the german starting may thirteenth on t.w. . this is d w news coming to you live from the political crisis in armenia deepens opposition leader nikolay calls on his supporters to stage a campaign of civil disobedience after parliament fails to elect him as prime minister will the protests stay peaceful also coming up these migrants traveled across mexico to get to the united states and made headlines after don't trump said

they should not be allowed into the country now they're facing an uncertain future . and a new report shows global military spending rising to its highest level since the end of the cold war the last one of its authors which countries are spending the most. and in soccer it's misery for buying music in the champions league the germans are out but spain israel madrid celebrates making the final of europe's top club competition for the third straight even. though i'm terry barton thanks for joining us. tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the armenian capital of europe on to join a general strike opposition leader nicole passion yond urged his supporters to bring the country to a standstill after he failed to. sure enough votes to be in parliament to become

prime minister was the only candidate and had expected a different result. this is not how the vote was meant to go. was. full of enthusiasm and high expectations tens of thousands had come to catch the moment their protest leader became prime minister. then excitement gave way to sorrow. and then they're going to do we have to win we can't go on like this anymore. national this is our life they don't have the right to rule as if we don't want them famously all the people are here everyone and they have to trade. the us because they are many years ruling republican party after

a day long session in parliament of the writing was on the wall eventually the votes where two. the republicans would not back the bearded opposition leader to take the reins and angry nicole push in you want to be with his people. she was met by a sea of support and showered and confetti. shani and who has promised to read the country of corruption and poverty called for ma civil disobedience. more we may have there is new option no possibility to go backwards we will move forward only forward and the republic and there is no power that can resist you live. last week they talk with a prime minister. they speak they tried to crowd in their own they headed home knowing that next week there will be another for this political stalemate yet one

more test of our people power. was go straight over to our correspondent nick conley who's covering this story he's at the scene there in the armenian capital yerevan nick the opposition leader passion on his call for a general strike today in a campaign of civil disobedience is he going to get what he wants. good morning terry well i think you can probably see behind me people dancing on what is one of the busiest crossroads in the center of the arab and empty of cause lots of people out on the streets young people students in their majority seem to follow his call not to go to university to the schools but also older people we know that the roads to the airport have been blocked off as as have roads leading to i mean is border with georgia and iran so it does seem like he is really getting some traction and the people are listening to those calls that we heard on public

square last night or tell us about what happened on the square there last night this is a potentially explosive situation isn't it. this definitely is a story of disappointment and the will demand because it had looked in recent days as if the ruling public apology had to grudgingly accepted that question and would be the new interim prime minister and they would give up their hold on power at least until he then organized new elections as was the plan they had initially not decided not to vote their own candidate and then they had said that they wouldn't stand a question as way so yes they mourn a rubik's where talking to people they all seem certain that this was a done deal that was just a matter of time before he came on to the square as the new prime minister then as the hours drew on it seemed that actually this wasn't a fait accompli and probably thought it came out with all sorts of reasons why he wasn't suitable candidate for prime minister and then the shock announcement late in the evening that indeed they wouldn't be giving his them his vote him in his

their votes and that they would not let him become prime minister. the protests that led to the resignation of the former prime minister says they've been so far it looks peaceful they're behind you now but how much can the opposition achieve without resorting to more forceful tactics. what he was very clear yes they that this is a peaceful movement one of the key gestures of the protesters is the open hand gesture to show that the protests and indeed these are very diverse protests this isn't just a matter of young potentially more physically able people that you have older individuals pensioners and also people with their young children i think passion yan's calculation so far is that he has the numbers as unprecedented as the people out on the streets and that that alone will be enough to pile on the pressure on the government have to remember that the police the army so far he's still in the

control of the ruling republican party so in that sense he would be going for a very big risk really trying to get rid of the current government by force we don't know if the police will be willing to follow or will somehow use force against such big numbers of people there were protests here ten years ago in armenia which saw ten people die in attempts to bring about the. power of the public and party and i think that is still a very real trauma and people remember those ten deaths ten years ago and are very reluctant to let things escalate. calmly there our correspondent in the in armenia thank you so much. now let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today australian cardinal george pell is likely to have two separate trials on the sex offense charges he's facing a court hearing in melbourne defense and prosecution agreed the allegations against pell should be split the seventy six year old is the most senior catholic worldwide

to face trial on sex abuse allegations he's denied any wrongdoing. donald trump's former doctor says a letter that gave him a glowing bill of health in the run up to the twenty sixteen elections was dictated by trump himself carol bornstein is letter said trump would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency orenstein had previously said he had written. french police arrested over one hundred people after an archivist smashed shop windows and torched cars that are made a rally in paris authorities had warned of possible clashes with far left groups after a call on social media for a revolutionary day else where thousands took part in a peaceful march against government policy it's the world health organization says seven million people every year die of diseases caused by air pollution a number it says that has remained steady for the past several years almost all

those affected live in poor countries in asia and africa worldwide nine out of ten people breathe polluted air officials in the u.s. to begin processing a small number of asylum applications from a group of central american migrants camped out just across the border in mexico migrants traveled across mexico in march aided by an open borders group u.s. president all described mass migration as a threat to national security he's called the caravan a provocation and warned it could be denied entry as claire richardson reports from the border. third. these are some of the faces that have invoked the great president donald trump the reason he's threatened to mexico and called for thousands of troops to be sent to protect the border. stop short on their journeys they've set up makeshift camps into want to mexico. but as you know we're sending many many national guardsman down to the border most of them are already there and

that's having a big impact most are from honduras they say the united states must hear their asylum case that they left their homes because they had reasons to fear for their safety but again because they killed my father. or i mean that's less than what they because of death threats that's what forced me to lave one of the men pulled out a gun pointed at me and told me if i didn't give him what he wanted he was going to kill me soon all of that battle came up with maybe i'm not that. they travel together for over a month by fox boss and train. they sought safety in numbers and what can be an arduous and dangerous journey. if it was ugly tiring and boring. that is the big guy who is my

feet when i was walking and glendale can learn a thing. traveled some three and a half thousand kilometers all the way from near mexico's southern border with quite a moa. when they arrived at the u.s. border with the one a hoping to request asylum they got stuck. with the right papers it's just a short walk across this bridge to the united states and to california but more than one hundred people who say they fled terrible dangers in their home countries are stuck here on the mexican side of the border the united states has not said that it won't hear their asylum claims that would be illegal under international treaties that the u.s. has signed but. they've blocked their entrance by saying that the processing center is full. united states is bound by law to hear their cases yet although they often face military criminal and sexual violence most people coming from central america lose in the end organizers hope that won't be the case here when. they're

hoping they will be granted asylum so they can live their lives for a of the violent conditions that put them at rest. areas of their future is a test case for the trumpet ministrations anti immigrant policies to see whether his fiery rhetoric is enough to stop the united states from welcoming those fleeing persecution. the swedish institute for peace research or see pretty says global military spending has risen to its highest level since the cold war broken down this represents two hundred thirty dollars for each person in the world substantial growth in spending in asia and the middle east military expenditure in asia rose for the twenty ninth consecutive year china is the second largest spender globally behind the u.s. it leads the increase in spending in the region with a total expenditure of two hundred twenty eight billion dollars china is followed by india elf higher spending by saudi arabia is driving the increase in the middle

east if rose by over six percent in two thousand and seventeen saudi arabia had the third highest military expenditure in the world there and in iraq also play a large role in the middle east arms race well for more on the report on defense spending i'm joined by peter b. is a man he's a senior researcher at sea perri with a special focus on the middle east and he's a co-author of that report he joins us from stockholm good morning mr b.'s month good morning tell us saudi arabia has replaced russia as the world's third largest spender on weapons what's driving that particular development. well of course there's a deep freeze for russia out of saudi arabia has managed to increase its military spending out from two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and seven c.

and it seems that it may need to buy it in relation to each region or rivalry iraq so you may be asked fighting a war in yemen iran is also in fulfilling that at a distance giving support to rebels that kind of he served the relation between the two countries and it's very clear. saudi arabia. exists and its existential threat and they find that military capacity is essential to keep iran and back ok the us the us for a second it's been spending less on defense in recent years is that downward trend is likely to continue. no downward trend actually already and it really in two thousand and sixteen. drole of troops. from iraq and afghanistan the u.s. could decrease its military spending especially during the obama times but things

have changed it has stabilized over two years and now troop is very clear he wants to increase and all the signs are that we can see already in two thousand and eighteen a significant increase even don't like to be enormous on but still a significant increase in u.s. military spending and well it may very well be that in the coming years that will go even further if that's what he wants to say k. through them to nato countries because nato countries including germany are under pressure from the u.s. to increase defense spending i can we expect a significant increase there within nato as a whole. yes i think we can see an increase we already see that in a number of nato countries that is not just because of the u.s. or drug administration osprey but it's also because in those countries poland mainly out of all the states there is a growing and branching of what's happening in russia growing affirmation of what

russia has done at in particular in the ukraine and that we were to have seen significant increases in military spending in central europe and now we see that as also of followed by countries like germany or sweden which have already in the last two years increased its responding and have to do that also for the future they are port says the global spending is now at its highest level since the cold war is this spending is it increasing stability supporting mutual deterrence or do you see it actually fostering greater potential for conflict. i personally think that it's extremely important to ask this question because yes there is a significant reese combat search they are rattling actually chan increased tensions and as a result can lead to other conflicts and unsettles that of course we could spend

money also better tenshi on all of these whether that's how or education or development you name it so i think it's very important that we have this discussion and that we do not just issue not more spending each day better at each other it's just a bit about thank you so much for talking with us that was peter is a man there from the swedish institute for peace research and he was talking to us from stockholm. you are watching d.w. news still to come by munich's quest to win the treble is over so after the bundesliga titans failed to overcome real madrid in their champions league clash on tuesday or on the game coming up. european union's working on a new budget here to tell us how that is being affected by briggs it as terry usually the e.u. tries to come across as one strong block to the outside world but on the inside there's a constant power struggle on the way especially when it's about money nobody wants

to spend a lot and get little in return the budget negotiations between the european commission the member states and the european parliament are starting today and they will be more difficult than ever before mainly because breaks it will leave a hole in the shape and size of the u.k. in the use finances. how much money can the e.u. spend and who gets what what gets subsidized and what gets cut who are the winners and who are the losers. every seven years the e.u. budget marks a political struggle for money and power from brussels green party member of the european parliament helga to pose knows a thing or two about budget talks she's twice sat at the negotiating table. the toughest is the behavior of especially the finest ministers or their ambassadors to say we don't have any money we are not ready to pay we are not interested in the

common goals of politics because we are only interested in our national politics it's always every country looking at those used to tour saw how much do i pay in as a country and how much do i get back. brecht's it is looming over the negotiations this time britain's departure from the e.u. will leave a gaping hole in the accounts of about ten billion euros a year how should this whole be filled should the budget be reduced as the austrian swedes and dutch suggest or a cuts to costly areas such as agriculture on the cards. or policies disproportion it's far too large a share of you spending and it doesn't deliver on the kit with the courts at the end of the day this is a very small part of the population and it receives essentially forty percent of e.u. spending i mean this is such an. even distribution the european commission wants

more money to go into the pot and is reportedly proposing an increase from one to one point one percent of the blocks gross domestic product that money could go into defense migration and research one suggestion is an e.u. why digital tax on us tech giants but that's not without complications all of a sudden there would be. rio tex capacity which means also some power transfer to brussels and it could have that the majority in the council is not ready to go that would be a disaster from my point of view because that would mean that we all lose as europeans on the global level the e.u. budget can only be decided unanimously making difficult negotiations inevitable there's a lot at stake here specially for eastern european states which tend to be net recipients of e.u. funds. now on the markets investors focus turns to the u.s.

fed meeting today. and we expect that. well another rate hike the people who observe the fed are pretty agreed on that i would say almost one hundred percent saying today's not the day one reason being that today there won't be a press conference that is the new chair jerome powell isn't scheduled to talk to the press and the public basically to explain policy after the meeting and it's almost ruled out that there would be a move of this magnitude a rate hike in the united states for the dollar for all those trillions out there in treasuries without the fed chair there to explain it and the moment has derived either the economy yes it's humming along there's great improvements in the labor market and indeed inflation has reached the two percent target that the fed sets for itself but it's accepted lower that the fed will still want to observe the

economy further and one piece of data that's coming in is the labor market data it will be some information on that today and on friday and the fed is expected to move those two or three times more in this year but everyone's anxiously also awaiting the statement that the fed will issue after the meeting to kind of read out you know when is that rate hike the next one coming what kind of hike will that be part of that u.s. economy that's humming along nicely as you said is apple which surprised the market with sol its sales of the i phone ten and also announced a one hundred billion buy back of its own shadows what's behind that. yeah the apple promised to do something for a chair holders and they criticized for a long time no dividend well apple started paying a dividend but not enough to the shareholders views and also it was sitting on profits for example in europe there were many many billions squirreled away here because they didn't want to be taxed away when they repatriated it to the united

states because of the tax situation now donald trump has. put in a new tax reform and money can be channeled back in the united states at a much lower cost a tax cost to the company and its shareholders so there's a one hundred billion payout and basically when you buy back shares it is like a payout there's criticism though don't pay all that money go to shareholders think of the future don't think of just now think of the future because the company is so i phone dependent put more into product development to get a broader base for a time when the i phone is maybe not selling like hotcakes and only boston french and thank you. and there's another company thinking about the future after intense criticism of the criticism i have over its handling of users personal data facebook is in desperate need of some serious love so c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has decided to take the network back to its roots at least in parts

when it was started facebook was meant to help students and harvard university find a suitable date now facebook is going full circle introducing online dating features. of rock star's welcome for a c.e.o. whose last major public appearance involves testifying before congress. it's only six weeks since it emerged that political consulting firm cambridge on unless you can access the data of up to a sheaf seven million facebook users without their consent and what happened with cambridge analytic was a major breach of trust not developer data that people shared with them and sold it so we need to make sure that this never happens again one way to correct is hoping to win back trust is by introducing a feature that will allow individuals to clear their pricing history. but if it sounds like facebook buy to get us involved in its users lives think again you know

the company is planning to introduce a dating service for its two hundred million single users. says it's intended for long term relationships not just hookups tough to roll for a company whose survival depends on people's continued willingness to share their data commitment is key relationships are not just talk out and that's only a business practice are in the sports we're guessing football for you by its quest to win the treble is over after a four three aggregate defeat to rail madrid in the champions league yes try to make had to give in by on the lead in the third minute of fourth two goals from karim benzema turned the game back madrid's way how has rodriguez equalise giving bion a glimmer of hope but the hosts held on to reach another champions league final bitterly disappointing for the german champions who fall at the semifinal stage for the fourth successive time. in the champions league semifinals continue later today in rome liverpool head into the match with the three goal cushion but you're going

club side know that roma should not be underestimated. roma have a mountain to climb on wednesday night after suffering a heavy five two defeat in liverpool. but their coach says the team is ready to go all out to get a result. they have it now i do or not but the that we're playing a match a champions league semi final in front of seventy thousand people do you expect us to just field no we'll fight i want to team that gives everything that it has come full get yet to talk we look out luckily for roma they've shown just how much they can accomplish when they play their best the italian side turned over a four one defeat in barcelona with a three nil comeback at home now they just have to do it all over again.

you know if i didn't i would do it like a computer or a smartphone or copy and paste that performance not only from a technical point of view but also from a mental and physical point of view that this i think i should already fisi go. liverpool go into the match with the upper hand but they are well aware of what roma can do with their backs against the wall. that's the nature of the game move game. in any minutes so it's all about us to be active to do what we are good in and we are difficult to play and not to forget we are really difficult to play. sounds like will send his side out to look for even more goals in rome with a forward line led by england's footballer of the year mo sala it's not a bad plan. so you news for now back at the top of the hour with another bulletin for you until there are stories on what he called.

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