you know. this is g.w. news live from berlin vote for me or face the consequences the leader of antigovernment protests in armenia urges lawmakers to give him the job of prime minister during a vote in parliament today if they don't he says weeks of peaceful protest could turn violent also on this program a judge in australia orders kamu george pell to stand trial on charges of sexual abuse powell is the third most senior figure in the catholic church he is pleading not guilty to. israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu presents evidence he says

proves iran lied about its nuclear program critics say it's old news in a questioning his timing. and in the champions league by munich face an uphill battle in madrid the business leader titans face the toughest of challenges they have to win against reality to have any chance of reaching the final. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with this hopes are high of a new era in armenia with parliament to to elect a new prime minister today the only candidate opposition leader nicole posh union who led days of protests that prompted the previous prime minister. to resign last month machine ian has been speaking in parliament ahead of today's vote war.

lawmakers of what he called a political chew nami if they fail to elect him but union has the support of all the opposition parties in parliament but he also needs votes from the governing republican party to win. it we're going to get the latest now from his nicola connelly nick you are in central here a van in republic square i believe where passion and supporters are gathering ahead of that vote today how optimistic are they that he will be elected prime minister. good afternoon chris well this is an extraordinarily rare next and optimistic mood on the square behind me you can maybe see some of the thousands of people who've turned out to watch the live translation of the debates in parliament they've been shouting charges his name nicole nicole nicole we were seeing people bring their elderly parents their children their pets there was no real sense of fear and to the extent there was a feeling of a done deal that this was going to happen but then early this morning messages came

through from the ruling republican party that seems to us that they might be pulling back from their earlier pledge to support him and that seems to have really pulled the wool all to this when really encouraged the turnout because they really feel like they need to stand here to the end to make sure he becomes prime minister by the end of the day. i mentioned earlier on in his speech to parliament warned of a political toonami if he wasn't to be elected prime ministers how are other lawmakers responding to that. but we haven't heard much from the main opposition parties in parliament they're all holed up listening to passion and peppering him with questions as to what he would do as interim prime minister but certainly it would be a very. very unexpected vote fastened it would be met with all of his dirty we spoke to one old lady on the square who said that they're hoping party would be chased out of town basically if they went back on their promise to support. or at

least not get in the way of passion and being elected they first said they wouldn't vote their candidate and indeed he is the only candidate up for election today in recent days they even said that they would for the sake of national unity support him so if then does but in spite of all those pledges they go back on that and use some tactic ing to deprive him the necessary votes that obviously will encourage people out in the streets and could see people staying on this where for the days and weeks to come ok nick many thanks for that nick connelly there in. let's look at some of the other stories making news around the world a united nations delegation has arrived in myanmar's rakhine state to investigate the range of prices that some seven hundred thousand muslim hinges fled me and mosque to neighboring bangladesh following a military crackdown last august the un has described that action as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. north and south korea have begun taking down loudspeakers on the border that have plagued propaganda for decades the move

fulfills a promise made at a historic summit between the two countries' leaders last week in the meantime south korea has also lost the united nations to verify north korea's planned shutdown of a nuclear testing site. an abandoned high rise building in some paolo brazil has collapsed following a huge blaze this video uploaded to social media shows the building as it collapses it's reported to be the former headquarters of the federal police in sao paolo the building was frequently occupied by squatters it's feared there may be several casualties. now a judge in australia has ordered the country's highest ranking catholic cardinal george pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse pell is the most senior member of the catholic church should be tried on such charges details about the allegations haven't yet been made public but police say they are historical sexual assault charges dating back several decades pal has pleaded not guilty

a date for the trial has yet to be said. we're going to link up now with journalist roger may not in sydney he's been following this case for us roger give us some small detail on the court's findings pelts lawyer i believe says the worst of the charges in his words have been dismissed. you know mother half the judges were dismissed earth of the flu going to get a sense that cardinal thel committed sexual offenses of a similar in the original victorian town of ballarat and one thousand nine hundred seventy it's when he was a priest in the area the court was told that the witness of this alleged incident was not credible but the magistrate belinda weren't willing to said there was still unloved evidence of sufficient weight on at least one of the other charges to send george pell to trial what we do know is that this is one of the biggest legal case of its kind in australian history taylor who's seventy six was in charge of the

vatican finances and effectively the third most senior cleric in in the vatican and it's it basically is is is is one of the greatest was scandalous to object to get a big church at least in australia and tell us roger you know how was the atmosphere of the herring well the hearing itself last seventy minutes there were supporters and and critics of the cardinal in court well when the ruling was handed down there was a polite ripple of applause from the from the critics and and some of the members of some of the people in the court also started crying to. whatever whatever you view this was a highly charged case the coughlan selves sat quietly and fairly sure didn't side of the motion if you like in the court he said nothing could top you in the hearing apart from at the end when he was asked to issue a plea and he said in

a very loud voice not guilty. and term roger how has the vatican he is the number three at the vatican the treasurer how has the vatican responded to this news. well the merely said that they will stand by george well and that justice take its course so that they remain fairly lutheran this whole business. this is a very very little they've given the impression that they don't really want to get involved and you know i suppose that really sums up this case that. letting george pell. attend this case and ultimately see what happens in the next twelve months or so we know that a lot of this is going to be a separate hearing to discuss design the date of the of the trial itself that maybe later on this year will possibly early next year one way or the other we will know the fate of george pell in the next twelve months ok roger many thanks for that

rajan menon in sydney. turning to the middle east now where iran has lashed out at israel after the country's prime minister binyamin netanyahu accused of lying about its nuclear ambitions iran said went on yahoo was quote an infamous liar yesterday israeli prime minister presenter what he said was new evidence proving iran was pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program. using language his american ally would understand. iran large big time benyamin netanyahu delivered to piece of political theater presenting what he called evidence of a secret every nian you clear project a few weeks ago in a great intelligence achievement israel upturned half a ton of the material inside these walls and here's what we got.

fifty five thousand pages. another fifty five thousand farls and one hundred eighty three. netanyahu referred to files israel says prove secret nuclear facilities and plans to develop atomic weapons exist incriminating documents incriminating charts incriminating presentations incriminating blueprints incriminating photos incriminating videos and more. iran maintains it has never sought a nuclear weapon and never had one even before netanyahu spoke foreign minister mohammad javid serif had dismissed the claims in a tweet the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again undeterred by cartoon fiasco at the u.n. g.a.

you can only feel some of the people so many times. netanyahu speech came on the back of a visit to israel by u.s. secretary of state mike pump. and i noticed suggest it was time to pressure donald trump into withdrawing his support for the twenty fifty nuclear agreement world powers signed with iran. if that were the intent it seemed to have an immediate impact as the largest democracy and prime minister netanyahu just gave a very i don't know that everybody seen it but i've got to see a little bit of it and that is just not an acceptable situation and i've been saying that's happening they're not sitting back idly setting off missiles which they say are for television purposes i don't think so. in the past week german chancellor angela merkel and french president money on micron have made sekret visits to washington to urge trump to remain in the agreement but trump has

threatened to withdraw from the deal unless it's renegotiated he is due to decide by may twelfth to go see. ok let's get in a radian perspective on the story now iranian journalist of us aslan he joins us from tehran he's also a visiting scholar at the center of middle eastern teaching studies a think tank funded by the turkish government and us welcome to the program what do you make of netanyahu is allegations is your country lying to the world about its nuclear program. well i think the allegations by the israeli prime minister at this time the likely withdrawal of the united states from the nuclear what it wants to do once you are fake the american trial president's decision in terms of the nuclear deal and he wants to push on encourage the american president so that they're all from. and i also want to make my question mary to interrupt and ask my

question is is your country iran lying to the world about its nuclear program i think the report by the i.a.e.a. is a good. question because today also the i.a.e.a. responded to what the alley get to the allegations by the israeli prime minister. as a body to join the implementation and verification of the case of iran has eleven records its statement today has said that iran has been in comp lines to the nuclear deal and has not violated the. ok point taken let me ask you this donald trump the u.s. president is taking a hard line with your country iran on the basis that iran is a destabilizing influence in the middle east does he have a point. i think what the record shows in the past years in the region tells us that the run has been helping some states in the region to fight against

terrorism and as the iranian foreign minister said if it wasn't iran's efforts in the how in helping those states to fight the terrorists organisations instead of facing a terrorist organization meaning isis in the region we would have been facing two terrorist states in the region and in terms of issues or conflicts like yemen iran has been calling for the end of conflict in the country and resuming dialogue in mind among them and these ok well i take your point that iran has played a role in fighting islamic state and countering islamic states influence but iran has also been a destabilizing influence according to some views for instance in lebanon in syria what do you say to that. those who are claiming an accusing of iran. role in levanon they themselves have been playing that role themselves as well

because when the prime minister of lebanon was in saudi arabia and. saying that he is being held in saudi arabia you were wrong was calling and asking for dialogue among different parties including the from his will last through the concrete being and his rival parties in the country and i think this this can tell us who wants peace and stability in their country and like a country like saudi arabia the lebanese prime minister in that country and they wanted to him to resign in the country and i think this clearly indicates that what the approach is where from different parties in lebanon ok many thanks for that view that the iranian perspective on middle east politics in tehran many thanks. thank you. we're going to switch off focus now to the business

news with no tariffs on european steel and aluminum ripple imports into the u.s. that's right at least for now but instead of relief there's rather discomfort at least if you listen to what the european union has said the european union says there is no justification for these tariffs on steel and aluminum and that it wants a permanent exception the u.s. responding to president donald trump's decision to delay the imposition of such tariffs just hours before a deadline was due to expire the e.u. says it has noted the move by trump but that the postponement is prolonging uncertainty for businesses. a sigh of relief for the steel industry at least for the moment for the next four weeks the e.u. can sell steel and adamantium to the u.s. without additional tariffs then negotiations will come to an end with says washington no more extensions in march trump announced plans to slash levies of

twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on imports to the u.s. then two weeks later he granted the e.u. and six other countries a waiver that and today may first washington says it's been unfairly treated in trade with the e.u. it once concessions from brussels a comparison of tariffs on five thousand products shows the europeans charge on average a five point two percent levy compared to just three point five percent by the americans. on tuesday the german government said julie noted the extension and expects a permanent exemption from the terrorists. i would have preferred to have received a definite permanent waiver with immediate effect this didn't happen and so now we should use every opportunity to reach a reasonable agreement. which means negotiations between the e.u.

and the u.s. will continue in an effort to prevent a trade war. earlier i talked to carolyn pickering senior economist at bear them back in london and asked him what he makes of the decision to extend the threat of tariffs one more month. well you certainly don't cure the world of an evil by adult team get but when it comes to trade it looks as if donald trump is trying to create some leverage over the e.u. let me work with smaller markets but it's likely that the e.u. along with china with the big internal markets won't succumb to the pressure as easy as say mexico or canada would. however we do know that trump wants things to change and as we saw in the piece we do know that the e.u. has higher tariffs for u.s. products do you think trump will end up getting what he wants anyway. in the end after creating a little storm in a teacup may indeed find the e.u. in the u.s. lower tariffs remember there was

a plan for that already it was called but that lost momentum when donald trump became president so it's likely in the end we may see modestly lower barriers but they certainly won't be as extensive as if it would have been followed through in full now some say that these threats that we continuously seen are just a strategy to actually get for the e.u. to somehow lower the tariffs without the us necessarily doing the same do you think that strategy in general is smart. well certainly is dull trumps a strategy isn't it create some chaos through you could be very very aggressive and then hope the other side concedes again i stress with smaller economies this possibly works but with these big internal market again if you tried this with china the chances are that the e.u. could simply retaliate i don't think it will i think the diplomats on both sides will work hard to deescalate these tensions so in the end we may see

a little progress but that is after we've already seen the economic damage we've already seen the confidence effect in the market effects of these threats and it will certainly continue to be a tense situation there thank you very much talent pickering been back for the analysis. thank you. corporate news now and seventy one percent that's how much british oil giant b.p. profits soared in the first quarter compared to last year's first quarter beating analysts expectations the jump follows a rise in oil prices and production in general p.p.s. positive showing is in line with its peers shell and chevron the oil sector is benefiting from a massive price rally while prices have shot up above seventy dollars a barrel from below thirty dollars early last year. and more good news this time for greece the country is finally getting some credit for the for once we're not talking about money the european commission has praised the country for making encouraging progress on its debt reduction after a long recession giving it

a positive growth outlook that's good news for the country's finances and for greeks who've long struggled in the shadow of financial insecurity greek prime minister and the press has good reason to smile he's received time praise from o.e.c.d. secretary general and head for his country's impressive progress and reforms even though they were not voluntary and sometimes against the will of his people reese's reform efforts are thing off. the greek economy is growing again. we think this year it's going to grow to brazil. perhaps next year two point three percent. that's why the country intends to leave the aid program by the summer and stand on its own two feet in order to achieve these goals the o.e.c.d. feels that greece needs to use reforms to further reduce its debts members of the euro great have even hinted that greece might receive debt relief although germany

would be against the mail. i'm going to hand you back to christopher now because it's the first of may in many countries mark labor day that's right labor day may the first being much of a by workers around the world taking to the streets to put the spotlight on their rights we're going to focus on workers' rights in china our beijing correspondent berlinger has been speaking to a man who's been trying to set up a trade union in the country that's a plan that's made him a government target. these drugs do give me a feeling of comfort even if they are just a distant memory. almost every day for twenty years leeway dear drove his train past this spot he worked as a train driver until one day while getting off the train he slipped and fell and broke his spine the railway refused to treat the incident as

a workplace accident lee believes the company systematically violated labor laws by long sense that something wasn't right but it always worked so much that there was not much time to think about things. today he's partly paralyzed he receives no pension or compensation but he's long stopped worrying about just his own fate lead documents workers rights are ignored he says it's not unusual for train drivers to work up to two hundred hours overtime each month without pay. he's trying to organize workers on line. the official unions do not represent workers' interests on the contrary as soon as someone stands up the unions try to muzzle that person that he has made contact with others outside china the union invited him to the u.s. in twenty sixteen he was already a clear up wouldn't have checked in turn back at the gate he was under surveillance

and up to today his social media accounts are regularly blocked. it was someone who needed advice. or sure whether reaches out to me is shown where the boundaries lie and it's threatening and only if you are brave enough to contact me directly. the police arrived someone inform them about his meeting with a journalist a neighborhood policewoman and a plain clothes officer. able to show his id. leave my apartment immediately. thereafter. a policeman leaves a small victory. to. the policewoman remains she turns up regularly instead of focusing on the foreign reporter lead the

man she had him fight for is right here is a constant struggle. buying her neck face an uphill battle tonight against real madrid in the second leg of their champions league semifinal trail one the first leg so they go into the game as clear favorites but their coach an innings they've done is letting that get to his head. me to turn this tie on its head star players failed to dazzle in the first leg and now right out of the home advantage still even just put three past them here in the quarter final and hikers is heartened by the memory. not ready because that game showed that madrid are vulnerable at home and that they aren't as solid as they look. but right now did make it through against you venters as they did in the quarter final last year i get inspired for because

though there is a big difference this time around. why wasn't the coach back then and on tuesday it will be a different team than the one which played last year. the opponents however. this stars talent and their coaches confidence also remain unchanged. oh look at the new most important thing for us is to think about winning the match and nothing else. to come onto the pitch and to win the match that's our goal you not to speculate not to overthink not to step back or do strange things down does have the upper hand but he knows not to underestimate his opposition. by and will not be worried at all and will come to play a great match their great club and a great team and we are aware of that. to me high praise but by now face the difficult task of living up to their opponents' expectations.

a quick reminder of our top stories for you mean years opposition leader has warned there will be a political tsunami of parliament fails to elect him prime minister today nicole is the only candidate after weeks of protest forced the incumbent to resign it's unclear if washington has enough support to win the vote. and a judge in australia has ordered cardinal george pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse. is australia's highest ranking catholic and the most senior church official to be tried on such charges he is pleading not guilty. paul from the top of the hour as ever up next here on your science program tomorrow today to stay with us for that.

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