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this is the daily news live from berlin choked to death as they cowards and basements of rebels in duma and eastern does it say more than forty people have been killed in a chemical attack syria and its allies claim it's a fabrication but the u.s. once announced this that there will be a big price to pay. viktor orban declares victory in hungary's elections a controversial prime minister saying he has a mandate to defend the country we'll be talking to our correspondents.
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and police and the german city of lengths are scrambled to understand why a man drove a van into a crashed killing two people authorities say there's no evidence of an islamist connection that they are investigating all of their possibilities. being. i'm on is all welcome to the program of the united nations security council will meet on monday over an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria rebels medics and aid organizations in eastern all say chemical weapons were used in and that's hock on the town of duma and the syrian regime and its allies say that the allegations are a fabrication and the u.s. has meanwhile warned damascus it would have a big price to pay if the claims proved correct. thank you these pictures appear to
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show as strikes on the town of duma in eastern. it's the last remaining rebel stronghold following a relentless russian backed onslaught on the region which began in february the white helmets volunteer rescue groups say at least forty people including many children were suspects yates in the chemical attack. the regime continues the intense and violent shelling barrel bombs were dropped by helicopters carrying poisonous substances. until now paramedics haven't been able to enter because of the continuous shelling the regime is trying to wipe out this area. syria denies its government forces launched any chemical assaults nonetheless international condemnation has been swift and blunt. u.s. president double trouble took to twitter blaming russia and iran for supporting syria and describing its president bashar assad as an animal in rome pope francis
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during mass and simply to square denounce the attackers unjustifiable. we pray for all the dead for the wounded for the families who suffer. there is no good war and bad war. and nothing nothing can justify the use of such instruments of violence against people and unarmed populations. the syrian army released pictures which it says showed troops moving towards the army dismissed claims of the care for taxes fabrications the military insists it's advancing rapidly and does not need chemical weapons. joining me in the studio is. a serious specialists who has done extensive reporting from inside and outside syria welcome colleagues now as we heard there the syrian
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government says it's not behind any chemical attack in duma is there any evidence at all to support that claim. so they don't need to claim to said she did deny and they have done so despite the repeated chemical weapons that. they've used in northern syria and they're not on damascus as the u.n. said years ago they have used chemical weapons the same area in the google killing hundreds of civilians they denied that they were not using chemical weapons a year ago almost in country when and if the so there's that if he is the. ok so we also understand that after this alleged attack all rebels have now agreed to leave dumas which is one of their last remaining strongholds what kind of an impact will that have on the war there were these. have been there thought and i thought. there. is an extension of the mosque because it is
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a. consideration of if in their population that's been they feel that they've been oppressed by for decades so it's a thorn in a back that is going to get put off and replace it with what appears to be demographic change ethnic cleansing and force transfer of this when their population i think they would be. she opposition the loyalist shia militia and their families who keep putting in the studio on the behest of yet on to the regime and where are they being sent to what are they going to do there that's why they have been holding on to their homes because the distance from the east and their distance from syria if you approve of the future suddenly uprooted from your home you're not going to go that's why they've been so what the nations is trying to hold onto their homes. the ledges chemical attack of course has sparked international outrage the u.n. security council is expected to meet tomorrow u.s. president donald trump is threatening
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a big price in response and here we asked our washington correspondent care richardson what that could possibly mean that's have a listen in to what she had to say. it's possible trump could pursue military strikes to try and punish the outside regime. like he did about a year ago when he carried out military strikes on an air base that followed a nother chemical weapons attack by the syrian government and so that was the united states first direct military action against syria and we could very well see him do that again or you could do nothing beyond criticizing the government as we've seen so the white house homeland security adviser said this week that all options aren't are on the table nothing should be taken off so this point i think it seems that anything is possible. you heard there i mean some pay is unpredictable will he take the u.s. hours of syria will he respond militarily or do nothing do you think he could
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actually exact a military response in the goddess of food would he do it or not what kind of response that is lost on the years ago it was just a slap on better still for assad so this time he's got the struggle against calling him a new model when you strong in the fact in the post when he used strong gloves he actually did militarily but the point is that the use even to jeem using chemical weapons ordered butter bombs would boot world war two type tactics against civilian population this in the civilian population myth we virtually noticed one's effective response from the west since obama drew that that had won in syria so it's sort of what i said the other we need to be scared because to be a strong military response. thank you very much for joining us in studio. hungary and prime minister viktor orban has declared victory in sunday's parliamentary elections with current projections putting his seat as party on track
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to maintain its two thirds majority in parliament or even is poised for a third consecutive term in power after campaigning on a heavily anti like gratian i said that has strained relations with the e.u. and other vice thing and nationalist party yell bake as project is to come in second with well over eighty percent of votes qantas. does it is funny that char has been covering the election from hungary i asked her a short while ago if migration was the key issue driving voters at the polls. it's been one of the issues i would say some fittest definitely sad that this is the key issue to them however if you talk to other supporters supporters of the center left for example they say that the social issues that come in first for example higher salaries high up pensions so it really does depend a bit on your party preference but the immigration and this entire immigration companion grouped with you and whether you're going to vote or whether you have
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cast your ballot because of immigration neither is a very mixed picture when it comes to what top economists suppose and these different perspectives will also of course trickle in to the results and how this country has voted all together. they have some of the other stories making news around the world. because it is set to take over as c.e.o. of germany's biggest lender deutsche bank saving will move over from deutsche is private and commercial divisions it's hoped he'll be able to reverse three years of losses the banks i was going boss john cryer and husband criticized for failing to revive the bank security training business. france's rail national wreck and suffering major disruption once again a third of rail workers walked off the job on sunday in protest against the government's plan to overhaul of the state's road rail system the strikes are part of an ongoing dispute set of last for three months. in new york one person died and
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four firefighters were injured in the blaze on the fifteenth floor of the trump tower officials said that the fire in the us president's signature building was quickly pushed the victim was a male resident of the building who dies after being taken to the hospital. while the german city of munster has paid tribute to the victims of saturday's van attack two people dies when a forty eight year old driver plugs into a crate in the city's old stand as felice seeks to understand the most of for the brutal attack residents have solved all this together in the wake of the tragedy. the people of minster packed out the city's famous palace cathedral in honor of the victims of saturday's atrocity. earlier flowers were laid outside the popular pub in the old town where it happened two people were killed and dozens more injured when
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a forty eight year old german man crashed his van into the crowd the driver had mental problems and was known to police he shot and killed himself after the incident. fifty. i've lived in munster for forty years and hardly seen a drop of blood because the people here are so nice it's such a beautiful city one mention in this. i'm relieved i'm sirleaf that it wasn't a terror attack germany's interior minister called it a brutal and cowardly crime. i'm here today in munster to convey the solidarity and condolences of the entire government here especially the chancellor angela merkel in space on the consulate police said previous petty crime charges against the driver had all been dismissed. we can only tell you that at the moment we have no indications that there is
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a political background or that other perpetrators were involved says iman hunt he. well there's relief this wasn't a terrorist incident it's a painful reminder of how little the authorities can do to prevent vehicles being used as weapons. some sports news now and informing no one asked the bahrain grand prix sebastian vettel was looking to win his second race of the new season if successful he'd become the first ferrari driver since he has schumacher in two thousand and four sisters this season with two straight victories. lights out in bahrain a frantic start to this race a taste of things to come sebastian vettel of course away cleanly and his ferrari behind him a sadie's drive about terry porter asked me to descend in place. the race didn't start so well for red bull though daniel ricardo retired with electrical problems soon followed by months for stop and after this early
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a collision with lewis hamilton a nightmare for the red bull carriage. but that helped to charging hamilton worked his way up from nights on the grid to miss eighty's man on the left of screen remarkably passing three cars in one corner. but this race was ultimately decided by strategy rather than stealth they ferrari's was complicated when kimmie reichen hit a mechanic in the pits. to stop stop stop stop stop. the mechanic was taken to hospital with a broken leg while writing and was forced to retire that tipped ferrari into keeping fatso out on soft but fading tires and they've got task was putting him under extreme pressure the decision to block rather than attack paid off the german crossing the line just six tenths ahead of his rival one of the sweetest wins of his career. now how would you like a roman style chariot or a gold rolex watch or even
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