the germans every week. this is g.w. news live from berlin russia faces a new doping probe with less than three weeks to go until the start of the football world cup and investigation by german journalist alleges that a typical test results of russian squad members were covered up. also coming out populist parties have moved one step closer to forming a government in italy the antiestablishment five star movement and the far right

league are asking the president to approve their choice for prime minister. and nicolas my little wins a second term as president of venezuela he is calling it an historic victory but the opposition says the vote was a farce and is calling for a new election. i'm sumi so much going to good to have you with us german journalists have on veiled evidence which suggests russian authorities covered up doping test results from footballers and russia's world cup squad the revelations come just weeks before the tournament kicks off in russia german investigative reporter who helped uncover a state run doping program in russia led ics and he now says some russian footballers in the sports authorities may have questions to answer. the russian doping scandal may also extend to the national football team russian officials are

suspected of covering up test results making samples disappear which have the potential to implicate footballers some of whom have been selected for the hosts world cup squad german t.v. channel a r d has obtained a list containing player names and code numbers of doping samples the list is based on information from investigators and intelligence gathered from a twenty fourteen raid on the moscow doping control board in that raid the world anti-doping agency water seized samples with atypical test results that had not been investigated further by russian authorities samples from players in the current world cup squad were among them what we labeled the disappearing positive methodology. which is the labs mechanism by which they falsely reported their results a r d says water also obtained a separate database with atypical test results from almost one hundred russian footballers this information was also passed on to fee for following a request for comment favre said investigations are under way and they are hoping

to report new developments in the coming weeks. journalist who was that bill two broke that story and many others concerning russian doping joins us in our studio now thank you for joining us good to have you have you with us at no russia is again the focus of your investigations how is this going to impact the world cup if you don't know yet. we would know in a couple of weeks i guess the moment it looks like a good few fires really investigating at least on. outcome of the results of a doctor base which has been given from a whistleblower to wada last year in two thousand and seventeen sixty three thousand samples from different sports nine talk nine thousand of them have been suspicious and i guess. almost hundreds of them are now under investigation and coming from football so we don't know what would be the outcome what we can say you just talk about presumptive screening which might be doping must not necessarily be

doping it cannot also have other reasons but it needs to be. scrutinized that is to be checked or it needs to be scrutinized how solid is this evidence that we could be talking about doping in russia's national football team what we can say is that in two thousand and fourteen and this is not related to the database i was talking about in two thousand and fourteen after the first revelations in the energy german television about state run doping if that takes to rolled into doping agency major weights in the most color depth and at that point they seized more than three thousand samples from different sports and among exams i have been samples from football players and we got information from two thousand and fourteen at that point they have been samples from players who walk currency as a team roaster of the russian team for the world cup from two liter that means we talk about seven boats which have ridge are unclear from to solve in fourteen from

players who are now in the squad and that is a question and fee for has said said they have. done some testing but the os seven is a question have you done a reach test for all forbidden substances for prohibited substance of fault for preventive methods and they didn't answer that question last week you mentioned the doping in lead ics which there is evidence of a question some people are asking is is it really beneficial for footballers to dope how does that help them ok what do you need in football it's power what you can. increase was kind of what makes is power. what would you need as endure instance in football you need to compete nation of power and in durance so what does it make sense for insurance e.p.o. for example so as not a lot of things and if you look at the history of doping related investigations into football you will see that e.p.o. was a subject and a bollix have been the subject so it makes really sense to dope so it's there's no doubt there's a level of doping might not be the same as for example in weightlifting on

athletics to say that doping doesn't play any role in football that's nonsense so in durance and stamina things that footballers need surely not just russian footballers or other teams also knowing why we just focusing in on russia here and not focusing on russia you have a state run doping system rather for years relied because no twenty us but also. investigators and world anti-doping agency and different international sports federation reckons of subject few guys know working on that issue so it is there's no doubt that that is really hot suspicion and evidence about russia and doping and stage one doping your computer right when you say that sam must be in as also doping in other countries but if you don't have a proof if you don't have evidence and particularly not on state run doping in that countries then that makes really a big difference i want to ask you about one of the russian footballers i respond kumble of he was named to the world cup squad despite being investigated for doping he's now been dropped due to injury is that due to your investigation you don't

comment on names absolutely not because again. we are talking about. clear heart hince we're talking order strong suspicion we don't talk about proofs because we don't want to talk about talk about proves we don't reveal any names in that investigation now you weren't able to get a decent originally to report on the world cup it was feared because that's because of your reporting on doping in russia of the german government stepped in and now it appears that you will be going to russia to report is that correct you know it says that i have a visa no and i never decide at a later stage there are different concerns we have to consider and then we will make a decision at a later point as you can imagine some people in russia don't like at all what we have investigated so you have to consider if it's really worse or maybe there's a bigger risk we don't know so we have to discuss it internally and we will come to him just to just do a decision investigative journalist with us a here in studio thank you very much for sharing your reporting with us thank you

italy is inching closer towards having a populist government today eleven weeks after elections left the country with a hung parliament the leaders of the anti salamon five-star party leadership the mio and matteo salvini of the far right league party are meeting with the president to put forward their joint candidate for permian south and he has said both leaders have agreed to nominate a third party candidate. and let's bring in david his band record he's covering this story for us from hidebound italy has been politically paralyzed since elections in early march will the country get a new prime minister today. but the italian drama is now reaching its final act tonight the president will need to do you the odd couple of the populist from the left and the populist from the right and yes there's a good chance that there will be a prime minister but the final approval of it only come tomorrow and tuesday even

president will. assign the new guy to form a government but this government is stable or not we don't know yet it's very likely that the two parties will get into fights about the program because this program comes from from two very extreme poles and it's just. britain together in two weeks' time so it's not really very worked out what they actually will do but the italians like it pose says about sixty percent of the italians now back this new government and what about the prime minister band who can we expect this to be. well the three candidates in the media because the two bodies didn't say who whom they will nominate to the front runner seems to be just that the call to law professor

from the university of florence he is leaning two words. that i think populist but the name but only be named tonight in front of the president. and also the minister is not clear it's not clear whether luigi mio and salvini the leader from because their lead the leader from the league of will join the government although it's clear that change instead of have the ministry for grows and unemployment and this is. something very important for the constituency of the my oh he wants to hand out lots of money to the to the people especially in thousand easily all right so could be some lesser known candidates than to name everyone now is a silvio berlusconi could he make another miraculous return to the premiership. at this point no he's put it to sleep debt because he has no say in this coalition

but technically he could because the court in milan said that his crony is now free again to take up office and that is going the office to do that actually he asked the president to to assign him to be prime minister but this is very unlikely. if you don't like that it's going to very much to get his band weaker to reporting for us from rome thank you band. let's catch up now on some other stories making news around the world facebook boss mark zuckerberg has agreed to have his upcoming meeting with e.u. lawmakers streamed live online separate purpose due to respond to parliament leaders' privacy concerns and a hearing on tuesday the meeting comes as facebook admitted last month that it had improperly shared the personal data of millions of users. paraguayan has opened its israeli embassy in jerusalem the second country to do so after the united states

paraguayan president this and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu attended the inauguration ceremony the u.s. relocated its embassy to jerusalem a week ago. nicolas maduro has won venezuela's presidential election he beat his nearest rival on refiled colon by a wide margin by little called his victory a triumph over imperialism but the opposition boycott of the poland said it wasn't a fair vote the u.s. says it will not recognize the outcome and is considering new sanctions against the socialist government. for nicolas maduro and his supporters the celebration with few surprises. it's a second six year term for the venezuelan president who won over two thirds of the vote. thank you for overcoming so many aggressions so many rise. thank you for joining me in so many battles and thank you for making me president. but it's

a hollow victory the country's electoral or g.'s say only forty six percent of voters turned out at the polls. opposition parties say the real figure is closer to thirty percent. the main opposition party boycotted the election claiming it was rigged two popular candidates were barred from running one challenger who ran on little more than a prayer says the vote was marred by irregularities. we don't recognize this electoral process as valid as having taken place. for us there were no elections no new elections in venezuela need to take place. the duras opponents say the empty polling stations were kept open for hours past the prescribed closing time in a desperate bid to draw in voters. voting was very low one

it didn't used to be like this and they're hoping more people will eventually come out and that's what the truth is it's been very very weak small we poke the floor and there were only a few voters that it was not like this in other years when there was a lot of people today i've been walking through town and the voting centers are empty. when you know why there haven't been many people because there was a campaign asking people not to vote they told people not to turn nights but some people from the other side have voted and we should be says have gladly come i. don't. know but you know maduro's victory has been rejected by several countries including the u.s. which says it may impose new oil sanctions against the struggling state.

you're watching deja vu news still to come it looks like a trade war between the u.s. and china has been averted for now the two countries are holding off on tariffs as they try to find a solution to their dispute. benson's on we'll have more on the story after the break. where i come from we had to fight for a free press and was born and raised in the media telling the painter she was just one of the shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many cameras and they have all those are all.