i'm not. going to join this long is on starting to be twenty first oh and b.t.w. . this is g.w. news live from berlin the poisoned daughter of an ex russian spy has left the hospital ileus cripple has been discharged and taken to a secure location she and her father were targeted in an apparent poisoning attack just over a month ago also coming up moscow invites international chemical weapons experts to inspect the alleged site of a poison gas attack in syria saying it's found no evidence it actually happened

this as president trump threatens to strike syrian military targets. meanwhile the office of president trumps personal attorney is raided by the f.b.i. truong lashes out calling it a witch up to undermine his presidency. i'm sumi so much going to good to have you with us the daughter of a former russian spy has been discharged from the hospital and taken to a secure location some five weeks after both she and her father reports and yulia and circus group all were exposed to a nerve agent in the english city of salzburg last month both were in critical condition for weeks the apparent target of the attack survey screwballs remains in the hospital the case has plunged relations between russia and the west to the lowest in decades britain is accusing russia of masterminding the attack moscow

denies involvement the hospital treating yulia her father and a police officer who was also exposed to the nerve agent held a press conference a short while ago. all three had been exposed to a nerve agent nerve agents work by attaching themselves to particular enzymes in the body which then stop the nerves from functioning this result from symptoms such a sickness nations. our job in treating the patients is to stabilize them and showing that they can breathe and the blood can continue to circulate we then need to to use a variety of different drugs to support the patients until they could create more and signs to replace those affected by the poisoning. we also use specialized decontamination techniques to remove any residual toxins. or scrip ons are recovering from the attack but what is the current diagnosis on relations between the u.k. and russia our correspondent in london says the outlook is still bleak when there's

a lot of course feeling that was broken over the last. both sides whereas johnson was not a very sick foreign minister and neither was the russian side who suggested it was a staged attack or. britain itself so also we have a long way to go to reestablish their dignity relations the question is how the british government react to these attacks in the last years of reduced ground with lost and investigating also corrupt money feel into the country from russia now to our other top story russia has invited an international chemical weapons watchdog to inspect the site of an alleged chemical attack in syria this says u.s. president donald trump threatened imminent military action in response to it aide workers in the town of duma east of damascus a poison gas was used to kill dozens of people in an attack over the weekend moscow

is said it found no evidence the syrian government denies any responsibility. did these bombs dropped on the last rebel held area near the syrian capital damascus contain chemical weapons the answer could be cause for escalation in the conflict there most of all between the united states and russia the two global powers faced off at the united nations security council in new york. russia's obstructionism will not continue to hold us hostage when we are confronted with an attack like this one the united states is determined to see the monster who dropped chemical weapons on the syrian people held to account yet. i call upon those slandering the regime to move forward with the assumption that there was no chemical weapons attack. no russian troops have been deployed in syria at the request of illegitimate government of a country we already conveyed to the u.s.

side that armed force under false pretext against syria could lead to grave repercussions. aid workers say chlorine gas killed at least forty people and injured many more in duma the u.s. and its allies want an investigation into what happened there but the u.s. may go further than an inquiry history will record this as the moment when the security council either discharged its duty or demonstrated its utter and complete failure to protect the people of syria either way the united states will respond. that response could look like this last year following another suspected chemical attack u.s. president donald trump ordered cruise missile strikes against a syrian air base. trump says military options are again on the table and action of some sort could come soon.

khaled yacoob always is a specialist on syria and he joins us here on d w thank you for being in our studio with us donald trump is threatening more forceful action what do you think that means what are his military options judging by the last time the military option was an attack that was merely slap on the wrist of. not only the civilian population of cd of this when the population have been targeted by the world war two type from bodman by russia the seat in the g.m. and also let's not lose let's not forget you don't we can see you know the specter of chemical weapons has been again used so unless you have a really forceful response of epic proportions assad would not be deterred russia would not need to leave it would be used on what would be that really forceful response something that would hurt the base of that is even the loyalist piece of that e.g. the security apparatus the secret police the alawite elite forces of the energy

where they can feel some pain like the pain they have been inflicted against the sunni population only then when the. good he can have a second calculations but as long as his base is not he doesn't kid now the latest incident that is a listen to this attack from this response rather from donald trump is this alleged chemical gas attack in duma now russia says that this was fabricated the u.s. says that's not the case this is something that really happened what is the evidence you either look at democratic governments and believe these them cut the governments they are the states france russia germany are deceiving its population and saying these repeated chemical weapons attacks in syria are invented or do you think that better but some soldiers have been hitting themselves it beautifully with chemical weapons attack and killing themselves or killing the population or do you believe the russian. i mean it's up to you but remember that russia wrote the book historically all this information this one from two months you know it's

literally wrote the book the russians themselves are actually now calling for the international chemicals weapons watch stock to come in to actually look at the site where this attack is said to have taken place what do you make about and the idea that they now control because easy to wipe of the evidence and then that is there is a proverb saying killing killing someone and then marching in this funeral and this is exactly what you're saying what about this latest escalation that we've been seeing in eastern guta in duma does it threaten security across the region as well i mean the security of the region has been vastly threatened by the mean the the undemocratic military the jeeves in syria and the un want. without any repercussions of killing masses of civilian population this is what that is the security of the region not isis not the causes of this which are these the these thirty six thirty and fifty three genes in that region that nobody in the west want to deal with i mean look about three hundred years ago edmund burke responding to

another atrocity you on your show one of the thousands of sorties were drawn this is the age of softness that is he said self-esteem and calculators and this is what you say get out of bed calculations no more latino values so you're saying now is the time to act doesn't look like the syrian regime is about to finally win this conflict he's winning in certain areas that gene but remember the best ideas that used to be freight is the oil reserve water that we preserve water of syria on the pro-u.s. kurdish militia and you have other areas in the soft and the north yes i said this controlling territory but look at the whole map of syria the goal is a pop with four to be your audience for the russians so that it is winning but you know what that's the tradition all right. always a serious specialist with us here on thank you very much for your insight. now to some other stories making news around the world saudi arabia's crown prince

mohammed bin selman is wrapping up a visit to france as part of a global tour that seen him travel to several western countries and activists have protested the visit they urged french leaders to raise human rights issues with the prince over saudi arabia's role in the war in yemen colombian authorities have arrested a former far credible leader on drug trafficking charges. was arrested on a u.s. warrant for allegedly smuggling large amounts of cocaine into the united states he now faces extradition that could strain the fragile peace deal the colombian government struck with rebels in two thousand and sixteen at least six people have been killed and some nine others wounded in an attack in western afghanistan many of the victims were children or fish will say explosives were planted near a mosque in heroin province no one has claimed responsibility. and the chief prosecutor at the international criminal court has asked the court judges to rule whether she can open a probe into the mass exodus of the war hinge of people from me in march the

prosecutor argues that there is evidence that the internet intentionally deported from me and mark into neighboring bangladesh the memoir is not a member of the i.c.c. but bangladesh is. we're about twelve hours away from when the world's richest and most influential men getting a grilling in the u.s. senate facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is due to appear before lawmakers on capitol hill the thirty three year old chief executive arrived in washington yesterday for a private meeting with senate leaders suckle berg didn't talk to reporters but he did issue a written statement in which he apologized and admitted that facebook did not do enough to prevent misuse topping the agenda and today's hearing will be zuckerberg the admission that the personal information of up to eighty seven million facebook users may have been improperly shared with the political consultancy cambridge analytical to help put donald trump in the white house now until today the only time we heard zuckerberg talking about the scandal was in

a teleconference he held with handful of journalists and days ago this was also the first time he acknowledged that he had made some mistakes but it's clear now that we didn't do we didn't focus enough on preventing of thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well and accurate. foreign interference election beach in addition to developers and data privacy we're going to broaden our view of what our responsibility and that was a huge mistake it was it was mine but. also in the u.s. president trump has called an f.b.i. raid on the office of his personal attorney disgraceful the f.b.i. acted in part on a referral from special counsel robert mueller and miller is conducting an investigation into russia as a legit meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election. president trump was blindsided by news of the raid on his

longtime attorney's office and he didn't hesitate in publicly venting his anger he accused the f.b.i. of unlawfully entering michael cohen's office despite having a warrant. so i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys a good man and it's a disgraceful situation it's a total which up to it's an attack on our country in a true sense an attack or what we all stand for trump says the so-called witch hunt is distracting him from more urgent matters as president and he has made no secret of his disdain for robert muller who is heading the f.b.i. inquiry and was involved in the raid miller is investigating trump on allegations of misconduct including collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the two thousand and sixteen election and trump's lawyer michael cohen is now in miller's crosshairs after he admitted to making a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to adult film actress stormy daniels

just days before the election daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and six and was paid hush money for her silence trump has denied the affair and knowledge of the payment trance reaction to the raid prompted renewed speculation that the president may have miller removed from the investigation. why don't i just fireballer well i think it's a disgrace what's going on we'll see what happens but i think it's really a sad situation where you look at lawmakers on capitol hill have warned the president to allow the investigation to go ahead without political interference. and we have tyson parker with us here in studio from the aspen institute a think tank here in berlin hi tyson this is such a complex story with so many threats what does a stormy daniels story have to do here how is it linked to the muller investigation i mean it's not exactly clear that they are linked to be to be quite honest in this

as was mentioned in this report was referred by the mohler people to the f.b.i. which then decided to institute this raid it is become under question recently whether or not this. hundred thirty thousand payoff to stormy daniels through a shell company in delaware could be interpreted as a campaign donation to the campaign in violation of campaign finance rules and that could be the strand through which this is being pursued it's not yet clear is it clear what else they were looking for beyond information on this payoff that is also not clear but what we do know is that this raid took place pretty spontaneously it caught the president by surprise and it wasn't just his home and office it was also his hotel room in new york meaning that you know clearly they were trying to do a kind of dragnet capture of a lot of information at once so a lot of different strands a lot of different forensics could come out of this investigation we've heard so much speculation that the president could be close to firing robert mueller how true is that speculation but one thing we have to be clear about is that the

president isn't doesn't actually have the authority to fire robert mueller because robert mueller is a direct reports to the deputy attorney general rosenstein so what he could do and it seems like a lot of the fire that he's been putting out there has been directed towards jeff sessions for his recusal the attorney general and rod rosenstein for not reining in miller's investigation more and making it more focused but if he were to unleash a kind of saturday morning or saturday night massacre richard nixon in the height of watergate he would have to fire the attorney general the deputy attorney general for so much do these raids affect the president i mean he has made the point in the pack in the past that the moment best a geisha is a witch hunt against him but these were a separate group of prosecutors right i mean the one thing that we can say is far as whether it's a witch hunt or not and clearly the president is well known for his hot rhetoric especially on twitter but you know we don't know exactly what is being pursued here the robert mueller team is famous for keeping their information tightly sealed they

did not leak so the fact that we know about this this raid is because it was done very quickly and frankly quite publicly so he does know that. it took place we all know it took place but we can't say what is being pursued here and what isn't there some critics out there who are saying that the f.b.i. is raid they're using tactics here they're usually reserved for serious criminals is there any basis i mean what we can say is that they are proud trying to i mean one can interpret. prevent any kind of cover up or any attempt to whitewash information that could be that could be developed derived from this kind of investigation i mean element of surprise catching people off guard is the best way to get the biggest uncontaminated traunch of information and that looks like what they were trying to do in this case and speaking of the element of surprise this all came in this news yesterday as donald trump was meeting over a possible action in syria what do you make of that timing is that a coincidence i mean clearly the attack the chemical attack in east good has

nothing to do with the this raid he does have a new national security adviser as of yesterday john bolton is on board and clearly he has had a response to chemical attacks in the past we saw that last year so this is something that has affected him in the past and we can expect to see a response i don't think that they're necessarily related all right tyson barker joining us now from the aspen institute here in berlin thyssen thank you very much for your analysis thank you. you're watching the w. news still to come the united nations is on a mission in south sudan to rebuild the only sports complex in the moloko region in an effort to relieve tension from the country's ongoing conflict. but first there's a dispute over the poisoning of circus grip on his daughter in london as escalated and we're seeing a new sanctions on russia helena. new sanctions in direct response to that diplomatic crisis talks by the poisoning of the former double agent and his

daughter now those sanctions are targeted. closest circle and their companies are hitting some of the country's private businesses and they could just be the beginning as more sanctions might follow from america's european allies reason enough for russia to go east in its search for new customers. only like jerry pascoe doesn't have much to smile about right now shares in roussel the company at the heart of his global adamantium empire plummeted over fifty percent on monday analysts that russian credit rating agency attribute the volatility to the latest set of sanctions the united states has imposed on russia. on friday sanctions were imposed for the first time on privately owned russian entities before they were only imposed on state owned and to tease and that's led to high volatility on the russian market today for years that the european union could also be mulling fresh sanctions has left many businesses in the country on edge meanwhile russian prime

minister dmitry medvedev has ordered his government to drop possible return here trade steps. we do with them we believe there's an obvious simple pragmatic goal behind the u.s. sanctions to address their own economic challenges in an uncompetitive way the threat of more western sanctions has prompted some russian companies to look eastward in the search for new markets. mission markets in the nearest of the best three sanction is a potential market for new find new soon. new market for the russian producers in vestment service i think in the coming years we'll see increasing the amount of investments coming from asia in the red world as the country's economic relationship with the u.s. deteriorates russian businesses have a long term incentive to look for new markets. are what according to your reports

the u.s. justice department will give the green light to german pharma giant buyers takeover of monsanto that just a few weeks after the potential deal was given the ok by the e.u. commission by intends to buy the u.s. agricultural giant for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted the buyer divest additional assets is part of the deal that if all now goes smoothly the make a deal will be the biggest ever take of all the u.s. company by a german one. and we can bring in our financial correspondent daniel corp who's following the story for us from the frankfurt stock exchange daniel that final green light from across the atlantic appearing to seal the deal how are investors taking that piece of. in fact very positive had another merger has been taking longer than expected and even though some investors still fear the merger the biggest by the way in german history even for a company like buyer could be too big too risky already last night on wall street

during the after our trading shares of buyout jumped higher class of two point one percent monsanto shares jumped even higher to one hundred twenty five dollars that's a class of six percent also here in frankfurt by a shares are the number one here at the dax they are up with almost five percent investors hope that this trend will continue because of the delay the buy a shares did not really go well so far this year and of course that the synergies of this very expensive merger at the end will really pay off for the company so some jubilation there on the trading floor has this merger i mean it's managed to satisfy apparently the u.s. and european union or thirty's but there are still concerns aren't there about the size of this deal yes indeed because with this merger we have to face a buyout will have a monopoly position and that is the reason why until the very end approve words

from the united states and also e.u. authorities were pending by at and months to have said in the past that their version of course that with this merger they will play a major role to make sure to meet the rising demand for food fuel in the future others see all of this very different mostly farmers are very concerned they fear that their seed costs could go dramatically out and yes the market is not very big a buy on one santo doudou pong and champ china those are the global players they will have seventy per cent of the market from now on right and huge columns consolidation going on at the moment daniel court first at the frankfurt stock exchange plenty. while she was taken off to a slow start for many in germany with warning strikes among public sector workers including at port employees striking security grounds softly numerous planes have failed to take off for airports are affected frankfurt munich the cologne born with

a human of transfer alone has had to cancel around eight hundred flights affecting about ninety thousand passengers the nationwide strikes also involve local transport workers and nursery school teachers and their message is clear they want a pay rise of around six percent. was back over to sue me now with some blunders league of football that's right home on monday and there was a great match in one of the lights of locking horns with leverkusen and with the race for champions league qualification heating up the winner would jump into fourth place six marcel sabbaths are fired home games that first goal of the seventeen minute and no play because of banned leno had a chance but leverkusen responded just before the break or levelling the score here . and then after the restart leverkusen put the match away scoring two more goals for one would be the final the victory over close an eleventh was not to fourth in

the table on track for that coveted final champions league spot. and meanwhile in tonight's champions league quarter finals barcelona are in italy's capital to face roma the catalan club hold a four one advantage from the first leg but coach nest of isn't resting on his laurels he says it would be a mistake to think they were safe but roma will have to pull off a massive upset to deny barcelona and their superstars a place in the semifinal. now sports are an outlet for many around the world including in south sudan a country where millions have been displaced by an ongoing conflict sports facilities have also been badly damaged due to the fighting leaving the locals no pitch or court to play on now the united nations is lending a helping hand take a look at the conditions here in mali callus else who done are bleak civil unrest has reduced the region's only sporting complex to rubble helping hands from the

united nations are clearing the area and rebuilding for the future the peacekeepers involved with the mission have engineering know how and i hope sport will foster better relationships among the people with the walking he creates in the space develop in the spirit to see how they use the people from the people see the people from. this new to space to interact play sports and actually be strong to try relationships teenagers have already hit the half ready pitch to practice and with the basketball court in progress the locals believe this complex once completed will have positive impacts. on the way around in time of distress management if you're kind of football you want to leave the spend my time happy compared to the night or if you have playing you happy with other people than from the problem the united nations is breaking down conflict

through building in an attempt for a lasting peace in south sudan. are minor now of our top stories we're following for you the poisoned daughter of an ex russian spy has been discharged from the hospital and taken to a secure location yulia stripped all in her father's survey were targeted in an apparent nerve agent attack in britain last month. and russia has offered to arrange a visit for chemical weapons experts to the site of a suspected poison gas attack in syria moscow says it has found no evidence of an attack this after u.s. president trump threatened an imminent military strike against syria over the incident. thank you for watching get everyone back in about thirty minutes.

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