this is you know we can use line for berlin fever pitch in windsor just hours ahead of the royal wedding of prince harry and his brother prince william came out to meet well wishers already in place for the big day and future father in law prisoner charles will accompany megan to the altar after her own father was not able to travel for a live in windsor for you also coming up to smooth things over and differences peace hopes for eastern ukraine are rekindled as russia's president needs germany's chancellor putin says both sides will now reconsider options for

a multinational peacekeeping mission plus the venezuelans go to the polls on sunday the outcome a foregone conclusion present nicolas maduro likely to win in spite of an economy in freefall and widespread shortages of food and medicine. thank you very much for your company everyone excitement is building across the u.k. and abroad ahead of tomorrow's royal wedding between prince harry and american actress make a mark up while awaiting royal fans had an unexpected treat when the groom to be and his brother william turned up for a walk about outside windsor castle near london that's where the couple are due to marry tomorrow and more than one hundred thousand people are expected to flock to the town. to catch

a glimpse of the happy couple there is heightened security cross windsor but while fans are making the most of this big event. and we are counting down to this big event with the bear get months and gary just who are both in windsor covering the royal wedding for us good to see you guys and give us a little bit set the scene give us a taste of what it's like to be in windsor where you are right now well you know what a fantastic atmosphere here no doubt the anticipation is massive we have people from all over the world who have come in securing their places people have started camping alongside these friends is there on the route the couple will take a riving and leaving the causal as husband and wife so a really electric atmosphere and one of the highlight of the day was when prince harry came out together with his brother prince william and they came out really just where we are here hours ago and you could see the tension rising because

people tens that something was going to happen there was police on the streets and they were stopping people sort of crossing the raid and then actually they did come out and spent quite a while talking talking to to all these people who were lining the streets where lining the streets down and some of them still arrived so that was a very special moment for a lot of people and a huge roll went through the crowd when they arrived and yes it really summarizes the excitement that is still here and i did tonight right and another big news that also brought us a lot of excitement is the fact that prince charles has agreed to walk to meet in marco down the aisle an elegant solution what did people of where you are make of that. a young woman said to me it's a wonderful solution they have found she will enter the church by herself in the middle of children or bridesmaid and page boys and that this woman said is a strong feminist message here maybe some of the taste of the fresh when she will

bring to the royal family and then of course is a wonderful just who she says that about prince charles will welcome her into the royal family by accompanying her a bit of the way now the royal wedding is did you want to save as you want to add something to that bracket. i mean that's also the sense i got i took to some ladies yes and they said no it's fantastic and i think also prince charles is somebody you somehow comes across quite often as a bit aloof i would say maybe not the warmest past and the fact that he does this and yeah well comes the future daughter in law is really a very positive sign right a very beautiful sign as well and now of course the world wedding and the entire media of the entire world is assembled where you are quito so a bit more about the intense personal interest for this wedding there is really huge presenters where we are behind us t.v. crews and everywhere we are looking there are television crees seventy nine only

american networks and a few days because of course especially for the american brought causes it's a massive event is the american dream coming true really with an american princess and the making. of a journalist accredited just u.k. journalist and then you know like many of us international journalists are really thousands of journalists everywhere you go there are correct was reported us is really a massive media interest. and security has been beefed up they are. i without doubt harry and meghan wants to make this a new clue says events but this comes at a cost and the cost apparently is thirteen million pounds and here are two other numbers that give you a taste of the flavor of how tight security will be in one of what will be the biggest security operation the country has seen there is thirty thousand officers the people ojt three thousand alone here in town and so it will be security like

circumstances like on an airport everyone will come into town tomorrow will have to check in through security's so it's very tight security although i have to say at the moment you can't really feel it you see i've you seen a few police officer those helicopters a swooping about for the moment that's it. very good mass reporting from windsor on the big day thank you so very much. and now to our other top story a german chancellor angela merkel and russian president vladimir putin have rekindled hopes of peace in eastern ukraine at talks in the russian seaside resort of sochi point said that diplomats on both sides would look again at options for deploying a multinational peacekeeping force to the region at their post summits a news conference merkel declared their germy had a strategic interest in getting on well with russia rather than the somewhat frosty relations of recent times. she speaks fluent russian.

and he speaks fluent german. yet they still struggle to understand one another in the past few years now of all people donald trump is changing that the u.s. president's unashamedly anti european foreign policy is forcing germany's chancellor to look elsewhere for allies instead of relying on washington for example in moscow which hasn't exactly been her favorite hunting ground. we have a strategic interest in good relations with russia and even during the most difficult times i supported for example the continuation of the nato russia council and that the utility remains in contact i believe talking to each other is about most important but that on that meeting the office of the fish to germany and in fact the e.u. as a whole are on the same side as russia on certain issues both sides want to save the iran nuclear deal even without the u.s. and both considered the u.s.

moving its embassy to jerusalem a huge mistake but a few things stand in the way of getting too cozy the biggest stumbling blocks are russia's illegal an exception of crimea from ukraine a move that is not being recognized by most nations and russia's overall aggression towards ukraine. in the case of the former russian double agents sergei script who was poisoned in london has also triggered tensions russian president putin claims russia is innocent in the whole affair offering his own insight. experience that. if a military great agent had really been used man would have died on the spot of the trip but you just. maybe because the last time the two leaders met things weren't so friendly this time at their meeting in sunny sochi on the black sea the russian leader wanted to leave a better impression by saying it with flowers. well let's find out if that is going to help with highness that automates he is

a political analyst and expert on russia a very good evening so is it happy here with us flowers miles the optics of two leaders there trying to make up for less less warm times is president trying to reason behind this. book to some extent i think it is about and more impressed by the the differences that we have seen surfacing at the summit conference of the naacp and put in then the confluence of interests and. of thought so just a big problem that we have these differences well let's talk about one of the big problems one of the thorns in the relation the by a lot of relation between germany and russia of course eastern ukraine the ongoing conflict there they seem to be getting together and trying to find a solution there i don't see any evidence for that whatsoever as you mentioned in the uptake and there is talk about the united nations

a peacekeeping mission but of course this is nothing new this actually has been the proposal of but ukrainians for several years and then use the temper of last year of putting the table this idea but ever since and really a nothing has happened because you cannot agree on the modalities of it so do you think this was just window dressing then today well i think this is just a restatement of position and of course is the same as with the commitment the commitment by both sides to the full and complete implementation of the minsk to an agreement there to has not been any progress whatsoever right ok so this might be confidence building measure but we'll have to see if that materializes into something concrete also high on the agenda of course is the iran nuclear deal both sides are signatories to the deal but support continued to support the deal so do you think that they will keep the nuclear. the iran nuclear deal alive well that depends very much on the iranians a but there's

a joint position as you just outlined the three european powers germany france and the u.k. as well as the russian of course china they want to maintain the agreement and it depends very much on whether or not the europeans and russia can persuade the iranians to stick to the agreement so the other thing that they don't see eye to eye on is of course syria do you see them reaching an agreement on that well there again the differences are quite quite apparent to me because putin is the quite intent on the keeping assad in power and of course the surface at the meeting in his watch and that russia would like germany to take a substantial role in the. reconstruction of syria so in other words it's almost ironic that russia is responsible for the large scale destruction of cities in syria and germany is supposed to be paying for the

restatement of it going but what you're saying. america is in a very very difficult dilemma i find because of course on the one hand she's dealing with this deteriorating transatlantic relationship with the trump of ministration and is she trying to pivot towards russia and make up for some of that well i don't think so because this would be a very dangerous road to take very problematic because it would convey the notion that germany in cooperation with other european powers and russia is a trying to confront united states and that would be a very big mistake to convey the impression and certainly it would be a bigger stick to the substance of the did she live to have this out of mind set political analyst an expert on russia thank you sir for wayne thank you. all right

i'm going to move on to other news at least ten people have been killed in and another ten wounded in a shooting at a high school in the town of santa fe near houston in texas a seventeen year old man has been taken into custody with police confirming he's a student at santa fe high texas governor greg abbott said the man used a shotgun and a revolver taken from his father the attack comes just three months after seventeen people were killed in a school shooting in parklane florida which sparked a fierce nationwide debate on gun control and some breaking developments a boeing seven three seven airliner with more than one hundred people on board has crashed shortly after taking off from have an as international airport according to cuban state media three people were reportedly pulled alive from the wreckage of the plane that was operated by the coupon of the of the su on airline and came down near jose marti airport while it was on route to the eastern city of all being all

right let's get you the latest now with the hostage hassani this who joins us from on the line from have bene good evening what more are you hearing any for information about the people onboard that plane. we are hearing that some reports suggest that the passengers are from mexico are mexican tourists they were hearing today one of the like a beach she said many boat on the she stays in the north east of the discovery an island there in holguin province but there's no complete confirmation so far so we are also looking for new information if it is really possible because he's. probably he said very important to the sixth place on the on these nationalist air flight service usually are used to move to the sun have an up to these these parts of the hazel some a bit more about the airline if we're getting reports that fleet week might have

been a little out of date. well the tradition all. of these it for a career are russian airplanes and they are usually out of service because they don't have enough pieces but in this case if you said following three five every. main seven thirty seven buoyant so it's an elitist aircraft from mexico and it's not a common or a regular air plane from the sky one of your film company. has done events with the latest from van i thank you for the update. and you want to do that we knew this was so have a lot more to tell you about including venezuela's president nicolas maduro is seeking a new six year mandate despite crippling hyper inflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine he's widely expected to win it we want to know why. but

first could a trade dispute between china and the u.s. be easing and there are conflicting reports elena conflicting reports indeed now america says that it has come to an agreement to reduce china's huge trade surplus with the u.s. by two hundred billion dollars andy the news surprised the world and china two by one accounts the country's foreign ministry now say it agreed it's a no such thing the room is not true that's what the ministry spokesman. had to say in a dialogue with u.s. negotiators this current they don't know what is for sure china has agreed to drop an anti dumping probe into u.s. imports on the slope of crop often used in food and animal feed. well as bring in our financial correspondent yes go to in new york now yen strength says tomato china seems safe something else how likely is that they really came to an

agreement regarding this trade surplus. well after the trade talks between the chinese delegation and a u.s. representatives on friday there are sources from the white tiles saying or some governmental officials that actually this two hundred billion dollar number is still on the table and i would say it is in general rather unlikely the biggest export item from the u.s. to china last year were aircraft in the value of sixteen billion dollars so from sixteen to two hundred billion dollars that is quiet again china for example would have to buy aircraft in for about six hundred big airplanes to come up with anything close to that number so at this point it does seem rather unlikely all right what we have seen is that concession to drop penalties on so that's not something we talk about every day is this a big deal. it certainly is

a big item there's no doubt about it last year china actually imported more than four point seven million tons of sorghum from the a u.s. senator little value of a good one point one billion dollars then when the u.s. actually started steve tariffs on solar panels and washing machines. here from the from china to the u.s. and then the chinese government answered with. a terrorist sum on those. imports so if those should get loosened that's a good sign not just for sorghum but for the u.s. are going cultural sector in general. thank you very much indeed. to deal now bring us one step closer to a cashless society u.s. online payment giant pay powell says it's by a swedish e-commerce startup it's a company called death toll now paperless jumping up over two billion dollars for

eyes etal it makes credit card scanners for small phones and and for tablets it's a big deal for a small firm and the agreement came as quite a surprise just as the young company was getting ready to make its stock market debut now pay pal the world's leading online payment service belong to either a until twenty fifteen and has been valued at ninety four billion dollars but this is pay pal's biggest acquisition to date is looking at ways to strengthen its platform for handling transactions with small businesses in europe and latin america which are made much easier of course with those small card fritas. now it's really funny has a government deal off to two and a half months with the anti establishment five star movement and the far right league coming together to form a coalition now they have put together a plan to govern the country in goal of a league proposals to scrap the euro which certainly rattled markets and that plan to ask for massive debt forgiveness from the european central bank the question is

what's left. monte passkey shares tumbled sharply on thursday after the new coalition proposed scrapping restructuring plans at the world's oldest bank monti passkey is still unstable despite an eight billion euro state rescue last year its size makes it the biggest threat to italy's financial system the possibility of ending measures aimed at nursing the bank back to health have made investors very nervous. the euro's under pressure to the new government also promised tax cuts and increased public spending implementing the plans would cost billions of euros but italy has the highest debt levels in the e.u. after greece the economic plans combined with the two parties euro skepticism could set rome on a collision course with brussels. inspect every now and could that be a more important time for election though when a country finds itself in a crisis zone no it couldn't but who knows in venezuela president nicolas maduro

looks likely to win another term when voters go to the polls this sunday also of all countries including the united states say they don't recognize the election as legitimate opposition candidates are battling not only mature a stranglehold on the country but also calls by the main opposition parties to boycott the vote. hunger has reached a new level in venezuela food shortages and hyper inflation of forcing people to take extreme measures like eating garbage concomitants used to study engineering in venezuela central university but for a few years now he's been he had anything to eat. if i mean. entire families and people like me are experience you know hardship and can't find food. so unfortunately we have to look for it in the trash to survive they put up or so to. say but i don't want to hurt anyone so instead of stealing i prefer to look for

food in the trash because. the economy is only one reason why these people have been protesting against drugs since he took office. something can you have been one of the five being slicing for twenty years against this regime the nicholas madeira to leave what i am asking him is to quit there is so much misery and up useful country so many hospitals with no medicine and so many children who die every day i've been without medication for over three months now even. some opposition will make his a calling on venezuelans to boycott sunday's elections. it will be this sunday venezuela is not voting. this process violates our rights and on sunday it is our turn to make it known that the people do not choose it is

a process of social control and domination by the state the necessary conditions are absent indelible ink and control of the electoral center by impartial people the military and the electoral arbiter end up being part of the electoral fraud of these things being absent is a sign that venezuelans are not allowed to make their own decisions. but electoral thora he's assured this system is one of the most transparent in the world even though the company that provided the technical platform for voting machines accused them of fraud last year. historically events while it has had high voter turnouts but polls show this election will be different seen more than enough without a doubt we will have the lowest voter turnout in history in the last presidential election i think fifty five to sixty percent of voters went to the polls. i am the only candidate who has never had any relationship with chavez i'm neither in a political sense nor in any other way. but even if one of the opposition

candidates would become venice when his new president some people think they'd be acting as the government's puppet you know what had to legitimize a process that the international community has strongly condemned. all right i'm joined now by ditto views ophelia herm's who is monitoring the election process for us in the venezuelan capital caracas a very good evening ophelia the outcome is a considered a foregone conclusion that president nicolas maduro will most probably win another term in venezuela why have an election at all. well that's what many people are asking us we heard that the international community is not going to accept this and it's also why many people have decided not to vote this sunday they believe that they can make a change that the elections have been already decided and for them another term for maduro will mean more trouble a continuation of the crisis in

a country that also has this. is surprising many of its opponents and many people believe that this will only get worse and we will probably see a bigger exodus oh well let's talk about the exodus so to that point because the people are already basically voting with their feet leaving the country on mass on a daily basis what what next for the people who are left in venezuela now. while we see really truly a human the terror and crisis in neighboring countries we can also first see that this turnout of the elections will probably mean more sanctions from the international community and these sanctions we only saw one today the u.s. is sanctioning one of the biggest heads of the maduro government and these sanctions would also mean that multinational companies will continue leaving the country and these sanctions are also doing that as well i can't actually keep up

with it's dead and we see that the hyper inflation is reaching five digits nowadays and ophelia i just have a thirty seconds left to talk to us about the opposition how we can do are they do they play any role at all in the selection. well the opposition has a big problem and that is that they have been divided for for a long time now some are supporting maduro's two biggest convention contenders this is former governor henry fike on and evan jelly called praise that is called having an event to achieve but the other big part of the opposition is calling for a vote cut on this sunday they want people not to vote because they believe it's a farce and that these two opponents are actually supporters of the matter of government will feel the harms reporting from caracas venezuela thank you. and we

have some football news for you now by munich will battle so that frankfurt in the final of the german cup and burn his olympic stadium on saturday night by have won this title eighteen times and are once again the clear favorites and after winning the bundesliga they are good things for the double this match is expected to be a coach who kind is last time for to meanwhile have surprisingly which the cup final. all right that brings us to the end of this edition thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us. long.

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