oh. you're a lot to do. this week to talk. to. me. this is the news live from berlin cameroon's constitutional council says no to a rerun after the country's contentious presidential election the vote has been marred by violence adding to the ongoing bloodshed between the nation's french and english speaking populations our reporter challenges the local governor about the army's alleged behavior. their complaint about women human rights abuses and this is how horrid it has to do that it was arabs eligible graves you are. going to.

continue to follow the british. also coming up a powerful afghan police commander is killed in a taliban attack ahead of afghanistan's parliamentary elections this weekend it's seen as a significant victory for the taliban and a major blow to the afghan and u.s. counterinsurgency campaign. and it's been called the europe's biggest tax swindle banker sold shares of over and over again and walked away with billions in legal tax relief now reports says it cost taxpayers much more than they've been told. i'm so much going to welcome to the show cameron's constitutional council has rejected an election rerun after the west african nations contention. presidential

election earlier this month it is now likely that president paul b. will be reelected he has been in power for thirty six years and he's won each election amid accusations of fraud particularly in the mainly english speaking west of the country in this latest vote turnout in that region may have been just five percent separatists who want independence for the anglo song region had called for a boycott they're upset with the marginalization and neglect of that part of the country by the french speaking establishment but the government of the mainly francophone countries pushing back determined to quell the insurgency four hundred civilians have been killed so far this year as a result did of these are increased brings this exclusive report from bomb end up. was just nineteen when he was killed the seminary student had just walked out of a church when soldiers suddenly appeared and opened fire. the way.

the it is the way. it is just confused i don't even know what i can see. that is the only. several eyewitnesses say they saw killed it's close range execution style even though he was clearly recognizable as a member of the church. the archbishop of amend is calling for action but fears there will be no response. people are afraid of the army before her. and nobody see. me because you are guilty. or you're not even given no charges. extra justice. just. execution of

people and. security forces are visible all over but we're not allowed to film them openly nearly every resident of this northwestern city has a story about their violence tactics many blame the president the body of a separatist has been on the streets for three days locals say it's the army's way of warning the population not to embrace independence for cameroon's english speaking region the governor is a close ally of president paul bia he consented to meet us but only if he received our questions before then he rejected all but one of the people. of the security of this crucial these under control all of the delusion. so. hot spots. were not proven.

to must. region they complained about human rights abuses and this is already asked could do that because. this. is. a regulation. we venture out of the regional capital to get a sense of people's daily lives and how they're fairing in these tense times so we just left we already noticed the drivers on the road giving each other sign over cars coming from the front you will tell. you can continue to say if you should be careful. we drive through nearly empty villages whose main streets yearly quites after half an hour we reached the first separatist road block. with these weapons they are fighting for their own state. trying to secure it people sorrow in their words real issues

because. you know some people so they say. what do you do of the military come. do we have. to manage it. two ways to draw a lease. into the bush several separatist groups are active in the region a few kilometers further we observe some of them intimidating local residents as well as people passing through they've threatened us too demanding protection money . the village of number is often caught between france according to a local priest roland tells us that pressure from the separatists forced the school here to close two years ago. so he tries to set up a kind of playground near the church to give children

a place to go. it's difficult because. anything can give you some consolation or some hope to attend these people have to even come around to us to pay money in a group you can. bet you can find is asking these people to make some conditions to give to them to support them and the people cannot do anything they just have to give they just have to be so now you don't know if you want to the boys are going to do so just because everyone is afraid you know fear is the catch word back in by men once the commercial center of the region now its economy is in ruins fear overshadows everything as a sign of protest against the government's so-called ghost town days have been taking place for almost two years every monday most people remain at home and shops are closed it's just vendors who are coming out to do some business because they

needed to survive and many of them told us they're still facing threats from separatists. the archbishop of sees no end to the spiraling violence without a total amnesty. stressed the archbishop appeals for dialogue between the warring parties with the hope of sparing lifes. afghan election commissioners are calling for a suspension of voting in the province of kandahar in the south of the country after the taliban killed a powerful police commander and a local intelligence chief the killings happened at a meeting and come to her province to discuss security for saturday's parliamentary elections which would be the first national elections in eight hears the taliban has said the top u.s. general in afghanistan who attended the meeting was actually the target he survived the attack. so let's get more on the story with ali latif

a journalist in the capital kabul ali how concerned are authorities in afghanistan that the violence including the assassination of this very powerful police chief will disrupt the poll so i had a time doherty's did take a lot of measure so in the last week i've been travelling through three or four provinces and in each province along the way including in secure provinces you would see military and police vehicles coming in and taking over and establishing checkpoints so they're definitely doing things like that but this fascination of it was it was a very powerful commander you know probably the most powerful man in the province of kandahar the fact that he was assassinated in the governor's office in the presence of top u.s. military officials brings forth a lot of questions you know this was two days before the parliamentary elections and the fact that the man who basically ran trundled was the one who was killed in

the governor's office when when these met u.s. military officials are visiting it's very worrying for people because they wonder where was the breakdown in security ali mentioned the general was very powerful why was he so important. so basically he became the police commander in two thousand and eleven and since then he's been very careful and very successful in terms of securing the city of kandahar which until then had a lot of issues in terms of you know the taleban and other groups and in terms of like assassinations and other types of crime and what he did was he really ruled with an iron fits so one of the issues with him was that he was accused of torturing with it now things in the pews there forced disappearances assassination of other people he definitely had a very hard lined image a very scary image to a lot of people and not but what he did do was secure the city and that really when

you look at what's going on today and since last night with inside on the line and on the streets about him people are remembering the fact that he was able to secure the city of khan not only given this obstacle of violence that we've seen ahead of saturday's election how are afghans feeling about this vote are they actually hopeful that it will bring about change. so there there there were a lot of obstacles a lot of hurdles to cross with this with this parliamentary election to begin with so in the beginning you know you had to register to vote and that included basically getting bigger that went on the back of your national id i wish it were problematic for a lot of people because if you're traveling through the provinces or even within the district of kabul and you're seen with that voter registration sticker it could bring up a lot of problems especially if they're tolerable and on the road a lot of people are hesitant to do that but the one big change that's coming is there's a lot of young people that are running and i've talked to. four or five candidates

a in the last two weeks in candidates where her hobble her hand and for the cheaper the nomad seats and the one thing they all tell me is that they carry everyone that they speak to what they're hearing is that the people are saying you know these parliamentarians they they're very kind to us when they want to vote you know they listen to us they talk to us but as soon as they get our vote missed when is the reach of the parliament to completely forget us and what we need our troops and to jews to to really stand there and to really hear what we have to say and that's what these young people are promising to be whether the wishing is something you know yeah right journalist ali latif he is speaking to us from kabul ali thank you so much for your insight thank you. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world authorities in thailand have charged two tourists with vandalism for spraying graffiti graffiti the pair face up to ten years in prison if convicted the twenty three year olds

from britain and canada were arrested in the northern city of chiang mai they were caught on surveillance cameras painting a wall near the city's old town. an official memorial ceremonies being held in russian annex crimea for the victims of a school shooting that left twenty people dead region is observing three days of mourning russian media is calling the attack in the black sea port of carriage by an eighteen year old gunman the russian columbine. the european union says it's willing to extend the brakes a transition period after a two day summit of the blocs leaders in brussels european council president said a decision would be made if and when decisive progress came in stalled talks british prime minister theresa may said the option to extend the transition could help overcome the current impasse over the irish border an extension to the implementation not some bad news for ugly americans government as a new poll shows support for her governing coalition plummeting to new lows merkel's conservatives have tumbled to twenty five percentage points that's one

point down compared to last week the central left a social democrats part of the governing coalition are also down to an all time low they're now at fourteen points and the greens on the other hand are seeing their best polling since two thousand and eleven with nineteen percent of germans saying they would vote for them in an election the right wing populist a.f.d. remains at sixteen percent. right with support from the government dwindling fast let's bring in our political correspondent thomas sparrow for more on this story hi thomas why is this government so unpopular right now well first and foremost to me it's important to stress that this is not only a german phenomenon when we look at center left or center right traditional parties in europe they are also seeing their support. and people choosing in certain cases the smaller parties so that's one important element but if we specifically look i've germany you can say that there's a sense of exhaustion at the grand coalition in particular the fact that they've

been quarrelling so much in recent months about migration in particular that's one issue that people tend to believe is problematic because although they think it's important many voters are also stressing that other issues are equally important if not more important and that politicians in particular in the federal government should also take those issues into consideration and start working on them and that's also why you hear there as a reaction from the government from government officials that they're trying to regain trust from voters in particular by focusing on those other areas so i would say that there's a national component there also international components that explain why in this particular case the german government is so unpopular and thomas just briefly how about chancellor merkel how is she affected by these are falling numbers well this increases obviously pressure but i don't see sort of direct radical decisions that will be made there are key elections coming up in the state of has said in the next few days and it will be seen whether the results there are also as bad as we saw

for example in bavaria and only off there that we will see probably some decisions by frank in america we can clearly say that the pressure is increasing for her the create the pressure is also increasing for government all right good of you thomas sparrow thank you thomas. football superstar lino messi is helping to build a new children's cancer center in barcelona the largest of its kind in europe the argentinean attended a ceremony yesterday where he met with some young patients. lost by the end this for the brave ones and emotionally and all messy join several children to lay lego bricks as a symbolic first stone for the new pediatric cancer center in barcelona expected to open its doors in late twenty twenty. you want over and are going to want more. i hope with this project children can keep on fighting this cruel disease cancer.

i hope we can all contribute together to help the children. at the cemetery happy to be able to fulfill this stream. that we're going to do this in. the medical venue will be the largest of its kind in europe thirty million euros were raised in a crowdfunding campaign that so a local hospital on the council on business school joined forces with f.c. barcelona and mrs foundation. now if you don't like the idea of spiders now might be the moment to look away a bizarre natural phenomenon has left the shores of a lake in northern greece with a rather go flea appearance hundreds of thousands of tiny spiders the fun a massive web around like this don't eat up biologist say the one kilometer long wonder whether it's caused by unfeasibly warm weather and an abundance of mosquitoes and now that encourage armies of iraq. saying

armies of arachnids makes me shutter here though to the web actually looks pretty against that of the sun like there are a lot of cars so asia's powerhouse is now losing steam this is quite surprising to me china is growing at its lowest rate in nearly a decade the six point five percent third quarter gross figure is the weakest year on year expansion of the chinese economy since two thousand and nine analysts say that you as imports tariffs on billions of dollars in chinese goods are increasingly biting into otherwise stable growth beijing's efforts to limit its growing debts pile of meanwhile cooled consumption the new figures could put more pressure on the chinese leadership to result trades tensions. well it's been called to the biggest tax swindle in europe's history european banks including spain some tundra and germany's deutsche bank bought and sold shares at a pace that. confused to tax authorities and they claim to billions in legal tax deductions in the progress the so-called x.

scheme has been known about for years but recent reports suggest that the amount of money involved could have been more than six times higher than we thought. some insiders call it organized crime in pinstripes they're referring to the controversial bit at the time dividend stripping transactions and legibly carried out by many major european banks here's how it worked investors quickly sold own stocks to each other around the days when companies were paying out dividends the capital gains tax on the dividend was paid only once but the multiple short term owners all claimed the tax relief the shares had changed hands so quickly that tax authorities were unable to work out to the real owner was. similar businesses are not about someone invading taxes or hiding their money in panama or anywhere else but about stock market trickery that allow them to get multiple tax refunds on taxes they never pay it's robbery it's

a theft from the tax authorities. according to experts gemini's tax office alone could have lost at least thirty one point eight billion euros the amount was previously thought to be around five billion euros the new estimates suggest from at least seventeen billion euros italy four point five billion and denmark one point seven billion euros at least six other countries could also be affected. the fiscal loophole was closed in two thousand and twelve but many questions remain unanswered such as when germany informed other countries about the comics dealings the case is firing up those demanding a stronger e.u. financial oversight. and for more i'm joined by a band to not a professor of economics and business culture at university in berlin but today he joins us from south spike in austria good to have you with us let me start first of all with

a quote from the financial times because that paper cites or forit is here in germany talking of cross border attacks fraud and organized theft so just to be clear once and for all was the skin illegal or did it simply use legal loopholes. firstly abusing law for tax designed for peter it's not allowed but this net for all of highly specialized takes a legal consultant bangs and invest those they developed a gap and they used the chance to earn profits. and is this get close to now that we're safe. it is the first and wisest for a job in federal government in the ninety's so the last ten years to talk about and a lot of time went and they underestimated the risks and the volume of

this fraud nowadays it's nearly closed but you have to be realistic they will develop new caps and who codes so what does this mean about the money that's already been lost we just heard in the report some thirty two billion euros last year in germany some seventeen billion euros in france and so forth will we see any of that money ever again i add that is it in europe we will lose a hundred billions so it would be very difficult to get back the money and it's a lesson to learn that in an economic profit driven community each day they will look for new possibilities and new chances and the government and the administration they had more than ten years to end again so the prop is not only the profit oriented banking and finance sector and investors the problem is also that we have no european institution looking greek and professional enough

for those for all its activities so who is responsible who could clear up this mess . who is responsible for techs and legal consultants without. thinking and without social mind the second problem is that nowadays in a low interest environment banks are very engaged in looking for new changes to earn money of course. of course embrace those powerful investors interested in owning ball then zero point two interest rate so. it's their motivation to look for chances to earn money the problem is that we have no governmental expertise and no system reacting quick enough to fight against this kind of behavior all right dollar to the professor of economics and to

business culture etched on bus university in berlin thank you so much if you're. the e.u. and to asian economies are looking towards closer cooperation global partners for global challenges is the theme of a summit currently underway in brussels ministers from china russia and japan and we see here prime minister shinzo up evolving in brussels has made the trip to reaffirm support for multilateral cooperation the e.u. sees the meeting as an opportunity to present itself as a counterbalance to both the u.s. and china offering asian countries alternatives like comes to trade infrastructure and to digitalisation a free trade agreement with singapore is said to be signed later today. and out of moscow where the four seems to be particularly strong as you can see here we're talking about star wars of course the sign five film franchise has gained a cult following around the world including in russia even though the films weren't officially shown there until the final years of the soviet union our galactic correspondent emily show in met somebody warriors who are learning the tricks of

the trade. in a galaxy not so far away a group of jet ai warriors are honing their lightsaber skills students at moscow's saber fighting school train every week for performances and even take part in official fencing championships. daria has been training here since january and is preparing for her first stool with flood the nineteen year old has loved star wars since she was a child. that could be it up to my it's a great hobby because it's very physical it increases your insurance even your immunity plus of course we're all big fans of star wars. fun though more efficient his name or in this is the world's first light saber fighting school it was founded in the year two thousand around fifty novice just come for lessons regularly and kids get taught for free loving the star wars films isn't a prerequisite for the sport but it certainly helps defies of proportion to pull

out a saber fighting is very popular because by taking a lightsaber in your hands and trying to imitate the movements of the characters in the films you can live your dream and become them. is the reason i devoted crowd has gathered for the school's performance at the moscow comic convention even though the star wars films weren't officially released here until the final years of the soviet union many russians say they consider them classics. there are a lot of reasons why i love the films it's memories from my childhood in many ways for me star wars is a symbol of who i've become but i misplaced the best universe in the world no one has come up with a better one. i've loved star wars since childhood my parents watched it my uncle everyone went crazy for it like i should be. i adore it. with all my heart. the members of moscow's saber fighting

school have taken. their love for the film franchise to another level daria and her jet i partner have been training for this performance since summer. these fights are exact reconstructions of scenes from star wars. one from a guy they were fighting helps distract me from everyday problems in my studies with my parents and so on. i just dive into this amazing world of fencing into the world of star wars. is still an initiate in the jet i order but patience she must have until then she and the others from the school hope the force will come with them. we all hope that the force is with us you're watching news coming to you live from the wall coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that is dot com thanks for joining us and seizing.

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