this is news coming to you live from berlin the showdown between russia and the u.s. over an alleged gas attack in syria escalates the u.s. accuses russia of tampering with the attack site before international inspectors were allowed to arrive moscow denies the claims and continues to assert that the gas attack was today also coming up a surprise twist in the legal proceedings in new york involving donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen and last week's raid on his office. and an earthling history the discovery of a trove of koreans and jewelry on

a german island offers a fascinating glimpse of life one thousand years ago. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us russia and the u.s. have stepped up their war of words over an alleged poison gas attack in the syrian city of duma the u.s. says moscow may be trying to remove evidence from the site to thwart an investigation it also accuses russia of delaying a visit to the site by international chemical weapons inspectors russia denies the claims and says the inspectors will be granted access to duma to morrow on monday syria allowed international journalists to visit the city. the destroyed town of duma is. fated revolution rules up now after seven years of

fighting and with the last of the rebels gone the government is trying to win back its people meeting their most basic needs first. from nothing. when the rebels left we found in their depo stuff that could satisfy do most residents for a year they were not offering as anything but only hunger and starvation and. the media may have been invited here but u.n. chemical weapons inspectors will have to wait until wait to get near the site of last week's a legit gas attack and which dozens were reportedly killed. an emergency meeting of the international watchdog was called to demand an explanation for the delay but ended with frustrations and hostilities running high this was also our opportunity cost and for allies to set out our case in the organization that is designed to uphold the chemical weapons convention to make very very clear that the russians

have blocked diplomatic channels for us. all the little explanation. of the british missiles and this is. all of all because when the. britain says that's textbook russian fake news. following the weekend's u.s. led air strikes demands for accountability have. statements of the prime minister. british prime minister to resign may was forced to explain why the u.k. joined the u.s. and france in attacking syria without getting parliament's prior approval. actually taken we have acted because it is in our national interest. it is in our national interest to prevent the further use of chemical weapons in syria and to uphold and defend the global consensus that these weapons should not

be used this was a limited targeted for three hours she took one hundred forty questions though her answers failed to satisfy her opponent the governments of the parliamentary scrutiny is set to intensify on change he did not. offer more on the chemical attack investigation in syria i'm joined now by yuri rich shirt from our moscow bureau yuri the russian military says it will allow investigators to visit tomorrow on wednesday that's a leavened days after the suspected chemical attack why the wait i very well officially the security problems in syria on the ground to are the reason why the a.p.c. w. experts having to be in so far allowed to start their probe and officially russia would under no circumstances block the investigations the russian ambassador in the netherlands alexander shulgin sat in the hague in moscow the allegation is russia

was a blocking blocking investigation war sharply rejected as well but the real reason for the day delay might be that you can't find any traces by now because they have all been eliminated all because of the gas chlorine which has been allegedly used to mattel ten days ago that in the meantime these are at least it is ations of the west towards the syrian regime and towards russia that helps of the syrian regime on the battlefield. in our report yuri we heard a russian envoy repeat the assertion that britain was somehow behind the chemical attack is that a widely held view in russia while at least on the russian diplomatic level russia claims it has always been pressing for p.c. w experts to enter jeana russia second tie a diplomat to depict the foreign minister said he gave up cough who will be meeting tomorrow exclusively at moscow accused of the u.k. on blaming russia for not allowing the investigations into my q south she said or

she called it another invention of the british according to him the investigation had failed so far because of the un security department that didn't approve it and these by the way would be the consequences of the illegal strikes of the as the u.k. and france the hostilities between moscow and the west of escalated dramatically in recent days not least over this chemical weapons attack do you see any efforts underway from russia's side at least to ease tensions. i hope so and many people here helps as well terry because we leave here lost in a completely different world all the allegations that the best makes towards russia russia fires back towards the best and after that tax attacks it seems as if everyone is happy about them as americans enjoy their nice and smart missiles according to u.s. president trump and russia's state run broadcasters brace the good old soviet era

defense system that syria has reportedly used to shoot down most of the missiles fired to during the strikes for the first time the whole t.v. program was changed after the strikes here on sunday there was only one topic which didn't even happen after the dramatic fire and chemical and severe in a few weeks ago when sixty four people lost their lives however moderate sound suggested kremlin spokes men scoff he said he hoped that despite all the damage washington has inflicted on the bilateral relationship some kind of communication can now begin. also the french president back home did still not cancel his planned to visit russia in june he's still going to join the international economic forum in petersburg but there's still more potential here for this to escalate. just on the diplomatic or trade level of nothing else washington says it's considering imposing further sanctions on russia is that something that still worries the kremlin and the russian people. well look when you exit u.s.

sanctions would affect without any doubt russian economy maybe more or less rich and influential russian businessman they could face a ban to enter the us but my impression is that the russian people know are realizing that a potential russian retailing ation could damage them even more than the u.s. actions russian lawmakers drop the whole list of possible counter sink sions from banning more western imports to suspending international cooperation but these are all no good options for russia at all no matter what moscow does against the u.s. economy it would find itself financially up against the wall so russians contre tell it appropriately another problem russians could face. is the potential benefit west the medicines cancer page patients hiv patients hepatitis patients would suffer dramatically i talked to two men yesterday in moscow one is hiv positive for the other has chronic hepatitis c.

both could now face a dramatic worsening of their treatment and ultimately their health status and that because some ego lawmakers here decide to retaliate yury thank you so much for the w.'s your ear shot over there in moscow. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the us britain and australia have accused russia of laying the groundwork for future cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in a joint statement the government's claim russian operations have involved planting mole where on internet routers they say russia is using the internet for political and economic espionage a movement for homeless people in brazil staged a four hour protest in the beachside apartment of the country's former president louisa nazi alluded to silva the property is at the heart of a corruption case the former president has been facing it's alleged the accepted the flat as a prime. gunman in nigeria have kidnapped

a german engineer near the northern town of kano police say attackers on motorbikes ambushed a vehicle carrying construction workers and killed a police escort before abducting the man nigerian authorities are hunting the assailants german officials have not yet commented. in the new york times and new yorker magazine have won a pulitzer pulitzer prize for their reporting of sexual harassment allegations against a film mogul harvey weinstein the story set off the me too movement those words were also a landmark moving moment for music as kendrick lamar became the first rapper to win a pua to serve for its proper album down. legal proceedings surrounding president trumps lawyer michael cohen have produced a new revelations sean hannity host on the conservative leaning u.s. channel talks news has been unmasked as one of cohen's clients link was revealed at

a courthouse in new york as lawyers for the u.s. president cohen did battle with judges in a case that involves both potential russian interference in the twenty sixth sense and allegations of extramarital affairs with an adult film star w. washington correspondent claire richardson reports. u.s. president donald trump's longtime attorney michael cohen was in a new york city court this week fighting for his legal team to be able to review the documents that were sees in a high profile raid of his office and apartment last week one of the items of interest appears to pertain to a possible payoff of the adult film star known as stormy daniels she says she was given a hundred thirty thousand dollars in hush money for an affair with the president this came shortly before the twenty sixteen elections and could possibly constitute a violation of campaign finance laws now all this comes as donald trump is at his florida club mar a lago for the week where he is fuming over an interview given by former f.b.i.

director james comey komi said that trump was morally unfit to be president. that was our washing of correspondent claire richest in there you're watching d.w. news still to come when the video referee called the team's back out of the pitch from their dressing rooms and other technology my went in germany's top tier football league the bundesliga. worries about a trade war have done nothing to slow down china's economy get home that's right it looks like china's economy is still going full throttle official figures out today show gross of gross domestic product beat expectations in the first quarter and the world's second largest economy expanded by six point eight percent over a year earlier that was down so only slightly from last year's overall growth of six point nine percent the government says china's economy can withstand u.s. tariffs of up to one hundred fifty billion dollars on its goods but economists say

efforts to rein in china's in famous smaug infamous rather small could take their toll on growth later in the year as beijing idols factories and steel plants to come pollution. the european union has filed documents with the world trade organization to protest u.s. tariffs on steel euro bonds compensation saying the import duties aren't really based on national security but represent quote safeguard tariffs to the e.u. and some other trading partners but those exemptions run out soon and talks on a more permanent solution are still ongoing. now half a trillion euros that's how much germany is a business plans to switch to renewable energy will cost the german economy in the next seven years alone it's a balancing act in wants to phase out nuclear and at the same time reduce carbon emissions so far the shift in policy has brought no significant reduction in c o two emissions because the highly industrialized country needs

a stable energy supply that renewables failed to deliver so fossil fuels continue to provide the lion's share of germany's energy needs europe's biggest economy is also pushing its partners to follow its way into renewables with make success. the new set its sights on reducing c o two emissions are stressed as possible it plans to lower the use of fossil fuels like coal at the same time pivoting towards more renewable energy sources it's declared aim is to become the first major economic bloc to reduce c o two emissions by thirty five percent by twenty thirty at the same time the proportion of renewable energies will be pleased to thirty five percent of energy needs the plans are expensive they're expected to cost germany alone five hundred twenty billion euros by twenty twenty five. then averages out to twenty year as a month per capita for germany whereby most of the bills from four hundred billion

euros repaid to renewable energy producers but so far the costs of the transition far outweigh the benefits but just sort of institute for competition economics says germany is still pumping out as much c o two as it was ten years ago meaning that the shift towards renewables here hasn't prevented one single turn of c o two from being released into the atmosphere. let's bring in kelly mccann said she's an energy expert the german institute for economic research claudia one we've just heard does not mean the switch to renewables is expensive and ineffective what needs to change to make this political agenda economically viable. well i would say that of course cost as you mentioned it already but we also see that there's a lot a lot of investments on going into future markets on the one hand to renewables the cost for new ones have gone down and this is also because of an energy transition

and on the other hand we see that the investment creates also jobs. and this is this is a valuable thing we have to close but of course many things have to improve especially the policy direction because right now as you said the emissions are too high and we have to phase out coal and the emissions also the transportation sector have to go. if it's not really working out here in germany how can we be an example for the rest of europe. we can be an example for the rest of europe if we can show that the cost for renewables will god on further because the huge costs we have already paid were not calm in the future anymore because the costs are so low at the moment so i cannot make a list speaking renewables are already competitive to combine and energy and that's a goal on the one hand on the other hand the other sectors like the transportation sector the heating says sector have to follow and here we have to do

a lot of dollar prize is on the rise again i'll say dinos of around sixty two dollars a barrel back in february brant crude is grounded standing at about seventy one dollars a barrel will have helped to push towards renewables it will have to push towards more energy saving because oil is used especially in the transportation and heating sector and here we need special in that and they're building sector we need more energy saving energy efficiency improvement and a high oil price could help here as well as we have to switch from fossil fuel for transportation toward small electric mobility all climate friendly fuels and he also high oil price could help do you think to this german transition to a new bill on a good way isn't a good way regarding the every new beau's because we have already reached the shelf of thirty percent up to now the electricity production but it's not on a good way if we see the rest of the energy system like coal the shelf coal is so

high and also not a good example in the transportation sector where we use it too much. cars and guzzling cars and here we have to switch to was as the saying of a transportation system to other camps and from the german is just a common resisting you very much for this analysis thank you. that's all business for now and it's a big week in german football very very big week indeed thanks the next step on buying munich's path to football trouble of trophies comes tonight when they visit leverkusen in a german cup semifinal with a tough champions league semi against real madrid on the horizon the bundesliga champions by a need to keep their focus against a streaking team. but the bundesliga title sailed on april seventh by in the doing a lot more than just staying alive. they rested players in saturday's league game

with much and got back but still triumph five one now they have led the q. is now in their sights with triple talk sweeping the club. we have. shown is your pov because we relax so we we are very focused you know goes we have many many players that can play. every game so we have equal to with that. sort of it that is still injured but jerome bowen saying is expected to return against a later couzin side who have won their last two bundesliga matches for whom they both have the ray of attacking talent and could trouble buy on given it's a one leg semifinal and they are at home i. would line is so stacked the stephan kiesling hardly gets a game these days but he tell you he is desperate to face by and before he's expected retirement in may. sure it's a semifinal against biron of all teams but we've beaten them in the german cup in

the past and only last time penalty is to them a few seasons ago in the cup you write your own history and we have the tools to make our own bit of history and the largest. but that is exactly what by and coach your pint is once he's also retiring and a way of allay the qs mo keep him and buy on on course for a second treble in five years. and money in a game mines and five board faced off in what amounted to a relegation six pointer both sides needed three points in their respective bids to stay in the top flight next season. mines had the lion's share of chances in the first half and threaten to gain here just before the break down your brzezinski shot saved by alexander strolled off the referee though decided to check video replay for handball because the whistle had blown fribourg had already left the pitch and sure enough mark all the of

a camp had handled the ball on its way to the keeper penalty pablo de blasio stepped up to the spot and hammered the ball in one nil for mines the first time in bunches league history that a goal was scored after the half time whistle and minds weren't done yet in the seventy eighth minute shrugged off tried to clear the ball i thought it was intercepted by robin phase on who laid it on to deploy this to make it two nil with the help of the post a brace put to plus and that's how it ended two nil for my siggraph three huge points in the battle to beat the drop. archaeologists all in german baltic island of aruba and have unearthed a trove of hundreds of one thousand year old coins and jewelry thanks to an amateur discovering a single coin back in january and the items date from the era of the danish king hava of goma song better known as bluetooth who brought christianity to denmark in

the tenth century some pieces of this silver treasure from the tenth century date back to the reign of the legendary danish king blount son or bluetooth archaeologists have recovered pieces of jewelry pearls and ancient coins from a four hundred square meter area on the german island of clique and the hobby archaeologist who made the first discovery is just thirteen. at first i thought it was just some minium junk but you learned from experience to take any foreign home and you decide later if it's really junk or not once i got home it turned out to be a viking coin and perhaps there was more to be found in the stuff like where you can get this treasure is the single biggest find of such coins in the southern baltic sea area so it has enormous significance for archaeologists born to vikings had blue tooth was considered the founder of the danish kingdom he introduced christianity to the land and a number of reforms how the treasure made its way to the field on the island of

lucan isn't clear but it offers evidence of extensive trade networks in the tenth century. by. the coins are in circulation from england to the arab world in afghanistan this fine shows the old danish coins that heralds bluetooth were in great numbers. the jewelry was worn by slavic peoples as well as the vikings. that's what makes this discovery so unusual just monkeys and bugs forms of the songs the size of the find is unique the pieces will be restored and assessed during the next several months. now take a moment and feast your eyes on this there's a new art museum in paris and it's nothing like the louvre the utterly or studio of lights wasn't fact a factory now it's being rededicated to merge old masters with new technology and

it's just opened take a look. america in a world as imagined by the artist phaeton strike hundred. it feels as if you're on a flying carpet being embraced by works of art that flow over the walls the floor all melting together. we don't just want to be called a museum we're a digital art center. we want to offer a different experience than the one you already know from museums where art works. all. one hundred forty video projectors and a state of the art or do you system will be used to present the works of two

artists over three thousand three hundred square meters. and good stuff as a multimedia experience. the venue is a former factory in the eleven thousand dissimilar the killing basins well nigh actors medders for the artworks. it was back in the nineteenth century that manual workers toiled away here for factory owners depletion on brothers it took two years for the exhibition organizers to find an appropriate space you. give you your makes this place so special is that this old factory can be brought back to life it's very important to me that these spaces are not abandoned they should not just become architectural rubbish dumps. here you can take a journey through your stuff clips very life's work historical paintings and

miracles come first followed by his break with tradition. throughout his career clint began to emancipate himself from classical art before founding the vienna secession which produced a whole new art such as symbolism and on nouveau. someone has moved all around the world. and just as claim to emancipate it himself from classical art the people behind a telly dounia want to set themselves apart from traditional museums in paris the city of classical museums it's almost a small revolution. can't wait to see that just a reminder the top story we're following for you here today on news russia says international chemical inspectors will be allowed to visit the site of an alleged poison gas attack in syria on wednesday u.s. has accused moscow of delaying their visit to try to thwart their investigation

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