this is d.w. news wide from berlin tonight a stark warning from the russian president to the united states. and promises a resolute reaction if washington deploys any new missiles here in europe in a state of the nation address aimed at boosting the longtime president's plummeting approval ratings he made that warning also coming off nationalists in india to

demand revenge over recent violence in kashmir now kashmiris living in india say they fear persecution and as three of us from britain's ruling conservative party defect saudi teresa mayes disastrous handling of the british prime minister travels to brussels for more talks on how to leave the european union. plus the lost childhood of afghanistan's youth we meet some of the children who are forced into labor instead of going to school and kept drawing opium so their parents can more. bring to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin tonight with russian money and muscle into. the annual state of the nation address russian president

vladimir putin today promised to improve living standards within a year he said that many russians are living in poverty and he pledged several measures to improve conditions for them he also made a thinly veiled threat to the united states warning that washington against deploying any new missiles in europe he said that moscow would consider any move a serious threat. it's one of the most important domestic political events for the russian president in his fifteenth state of the nation address but a mere putin promised a raft of measures to improve economic and social conditions for his people above all families should benefit putin promised them tax breaks as well as better child care. but at the moment thanks to the many years of joint efforts and the successes we have achieved as a result we can now have really invest in our country. people should already notice

how things are getting better. the russians are certainly hoping things will improve incomes have fallen since two thousand and thirteen putin's popularity has cratered there have been protests against pension reforms that raise the retirement age then there's foreign policy putin sees the us withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty as russia's most crucial issue. i mean that russia does not want to be the first to place these missiles in europe. and. produced and stationed in europe continue and the us has not denied doing this. that would intensify the international security situation. in the presence of once again cast himself as the country's patriarch appealing for the solidarity of the russian people in difficult political times. and for more on today's speech i'm joined here at the big table by kluger he is a russian expert with the german institute for security and international and

security affairs i should say known as the s.w.b. good to have you on the show so let's talk about this speech president putin to use the address to warn you know that there would be serious consequences if the u.s. puts in any missiles here in europe hell serious is this threat. well i think that you know any threat like this is obviously serious. but we also have to consider that everything that he said today was you know it was not news it was everything of all of that we heard before in different speeches so it's important to consider that this speech was primarily targeted at the domestic audience so in this case putting used in you know the opportunity of the united states exiting the i.n.f. treaty to portray russia as a great power in this speech it was only a small part of the speech only the end but he used this opportunity you know last weekend at the munich security conference there was a lot of talk about the i.n.f.

treaty dying and a new arms race taking place do you see that happening and can russia afford a new arms race oh i don't think that russia can afford a new honest race it cannot afford it economically because you know it's trapped in the economic stagnation of long term stagnation and it cannot afford it politically because anonymous ace's not what the population wants at the moment what the population wants is that the leadership turns to the domestic issues and social issues and clearly wouldn't create additional or you know wouldn't. create a lot of additional support for the crime that this moment the kremlin particularly president putin sees himself as a major global player again or that or he has respect again on the international stage how does that go down with average russians so it's a that a national pride is something important obviously but if you look at the issues

that you know interesting to russian citizens at this moment it is not the first issue that comes up so yes you know this this status is something which is important and which you know help to boost support for the kremlin for some time but at the moment it's really not the number one issue in the number one issue is the money exactly right stagnation declining incomes rising prices and of course the pension reform that was started last year and he made promises in this speech today that within a year things would improve getting keepers were. that's going to be difficult. the sort of spending that he announced today it's actually not very much if you look at the figures is probably an increase of one percent of social spending so it's nothing that three the russians are going to feel in their pockets and yeah i would say again like in the fourteen times that we had the speech before it's you know it's the it's the attempt to create you know the impression of something's

going on something's going to change this time it's really going to change but you know if at the same time look at the policy economic policy and fiscal policy you see that decision for the russian population is probably going to worsen this year not improve do you think so you think it's going to get worse rather than get better well yeah i mean the value added tax was just raised in the first of january and this leads to shrinking incomes again so we have seen incomes going down for five years in a row now it's probably going to be a six year in the row and twenty one thousand units with the german institute for international in security affairs i was going to have you on the show we appreciate your insights tonight thank you very much. well tensions between the nuclear armed neighbors india and pakistan are running high delhi is blaming islam abad for the er for last week's suicide bombing in which at least forty indian security personnel were killed the muslim majority territory of kashmir is divided between india and pakistan back in one thousand nine hundred seven with

a so-called line of control separating them but both countries lay claim to the whole of kashmir since one thousand eight hundred nine because miri separatists have been fighting against indian rule a rebellion that india claims is supported by pakistan with emotions running high at present innocent muslim kashmiris have become targets of hate we have this report. can't you go into a week of the dead attacking bushmeat small truck tests like these have sprung up across india. most have been against. but some have reported to be targeted young bush meetings as about. students in the last two hundred sittings of that up to an imam by law walked at the feast traps from right wing activists. and behind one tree to us from push me were attacked. donnish it by a young activist from cash meet says he has met dozens of students in delhi who

fled how distant and different parts of and. he want to use about the message this sends to young midis in the country. as a muslim it's been a problem and. that is sad it's tragic that the people who have been feeding into the night if you will forgive just because this is the goal to me to go aloft out of there just so all the people who had been involved in the attack that they want to be some to keep the society. as a kiss meet on the business in new delhi college because he has not faced how distant but back home and gosh meet his family is what it's like my mother she talks on meet the soul. she didn't talk to me in these two days because she thought that. people will come to know that. is the feeling we display the hate which is spread but there is hope. and response to reports of targeted how dismount and violence against meeting the hash

tag on hits now stop it trending on twitter in india with people offering their support and even their home. feeling threatened. krishnan a political activist did not want to young to only see debates of hateful responses from other indians. she chose to offer her support to push meetings over twitter and she was not alone even very ordinary people who are just instinctively feeling that this is wrong this kind of targeting is wrong so many people have come forward and opened their doors offered accommodation contributions of funds. and generally tried to respond in a more humane way and i'm really reassured by that and finding this outpouring of support reassuring as well khalid that his friends have

created the group india africa. to share messages of support i'm sure that that for all those targeting them and many others will stand by them as well. cannot make one thing that it is important to discuss the dog and then to create. something which helps. sides and not only one say it's important to speak peace. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in morocco police have clashed with teachers protesting for higher wages and promotion opportunities police beat teachers with the times when they tried to walk towards the royal palace in the capital multiple injuries have been reported the swiss bank u.b.s. has been fined a record three point seven billion euros by a french court for helping wealthy clients evade taxes prosecutors say the bank hope clients conceal assets in switzerland from french tax authorities bernie

sanders campaign team says the u.s. senator has raised more than four million dollars in smallville and the nation's since announcing his presidential bid on tuesday all that far exceeds other democratic candidates sanders has pledged to build a grassroots movement to take on the special interests that he says dominate u.s. politics. now to europe british prime minister theresa may and the european commission president jiang called younger have stressed again that the backstop for vision in britain's withdrawal deal with the e.u. will be temporary following talks in brussels the two leaders issued a joint statement saying that they had discussed guarantees to ensure the backstop which aims to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland will not be permit it may has faced stiff opposition from within her party from members who believe the backstop could tie britain to the european union indefinitely. in london to recent days

conservative party is breaking apart three prominent parliamentarians have had enough of may's tough breaks at course and have announced they're quitting the party they accuse me of succumbing to the anti europe right wing and changing the tories forever. the right wing the hardline anti e.u. awkward squad that if destroyed every leader for the last forty years is now running the conservative party from top to tell you they are the conservative party the three den position themselves on the side of the opposition to wreck leave aside the former labor m.p.'s who had themselves quit their party on monday. their reason was also the growing ideological radicalization and the looming possibility of a hard break that the evidence of labour's betrayal on europe is now visible for all to see offering to actually enable this government bricks it constantly holding

back from allowing the public a final say the defectors from both sides are now considering forming a new party together. and for more i'm joined here in the studio by a familiar face here in the w. news john wortham is a political blogger and analyst who closely follows rex it has been doing that now for more than two years john it's good to see you again so. all right let's talk about this new party the independent group i think it's a party they're not registered as a party the one thing that all the members have in common is that they want a second referendum correct is that going to happen is possible because what's happening at the moment is britain doesn't look like it's going to get a break deal through the house of commons and if that doesn't happen britain kind of goes over the cliff with a no deal breaks it on twenty ninth of march and no one wants that or new or only some very broad ical breaks and here's what matt so faced with that conundrum what

if you've got a general election no one really wants that either so perhaps this idea of a second referendum is going up the political agenda the deal would essentially be theresa may ok if we're going to majority view a deal put that back to the people let's have a second referendum please and that's what the these moves apartments are trying to force what are they been doing the past two years i mean aren't they really late making this decision to leave their parties and form a new one a bit bear in mind that the british tradition of political parties is those who parties labor in the conservatives are extremely strong and one of these politicians one of the labor ones that left mike gapes he's been a member of the labor party homers fifty years is that this is not an this is not an easy decision for those people to leave they almost all certainly know that the come the next general election buildings their seats their political careers are over so this is something that's not very easy for an individual politician to contemplate so this is really when they've run out of time they've run out of patience that they've been willing to contemplate a step i'm very grateful that i'm trying to do that because they're trying to just

find try anything essentially the moment to unbroke they stoop to unlock this kind of can and there are more independent group seats in parliament now and then d u p c limit which prop up to resume is a secular but still that doesn't. the arithmetic doesn't mean her government is still not a threshold of menow is full that is because if four more formal conservatives defect to this independent group that means theresa may has no more majority in the house of commons and there are all rumors circulating in westminster that some of the members of parliament may be willing to defect it's all going to come to a crunch on this point probably midway through next week when the next round of it's going to be taking place in the house of commons about the future bracks so everyone starting to get really nervous in westminster now it's six weeks to go. to these two well that nothing happens you know the president today they met again today and essentially the statement came out an hour ago essentially said we agree

to talk yet no idea end of the month and so nothing came out of it because the positions between the e.u. and trees i'm a miles apart still and so therefore i don't think there is any deal possible with to resume as the prime minister and so therefore it's either no deal or stopping this thing via referendum or delay of some sort ok delay maybe the whole force of it which is over it's good to get your insights i thank you very much we're now to a story of lost childhood in afghanistan in a country where health the population is under eighteen it's estimated that more than one million children work instead of going to school and some initiatives are trying to break this vicious cycle of child labor and poverty but decades of violence as well as drought and food insecurity are taking a terrible toll on afghanistan's children. you know my name is ahmed says this child i'm six years old and i work here in the poppy fields. the lotto would go to

one day i work from sunrise and til about ten says this boy sometimes i manage to go to school for a few hours in the afternoon it is that you that. the seed pods are ready to burst it's harvest time the capsules are slashed by hand and the raw opium is collected the work is done by children there are no adults anywhere in sight across the fields. the youngsters earn around one hundred afghanis for an entire day of work the equivalent of just over one year zero. a few hundred metres away is this workshop this young boy can barely hold the heavy hammer in his hand his face is covered in sweat it's hot and sticky in the dark blacksmith's shop. a village in the province of mango har but it could be any other province in afghanistan almost half the country's population is under eighteen and they have to help support their

families otherwise they can survive work instead of school and childhood. many children have to work because the parents need the money to support the rest of the family it's easy to condemn child labor but without their earnings many families would slide into even greater misery. weaving carpets this work is done by girls it's estimated that more than one million children in afghanistan have to go out and earn money but the statistics often don't take girls into account because they work at home. the american born while i sit here and work i don't know anything else if i actually manage to make it to school some day i probably won't have any time to do homework. impoverished families children who are forced to work and can't go to school one initiative aimed at breaking this vicious cycle involves giving the children lessons in the

afternoons along with a warm meal but many villages are very remote and parents often lack the necessary motivation the careens have three children the eldest is helping with their work the two younger ones are sleeping the mother periodically gets up and gives the younger children the small black pellets raw opium is to keep them asleep so the others can continue their work undisturbed. the mother knows exactly what she's doing and it took a while until she was willing to be filmed as she administered the opium to her youngest child did up i'm working i give it to them a few times a day in the morning i weave carpets then i work as a washer woman then i go to the market and buy vegetables and opium for the children i have to keep them sedate and good otherwise i can't get it all done i'm they can hardly stand it's either drugs or work instead of school

and right he mccurry me isn't the only mother that gives her children drugs. tragic story there when out to the frozen expanse of the antarctic where germany's southernmost workplace is celebrating its tenth anniversary today it's a part of the world where temperatures can drop to minus fifty degrees celsius and there's no sun for three months of the year but here in a research station you see it right there if there resembles a space ship on stilts one took a doctor several engineers and technicians they live and work together running experiments on the forms and cut. into the great white yonder antarctica the world's biggest expanse of ice and the seventh continent in places the ice is four kilometers think more than two dozen countries are conducting research here at about eighty research stations. germany's noire meyer three is

one of them the antarctic offers a unique environment the world's greatest quantity of fresh waters here frozen solid neumeier three sits atop sixteen hydraulic stilts they keep it from sinking into the snow to be crushed like some of it's for runners. here outside the temperature is minus fifty degrees celsius that doesn't stop the researchers though they measure the sounds of the antarctic ocean and movements in the earth using seismometers. they also collect data on the atmosphere including information on gases that escape into it and contribution to climate change and they observe the weather the whole year round. but neuer threes days are numbered the ice on which it sits is sliding towards the ocean but until it heads out to sea the station will keep on delving into the secrets of the ice. are some sports news now for many young footballers across

africa the chance to play for a top european team is a huge story or this fourteen year old that you're about to see well is one of those dreamers hoping to be a global soccer star our correspondent in law has followed him his former f.c. byron star klaus. visited nigeria to scout the next generation of footballing tell . for a fourteen year old jabril the next few days could be life changing he's one of eighty boys hoping to catch the eye of one of the walt biggest football clubs they're competing for selection in the by any use world cup the ten best play as we travel to germany to take part many of the players are from low income families and getting scouted by the german team could mean a change of fortune for the anti our family gets up at night in so many like for

the form i. have you have to start leaving you with the next. building from going. in to see people pitching and i'm looking forward to. the mound they're trying to impress is for mob i am legend klaus. now in the club's top talent scouts because america it's a big opportunity for byron munich to find the best players and big talents here in nigeria maybe this time we'll find the next messi or cristiana ronaldo it's very difficult because we have our own academy with very good players but in case we find a very good player his level must be much higher than that of our kids because of the difficult legal procedures involved in bringing them over after the training to brill is randomly selected to receive a surprise visit from coach. it's a chance for the coach to see what life is like for some of his boys he tells the

coach he has to work every day after school before going to the peach to train. before heading to bill's house the group makes a quick stop at his place of work here he's paid less than a euro to load up a truck with sand. that sometimes takes a toll on his body. and. you know. just. i. haven't read. into just what you mean by listing. djibril cisse five hopes the job is temporary no surprise he would be fed you breo playing football in the top leagues of europe. and today i'm very happy and very proud. i want god to keep helping my son so that he will be one of the great footballers that play in europe. that would be promoting the name of

nigeria in countries like germany france or spain for us. at the house grill is proud to show his special guests his meadows his dream of playing for an international team could become a reality soon now that he expected i'm looking forward to what you just sit around and looking forward i'll be very happy you know. my life. begins with a new country. for the face thank you no. it's the day everyone has been waiting for. to see by and fans are supporters have gathered to watch for the national youth cup finals and it's time to announce the ten best play as that would be representing nigeria at the world cup in germany and joining. unfortunately bad news for jabril to bill would not be traveling to germany if this

time but the memory of having one of his football icons in his house who stay with him for a long time. we were rooting for. our here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you. has used his state of the nation address to promise improved living standards within a year and he's also made a thinly veiled threat to us in washington against a point any new missiles here in. your. adverse will break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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