player. this is italy news line from berlin hitting close to home the u.s. unleashes sanctions on lattimer putin's entourage oligarchy and officials have their assets frozen in response to what washington calls a brazen pattern of malign activity ties between russia and the west take another nosedive also coming up showdown at the gaza border israeli troops again use live

fire on palestinian protesters killing at least seven people and injuring hundreds more also catalonia separatist leader walks free from a german jail a court refuses to extradite calls put your mom on a rebellion charges and releases them on bail. plus a deadline looms over an anxious brazil federal police week for their ex-president to turn himself in rule of the silver appears to be holed up with union members in the finance of a court order will you begin his jail term for corruption peacefully. and live music bring hope to sell sudanese refugees we visit a concert for peace in a sprawling camp in uganda. thanks

for your company everyone. we begin our broadcast with the escalating diplomatic standoff between russia and the west in the latest twist the u.s. has now struck at the very heart of russian president vladimir putin's inner circle imposing some of its strongest sanctions yet on seven of russia's most influential all the guards washington has also singled out a number of senior russian companies and government officials accusing them of malign activity around the world while the sanctions target most notably three very close allies of putin his son in law carol sham aloft who you will see here right behind me you mary he is married to president putin's youngest daughter catarina and he also happens to be the vice president of russia's biggest petro chemical company cyber and is believed to be worth an estimated one point four billion dollars next up alexey milne miller some of you may recognize him as

a rush as the head of russia's state owned energy giant gazprom is also a close friend of president vladimir putin and then there is still a man carrying off whose family controls russia's largest gold producer what a net worth of six point four billion dollars he was ranked by forbes magazine as russia's twentieth wealthiest businessmen while the sanctions now are going all the way to the top some of the strongest yet let's take you to washington to our correspondent alexander fund nama so good to see you it's very hard to make sense of us this policy towards russia help us understand why are they targeting having imposing these sanctions at this at this instance. senior administration officials told the saying we're not in response to any single event or issue but instead to the of russia's

activities around the world and so they mentioned for example russia's annexation of crimea russia's speed here in eastern ukraine russia's support of the regime and russia's meddling in you asked election how worried were you could have the impression that the administration to some extent was trying to downplay the role russia's meddling in you as election had on the outcome of this election in terms of a bit more about the sanctions themselves the same sions freeze any assets that the persons targeted by the saying sions have as jurisdictions and bars americans from doing business with them however we have to say that it's not clear right now what effect the sanctions can have

because they're not coming as a surprise there was a list of potential targets published by you asked treasury department's months department months ago so you could as you that those people had enough time to prepare maybe even to move their. out of reach of you ass or western authorities alexander as you were known as you have reported on in the past and present trump is very reluctant to criticize a president putin so can we presume that he is on board with these sanctions. well in terms of policy he is on board the white house issued a statement with the headline saying president still no trump is tending to russia's malign cities however as you said these sanctions stand in a stark contrast towards president trump normally says about russia and the russian

president he has never publicly criticized putin he has repeated to the set that he would like to improve u.s. relationship with their russia so as i said he's words stand in a stark contrast to the current u.s. policy on russia and the same sions imposed today alexander phenomena reporting from washington thank you. israeli security forces have fired live rounds on palestinian protesters at the gaza border killing at least five people and injuring dozens more on this follows the deaths of more than twenty people who died after demonstrating last week palestinians are protesting against the decade old blockade of the gaza strip is really cute says the palestinians of using the protests as a cover for attacking the border. sending up smoke from burning mounds of time as the protesters hope but israeli soldiers can see they can't shoot. the

demonstrators are calling this the great much of return the demand the people forced from the lands during the one nine hundred forty eight war with israel be allowed to return. to islamist hamas group was a key force in organizing the protests. we will never give up on any of our inalienable rights the land is one of them another is the holy sites to receive them the mall under churches. israel says the protests are a challenge to its territory and it has the right to defend itself it accuses homines of using the protests as cover to carry out attacks on israeli border towns . is a travesty for the palestinian people that the hamas government is encouraging its people to attack israel is encouraging its people to commit acts of violence and encouraging them to actually storm into israel to try to destroy israel and kill as many people as possible but rights watchdogs have criticized israel for firing on

protesters from its side of the border the united nations has urged restraint. we remind israel of its obligations to ensure that excessive force is not employed against protesters the unjustified unlawful recourse to firearms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to a willful killing and grave breach of the fourth geneva convention. the protests along the volatile border are expected to culminate on the fifteenth of may the day following the seventieth anniversary of israel's declaration of independence. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in syria opposition monitors say government airstrikes have killed at least twenty seven people in the last rebel held area inside eastern who top state television says government troops backed by russian forces are slowly closing in on the town of duma the attacks and

the ten day lull in fighting there. doctors in britain say the russian expires sergei screwball who was poisoned by a nerve agent last month is responding well to treatment possible says he's improving rapidly and is no longer in critical condition his daughter yulia statement via u.k. police yesterday that she's getting stronger every day. the trial of former south african president jacob zuma has been adjourned until june so my faces charges of corruption relating to a two point five billion dollars arms deal the former leader was met by supporters as he left the durban courthouse where proceedings were how old. separatist leader carlos put humans has been released from a german jail prosecutors ordered he be set free after he met a bail fee of seventy five seventy five thousand euros which a man was held on a year p. an arrest warrant issued by spain which called for his extradition on charges of

rebellion and misuse of public funds while yesterday a german court ruled out extraditing preachment on rebellion charges while the court is still considering whether to extradite him on the second lesser charge. oh after twelve nights behind bars who's to monserrat his first steps of freedom taking a moment to acknowledge his supporters. but he knows it is a long road ahead for him and the other separatist leaders facing the glare of the spanish courts. for the immediate release for all of my colleagues still in the spanish reasons it's a shame for europe to have political prisoners. i always trust in european democracy based on the will of the people separation of power us peace

and human rights and that's kind of you mark racine he seen recently spain coach to man says he will fight the corruption charges still hanging over him and called for dialogue with spain. but the madrid government is in norman for talk a spokesman stressing that the charges were being brought by independent judges not politicians. but you know what is clear is that mr approached him on some of the actions of distance system in german territory because he ran away from the spanish system so as not to have to face it it made it very clear that he was not being persecuted for political reasons but because he ran away from the justice system. a sense that former catalan president ended up in the clutches of the german justice system officials in berlin have been straining to keep their hands clean. the insist that carlos demands liberty is a matter for the courts. all right and with me now is it always political

correspondent tom sparrow who has been covering this story is still on the story is the story still on the story thomas a very strident carlist if you want that we saw there speaking what's next for him now well we know for sure that he has to stay in germany we know for sure that he has to report to the german authorities we know for sure that the case is still ongoing although not on the rebellion charges yourself mentioned he himself was being tweeting about his his next steps in fact in one of his recent tweets and we may have a look at that he said i have come out of prison and i am on my way to brooklyn now is the time to remember colleagues who are still unjustly imprisoned and we call for their freedom thank you to everyone. all right well there you have it but thomas let's talk about the position of the german government because it's a really tricky balancing act this is such a politically charged issue they said we're going to stay out of this can they

maintain that position it is very difficult for them to maintain that position in fact right from the start when he was arrested in northern germany it was said that this was a legal case but a political problem and that certainly remains like that now if you put additions or the spokespeople of the german government they will say exactly that they will say this is for the courts to decide and they will try to avoid any political implications but he does clear that this is also a political issue and a political issue that is very difficult for berlin because they also have to make sure that relations between but i'm madrid say in a very good way how how does this impact if at all the quest for catalonia those who support catalonia is in the pen that depends who you are us community some of those who are against cuts and only a bit for independence they will say that the fact that most of their leaders are either facing trial or in prison or in exile would certainly weaken that quest for

independence whereas others would say that the case of mr bush don't want himself actually strengthens the desire to get that independence so it really depends on who you are you will get such a new different dance before i let you go so mr preacherman will stay in germany do we know if there's a follow up date where he has to appear before court or no we still don't know that but it is certain that he will have to stay in germany and report to authorities now we're expecting him to do something here in berlin after that tweet where he said that he was coming to the german capital you will be there and you'll be telling us about it and we'll thomas farah thank you so very much greatly appreciate it our i fear watching the news or so of a lot more to tell you about including when take a look at clothes crucial clash with lines in the bundesliga this weekend as this colognes last chance to avoid a relic. the music bringing hope to south sudanese refugees we visit a concert for peace in a sprawling camp in uganda. but

first donald trump may have started it but the war on so-called fake news is by no means limited to the u.s. across asia governments are moving aggressively to clamp down on what they see as an onslaught of mis information but a spate of new stuff sparked controversy and drawn fierce criticism from human rights organizations for that is with me for more on this story good to see you for that what exactly are governments doing to fight so-called fake news well we can look at malaysia for example just this week the country passed a new law to punish offenders who publish or share fake news which in the text is defined as any news information data and reports which are wholly or partly false so pretty dental the phoenician there and the bill sets out fines up to approximately one hundred thousand euros and a maximum of six

e is in jail and it's a bill that covers news outlets but also social media platforms in malaysia as well as foreign publications reporting on malaysia there was fierce criticism and opposition this bill by the opposition of course but also by journalists and the law comes just ahead of elections in malaysia that are coming up in august so many are wondering whether is this really a coincidence and. many fear that actually this new law will be used to rather silence criticism particularly towards the current president and malaysia isn't an isolated case because we're seeing other countries in the region they are reviewing similar legislation for. semple the philippines and singapore and indonesia set up an agency soley to to monitor and tackle misinformation so it really is taking the shape of a of a tendency percs the question for you how big of

a problem is fake news in asia i mean of course it's an issue that shouldn't be underestimated i mean it's not a myth that social media particularly has been used to spread hate speech and false information for example in myanmar it's been used to discriminate and there he was the minority was dreadful consequences for them however these many of these countries already have some kind of tool or regulation that can be used to tackle misinformation so the question is is the aim and the target of these new laws really misinformation and many would argue against that earlier we spoke to the head of the asia pacific desk reporters without borders and this is what he had to say on the matter. the biggest concern about these laws is that the we. possibly be used to crush independent voices there is no definition of what is fake

news everything that would displease these governments in a country where pluralism is not the rule then and now governments would be able through these kind of low to criminalize those who investigate some subjects the government doesn't want to. so the point being that fake news is such a has become such a vague of a concept that it can just be is really manipulated by governments in their own interest very very slippery slope indeed what does this mean for the freedom of expression the freedom of press in these countries does it we just heard it from dan a bastard from reporters without borders i mean it's the recent independent voices in this country is where it media pluralism is already so weak that these voices will be silenced and also any reporters without borders told that they will and publish a new press freedom in the next shortly and all the countries in southeast asia will rank lower than countries such as afghanistan and they give us

a two specific reasons why they think right now there is this big decline in press freedom there and take a listen one is the increase of china where the government runs everything and on the other hand you have donald trump's united states mostly donald trump. who's who's discourse about against joe louis about this so-called free use you know is used abused is a very likable nonstop for four governments in asia wants to crush press freedom. so false information of course i mean it remains a big issue but then of the. many patients the fight against false information is also now becoming a big concern this is such a difficult issue to tackle thank you so much for the coverage of thanking us thank you. and i think i'm going to hand you over now to have you go there he is where you have an outlook for us on the u.s.

job market that's right an outlook that could be a little controversial leyla the latest jobs figures in the u.s. show that the economy only added one hundred three thousand jobs in march that's down sharply from the previous month now the numbers are important as they show us just how strong the economy is but despite the weaker jobs growth companies are eager to hire new employees the problem is they're struggling to find qualified workers. at all was say last month's modest draw against may indicate that some u.s. employers are struggling to find and retain workers with the skills they need by u.s. banks survey showed sixty one percent of business owners were experiencing extreme or moderate difficulty finding qualified employees to expand their business the federal reserve notes labor shortages could be slowing growth in the manufacturing transportation and construction sectors u.s. politicians are trying to pass legislation to create more vocational training opportunities. in the united states alone we have over by the year twenty

twentieth's estimate over six million jobs that are going to be open and available that we cannot find qualified trained workers for after the the tax cuts and reform legislation that we passed into law just about just a couple months ago we've seen the growth of new job opportunities now that will be for nothing if we don't have these pathways for individuals to be qualified and trained if american businesses are not able to soon find sufficient workers to fill their needs consumers could see food price increases with workers in short supply and have to wait longer for manufactured products and services. we stay in the u.s. where the scandal surrounding social media giant facebook is getting bigger and bigger next monday users worldwide will be notified if their data was possibly shared with third party but the data misuse could be worse than we thought facebook's chief operating officer sheryl sandberg talked to america's n.b.c.

news and couldn't rule out further leaks of user information do you think there could be other breaches like the one we saw in cambridge analytic where tens of millions of people thought it was accessed improperly we're doing investigation we're going to do audits and yes we think it's possible that's why we're doing the audit this week we announced were shutting down some of the ways groups events pages other parts of our product use data now a lot of these have quite good use cases well we're making a big shift here and it's a shift we're making to make sure that we are more protective. certainly hear a lot about that issue now it's back to layla and it's time for sports. day because we've got the one and only matt herman here from our sports desk and joining me to look at this weekend's business legal action because we've got

a huge clash coming up between a minds and cologne why is this match so important it's really important because cologne there in seventeenth place that is a place that sends you automatically don't really want to win to get out of the trouble my certain sixteenth place which is a relegation playoff space so they want to put a little distance between them and cologne but something's up. with cologne you just never know winds over leipzig and labor coups and then a loss of epic proportions six mil in hoffenheim they're not letting it set their confidence that much of its heart we've shown as a team that we can suffer a setback like in frankie but we also fell apart and came back to get a result we're counting on being able to do it again. that's the billy goats will be helped by the return of z. montero to their top scorer a win against minds would put cologne within striking distance of the relegation play off place a minor miracle. if you haven't done much the one stage we had just three points

off to fourteen matches never net wildest dreams did we think we could get anywhere near the relegation playoff place this early but i'm not trying to put us down that's just a fact this is difficult. the only awarded penalty gave months away and over cologne earlier this season but the guests have just one win away all season. goal is clear to take three points away from home but still nothing's done yet we still have six games to play. a good omen for the home side the billy goats clinched european football on the last day of the season last year with a win over months. now right matt could we see a lucky escape for cologne this year it's going to be very very very tough but it is doable basically they have three more cracks against teams who are in the lower reaches of the table this week against meit's in three weeks time against board and

on the last day of the season against walls or i think if they can win all three of those games even if they don't win the rest they might well stay up. have to find out on the other side of the spectrum you've got byron so what are they going to do with. this weekend i think that they have a very very good chance of winning the league this weekend they are a way out spork a mid table side that doesn't have a lot to play for and it should be a very beatable team for buy on this is kind of been something we've been waiting and waiting and waiting to have happen for some time in bahrain have been leading the league anywhere between fifteen and twenty points for months they were leading it by twenty points three weeks ago and they have a chance to win the title unfortunately they lost to leipzig two weeks ago last week if shellcode the second place team had failed to win by and would have won if they had had one they did win over dortmund what chalco went one so now this week.

it doesn't matter what shall to do if they're going to win the league i think they're going to win the league ok they're going to win the league you've got i do i have. you know their coach their coach you want the trouble with them last time he was in charge back in twenty thirteen seems to want to do something similar to that he says that if they win the league this weekend he's going to keep a damper on things. and if we become champions we'll have a glass of champagne in the locker room but thats it. because on sunday morning at ten o'clock we have training again. we can celebrate when we've earned the right occasion then we can really let loose. and they can really let loose anything else we should be looking forward to this weekend oh absolutely oh well we've got a couple of rather bland big table games hannover says brain club buffers is here to but we do have another team in

a very similar position to cologne who really need wins that is hamburg there unfortunately playing shall come the second place team zero one six on the trot so i think it might be curtains this weekend for amber and freiburg vs vul spork they are two teams who really need to pick up points so they don't get mixed up in that cologne area of the table for much longer all right mattering thank you so much happy viewing this week and good stuff you're watching it every news we still have a lot more to tell you about including brazil is on edge as police wait to arrest the country's former president but it's a little of the silver to defy a court order to bring not being to going to jail or get the latest from sao paolo. and fear and loathing in budapest viktor orban stirs up anti immigrant sentiment ahead of hungary's general election . and the music great hope to south sudanese refugees we visit

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country's democratic institutions now face a serious threat to islam we call for the name of law of islam of. violence dominates the headlines if this could get into love it should be. a bit you. know not fiction plays bangladesh the dawn of islam is on starting april twenty first on t w. you're watching it every news outlet iraq are brilliant great to have you back with us this is our main headline right now the u.s. has imposed economic sanctions on lattimer putin's inner circle of all the guards and officials washington says the move was in response to malign activities worldwide it's one of the sternest actions against moscow from the trumpet

ministration so far. now a deadline for brazil's former president that we see now through the silver to turn himself into police is due to expire shortly sources from his party say he does not plan to surrender voluntarily or is thought to be still holed up with his supporters in so hollow the supreme court has ordered him to begin serving a prison sentence for corruption even though the appeals process is not yet complete he says it's a ploy to stop him from running in this year's presidential election where he is the clear front runner crowds of supporters have gathered outside the building which could make it difficult for police to arrest him. all right with the clock ticking let's get the lay of the land from sao paulo joining us now is journalist sam kawhi good day time is running out for mr lula is the country bracing itself for what is shaping up to be a showdown. yeah absolutely there's definitely

a bit of a standoff situation here and basically the country's been tense since last night when a judge says to morrow who convicted loser in the first place basically ordered he's ordered his detention and arrest warrants so basically what we're seeing at the moment is thousands of supporters that's have surrounded this building in the south it's a mess because union hates hugh and that's where louis is with these supporters and political allies and at five o'clock when this deadline expires. we don't know if it's expected yet we don't know what's going to happen exactly but in syria the brazils federal police would have to go that and arrest we're not sure exactly yet about his plans regarding whether he would hide himself you know not with multiple conflicting reports last night his lawyer said they would indeed hand himself in then today. brazilian newspapers reported that he wouldn't and now more recently

it's been reported that he has not made up his mind yet the legal defense team always being for why one of decision also wrote about this pope was appeal from another court all right now sam well as you've been reporting with him not likely to turn himself in could things get out of control where you are mean what i say here's a supporter saying. well his supporters at least at the moment of being very vocal that they would defend him. who was one of you know one of his key allies very powerful sense of the way this policy has said that like if they have the coverage they'll have to come here and get to see him just as they did during the dictatorship of his you were very few brazil's twenty one year military deeds he's a ship the federal police have also expressed concern that they could be some races of security some risks of violence but all of that remains. remains to be seen

still at the moment but there's definitely the potential are a very tense standoff their way you are now brazilians are headed to the polls in october in the fall is a front runner at this moment what does this ruling likely to mean for that election well technically at the moment it means that he's out of the rights because if you will convicted and you run if you're convicted of a crime you can't run for public office basically but this actually would in fact be decided by an electoral roll not the criminal courts coast so that's why you could even basically you know you could easily run as a candidate while in jail technically although that remains unlikely remains the scene with lugar out of the race that's basically about six of the competitive candidates who could definitely get through to the second round of the brazilian elections although he remains the leader by far at the moment in the race and he's always maintained his innocence and so these legal same saying that the charges of

basically politically motivated to stop him from running for president or president . all the time it would be in fact. we're reporting on a very tense waiting game unfolding right now in brazil thank you so much. thank you. we're going to hungary now because their country goes to the polls this weekend in a national election prime minister viktor orban one of europe's loudest opponents of allowing in immigrants a seeking of not allowing in migrants is seeking a fourth term in power opinion polls show his party has a comfortable lead but hungary's complex electoral system makes the outcome difficult to predict correspondents funny for sure is in the hungry to cover sunday's parliamentary election for us she sent us this report from the capital budapest. hungary for hungary once the slogan mirrors the feeling so many fetus

voters the governing party wallpaper the country to billboards like this. it's been two and a half years now since the station behind me the kelty train station looked 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 a prime minister of the two or bond talks of an invasion by muslims he's campaigning with a message hungry first. i want to know are refugees to biggest concern of hunger voters out of the elections when you care about the health care system for example it's in ruins 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. a fee that. migrants 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 physicists there's lots of propaganda everywhere opposing liberal democratic voices receive less space. to be a reporter for the biggest left wing 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 my head i don't see any political party in hungary right now that could stop and opposition parties are not working together and. we come to the outskirts of would have passed to meet with fittest supporters hungary first resonates well he 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 sharon and that's your area agrees that the issues such as corruption are problems in politics but he says they are nothing new for him the positives of the fittest 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 put fit as 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. our idea is finish our reporting there and we can talk to her

right now she isn't hungry that capital group have passed a very good evening funny or been pushing a strongly anti migrant message is this issue important for the voters. according to recent polls is the social issues that seem to matter here the most. talking about practical things for example to treatment in hospitals or a more competitive education system and immigration place is placing second tava if you look at the policy preferences there is a difference people who are most likely to vote for the third to center right government most likely decide immigration and security is the most important issue while people who support rather the center left are going to say no we actually want highest salaries pensions so there is a difference a day off course what i find most astonishing being here in hungary how fiercely these come was folded in the past weeks only actually the dynamic really calls off

the verbal rhetoric between parties but also between supporters of different parties has really heated up ok has really heated up where you are or we're getting reports here has been consistently ahead in the polls so there's that mean that the results are a foregone conclusion. actually you should. because of course the old kind of pull says even though fetus is in the lead according to polls so did to import events that really a lot to more dynamics in discomposed during the past two weeks for one prime minister victor all don has delivered a very harsh peaceful march march fifteenth a national day here in hungary saying that he's going to deal with the opposition whatever ever opposition means about that it is the media old party or is it george soros the us and us industrial high gear and heritage nobody knows but that rhetoric alone is mobilizing a lot of forces to actually go and cast

a ballot and then of course we have seen an independent candidate winning in a fetus stronghold in what. just south of hungary and that also is adding to this dynamic that actually maybe it is possible to beat finesse not every we have a suit and districts all right so it promises to be a very tight race if i understand correctly from your reporting a funny let's take a step back and and look at the european perspective of this election and where it fits in oregon has long been on a collision course with brussels what would his potential reelection mean for europe. as you regardless of whether he gets to serve a jory tea or whether he wins he's going to stay on the cools that he wants to have a different vision about the european union he wants to chese opinion towards sovereignty for suit in countries like exam for example division states hungary

czech republic slovakia and poland and as you lot of cooperation between these countries so that's not going to change the question is of course how the european union is going to react to that when budget talks are about to begin in twenty nineteen. funny fish are reporting from budapest thank you very much. those elections on sunday take place against the backdrop of a thriving economy how yet and we know how important the economy can be it can even decide elections later that's why it's important to take a look at how the economic development in hungary is doing right now domestic demand is strong private consumption at its highest level in three and a half years but slips take a look at the development now hungary made a weak recovery from the economic crisis in two thousand and ten but then the economy started to pick up pace four years later in twenty fourteen it was an above four point two percent g.d.p. growth then it was a little slower but then it came again in full speed last year at four percent again and that's also showing on the labor market another key data that we can take

a look at now the unemployment rate fell steadily throughout the decade as we can see here from eleven point eight percent in two thousand and ten to just about three point eight percent last year a level that economists actually consider to be full employment now prime minister viktor orban the government is trying to take all the credit for an apparent booming economy but the truth is more complex as this report shows. the people of joe had hoped for better from the new street lights here in the suburb of hungary in capital budapest they were supposed to be replaced by early day 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 if investigations by news websites direct thirty six are anything to go by.

as work the problem 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. is 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 it say your membership only ten years ago it was almost bankrupt wages there stagnant e.u. funding has been the driving force behind its economic recovery by the end of twenty sixteen brussels a channeled 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 or subsidiaries of boston. under uses the e.u. cash to give tax breaks to foreign investors which also boost the economy and creates jobs. of course will follow that election very closely right here on the w. now to a country that already has a new president south africa is the only industrialized nation on the african continent that should actually be a guarantee for economic success but the country's economy has struggled in recent years in part due to a bad government led by former president jakob zuma corruption and nepotism where rampant under his administration causing rating agencies to downgrade the country to junk status now a new president is in office and times are changing and the outlook for south africa's economic development is a beat. up johannesburg is the commercial capital of south africa twelve million people live in and around the city which is growing apace it offers good prospects

for foreign investment as the demand for goods rises in line with the population here. german medical equipment manufacturer of b. brown located its south african headquarters in johannesburg the german mid-sized company has been active here for years its warehouses are full of company products made abroad found in its south african plants from here they're distributed throughout the country be brown employs seven hundred eighty people here its management director for south africa says the outlook for expansion is promising. because three years south africa has not been living up to its potential in terms of economic growth or economic performance generally and we're pretty convinced that with the new government and its stronger stance against corruption the economy will be given new impetus and growth rates will rise sharply. despite all of south africa's problems fever owns growth here has been stable at an impressive fifteen to twenty five percent annually last year the company generated revenues of just

under seventy million euros in the region that's primarily due to the enormous backlog of demand in the health sector b. brown currently operates thirty dialysis clinics across the country one. in the long term south african market will have. to expand massively market to pass it is far too low compared to other similarly developed countries when it comes to the number of kidney dialysis patients who are actually getting treatment and we see really huge potential for growth as well as a huge need for investment in this is to speak of south africa's economy has been sluggish until now but it holds much promise if it can get on top of corruption and mismanagement then investors will be more willing to return to the cape of good hope. we see in the african continent and even the subject of hope for a very different one yeah some musical hope a south sudanese refugee in uganda is using music to preach peace more says the park gives concerts to his fellow refugees in northern uganda as rhino camp refugee

camp is home to more than one hundred thousand people over one million south sudanese refugees have fled to uganda since fighting broke out back in two thousand and thirteen. a moment of. sudanese refugees in uganda. this discourse has been organized by more than. south sudan his musician who is also a refugee you got. the prize using music to hope we have deleted from the c.d.'s psychological trauma having escaped violence back at home. i have an extremely happy because i know that the hope is already restored. by the fact that things happen many things last when i see them smile i also smile because i see that hope is that is stored and i'm encouraging them to live positive through music and at.

the rhino camps a turning point continues to walk with fellow refugees through a charity organization. impose women through financial literacy classes also gives them startup loans for small businesses. leverage here is one of them. how small restaurant serves breakfast. that. i can now pay school fees for all my children with assistance from a piano i've been able to buy him obama sheen that bakes cakes i feel empowered and this makes me happy because i'm scared you can work economic miracle is it. i phoned the action for people. in two thousand and sixteen. his goal is to improve the livelihood of fellow sultans refugees in uganda. when i

come like this i feel i am really at home when i see women progressing. looking i feel when i think community living you know how many. do and looking for i feel happy extremely happy and i believe that through music and able to create a peaceful and a healthy society. since two thousand and thirteen the conflict in south sudan has lived thousands of people would be. according to the u.n. refugee agency you when it's. over four million people have been forced to flee their homes. while these people long for peace sees music school forward conciliation a time bring stability to the world's youngest nation. aright and we've got some more music coming out free because twenty eighteen is the

year of european cultural heritage and this is an initiative for the european commission and there are hundreds of events of performances around the continent is here to tell us more about it so tell us about this initiative by the european this is as you said cultural heritage as they've called it and through various artistic events all of the year the idea here is to show what we have together europeans are more unites as i would have hoped might have happened a few years ago and then the brics it might have been different but it was. the only right one of the events performances of britain's war record benjamin britten . by the time you might think this isn't a very uniting piece but of course it's an antiwar piece and it requires one hundred. hundreds of musicians and singers lots of choirs lots of all and in this case all the musicians are from various countries in the year they're all young musicians i should say including

a choir from england and we were at the final rehearsal so let's have a look. at it for a. conductor thomas noir hall fuses benjamin britten's rejection of war as an opportunity to unite europeans today. simply lend. germany waged war against these countries in the first and second world wars of our ideas to create an experience of peace and reconciliation with the grandchildren and great grandchildren if those who took part in what was or were lost in the wars of course on one machine and i'm afraid that has. for leaped. the huge performance brings together musicians from across europe including an

ensemble from the world's premiere at coventry cathedral back in one nine hundred sixty two as well as the cathedrals girls choir. benjamin britain's work uses war poems as a type of commentary on a traditional requiem mass to distill the moment of realization of the cost of war . was. over the past few days i've talked a lot with other members of the orchestra. i think it's important that we don't forget what's going on in the world of money for good wealth but never perfect lets them here here when we're all together we don't have any borders or conflicts and. rather we can simply do something together our language now is the music. theme of the. park for noise off the sounds of war don't look to be losing their

pertinence any time soon. not so not just sadly nationalism is on the rise in europe what we're doing seeks to counter that but of course it's just a drop in the ocean and. then german britain's war requiem supported by the european year of cultural heritage starts tonight in color. and actually it's taking place right now starting to ask to be there to be top just a little bit more about the background of this piece yeah a number of benjamin britten friends were killed in the second world war and it but he became a lifelong pacifist after that really. affected him and indeed the piece is dedicated to four of his friends who fell in battle britain was one of the great classical composers of the twentieth century and there's

a pacifist he was thrilled to be commissioned to write for the consecration of the new cold tree cathedral in nineteen sixty two the cathedral is almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid in the second world war and the new ones built right next to it sort of all wars on it and it's very modernist designed by the renowned dr spence incidentally the great russian composer dmitri shostakovich said that the war requiem was the greatest piece of music composed in the twentieth century so praise indeed and it was at the top of the heart of the cold war as well you know the cuban missile crisis was also nine hundred sixty two so. we're all getting frosty relations reduce the west's answer is court personnel raise highest praise this performance right that's that's go home as we speak is the first of three performances yeah they're all supposed to brought swats on sunday and they'll be here in berlin. there's loads of events in this cultural heritage and more on

a website. called slash so much drive and have a fantastically. all right that doesn't press only allow her rock and roll and on behalf of all of us here thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour.

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