this is t.w. news live from berlin brush a crackdown on the opposition as anti-government protests ramp up police arrest opposition leader alexei and the iranian and over one thousand more protests against president vladimir putin around the country the rallies come two days before putin is due to be sworn in for another term we'll go live to moscow. also on the program it's a blast off for a new mission to mars not silencers an unmanned spacecraft to peer under the red planet's crust and look at mar how mars was formed. and hannah corruptions put

hawaii on high alert hundreds evacuate as the killer whale ok a volcano spews lava and a powerful earthquake shakes hawaii's big island. waiter thanks for joining us monitors report that over one thousand anti putin demonstrators have been arrested at a series of rallies across russia opposition leader alexina vonnie was among them police seized him in moscow after he called the protests ahead of president vladimir putin's inauguration for a fourth term as president the only is known as one of putin's fiercest critics and was barred from challenging him in the march presidential vote authorities declared many of the rallies being held on saturday equal. emily sure when i asked one of the protests in russia's capital moscow emily let's bring you

in now you were at the protest in moscow what's the atmosphere like still there. well miles the protesters are basically destroyed today there were a large crowd of protesters on pushkin square which i'm at now and from the beginning the atmosphere was rather confronted there were several programmer groups at pushkin square even as the protesters began to gather and they were shouting favor of putin kind of trying to provoke perhaps the protesters who were shouting back and shouting that. our daughter and they were shouting for a russia without putin but very quickly the arrest began and there were a riot police at the scene now we're getting reports that over one thousand people were arrested across the protests across russia and we're seeing these pictures a fully sort of roughing up protesters and we saw pictures earlier of the family

being detained how did that influence the protests or was it mostly expected. my it was basically expected that he would be arrested this is the first time that the find me has been arrested at opposition protests that he's said he's organized but not fighting made it all the way to pushkin square where the protesters were gathered and the police. kind of did him in front of everyone let him through the crowd as well almost put him on show in front of the demonstrators and after that it seems to me that the kind of which there was a huge police presence more and more police arriving and they didn't force the demonstrators off the square and even as the demonstrators continued off the. streets around the square the arrests continued they were kind of grabbing people out of the crowd and putting them into police vans emily what message did the

protesters want to send it to putin and to the government. well the motto of this protest today was he's not ours our. minute. range did or you know organized it ahead of inauguration on monday for his course term. argues that you know you can't rule us like a king that's something that he said in your one of his you tube videos ahead of the protests and the people here today came out to show that yes putin was elected with a huge majority but not everyone is in favor and they wanted to show back that you know they want to take the streets to show their position is valid as well they say that they have come out for their rights to be a citizen essentially here in russia they say they're against the restrictions on

the media here again their research on the internet which are continuing. to show really that not everyone is in favor of putin but it seems that the author already also shows. what might be to come for putin next term they obviously don't seem to be concerned with what the international community thinks about the large scale arrests to place today across russia supposin is going to be sworn into office on monday for his fourth term are respecting that he's going to encounter this much opposition also during his presidency. well of course my it's worth noting that that vladimir putin won the presidential elections this farce with huge for jordi one basically a life plan victory with over seventy two landslide excuse me victory with over seventy percent of people of voters supporting him but observers of the say that

you know they did that he might have to push through push forward with her to pinch potentially unpopular reform including the pay raising the pension age so we'll have to see what lies ahead emma later on for us in moscow thank you very much for your reporting and please stay safe. the u.s. space agency nasa has launched its latest probe to mars a powerful atlas five rocket is propelling the mars insight lander to the planet's surface as we speak the journey is expected to take six months upon arrival the probe will be sent deep under the planet's crust for clues about how it forms a launch is two years late due to equipment problems there's also also pushed the project cost up more than eight hundred million dollars the solar and battery powered lander is designed to operate for twenty six earth months that's one mars year. the inside lander will be the first to examine the internal structure of the planet mars scientists have been eager to gather data on

the red planet's interior for decades. we know a lot about the surface of mars we know a lot about its atmosphere and even about its saw on a spear but we don't know very much about what goes on a mile below the surface much less two thousand miles below the surface down to the center of this heat probe should be able to fill in some of those gaps developed by scientists at the german aerospace center it will measure the temperature of individual underground layers and determine how efficiently these layers conducts heat to do this the probe will have to burrow deeper into mars surface than any previous drill. another instrument will monitor how much mars north pole wobbles as it orbits the sun. and for the first time a seismometer will measure seismic five gratian on mars surface caused by earthquakes and meteor strikes the data acquired by all three experiments will make

it possible to make new suppositions about the inner structure of mars and the information will help scientists to reconstruct the early development of rocky planets such as the earth mars venus and mercury. this will allow them to look back in time to when the superheated elements separated according to their densities and formed layers in the young planets. the structure of the planets consists of a dense metal couper less dense mantles and a rocky outer crust formed as the planets cooled. on mars this process appears to have been faster and indeed earlier than on earth there even today we can see the traces of two surly development chains on the earth these traces have been almost completely obliterated. now to some of the other

stories making news around the world voters in lebanon are gearing up for their first parliamentary election in almost a decade hopes are high that the vote on sunday will end a prolonged political gridlock forming a government could take months or even longer in part to the country's complex party system. thousands of people have been on the streets of paris today to protest government policies marking a year since president emanuel mccall's election his critics say his economic and social reforms favor the wealthy and corporations by abolishing some worker protections and increasing police powers smaller rallies also took place in toulouse and bordeaux. locals in china capture the moment when a huge chunk of mountain collapsed into a landslide the rubble curried a road and blocked part of a river have in the southwest shit fish one province no casualties have been

reported. the german town of tree or has unveiled a new statue of its most famous former resident karl marx communist china donated the statue to mark the two hundredth anniversary of marx's birth he's considered the found the father of socialism. u.s. president donald trump has made a fresh fowl to protect gun ownership he was. the king at the annual national national rifle association convention the n.r.a. is the most powerful pro-gun lobby in the u.s. trumps comments come despite his earlier assertion that he would take on the lobby group after a february after a florida school shooting in february. president trump knew he was playing in front of a home crowd as he addressed cheering gun enthusiasts in dallas he called again for arming teachers to head off future mass shootings like the one in parkland florida in february in which seventeen people were killed ninety eight percent of mass public shootings have occurred in places where guns are banned just so you

understand. tragically as we see there is no shirt on more inviting to eye mare's killer then a sorry dad did clare's this school is a gun free zone come in and take us thank you i ninety eight percent think i you know they're cowards when they know there's guns inside they're not going to the n.r.a. has shown its support for the measures even though teachers and security experts have openly criticized the idea. in his speech which ranged across unemployment the economy immigration and nuclear proliferation trump made no mention of gun control proposals he'd floated in the past such as raising the age limit for buying rifles the n.r.a. sees that and other limits on gun sales as

a violation of the second amendment to the us constitution the right to bear arms. with republican control of the u.s. congress up for grabs in november's midterm elections trump used the n.r.a. platform to return to rhetoric he used in twenty sixteen to excite pro-gun voters warning that democrats are determined to take away america's guns. tresor earthquakes have struck hawaii's big island where the killer way of al qaeda has been spewing lava into residential areas this is forced hundreds of people to flee. their homes aftershocks from a series of earthquakes have also been rumbling across the island the u.s. geological survey measured measured the largest tremor at magnitude six point nine the strongest one hundred seventy five so far they have been no reports of injuries or major damage and there we spoke with john tar sand a lava tour guide on the island so we're on the east side of the big island of

hawaii and right now we are going through a period of time where we just went through massive swelling of the volcano and it's starting to release some of the energy in the last couple days what we've seen is lots and lots of earthquakes i think in the last three to four days there's been well over a thousand and in the last couple days in particular they've gotten more intense today they got a little bit you were and we got some massive ones like a six point nine that was just described there are fissures that are opening up down on the east drift i believe that at the meeting tonight and behold there had been somewhere between six and eight act decisions that had opened up in the last twenty four hours you know the last time something like this happened in hawaii was in one nine hundred fifty five and that particular event lasted about three months long so they want everybody to understand that this is something that's going to be intense it could shut off tomorrow or it could last for

a really long time and so everybody really just need to make the proper preparations whatever that means to each of. the men's ice hockey world championship i started in denmark and ambitious germany runners up in february as winter olympics and a tough opening group game against the host nation which went all the way to a penalty shoot out. germany we're just fifty five seconds away from winning olympic gold a few months ago but that success comes with added pressure and host stan mock were determined not to make it easy for them they went ahead early in the second period on the powerplay yes by the end sooner than men on talk it. germany wasted no time in hitting back the loose puck falling to the on and he made no mistake. but still but denmark took advantage of another power play to get back ahead back in the driving seat though the home value was short lived. it's tight

the game up again after a nifty move and that was that for regulation and overtime denmark's france needs must be only meant to find the net in the shoot out the hosts happy if germany deflated. there was indeed awareness from berlin working out at the top of the hour thanks for tuning and. we make up over three quarters of it that hundred thirty five we are the symbols of this. game want to shape the continent's future. part of it and join their youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their gems the seven percent plus for hard.