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may the other mile of the rocky road to brags that there are just six weeks to go to the us president donald trump threatens a national emergency to get the money to build a border wall with mexico congress has offered him some funds but only a quarter of what he had demanded. plus a serious contender for the top prize at the berlin film festival the film is so long my something family chronicle covering china's explosive development over the last forty years the chinese director is in the running for the golden take. place. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us. india's prime minister narendra modi has warned pakistan to expect a strong response to a car bomb attack on a military convoy that killed more than forty indian paramilitaries and the bombing

outside srinagar in india administered kashmir is the worst attack in the divided region in decades india says it has clear evidence of pakistan's involvement. the first pictures from the blast site show confusion and devastation security officials say it was a kashmiri militant who rammed an explosive laden van into a bus carrying indian soldiers. the attack took place on a key highway on the outskirts a shrine to go in indian controlled kashmir and the bus was part of a larger convoy at least five other vehicles were badly damaged in the blast police immediately launched an investigation. but despite the inspectors caution authorities blamed rebels fighting against indian rule the militant group jaish e mohammad has claimed responsibility for the attack and local media has named the

driver as our alias walk us commando a known militant indian prime minister narendra modi after observing two minutes of silence for the victims squared up to islamabad by suggesting pakistan was harboring those behind the deadliest bombing in three decades just that are these ideas that are to follow a neighboring country thinks that it will succeed in creating instability through such conspiracies in our country they should stop dreaming. what got me into it god why they will never succeed. but islamabad strongly rejected quote any insinuation that seeks to link the attack to the state of pakistan without investigations which have a claims or accusations india and pakistan's tribal ties risk taking a dangerous. did of you sonia found the car is covering the story for

us in delhi she joins us on the line hi sonia a prime minister modi has promised a strong response what could that look like. i saw me that's right prime minister nouri in the movie has an emergency q order to review meeting with the top when this goes the morning and more the a says you know that those behind that ever attack would be a very heavy price and b. the huge mistake for there is definitely now a risk of escalation of tension between india and on to real clear i. mean we have to remember that in two thousand and two the indian army had you know carried out a much stronger to bordeaux what it called the phone to strike and quite separate peril gone bad for nineteen of the political killed in an attack on an army headquarters in already in kashmir but this time i think things are different kashmir has been an upsurge in violence and some analysts say is the government you know attack the government and it's a dilemma any reaction could quote really need to be because we're not taking any

action at all could all go to forty three lection in a few months from now so you what more can you tell us about the group that claims to have carried out this attack. sort of group was started by a cleric muscled other in two thousand and it's been blamed for attacks on indian soil in the past including one in two thousand and one on the indian parliament in delhi which really took india and pakistan to the brink of war it's a group that is said to have introduced suicide bombings and kashmir of its leaves the remains of large and he's reportedly based in pakistan punjab province india has tried in the past to get him designated as a terrorist by the un but it that has been blocked by china and india will try to get the extradition from pakistan but it's love abandon a lot of people when you we know that india and pakistan have been on the brink of war in the past over kashmir are there any efforts underway right now to deescalate

tensions. well frankly you know if we catch me remains a meta flashpoint between india and pakistan and right now the situation there is it's pretty dire you know since two thousand and sixteen there's really been a spike in violence and gosh mili you know it's in the region is experienced renewed rebel attacks repeated public artist against indian rule in the past few years in recent months and insecurity is that dishman has talked about how it is you know managed to contain contain the insurgency there but this latest attack really shows that conflict is far from over and so to answer your question i don't think you know given the current situation and tensions are there any efforts underway to really deescalate the situation d.w. sonia farmworker reporting from delhi sonia thank you for your update. we have some of breaking news now as spain's prime minister pitmen sanchez has called a general election after his budget was rejected by parliament now the poll will be

on april twenty eighth and it's spain's third election in less than four years such as his budget was voted down in parliament on wednesday his minority socialist government needed the support of catalonian separatist parties to get the budget approved but they voted against it in protest at the trial of catalan politicians who are accused of sedition. british prime minister theresa may is still battling to get parliament to approve her brags that plan as she tries to renegotiate her deal with the e.u. on thursday may suffer another humiliating defeat in the house of commons lawmakers voted against a motion supporting her approach to gregg said pro breaks that m.p.'s from the prime minister's own party abstained from the votes saying she is moving in the wrong direction the vote is non-binding but it is likely to undermine e.u. leaders confidence that may can when parliament support for any type of agreement.

let's bring in. covering this for us from london hybrid so truth to me is really getting nowhere with parliament she's also up against a brick wall in brussels what can she possibly do to save her deal. well one way out would be to somehow soften the red lines around the customs union possibly the single market that would mean she could get some support from the labor party but she makes no sign of willing being willing to do that and as such we really are in a serious situation where everybody is at loggerheads with each other that's reason may with a parliament but also with the european union so there is no obvious way out the accusation is that's the reason why is just playing for time and she's running down the top towards the end of march because that's. really just a few weeks left until the u.k. would crash out the european union if there was no compromise found we have heard

that accusation there in london also in the you that theresa may is indeed running down the clock is there anything to that. yes there really seems to be no other strategy at the moment at least as nothing that's visible from the outside the reason why has any vision of how she could move the process forward and where she actually wants to leave the country there are lots of m.p.'s here in the u.k. were deeply worried that by accident the u.k. could crash out without a deal that would have serious implications security implications implications for business huge uncertainty and there have been calls also on ministers to prevent that to possibly resign so that reason it could be prevented from doing that nobody wants or the e.u. doesn't want no deal three's a may doesn't want no deal the british parliament doesn't want it and yet it could happen if no solution is found the truth is we don't know there's going to be

another crucial vote in two weeks time here in the u.k. in the meantime series or maybe once a negotiate with brussels but what's going to come out of it we simply don't know at this stage target a lot of unknown still as you're saying but with six weeks to go until march twenty ninth until the u.k. supposed to leave the european union what scenario looks most likely at this point in time. this is really the million dollar question and i think a lot of people here in the u.k. me included would still hope that there is some sort of deal because it would be terrible for the u.k. to crash out and paula meant to harry and all the experts know about how serious that would be also for the european union not being able to somehow find do find a compromise and keep a friendly contact with the u.k. so a lot of people are hoping but it looks as if this could be really

a very very last minute scenario all right burke at most for us in london thank you very much. so the u.k. is scheduled to leave the european union at the end of next month as we said to people in germany have never liked the idea and the latest polls confirm that in this latest opinion survey for the german public broadcaster aired poster and protest found that only sixteen percent of germans welcomed the idea of bragg's it and overwhelming seventy nine percent of germans surveyed say they regret that britain intends to exit the e.u. well let's bring in go to he is the managing director of in for test institute so a big majority of germans as we said there would still like to see the u.k. stay in the e.u. does that surprise you after all of the chaos and also bad will we've seen from both sides here. no not at all it doesn't surprise me because when you look at the

image of you in germany it's absolutely positive there's only a minority of fourteen percent who says the you has its disadvantages disadvantage to germany when it comes to the questions do you do you want to have more national possibilities for the nations themselves it's only a quarter of germans say that moment and for germans that use stands for free seek circulation of people and goods it stands for peace in europe so it doesn't surprise me at all all looking ahead to a very big election here in the e.u. between the twenty third and twenty sixth of may voters in the european union will decide who they will send to the e.u. parliament now the greens and the far right populist a.f.d. are both on the rise conservatives and social democrats so the centrist parties are declining is that in line with the overall trend in europe. well we did a bit later we will see the voting the so-called side sunday question we will see

them in the broadcast right now but of course the discussion about the climate threaten throughout the world the discussion about social inequality the green party have left party and you know the question of immigration has been hoping no elections for the next bonus or you mention that just there of mr sloan could national elections so let's take a look at that question if elections were held this weekend let's take a look at how things would stand here in germany a chancellor merkel's conservative a bloc the c.d.u. c.s.u. would win thirty three percent of the vote of the greens would be at nineteen percent of the social democrats would come in third at eighteen percent of the far right f.t. who we've just been talking about would get about ten percent the business friendly f.d.p. would get seven percent and on the far left left party would get around six percent

so mr jeffrey you were talking about this that the european and german political landscape looking very similar right now why is that how do you explain that you cannot be extremely similar because the c.d.u. . four percent more in the european election nationwide is that twenty nine the s.p.d. has the same by and the right wing party the a fifty three percent less in the projection for the european election so it's not exactly the same people see that the governing party has a strong european back owed and they see that right wing party which is mostly a protest party in germany doesn't play the role in the european aid election it would play the national election here in germany all right thanks much think of managing director of the inn for trust polling institute thank you so much thatcher . you're watching good news still to come in this half hour a family chronicle covering china's explosive development of the last forty years

the chinese director has already won the silver bear's the berlin film festival and carpet tells us what are so long my son is likely to get a gold. the first u.s. president donald trump is threatening to declare a state of national emergency to get enough money to build a wall along the mexican border trump is angry that congress has only approved a quarter of the funds he wants for the wall one point four billion rather than the five point seven billion he had demanded declaring a state of emergency would give him direct access to funds the bill approved by both parties in congress also avoids another federal government shutdown senators in the chamber wishing to spite u.s. lawmakers efforts to come to a compromise trump's decision sets the scene for a constitutional conflict the border security bill had support from both sides of the aisle and easily passed its first hurdle of votes in the senate but not before

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell dropped a bombshell he said the president would be bypassing congress to fund his controversial us mexico border wall leader mcconnell i've just heard up kurdish make the president drop and he would say all my college is going to cater he's prepared to sign the bill he will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time and i've indicated to him that i'm going to prepare to support a national emergency declaration conference democrats members of the senate were quick to condemn any possible use of executive powers to build a wall if president trump decides to go forward with a disaster declaration will be making a tremendous mistake declaring a national emergency would be a lawless act a gross abuse of the power of the presidency. and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that president trump broke his core

promise to have mexico pay for the wall the border security bill then went to the house of representatives where it also easily passed the bill will now go to the white house for president trump to sign it off on friday house speaker nancy pelosi warned that any attempt by trump to sidestep congress could have major implications for the future everyone a democratic president can do that democratic committee president can declare emergencies as well so the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay. while lawmakers showed a willingness to cooperate on keeping the government running they remain deeply divided on the border wall and any executive order to fund it is almost certain to land trump in a lengthy court battle with lawmakers of the constitutional powers. and we have boris foreman with us from bard college here in berlin he's an expert on american politics thank you for joining us the lawmakers have avoided the shutdown for now

but president trump is that threatening to declare a state of emergency to get the money that he wants for as well so does that mean that his wall is going to be built. take a long time either way if he's going to actually invoke the emergency powers probably is going to face court battles which will drag out the process there's going to be a resolution at least by the house if there's a joint resolution with the with the senate some g.o.p. members would have to would have to back a democratic proposal which is unlikely in a very polarized. context so we could veto it so it's a lot of insider ping-pong but overall yes you could you could build his wall and it's a question of of time but there's obviously a big thing at stake here which is the separation of powers it quare mechanism of american democracy i will ask you about that a moment but you know it is within his right to declare a state of emergency isn't it so what could congress really do to stop him he said

court battles to make the proceedings along or is that right yes he can do it but it's never been done in this situation like this it's been done in the context of natural catastrophes or wars or terrorist attacks but this really seems a scenario where he's setting the precedent yes the congress has the power of the purse this is why there's a problem here because you could circumvent the congress by also using his veto powers so yes in the end he could he could pull it off how does this look for trump is it a victory because he essentially said i'll get my wall done anyways or is it a blow for him that congo. it hasn't given him the money he wants i think that's exactly what he was furious i think it's a face saving measure to try and go go it alone i think that can backfire and will mobilize a lot of voters against him i think well i mean it's a little complicated because this is about a mechanism of american democracy and it's a bit more complicated than just a spectacular act that he's that he's trying to pull through so it remains to be

seen what will come out of is probably his base will continue to support him but i think that many of the supporters of the democrats will be alerted when asked about what nancy pelosi said in that report we just saw that this is a dangerous precedent is it is this a threat to american democracy well i think one thing that makes american democracy special and that always has. secured its role as a role model for the world really in terms of democracy is the separation of powers and there's a good reason why certain powers are limited to the congress to the legislative branch and others to the executive branch and what he's doing is basically to blur blurred lines and this is something that undermines democratic mechanisms and it's a risky move why do you think this is so important to president trying to get this wall built well it's he's partly to blame himself because he politicized it so much i mean this is one of the central promises of his comparing even though there's

been other promises as well but over the last couple of months he's insisted on it so much that it's become a one way street for him all right of course from an from bard college here in berlin thanks for joining us. now china's president xi jinping briefly met u.s. trade officials at the end of the latest round of trade talks between the world's top economies and u.s. negotiators called the talks productive but there was no sign that there's been any agreement the u.s. and china how two days of talks in beijing hoping to at least create enough goodwill to stop any escalation of their trade dispute. a picture says more than a thousand words not really reporters in beijing would have liked to hear a word or two on how the latest round of u.s. cheney's trade talks for progressing instead all the god was a neatly arranged family photo featuring u.s. treasury secretary stephen newton and trade representative robert light hisor along

their hosts the chinese delegation led by vice premier li or hey the top economic adviser to president xi. meanwhile in washington reporters couldn't get anything either. again i talk to the group there covering all the ground they're hard at it they are going to meet with president xi so that's a very good sign and they're just soldiering on so you know i like that story and i will stay with the phrase the vibe is good but i can't give you can't give you details while beijing says it will buy more u.s. made goods to ease the trade deficit between the two economic superpowers there are other sticking points reports say little progress has been made on u.s. demands that china crack down on force technology transfers and reduce subsidies for domestic companies it's unclear if chinese president xi jinping is participation on friday is simply meant to flatter the americans or if it comes

with a sincere offer to move forward. earlier this week she's u.s. counterparts donald trump has suggested he may extend the deadline for the trade talks and push back new terrorists for another two months it's going to get done i could see myself living through the berlin film festival now and china's only entry this year is being tipped as a strong contender for the top prize the golden bear it's a sweeping three hour portrait of a nation in transition from the very end of china's cultural revolution to the present day acclaimed director wong says it's a hopeful story of people overcoming their struggles to make something out of their lives. to. face the future forget the past that was the ideology driving the cultural revolution in china. with his new film so long my son director wayne childish way shows us the years that followed this traumatic period when china transformed at an unprecedented pace.

was. that she shrugged. their shoulders as. you told me it was hard to be additional police officers. for those of. us who took those hostages from. petitio dot. the film tells the story of a family that loses a child the sole chance for them to have a future under china's then strictly enforced one child policy. the three hour saga refuses however to forget the past constantly returning to that which was left

behind. in so long my son we see a country that is changing so rapidly its people are struggling to keep up director wing said that i've been made until recently any criticism of china's one child policy would probably not have gotten by the censors some have speculated that government censorship was behind the surprise withdrawal of two other chinese films invited to premiere at the bed another waiting said he could not speculate on whether they were pulled for political reasons but he said their absence is a great disappointment. on the national you when they will says i was on the plane when the news came out and i only heard about it when i got off the plane i was quite shocked and i really felt for them as well because it's really quite tough for any director to make a film. now so long my son is china's only chance for a golden bear this year but hopes are high some critics are calling it the most fascinating film of the festival. football now and the europa

league last thirty two kicked off last night and the two german sides managed jason away draws in the first legs leverkusen left russia crossed the dar with a nil nil scoreline while on track frankfurt picked up a two two draw against donetsk in other matches havea one one nil at lot seal and arsenal suffered a one no loss of the second legs are next week. but if the guy is back tonight byron munich visit augsburg are hoping to close the gap on league leaders bursa dortmund they are expected to have goalkeeper a minor annoyance back after a thumb injury biron have won four of their last five games in all competitions the defending champs travel to oxford knowing that a win would cut the lead down to two points dortmund doesn't play until monday. coming up on d w quadriga terry martin will be leading a discussion about the abuse of power in the catholic church that's coming up in

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