starting in may thirteenth on t.w. . this is a live from me approach and sworn in for his fourth term as russia's president k.g.b. officer to world leaders household. in the country and to stress the kremlin into a new rivalry with the west so what happens next we'll find out from moscow also on the program. as poised to make major gains in lebanon selection it's been seen as

a victory for hezbollah back. on the greek court finds this mom and four other volunteers not guilty of people smuggling they say they rescued thousands of syrian migrants from the sea. i'm from gayle welcome to the program. fatima person has been sworn in for a record fourth term as president of russia after formally dissolving his old capital mr putin then nominated his close ally dmitri medvedev to keep his job as prime minister the present one the much election decisively with three quarters of the votes but his critics accuse him of corruption and silencing opposing voices. the start of mr putin's day with carefully stage managed. russian state t.v.

broadcast his long walk through the corridors of his office on his way to the ceremony. eventually he right at the car waiting to take him on a short trip to the kremlin hole. then the grand entrance. and the war continued. all choreographed to maintain the suspense some five thousand invited guests waited for putin to be sworn in be asked is just feeling a brazilian crises b.p. has putin promise for tech the country and serve the russian people. he praised russia's return to the world stage is what he calls a strong and influential voice when he talks about the importance of making economic and technological progress which would benefit all russians like. a new quality of life a wellbeing security and health of

a person are the most important words of these are the issues of the center of all policy focus is russia for the people as a country of opportunities for self-realization of everyone. but for all the build up in bombast if you believe mr putin's next term in office will bring much change he's already said that he wants incumbent prime minister dmitri medvedev to stay in his post putin himself has been in power as either president or prime minister for almost twenty years. most young people have no no other leader and there's no sign of a successor. or a short while ago i asked a w's emily show went in moscow how russians feel about the president's decisive election result. well i think the election results to show that there is widespread support for vladimir putin he won. by a lot landslide as it were but of course not everyone here is pleased with that

election result and with the force inauguration that we've just seen putin come flew out of his fourth term and there were russia wide protests on saturday people came out across the country they were following opposition politician i like see now by these call the motto of the protests was he's not our czar of course referring to vladimir putin and there was a real crackdown on those protests as well over one thousand five hundred people were arrested so obviously the putin government really showing that this next term won't be one where they will be tolerating dissent but i'd say overall the majority of people here in russia of support flooding their putin's old government so often accuse of having run out of new ideas is mr putin promising anything new after twenty years in charge. well putin's so-called made order of have actually just been published after the inauguration

and that's kind of the russian development goals for the next six years as it were and one of those goals is to raise living standards for russians and the other one is to make russia one of the top five a condom ease in the world now it's not clear how that will work with sanctions still in place and with russia still haven't really heavily dependent on oil for its economy but it's clear that that vladimir putin needs to kind of improve the economy to keep his supporters onside but i think what's important to note as well is that people didn't really elect reelect putin for something new in fact just the opposite they elected him for stability and for consists consistency and that's what he stands for here for many people in russia under one of dmitri medvedev who mr putin has nominated renominated a sub prime minister is that what russians want if you give up that briefly please

well. midget is actually pretty unpopular here and russia it's often been the case that russians trust putin much more than they trust his government and they trust the prime minister and has come to stand for corruption here in russia there was an investigation into him that was published by now by any into his kind of riches as well and he's become fairly unpopular here i'm going to show and moscow thank you they well from says president emanuel mccraw is marking his first year in office for say he's the country's youngest leader since the poland he set out to reassert the idea of powerful french leadership at home and abroad but he mixed reviews since his surprise election victory twelve months ago. this was his moment of triumph. emmanuel mccall the newcomer who led the on mass movement

shook up francis political establishment defeated the far right national front and introduced a new style of government. horse . runs hasn't had such a powerful leader for decades. even on the show the goal of the presidency wasn't such a top down operation it can be brought always about by himself this is not a president who conquers a party but rather a party that took shape after his victory. in disavowing the longstanding right left political spectrum macko has tried to join pro e.u. forces with those opposed to globalization has tried to unite right leaning business leaders with left leaning intellectuals what remains is a splintered opposition which has served to fuel mccombs power to the dummy. this

has enabled him to introduce rapid and radical reforms especially in the job market the railway system in. a sense that something even nicolas sarkozy didn't manage to do. but nicholas domestic politics have made him a polarizing figure it is ambitious european agenda that's one him or praise in france he wants to introduce a special finance minister with a separate budget and an army. now the european spotlight has shifted to mexico away from the german chancellor something on the america will have to get used to after her central role on the european stage went virtually unchallenged for so long. i live meanwhile it looks as though france about to lose its national carrier a hell of a half i can tell us well that could well be the case the survival of air france is currently on the line a strike is forcing the eighty five year old airline on the brink of bankruptcy the government saying it will not step in and that means shares are tumbling they

closed almost ten percent lower on monday. yes the strike is biting hard on monday and france union members walked out for a fourteenth day big norrin warnings that they could put their employer out of business the dispute just cost the airline three hundred fifty million euro so far . many crew members don't agree with the union though they showed have to work and help their france avoid an all out disaster with the majority of flights able to operate. and then we can show you we like our customers we don't want them to go to the competition and we want to get out of this slump. see if. they slump refers to the airlines chronic problem while british airways and of tons of have already undergone heavy cost cutting air france like behind in restructuring the current strike about pay increases isn't helping. see i accept down on friday night after work at rejected

a wage offer of seven percent over four years. thirteen days of strikes and more than two months of conflict if we can dare france putting in jeopardy its performance and its future this is a huge waste that can only make our competitors rejoice and make our alliances more fragile and disorient our teams. and. the strike is yet another headache for president manuel michael as he attempts to revamp france's economy for him way to strengthen an end to special privileges are key to creating a more flexible workforce but the unions think they've got the upper hand. we want our new president to be open to dialogue. we're asking for a much more open mindset and sharing in social dialogue. the dialogue may not help much given the precarious state air france is in. f one still suffers from an economic disease

a lack of productivity and stiffness verticality in the management it's a company that has to adapt itself to the market to the constraints of them. market into consumer expectations it was at dawn to confirm that there. was a strike continues more flights are set to be cancelled and as air france's bottom line weakens so does their ability to meet wage demands. now if you thought starbucks were everywhere well there's definitely no getting away from them now the swiss food giant nestlé best known for its instant coffee ness cafe has struck a mega deal with starbucks for more than seven billion dollars it's buying the rights to market and sell the u.s. company's products forming what it calls a global coffee alliance. coffee is a record league rowing market and the competition is fierce nestle hopes this make alliance with starbucks will reinvigorate the brand to swiss food giant will pay for the rights to market and sell starbucks products outside of starbucks chains

like in restaurants and supermarkets this unit of the business currently generates starbucks around two billion dollars in annual sales mislay will pay around seven billion u.s. dollars for the rights the u.s. is the second biggest coffee market after the e.u. with a share of sixteen point three percent nestlé has announced it will take on five hundred starbucks employees who will continue to manage the business from the u.s. and the coffees won't be affected the deal is yet to be approved by the regulators . and we can cross to our financial correspondent now daniel cope in frankfurt daniel nestle's traded on the s.m.i. in zurich how did investors over there and in frankfurt where you all take the latest news. well in fact a very positive shares of nestle went out during today's trading day to a level of one point six per cent they are optimistic that the deal could be done already by the end of this year and investors are hoping for more synergies between

the companies and at the same time cost cutting we have to remember that starbucks has been struggling during the last time even announcing that they would close some of their coffee shops in general though the coffee industry is considered by export as a very fast growing industry interesting numbers the average german buys about four point two kilos of coffee every year and those numbers even most likely to go up also nestle will benefit a lot since they will have more access to the north american market we just heard of it's number two after europe daniel what does this mean now face a coffee in general does this mean even more starbucks dominance well exactly this is the fear that a coffee prices could even go or more opt in there are actually already at the moment just you might wonder how much even they could go up a small cafe latte here outside at the frankfurt stock exchange is already costing

more than three euros if the deal gets really done the starbucks coffee shop customer won't notice a big difference products sold inside off the coffee shop will be still sold directly from starbucks but when you go to the supermarket looking for your favorite starbucks coffee to take to your whole all of this could be managed and sold from nestle or i diet coke for us in frankfurt. and it's back over to phil now for the latest on the devastating conflict in yemen . thank you so much a hell of it so at least six people have been killed in air strikes by the saudis and coalition targeting who think rebels the missiles hit the presidential palace in the capital sana'a which is now under the control witnesses say two powerful explosions hit the building which is a and i residential neighborhood near a popular market dozens of people were wounded. prime minister saad

hariri says he's sony dominated political movement has lost a third of its seats after sunday's parliamentary elections meanwhile preliminary results suggest that the iran backed shiite militant group hezbollah and its political allies have made significant gains despite the losses mr hariri still heads the largest parliamentary bloc and is the front runner to for the next government election was the country's first parliamentary vote in nearly a decade official results are expected later on monday. the doubly correspondent and shelf is following this from the lebanese capital beirut are welcome on show so lebanese hezbollah leader asyut hassan that naturally i gave a press conference a short while ago what's he been saying. well that's how let us not give press conferences if i may just add that we saw that he would one day he always gives a recorded speech and essential what he said was that the lebanese people have water for the resistance which means that the lebanese people have voted for

resistance against israel this is not her last politics has been lost politics and this is even answer politics but surprisingly he also said that his will and its allies will fight corruption in levanon which is quite interesting because several of her as well as allies have been accused of being corrupt themselves politics of bitterly age where in they do help their sect the she ahs been on the bases and in turn and they asked them to walk even during the campaign with us and that's relevant of campaigning and appealed to the waters and if you want a strong forces levanon to be able to take on israel and you must board for hezbollah and its other acts and so how will has been asked gary lebanon's parliament affect the country. well there will have even an even stronger rule when it comes to legislation is that having passed it already control the parliament because the speaker in the parliament is a she are very important course and he's in

a position to control the proceedings of the parliament but now they would have a jockey along with their allies which means anyone who says that that hezbollah must give up its arms it's not going to happen they will let it happen which means when it comes to foreign policy decisions especially on city or hizbollah would have a bigger say and it also means that the sunnis would feel disappointed and at some point to resent the growth of a shia party and its allies it's not happened the spark is law is also full of a few politicians and they try and manage the sunni sentiment well but there are sort of. some trappings as well in the sunni community in there. and their allies have done better than this and it's and briefly if you wouldn't mind the fact that this is likely to have on the wider region or that actually is perhaps the more important thing here to know a man in lebanon now which means they cannot deal with. lebanon politically they

cannot deal with hizbullah politically only runs expansion politically levanon anymore what will they do will they bring up support any of the sunni factions or could it be something bigger they're already operating with israel at a much bigger level and out there in the open now and it is of course also a big worry for israel because israel has faced his bill and it's quite threatened by it as well as the only force that in two thousand and six have dared israel and have come out stronger so the broader picture is a white one input israel and saudi arabian attributes be seen as the deacon rather aggressive approach in taking them on on trial for her in beirut thank you. as for the technical problems that they had that let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world city officials in the jerusalem of installed road signs pointing to the new u.s. embassy which is set to move there which is set to move there from tel aviv next week as follows u.s. president donald trump's controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the

capital of israel despite the palestinian claims so the city's eastern sector britain's foreign minister is in washington to urge the united states to continue to back the iran nuclear deal boris johnson says it would be a mistake for the u.s. to walk away mr johnson's there for talks with the trumpet ministration ahead of the make twelve deadline for the president to decide whether to renew the u.s. support for the deal. president trumps you lawyer rudy giuliani says the president could defy a subpoena to testify in the special councils of russia investigation speaking after a chaotic first week of the job is to giuliani also his own statements about mr trump's payment of money to an adult film star stormy daniels after the president criticized him for not having his facts straight for. a course in crisis found five volunteers who rescued syrian migrants from the sea not guilty of people

smuggling prosecutors that accuse the spanish and danish defendants of helping illegal migrants and to greece on the island of last boss they in turn claim the of artists and put them on trial to discourage migration to europe. is on last boss we'll hear from her in just a moment first the sheer force. by many he's seen as a hero in two thousand and fifteen. an intrapreneur from denmark decided to change his life. i saw the picture of i got shocked two days after. i was sitting on the plane on the way to. the photo of the three year old syrian boy made global headlines lying dead on the beach after drowning in the mediterranean the european migrant crisis was at its peak and with around three thousand people arriving each day the greek island of

less pass was a hotspot. actually in the water half my body was in the water and i looked back and i saw all this refugees like old people like children women. and i wanted to scream i really want to scream and cry in the same moment i was thinking where's the help how come is there is nobody here has been like from that they changed my life. at first elgin thought he'd go help for a week but one week quickly turned into five months. he assembled a crew of other volunteers they called themselves team humanity and part of a rescue boat funded by donations. the group worked day and night helping migrants make the treacherous landing on a last pass at its closest point the crossing from turkey to greece it's only ten kilometers but the overcrowded boats regularly sank calling the course going to say

i'm a child in my home. please come and. take a child i don't know what to do it's a little girl and they saying to me keep her be there we're coming in for like twenty one twenty four hours. it was a twelve year old girl she lost her life in the sea. so. me and my three would be great. for six hours. buried the family if you bury children and there is something wrong with this world . and it's something profitable. one january night everything changed when the greek coast guard arrested team humanity and see. it felt like a betrayal many times i've been helping coast guard because their boat couldn't rescue people it was people in the water for a lot of people in the water and the waves were so big that i put my life in danger

to rescue them. or report from the ws marilyn miller who joins us now from the island last fall so welcome what is the atmosphere there like now that saddam has been cleared. well the moment the verdict was read everybody was cheering it was very emotional very happy atmosphere. you know the very very large basically they came out and hugged each other and they were chanting the phrase that most of them have on their t. shirts which says saving lives is not a crime so it was very emotional talk to many supporters were in tears and after very emotional scenes we saw in the report there that he said he was only there to save lives so why did greek or forces accuse him of those people smuggling. yes i spoke to the lawyer of the spanish firefighters and he explained to me that

there were some allegations not even based on proven facts so for example there was the allegation that. his crew didn't call the coast guard before leaving the shore to how the refugees which was in distress. but. also other witnesses said yes we called the coast guard and we did get a response but the coast guard said one of the coast guard said no we didn't and normally there's a record of the telephone connections but somehow which key which is kept by the coast guard but somehow these records were not there anymore. so how's this case deterred agencies from helping refugees the last boss. yeah so actually already a couple of weeks ago i talked to a member of sea watch and he told me just right after the rest of solemnity in two

years ago. there was a boat of sea watch out under the sea and wanted to to how sinking refugee boat but in the end they didn't do anything because there were so afraid and so anxious if they help them and they will also be arrested so in the end they just had to watch it. both saying haplessly without doing anything so there were actually some of these cases i know at least of another one and yes this is just one example of how this deterred other n.g.o.s but. thank you. i was temperatures in the northern hemisphere rise and flowers bloom homeowners know it's time to stop its weekly chore of cutting the grass but where some see treachery others see an opportunity for sport allow us to introduce you to an old mother teresa. me and it's not and smoggy but these drivers

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the end of the season takes the crown not more racing may not have the same glitz and glamor a formula one but it's on the cutting edge. a group of brazilian devils was created a study in human was a bridge in sao paulo that would ring from ropes above a busy highway each participant while displaying a single call the prado so that by brazil's national flag is dramatic your fate was in support of the country's national football team ahead of the forthcoming world cup finals in russia. just hard to remind you of our top story this hour flight of the approaching has been sworn in for a fourth term president of russia and his first act was to nominate his a close ally to mention medvedev to serve again as prime minister mr bush had won the election in march with more than three courses offered. up today small at the

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