this is news coming to you live from berlin the world awaits us president donald trump's decision on the iran nuclear deal. ever ever ever in my life have i seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated deal with iran. long said he plans to scrap the obama era deal to curb iran's nuclear program what he decides will be revealed just hours from now we'll look at what's at stake if the u.s. pulls out also coming up. this thread become the new prime minister of armenia the

ruling party blocked his bid last week but protest leader nicole passion young gets a second chance at the top job today. the war in syria has left thousands of children with a disability this ten year old girl is one of them and their strike changed her life forever we'll see how she's coping. and we'll get you geared up for a lot more racing it may not have the glitz and glamour of formula one but it's still on the cutting it. hello i'm terry margin thanks for joining us. u.s. president donald trump is poised to deliver his decision on the future of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal later today trump has repeatedly said iran hasn't

conform to the terms of the agreement meant to curb iran's suspected nuclear weapons program he's resisted pressure from european backers trying to save the deal insisting it must be changed for him to stay on board. slamming the nuclear deal with iran has been one of donald trump's fiery asst mottos before and after taking office here and there was one of the worst and most one sided transactions the united states has ever entered and frankly that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it believe me on monday the u.s. president announced on twitter he was ready to deliver his verdict whether he will call for the end of the deal or push for a renegotiation is not clear under to twenty fifteen agreement iran was to limit its nuclear program specifically its uranium enrichment in exchange for relief from

international economic sanctions the deal struck under the obama administration united global powers as well as the u.s. china russia germany france the u.k. and the european union put their name to it now pressuring spiling up in washington to say india court is an offer for that from the we remain convinced that this agreement will make the world a safer place we are afraid that failure will lead to escalations and that we will retreat into the years before twenty thirteen something which no one is interested in doing. on monday the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson arrived in washington in the last minute diplomatic efforts to deter the u.s. administration from scrapping the deal. we think we can fix all that working with our european friends you can be tough. on iran but not throw away that the heart of the deal which is all about stopping them getting

a nuclear weapon. european leaders say they're open to finding compromise but the existing framework must remain untouched but in spite of europe's promises to address traumas complains many fear the u.s. president has made up his mind. let's bring in marcus column here he is the middle east analyst from the german institute for international and security affairs good to see you again marcus after all his criticism of the around nuclear deal is there any chance that donald trump will leave it intact depends on the question what do you mean by intact when the us president is required to reform months with the foreigners complying with the with the p c o way and can stop this inspection of sanctions and then sanctions will snap back but at the end of the day it's an international agreement in which the u.s. and iran only on the role of the europeans meaning u.k.

france germany as well as russia and china sold this of parts will remain intact the all the players have agreed to comply with the regime so far sold the united states can pull out of the woman but it's still remains intact in legal terms well will the agreement really mean much to marcus if the u.s. under donald trump decides to unilaterally pull out of the agreement. that's the big question here because the overarching topic was to find some kind of reconsideration between the. united states and iran and if the united states is pulling out of the i think the iranian regime will not comply any any longer with the existing regulations now the europeans have been lobbying donald trump to come up with some sort of compromise to salvage the deal keeping the u.s. on board what could the compromise look like the route would require actually

three topics of topics the so-called sunset clauses meaning how long does the regulations of the sheep apply more longer than ten years or fifteen years the second question is they are reigning miss own defense program or missile program the third question is the destabilization role of iran in the region all three important topics which are not covered by the agreement as such so that would require an additional round of negotiations actually in the final agreement and the iranians have already indicated that they would be ready to negotiate anything this is a complex deal full of acronyms would be and a talking would begin talking about it others a lot of jargon associated with this can you break it down for us and tell remind us why this deal is so important not just for iran in the united states but for the world as a whole absolutely it's important to ways first it's one of the prime examples that

it's possible to denuclearize an aspiring nuclear power that already has agreed to suspend all enrichment activities and has invited the international atomic agency to to to inspect all activities in iran so it's an international control regime affecting the iranian nuclear program but it has been a big implications and the big elephant in the room here is north korea because it's one of the examples where it can be used to to any regulations apply to mold grio. which will start all of the negotiations are going to they couple of weeks so if iran is the blueprint for north korea the end of an hour and regime will affect what north korea as well and of course mark is there are additional implications here too involving i mean for iran there's trade at stake too for iran's place in

the region and its place as a as a global economic as a regional economic power as well and mark is coming from the middle from the german institute for international and security affairs thank you so much for talking with you today for. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today police in india's state have arrested fifteen people in connection with two separate rape cases both involving teenage girls one of the victims died when her home was set on fire after she was attacked and the other case the victim was raped and then set a light by her attacker she is being treated in hospital. italy's president. has called on the country's deadlocked political parties to back a temporary neutral government more than two months after inconclusive elections matter a less said italy couldn't wait any longer for leadership the country's two largest parties though both appear to have rejected the call saying early elections would be preferable. excuse me and new york state attorney general eric

schneiderman has resigned after multiple women accused him of physical violence and shot a man has been a vocal supporter of the me too movement against sexual harassment he says he strongly contests the allegations. armenia's parliament to vote for the second time in two weeks for a new prime minister the former soviet bloc country was plunged into political crisis last month after mass protests forced long time leader says sarkozy to preside protest leader nicol pasha has emerged as the top candidate to lead the government passion young makes his second attempt today for the job he came up short last week after the ruling republican party blocked his bid for all. i see as being at the forefront of a mini is political on breath. meeting mass protests across the capital yeah.

even full swing the country's prime minister to resign. last week nick called pushing me and was expecting to be appointed to the top job but he was close by the ruling party you know with. his supporters were furious. and devastated. one day later and apparently you turned it seemed the way he had been cleared for him to become prime minister after all. there was a meeting of the republican party they said that in the coming elections they would support the people's candidate. i. fishing in the so-called people's candidate cooled off the demonstrations demonstrations that

improved yaron ban to a complete standstill. if parliament does choose him as prime minister later today will have to do all he can to unite this country and get it moving to get the. date of his nick calio standing by for us in the armenian capital you're a bun joins us now nick parliament has walked nicole prussian from becoming prime minister once before will it clear a path to power for him today. good morning terry well that is the expectation here the ruling republican party has said that they will guarantee him the necessary votes become acting prime minister they haven't said yet whether they'll vote as a bloc and. or whether they'll just make sure he gets those crucial last few votes he needs last week and in recent days we've seen quite considerable efforts by them sort of hold their nose and make it clear that he is not someone they would have preferred but that they are willing for the sake of stability to let him pass if he

fails to get those crucial fifty eight votes today then we will see snap elections which also wouldn't really be in the interest of the ruling party given how much how much frustration that would cause among the public who've already twice been promised that he would become acting prime minister and you mentioned using that word acting acting prime minister does that mean that even if. today he's likely to simply be a transitional figure. it's not an assertion of transfigured but he's he wouldn't have his own mandate so this is a question of getting more legitimacy having achieved the one thing that he says is crucial and that is recall of the electoral system an electoral system which he says currently gives big advantages to the incumbent because he wants to shake that up make it simpler and fairer and then hold new elections based on those new rules

and we'll see what we're all expecting that he would then stand for election to get his own mandate the current situation will have him as acting prime minister but dependent on the ruling republicans he won't have as a majority in parliament so they will be scope for them to put the spanner in the works as. well so how much cooperation. expect to get assuming he does get elected today how much cooperation can he expect to get from the old guard when it gets down to tackling those reforms you just described. well exactly and he will need three each legal each new law for each new attempt at reform he will need those votes that he's relying on today to pass them given that he doesn't have his own majority in parliament and so that gives them effectively a very strong instrument with which to dampen down any too radical reform that might threaten their interests having said that the alternative seems to be worse for them snap elections which given the amount of. displeasure of the public that

sort of last minutes change of tune would provoke that seems like having his promise that we had those certain dampness breaks on his ability to change things that would seem to be the most attractive option for the ruling party at the moment he says that he only wants that to him the real priority is changing these elite these election laws and then to hold new elections. thank you so much that connolly there in the armenian capital of course we'll be bringing you updates on that story throughout the day thanks nick. germany's economy keeps growing producing surplus tax revenue for the government well the question is then for lawmakers what to do with all that money isn't is another luxury problem terry i wouldn't mind having that kind of problem but it's true the good news is the german is flourishing economy keeps pumping money into state coffers leading to much more tax revenue than previously forecast the bad news however is the finance ministry has already

warned against too high expectations for public spending let's look at the numbers now an official report to be released later today suggests that german tax revenue will grow from its current level of six hundred seventy five billion euros to. one hundred billion euros in the year twenty twenty two that is the absolutely more than what officials in berlin estimated last november germany's bulging coffers are impressive but they could also fuel further debate on the distribution of government funding germany's e.u. partners for one are likely to criticize german frugality once more the international monetary fund has made it clear on many occasions that it wants germany to spend more on infrastructure child care refugee integration as well as introducing income tax cuts well earlier i spoke to fabienne lynn an economist working at the macro economic policy institute at the foundation which is close to

the german federation of trade unions and i asked him why do you mean his european neighbors as well as the i.m.f. are so keen on berlin increasing public spending. it's because we have those huge exports of places that means we export so much more than be impolitic and we need government to spend more money to create more domestic income and then part of that income will flow into imports and increase. and crees income abroad and this is something that really europe needs badly because a lot of countries are student crisis mode so this is one of the reasons of course in recent years we've heard that consumer spending in germany for one has increased significantly actually and to the new coalition government already agreed to increasing spending on education are indeed digitalisation on families agriculture mobility and of course defense so what's missing so they say they will increase a lot but if you really look at the numbers it's not really so much what we've seen

recently with a new budget coming out from the new finance minister we see even a slight decrease in infrastructure investment in infrastructure investment is really one of the most important things that we need at the moment our public infrastructure is falling apart and has been doing so for the last fifteen years and we even see a decrease in infrastructure spending and this is very we what we basically do is that we have high surpluses take surpluses but we don't use the money affected to do something for our crumbling infrastructure so in terms of infrastructure because that is a recurring theme do you think that the government is taking a risk by not investing enough it absolutely is this so much missing it's really schools are crumbling roads are crumbling this is bad for education this is bad for companies preciously companies in rural areas the small medium companies the backbone of our economy who cannot transport the products to their customers so also in terms of the digital networks in terms of energy networks we have

a huge problem and what about tax cuts income tax cuts corporate tax cuts perhaps something the i.m.f. is asking for so what we do have is this debt. breaking our constitution which basically prohibits us from running deficits this is and if we would cut taxes now we would have to creases and tax income which would make it even harder to increase spending on infrastructure so i would very much to spend more on infrastructure because this is really something that is worthwhile for the future of germany's economy now of course the finance ministry which turnaround as a look at all those challenges that we're facing right now brics it nobody knows how that's going to play out then we have a possible trade dispute with the united states and so forth is now the right time perhaps to say for a rainy day. not really it's quite the opposite we have to thanks know the domestic economy because we are exporting so much and since we see a lot of danger to our exports from the u.s.

why a break that we need to strengthen our own domestic economy and by spending more on infrastructure we would expect that to that would be the advice to the german finance minister from fabio lin the from homs book foundation thank you so much for being here today. to germany's biggest ally. is going to hold its annual shareholders meeting later today c.e.o. costumes for looks to have a pretty picture in tow for investors war passengers small cargo and more profits than ever before but experts say that the challenge for germany's flagship kerio will be to keep the good times rolling beyond the end of the year. look turns is flying high on the back of its twenty seventeen and you'll report germany's leading airline carried more passengers than ever before and it defended its position as you were upset largest carrier thanks to a higher income in its cargo logistics and maintenance units of terms there is

looking at the most profitable year in its history. the bottom line is that lufthansa saw net profits jump by a third to almost two point four billion euros and its free cash flow which allows the airline to maintain its fleet and pay for new acquisitions almost doubled to two point two billion euros and that's cash lufthansa needs thanks to millions in additional costs associated with acquiring parts of defunct air berlin left turns his numbers were also bolstered by lower than normal write offs last year that situation will likely change the airline is also likely to face turbulence in the form of increased competition in its long haul services and an image problem at its u.s. alliance partner united airlines. to syria where the conflict there is entering its seventh year the vast toll on human

life keeps on mounting children are particularly vulnerable thousands have been killed in government airstrikes and many others left with a permanent disability a reporter you met with one young victim in the city of god in southern turkey. maggi does stays start very early. and they are exhausting. some children when they wake up they just jump out of their beds wash their faces get dressed take their bags and go i need an hour to properly put on my leg and if it doesn't work i need to ask my mom for help. in twenty thirteen the family fled syria to turkey margie doe was five years old at the time and her brother ebro him only two she still remembers the escape from aleppo very clearly and the day of the attack. we were in

a pickup truck with ten other people when it happened. just after we got on the truck a plane fired on us yeah. like that suddenly everything was burning. and everything was black around us. there's a lot. of a plea on our wall when i regained consciousness i saw my daughter and her leg was gone. my son was on fire and he had open wounds on both of his legs there were dead bodies and burned people everywhere these images still haunt me it was like hell had opened up. and they had to get their drawers when we left the hospital there were many covered dead bodies outside and one body was uncovered. my sister closed her eyes and she didn't see it but i saw that body and i wish i hadn't looked because i cannot forget it it.

looks good i detailed well. if it was not does that hurt. us here a little margie don't need to go to the clinic every couple of months the check up is uncomfortable for her but the scar on her leg doesn't bother her anymore and that's very important. margi to his more fun exercising she has made such progress that her prosthetic leg is hardly noticeable only climbing stairs still proves difficult. for her physiotherapist it's important that she keeps her head up she shouldn't think of her leg at all. but we want our patients to feel comfortable with the percy says so they can do everything in their daily lives without limitations. that include walking on different types

of flaws and services such as sand and gravel as well as steep slopes and stands we train all of that. is that the monitor is brave and she has a strong will. so that's why she learned so quickly. and made such great progress on the. quadratic that is an unhappy that i have this leg now. at first i wanted to even leave it on at night but my mom wouldn't let me do that. bit of a club with limited. us to susie oh there is a little time left for my favorite game jump rope. her serapis can barely catch his breath. then turn around.

for dinner father's there as well she doesn't see him very often he's working a lot trying to put food on the table. then it's time for the children to go to bed puts her prosthetic leg away for the night and ebro him crawls into her bed he loves it when his sister reads him a story as he falls asleep it's about a boy named tarik a six year old superhero from aleppo but it could just as well be about much of how they. got through to. their report from the w.'s yulia han in turkey you can find a longer version of his report online at w dot com slash reporters. now as the temperature rises in the northern hemisphere and the flowers bloom homeowners know it's time again for their weekly chore of cutting grass but where

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for races twenty five. points and the driver with the most points at the end of the season takes the crown and non-moral racing may not have the same glitz and glamor a formula one but it's on the cutting edge. before we go just reminder the top stories we're following for you here today on beat a few news u.s. president is set to announce his decision on the future of iran's nuclear deal later today european backers oppose a u.s. withdrawal all saying the deal has successfully halted iran's nuclear ambitions. it's all the news for now i'll be back at the top of the next hour with another full legal all or stories all on it. thanks for watching.

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