i. want to urge him to. start to turn around twenty. w. . this is d.w. news live from berlin poland bid farewell to the popular liberal mayor of get out who died monday after being stabbed at a charity event the killing of pawel adam overage sent shock waves around europe you're looking at live pictures as this funeral gets underway and downs where mourners are paying their final tributes also coming up. a mexican gas pipeline

explodes killing more than twenty people the blaze north of mexico city engulfed dozens of people who gathered to fill up fuel containers. and byron munich kick off the second half of the bogus league a season with a strong statement against hoffenheim byron are hoping to get back on top of the leak by season's and. i'm married to evanston a welcome leading figures in poland and the european community are indents today paying their respects to the city's late mayor pawel adama vish was fatally stabbed while on stage at a charity event last sunday the murder of the liberal politician is believed to have been politically motivated. european council president donald tusk of former

polish prime minister is among the mourners at st mary's church the funeral services being broadcast on big streams and and in cities across poland. well joining us now from correspondent monica. so monica we understand you're actually outside st mary's church where the funeral service for the polish marriage taking place what are you seeing there. there are thousands of people from poland and other countries gathering here all the time in front of the cathedral in. hope did they can enter the church and attend the can there are ceremony there are several thousands already in the church right now the funeral ceremony is beginning many people will have to stay outside and they will attend there will see the holy mass and attend the speeches from the big screens

all over the city i talked to several people in the waiting line many people are still in deep shock after six years six days ago they don't understand how it happened in poland today how it would happened in the heart of europe they will keep. the memory of the mayor of the diocese as an open minded person. and understand who wanted to do all the dying ska to make this city a place of tolerance and understanding. they are there is grief and sorrow in this people well this violent killing has not just gripped poland it's also sent shock waves across europe what do you believe is the broader significance of what's happenin.

well it's also important that today's ceremony is not on the local polish even and . it's significant it's really much. outside of. it's also for the whole of europe. the fact the fact that many. foreign officials are also attending the ceremony not only to polish prime minister and president of. the president of the european council the former german german president. so this is a message for europe for a whole the old europe all the people in europe it is also a warning it is also a call. the political divisions shouldn't be deepened because not only poland is a divided country but also a whole europe this is a problem in other countries so this is a warning and

a call for more understanding and more tolerance in all over the continent monica said after reporting for us thank you very much. being remembered for his civic engagement in his hometown and also for his willingness to speak up about his convictions. danske is a city overcome by grief. thousands of residents braved freezing temperatures to join me a powerful coffin on its final journey. past the schools you attended and the childhood home in which his parents still live. winding through the streets of a city he governed for over two decades. sadness here is equaled only by horror

horror at the killing of a man celebrated by many for his liberal values and his criticism of the conservative ruling law and justice party. to everyone homosexuals refugees everyone could come here. now say first everyone mourns together and then the accuse each other. the mayor was stabbed on sunday while on stage at a children's charity event he died the following day. a twenty seven year old former convict with a grudge against an opposition party to which once belonged has been charged with the murder. no poland's toxic political climate is under the spotlight with many blaming politicians for fueling hatred. what. a murder is also political in

a certain sense when the perpetrator has been listening to aggressive political talk over a long period and when he feels like he is representing a political group. this is pavel our final resting place mary's church in his hometown of good downs. turning now to mexico where at least twenty one people died and dozens more were hurt when a ruptured fuel pipeline exploded the disaster took place in the state to the north of mexico city residents from the town of tal only plan were siphoning fuel from a nearby oil refinery run by oil firm pemex they did so by breaching a pipeline it later exploded sparking a huge fireball the blaze has since been put out but officials say the death toll

could still rise as rescue services examine the site. hundreds of people could not resist the temptation of free gasoline the fuel was spraying from a pipeline connected to a nearby refinery run by pe mix mexico's state run petroleum company it says thieves had illegally tapped the pipeline people soon crowded around the front to fill their pails and jerry cans. a couple of hours later a fireball and explosion and gulf the scene. an official says two dozen people died instantly dozens more suffered burns as they fled for now it's not clear what triggered the explosion but gasoline and its fumes are highly flammable a single spark is all it takes. to be watching the news and would up to my roof and it just exploded.

then i got worried and i called my father. and. this tragedy comes just weeks after president lopez obrador launched a crackdown on theft from mexico's vast network of fuel pipelines on a late night visit to the scene he vowed to press ahead with a policy. that we will keep going until these practice is wiped out by giving alternatives to paypal so they don't have to do these kind of things you know. the government says thieves drilled more than twelve thousand illegal taps in the first ten months of last year. those taps often lead to fires and loss of life though last night's tragedy is the deadliest in recent years. well no look at some of the other stories making news around the world. violent protests have erupted in the

sudanese capital khartoum police clash with hundreds of mourners following the funeral of a man who was shot during a protest on thursday witnesses say officers fired live ammunition and used tear gas against demonstrators who threw rocks deadly anti-government protests are now in their fifth week. colombia has reactivated arrest warrants against leaders of the leftist guerrilla group and who are living in cuba this comes two days after a deadly car bombing in bogota which left at least twenty one people dead the government blamed the rebels for the blast is said peace talks won't resume unless the group stops its attacks. germany's c.s.u. party is due to elect a new chairman mark was he said to replace german interior minister of course the whole for at the head of the party chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats are closely allied with the c.s.u.

who suffered heavy losses well last year in state elections. to the united states now in the latest twist in the russian best a geisha special counsel robert muller's office has disputed a bombshell buzz feed story implicating u.s. president donald trump the story alleges that the president directed his then lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about his business ties to russia the report cites two unnamed law enforcement officers. the story made headlines across the world following publication on thursday but then came this denial from the special counsel it reads buzz feed's description of specific statements of the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. miller's office is investigating alleged russian interference in the u.s.

election and whether any trump campaign figures were complicit the statement is a rare intervention from miller's office which is known for being extremely tight lipped well the buzz feed report claimed trump ordered cohen to lie about plans to build a trump tower in moscow last year michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress about the russian real estate plans for his part president trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with russia here's his press secretary sarah huckabee sanders speaking earlier. that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today those categorically false that one statement those two words sum it up better than anything anybody else can say and that is categorically false. well buzz feed is sticking by its story is editor in chief ben smith tweeted that he stands by their reporting and the sources who informed it he's

called on the special counsel to make clear exactly which facts it's disputing that . all right some soccer news now in defending but if they get champions by munich travel to hoffenheim on friday to kick off the second half of the season byron trail league leaders dortmund and had lost on their last two trips to help in time let's see how they did this time hoffenheim had beaten by and here in both of their most recent attempts and the hosts were hoping to make it three home victories in a row against the champions but by and had a point to prove in the thirty fourth minute the only gorecki of powers on a par each head to make it more new a smart finish from the germany international. just eleven minutes later great scott scored again this time the latch towards the end of a defeat i live across. it's the midfielder's first ever does need to brace.

posts off and on came out with guns blazing in the second half an early counterattack culminating in this brilliant strike brought me through shoots his first league goal of the season warms remember. but the hat trick of home wins or gets by and wasn't a big problem never got steep champions beyond sites in the eighty seven minute. job done for by and they've returned from the winter break looking shop and they've got dortmund in their sights. all right australian open tennis now and germany's alexanders there it is looking like a title contender in moved into the round of sixteen with an easy win today there is victory put him up against a world number one of a joke of it in the next round the two have split their previous four matches in while the women's top seed simona halep defeated willingness williams to set out what could be the best match of the tournament against syria williams. you're

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