street. i am. this really is coming to you live from with the next drugs the deadline just three days away to reserve me has just arrived in berlin within the last few minutes the british prime minister is holding talks with chancellor angela merkel and then she had to promise to meet president i'm on a cool maze looking to buy more time on the eve of a crucial e.u. summit also on the program. israelis are voting in a closely contested elections political newcomer benny gantz a centrist and a fluid general is mounting

a stiff challenge to floor time prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his right wing likud party. and the friggin journalists across the syrian border to film a friend who joined a jihad a school johnny duff and elizabeth was kidnapped to give birth in captivity she tells us her story a four year held in detention by extreme. i don't know of a warm welcome to you i'm on the chiba british from mr tourism a has just arrived in berlin to meet chancellor angle of machall she is expected to meet the french president in london mccraw in paris later in the afternoon she's on a mission to secure french and german backing for yet another brics extension on the eve of four key e.u. summit may once the e.u. to extend the deadline for the u.k. has been drawn to june the thirtieth as it stands now the u.k.

is due to leave the e.u. within without a deal at the end of this week. for weeks the british parliament has been the scene of chaotic debates with prime minister terrorism a note caught in between britain could see a no deal exit from the european union as early as friday may is hoping for lifeline a deadline extension from brussels on wednesday she plans to ask the e.u. for more time prefer until june thirtieth but she needs help may is heading to mainland europe with the first stop in belen where german chancellor angela merkel opposes heartbreaks it but will she support mais timetable probably not if it means breaking ranks with other e.u. this. most humans once he says we as the twenty seven yr member states will stand

together and we want to do everything possible up to the last hour to avoid a disorderly exit by britain's. merkel supports an orderly backset something may won't get to hear in paris french president has voiced concerns about another extension of the brac said negotiations. the you cannot be held hostage to the resolution of the political crisis in the united kingdom on a long term basis and britain there is little hope there to reason make unresolved the brics it issue despite her charm offensive around europe's capitals. acute in the last few minutes to resume in the british prime minister has arrived in berlin joining without is the political correspondent. and there we go to gives of the two leaders outside the chancery where you're standing they gave each other hand shake and they rushed into the building the chance to have the talks what is prime minister may hoping to get out of back there from this visit.

clearly here is i'm a is hoping that i'm glad macca will support her wish for an extension and the chancellor has said she would do anything in order to prevent a disorderly breaks it because she knows that no deal breaks it would have a very bad impact on the german economy but still it is not very probable that she can she is giving great concessions because the e.u. leaders have made it very clear that there won't be any touching up on the withdrawal agreement i know america opinion is that if there is a will there is a way but it's not for her not for america to sketch out this way she expects of to reason may see outlines an alternative way that she explains what she's

going to do with the time with the weeks she's going to gain with an extension because it's not very likely that angle america will will support an extension yet just to to get an extension are there must be strings attached to it and it must be clear what the purpose would be but are there any alternatives being discussed because as you said america has said where there is a will there's a way she has a lot of goodwill and wants to avert a disorderly brigs it at all costs but in the end all decisions on the extension have to be unanimous within the e.u. . let's try to reach. america has made it very clear the e.u. must stand united and i can't imagine because of this i can't imagine that i'm glad america will offer something substantially there have been rumors obviously and great britain that i know america would pose

a five year limit on the brakes on the backstop but nobody has heard of this here. and there is no indication whatsoever that america is indeed going to propose such a limit so this might be just wishful thinking on the side of the brits it is looking at which is where the two leaders have been shaking hands a warm atmosphere between them it seems like it now after meeting just to make it to reason will head off to paris to miss the french president. cruel how different is france's position to berlin on the extension of the banks issue. these two are not on the same page at all i'm retired my call is losing patience or has lost patience with terry some may with the u.k. he's skeptical that british prime minister is able to break the logjam and he doesn't see any benefit of an extension furthermore the french fear that the u.k.

might play a difficult role within the e.u. if they are going to stay longer than the european election at the end of may they want a commitment that the u.k. will play a constructive role within the e.u. if they stay till say end of june right now they're more than anything else or. german deputy foreign minister said we are very very frustrating situation. political correspondent and nicola standing outside the chancery where tourism and holding talks right now thank you very much for that update from there. it's election day in israel voters are taking to the post to decide whether to extend prime minister binyamin death to neil for a fifth he's up against his full military chief benny gantz

a centrist who made much of corruption allegations against netanyahu but he's new to politics it's expected to be a very tight race as order is the vote for israeli prime minister is being closely watched in the entire region and we talk to our correspondent in jerusalem in just a moment but first here's a report. of the election campaign is over and no it's up to the voters to decide who will be the country's next prime minister is various have a day off to go and vote here at a polling station in time expectations are mixed. i believe that netanyahu has a much better chance of saving israel as an existing jewish country then any gun the clearly it's for it's a referendum on bibi on our prime minister and you know but of course much more is on the line and where the future of the territories our relations with the

palestinians the nature of israeli society the legal system a lot of things are on the on the table right now it's time for that to go has been this has been successful certain kinds of things but the corruption and ugliness of the campaign i think is indication that it's time for somebody else so i think it's time for them to go. prime minister benyamin netanyahu wants to be reelected with his likud party despite facing a possible indictment for corruption. netanyahu has been in office for ten years if he wins this time and lasts a full term he'll become israel's longest serving prime minister so far his main rival is former army chief benny guns whose newly formed blue and white party has led most of the opinion polls in recent weeks that is that what this election's about are about their personal mostly focus on the leaders on attorney aus indictments on on the new guy in the block. benny

gantz and nothing more than that pollsters project that netanyahu may have more opportunities than the center left clark to form a coalition with other smaller parties on the right. that report these constant tunick to a machine not joins me on the line from jerusalem donna what has the voter turnout been like so far and i are voters taking part in this election. yes of course i mean the israeli community also takes part in the election in israel there has been some calls for boycotting the elections so we don't know how got traction but. the turnout was at ten am it's about thirty percent by the central election committee that's about the same like in the last elections in two thousand and fifteen at that time the overall voter turnout was over seventy two percent and of course said today is

a day off and it's well you know people go to vote and then there's a long waiting time until the twenty two hundred local time when the first exit polls are expected to need to know is obviously hoping for a record faced him but his challenger the fully general not meichi benny gantz has been leading in the elections. reports how different the policies of the two contend this. one from issues i think they are not so different especially if you look at foreign policy issues like iran or even the israeli palestinian conflict i mean that hasn't been a. topic during the whole election campaign but we understand that mr ganns also wants to keep jerusalem whereas the palestinians of course want to see a true islam as their capital of if you should stay and he also said that she wants to keep part of the west bank. but what he stands for basically is he wants to be

a less polarizing politician maybe less popular it's. time for as you said please politics of course that the reference to the legal troubles of mr netanyahu he always said during the campaign you want to unify the country but of course his politics also will depend on how the question would look like if mr khan would be the one forming the next question government. keen government netanyahu is facing corruption charges in three separate cases what implications will this have in gacy's to form the government. well from a legal point of few there's nothing to prevent mr netanyahu at this point either from being a candidate or to become a prime minister again some months ago when the attorney general made that announcement he said he intends some intention of indictment pending a hearing so from a legal process this will happen in a couple of months time there will be a hearing and on the. hearing the attorney general make

a decision whether to indict mr netanyahu or not and that it will be a legal process but of course i mean if you talk to voters over here especially those who would like to see a change they said you know not only that mr netanyahu has been in the office for ten years and they're also saying they don't like to see the prime minister possibly handling. the issues as well as the premiership. that's actually also in the back of the minds of many people here voting today this uncertainty what then would happen to mr netanyahu. if that indictment would be then confirmed. on your screen and using them as israelis vote for prime minister elections thank you very much for that update from that. let me bring you some other stories making news around the wired concepts sans interim

president. has scored snap elections for june the ninth he is seen as a potential from frontrunner in the race it comes after. another by a have surprised the nation last month by stepping down after three decades in power. the libyan militia group advancing on the capital tripoli has launched an and strike on the city's only functioning board forcing it to close down the said libyan national army has ignored international courtis offensive the united nations says thousands of civilians in tripoli a fleeing the fighting. the united states is fully declared iran's elite revolutionary guard a terrorist organization it's the first time the u.s. has applied this designation to party for foreign government tehran says the u.s. decision is a mistake and warns it will indeed u.s. interests in the region. not the story of

a woman who was seven months pregnant when she was kidnapped by radical islamists and in prison john enough in dyson a german journalist went to syria to film a friend who'd become a jihadist in doing so she took risks she now regrets finn dies and child was born in captivity. not a day goes by without janina finda eyes and thinking about the kidnapping three hundred fifty one days that changed her life it all started in a split second demo meant to stop. when the taxi was stopped six men with kalashnikovs jumped in front of the car and the van door was opened i was really a french unlike his frightened animal. i did my best to remain calm and to shut out the foundations of thoughts going through my mind. after her year in syria began in the autumn of twenty fifteen despite being in the seventh month

of her pregnancy janina dared to cross the turkish syrian border with the help of a smuggler in the northern syrian town of all done she met her friend who is now. in the midst of the chaos of war for one week they shot for the documentary film her girlfriend guaranteed janina that she would be safe. trusted each other but the circumstances were so different from the last time that we had seen each other and bone those two different worlds that don't have any connection to each other anymore. when the journalist wanted to leave donna she was kidnapped the master kidnappers took her to different apartments the pregnant woman was provided with what she needed but was always scared to death. in that scene is that the kidnappers were prepared to cut off my head ruthlessly in front of the camera at any time that was clear. janine says the most extreme moment of her in

a prison meant was the birth of her son a few days earlier one of the kidnappers came into her room with a veiled woman it was the gynecologist who helped her bring the child into the world. but they told her if anything happened to me or my child her husband would be killed. she told me that after she'd been there a few times that's when i understood why she was willing to do anything to help the . a few months later janina was unexpectedly released the young mother and her child were allowed to return to germany the circumstances of her release are unclear she was told that no ransom was paid we asked what she now thinks about her decision to travel to the war zone. a dangerous mix of the naive feeling of security that i had and underestimating a very risky situation. janina finn dies and wanted to tell the story of her former school friend before the birth of her child today she knows that was

a mistake and she's glad she was able to leave syria alive with her child after three hundred fifty one days of captivity. a court in hong kong has given guilty verdicts two of the pro-democracy demonstrations in two thousand and fourteen there were charged with incitement this. went peacefully shut down the central city for months in a battle with the government the chinese territory shortly before the verdict spoke to one of the activists who played a key in the. benito i has prepared for the worst he knows he'll pay a personal price for his role in a movement that paralyzed hong kong for more than two months. we might have done something illegal but we felt it was justified. we were for

democracy in hong kong. it was twenty fourteen yellow umbrellas symbolizing the fight for democracy dominated the city center this after beijing still session to allow hong kong people to elect its leader directly but only from a list of pre-approved candidates. to demand completely free elections betty tie and two other activists founded the occupy movement a must sit in to block the city's financial district that movement joint with out a student large protests and demonstrations snowballed into what became known as the umbrella movement. for all. protest has been peaceful in the past few days. but now police have begun to use tear gas and rubber bullets so we have to protect ourselves. i.

and that's to meet at one point two million people took to street but the protests and it without success the thai and activists and it up in court is on one. on the umbrella movement was just a starting point. we still have a long way to go. given up yet i still wish to do something with it. even if i get imprisoned and that is just a small part of a very long journey. the activists say they will be back no matter how many obstacles beijing puts on the road ahead. the latter is vital for any city the spaces to learn and relax and read nairobi kenya as capital has a beautiful central library but it's rundown and the books are in poor condition

two women have taken it upon themselves to restore the law reaches for glory. has this report. traffic jams and busy street life is what most people associate with nairobi but nestled in the city center lies the macmillan library a space of peace and quiet but also a building transported visitors back into a different era yeah this is my favorite room. and i. want to restore the colonial era library as well as two smaller libraries in nairobi a mammoth task seeing as many of the books and documents have simply collected dust over the years the tons of books here that we. have an entire collection of roosevelt writing there a lot of the. more recent have been digitized but we only feed some of the stuff

and then just stop keeping these massive dusty volumes in twenty eighteen the two partnered with the county government and found their organization. as active members of my roadies writing and publishing community they're fascinated by the possibilities of the library they've organized readings from screenings crowdfunding and guided tours to raise money and awareness for the libraries. from our conversation and. also in the audience he said that a lot of people want space to be functional on the space to have things like life a. little bit of white things like toilets and water. like. books is the belief we want to recognize ourselves and the collection is a big one. we recognize that the books that i use every have been here for decades and they reflect the reality of the nation of haiti and before that when when

slavery was built and that hasn't changed in. spite of short coming from liberia remains a refuge for students of those escaping hectic city life. jacob and i has been mcmillan's chief librarian for over twenty years has dealt with it all from budgetary constraints to pelter innovation efforts and yet he seems to have been crypt with a new enthusiasm at one zero and one bring with them. a lot of stand in for one there is hope. to. have had a lot of interest from one of the partners and people were willing to assist in this. but i have been thinking over and over it in the numbers the publicity through the library tours and social media has even drawn in first time visitors i needed like big city didn't think there's anything interesting but i'm pretty impressed i think it's an extraordinary structure one. but two it just seems that

a place that it's a place that people can come and reflect in and read and. even in today's digital age one zero and washer car feel that my robbins need these spaces especially if they can serve as cultural hubs. while the two dream of new books by african and other modern day authors art exhibitions and cafes the first task is to take stock and bring the library back into shape. ok not a football and the quarterfinals of the champions league kick off this evening with two big games liverpool coached by germany's you're going club post. the match is a repeat of the round of sixteen season which liverpool won five on aggregate meanwhile totals don't take on a man just a city in an all england clash city able to make history of the season and the chief something no other side has ever done to win a group of two domestic cups in england as well as the premier league and champions

league. manchester city barely have time to catch their breath right now in the pep guardiola side reached the english cup final at the weekend now they european hopes are on the line star striker sergio aguero returns from injury to boost a stellar attack also featuring rocky stirling as the campaign for an unprecedented quadruple continues because the island knows this will be a tough examination of city's credentials even if he'd like it to be an easy encounter. through goes into minute. and i would like to give my message to the players in the way for us like. we know each other quite well and we're going to to make a good game. city will have to keep a close eye on harry kane the striker has already scored five goals in the tournament this season even with the threat he poses there's no doubt the odds a stacked against tottenham have lost their last three games against the premier

league champions but coach mauricio pochettino has caught the said of an upset. we want to start to morrow be in. america see for him. how to improve on the game we see we've got to leave it in that situation another challenge from man city to limber up for the start of a phase that could make or break their quadruple hopes. if you've just joined us you're watching the news coming to you live from but and here's a recap of the top stories that we're following for you british prime minister tourism is invalid to plead for a second extension she's meeting german chancellor angela merkel before moving on to paris for meetings with the french president in money in the process. and israel goes to the fullest to decide whether political newcomer benny gantz should unseat foretells prime minister binyamin netanyahu itself would certain to have

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