this city to me it is live from berlin a call to arms by french president and nine one one call in a speech to the european parliament mcconnell urges europeans to reject or tarried islam and defend their model of democracy yes look calls for a critical debate on the future i'm thinking of you also coming up he's known as astro alex chance i go back up refers to calling germany's ambassador to spain now astronaut on exotic chaos is preparing the next big step as commander of the international space station.

i'm serious i was going to get to have you with us french president emanuel mccall has condemned the rise in authoritarianism in the e.u. and urged europeans to defend their democracy no call was outlining his vision for the future of europe in a speech to the european parliament and strong he said the e.u. was failing to address the fears and concerns of its citizens and that changes long overdue. you can see should read don't think there is doubts in a number of european countries and month after month these doubts seeing others call our foundations into question the fundamental there seems to be a sort of european civil war national selfishness and egotism taking precedence over what unites us focus accusingly. hoffman has been following him on all my concerts in stress spring for us today hi max we heard him say this is

a sort of european the civil war that seems to be pretty strong words directed at a member states from the east what did you make of that definitely this message goes out to countries like hungry that already have sort of a north or a tarion democracy as opposed to the liberal democracy that mccraw once but make no mistake this message also went back to france where mccraw is still seen as the symbol the one man who defeated one of the most successful right wing populist marine le pen last year successfully so it seems like mccraw is prescribing a dose of himself to the european union urging everybody to promote the e.u. in a positive way and unapologetically what else is he prescribe in max this is this vision for the future of europe what is that vision. first of all a more comprehensive european union especially when it comes to the reform of the euro zone he said again that he would want. a budget for the eurozone something he

repeatedly said in the past this time he did not mention that he wanted to finance minister for the euro zone something that has a hard time defending back in germany he also urged consonant why debates on the future of the european union where everybody should be able to give their input new ideas for the european union so you can tell this is not really new stuff here but a time still the speech was very strong especially when he said things like he does not want to be part of a generation of sleepwalkers he wants to be part of a generation that really firmly defends democracy on foreign policy max he touched on syria let's listen to what he had to say about the situation there. quatrains hold out till three countries intervened and let me speak frankly this is for the honor of the international community we made sure that we did this within a legitimate framework in a civilized way there were no human big tims not

a single human victim. we destroyed three sites where chemical weapons were being produced or processed she make remarks about current comes across particularly agitated even angry why do you think that is. all right it looks like we have lost our signal to our correspondent max foster when he was reporting there for us from stross for let's move on to some other news some other stories that are making news around the world russia has denied the u.s. claim that it is trying to remove evidence of the alleged poison gas attack at the syrian city of duma the u.s. says moscow may be involved in a cover up before a chemical weapons inspectors arrive at the site on wednesday demonstrators have clashed with police in the armenian capital get it on for the fifth day they don't want former president said. to be elected prime minister which members of

parliament are expected to do today the protesters say it's have to see and has been in power for too long already and that recent constitutional changes given too much power as prime minister the japanese prime minister shinzo abi is gone to washington where he says he wants to find common ground with u.s. president donald trump on how to deal with north korea's nuclear challenge tokyo if you're stranded might make too many concessions in his planned meeting with the north korean leader kim jong il on next month eighteen men are set to go on trial in india for the rape and murder of an eight year old girl now the supreme court has ordered protection for the victim's family and their lawyer the case is stirred controversy in india and the lawyer said she had been threatened for taking up the case. this year's human rights award from amnesty international germany has been presented to an egyptian nonprofit organization that cairo based the diem center was recognized for twenty years of work helping victims of torture in the politically volatile country since president abdul fattah el-sisi took office in

two thousand and fourteen authorities have imprisoned tens of thousands of people and they're building dozens of new prisons to house the growing numbers of detainees assisi has carried out this crackdown in the name of fighting terrorism but organizations like naji report widespread human rights abuses egyptian authorities shut down a deep centuries clinic in february but they've continued to work without it. as a human rights defender who worked for than a deep center until two thousand and sixteen and the founders were not allowed to leave egypt so he accepted the award on behalf of the winners yesterday in berlin to hear thank you very much for joining us on our program thank you for the invitation i want to start with the question about yourself you were detained in egypt but you were not turned tortured is that correct yes i was detained in egypt force of the month i was just beaten for months but i was lucky that are using torture in a systematic way like what is happening with other victims and other be people in

prison for example i was in britain was our own thirty bed some twenty eight of them were subjected to tertian and we are lucky to were subjected to other forms of torture like you could carry like hanging for days what is happening nobody was even in prison in egypt you have been very critical of the conditions that are facing prisoners in egypt to tell us more about those conditions yes i was working in the need to do many conditions in dickinson places. it was a commune that. deciding be subject to me to get me going to be subjected to this because of this but again they've been in detention places and when i was in bed. myself i through this condition and i know this is a general way of treating people in detention places. it is in egypt seeing everybody in britain not only the people who are in prison for british reasons but

other but at the moment they see them they are devoted devoid of order zero rights but the egyptian government denies that it uses torture in prison and why is that if this proof is so consistent the. system in a systematic way to get information from be able to intimidate people in the they are in custody. in there is a new video systematically under the. subject human rights defender themselves to the three more rights violations and you know egyptian officials do admit that some progress needs to be made in terms of human rights in egypt but they say that they have come a long way so far do you agree with that no i'm not agree with that and they are just trying to deny not active and they are trying to block media outlets do moderate defenders are speaking about this they are just trying to change the narrative by another out of

a nation's of human rights do you have hope that things will change i hope i hope it will take some time but with this regime are you don't have a lot of hope in this dire look tired human rights defender you worked with the native center thank you very much for joining us in our studio today thank you. fought to put as a football in and monday night's game might some seiberg faced off in what amounted to a dropzone six pointer mights were sitting in the relegation playoff spot hyperope were just three points about them the moment of the match that came with both teams already in their dressing room. mindset the lions share of chances in the first half and threatened to gain here just before the break daniel brzezinski shot saved by alexander shrugged off the referee though decided to check the 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 meal for

a minute the first time in bowen just to get history that a goal was scored after the half time whistle and mines weren't done yet in the seventy eighth minute shrugged off tried to clear the ball but it was intercepted by robin crays on who laid it on to to ploughs just to make it two nil with the help of the post a brace for de blas and that's how it ended two nil for mines she grabbed three huge points in the battle to beat the drop. european space agency astronaut alexandre gas has held his final news conference today ahead of his next trip to the international space station in june i guess will be the first german commander of the station his crew will take off on june sixth their mission includes testing a new artificial intelligence robot that will help them with their research tasks of course expected to return to earth after six months. and about he is attending aleksandr guests last press conference before going on his mission highfill peacock

how are the preparations going either. the preparations are fantastic i mean that exotic gus couldn't put it plain to himself he said i'm going to use the the the not rude version it just got real he's finished his training in houston he's back here in cologne at the european astronaut center for a week he's getting to know some of the instrumentation you just heard about simon there the artificial intelligence he's learning how that works he's been told how the columbus lab is all prepared for his mission the horizons mission and he's just been speaking behind here in the presence of some very great astral to if you can see him over here so it's all on so artificial intelligence simon as you mentioned is going to be one really interesting aspect of this mission what else is on the agenda. well there is so much on i'm going to start with alex first of all one of the experiments is my oh my oh tones it's basically going to look at how microgravity affects the muscular system of this really important because we shoot

things up into space all the time but we really don't know how space affects humans in space think about all the colonies we want to build we don't know how space is going to affect us if we procreate there's no not much experimentation going into evolutionary biology so that's going to be really important it's also icarus it's an experiment that's going to track birds with a little sensors in the eye assess will still pop their data as they fly past the i assess and that will allow scientists to track things like avian influenza and even ebola there's so much though on the on the school things that people scientists can't do on earth but they can do a micro gravity is fascinating stuff so a lot on the agenda for them in alexander garrett is going to be the first german commander of the eye is that how important is that for germany. well you know this is a hugely important germany is one of the largest contributors to the european space agency it's got the d.l.r. here this mission the horizons mission is going to be controlled partly in germany but also via houston and moscow this is just

a really big deal for germany but you know i design i guess for an astronaut he couldn't be more on the ground you know have his feet on the ground because he did make the point that it's not only about the astronaut going to space it is about all the teams all the scientists all the universities in europe that are involved in these three hundred experiments that are going to take place on the i assess and of course this is a his mission this horizons mission is just one of many that are ongoing missions so you know it is important for germany but it's also important for europe and sorry there i say be so naive for the world that's all come together hey in space all right exciting is that there's i think i thank you very much for reporting for us there. so there we were ct of that interview with celtic or a little bit earlier in the day we can all be astronauts like alexander guest but this might be as close as we're going to get nasa has released a stunning virtual tour of the moon an eye popping four k. resolution based on data provided by the lunar reconnaissance orbiter spacecraft

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