do something to give the baby a future without. make a donation save a life. this is the t.v. news line from berlin a court in malaysia rules that the trial of two women accused of killing the half brother of north korean leader kim jung un can proceed the women are accused of poisoning him young now in a brazen hit that kuala lumpur airport their families say they were tricked into curing out the attackers now they'll have to ensure their defense will get the latest. hopes fate of finding any more survivors under the highway bridge that

collapsed in chad and with at least thirty nine people confirmed dead to debate over who's to blame it's heating up. and the march of mothers and a little demonstration goes ahead in support of the russian teenagers jailed for founding and anarchistic group activists say their children who have been framed by the authorities. i'm simply so much comic good to have you with us two young women accused of killing the estranged half brother of north korea's leader at kuala lumpur airport last year are set to face a murder charge a malaysian judge has ruled there is sufficient evidence for their trial to continue and it's ask them to enter their defense the vietnamese and indonesian women face the death penalty if convicted of killing him young now they allegedly smeared his face with a band nerve agent as he waited to board a flight of

a woman say they thought they were taking part in a prank for a t.v. show the judge's ruling is a blow to the defendants who were hoping to walk free today let's go right to correspondent sonner about so she is outside the court in the kuala lumpur with the latest on this story hi sandra so a surprise in court this morning tell us what happened. well a lot of local ops over us and definitely the defense had hope that the women would be free today that they would be acquitted because they felt that the prosecution had not. and not presented enough evidence that they would be guilty it all turns around the question. those women had been tricked into what they called a prank show reality t.v. show that was credible or not and the judge today ruled that there was enough evidence he said well the women after of the alleged attack were running away they

were going to a washroom to a toilet and of allegedly washed their hands and they looked very tense after the attack and they must have known they had only ninety seconds to wash their hands because this is a very deadly nerve agent and after ninety seconds is pregnant writes your scheme and you might eventually die and they must have known that center looking at the defense team's approach they say these two women didn't know what was happening so who did they say was using them and why. while the defense says you have to look at the bigger picture of there's a lot of politics involved here during the trial of the woman said they were hired by what they believe were chinese and japanese t.v. producer and it turned out that those four suspects of which were seen on the c.c.t.v. footage for an event identified as north korean citizens they change their clothes

directly after the attack they were flew out of the country they fled the country by those women they just went on with normal life and bess is definitely not something that you would expect from a kilo this is the arguments of the defense gold standard he said politics are involved there. remind us why people believe that kim young no one was targeted. well there are u.s. officials and south korean u.s. officials who claim that it was an attack by the north korean dictator who wanted to eliminate his old. problem we had been very critical of kim yong. and who had claimed that you had leadership go so well last clearly a motivation but during the investigation that it was very clear that korea had no interest at all in any form of cooperation and they even claimed that kim jong

nam was not murdered but that it was all just a heart attack so the big question is whether we will ever alone the truth from our correspondent center about so in that kuala lumpur for us thank you so much. to genoa now where rescue teams are still working to pull survivors and bodies from the rubble of the collapsed highway bridge at least thirty nine people were killed when a stretch of the morandi bridge collapsed on tuesday the government has declared a yearlong state of emergency for the region but with hopes of finding more survivors fading anger is growing over how such a disaster could have happened charlotte saw some reports. as hopes of finding survivors fades the blame game intensifies officials initially pointed the finger at the e.u. accusing it of limiting funding for infrastructure past the focus of criticism is

now shifting to. the company responsible for the bridge locals say the long been concerned about its upkeep. when we drive on this motorway and it's full of traffic automatically trying to go up for a fast. because touchwood crossed fingers we go i've heard fast hoping it doesn't come a crushing down. out of a insists its maintenance checks were up to date parts that hasn't stopped ministers threatening fines calling for resignations and promising to revoke its operating license they include italy's new populist interior minister. entire chunks of highway cannot collapse like this and people cannot die like this in twenty eighteen i want to stress once again that those responsible will be found out. has hit the e.u.

and the company that manages this stretch of the may to wait behind me but so many people here anger and blame will only go so far they want to know what happens next crucially how this young government plans to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again. the blame game that's playing out here is doing little to help those suffering the consequences of this catastrophe thing clear the hundreds of residents who've been evacuated from this area it's feared that part of the bridge still standing may yet come crashing down. come a works nearby he says authorities have given him no indication when he'll be able to return. by the arm of the well the city manager if we talk about a week it's still sustainable but if the area is not accessible for a month then there's a huge problem a lot of program on the table but there are hundreds of people who have to go to work. meanwhile the rest of the city is watching in horror as this crisis

unfolds the disasters raise serious questions about the safety of roads and bridges with many asking if this can happen here was next. now to some other stories making headlines around the world german chancellor angela merkel has praised new chairs cooperation in the battle against illegal immigration her comments came at talks near berlin with new president mahmoud. his country's i'm a refugee transit state medical also urged european states to invest in education and development in african countries where migration is high. u.s. president donald trump has revoked security clearance for former cia director john brennan the unprecedented move means that brennan an outspoken trump critic no longer has access to sensitive information white house spokeswoman sara sanders made that announcement citing brennan's quote erratic conduct and behavior. of

officials in afghanistan have blamed the so-called islamic state for a suicide bombing in a mainly shiite neighborhood of the capital kabul authorities say thirty four people were killed in the blast which targeted an education center just hours after the suicide attack downman opened fire on a spy training center in kabul violence is marring the run up to elections in two months time. democrat voters in the u.s. state of vermont have nominated a transgender candidate to run for governor christine helpless to defeated three other democrats in tuesday's primary it's the first time a major party has chosen a transgender candidate for governor crist now faces a popular republican incumbent in november's election. the votes are in. and christine has clinched the nomination. i must say i'm incredibly incredibly honored to have all your support and all of things that i heard were said you know tonight we've made history already.

decided to run for office after donald trump was elected president in two thousand and sixteen. trump has been at odds with the transgender community sees taking office. it was not from our last year he announced that the u.s. government would not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in the military in the november elections following that announcement five openly transgender candidates won seats around the country mostly at the municipal level paul quiz sees herself as part of the fight back against trump's politics it's not just about the transgender community it's not just about the l g b t community it's not all marginalized. becoming governor of vermont is still a way away for hall quizzed her opponent the moderate incumbent republican phil scott is popular even among democratic voters publicans but she has the support of

her state's u.s. senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders and huge attention right across the nation. demonstrators in russia are calling for the release of two teenagers arrested in march for a legit involvement in a terrorist movement the mother's march protesters are demanding the pair be moved to house arrest due to health concerns that the charges against the young women are based on the testimony of men believed to be russian security agents and activists say those agents entrapped and set up the teens. human rights activist is about to do something illegal but in her view it's the right thing she's going on a demonstration in support of a young woman even though police have banned it says the new you could lose each store we want to show that it's not permissible to torture our children. to harass them and in some cases kill them. one of the

children she's talking about is an unpopular. russian state prosecutors accuse her of meeting with others at a fast food joint to set up an extremist group she argues she was framed by a member of the russian domestic intelligence agency who was also present at the meeting. his report forms the basis for the charges. when police arrested ana she was just seventeen years old. in central moscow hundreds of people turned out for the demonstration despite the heavy rain from well known artists to ordinary families with children many are carrying toys to draw attention to the young age of an a public over and other detainees. notice that you must know producing these young women are in such a terrible situation in jail you lose their young you we have to support them. we can't remain complacent in the face of these political detentions in our country.

we want to do something to get these girls out of prison. the demonstrators move off and think stay peaceful all the police demand is that everyone stay on the pavement. the protest rally winds up in front of a court building but the mood remains good natured i was that it was was it would also mean we'll go there we have to be thankful to the people they understand this is only the beginning of our journey to get our children back to you but if we don't measure to do. the public pressure seems to be working the court will decide thursday whether anna's prison term will be commuted to house arrest. to iceland now where whale hunting season is underway despite an international ban on whaling this year hunters have permits to kill more than two hundred sin whales iceland is the only country where it is legal to hunt these

whales but as our next report shows more and more icelanders oppose the hunt. marine biologist macon whitaker takes people whale watching off the coast of iceland a dream job for the marine biologist whittaker has spotted something a mink whale is eating its way through school a fish. with a bit of luck the guests may even catch sight of the much larger humpback whale. in the same waters where the tourists are taking snapshots others are whale hunting. these animals they have good like us that have nerves they can feel there's pain so there's a heart when that goes into the wild and explosion and then they bring these wells on board so it can take you know thirty minutes after an hour for these wild bites a long painful process i slams only willing station lies hidden at the end of a few orde far away from reykjavik. the whale catchers have captured

a fin whale the second largest mammal on earth and an endangered species that is dead animal rights activists document the stripping of the forty ton whales blubber . they post photos and videos online hoping to inspire others to act against whaling this is not a tradition here really it started with norwegian stone it's we have we have a long tradition of eating kale in iceland and growing kale so if cayle not a whale. one of the whaling company owner dismisses this kind of criticism as a teenager she harpoons wells from his father's boat and ate the meat. where you meet the. good it's the only meal without any almost i don't i don't feel that but it's been banned in all e.u. and u.s.

. reasons but if this sentiment is going to take over here. i don't think if you guys don't we'll be. a lot be a shifting as a independent nation in a couple of years if you're going to use that argument. that you survey showed that a growing number of icelanders oppose whaling this demonstration is taking place outside the parliament building and reykjavik. the government could stop the hunting at any moment instead it granted last songs welling company a permit to kill one hundred ninety one fin whales this year alone. the uncle of our finance minister is the c.e.o. for the wally company so if this doesn't scream corruption i don't know what does that we have other parties in parliament and they are against waving. the whale meat has mainly been sold to japan the only export market for it. but now the

whaling company has a new business idea to make a medicinal compound for treating iron deficiency. we plan to frege that are even meat. you get about thirty percent. of the meat that will be then ground down in powder. and used as a food shipment. marine biologist macon whitaker is horrified by this type of business idea the whales are already under threat due to climate change and marine pollution she hopes that whale hunting will be banned as cygnus possible. to football now and atletico madrid have picked up their first silverware of the new season they beat city rivals rael madrid and the european super cup in a stony that champions league winners ryall fought their way to

a two one lead before atletico diego costa picked up a second goal of the game to take the tie into extra time and that is when two brilliant goals wrapped up the title for a practical last season's league champs and coachable simeoni has now won seven trophies at atletico madrid. now philip lamb the captain of the twenty fourteen german world cup champs has been selected to have the organizing committee if germany wins the right to host the european football championships in twenty twenty four that is according to german media law is already the ambassador of germany's bid for that major tournament germany only has one competitor and that is turkey and lama find out if germany's bid is successful when you weigh find the union of european football associations and votes in late september. that's right how do you see here with business susan having it looks like tesla is in some trouble it would be a very bumpy road ahead if what we're hearing is true u.s. media are reporting that the famous electric car maker has been subpoenaed by u.s.

federal regulators the securities and exchange commission is stepping up its investigation into a recent tweet spy tesla c.e.o. ula must last week he wrote that he had secured enough funds to take the company private now the authorities want to know whether this tweet was factual under u.s. law companies and their senior level management cannot share misleading information with shareholders publicly traded companies disclose major plans such as an it was ition to the board of directors and to regulators before making an announcement. and as more and more countries decriminalize the use and possession of marijuana the market for legal cannabis is growing and the industry has just seen its biggest investment yet to us wine and beer maker constellation bought shares worth four billy. in dollars and part producer canopy growth companies based in canada where we will be legal as of october the spending on legal catalyst worldwide is expected to more than double to over fifty billion u.s.

dollars within the next five years and it's not just recreate users that users are after companies like canopy are also developing and turn it into medical products potentially giving pharma companies a run for their money. right. to the story we've been following all week long to tara has come to turkey's rescue him at the currency crisis the qatari government pledged fifteen billion dollars in investments in turkey in supporting a rise in the lira and yet turkish industries are having a hard time with the country's economic turmoil inflation currency routes and a tariff conflict with the us are affecting those who sell their products abroad but not all is lost especially in an export sector that has prospered in the last twenty years now it's up to turkey's political leaders to make sure it stays afloat . jamil mares so glu has survived a few financial crises during his thirty eight year career the is to base producer of electric parts for cars and buses can still remember turkey's last economic

crash that was in two thousand and one when he was forced to turn off his machines the situation today is different however. the news about turkey today has a potential export volume of one hundred sixty billion dollars annually the nation has developed a production based economy over the last twenty years before there was almost nothing produced that could be exported. and if they didn't. well many turkish firms are gripped by losses and fears of bankruptcy exporters like the middle sized are showing fewer signs of panic after all they continue to bring in dollars and euros at least in part next to tourism turkey's export sector brings in the most foreign currency that doesn't mean it's safe from the inflation and currency falloff of recent weeks however my that. we purchase our materials in part overseas but we still get a lot from local companies lately more of these liveries have been falling through

because the businesses have come to a standstill. that the trade conflict with the u.s. would affect only the steel industry is a commonly held belief here because europe is turkey's most important trading partner not the u.s. or russia nearly half of all turkish exports go to the e.u. . you know. turkish industry is tightly bound with europe for example mercedes buses are built here and we deliver parts for it is gone not just any appeal. for turkish industry the way out of the current crisis is clear a good relationship between the country and the e.u. economically but also politically. looking to the u.k. now where farmers say that breaks it could threaten the country's food supply for years use subsidies have helped farmers plant their crops and foreign workers have helped harvest now the threat of losing this lose larch the report takes us to the

south east county of kent as part of our series wrote two bricks our reporters tried to stick to this and are traveling around europe and the u.k. trying to understand the full impact of the upcoming divorce between britain and the e.u. . as far as the eye can see one million heads of lettuce are harvested here in cannes in the south east of england and everything. taken by hand by eastern european workers. i don't think. people realized how much we depend on foreign labor coming in. steven bet is a fourth generation lettuce grower he employs about one hundred thirty three is no one is harmed most of them come from romania as the e.u. citizens they can work here with their visa but with breaks that looming that

freedom of movement is now one threat and with that stephen the entire business if there's no labor coming in. virtually there's going to be no food. we've got to have the labor coming in there's no question about. all importing a lot of food from. the rest of the world. so we've got the choice. and britain's agricultural sector is already feeling the consequences of it this year there were twenty percent fewer sees no workers to help out on farms. about one hour to the east lies kevin at would support his family has been growing cereal crops for over eighty years they rely on big machines and that also means big investments. but because of rex it heaven is unwilling to spend money on an uncertain future his business will lose essentially

a huge subsidies and potentially any prospects for the future. we could easily see. a very substantial percentage of problems disappear family found go on and that won't be something you can do saudi for over ten years time politically we got that wrong because it would be and once farmers leave the land and go from on something else to do i generally don't come back on the front. no coming back that might also apply to stephen betsy's the workers next year in march britain will exit the european union and stephen still doesn't know if after that you will find enough people to harvest this talent in history to. look into the future now and can go when i will cain who is about to erupt or when an earthquake is going to happen well german and russian researchers think so that's how the

a chorus project was born it aims to monitor their behavior and migration habits of birds animals and even insects around the world so we can learn more about our earth now the project test taking a huge leap forward but the installation of the ikarus tracking system on the international space station. so you just finished it took the cosmonauts. copy of nearly eight hours to install an antenna on the external surface of the international space station it's a last missing piece of the world wide animal tracking system called it cares this blackbird is one of the creatures that will be monitored it's fitted with a tiny sense a tag that will send the bird state location temperature pressure and magnetic field to a global database. that i assess and speaker santana activates the tag sixteen times a day the tags then sent to store data up to space before their shared with the station on earth where they evaluated by scientists. indices in zones

interior and in on the most of the most intelligent census combining based senses into a global system gives us important information about life and sex and they will be able to understand animal sixth sense and really observe life on earth. the migration of animals is a global phenomena and provide scientists with a system of living. ghosts for example can anticipate volcanic eruptions they can pass on this information through their tag tracking the migration route of flying foxes could reveal the spread of ebola around a thousand animals will initially be fitted with tanks isolated state scientists hope to scan all corners of the through hundreds of thousands of tagged animals that are constantly being watched from space. you're watching news from berlin more coming at the top of the hour or around the clock on our website. tops you.

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