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it is the number one and number one you can see that we are. this is. from berlin not running for a brazilian political icon lula da silva defines a court order to hand himself into police and begin a prison term for corruption the former brazilian president is holed up in a union building surrounded by supporters his lawyers are understood to be negotiating with police we'll get the latest from self-will also coming up the u.s.
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targets vladimir putin's inner circle with sanctions it's washington's stiffest response yet to what it calls a brazen pattern of activity. and showdown at the gaza border israeli troops again use live fire on palestinian protesters killing at least seven people injuring hundreds more. it's good to have you with us tonight brazil is on tenterhooks as the country's hugely popular former president the reason officer of the silva defies a court order to turn himself into police his legal team is reportedly negotiating with police right now hunkered down at a trade union building in sao paolo a crowds of. his supporters have gathered
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outside and we're looking at live pictures of that scene the supreme court has ordered luka to begin serving a prison sentence for corruption while he appeals the conviction is a porter say it's a ploy to stop him from running in this year's presidential election where he remains the clear front runner. artless go now to sao paolo joining us is journalist sam county sam it's good to see you again said the deadline has passed lou has defied the arrest order and the world is watching and asking what happens next. well we've just had a. police that they see zero chance of being arrested today it's unclear whether this has to do with the brazilian law all the federal police cannot residence is six am and a full six am monday to friday that seems to be the main the main
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thing around right now so police easy seans of route of being arrested today you can see it used to be surrounded by thousands of supporters is that this is union building in nice. and yes it could be we could be in a long white still it seems also tells us just by looking at the pictures that the police are clearly not in charge of this situation right now are that. that kind of since neither he really i mean the deadline was find a call for him to hand himself in there's thousands of people that they said straight away that they would not go that and you know cause a scene that they you know brazilian police of known to be very violent they said that they would not go that and and act violently they would not go there and cause
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a rift the security. question all and he's seen walking we've seen the legal framework of the police in control of the situation to be honest yeah and we know that is the front runner in the elections that are coming up in october and i wonder seeing this and seeing that he has so much support at least on the street is this only going to solidify his support among the people leading up to the election. absolutely absolutely that that's a very key point that you might that. ends up being arrested and imprisoned or noise really going to increase he's he's popularity he would become. in prison basically i mean you know as these corruption allegations of come out against him recently with the recent convictions accenture he's approval ratings
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have grown in the polls that said he's not the new no that he was when he left office in two thousand and sand with a c seven percent approval rating the highest of any brazilian president of the presiding of presiding over a growing economy and if you millions of people as opposed to social policies he's much more of a device's bigots a date he remains by far those it was most popular politician and says this show fools today and in fact the conviction will solidify if that's the case as he hopes and sam what about the state of political stability in brazil we have we had a story after story the last couple of years going back to jim rousseff and now with live. with the courts the legal systems or the political systems being at odds with each other and always being out of sync with what the people the street thinks i mean how close are we to some breaking point here.
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well i mean that's a very good question it's a very worrying question for the brazilian citizens also brazil can see news be more and more polarized we've seen recent spate political violence we saw early council recounts was. assassinated the country's basically divided divided and that's only fueling instability on the night that was his case in the supreme courts the night before brazilian army general who came once weeks there and basically and lage he made some what was seen as threats the supreme court that the army ready to fulfill its institutional juicy you know using that language if the case went in favor of lugar and that was seen by many very many as basically a threat in a country that suffered a military dictatorship and several military ships of bias in the past yeah we know
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that the rest of the evening will certainly be a volatile one and will be checking in with you with if and when something happens sam kelly there journalist in sao paulo with the latest sam thank you very much thanks very much. well the united states has frozen the assets of numerous all the guards close to russian president vladimir putin the move represents the toughest action on russia yet by the trumpet ministration in announcing the sanctions washington said that they were in response to what he called malign activity around the world. one of the most striking in the shins to america's sanctions list is blood in the putin son in law korea. he's vice president of russia's biggest petro chemical company c bore and worth an estimated one point four billion dollars another noteworthy addition as alexei miller he has russia
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they don't dine in g. giant gazprom and as a close friend of la de mint hootin and then their suliman karimov whose family controls russia's largest gold mining company those affected said they're not too worried. have been included in other lists before and despite this we continue our active international work. but i think we're working effectively and i visit many countries. the u.s. has also added twelve companies to its sanctions list one of the targeted businesses is g.a.c. group which makes commercial vehicles it is partly owned by the top oligarch all the pasta who also faces personal sanctions. the west's firm stance off the poisoning of a former russian spy an england is likely to have triggered the new sanctions. however the u.s. government has been under pressure to react following russia's the last interference in the last u.s.
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presidential election its side of off air and its military activity in ukraine and syria. if it here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in syria opposition monitors say that government airstrikes have killed at least twenty seven people in the last rebel held area inside eastern kuta state television says that government troops backed by russian forces are slowly closing in on the town of duma the attacks and a ten day wall in fighting bear. doctors in britain say that the russian ex spy sergei's group all who was poisoned by a nerve agent last month is responding well to treatment the hospital says that he is improving rapidly and is no longer in critical condition his daughter yulia gave a statement via u.k. police yesterday that she is getting stronger every day. south korea's impeached president park geun hague has been sentenced to twenty four years in
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prison for corruption she was convicted on several counts of abuse of power and to worship parks is the latest in a string of south korean political and business leaders to face prison time the corruption scandal has divided south korea. israeli security forces have fired live rounds of on palestinian protesters at the gaza border killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more now this follows the deaths of more than twenty people who died after demonstrating just last week palestinians are protesting against the decade old blockade of the gaza strip israel like uses the palestinians of using the protests as a cover for attacking the border. sending up smoke from burning mounds of tires the protesters hope what israeli soldiers can't see they can't shoot. the demonstrators are calling this the great much of return their demand that people forced from their lands during the one nine hundred forty eight war with israel be
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allowed to return the islamist hamas group was a key force in organizing the protests. that are there now is that we will never give up on any of our inalienable rights the land is one of them another is the holy sites jerusalem the mall and the church is. 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
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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. the carillon separatist leader carl has forged him or has been released from a german jail prosecutors ordered his release after he paid a bill three you have seventy five thousand euros which have always held on a european arrest warrant which was issued by spain which called for his extradition on charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds yesterday a german court ruled out extradited bridge tomorrow on these grounds the court is still considering whether or not to extradite him on the second lesser charge.
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oh after twelve nights behind bars whose demond savored 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. i climb for the immediate release for all of my colleagues still in the spanish prisons it's a shame for europe to have political prisoners. i always thrust into feel democracy based on the will of the people separation of power us peace and human rights and that's kind of the mark recy he's seen recently spain approached him on says he will fight the corruption charges still hanging over him and called for dialogue with spain. but the madrid government is in no mood for talk
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a spokesman stressing that the charges were being brought by independent judges not politicians. but you know what is clear is that mr puts them on some of the actions of huge distance system in german territory because he ran away from the spanish system so it's not to have to face it you know they've made it very clear that he's not being persecuted for political reasons but because he ran away from the justice system. a sense that form a catalan president ended up in the clutches of the german justice system officials in berlin have been straining to keep their hands clean. liberty is a motto for the courts. of the top stories we're following for you brazil's president lula da silva has defied a deadline to himself into police instead. with reporters saying
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that his warriors are bigger shooting with police over his surrender the popular politician is supposed to be getting a twelve year jail term for corruption today. you're up to date with. the top of the hour with more world news. my first was a sewing machine. i come from. something as simple as knowing how to write them by side isn't. since i was a little girl. and it took me me estimates might have. finally the
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