i am. this news coming to you live from berlin with the deadline for the ucas rejoinder from the european union just three days away to release them he is here in berlin to plead for another briggs extension in talks with the german chancellor aguilar back and she'd also visit paris to meet the french president all this on the eve of a crucial e.u. summit also the programmed israelis are voting in a close to

a contested election political newcomer benny gantz a centrist and influential in britain is mounting a stiff challenge to for prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his right wing likud party. correspondent in jerusalem. and guilty verdicts for the define leaders of the pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong during the peaceful movement the so-called umbrella movement to shut down the city in a four months in a battle political rights and breach of autonomy from beijing. how did a woman. britain's prime minister to resign me is on a last issue european trip today to try and convince germany's angle of makkah and french president in manama crawl to agree to another extension to the brakes a deadline. arrived in berlin

a short while ago for tourists but as with other aspects of bragg's it arrival at the chancery didn't go past plan the british prime minister had arrived a little too early and back it was not there to welcome her it was only after two reason he went inside that both leaders came back out for the composite saree handshakes for all the photographers of waiting to capture that moment of this berlin visit comes ahead of a special e.u. breakfast summit in brussels tomorrow tourism is expected to seek approval from the e.u. to delay the date of the u.k.'s departure from the block from this friday until the end of june. now for more i'm joined by detail beast political correspondent on your code or she is standing in front of the chancery on a british prime minister is in berlin as i mentioned on the eve of this key summit what is she hoping to get from america.

hoping to get our support on her wish for an extension and i think it's quite funny that the reason why it was. on her visit today in berlin while all of this out of the brics it business is rather late so she pleads for an extension until the thirty's of june and the chancellor has said she will do everything in order to avoid a disorderly breaks it. the that this would have a negative impact on the german economy but still i can't imagine that there is much anglo american is going to offer the british prime minister her opinion is if there is a will there is a way but it's on terrorism may to outline this alternative way she has to explain what she wants to do with the time she would gain with an extension there must be strings attached to an extension and she is she has to explain what purpose it is

as i said live mechelle is very keen to avoid a dis orderly bragg's it but i think the alternatives that she can offer. merely awful to laura's support in the end when this said down sit down at their breaks in some dim brussels to morrow it has to be a unanimous decision by the other twenty seven members. exactly that's the point of rita and i'm glad michael has stressed several times that the remaining e.u. leaders must stand united in this question i can imagine that she will offer something substantially and. we heard from london today were already denied by by a spokes person of the chancellery we heard that. america would offer a five year limit on the backstop and this is clearly not true there were other.

opinions out of london one breaks it is said she would hope that i'm going to america would undo the whole the whole withdrawal agreement but i can't imagine that she's willing to do so because they all said we won't touch the agreement anymore now after meeting child selected to easily travel on to paris to meet french president. how different is the approach of paris on this issue. clearly the french president has already lost patience with the british government and that's the great difference between paris and berlin. he's not convinced that may is able to break the logjam she's in and he doesn't see the benefit of an extension france also fears that u.k. you might play a doubtful role within the e.u.

if they are going to stay longer than the e.u. the european elections and of may so there's a lot the reason may has to explain if she wants to get support for her wish for an extension but right now they are more than anything else the deadliest little cause for an in front of the chancery in berlin thank you. the one from this to me is not being european leaders most of the british public back home are desperate for a resolution on the country's big draw from the e.u. our correspondent ventured stood diverse neighborhood of london to gauge the mood there during these very uncertain times. muhamad bias is frustrated with brant said ever since the u.k. voted to leave the european union this shopkeeper has been following the news closely hoping for certainty and clarity. but if they decided exactly no it was

bits of play everybody to know what is the future hold for everybody because we do know what is going on with the extension i believe these moves on the months will take room yes which is no good for the business and is for nobody because everything uncertain specially for business like mohamed a large majority of this cosmopolitan neighborhood voted to remain in the european union in the referendum three years ago but unpredictable and unwanted outcomes have taken their toll i thing it's just a bit confusing because we were all sort of left in the dock we don't know what to expect well they can decide they've had three is. let ways they should let us try again i just wanted to kind of be done really i just resolved you know i think everybody's got sick and tired of carrying on and on and on and i can understand the nice europeans and i said exactly sort of when everybody's but me everybody else. ice terrible so for for mass brixton prides itself

on its immigrant heritage local shop for food from around the world in this market approach european stronghold in the south of london that's tired of seeing the political gridlock day in and day out. here in brixton the mood amongst photos has become dark to reason may is asking for yet another extension and the bracks that process could drag on for months those that voted to remain in the european union and now hoping for a second referendum or at the u.k. would eventually stay in the european union others and that seems to be the general feeling on the streets in london just want the political infighting to stop and they want to get on with the bracks up process. and that was on the thoughts going not to hong kong where a court has handed down guilty verdicts to the leaders of the pro-democracy demonstrations of two thousand and fourteen they have been charged with inside when the so-called umbrella movement shut down the center of the city for months in a battle to have the right to choose their own leader in the tree rather than

approve a candidate big by beijing but just before the verdicts were announced today spoke with one activist who had played a key role in the movement. beni thai 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 but he

tie and two other activists founded the occupy movement a must sit in to block the city's financial district and that movement joint with other student large protests and demonstrations snowballed into what became known as the umbrella movement. now 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. and estimated one point two million people took to streets but the protests and it without success the thai and other activists and up in court use on one don't. use on the umbrella movement was just a starting point. or that 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. let me bring you up to date at some of the stories making news around the world in the philippines hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the chinese consulate in manila they're demanding beijing remove its vessels from disputed islands in the south china sea they're also calling on the government to take stronger action that's after it finds a diplomatic protest against the chinese presence last week. lawmakers have named their speaker of the ben salah as interim president he lead the country during a ninety day transition period for president of the. resigned last week after pressure from the country's powerful military and reeks of nationwide protests.

interim president a cost. of has scored snap elections for july ninth he is seen as a potential frontrunner in the race it comes after his predecessor. by ever surprised the nation last month by stepping down after three decades in power. in sudan at least two anti-government protesters have been killed or demonstrations outside the army's headquarters now in their fourth day security forces have again fired tear gas as they attempt to disperse the crowds who want the on the to back their cords for president bashir to step down. it's election day in israel voters are taking to the polls to decide whether to extend prime minister binyamin netanyahu is conservative to for a fifth term he's up against his former military chief benny gantz

a centrist who's made much of corruption allegations against netanyahu but he is new to politics it's expected to be a very tightly run race as all resists israeli elections have been closely watched in the entire region. we talk to our correspondent in jerusalem in just a bit but first here's a report. 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 and to slim expectations are mixed i believe that netanyahu has a much better chance of saving israel as an existing jewish country then benny gantz clearly it's for it's a referendum on the 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 netanyahu to go he's been missed he's 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 him to go prime minister binyamin 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 is rose 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 the indictments. 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. joins me from jerusalem welcome john nash is a voting coming along was a turn out like so far. well we got some new figures from the central election committee and they're saying the vote to turn out stands at around twenty five percent and noontime that's about the same a little bit less than in two thousand and fifteen the last elections when the overall turnout was about seventy two percent at the end of the day now as i said in the report as well i mean it's a day off for his great. courage still to go out and vote and then it's a long waiting period until about twenty two hundred when the first exit polls are going to be published and ten netanyahu is hoping for

a record fifth but his challenger the full genuine army chief benny gantz has been leading in pre-election surveys according to report how different are the policies of these two main contenders. well if you look at foreign policy there might not be so much defend at least when it comes to questions like iran also the palestinian israeli conflict that hasn't actually been a big topic here during the election campaign we know that mr ganns also runs not to give up on jerusalem palestinians of course want to see east jerusalem as part of the future state. but this campaign was mainly about a style of new leadership basically he was talking a lot about wanting to unify the country less polarizing politics he also talked about clean politics clearly in reference to prime minister netanyahu. and of course his politics would also be determined by the kind of coalition he would have

to form if you would be tossed upon the next government that took a lot cleaner politics netanyahu is facing corruption charges in three separate cases what implications of will this have in case he's asked to form the government . why from a legal point of view for now at there's nothing to prevent crime in the snow from being a candidate for running in the elections and also to become again the next prime minister the attorney general had announced some weeks ago that that he intends to indict mr netanyahu and several corruption charges pending a hearing so this hearing will have to take that into course. maybe is sometime in the summer and then there will be a final decision whether mr netanyahu will be indicted and then it's a totally different question when if he's a prime minister. but i think what's in the back of the mind of voters in a lot of people i talked to among those who actually want to see

a change in government they said they have some problems with you know thinking about having a prime minister. you know running a country like is about and also having to do you with legal troubles that's why they say they would like to say to see a change of government of course and nothing else or to see that completely different and they would like to have him as a prime minister in another term. voting is continuing where you are kind of came in jerusalem thank you very much for that update. international community is urging a libyan general khalifa haftar to quarters advance on the capital tripoli forces to which the general carried out an air strike on tripoli's only functioning airport on monday a security source said the strike kid a runaway with double causing any casualties hostile is trying to seize tripoli from the un backed government there thousands have fled the fighting. so who is general have and why has he started this offensive we have this report for you. the

overthrow of colonel gadhafi and twenty eleven plunged libya into chaos for four decades he had ruled the country with an iron hand holding together libya's disparate groups including some one hundred forty tribes and clans his death left a power vacuum the government in the capital has limited power even though it's recognized by much of the international community is rivalled by a parallel government in the eastern city of tobruk both of ministrations have parliaments and armed forces adding to the chaos various militias are also fighting for their own regional interests military commander after who's leading the current attack on tripoli is loyal to the administration in tobruk he took part in the twenty eleven uprising against gadhafi and then initially disappeared from the scene but in twenty fourteen he returned taking fighters to the city of benghazi.

defeated al qaeda linked militants who were effectively controlling the city and much of the region the operation took nearly two years one have to widespread credit in eastern libya and some recognition abroad. but he didn't stop there after consolidating his hold on the east he swept through the oil rich south of the country earlier this year and now he's turned his focus on the capital. after backing from russia and egypt his supporters see him as the best hope of unifying libya under one government while his opponents fear he would be another dictator like colonel gadhafi and not the story for a woman who was seven months pregnant when she was kidnapped by radical islamists and imprisoned young enough into 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 schild 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 i'm like a frightened animal i did my best to remain calm and to shut out the foundations of thoughts going through my mind. 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 al done a she met her friend who is now a jihad asst 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 all done as 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. that it is the kidnappers were prepared to cut off my head ruthlessly in front of the camera at any time that was clear. janina says the most extreme moment of her 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 birth go well 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 which she now thinks about her decision to travel to the warzone. again just mix of the naive feeling of security that i had and under-estimating a very risky situation. janina finn doesn't want it 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. ok time for now some sport and football

the quarterfinals of the champions league kick off this evening with two big games liverpool with the german coach you're going to host part though at anfield the match is a repeat of that on the sixteenth last season liverpool won five nil an aggregate in the other leg starts in and take on manchester city in an all england clash a city even to make history this season and achieve something no other english side has ever done to win the poor group and that's to domestic cups in england as well as the premier league and the champions league. manchester city barely have time to catch their breath right now pep guardiola sign to reach the english cup final at the weekend now the european hopes are on the line star striker sergio aguero returns from injury to boost a stellar attack also featuring rahi sterling as the campaign for an unprecedented quadruple continues. knows this will be a tough examination of city's credentials even if you'd like it to be an easy

encounter. who goes into minutes. i would like to give my message to employees in the way for us like. we know each other quite well and we're going to make it with the. city will have to keep a close eye on harry cain the striker has already scored five goals in the tournament this season even with the threat he poses there's no doubt the odds stacked against tottenham who 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 from. huyton born again we see we've got that situation another challenge from man city to limber up for at the start of a phase that could make or break their quadruple hopes. now and with

some much needed good news for a group of captive whales in russia whose flight prompted an outcry from the public and even celebrate is that leonardo dicaprio authorities have signed a deal with international scientists to free the nearly one hundred whales the orca and beluga whales have spend months in cramped pens in the sea of japan in the port of enough coda that's after a company called them to export them to china images of the with sparta campaign to free them and moscow was forced into. every rung up to date with some of our top stories that we're following for you british prime minister to resign is in berlin to pick for a second break that extension she's meeting and german chancellor angela merkel before moving on to paris from the french president in modern. israel goes to the polls to decide whether political newcomer benny gantz should unseat four term prime minister binyamin netanyahu it's

a voice that certain to have a long term impact on the region. and define need is a third democracy demonstrations in hong kong are found guilty of incitement this so for them grow the movement at peacefully shut down the city for mines in two thousand and fourteen in a battle ultimately to make a change. off next it's the football program kickoff to stay with us if you've got .

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