this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin and unlamented says i'm sure many will not take part in a syria attack that the german chancellor faces strong evidence to moscow was carried out in the alleged poison gas attack over the weekend but jill many would not join any military response also coming up the number of paid sick jusuf kalla doc last year around the world the failure of compared to the year before that's according to a new amnesty international report on capital punishment. i'm

. just i'm going to mechanise said germany will not take bos'n any missile strikes on syria she also added that jimmy supports sending a message that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable an international dispute over an alleged poison gas attack in syria has resumed films of a direct military clash between russia and the west meanwhile russia says the syrian government is in control of the site of that alleged attack after retaking the last a rebel stronghold near damascus. our part of the 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 are ready to allow a probe but only one which shouldn't assign blame. less than going to europe in perspective and go to brussels better chief like the french president and one of them across been talking about the gas attack in syria and talk too much having proof what do you see in is he more likely to take military action then 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 one thing 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 jones i mean american 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 wait the u.k. british prime minister to resign need 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 to just 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 threesome 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 their actual fun in brussels thank you. this article look at some other stories making news around the wasn't in poland thousands of marched in a solemn procession to on the holocaust victims at the site of the auschwitz death damn it spot of holocaust remembrance day the space tribute to the six million jews murdered by the nazis in jerusalem israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu laid a wreath at the vashem holocaust memorial. yemen's army says it's recaptured a key city from iran back who has the army said it had completely liberated the

city of middy which lies on yemen's border with saudi arabia the saudis are a major backers of the yemeni government in its civil war on the who. or the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has confirmed that a former russian spy and his daughter book boys and with a nerve agent the case has sparked it for tat diplomatic expulsions between britain and russia with london accusing moscow of being behind the attack on surrogates creep on and his daughter yulia in the inner city of seoul is very a public statement by the o.p.c. w said the agent the agent was of high purity that stopped short of naming the poison all saying who had believed carried out the march fourth attack. it. the human rights group amnesty international says the number of reported judicial executions around the world fell during two thousand and seventeen but the group

warns that the true number of people put to death is still 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 its more than half of the world's known executions last year that's according to amnesty international's latest figures 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. 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 the city 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 in several states progresses that because the executions resume. for more on the general trends in the death

penalty in executions while by i'm joined now by lucy graham she is the amnesty deputy director of global issues welcome you see let me start with china your report says it remains the world's leading executioner cincinatti official figures on what io estimates based. the estimates are based on information that we get from people within china i think is important and the size absolutely chime it is one of the disturbing trends that we have seen this year but we've also tried to show that there is some hope that we are witnessing the end of the death penalty so for example if you look at sub-saharan africa this year death sentences and down substantially we now have twenty countries that abolitionists and hoping various legal developments both in twenty seventeen and that we're seeing in twenty eighteen that show that the world is moving towards the end of the death penalty in terms of what that means for people on death row and then for example which you

came abolitionists in twenty sixteen there were fourteen men that were left in limbo one death row and just a couple of months ago it was announced that that death sentence would be commuted to life imprisonment so in general we are trying to show that in twenty seventeen there was there was a movement towards abolition of the death penalty and hope in that region particular but the all the addition of course is still of a concerned about areas where the death penalty remains or is on the increase for example in drug related crimes. yes there are various disturbing trends in twenty seventeen and the drugs related crime is one of them so for example we saw fifteen countries using the death penalty for drug related offenses and for countries at least executed people drug related offenses that is a great concern to us and i think one of the things to emphasize also is there isn't any evidence that the use of the death penalty deters crime so remains one of

the regions that executes and sentences people to death for drug related crime but on average the number of drugs. in that region is no smaller than global averages including in countries that don't have the death penalty and what about the u.s. although it was the only country of the americas to carry out executions last year the numbers remain low than in previous says is the tide turning there or are there technical issues like with the use of the lethal injection. i think there are absolutely some technical issues but in general i think the usa is also showing the global move towards a solution there are a lot of people working on the ground in the us to all its relation of the death penalty and it's one of the areas that shows that we can start fighting for other action we still see leaders such as president trying to making statements suggesting that the death as he would be an effective deterrent for the drug crime

and that's why people on the ground and. government and prosecution level need to keep on pushing against the death penalty one example that we've seen in twenty seventeen the really shows how local efforts can push that change is in guinea which became the twentieth abolitionist country in the sub-saharan african region and amnesty activists that continually push for the abolition of the death penalty from twenty fifteen onwards and last year any behave in the twentieth abolitionists country in sub-saharan africa which is a great advance for the region and one of the reasons why we have highlighted sub-saharan africa as a beacon of hope in twenty seventeen. that was lucy graham from amnesty international talking to me earlier. to sport now and another remarkable night of football in the quarterfinals of the champions league the big drama came in spain where italy is your ventas managed to come back from three goals down to tie the aggregate score against real madrid extra time was on the cards until the spaniards

were awarded a controversial stoppage time penalty you vent diskeeper before i was sent off for his final mass protests because santa over naldo stepped out and made no mistake from the spot sending reales through four three an aggregate. let's have a listen to a very disappointed before and after his dreams of and biggest korea on a major high were dashed. it would be given a choice you could have said anything to the referee and he should have had the sensibility to forgive me and he doesn't because what he did is to commits a crime against sportsmanship and study and that's why i said the words i had to say money. if need be and what are ya gonna do with your group. the mud bind munich have lots of research champions league semi's but there was much less drama in the nil nil home draw with sylvia the result gave them

a two one aggregate victory putting them into friday's drill for the last full of european football its premier cup competition you're watching the devin has lots more now website on the david stuff because ben is standing by he has the business headlines coming for you shortly. make a commitment. find solutions. for.