w. . this is d w news live from berlin campaigning ramps up ahead of nigeria's elections with just one week to go tens of thousands rally in support of president obama does bihari but has he done enough to win another four years in power our correspondent as the latest also coming up after a hollywood actor liam neeson was accused of racist comments fallout from the scandal reaches the day when allah will be fine with the latest from the red carpet .

i'm calling assman welcome to the program nigerian president muhammadu buhari made his case today for another four years in power addressing tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in lagos there is just one week to go until the country's presidential election and he's hoping to secure a second term but he's also facing stiff opposition. as africa's most populous nation prepares to go to the polls president mohamed who bihari is pulling out hopeless stops. his ruling overaggressive congress party so to govern our supporters i must write in lycos that yours largest city and economic powerhouse but bihari has work to do to convince a jury that he deserves another four years in power many feel that the president has not done enough to fight corruption cover boko haram insurgency and revive economic growth. it's go to. the

young that's going to be sufficient to corruption. to me that's not it will take you know. so what are we talking about to telephone through for me since. this government will come in and they made a lot of promises on people who. really improved with this new government coming in . and trying to i was disappointed just like in. the opposition it's also shouting foul play the people's democratic party and about how his main competitor. was prevented from holding its own mass rally in the capital abuja on saturday that blames the a.p.c. . a record eighty four million people have registered to vote next saturday they will either offer change or get another chance. biharis speech at today's

rally was shortz but it was filled with promises africa correspondent is in lagos and he sent us this wrap up. president. addressed his supporters for exactly three minutes his key message vote me in once again for another four years so i can fulfill the promises that i made already during the last elections four years ago and the three key promises he made was tackling corruption tackling the insecurity situation wide parts of the country and create employment but the problem is many league oceans and people in nigeria have the feeling that apart from the fight against corruption he hardly made any progress the security situation is still a big problem and huge parts of the country and unemployment is actually rising this is why most people believe it's going to be a neck and neck race between president mohamed and his main contend. during the elections on saturday. all right well what do you call

a shipping company without ships just another day in the bronx it saga the u.k. government said today it's canceling a nearly sixteen million euro contract with a british shipping company because it has no ships of the company was one of three that the government had hoped could help keep ship traffic going in case of a no deal brock's it the contract was signed even though the department for transport was aware that the company had never operated across the english channel . william know a glue craft is here to hopefully clear some of this up for us look my first question would be how can something like this happen well the company that got the contract is called seaborne freight it was founded in two thousand and seventeen and as soon as the deal was announced at the end of december it's was already getting ridiculed there was a parity a twitter account set up to sort of mock it we can see it we can see it here the whole ordeal was quite a joke for many people in the british isles. it was ribbing the company and the u.k. transport secretary chris grayling who made the deal we even have one tweet specifically

where the company likes to talk about strategic planning and we could see their shipping fleet here a bathtub full of toy boats you can also see they've offered fake tickets for rides on their nonexistent ferries to attract followers to their twitter account this is a parody account this is a parody account and it has more followers than the companies actually the actual companies twitter account how is the u.k. government dealing with this so the transport department has said that no tax money has actually traded hands in this deal and that the problem was not the british company it was actually an irish company behind them the british company had no ship so they needed to turn to an irish company they did have ships that irish company backed out and when it backed out the british come the british government had no other choice but to kill this deal so all right well now we have yeah the rights that have been in the other direction headline exactly we can see here some of the outrage here this one british legal. scholars saying

a stupid idea done stupidly that ended up being canceled after a waste of time energy and money the seaborne freight for rago could be a perfect metaphor for brecht's it if only we saw sense there's been calls for chris grayling's resignation and today's announcement put a long running hash tag failing grayling to use here's one remainer activist saying how can failing grayling possibly remain in his post he surely the least competent minister in modern memory that the gift that keeps on giving so this is a gift that is said to be open on march twenty ninth deal or no deal both sides say they of course want to deals in their best interest but how they actually get there well carl if you have any clue a bit recent may or donald tusk would be gladly leading your phone call i'll leave that with you and no clue prof thanks very much. all right now look at some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of mourners marched in the gaza strip on saturday carrying the body of hassan shalabi the fourteen year old boy who

was one of two palestinian youths killed by israeli troops on friday demonstrators have been gathering weekly along the perimeter fence for nearly a year to manning an end to israel's blockade of the territory. at least one person is severely injured after clashes broke out between police and yellow best protesters in paris a witness told the a.f.p. news agency that a man lost his hand after police use a stun grenade to disperse protesters it's the thirteenth consecutive weekend of yellow vest demonstration. relatives of the ten boys killed in a fire at brazil's flamingo football club's training center have arrived in rio de janeiro investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the blaze brazil has declared three days of mourning in honor of the teenaged victims. in england's premier league cardiff city have led tributes to their player a million no sala whose death in a plane crash was confirmed on thursday

a minute's silence was held before their match with southampton and players across the country wore black armbands as a mark of respect sol was travelling from ninety's to his new club cardiff when the light aircraft disappeared from radar over the english channel last month the pilot of the plane remains this. now here in germany match day twenty one of the bundesliga is underway so let's take a look at all of those results so far leaders dortmund threw away a three goal lead at home to hoffenheim european hopefuls leipsic and frankfurt played out a goalless draw on over climbed off the bottom by beating fellow strugglers nuremberg mentioned loss at home for the first time the season freiburg came from behind a three times to draw with votes burke in the friday game leverkusen thrashed might scoring four goals in a blistering first half. when del started that

rounds after just five minutes stabbing home an easy goal with their minds dressed in a festive carnival jersey and major level four minutes later through robin quiet zone but others and julian brandt put labor through isn't three one up before karim l.r.b. got a fourth before half time rant got his second goal in the sixty fourth minute to seal that five one away whereas elsewhere in the bundesliga by a new nick are still in action against and there's two games on sunday including two starts bottom of the table clash with stuttgart. french artist and writer tommy unger has died in ireland at the age of eighty seven unger was known for children's books such as the three robbers and also illustrations for grown ups he was also a life long activists protesting against racial segregation the vietnam war and the

election of u.s. president. rosberg had lived in ireland for over forty years. all right time to talk movies it's day three of the barely knowledge here in berlin and today the controversy surrounding hollywood star liam neeson took center stage a few days ago in an interview promoting his new prevention thriller called pursuit the indecent confess that he once set out to kill a black man after a friend told him that she was raped and said her attacker was black and he says remarks triggered widespread condemnation with many calling the actor racist now today at the bed of bella now a president called pursuit director hans pate a mole and an actor scars guard came to nuisance defense. very honest and this is a very decent. grounded man. he's not a racist. i think most people more people should read the articles.

or buttered people under their words instead of listening to all of the twitter us around that find it frightening to live in a world where you even get punished for what you think but most of all you get punished for what people think you think. so let's go to the belinelli red carpet now where i mean as a business lucky enough to be spending his saturn and out there for us i mean look first of all these controversial comments from liam neeson they're just not going away i mean how big of a deal are they at the belinelli. well carl if you notice he did not only defend liam neeson. he also defended his comment which is not a way to bury controversy not here at the better than other not in the u.s. where this week the opening of his previous film called pursuit was canceled i

don't believe we're going to see the same kind of controversy here in the billion dollar in europe i think the audiences will more likely take him for his word that you can separate the artist from his work and don't forget that liam neeson is not in this film that opens today out stealing horses. so i don't think it's going to have the same effect that it had in the u.s. but the slogan actually the better no this year is the personal is political and that certainly is inviting controversy of this nature now director hans paid to mold and he directed as you mentioned the sims film called pursuit but he's not in berlin because of that movie he's here to promote and promote a different film tell us about that. that's right out stealing horses a film that premiered today and it is a beautiful sweeping film if you wanted to distract from the controversy which is not clear he does but if he does and this is a distraction for it it's it is everything that a norwegian film should be lots of snow lots of cold its stars stellan scars scored

as an older man who goes out into the wilderness in or in norway to escape from his past but finds that he can't do that comes back to me in dreams we keep seeing flashbacks of his time spent with his father one traumatic summer and it's a story of human fragility and about the impossibility of escaping memories. now another director german director this time. is returning to the bears are now with a new film you got to see it right what do you think about the golden glove well i can't give my personal opinion until efficient premieres say this is an objective lee disgusting film. that is the nature of the that is the subject of the film rather the repugnance of humanity it follows the story of a serial killer in hamburg based on a true story in the one nine hundred seventy s. in germany this is when the rest of germany is experiencing an economic miracle but it follows the characters who fell through the cracks who do not experience this

prostitutes almost everybody in the film is an alcoholic and it shows just how much somebody can get away with a killer in this milieu because the filth is so present nobody even notices what's going on except for the smell and i'll leave it at that hour i will leave when you see it please tell me what you thought of me as the belly now the red carpet was. veterinarians in the u.s. town of cali spell have saved a cat frozen stiff on a snow bank fluffy the cat was delivered to the animal clinic unconscious with clumps of snow and ice sticking to its fur the cat was so cold that staff could not actually measure its body temperature at the time but fluffy was revived with a generous towel rubbing cage warmers and intravenous fluids story there. coming up next drones robots and super sperm german farmers go digital in our

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