life here and its friends and people who are in it and. women bore photographers starting may third on t w. this is d w news live from berlin was there a conspiracy to keep hillary clinton out of the white house the democrats who say yes and they are suing the democratic national committee today launching a lawsuit against the russian government campaign leaders and wiki leaks the party's saying never before has a candidate conspired with a foreign enemy to become president we'll go to washington and will ask what is

this mean for robert mole those russia investigation also coming up students across the u.s. walk out of class to mark the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school massacre but congress in the white house is still have not acted to tighten gun control so is anyone in the u.s. capitol listening this time around and a blast and then should have happened in seventy years ago today experts defused an unexploded. bomb in the heart of berlin the danger was so high that tens of thousands. plus the end of a sporting a premier league soccer club arsenal announcing that coach arson of england will step down at the end of the seas if he's been in charge for more than twenty years.

i'm brinkerhoff it's good to have you with us there have been three official investigations two still running into possible campaign collusion between donald trump and the russians tonight and a lawsuit to that list the democratic national committee is suing president donald trump's campaign leaders the russian government and weiqi leaks the democrats contend that all three conspired to help trump win the twenty sixteen presidential election in what the party calls unprecedented treachery and a brazen attack on american democracy trump has repeatedly denied any collusion between his campaign and russia and this lawsuit comes as trump's legal woes are mounting his personal attorney michael cohen is now under criminal investigation. all right we want to take this story now to washington our correspondent claire

richardson is on the story for us tonight good evening to you claire the world looking at this story and asking why has the democratic national committee decided to do that now we already have the special prosecutor mr mohler he's still investigating allegations of collusion. hi brenda this a lawsuit is the biggest escalation we've seen from the democratic party in trying to get to the bottom of a legit russian election meddling in the twenty sixteen elections and possible nation with the trump campaign so they're trying to remind voters of this issue now ahead of november's midterm elections which are coming up in just over six months the democrats are looking to take back control of congress from the republicans then and they're using this as a way to remind voters of the whole issue of russian meddling now as you say this lawsuit is happening as an aside it to robert muller's investigation into whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and russia the democrats are hoping

that this separate lawsuit will give them an opportunity to see more facts come to light for a separate legal channel and that it's going to open a new avenue for information to come out as a new legal front against trump and his campaign and clear what about the risk to this is there any chance that this could backfire on. logistically speaking the democrats could come up against some legal challenges in trying to ship to suit russia a foreign country another perhaps more important question is whether this approach of focusing on russian meddling is really the kind of messaging they need to help them in the elections as a party they want to be able to offer something to voters other than just promising a return to the status quo to being the party that is and. then with those coming up in november it's not so clear what their messaging is yet. and it begs the question is there any proof of that year. well the washington post broke this story and they also pointed to

a previous incidents that has some parallels they said that the democratic party actually did something quite similar during the watergate scandal that was when the d.n.c. filed a lawsuit against then president nixon against his reelection committee and they were seeking damages for the break into the democratic headquarters ultimately that did work out for them and they want to settlement just as nixon was leaving office in one nine hundred seventy four you know it's amazing what we've been here before a little bit another day has gone by this week with the fall your defeat james coleman making a media appearance where the memos that he kept his interactions with the u.s. president the mail been made public. can we talk about the u.s. president being compromised. but as you say fired f.b.i. director james comey has been in the limelight this week doing interviews alongside the release of his book which says some very unflattering things about the

president from coney's conversations with him in terms of how much it's going to affect trump it depends how you look at it or say politically speaking it's so hard to see how more how these allegations can really have much of an effect on what people believe views on this issue are so firmly entrenched when it comes to trump and possible russian election meddling whether you believe it's true or not on the other hand so you could see some kind of legal fallout from what we've seen coming out of comas mouth he could end up being a really key witness in any possible obstruction of justice case that i'm aware might decide to bring forward over who is going to clear richardson of the story for us tonight in washington clear thank you very much. well students across the united states have walked out of class today. of the cohen school massacre the protest comes after continued gun violence at american schools including the recent mass killing in parklane florida gun control advocates have

seen little change in the aftermath of school shooting sprees something a new generation of activists is determined to change. it's their message couldn't be clearer. just a handful of the tens of thousands of students to have. to demand tougher gun control from new york. to michigan. and even the white house they made their point basically we just want to see some type of preventative measures taken you know the change has been powered was we can feel. secure the measures we feel that the onus should not be on this war to take security measures to prevent their students from being killed in gunfire there should be some type of preventive measure taken some time to change it was not all chanting thirteen seconds of silence to remember the thirteen

victims of the columbine school massacre they were killed nineteen years ago to the day when two students opened fire on their classmates their entered school shootings into the global consciousness two decades. later many of america's students have seen enough. i met our school art teacher who was shot and killed at the beginning of the year so this is something that we take very personally in the philippines to advocate it hard pressed people. argue nizer say teenagers from more than two thousand schools took part in the walkout the latest wave and a nationwide effort to end the cannons. so you can see this here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world medics in the gaza strip say that two palestinians have been shot dead by israeli forces in another day of protests along the border that's after the military dropped leaflets urging residents to stay away from the border fence at least thirty three palestinians

have been killed by soldiers firing at the border in recent weeks the basque separatist group has asked for forgiveness from its victims for the pain caused by its long campaign of violence that's they killed around eight hundred fifty people over the course of four decades today the group said it should have never resorted to violence as it is due to formally disband next month. german chancellor angela merkel has held talks with india's prime minister in the range remoting here in berlin india is looking for a new partners in the european union that britain is leaving the e.u. germany meanwhile is spearheading the e.u. efforts to reach a free trade deal with india. you're watching t w news still to come after twenty two years in charge at english soccer club arsenal coach parson bingo is stepping down at the end of the season we ask our sports correspondent about the legacy of one of the game's great thanks she's.

all right germany lobbying for europe in washington it helps that he got a big job to do the count down his own now right for the european union to make sure it secures that permanent exemption from u.s. tariffs on steel and added many amid rising at trade tensions between washington and beijing and the current temporary exemption runs out on may first germany's vice chancellor says he's optimistic a solution can be found only say that i'm going to who will travel to washington next week to make the case personally. all of shoals had to wait more than an hour to get accepted into the white house what else to do but take a stroll with the german ambassador in front of the famous building eventually the german finance minister met us vice president pence schultz didn't disclose details

of the chat not a good sign it seems there's been little to no progress on an exception for the e.u. one steel in alimony and tariffs which the us buying all i can say is that i think the officials here understand that we the european union speak with one voice when it comes to trade issues i believe that this is a good development it could lead to good results after the by talking with us to lose a common cause i knew at the spring meeting of the international monetary fund in washington free trade was on the agenda as well many also using the opportunity to tell schultz that germany needs to do more to prevent another financial crisis in europe meaning spending more money on ailing countries but schultz of void giving assurances. that we've improved the stability of the entire european banking sector over the last couple of years now things are looking a lot better but of course there's still room for improvement to weather any new financial storm is

a would give up that it would for. however scholtz opposes the swift introduction of an e.u. wide bank deposit guarantee scheme after all that could cost german savers a lot of money if a foreign lender goes bankrupt. and every four ago i spoke to our washington correspondent constant fun naaman outside the i.m.f. where the spring meetings with the world bank been taking place and i asked him how close the e.u. is to be granted the permanent tariff exemption. well we're hearing that it's still difficult yes they all off shoulders the german finance minister and vice chancellor said he was optimistic that a solution could be found that there would be a permanent exemption for the europeans from those tariffs today he sounded a bit more cautious again saying he didn't know if that would happen by the time the temporary exceptions run olive at the end of april so we don't know simply

what's going on talks on the way you mentioned the chance of the she would come to washington next week also french president mccrone will be here next week and what the europeans tried to point out all the time is this is an issue where europe is united of course because trade is the affair of the e.u. and they make this point to the american counterparts and all of shoals told us today he had the impression that his american counterparts were understanding that this was the case now at the i.m.f. chief christine that god has been speaking she's pointed to strong global growth that she has warned of course that trade tensions could hurt the global economy in the long ten all the u.s. and china heating how warning to you think. i'm not so sure and they might be listening to what she has to say but for now it doesn't appear like they are following her advise neither side seems to be ready to

back down at this point so it's completely unclear whether this conflict can be resolved on then. all right washington correspondent coston phenomena at the international monetary fund for us thank you. the global collapse that has kept oil prices down appears to be over that's the conclusion of a panel made up of opec members and other oil producing countries a barrel of brant crude has recently hit a three year high of seventy four dollars the panel says an opec led agreement in place since january twenty seventeen has helped to cut oversupply all the same they have been seen in recent buoyancy is stirring inflation and u.s. president donald trump also weighed in on twitter of course saying the cartel was keeping prices also officially high a wall street correspondent yes of course has more. investors on wall street are

puzzled by the comments of u.s. president donald trump first of all opec is not the only reason why oil prices are increasing it's also global economic growth and therefore a higher demand and then if we think back about two years ago when oil prices were at around thirty dollars a barrel especially for u.s. energy companies for fracking companies production was not profitable at all a lot of those companies actually were in jeopardy and even might have had to file for bankruptcy you then started to cut to production oil prices started to increase and old saw the u.s. and energy companies were safe till the u.s. profited from higher oil prices but now obviously donald trump has the opinion that prices are too high and that could lead to higher prices for u.s. consumers and when donald trump is saying that the high oil prices are not acceptable what precisely is he going to do and change should bow to production

here in the u.s. is already at record levels and when we look at what happened was oil prices and friday we started on a weaker note but then as trading continued to oil prices pretty much recovered most of the losses. that was a un school in new york that i have a now two friends and what can only be described as an unwelcome rather costly surprise as well in the ballet and mugs that's why i even thought i was going to have to leave my apartment genetics and when this is definitely germany's capital was brought to a standstill today so experts could defuse a massive world war two bomb the operation forced the shutdown of a large part of the city center seven decades after the war's end germany's still falling as more than two thousand tons of unexploded were time ordinances every year but this was the most significant bomb disposal operation the german capital has seen in years. yet. you form

one of the members how. an unusual sight on central berlin straits police urging residents to evacuate and offices going door to door to make sure buildings were cleared. the biggest evacuation in burnie name is came as bomb disposal experts moved in to diffuse an unexploded second world war bomb that had been on on a construction site inside the exclusion zone an army hospital part of the german intelligence agencies headquarters a ministry building embassies and a number of hotels in the city that likes to wake up late somewhat caught by surprise. we have a case in from denmark and we were not informed by hotels dot com that we were going to be equated you know frustrating you. so you way hurry.

to get on with things and you know. for those with nowhere else to go emergency shelters were set up around the exclusion zone. but the biggest disruption perhaps came for thousands of commuters travelling from one side of the city to the other. also located within the exclusion zone in central station went from buzzing travel hub to go station as it too was clean it ahead of the destination. but by around one thirty pm local time it was mission accomplished for the disposal tame as authorities announced the world war two bomb had been made saif. this is the site where the bomb was discovered and successfully disposed of and was findings like this are quite common in germany so common in fact that eight state

has its own bomb disposal unit the size of this bomb and its proximity to the city center and a widespread police action. in central station was reopened within an hour of the diffuse ill allowing the city to get back to business as usual. there quite a day here in berlin at the big table now i'm happy to welcome professor. he is a munitions expert from the university of technology professors good to have you on the show i mean well when you look at this this is an international news story but here in germany it happens all the time doesn't yes you're really right so but it is a very busy said he was usual and unusual events and today it was an extremely unusual event where the bombs. but has to diffuse a five hundred kilogram bomb unexploded bomb with british origin and i mean we've got a picture here of the volume was there anything unusual or special about this bomb

i mean we know that you know thousands of people were evacuated you know the special theory of this bomb is the location so just in the middle of the city and you have to evacuate people in the area of eight hundred meters radios and this means ten thousand people have to move out and on and on this area and this means handicapped people and you know everybody everybody professor you were telling me that there have been a little bit over a thousand bombs that have been defused here in berlin since the end of the second world war but you believe that there are maybe around three thousand that are still in the ground waiting for us to discover you know this number of thousand is a number given by the authorities so i it's a huge number that's extremely huge but. you will have it

and you can you can change it. with time these bombs actually i read today these bombs become more dangerous the longer they remain under fuse is that correct that's correct because inside you have met their limit which get under corrosion and you do you can see if you see the bomb you don't see the reason why it doesn't work so you have to understand what happened inside so you have a security system and the corrosion will suffer the system so it can unexploded so we have in germany one or two bombs was left a donation. lissa sorry about. it is horrible and we know that people's lives have been lost construction workers lives have been lost firemen for example and i don't want to get into the technicalities of what's inside these these bombs but it is interesting that so many bombs were dropped and they didn't explode i

mean what does that tell you as a weapons expert now i think this is quite normal if you understand the production facility and the pressure and the bombs has to be produced so they need that for the war and they produced and the quality control was not. that much what it should be ok so they were trying to do the fast food version of bombs back in the one nine hundred sixty what about the bombs that we produce today they almost always explode if they are there long i know you have bombs all rockets which failed as well but the rate is much more less than that what we have in the world war two it's impossible to say that berlin hamburg cities across germany are are still minefields from the second world war it would be hard to say this way but the truth is. in the statement yes of course and how long do you

think we will i mean you say three thousand bombs just in berlin how long will it take is to find out when the i think the problem will be have for a lot of generation five for another hundred years at least yes of course well well man of that story about that yeah this is fact on my point of view as it is the cruel reality of of war as well present joining us tonight from the couple's university of technology professor fascinating talking with you thank you very much thank you well it is the end of an error in the soccer world arsenal manager arsene vega will step down at the end of the season after being in charge of the english premier league club for more than two decades the frenchman arrived as a soccer revolutionary but he will leave having polarized fame. after twenty two years and three premier league titles thank its departure from arsenal

was announced with simple words. asin. the frenchman was appointed back in one thousand nine hundred ninety six when english football and fashions were very different then manchester united manager alex ferguson remarked that someone who just managed in japan had no right telling english football what to do but they go to revolutionize the game radically changing diets and introducing a new brand of attacking football which prompted seven f.a. cups. his biggest achievement was when arsenal went the whole premier league season unbeaten in two thousand and three for the invincibles campaign would be design if the vegas career and in recent years fans began to demand his exit passed by the likes of chelsea and manchester city. have said we will have a right now and the fans have their wish but i also hope he is remembered for the good times. as he now makes to the step

to the next phase of his life i think everybody is a little bit more reflective and i think it's a moment like this that you can really better appreciate what an extraordinary person that football club is is losing then you will hope to go out on a high by lifting the europa league next month but trophy or not this season his legacy will loom large he always develop teams. to players and force the dominating guy mid ninety's maybe early two thousand when he was really winning pretty much everything played wonderful. mildness were always possible replacements include x. by munich boss holly want to lottie and form a barouche your dog and coach thomas took a look if he has not signed for. whoever takes over isn't likely to be at home for

the next twenty two year as. is one of a kind. our tennis news now rafael nidal remains on course for a record extending a woman monte carlo title after beating dominique t. in the quarter finals at all brees fast his austrian opponent a tight match had been expected but not all the king of clay proved too strong on his favorite surface he won the first set to love and was nearly as dominant in the second drop in just two games the spaniard need security gor the neutral in the last four. of the d.j. and music producer known as the chief has been found dead in oman the twenty eight year old swede he was born tim barry clean was a pioneer of e.d.m. a popular genre of electronic music is greatest hits included levels wake me up and hey brother fellow superstar d.j. calvin harris tweeted devastating news about v.g.

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