this is g w news along but from what tonight standing ovations in the u.s. congress a resulting indorsement of nato despite president trumps skepticism secretary general you still direct appeals for unity in an address to the u.s. congress to mark the alliance his seventieth anniversary and he says there will not be a new arms race with russia also coming out across the political divide british prime minister theresa may holds talks with opposition leader jeremy corbin trying to

break the brakes it deadlock with just nine days left to avoid a chaotic divorce from the european union and a cloud of controversy over its hellion soccer player for you ventus becomes the target of racist abuse from the fans and a wave match on tuesday but the player himself is now drawing criticism as well we'll tell you what. i'm bored go off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome with nato secretary general hugh shelton back says that the alliance is not seeking a new arms race or a new cold war with russia though he did call for greater efforts at deterrence and

from member countries to increase their defense spending today he addressed a joint meeting of both chambers of the u.s. congress to mark nato seventieth anniversary. at the entrance to the nato headquarters in belgium there are two monuments warm a piece of the berlin wall the scientists to keep people in and out of the us out famed the other moment is a twisted steel beam from the north tower or the world trade center. a memorial to the ordinary people going about their business on an ordinary day when the unthinkable happened a memorial to the two thousand nine hundred seventy seven people who lost their lives on nine eleven a reminder. almost all laws stood we do not the states and it's our of me.

i was the head of nato you can beg speaking to the u.s. congress earlier today our bureau chief in washington is alexandra phenomenon and she has been following events on capitol hill she sent us this report yes stoltenberg address to congress seemed to go down well with the american audience especially when he praised their old you ass plate informing nato coing america the backbone of the alliance but sultan brooks point was also to illustrate that nato has been beneficial for partners on both sides of the atlantic the fact that the u.s. has profited from nato is something the current you asked president often tends to forget when he criticizes the alliance. and alexander also spoke with both going he is the head of the munich security conference and she asked him does nato need to

change the way it sees itself. i think what the future. will will put to nato in terms of new challenges is first and foremost how can nato deal with react to the new role of china. what role can nato take for all native members in managing new technologies you know when we think about the military about defense about security in the past we talked about the number of tanks for example. in the next ten fifteen twenty years the question will no longer be about the number of tanks the number the question will be about artificial intelligence about resilience against cyber attacks against the ability to conduct operations etc so it will all

be about technology we equipped to handle that can we compete with china. can there be a nato role should there be a native on that these are the new questions if you as president tromso persistent call for increased defense spending helping or hurting the cause. well as far as my own country is concerned i think there is a big problem here we should of course not simply react to what is perceived as an american demand for us to spend two percent what should have been in germany is that we should examine ourselves what in our view are our needs to defend our borders our nation our people our alliance commitments and then we should come out with a precise definition of our needs instead of reacting to something which others are demanding from us that is why the. this debate trump

criticizing germany for not doing enough is actually not very helpful on the other hand maybe it has been a necessary and useful wake up call for many germans who have become a little complacent with the post unification period of peace that we have actually enjoyed in the. interviewer and that was hope going is you're the head of the munich security conference earlier today or british prime minister to resign when she reached across the political divide today she held talks with the opposition labor leader jeremy corbett in a new push for a compromise on brics it is may announced on tuesday that she will ask the european union for yet another delay beyond the april twelfth deadline she wants to avoid crashing out of the e.u. with the deal next week the talks with labor have had hardliners in her

conservative party they fear that a compromise could lead to the u.k. seeking closer economic ties with the european union once it leaves the european union. for the next installment of our birds that. want to travel the point she is standing by for us and good evening to you gillard and so both saw is calling this meeting constructive. and i guess we'll have to take them at their word what comes next. well that both sides say they have shown some flexibility and they have appointed on both sides negotiating teams that meeting later tonight and also over the course of tomorrow and the hope is that they are going to find some mutual ground and that they are going to move towards each other just a little bit and we have to say there is mutual ground that they could work with both sides don't really want the freedom of movement of people anymore both sides

in general want brics it and both sides want to avoid and no deal labor wants to move more towards a customs union that might be something that may could get around to so it could it could see more that it seems like there could be some mutual ground that they could rally towards so that labor in the end would get behind may steel and bring that through parliament. and theory. to reason has always. been was out of the question because that would again didn't know why the u.k. . to conduct its own trade negotiations for example. turning she's willing to talk about that with germany there is going to make some members in the among the tories very angry as. though it has made them very angry today we really heated rhetoric that it was a grave mistake from maine to meet with a marxist and anti-semite like corben that she is front trying to find ground

really doesn't sit well in her policy we seem to ministers resigning among some of the bricks that minister that was working on a no deal scenario he resigned as well and there was a motion drawn up in parliament by some of her m.p.'s that wanted to see her salary cut into the hof and basically stripped her of control of the bracks a process so a lot of anger in the tory party and may is really risking with this move to try and find a compromise was called in to split up her conservative party and what about the pressure on jeremy corbett within his own party i mean how do you feel about the head of labor for under non-singing with the head of the conservatives. well some really want to see a compromise they want to move past this political standstill of the past couple of years they want to put van print on a soft of bricks if may move towards that so there is some positive reaction to

this from labor pushing jeremy corbyn towards a second referendum and others saying this is all a trap and she shouldn't go for it so a lot of divide there still in the labor party as well our correspondent on the story for us tonight in london showed off a thank you. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the german cabinet has passed a draft law that would strip dual nationals of their german citizenship if they fight for a terrorist group such as so-called islamic state the new law would not be applied retroactively and it would not affect mine the european union has launched fresh action against poland over its controversial judicial reforms the european commission finds that under the new system judges can be punished simply for acting independently a warsaw is already subject to unimpressive knitted proceedings by the e.u.

that can see poland losing its voting rights in europe. celebrations erupted across algeria last night as president. his resignation which has now been officially confirmed the algerians have held weeks of mass demonstrations demanding that the ailing eighty two year old step down. it was not even a self proclaimed president is challenging authorities to arrest him after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity mr garrido has been engaged in a power struggle with president nicolas maduro since january when he proclaimed himself president it was a move that was immediately recognized by the united states germany the european union and other countries. this is the constituent assembly and that is way law it was set up by president nicolas maduro in twenty seventeen to

rewrite the country's constitution many venezuelans consider the body illegitimate and more than forty countries do not recognize the assembly but it's these lawmakers loyal to madeira who have voted to strip the opposition leader and self-proclaimed president one who i don't know of his parliamentary immunity cheers and applause followed the decision. to constituent assembly president. says the party unanimously voted to authorize the supreme court to prosecute quite a for breaching a ban on leaving the country in january. majeure supporters also want to be charged with inciting violence and his efforts to oust the president and for allegedly accepting funds illegally. isn't backing down. they do think that by continuing to threaten us with reads with disqualification with kidnapping.

by persecuting my political party or unity our fellow legislators that they are going to stop us obviously they are wrong they are wrong because we are showing our face like always and we're going to keep doing it until we achieve parent freedom for the country. i earlier on twitter go out and said efforts to arrest him would be met with force hinting at international support. more than fifty countries recognize quite a self-proclaimed presidency but he has yet to win the support of venezuela's military last week the auditor general's office announced it had stripped him of the right to hold office for the next fifteen years. well it's been almost eighteen months since accusations of sexual assault against hollywood producer harvey weinstein launched what would become the me too movement has spread across the globe but in mexico the campaign has been almost none existed until now our very

own reporter only fucker has the story so tell me what has changed so as well in the last year and a half the me too movement in mexico has been limited to a few women in the film industry who like other places have come out with allegations of sexual misconduct within their industry that's until last week when an activist a mexican activist her name is anna gonzalez she published as you say sions on twitter against a young writer now she wrote that this man has a huge list of women who have come out to report that he beat them and that is one of them is a person from my close circle now that you know do not endorse the beaches so this is what started it all. expressed her. voice for a need for amy to campaign in mexico specifically for rights as and and the response was immediate but not only among rights as all of these twitter accounts

that are popping up there is you know you know me too me too for musicians me too for the film industry for journalists for academia and so on. and so women have been using these platforms to anonymously posts or kinds of accusations ranging from workplace bullying to accusations of sexual misconduct by celebrities and that's had some you not so pleasant consequences you. yeah that's right so on monday the mexican rock star mundo vega feel he committed suicide after being accused of sexual misconduct against a young woman she was thirteen at the time more than a decade ago. her anonymous letter was posted to one of these recounts on sunday and in it she wrote he told me that i should go back to his house and he wanted to teach me how to kiss he told me things that were increasingly disgusting and explicitly sexual until i got really scared and then just one day later amanda

vega feel himself pose that his suicide letter to twitter before taking his own life. he wrote i will say this categorically this accusation is false i will lose my job as it relies on my public credibility my life is over and there is no way out which let me make it clear that my death is not a confession of guilt on the contrary it's a strong declaration of my innocence so other women have been publishing similar accusations on this for three count against they get a feel. of the question that many people are asking themselves is why he chose to take his own life rather than trying to clear his own name going through the legal system there were never no no i guess what happens now. at least one mexican states have come out and now is that they will investigate views within the journalism industry after this kind of revival of me to mexico but many women have

said that they don't trust the legal system in mexico and that's why they chose to stay anonymous in the first place. just makes mexico us has a big problem with gender violence the un for example they estimate that nine women are killed every day in mexico and the metro in mexico city is dangerous for and two in five women have experienced sexual violence and you know huge numbers. so the enemy maty of these twitter accounts have you know really been important and the reason why many people tend to social media in the first place rather than going to the authorities and now the women behind this the journalism twitter account they have said they will pursue some of these stories over the with the with the consent of the accused was. a terrible situation there all the way around the very much so we should. our sports news now and another incident of racist

abuse in the top tier of european football this time it was aimed at italian league leaders your ventus nineteen year old moritz kane was the target and the incident occurred within hours of a high level anti-racism meeting in london attended by some of football's top brass people who critics say have done little to combat ugly racism in the beautiful game . i miss him care for the i monkey chants from the holes kalyani and you ventas teenager maurice cain had to play through the racist abuse which only intensified after he aimed his goal celebration at the opposition fans. but it's the reaction of some of his own teammates that have left many wondering that it's not just the fans in need of educating eventis teammate you're not a new chief came under fire for his post match comments he said came inside of the

fence i think the game is fifty fifty we are professionals we have to set the example and not provoke any one coach max and ag echoed the defendant's views saying kane shouldn't have celebrated in that manner but a leaky was also quick to point out a solution so they decided with the boss there are cameras there for this reason and when these people are filmed they should be thrown out of the stadium they should not be allowed to enter the stadium again so people can no longer get into the stadium for their entire life not for a month or a year for their entire life someone makes a mistake it's the end problem solved. sounds like a solution to a problem that affects our top tier football leagues but is enough being done on the same day in europe's football governing body you a father was in london for an anti-discrimination conference the only call it was. that matter on the beach because of the players shirts and unfortunately better than yellow cards of the referees. critics argue there's

a lot of lip service and flashy videos like this one from those at the top. that perhaps less talk and more action like stadium bands point deduction and turn in disqualification on need it when it comes to tackling racism in earnest its presence from our sports desk here to talk about this explain to me is he's being criticized for how he celebrated. a victory a goal goal after he had been the target of a race is abuse and i think up a new cheese argument his team made a huge hit this was your kind of provoking the reaction ok and strangely enough the opposing coach had a similar comment you know and it just goes to show and baluchis mindset clearly there's a double standard because he has a team a christian or naldo that has like a world renowned goal celebration and we consider that this is

a professional in his place of work and he's in his office so to speak to have to sit there and endure racial slurs thrown at you every time you come near the ball is a disgrace a former barcelona in manchester city midfielder yeah yeah touring with the it's a game and set that as well aiming at the new cheese and if your teammate is saying that that shouldn't happen you should be celebrating like that it's a disgrace the message is there is if you are the target of this type of abuse and you happen to be doing well on the pitch you know just keep keep it cool because you control the event seems to be the case right now at least that you know that's what or half of the people are saying what they did in this instance is they stop the action and that's something that the officials you know have been conditioned to do that is not the action to see if they can calm the crowd down the event as head coach had an issue with that he had reservations about that he feel he felt that you shouldn't stop the action to try to. resolve the situation and and he is

well felt that the player should not have provoked that reaction you know from the crowd but you know it's just a sad reality that we've seen this quite often he's gotten support oh he's never going to ask you but he has gotten support he said gotten support you know the euros twenty twenty qualification is going on right now right in sterling an englishman who plays at man city he was recently in a match first montenegro and he was on the receiving end of some racial slurs and he. recently you know when it's a graham following his teammate baluchi ok let me backtrack but you try to say face a bit and say that he posted a shot of he in. as a together came together say no to racism so in response ryan sterling said you can do nothing but laugh at that now yeah you know me and a lot of players obviously players that ever see me like this are all you know

echoing support you know for this young man but it's unfortunate you had to consider his age and consider you know what it must be like you're living your dream but you're also living somewhat of a nightmare for exactly and this is not just a problem that we're seeing in italy is that you know just recently in germany the image of the twenty twenty euros going on in watford there was a match one fan had complained because fans behind him he was with his daughter fans behind him were screaming racial slurs towards us towards li race i'm a player for the german national team who has you know after an african ethnicity as well as a turkish player going to want as well we've even seen it in south america across the ocean just recently in bolivia a striker was lined up to take a corner and he just walked off the pitch because he was fed up and he actually addressed the issue this is said gene you know is we're looking at this issue there he is walking off the pitch there and he addressed the press say listen my family and friends are watching this at home and if i don't make

a stand against it it just shows i'm tolerating this and that's the wrong message teach the youth so you know the organizers are going to look at the one issue that recently recently happened in italy their way to the end of the week to maybe dish out some sort of punishment that remains to be seen but it's definitely via the ugly ugly side of the beautiful game that's for sure prince harry has always chris thank you ok. a new exhibition of photographs portrays life with the chinese dissident and nobel laureate. who died in prison last year the photos were taken by his wife. who was under house arrest for eight years she was freed last year now her work is on display in the taiwanese capital taipei we use phoebe kong reports. pictures without color faces without happiness these photographs were taken by lucia as the wife of

a prominent political dissident in china the couple was often separated by prison bars this collection and black and white was created during the period her husband was jailed in the late one nine hundred ninety s. many were captured at their home. and i feel like is the most ironical way because thoughts are supposed to bring you joy to evoke something as powerful as a political movement as the horrors of our world i think was what really stood out i think it's the most touching for me because you can see the. sad and angry but she cannot do anything she cannot go oh it's from this. as an artist meeting. changed her entire life her husband died in prison while serving an eleven year sentence for inciting subversion of state power a charge often used by chinese authorities against dissidents baling is

a close friend she recalled the tough time endured during her husband's persecution of despair perfected and her works. we can dock feeling you can feel children in this war never happy if we use more imagination we can feel. no not anger just sad. apart from these twenty six pictures several poems of lucia are also shown in this exhibition the latest piece was written less than one year before her husband's death revealing how exhausted she felt she wasn't freed from heavy state surveillance until last year when she moved to berlin to start a new life she poverty it's a nod political person shown in the. people think her is a writer artist. not the only for. bailing said lucia is still

grappling with depression despite being physically free she still faces a long battle dealing with the psychological trauma from her experience. here's a reminder the top story we're following for you nato secretary general young children bag says that the alliance is not seeking a new arms race or a new cold war with russia addressing the u.s. congress today he also called for alliance of members to increase spending on defense. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that to be right that.

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