this is the deputy has come to learn from the un and the president from devizes is warning on syria the us leader tweets a strike on syria could be very soon or not so soon after or this day after trump one missiles will be coming in to tally ition for an alleged poison gas attack in syria also coming up the number of executions counted out last year on the once fell compared to the year before that's according to a new amnesty international report on capital punishment. and drama galore in the

quarterfinals of the champions league as a litte dread content to leave you venters a really and spare riyadh madrid the fashion for. i don't welcome i'm with that shima us president trump is treated advised warning about possible military action in syria he sent a strike could be very soon on not so soon afterward his administration had earlier said all options are on the table in response to a suspected poison gas attack in syria over the weekend meanwhile russia says a citizen government is in control of the site of that alleged attack off to retaking the last rebel stronghold now to moscow. a rare moment of celebration for syrians at least government supporters they took to the streets of duma after rebels who had controlled the city left yet the victorious

military action included a suspected poison gas attack the attack for which u.s. president donald trump has vowed retaliation but the white house later appeared to roll back on his threat to launch missiles. the president has not laid out a timetable and still leaving a number of other options on the table and we're still considering a number of those and a final decision on that front hasn't been made. that's in contrast to the president's earlier incendiary tweets including russia vows to shoot down missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming you should be partners with a gas killing an animal who kills his people and enjoys it u.s. warships left port on wednesday to move within striking range of syria. russia said it's keeping a close eye on the fleet and the kremlin hit out a trump's handling of the situation. we do not participate in twitter diplomacy

we support a serious approach we still believe that it is important not to take any steps that may harm the already fragile situation in syria we are also still convinced that the excuse regarding the use of chemical weapons in duma is made up and cannot be used as an argument for military action russia has moved fast to establish itself in duma this amateur video purportedly shows russian police investigating near the site of the alleged chemical attack moscow says it and the regime already to allow a probe but only one which shouldn't assign blame. carthon unto us monitoring the story from beirut and joins me from there until russia fears the town of duma is fully in the hands of the syrian government and the russian military police are ensuring law and order is maintained there what are you hearing from the ground. but what i'm hearing from the ground from people who are still in dumas that

russian forces are still outside the city they're not inside and the evacuations are still going on nonetheless it's it's a matter of time because soon the flag is flying in certain places in goma and there are rebels did ask for the russian forces to be on the ground and not the regime forces because in a when they ditched trust the russians more than the regime because they fear the regime soldiers will incarcerate them or execute them on the spot having said that this is highly significant of course from a military perspective and we talk about it in a bit but also from the perspective of the chemical attack which is allegedly taken place last week and with the russian balls on the ground the fear is that the chances of an independent investigation now are are pretty dim because the russians have already been to the site of the chemical attack and the united states and others fear that they would have cleaned out if there was any evidence of this attack so that is a pretty significant thing that o.p.c. w which is the organization for prevention of chemical warfare has been asked by

the regime and the russians to go but it cannot deny any blame on any party and that's what the united states and others wanted that it should be able to see not only was chemical attack inducted but by whom that is of course the key question now we're hearing reports that rebels are leaving the area if they are ready are they going and when if in group of fourth as you indicate it is likely to is there's going to be a game changer for syria. well in it he absolutely is a game changer to come to the second part of your question first because if it is as russians see a completely under regime control and it's quite believable then barring a pocket and hum are one in daraa and live and durable those which are on serious turkey border with turkey what's on the ground the regime pretty much has all of syria's standard g. in its hold excluding the kurdish areas but then there are g.m. has a very different understanding with the kurds so this of course is

a game changer we now need to wait and see if the dollar from cat is out of threats that he says he will because that then again my become another game changer and we'd have to wait and see what sort of implications would that have for the regimes tenure there now quickly are talk about where the levels are going they're going to gerard loosen of are some of them are also going to live but these are mostly civilians and activists the rebels are gestural islam the dominant group and they are going to lose they don't see eye to eye with nisar which is the dominant group and it looks of live i beg your pardon so they're going to try robin's right and to border in beirut thank you very much for that update les i'm going to europe in perspective and go to max hoffman of brussels bureau chief mike the french president and one of macross been talking about the gas attack in syria and talk to what having proof what do you think is a more likely to take military action there now. really give a long anticipated law interview to french t.v.

and right in the beginning he did confirm that they had proof that at least chlorine was used and that it was used by the regime of bashar al assad so that is the viewpoint of the french president here and of course this gives the because you're asking it does it make it more likely this gives more fuel to the flame of him wanting to do something about it because he drew a red line much like obama the ben american president in two thousand and twelve of the use of chemical weapons by the regime of bashar al assad but here's the thing he changed the timeframe a little bit because tuesday he still said he would take a decision within days so this made it look imminent but now he said they would take a decision when it was useful and efficient so that seems to be the french president buying some time and the reason for this might be that it's unclear now what the united states are going to do and of course militarily speaking the french and the u.s. are close partners and want to coordinate but at the moment that seems to be rather

difficult and jim just i mean america has been in direct contact with mccraw on this issue what is the german position. german chancellor basically said the same thing that there was strong evidence that. chemical weapons were used in syria but the main difference traditionally you could say between france and the germans is that the germans excluded being part of any military operation here but her foreign minister. at the same time said that there was a need to coordinate between the western allies and that appears to be well not a problem yet but what's taking some time and that's what the european and military had to weight the u.k. british prime minister to resign me has been talking with a cabinet today guys. yes she has and she seems to be willing to follow the u.s. lead here and anything the american president donald trump wants to do again this

is rather strong tradition because they are the closest military allies in europe of the united states that's what the u.k. did when the u.s. went to iraq back then and that is also the problem in the u.k. that's the twist here because the parliament says they want to have a say whether this should happen or not they the reason is not obligated to do that it's not the law but it is sort of a convention and because they had these problems back then going to iraq they have been burned there it's not clear how the outcome would be there maxiell fun in buffalo thank you best on take a look at some other stories making news around the yemen's he says it's recaptured a key city from iran back who has the army said it had completely liberated the city of midi which lies on yemen's border with saudi arabia the saudis a major backer of the yemeni government in its civil war with the hoof he's on

facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has still u.s. filmmakers social media will inevitably need to be regulated zaka was called before congress off to it was revealed his company improperly shed millions of uses data he often feels specifics on how to better protect the privacy. pope francis is admitted he made brave mistakes in handling the child abuse scandal in chile in a letter to chilean bishops he said he was ashamed of comments earlier this year in which he accused victims of slander the pope's apology comes after victims' testimonies were published he's inviting some of them to come to rome. the human rights group amnesty international says the number of reported judicial executions around the wild fell during two thousand and seventeen but the group warns that the true number of people put to death is not known some countries treat execution

numbers as a state secret china for example but many others carry out executions in full view of the public. iran responsible for carrying out more than half of the world's known executions last year that's according to amnesty international's latest because in dozens of those cases that meant public execution in iran drug trafficking and blasphemy are among those crimes punishable by death. at least five people were executed in iran for acts committed when they were still under eighteen . just four countries responsible for eighty four percent of all recorded executions last year iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan but the country suspected of being the world's leading executioner is china. it's thought to have put thousands to death last year more than the rest of the world put together the

because data on the death penalty that is a state secrets exactly how many is a matter of speculation. but not counting china twenty seven thousand so the total number of executions worldwide fall by four percent from the previous year. m misty international says that reaffirms a global trend towards abolition of the death penalty last year a further two countries guinea and mongolia joined the one hundred four who have now abolished capital punishment for a second year in a row the us did not feature among the top five global execution is slipping from position seven to eight this is due in part to ongoing legal challenges of the use of lethal injection. but as litigation and several states progresses that could see executions resume. the international chemical weapons watchdog the

o.p.c. w. has confirmed that a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent the careful stock tit for tat diplomatic expulsions between britain and russia with london accusing moscow of being behind the attack on said. and his daughter yulia in the english city of sorcery a public statement by the p c w said the agent was off high purity but it stopped short of naming the poison all seeing who it believed counted out the march fourth attack. you're watching the news coming up ahead drama the lore in the quarterfinals of the champions league as the late red god and penalty cause emotions to boil but in madrid jonathan crane from off says who here to talk about that. plus i have gathered with me and he's going to be talking about the escalating tension between russia and the u.s. of a syria which is also having an impact on egg travel that's right international allies are on high alert follow u.s.

president donald trump's threat of military action against syria several carriers have started rerouting flights as a result of the potential missile strikes afrikaans was among the first to motif schedules for destinations close to syria including fights to beirut in tel aviv the european aviation safety agency has alerted airlines on tuesday to take precautions kuwait alway's has cancelled flights to beirut as well meanwhile move tons of says it has avoided flying over the eastern mediterranean for some time over safety concerns. tensions mount over syria not only in the skies effects can be felt but also here on the ground stocks in asia have suffered after trump's renewed threats danielle cope is standing by at the frankfurt stock exchange donna what's the mood there. well you can see it in the background shares have recovered slightly but this is certainly only a snapshot that we are seeing in general the market is extremely volatile at the

moment investors are computers kind of an absolute trading at the moment u.s. president donald trump said i was his last tweet two hours ago saying we heard earlier that he never said when an attack on syria would take place after this message was tweeted just minutes later look at the curve shares were again going up so the entire market at the moment is soling to this geopolitical geopolitical issues so the mood right now again at the moment a little bit more optimistic a plus here right now off a half a percent i guess we'll have to wait for the next tweet from geopolitical impacts coming back to germany. is getting a new c.e.o. it also looks like the supervisory board is planning to restructure the whole group with their regular session from tomorrow to today what's behind that yes exactly the first board meeting was scheduled originally for two more now we are learning that all of this will be taking place in about three hours from now on

and journalists have been warned that this could be a very long evening so all the investors will be waiting for answers how a possible new volkswagen company could look like the new appointment off had a bad deed as the new c.e.o. seems to be a done deal that's pretty much sure he is not going to be the c.e.o. but will most likely also keep his position as brand chief and we're also learning that most likely the company will be split up in different divisions one of the divisions could be even become a public listing maybe here at the frankfurt stock exchange. in frankfurt thank you very much. minutes from the u.s. federal reserve's latest policy meeting in march were released last night and showed the country's central bank is in broad agreement strong growth in the u.s. means the fed should raise rates more aggressively in the next three years to more increases are expected within this year making it a total of three rises so far in twenty eighty but the fed has two big unknowns

complicating policy making the impact of domestic tax cuts and by how much they'll spur growth and the effect of ongoing trade tensions with china. talk about china the one belled one road project is chinese president things ambitious vision for the future consolidating china's global power with a string of construction projects in sixty eight countries finest with chinese money many are warning china and its partners states that the project should only really travel where it's needed. it's a multi-billion dollar project building roads and railways from asia to africa and europe and to connect china to the world but there is mounting worry the belton road initiative could bind other states to china in negative ways to chinese financing for infrastructure construction many countries could leave them owing the world's number two economy too much money. to build hundred initiative can provide

much needed infrastructure financing to partner countries but this ventures can also lead to problematic increase in that potentially limited other spending as that services arise. and rice and creating balances of her human challenges at the bolton road conference in beijing the guard said it was important to focus on projects that were both really needed and sustainable to avoid spending strain on governments her remarks come nearly a month after a think tank the center for global development released a list of countries hosting belt and road projects that were at high risk of debt distress pakistan topped that list which also includes mongolia djibouti in kyrgyzstan among others. that's business. very sad anniversary that's right here we go to poland now with ceremonies are being housed at the notorious nazi auschwitz death camp to mark holocaust remembrance day coalition

israeli dignitaries are leading thousands of jews from all over the was in the thirtieth annual march of the living from auschwitz to another part of the camp they can now events come at a time of heightened tensions between poland and israel that's off to poland passed a law making it a crime to blame pows for atrocities committed during the not nazi occupation. and for more on this i have on the line christiane davis is a journalist based in was a christian these events today at auschwitz are taking place against the backdrop of a political dispute sparked by this new political israel's been a fierce critic of this legislation why's that. well it is lot quite true to say that the localizes blaming poles for atrocities during the holocaust the problem is the. it claims to kerman lies folks

attribute of crimes committed by nazi germany holocaust to either the carter state or the polish nation and the problem is that. the definition of what constitutes the parlors nation is very hard to find and secondly. a current argue that it shouldn't be for prostitutes particular because in part of prosecutions are not answerable to government ministers to be able to decide what is false and most. of the problem. really going to be watching live pictures as a speaking at the senate to the head between israel and put in last month to diffuse the tensions in this any kind of impact. we've had signals from coming out of the polish government that they want to backtrack to the polish president has said that he's concerned the elements the more unconstitutional that's right you curious because the. same person and find

the more and find that into more than so it seems that there is a bit of a problem the government will have to backtrack lightly but at the same time they've made this more a question of national on a will to do that is very hard to climb down while maintaining with dignity that the emotions are running very high on both sides over this issue israel mean one is accusing poland of rising anti semitism in the media and the political arena what do ordinary people in poland feel about this issue. i think one has to separate. some of the really terrible anti semitic statements and sentiment from a feeling the more of a feeling that the polish view on on the holocaust is misunderstood there's very few people in poland who would deny the holocaust happened and there

is over the loss of sympathy what happened but there is a feeling and some elements a person the polish suffering during the during wartime occupation would not recognize the veil for it suffered at the hands of enough of the cage lot of the same level. that somehow they are being blamed for for their own of the patient. and for this is a very very complicated and sensitive subject and it's not something that should really be. to politicians to discuss this is about societies communicating with each other and not government christian davis a journalist based in willful thank you very much for telling us about the story. football and all of the champions league semifinal are now taken one of them by by new nick and johnson cream to split staff is here with me to talk about last

night's decisive match is welcome john before we come to buy and there was another dramatic game yesterday to be out madrid but as you rectus indeed there was a repeat of last year's final more drama in this one because for a second nice in a row we nearly had an italian side overturning a streak of deficit against a spanish one are you dead and buried after the first i can assure and stream down but they cut off to a fly. to go see him to head it so that put them to know about halftime then plays which we made. at that level to tile an aggregate so as it stood it was going to extra time until this moment i ran were awarded a penalty sandwich before the event just keeper and captain not happy he was sent off a piece of language christiane and christiane i know now they've stepped up made it three one on the night four three on aggregate for reality this one man he wanted in that position to take the penalty seven minutes into injury time it was probably

him but of course after the match all the talk was about that incident before on who's probably going to be retiring at the end of the season so this is likely his last effort champions league match understand to be bitterly disappointed let's listen. i could have said anything to the referee and he should have had the sensibility to forgive me. because what he did is he commits a crime against sportsmanship. and that's why i said the woods i had to say money. well if you thought that was quite harsh he resigned of some of his hoss rides for of interviews because the phone said to the referee michael about he has a rubbish bin for a hot and that he can't be in the pitch and making those decisions he should be in the stands eating christe so very disappointed generally g.p. from here i have some sympathy for his point of view because this penalty was of a controversial look what about this video replay technology it's controversial but

i think it's useful to him to have yet controversial to some others say we should have it because theoretically it should eliminate some of these decisions now the events as president off of the day came and said i want that used in the champions league of course it's been tried in the brain is legal in germany this season or say in syria but sometimes you feel people say these things when it suits them because earlier in the season the events this coach missed many are no good kind of expressed doubts over the technology now i have to say in this case according to the current rules it wouldn't even have been able to be used because it should only be used when there has been a clear mistake and this one wasn't so obvious it was kind of fifty fifty so the video system you have been able to intervene anyway and i think if you take away the emotion here when it happened in the game rice at the end with events is so close to taking it to extra time then you know objective you have to say it's fifty fifty sometimes those ones go your way sometimes they don't you can understand the

disappointment if you've absolutely and you can take out emotion from football again if i'm exactly that let's come to by munich out of. madrid up through to the me five and so is minute a how do you assess the game in sydney i found a draw they got yes it was always pretty when you compare it to the other matches we've had in this round but at least by and got the job done you know they've done the hard work they were two one up from the first leg and surveil this one very few chances. obviously had to go for it's of by need to defend which is so they went off and see them doing much of the audience really because it's so good going forward usually in fact this is the first match. two champions league home games where they've not been able to score a finish neil neil have to say it is and on a slightly sad when they walk in their career the soviet defender was censored for a very nasty foul on how they not seen as that just sparked a bit of confrontation on the touchline at the end but as far as biting his and they've ended this ban issue because they've gone out to spanish teams the last four seasons and the trouble for them very much from maine is on and briefly who is

your tip for the winner of the champions league well four teams going to be in the droll on friday. and then of course buy in and around madrid my heart says liverpool because liverpool got a lot of history with this competition they've won it in the past against the odds but i think you have to favor ray out probably given that they've won it twice in the last two seasons going for a third in a row so the head phase but the hot ses live up with jonathan king from us both the frank you very much. you're watching the dog news here's a recap of our top story german chancellor angela merkel has said germany will not join any possible military action against syria in response to an alleged poison attack international tensions have soared as russia and the west feud over how to respond to this expected poison attack. on the canal but by. cooler.

in the. center of the conflict zone my guest this week here in kiev is stateless he's a former president of georgia a former regional government in ukraine and hanging over him multiple allegations of criminal activity and he's michel saakashvili once the dawning of the west for spearheading the rose revolution in georgia that has you know made too many enemies i'm wrong also broke the focus. on the food.

if this is a parliament building and that is the president. then we must be in. the tiny independent republic was created by us and. everyone has the right to be happy. at the moment. sixty minutes. just one way to start. just how do i think. bangladesh what is the true face of the country. for independence a separation of state and church that used to be important but for decades political infighting has hindered progress and has limits to extremists are gaining influence just prosecute the rule of law on shaky ground if just continue to wish

there should be. anglo desh the dawn of. an exclusive report starting april twenty first. my guest this week here in kiev is stateless he's a former president of georgia a former regional governor in ukraine and hanging over him multiple allegations of criminal activity and a three year prison sentence for abuse of power he's mikao soccer's really once the darling of the west for spearheading the rose revolution in georgia in two thousand and three but has he no made too many enemies and run out of road.