this is either you news live from berlin or accusations fly over the ledge of the poison gas attack in syria moscow invites international chemical weapons experts to inspect the a legend site of the attack saying it's found no evidence that actually happened this says president from threatens to strike syrian military targets. meanwhile the office of president trumps personal attorney is raided by the f.b.i. trump lashes out calling it a witch hunt to undermine his presidency and the poison's daughter of an ex russian spy has been discharged from the hospital and take it to

a secure location she and her father were targeted in an apparent poisoning attack just over a month ago. i'm sumi so much going to good to have you with us russia has invited an international chemical weapons watchdog to inspect the site of an alleged chemical attack in syria this is us president donald trump threatened imminent military action in response to it aid workers in the town of duma east of damascus say poison gas was used to kill dozens of people in an attack over the weekend now moscow has said it found no evidence of 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 going to governments 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 g.w. thank you for being in our studio with us donald trump is threatening more forceful action what do you think that means so 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 city of the sunni population have been targeted by the heavy world war two type by russia the see the invasion and also let's not lose let's not forget to get along we can see you know the suspected 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 be the leader would be that on what would be that really forceful response something that would hurt the base of the the you 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 they be suppressed. he can have a second calculations but as long as his base is not he doesn't get it 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 bodies that will cause the governments of iran states france russia germany are deceiving its population and saying these repeated chemical weapons attacks in syria are invented or do you think that there have been some subs have been hitting themselves it beautifully with chemical weapons attack and killing themselves or killing the population or do you believe the russians. i mean it's up to you but remember that russia wrote the book historically all this information is on the front months 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 of back 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 are 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 regimes in syria and the un want. without any repercussions of killing masses of civilian population this is what it is the security of the region not isis not because of this which are these the these thirty six thirty and the fifth division in the 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 sofas that he said self is theirs and calculators and this is what you are saying 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 he remembered best the areas that

used to be freight is the oil is of water that we preserve water of syria on the pro-u.s. kind of this 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 pocket for the audience and for the russians so that is human is winning but you know what that's the tradition all right. a serious specialist with us here on thank you very much for your insight. but 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 muller is conducting an investigation into russia a legit meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election. the documents seized at michael cohen's manhattan office contain what his lawyer said are privileged communications between cohen and his clients those clients include u.s. president donald trump the f.b.i.

xrayed prompted a furious response from the president so i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys but man. it's a disgraceful situation it's a total which. an attack on our country is a true sense it's an attack or what we all stand for. michael cohen came under scrutiny after you admitted to making a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to adult film actress stephanie clifford. clifford who goes by the name stormy daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and six clifford said cohen made the payment in return for her silence trump has denied knowledge the payment was made it isn't clear if the rate is directly linked to the mother investigation or clifford's alleged hush money either way it may spell more legal trouble for

donald trump. you're watching the news so some other stories making news around the world north korean leader kim jong un has made his first official mention of possible talks with the u.s. according to state media kim reportedly met with top party officials and discussed the prospect of dialogue u.s. president trump has agreed to meet kim a soon as next month and no date or venue has been set yet. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin feldman is wrapping up a visit to france as part of a global tour that is seen him travel to several western countries activists are protesting the visit they urged french leaders to raise human rights issues with the prince over saudi arabia's role in the war in yemen and several police officers have been injured in the second day of clashes with activists as french authorities tear down a protest camp in notre dame de lands in western france the camp was set up there nearly a decade ago to block the construction of a new airport and the government has since abandoned those plans. still to come

here on d w a day of reckoning for facebook's mark zuckerberg face a public grilling in the u.s. senate today about his company's role in misusing the personal data of millions of on suspecting customers. but first a key speech from chinese president xi amid continued fears of a trade war helena promises to roll out the red carpet for foreign investors to me but i think many people switch say they've heard that before from china all the same or openness has been a promise from the wall to second largest economy that is the promise that the chinese president xi jinping has been making on a global stage is the message that he reiterated as well at the ball forum for asia but the question remains will china but its money where its mouth is. cars are a major sticking point in the trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies the u.s. pays a twenty five percent tariff on cars it brings to china while china only pays two

point five percent in judy's own cars it exports to the u.s. that's not the complete picture the u.s. sells six times more cars in china than the other way around but a piece in washington was the thrust of chinese president xi jinping speech to an audience of international business leaders at the grower forum of junky. she will lower the import tariffs for cars. john b. at the same time we will lower the import tariffs of some other products the only legal there are cards to respect the people's demands for special superior product imports. she also pledged improved access to the financial sector and stronger intellectual property rights although the u.s. was not specifically mentioned she speech seemed aimed at addressing the sources of the trade conflict his words were welcomed by markets the world over but china has

made similar commitments before with little implementation this time around however the stakes are higher insufficient action could pave the way for further escalation . and all financial correspondent john hillcoat is at the frankfurt stock exchange daniel all the right noises that from president xi but are investors buying it. well there were actually have a nice indeed so far at least very positive after also the major indices in asia were gaining this morning we're seeing a similar situation here in frankfurt and also at the other european markets there's talk for us let's talk first about the blue chip and the exacts we are seeing a plus right now off three quarter percent we just heard in the report china is thinking about opening their markets for more foreign investors a trader here on the trading floor told me that he has the feeling that china realize that they have to cooperate so all of this could be considered kind of as

a charm offensive now from them because frankly speaking in order to grow even faster good relationship with the u.s. and the e.u. for them are very important all right her charm offensive going down well on the trading floor at least daniel stay with us we'll be coming back to you in just a moment but first according to reports the u.s. justice department will give the green light to german pharma joined by is takeover of monsanto 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 colossus for sixty two billion dollars u.s. officials have insisted that by divest additional assets as part of the deal a full now goes smoothly mega deal will be the biggest ever taken all the u.s. company by a german one. back over to daniel in frankfurt daniel the merger appears to finally have the green light despite many concerns.

yes exactly where and there are still are lots of concerns because we have to face as with this merger by our monsanto we'll have a mano paly position that is the reason why until the very end approvals from the us and also e.u. authorities were pending and monsanto has said in the past that their version at least with this merger they will play a major role to make sure to meet the rising demand for food in the future others see all of this very different mostly farmers are concerned their fear that their seed cause go up dramatically and yes the market is not very big by monsanto doudou pong and champ china those are the global players they will control more than seventy percent of the global seed and pesticide market so yeah all of this might be a good deal for buying but the ones that could be suffering are the farmers indeed as you say that see you know side being food security as well daniel i do just want

to quickly ask you before you go we've heard that there are changes in a v.w. need to ship anything more you can tell us about that yes i take it this is a story just in and we are monitoring it here very close we are hearing and d. that there could be a very soon a change in nouns in the board of germany's biggest carmaker volkswagen in an ad hoc message that was true sent to traders here it was stated that there will be changes in the management structure of the company and that this could also mean the appointment of a new c.e.o. this has really been a surprise here among traders marty has moved at the current c.e.o. has been in office since two thousand and fifteen has been very much under fire because of the diesel gate scandal but was at the same time praise for managing the crisis very well we're hearing that on friday there is going to be a board meeting and most likely then we will know more so we're monitoring all of this here very closely helena all right daniel coop monitoring that story for us

from the frankfurt stock exchange thank you. all right now tuesday has got off to a slow start for many in germany with that warning a strikes among public sector workers including airport airport employees striking security grounds softly numerous planes of failed to take off for airports are affected frankfurt munich the cologne bomb airport am but a man who lived alone has had to cancel around eight hundred flights that means about ninety thousand passengers are affected the nationwide strike schools were involved local transport workers and those free school teaches their message is clear they want better pay they're also going for a six percent increase. or it is over to see me down a sign of recovery for the daughter of a poisoned ex an encouraging sign indeed helen yulia screwball has been discharged from the hospital in the u.k. and taken to a secure location she and her father spent weeks in critical condition after being

exposed to a nerve agent in the english city of solsbury last month london blames moscow for the poisoning it's plunged relations between the two countries to their lowest point in decades. at one point it was feared script all would die in this hospital now after a steady improvement in her health doctors have deemed her well enough to leave. we have now discharged from salisbury district hospital i also want to take this opportunity to wish her well this is not the end of her treatment. five weeks ago yulia and her father were exposed to a nerve agent identified by the u.k. as novacek they were found slumped unconscious on a park bench in the center of this sleepy english city. doctors said they were able to keep this cripples alive until their bodies healed naturally they say sergei scruples condition is also improving on friday i announced that he was no longer in a critical condition. although he is recovering more slowly. we hope that he too

will be able to leave hospital in due course. it appears so it was the target of the attack the former russian spy was convicted of passing information to the u.k. in two thousand and six he was later freed from jail as part of a swap deal. the attack on british soil has caused a massive diplomatic scandal the u.k. points the finger at russia but moscow denies involvement british police occur really centering their investigation on the script palace home scene of the highest concentration of novacek now they have a witness whose story they once thought they'd never hear. ukraine says it will impose sanctions on russian all of our following the lead of the united states ukrainian president petro poroshenko made comments in berlin where he's held talks with chancellor angela merkel part of shameful thanked america for berlin support in maintaining sanctions against moscow put in place after russia annexed crimea in

two thousand and fourteen the two leaders also addressed bilateral trade issues as well as the nord stream natural gas pipeline which will bypass ukraine and poland while chancellor merkel has also gathered her cabinet today for its first close meeting to set the government's priorities for the next four years the two day retreat is taking place outside of berlin in the state of london book some of the most pressing issues on the table include drafting a new budget reforming germany's refugee policy and minimizing the damage to the country's auto industry in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal. and let's bring in our chief political editor michelle a crew from her she's covering the cabinet meeting for us hi michelle so this is a two day closer treat outside of berlin why is that what is the chancellor hoping to achieve here. well in this and she's trying to achieve actually a team in the cabinets that has seen the first four weeks of its new existence with

a lot of infighting particularly between the c.s.u. ministers that conservatives are very insistent part of anglo-american c.d.u. party horsy a war for the new interior minister striking a more aggressive tone in terms of migration here in germany particularly on the issue of family reunification of migrants here in germany those who have less asylum status now that has become a bone of contention between the two sides in this old new coalition those social democrats who were so reluctant to go into yet another government and i'm going to michael c.d.u. c.s.u. lots of infighting so far there's a lot of intellectual work on paper one hundred seventy seven pages of that coalition agreement and in a way she will hope to set the clock to zero again and really get started with a cabinet that stops fighting with each other and gets down to work then michelle and that infighting has been splashed across the headlines here in germany why have

we seen such a contentious dialogue and what are the main points of contention here you mentioned migration is one of them. well first of all this was almost a forced political marriage particular for the social democrats who really initially didn't want to go into yet another term in office and that c.s.u. minister i just mentioned horsey will for his use you party has a regional election to contest this coming autumn and migration is the big issue that's part of the c.s.u. lost dearly to the far right party in the past general elections here and migration is the overarching issue so he has to be seen to be tough on migration to regain that political territory for his own party and at the same time he was the warning voice from day one of what became known as the migration crisis in twenty fifteen at one point criticizing the german chancellor accusing her of breaching german

laws now he's somewhat toned down his message since then but there's no doubt the cus you. is running on migration profile issue michelle i just briefly if you can given all that how united do you think this government is going to be behind the chancellor. knows it has to because the larger issues at stake we're expecting the nato secretary general here also the head of the europe commission yorker and there are big issues beyond germany that all sides know they need to also make some headway on. political editor covering this cabinet meeting for us thank you michel and one of the world's richest and most influential men will get a grilling in the u.s. senate today facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is set to appear before lawmakers on capitol hill secretary has been on damage control after it was revealed that the data of millions of facebook users may have been improperly shared the news has left users around the world

wondering whether they should close their accounts is clear richards and reports. in washington d.c. spring is in the air well almost but with facebook making all the wrong headlines and what better season for some digital cleaning many americans have said they'll delete their accounts could this be a turning point for facebook. mark zuckerberg is testifying before congress for the first time to answer questions about a major data privacy scandal he's hoping to convince both facebook users and the company's investors that he's taking the problem seriously but just how worried are people are you a facebook user. are you concerned about some of the allegations of data privacy breach and definitely i really want to close my page you're going to you're going to delete your facebook absolutely because i just feels just privacy is just not there you know use facebook. why not the person.

instagram took over. you know instagram zone by facebook but then i very different thing everybody knows they use it you know you get as ads including ones meant to get you to vote in a certain way information collected from eighty seven million users was improperly harvested by a company called cambridge analytic it says its research helped donald trump win the twenty sixteen elections his campaign denies it. and i went to ask an expert if the changes facebook has promised are enough to win back public trust you know that . so facebook said they're going to make it easier to find your privacy controls to see what information they have on you is that enough i think privacy concerns are just one of the issues here facebook has been dealing with so many different issues there are discriminatory ads online there's been election manipulation there's been security issues so i think while they're making some changes they're going to need to do a lot more in order to regain the trust of both the users and regulators around the

world. dr barrett has apologized for the oversight and promised a new privacy features before his hearings but it seems unlikely lawmakers will take any serious action. 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 been badly damaged into the fighting as well leaving locals no pitch or court to play on now the united nations is lending a helping hand to. the conditions here in mali callus else who done our 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. walking

creates in the space develop in this 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 we try to 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 it will help us on the way around in time of stress management if you count a football unit at louis penn my time happy compared to the night or if you have playing you happy you join with other people then from there you have been a problem in the united nations is breaking down conflict through building in an attempt for a lasting peace in south sudan. minder now of our top stories here in the u.s. and russia have clashed in the u.n. security council over an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria russia called aid

groups reports of such an attack fake news u.s. president trump is that he's exploring military options and valid a forceful response. and of president trump is also lashed out at an f.b.i. raid on his personal attorney's office calling it a disgrace several agencies documents during the search of michael cohen's new york office acting in part on a referral from special counsel robert mueller. thanks for watching good of you have to our website dot com for all the latest information and news around the clock thanks for watching.

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