees and old though hardly any has been granted asylum here in hungary since then it remains the main topic of the governing party. i want to know all refugees the biggest concern of hunky cattle the elections when you care about the health care system for example it's in ruins. here migrants

there are very aggressive especially with women. we won't let that happen for you. we meet a young journalist who has another cancer. 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 next about shock 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 bullets prime minister viktor orban talks of an invasion by muslims he's campaigning get the message hungry first it resonates well that his supporters. manager of an accountancy firm welcomes us he's a true tism it's clear for everyone to see yes 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 that. time when there aren't that many migrants because the policies work to keep them out they're not a workforce the culture does not fit with ours and having them here doesn't help public safety because mr. early agrees that the issues such as corruption are problems in politics but he says they are nothing new for him the positives of a fit his government way 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 so many in the opposition would consider it a victory if they manage to deprive orbán of a two thirds majority in parliament all agree hungary is heading for a fateful election. we have some breaking news just coming in here at d.f.w.

we have germany's state prosecutor saying that x. cattle and separatists carlist pushed him on has posted bail and that he may leave a german prison immediately prosecutors still considering extradition to spain over a lesser charge of the misuse of public funds must stay in germany pending that decision spain had requested pushed him on to extradition on charges of rebellion and just to repeat germany's state prosecutor saying that the separatist leader has posted bail and you need to leave a german prison immediately. and sports news now in the first leg of the quarter finals of the europa league were played yesterday night arsenal cruised to to an easy home victory over c.s.k. moscow leipsic edged past marsay athletico madrid beat sporting to nil and la-z. zero one four two against salzburg. new york police have charged the u.f.c. star conor mcgregor after a backstage melee ahead of the organization's biggest event of the year the

irishman's being held on charges of assault and criminal mischief he allegedly snatched at the window of a bus containing other mixed martial arts fighters how mcgregor was stripped of his u.f.c. lightweight belts earlier this week due to an activity a court hearing is set for friday. and just have time now for a quick reminder of the top stories that we're following for you here at d.f.w. former south korean president park geun hye has been sentenced to twenty four years after being found guilty in a corruption case park was impeached and arrested in march twenty second team over a wide ranging scandal revealing links between big business and politics. and with that you're up to date now on d w to this i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching i hope to see you against.

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