reports from a destroyed city. philippines. starts a long t.w. . above i am. this good news coming to you live from berlin with the brits a deadline just three days away to resemble is here in berlin to plead for another extension in talks with german chancellor angela merkel she don't to visit paris to meet the french president all this on the eve of a crucial e.u. summit also on the program israelis are voting in

a closely contested election political newcomer benny gantz a centrist and a former general is mounting a stiff challenge to fulfill prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his right wing the koch body we talked to our correspondent in jerusalem. and guilty verdicts for the defined leaders of the pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong during a peaceful movement the socal a brutal movement to shut down the city for months in a battle political rights and greater autonomy from beijing. britain's prime minister to resign pleading her case for two of europe's key power brokers hoping to gain the support for yet another extension to beg beyond friday's deadline. stopped to see german chancellor angela merkel as with other aspects of

beggs it didn't go as planned me arrive just ahead of schedule and method wasn't there to welcome it was only after me went inside that good leaders came back for the customary handshakes for cameras waiting to film that amazed visit comes before a stop in paris to meet present a man in the pool and ahead of the special you brits summit tomorrow when the extension will be debated now for more i'm joined by detail beast political correspondent on the a corner she is standing in front of the chancery on the 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 theory's i was. on her visit today in berlin while all of this other 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 pricks it. 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 that if there is a will there is a way but it's on terrorism a to outline this alternative way she has to explain what she wants to do with the time she would gain with an extension that must be strings attached to an extension and she is she has to explain what purpose it is as i said live michael is very keen to avoid a dis orderly bragg's it but obviously the alternatives. she can offer

a nearly awful whole lot of support in the end when this said down and 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 i'm 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 these rumors we heard from london today were already denied by by a spokes person off 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 makeover 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 the meeting tells the mechanism it will travel on to paris to meet french president in london mccool 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. 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 there are more doubts than anything else the deadliest political cause. in front of the chancery in berlin thank you. this national committee is urging a libyan general khalifa haftar to horton's advance on the capital tripoli forces loyal to the general airstrike on tripoli is only functioning airport on monday reports say the strike without causing casualties how far 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 feel . the overthrow of colonel gadhafi and twenty eleven plunged libya into chaos for four decades he has ruled the country with an iron hand holding together libya's disparate groups including some one hundred forty trysts in 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 its rival 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 affected lee 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 too. 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. hafter has 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 let me now bring you up to date some other stories making news around the world really lawmakers have named their speaker abdul qadeer ben salah as interim president he will lead the country during a ninety day transition period former president. resigned last week after pressure from the country's powerful military and reeks of nationwide protests. in sudan at least two anti-government protesters have been killed the demonstrations outside the army headquarters now in their fourth day security forces have again fired tear

gas as they attempt to disperse the crowds who want the army to back their chords for president bashir to step down. 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 filed a diplomatic protest against the chinese presence last week. it is election day in israel voters are going to the polls to decide whether to extend prime minister binyamin netanyahu he's conservative to new york for a fifth term he's up against his former military chief benny gantz a centrist who's made much of corruption allegations against nothing yahoo but he's new to politics is expected to be a very tight race as always israeli elections are being closely watched in the

entire region. and we talk to our correspondent in jerusalem in just a moment but first here's her 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 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 it's on yahoo 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 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 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 block to form a coalition with other smaller parties on the right. that are full of town if

you now joins me from jerusalem welcome john nash how is the voting coming along what's the turnout like so far. well we got some new figures from the central election committee and they're saying the votes to turnout stands at around twenty five percent at noon time 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 is very. good 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 fully 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 they might not be

so much different 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 guns also once 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 from 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

. well from a legal point of view for know 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 in several corruption charges pending a hearing so this hearing will have to take place that in due 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 and a lot of people i talked to is that the east 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 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 tiny or came in jerusalem thank you very much for that update didn't go to hong kong where nine leaders of the pro-democracy movement have been handed. a court has charged them with incitement in two thousand and fourteen this so-called movement shut down the city center for months in a battle for more political rights just before the verdicts were announced today obvious folk with one activist who 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 by we were fighting for democracy in hong kong. really important. 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 thai and two other activists founded the occupy movement a must sit in to block the city's financial district that movement joint with other student led 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 or so we have to

protect ourselves. and that's to meet at one point two million people took to the streets but the protests and it without success the thai and activists ended up in court. on the umbrella movement was just a starting point or that we still have a long way to go. i've not given up yet i still wish to do something with it. even if i get imprisoned that is just a small part of a very long journey. the activists say they will be back no matter how many obstacles paging puts on the road ahead. and not the story of a woman who was seven months pregnant when she was kidnapped by radicals and imprisoned journey enough and dies in a german journalist went to syria to from

a friend who'd become a she hardest in doing so she took risks she now regrets phin dyson's 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 dam and i stopped. 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 donna she met her friend who is now john

hardest in the midst of the chaos of war for one week they shot for the documentary film her girlfriend guarantee 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 bomb 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. 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 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 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 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 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. now a move to bring

a painting from eighteen eighteen to virtual life in twenty nine thousand is happening right in berlin at the national gallery but technology has opened a window to another it allows you to get inside the head to offer mantic this casbah. as he came up with one of his best known books. a tiny lonesome figure standing on the beach in front of a rough sea in the sky a heaped up mountains of clouds darted friedrichs the monk by the sea is a radical image almost abstract and it's an icon of romantic painting but in one thousand it shocked friedrichs contemporaries. critic. contemporary critics brentano and clive that it was a. cutaway because this work is. only a single figure can be seen on the beach which is otherwise deserted. but now the

monk is entering the age of virtual reality with high tech glasses you can now immerse yourself in this masterpiece and meet the monk in a life size representation. of you lose yourself in a different world is super great virtual reality experts and the national gallery have worked together on the project for one and a half years. we always try not just to reproduce the painting but to create a new world and in that way to interpret the painting and try to understand what the painter was thinking and what his vision was. here virtual reality is more than just a gimmick the monk by the sea was extensively restored between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen seven layers that vanished had to be removed the darkened paint

ladder to secure the image is true colors it became apparent the casbah darvish friedrich hadn't to regionally designed the picture quite so radically but actually rather conventionally the master romantic had put three boats in the picture the virtual reality experience reveals the sketch and also tries to convey to the user friedrichs ingenious use of paint to create his groundbreaking work. who would not want an image that opens up like a new world and to be able to enter it and with this access you completely learn and experience what was previously simply not possible. and of course it should make you want to look at the original with fresh eyes to. quite amazing to football down the quarterfinals of the champions the kickoff this evening with two

big games live aboard with the german coach club post for throw at anfield the match is a repeat of the round of sixteen tie last season which liverpool won five on aggregate in the other match tottenham take on man just to city in an all england clash city aiming to make history this season achieve something no other english side has ever done before to win the quadruple to domestic cups in england as well as a premier. league and the champions league. manchester city barely have time to catch their breath right now 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 the island knows this will be a tough examination of city's credentials even if he'd like it to be an easy

encounter. who goes into minutes. who would like to. main 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 maurice your party has caught the scent of an upset. we want to start to morrow been tough i know to see from put. on the game we see we've got to leave early 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. and we end with some much needed good news for a group of captive whales in russia who still fight prompted an outcry from the

time they can even set a bit is likely not a dicaprio authorities have signed a deal with international scientists to free nearly one hundred where all cool and beluga whales have been months in cramped pens near the sea of japan port of the cult that's after a company called them to export them to china images of the whale sparked a campaign to free them and forced moscow. to intervene. if you've just joined us here's a recap of the top stories if you're following feel the british prime minister to resign is in the but when to plead for a second a break that extension she meant the german chancellor angela merkel before moving to paris for meetings with french president in manila mccrone. israeli voters go to the post to decide where the political newcomer benny gantz should unseat for prime minister binyamin netanyahu the winner is expected to meet a coalition to form

a government. and leaders of pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong are found guilty of incitement in a peaceful protest the so-called them drill a movement shot down the city center for months in two thousand and fourteen the calling for more political rights in the semi autonomous chinese territory. more news of headlines coming up at the top of the al meanwhile you can always check out our website the c.w. dot com from the under the chief of the news to life and out.

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