this is e w news live from berlin russia cracked down on the opposition as anti-government protests ramp up police arrest opposition leader alexei and then vanni and over one thousand more at protests against president vladimir putin around the country the rallies come two days before putin is to be sworn in for another term pro go live to moscow. also on the program. it's blocked off for a new mission to mars nasa launches an unmanned spacecraft appear under the red planet's crust and look at how mars was formed. and volcanic eruptions put hawaii on high alert hundreds evacuated as the killer whale volcano spews lava and a powerful earthquake shakes hawaii's big island.

i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us monitors report at over one thousand anti putin demonstrators have been arrested at a series of rallies across russia opposition leader a left side of ani was among the police seized him in moscow after he called the protests ahead of president vladimir putin's inauguration for a fourth term as president vonnie 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 saturday illegal. and emily sure when i asked one of the protests and 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 discouraged 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 pro kremlin groups at pushkin square even as the protesters began to gather and they were shouting favorable kind of trying to provoke perhaps the protesters who were shouting back and shouting the coup to our daughter and they were shouting for 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 volley being detained how did that influence the protest or was it mostly expected. when my it was basically expected that he would be arrested this is the first time

that number i need 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 has him in front of everyone led him through the crowd as well almost put him on show in front of the demonstrators and after that he didn't seem to see that the kind of which there was a huge police presence more and more police arriving and they then forced the demonstrators off the square even as the demonstrators continued off the. streets around the square continued they were kind of grabbing people out of the crowd and putting them into police vans normally 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 the art used that you know you can't grew up like a king that's something that you said in your one of his you tube videos ahead of the protests and the people here today it's pay not to show that guest 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 against 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 gave a hint of 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 that took place today across russia that was emily sherman reporting for us there from moscow moving on 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 for us for clues as to how it was formed launches two years late due to equipment problems but also pushed up project cost more than eight hundred million dollars the solar and battery powered lander is designed to operate for twenty six earth months 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 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 super heated elements separated according to their densities and formed layers in the young planets. the structure of the planets consists of a dense missile core less dense mantles and a rocky outer crust formed as the planet cooled. on mars this process appears to have been faster and ended earlier than on earth. there even today we can see the traces of this early development chains on the earth these traces have been almost completely obliterated.

to some other stories making news around the world the former counsel and leader call this has met with party allies in berlin is waiting for germany to rule on whether he should be extradited to spain where he faces charges of misuse public funds his supporters say the charges are politically motivated. thousands of people have been on the streets of paris today to protest government policies marking a year since president emanuel macross 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 order. 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 prolonged political gridlock forming a government could take months or even longer in part due to the country's complex party system. tunisians got to the polls get to the polls tomorrow in their first

free municipal elections it's seen as a step in the country's democratic transition tunisia it was the birthplace of the so-called arab spring and has been held up as a democratic success story but there is widespread frustration over unemployment and low economic growth us president donald trump has made a fresh vow to protect gun ownership he was speaking at the annual 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 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 parklane 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 shine more inviting to eye mare's killer then a sorry dad did players this school is a gun free zone come in and take us. i ninety eight percent 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. fresh earthquakes have struck hawaii's big island where the killer whale volcano has been spewing lava into residential areas this is forced hundreds of people to flee their homes after. asked him a series of earthquakes have also been rumbling across the island the u.s. geological survey measured the largest tremor at magnitude six point nine the strongest since one nine hundred seventy five so far there have been no reports of injuries or major damage earlier we spoke with john tarzan a lava to our 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 pictures 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 that 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's work it lasts for a really long time and so everybody really just need to make the proper

preparations whatever that means to each of them. sports news now and after the penultimate round of matches in the bundesliga still in grave danger of being relegated after losing three nil to frankfurt with berger also in trouble after a heavy defeat in life this freiburg are not safe yet they went down to but mines have secured their place in the one this league they shocked dortmund shaka are now guaranteed the runners up spot they won and hoffenheim lost to stuttgart laver who was an only barely managed to draw in bremen champions byron beat relegated cologne and hot hand over. to take a look at the bundesliga table with run one round of matches left to go next saturday biron of the champions of course shaka can't be caught and second top men still haven't secured a champions league spot they face a tough test against hoffenheim next week they were close and life saved also still have a chance of champions league football next season down in the bottom half months

and say freiburg could still be dragged into the drop zone homburg must win their last game to avoid being directly relegated forsberg are also still in deep trouble but they play already relegated cologne in their last game next week. and a reminder of the top stories we're following here for you russian authorities detained opposition leader oleksandr vonnie and more than one thousand other protesters during anti-government rallies and moscow and across the country the protests are aimed at president vladimir putin two days before he's due to be sworn in for a fourth term. nasa has launched an unmanned spacecraft to mars to explore beneath the planet's surface the craft is expected to take six months to reach mars where it's due to spend more than two earths here. you're watching news from berlin and more coming up at the top of the hour don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's t w dot com thanks for tuning end.

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