this is d.w. news live from a blow to freedom of speech in afghanistan two deadly suicide bombings rocking composes diplomatic corps leaving several journalists dead it's the launch scale attack in kabul this year we'll go there live in just a second with a light also on this program the european union says it's ready to react with a fission seen speed to plans u.s. trade tariffs german chancellor angela merkel has been lobbying present trauma in a bid to exempt the youth from various potentially crippling levies it's. a

harrowing escape and seriousness for his needs our correspondent has been talking to former inmates from speaking out about the situation. and we also have the latest bonus legal action for you. facing braman yesterday and she a white working to pick up a win that would help them secure a champions league spot next season and. hello and welcome my name's christopher spring eight good to have you with us we start in afghanistan where at least twenty five people have been killed in schools injured in back to back suicide attacks in the capital kabul six journalists and four police officers are among the dead off they rushed to the scene of the initial explosion police say the first. on

a motorbike the second. one shall blast occurred in the diplomatic quarter of the city so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility. on the line now to hear because d.d. a freelance journalist in kabul in the afghan capital. thanks for talking to us two blasts as far as we know can we assume they were connected. well just what we call republicans need for today we call it a black day for the afghan prince in afghanistan and everyone is actually moving one of happened at the service one actually happened in a very diplomatic place with his culture that iraq and. for you may believe you know the side bomber was out on a motorbike and then through the ass hole the afghan gentleman you that is you know what happens in afghanistan when something happened over the media rush to get actually to be seen on two breaking news and then you know that they can blast your

and as a result six of our very concern is in afghanistan you know my big media or the media company i work for actually my cameraman and my reporter they were just only five or ten minutes away from the blast did get to the time that nobody knows you know if they will they might be killed you know another time you're not going to and. i understand that one of the journalists who was killed in a.f.p. photographer named sharma ryan was a friend of yours can you tell us a little bit more about him. he was a fantastic candidate for the photographs for everybody in afghanistan knows him as one of those. nominees and he does a great deal for all such means and i quite a number of years ago he had written something on his twitter and you put a picture thing that's you know you know this is my daughter we never know you know when. someone dies you know it's an honor absolutely all right we have to go i have very good friend then always talk with each other and you know i want to know

who's active and better than was on the photograph or in afghanistan and afghan police after working for a fee acted like both good and mike and i we are going to fly if i if i remember right i was asking for help to organize a meeting with one of the afghan police station but then today you know we lost them and along with with and you know five other very good journalists from us and the station is this is this the first time to hear that journalists were to flee target change in an attack of this kind. well journalists are quite vulnerable to such attacks in afghanistan it is not the first time but yes i would say well let's not forget that on one point sometimes they go a couple of congo t.v. one of the leading t.v. channels in afghanistan if they want to attack in a convoy when they are on your way home and as a result i don't remember it quite well but the omar like you know listen to more than ten thousand people killed this is actually to think about the second attack

where we lose you know some of our base journalists but i would say that you know as everyone is quite concerned about the ration of security this is actually this is the first sign we are you know as doesn't good joiners get attacked again as i did a black day for the whole country and for the freedom of the seas to thank them for reaching young people like myself who have been working really in difficult times you can understand that you know moving away here is very hard but you know one of our for absolute sure was that we won't get attacked by the taliban or what other insurgent groups but now it seems that this might be detained as well ok to hear many thanks for that background to have custody that talking to us from kabul says thank you i think some of the other news making headlines at the moment in syria a monitoring group says twenty six people have been killed in missile strikes on military facilities in the north of the country the blast reportedly hits

a syrian army base reigne unbacked forces all stations monitoring groups that israel is likely all checks. yes the secretary of state might peo says his country is deeply concerned by what he calls iran's destabilizing and malign activities meeting with israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu pompei also slammed the twenty fifteen deal aimed at curbing iran's nuclear capabilities president trump is due to decide whether to quit that deal over the coming weeks. u.s. border officials have prevented a group of around two hundred central american migrants from entering the country to seek asylum to toe facilities at the border to full president trump has ruled against allowing the group to enter the u.s. and mexico to stop them. and canadian prime minister justin trudeau has joined thousands of mourners to remember the victims of the van attack residents lit

candles and held hands at a vigil. commemorating the ten people killed and more than twenty injured when a man drove a van into a pedestrian walkway last monday. it watching t.v. i mean used to come on this program series neutrally as prisons allegedly hold seven thousand women our correspondent on one of those women a woman who escaped and is now speaking out about which. first the governments around the world are bracing for a possible trade war with washington such as inside whether it'll in stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum tomorrow both german chancellor angela merkel and french person among them i think well being u.s. president trump in a bid to change exemptions for europe from those tariffs germany now says it expects a chance to go into effect but with no final word yet from the white house some are

still holding out hope for a last minute change in washington. let's go to brussels now to our bureau chief them. max if the wave is on those chair if they have actually already been imposed but there are a wave on them if those wave is a lifted tomorrow how is the european union likely to react well as you just pointed out we're not there yet the last time that granted the exemption it was a last minute call in the e.u. officials here in brussels are hoping that exactly the same thing will happen and that's why there will be a last ditch effort by the commissioner in charge for him to call her counterpart in the u.s. wilbur ross and try to convince him to extend those exemptions if it doesn't work she has announced that the response by the european union will be threefold first of all retaliate with exactly the same measures that the u.s. are imposing secondly target specific u.s. products for example motorcycles where it really hurts and the third one is to

complain at the world trade organization and. that reaction you know if this all comes to pass is it well there's the entire european union all of its government support that strategy. all you governments safe to say think it's a bad idea to have those terrorists that's why again you had. mark on may the prime minister's and she has or so the leaders of the u.k. germany and france urged the u.s. administration not to impose them but the measures on the measures what to do once they are imposed or hard to avoid them they are effectively not necessarily in agreement especially france and germany the reason for this is that germany is responsible for a large majority of the those high trade imbalances between the us and the e.u. they have most to lose also because they have huge industrial production and that's why the germans now seem well not desperate but seem willing to go different ways

for example eliminate all tariffs on all industrial products that's something apparently they're willing to negotiate with the u.s. france says probably not not with us we're more the hardliners like the e.u. commission so you see there are some differences here according to who has the most to lose in this ok max always good to. the bureau chief in brussels. and now he is here with the economic angle to this cherished that's right christopher of course that has political and economic consequences specially if there is a trade works but if we take a look at the numbers the tariff just such a new p. and aluminum and steel wouldn't actually hurt the economy that much for now still companies here are preparing to see their products become more expensive in the u.s. and consumers there will literally end up paying the price trade between germany and the u.s. is booming volume grew to a total of the one hundred seventy billion euros with

a science exporting milk to each other. increased u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum won't make much of a difference to that tie them in particular because germany doesn't sell that much steel and i mean into the u.s. . global exports from german stale and alimony and produces were valued at over twenty three billion euros last year but only a tiny proportion of that went to the u.s. one point four billion euros that spends six percent. and they're also very specialized products and alloys types of steel which aren't even made in the u.s. a lot of u.s. companies are dependent on importing these metals to make their products that means in the end u.s. consumers will wind up paying the increased import tariffs that prospect still doesn't tell a fee is that the dispute could still escalate on to a big development in the u.s. mobile telephone sector t. mobile u.s.

owned by germany start the telecom agreed to acquire rival sprint that will combine the third and fourth largest wireless carriers in the u.s. if the deal is approved it will mean the creation of a carrier with one hundred twenty seven million customers that's as much as the population of japan but the merger will be facing an uphill battle in washington. it's a big deal and this video featuring the c.e.o.'s of sprint and t. mobile is proof that two wireless carriers are doing what they can to get everyone on their side they say the merger will help them better deliver mobile services to customers in particular the latest and greatest five g. technology imo the system made that america early for leadership in millions of jobs in this country and billions in u.s. g.d.p. i mean five g. the stakes are even higher just to put this in perspective the difference between forward five g. is the difference between black and white t.v. and color t.v.

but that may not be the most important thing of untie trust authorities may say the deal could harm competition much like they did in two thousand and fourteen and some analysts believe the merger could be subject to more scrutiny because both team obama and sprint owned by foreign companies but germany's deutsche telekom and tokyo based soft bank group so t. mobile and sprint have their work cut out for them if this deal is to see the light of day all right all financial correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange has been following that story for us as is the financial world in general now ali the main issue for antitrust authorities seems to be that there won't be enough competition that's what we heard well that really stopped this merger. it could stop the merger if that's the opinion of the us authorities the f.c.c. and the justice department which have to weigh in on this in a trumpet ministration and i repeat trump administration that could be

a deciding factor and putting the no ok a green light on this with as we just heard two foreign companies being the owners of these are merger candidates but you know we just heard that their number three and four and even with that many customers together they'll be only number three so as a layman i'm not a telecoms expert but it seems funny to me that there should be a danger from a number three company visa v. the number one in two companies a t. and t. and verizon in the united states and the two can make that point that together they'll have more money to invest to bring better technology to their customers and thus provide a beneficial impulse for the u.s. economy as a whole sounds good to me but now let's talk about combining the two companies because we know that is always a tricky task how easy will it be to combine and to bring together t. mobile and sprint i don't think that will be an easy task look at the history they

share and there's bound to be some hurt egos left over from not and if you look at any big merger it's a difficult task to make work and there are going to be costs involved with this before it becomes profitable and these will be three lean years and then in these days of fast investors interests wanting to see money. it will be a question of whether there will be the insurance to get through and make this work with all the different corporate cultures and fault as well the share price interest at the moment the reactions are positive only at the frankfurt stock exchange thank you very much. some other business stories europe's largest hotel group acar hotels has reached an agreement to buy switzerland movenpick hotels and resorts for four hundred eighty two million euros as whistle tell chain has more than eighty hotels and twenty seven countries

mostly in europe and the middle east analysts say that for full year will help acar solidify its position in those markets acar owns a sofitel hotel and mark brands among many others. and in britain a supermarket chain sainsbury's has agreed to merge with wal-mart own rival asda together at the two will become britain's biggest supermarket group surpassing current market leader tesco the pair say the synergies they will generate will enable them to negotiate lower prices britain's grocery industry is undergoing rapid change german budget supermarkets like aldi and legal are online and online giant amazon are disrupting the country's supermarket business well that's not all there they all all the stories that are keeping britain busy christopher are you have a high profile resignation today trying to have you have the british interior minister ambo rudd resigning for misleading polman to about targets for the removal of illegal immigrants rudd was viewed as a future prime minister in the u.k.

she had been facing cold for her to step down for days pressure on her mounting because of outrage of the way british authorities had mistreated legal residents from the caribbean people from the so-called windrush generation came to britain off to world war two in the one nine hundred fifty s. some of them were facing deportation. joining me now to discuss this. book at masan london correspondent bigots just take us through that last point that i mentioned what exactly was the stroll that broke the camel's back you know what did finally force emma rudd to resign. well the government has been under pressure over this for weeks but it was anger at saying that she did not know that there are any targets in the home office for removing illegal migrants which stand out that actually there were targets and that she was also

informed about it and that came out yesterday on sunday in a leaked email so it was have performance basically in front of the house of commons where she then admitted that she inadvertently misled m.p.'s so she did not tell them that there were targets and that she knew about it which then forced her to resign now a budget of course immigration is a is a hot potato in british politics one of the backgrounds to the decision to leave the european union and you know one thing is having targets for removing illegal migrants but how could the british government consider deportation for migrants who have been in britain literally for decades how could it come to that. and that's really something that incensed the british public and that's why this is such a huge scandal because these people came in the fifty's and sixty's mostly as children and they have mostly worked in the u.k. for their whole life for some reason there were some problems with documentation

and now while these people are quite often they are retired after having worked for example in school those dinner ladies are really honorable jobs they are told but in one case a gentleman that he can have cancer treatment that he's not entitled because he can prove that he's been in the u.k. and he's entitled to this treatment but he had does have for example school records he doesn't a national insurance number so they don't really understand why this happened and some were threatened with deportation so this is really about a culture that seems really cold and hostile to immigrants and the question is how much also was to reason they involved in this she was home secretary and she's been accused that she was really part of creating this pos style environment to refugees and the question is is that going to haunt her later on and the question that you will be keeping tabs on for us many thanks for that back.

turning to syria now where human rights groups estimate that over seven thousand women behind bars in the tourist prisons run by the assad regime the exact numbers are unknown but the reports from female prisoners who managed to escape are disturbing they talk of systematic humiliation including regular beatings and electric shocking our correspondent in the region you spoke to syrian refugee in the turkish city of. a woman who spent several months a self in syrian presence. she put a plastic bag over my head in pique me. then he had me up by my feet from the ceiling. how much

story is hard to listen to. in the end i said once he came and said i've got a present let me show you. yet she still wants to share it. planted and it was a stun gun and that's going to go all the details. out of him he asked me now we're hot. here i said and he electroshock not right. for months i was locked up in a syrian detention center for the food and i saw a woman with her daughter. she cannot forget what happened there. this cell was very small and dark the girl cried all the time we keep it. kind of the bullet and try to catch something like below the door.

known as thirty two years she's been living in turkey because the untaped has become a place of refuge from many syrians. mourner likes it here in the busy markets she doesn't attract attention. in syria she used to teach music but in twenty twelve she was arrested because she joined the protests in their a sore against president assad. she was released after a while but then detained again and brought to damascus to military intelligence branch two one five detainees call it the held branch because torture there is a daily routine. if you order that was what i told you is only half of what happened in that prison especially to women there many rape victims i many have been tortured some are tortured to death. all

the people in the world should know about these things he loves them how that he. was released in an amnesty decree and managed to escape to turkey but thousands of women are still in torture prisons says ferdie up to her knee he documents human rights abuses in syria now all sides in the war use violence against women he says but not to systematically as the syrian government but sharla suds forces target women to intimidate opponents and spread fear. so using the woman or captured a woman or a being or doing sexual harassment against them this is not individual this is a strategy actually and when she goes to speak to the society what's happened to her that will deter the society to do anything to even to speak one word against

this kind of offer regime this is the regime plan more now mohammed experienced all of this she wrote down her story and she's collecting the reports of other victims of torture she runs a support group where she helps women from syria she calls it project recovery. haven't seen you sat down at the foot of aman the fact some women refuse to talk about their arrest. they don't want to talk about anything that happened to them and present the side of the heart of others break down and cry all the time. that we try to convince these women that they are strong and what was done to them is not their fault. i tell them start in your life was a mix of how that is it would lead to higher than this to the. moon as new life is here in turkey that one day she hopes she can help bring her torturers in syria to

justice. in german soccer braman hosta door went yesterday with the home side knowing the bundesliga stages for next season is assured thanks to some of the other results going that way opponents don't want though they still have plenty to play for a win would have seen them all but secure champions league qualification. smiles all round that the wii is a study on there's no relegation battle for braman a welcome change for the fans don't mince travelling support were hoping for a win that would see them move ahead of rival shellcode their side started without a striker but by attacking midfielders were tasked with troubling the braman defense and in the nineteen minutes one of them got the job done i always with a smile finish following up from his race last weekend. he had the chance to get

another just before half time but was denied by a strong sorry beauty link. seconds before the half time whistle don't miss keeper roman burke he was less impressive left his lines on time was delayed due to the looping long range had a. i mean fielder is rumored to be looking to move away from breaking in the summer despite being a fan favorite. in the second top don't happen braman goal with chances and perhaps came closest three makeshift left mind will. have like a brain in level so the fish around a little final school meant a useless point you don't win while braman continue to enjoy their stress free season ending. ok let's have a quick look now at the bonus league standings for now some time as you can see have taken the fourth champions league spot away from live in that spot i still

very much up for grabs as is the race for the europa league which is down to seventh place looking at the bottom half of all spoke in a relegation playoff spot hamed breathing down their necks alone they are going down for. a quick reminder for you of our top story of the moment at least twenty five people have been killed and scores injured in back to back suicide attacks in kabul diplomatic corps. six journalists and four police officers are among the so-called islamic states as claimed responsible. you're watching news in. the out in the meantime don't forget you can always get the latest from our website that's dot com thanks for.

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