i am. this is the deputy is coming to you live from berlin libya's capital under siege a rebel general's troops advance on the city of tripoli dozens of. the u.n. backed government says it's launching a counter offensive as best in the country scored for troops also on the program europe's far right party seek to join forces leaders of italy's party have brought together populist political parties from germany denmark and other countries when

big plans ahead of european elections. and a russian port suddenly releases film and theater director kill as have been recalled he was arrested or most two years ago for embezzlement and put under house arrest. class tackling germany's criminal clans police in berlin cracked down on families of the centerfold rebels nor listeners we have a special report. on and welcome of a touchy not welcome to the program verba troops loyal to former libyan general have closed in on the country's capital tripoli they've already taken control of large parts of the country forces aligned to the u.n. backed government say the amount to counter offensive wonderboy says authorities have close tripoli's only functioning airport rests. in countries meanwhile of

calling for a truce and the resumption of peace talks. in benghazi members of have tars militia prepare for their onslaught on the capital tripoli despite calls for restraint by the international community have to are seems determined to ignite a civil war he's one of the fiercest critics of the un backed transitional government so far efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis have failed meanwhile government forces are taking positions outside tripoli to defend the city from attack the rhetoric is getting increasingly hostile they have a little earlier today we have launched operation volcano of anger to cleanse all cities from the aggressors who oppose the legitimate government. have to are seemingly aims to seize military control of the entire country and in this way to establish facts on the ground this comes just ahead of plan talks on libya's

future set for the end of the week a timeline for possible new elections was among the issues to be discussed the e.u.'s foreign policy chief is appealing for a truce is the full implementation of the my italian troops to allow the civilians and the wounded to be about needed from. the city and to avoid any further military action and for their military escalation according to the u.n. more than two thousand people have fled the fighting south of tripoli many others are still trapped by the hostilities and cannot escape. and for the valences joining me now on the line from typically is. us live what can you tell us about the latest situation in tripoli where you are we're carrying that rebel forces are closing in on the capital. have been trying to sort of create took the chance line around southron of the city

they've pushed back this morning have to us forces from. tripoli international airport that is but they're still have a clashes in. the script leading up to appreciate it and what did the i. saw you say that the un backed government is has mounted a counter offensive but does it have enough power to actually dislodge or or repel the army off a gender hostile which is trying to take the capital yeah i mean the west of libya has always been militarily quite strong even if alliances are very fickle and. the general environment is very fluid the offensive i mean the technicalities are quite still strong and the boer have that's worked that result. of that launching off and making it very much

a regional conflict the more people will join the fight even if it's not. in the plan yet so more and more people from cities like today have joined in with the with the g.i. government. so i asked my if i understand you correctly you think that the situation is still very fluid with neither side having an advantage given that what do you make of international efforts to help solve this conflict. think that hasn't been a really sincere international effort the conflict i think there has been quite calm complacency felt support by elation on the very end and the way that whatever way to go cool quick when it militarily because everyone had different entry in front one. and then not to mention of course saudi arabia during. the riot. in the libyan capital tripoli

thank you very much for that update on what appears to be a very tense situation let me now bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the world turkish president john is in moscow for talks with his russian counterpart of leadin me poutine among the topics up for discussion turkey stands to buy the advanced russian s. four hundred seventy s. to air missile systems defense deal has angered the united states it's threatened turkey with sanctions if the deal goes ahead. russian authorities have signed a deal to free nearly one hundred captive. and the new go have spent months in cramped pens near the sea of japan fought off. a company called them to export them to china but images of the winds light sparked a campaign to free them. german chancellor angela merkel will meet the british

prime minister to visit me in berlin tomorrow tuesday may even then go on to paris for talks with the french president this ashie scrambles to break the backs of deadlock ahead of an emergency summit with e.u. leaders on wednesday the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. by the end of this week. u.s. president donald trump's homeland security chief has resigned kristin neeson was the face of trump's controversial border policies including the wall extension on the mexico border and the separation of migrant parents from their children but she was also reported to be a frequent target of the president's anger is a major problem string. to israel on a day before the election primeness a billion when netanyahu has made a controversial campaign promise he says he and makes jewish settlements in the occupied west bank he's facing a stiff challenge from a former general the centrist benny gantz with a tight race ahead

a middle east correspondent daniel crema sent us this report on what voters are thing on the eve of the pony. benyamin netanyahu is likud versus benny gantz blue and white party is resurrection is said to be a tight race with voters remaining split including here in this close restore in jerusalem ilana benyamin hopes to be netanyahu as everyone calls to prime minister will form the next government she can see any ultimate tariff on and. i think b.b. has a great team they're doing fine and have babies elected i will sleep well at night we will move towards a safe future for me for my sons and grandsons it should be limited in chile another four years of be unthinkable for this young student guggenheim voted for netanyahu is likud party in the previous elections but this time his vote for the go to the new blue and white party headed by former army chief of staff benny gantz

i think the time is coming go there was country well i think after ten for years the really the time has come to switch parties and have been born white take the premiership and move country to hopefully better and more secure places. when israelis go to the polls on tuesday they have a wide range of issues to consider and a record number of parties to choose from economy and security are usually the top priorities for voters but this election is likely different. in essence these are vital issues for israelis but they're not necessarily the big determinants of votes because we have a situation where the voters focusing primarily on the issue of netanyahu his ten year long governance over israeli society thirteen years in total and the corruption charges against him. despite facing an indictment on a string of corruption charges netanyahu can still count on a strong voter base he campaigned on social media and by meeting foreign leaders

with a clear message he's the only one who can keep israel safe and represent the country's interests abroad. meanwhile pentagons and his team of former army generals have been touring the country with the centrist blue and white party has been ahead of the likud in almost all opinion polls. in a small community in southern israel guns who served as military chief under netanyahu appears to voters there's only his party can move the country forward. mr netanyahu and his messages of busy dividing people and using incitement in order to survive we have busy reinforcing the security of israel and working towards a better future for our children. post as predicted gunther netanyahu will compete next to me but netanyahu might have the upper hand to form a right wing coalition with smaller right wing parties. you are watching news

coming to you live from berlin coming up ahead tackling germany's criminal clans police in berlin launch a crackdown to try and catch the families at the center of a web of lawlessness. but first these are some of the leaders of europe's far right parties italy's foreign interior minister matteo salvini has invited popular spot is from around your to meeting in milan salvini is hoping to forge a new right wing alliance and head off next month european elections among the groups attending these far right if he is the danish people spotty and the finns party from finland salvini says he wants to form a new populist bloc in parliament. the ockers four hundred beca ritter's is standing by in milan where that a meeting is taking place so welcome the big it is first of all what is salvini hoping to achieve with this alliance. amrita as you just

said he's trying to unite the far right populist parties ahead of the upcoming year . lections and today he's actually announced that that plan and he said that they're going to be building a new party a new grouping in the european parliament called the alliance of nations and people all the ins now the. more it turned and the danish and the finns have a far right populist parties have already agreed to join this but they've put a call out to all members of the other three groupings all of the far right populous and indeed anybody who share their views to try and change europe from the inside the people to these parties actually have been calm and rebecca because via keurig reports they agree on certain issues but is really wide apart on others. that's right amrita and just how successful he is really remains to be seen at this

early stage i mean there were only as i said the full full full representatives of four different parties attending today i think the league is illegal selvin is league of party would have liked it to be much bigger although some of the people i spoke to from the league of the representatives said they were happy it's just early days they're planning another big event here in may and they're hoping that they could get a lot of other parties to sign up in that time but as you say there are lots of differences among these parties they agree primarily on changing europe bringing sovereignty back to nation states and rather anti immigration you might say so they definitely agree on most issues but have different and different policies when it comes to things like trade and agriculture and things like that so it'll be interesting to see how they can mate they can only have a zero if they really stress today that they have more in common than they do

different so that they really want to unite under those commonalities but you seem to still be you are because there's another issue that i want to raise with you because also i'm to go. when election is the former chief strategist in trump's white house steve bannon he was to create a platform for rightwing governments ahead of the votes he's given his support to a new training center for populist european politicians also in italy. this form a ministry in trees altie in the hills of central italy has been revived with a new mission here benjamin hardwell has launched a conservative center called the institute for human dignity he wants to draw together christians and jews and fight against islamic fundamentalism young politicians will come to terms altie and train to become a right wing populists resulting in the next generation is going to become the global headquarters of the fight to defend the judeo christian basis of western

civilization so that's just not true in europe but right across the world. vision has won the support of steve bannon the former advisor. for tied together there is also resistance interest ulti many residents don't want baron and his acolytes in the village the monastery is a place for tide to go there is also resistance in trees altie many residents don't want baron and his acolytes in the village the monastery is a pilgrimage destination and attract tourists opponents want the italian government to prevent it being turned into a right wing training camp. david sadie but if the law is a cultural location in our village being used for an ideological project to make it into the moderates terry interest is being used as the foundation for a movement but what are its ideals with whose money is it being funded to what end han world's plan is clear his center interests altie should become

a launching pad for right wing populism across europe. he plans to open the doors to his first students this summer. so rebecca how is this center and balance plans to create this movement in europe being received by far right parties their. world plans willingness or desire dream you might say to unite far right parties in europe has been longstanding and as we had in the reporting created this organization known as the movement to try and funnel money into these far right parties but a lot of what he was trying to do with the movement turns out to be illegal in europe a more so he hasn't got very far and we've seen a lot of policies here he was trying to get on side for instance materia sylvania leader party and le pen's national rally party in france we've seen them back away from ban and saying better need him and that they can go it alone and they're

actually receiving distanced themselves from balance movements but his dream to unite the parties well that may be succeeding even without him. back or it is in milan thank you very much for that. the hinge in many police have launched a crackdown on so-called criminal clans mainly of arab and kurdish origin tightly knit families operating criminal networks for decades and the clans of believed to have thousands of members spread out in different parts of the country they have their strongholds in the rural areas can see that hand over breman and in berlin many of these families came to germany in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's they were not allowed to work at the time some were tempted to earn money through criminal activities ranging from robbery to drug dealing a touch he said they're not going to crack down on such activity police are especially wide about criminal groups and they're preying on young refugees and

recruiting them even attempt to disrupt activities police have. what the court the strategy of a thousand pinpricks. a large scale raid in berlin is not going on district investigators are mainly targeting shisha bars where they suspect organized crime clans are laundering money customs investigators auditors and federal and state crime authorities accompanied by hundreds of police officers are searching the bars it's the biggest operation of its kind in berlin nikon district mayor martin he could has come along he wants to know how the mission is going. this time the improprieties are minor offenses tobacco without tax stamps and violations of trading and child protection laws but the district mayor says he won't turn a blind eye. or. we can publish everything with these checks from you know to major offenses we are implementing

a zero tolerance strategy here large scale raids like this are part of a new campaign against organized arab crime clans suspected of committing major offenses including the breaking of a luxury department store in broad daylight or the theft of a one hundred kilogram gold coin worth millions but convicting clan members is difficult not least because few are willing to testify about two hundred thousand individuals are reportedly members of arab clan families in germany the government is increasing the pressure by seizing luxury cars and real estate but organized crime researcher ralph gadahn says that's not enough to break the clan solidarity. they're all sworn to secrecy and that's what makes the investigators work so difficult there are unable to break through these structures. there would need to be a support program for people who want to leave the classrooms. but there are no such

programs yet how delusions came from syria ten years ago almost every day she sees the klan's at work long zone and one of noisy mean streets but she's afraid their crimes will strengthen prejudices against innocent migrants and muslims is on the on and on. the mafia's here concentrated here on those on the way. on this and i think sooner or later something is going to happen here. she said she's most afraid of a xena phobic attack americans district mayor however has a different concern that more migrants will fall into a life of crime if the state does not do anything about it. i think it's a big good effort to make this a crime that might exist here that we could make a path to hard to make it uncomfortable so that it's not worth it to come here to commit crimes. so germans should get used to huge police actions like this one

authorities say they know these are not enough but that they lack better resources in the fight against organized clan crimes. the award winning russian director killed a set of benny cough has been released the court in moscow has however requested that he not leave the capital pending completion of his trial the film and theater director has been under house arrest since two thousand and seventeen accused of embezzlement his supporters say the challenges are politically motivated despite having no phone or internet access set of any cough has continued to direct focus and stage productions including a modern take all videos now google which had its premiere at the hamburg opera house last month. joining me now is emily shogun from moscow bureau welcome emily what lies behind sublimely com sudden release just recently is house arrest

was extended by another three months what's changed. well we'll have to wait and see to find out what the official reason for this sudden change is the court has said that they'll officially be announcing the reasons for this decision later on perhaps even in a few days this decision did come unexpectedly just earlier this month as you say his house arrest was actually prolonged and the gogle center we called them up the theater where is the art director they said that this decision was completely unexpected perhaps it would have been more expected ahead of the world cup last year when all eyes were on russia there was a lot of noise around this case as well perhaps that would have been more expected this comes unexpectedly but it's good news for city because who kind of pumped his fist in the air today at the decision that means that he can work which was something that he was asking the court to permit for many many months he can go

into the theater and work and then to somebody let's see a bit of the coffin why does such international interest in this case. well first of all i'm rachael because that evidence is well known internationally as well he worked regularly around the world including in germany and also because many people many critics of the kremlin say that this case really shows that freedom of speech is being restricted increasingly and that artistic freedom is being restricted increasingly after all city because his known for his critical work he is often in his work in his pieces his productions criticize the current regime criticize the orthodox church criticize the living conditions in russia he also staged at the bolshoi theatre about lay about rudolf no idea of a gay ballet dancer this in a country which has laws against so-called gay propaganda so he's always pushed the

boundaries and many artists here in russia say this case really shows that it could happen to anyone and maybe she'll win in moscow thank you very much now it's hard enough to win the was most famous steeplechase once the this horse has now done it twice in a row tiger really was treated like a rock star back home and then after completing the red feat he's the first horse since the legend red drum in one thousand nine hundred seventy four one back to back grand national the british race is considered the toughest and the one with thirty jumps of the grueling seven kilometer now tiger road can look forward to. wrist. the ones biggest wine fair has opened its doors in italy very luna is hosting winemakers from around the world and they're presenting their finest vintages to more than one hundred

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