this is utopia newsline from berlin looking for a lifeline britain's theresa may makes a deadline dash to avoid a briggs it crash out just three days away from the drawn date of may he meets chance on america to plead for another extension next stop paris to make the same plea to present also coming up israelis vote in a closely contested election political newcomer many got a centrist and

a former general is mounting a stiff challenge to four terms prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his right wing likud party for interest of for you and eight harrowing experience for a journalist to cross the syrian border while she was seven months pregnant the film friend who had become a jihad is janine a friend actually was abducted and gave birth in captivity she tells us her story about a year and islamist attention. on way iraq thank you so much for your company everyone. it is crunch time for british prime minister theresa may she's on a whirlwind european tour ahead of the crucial e.u. summit that's going to take place tomorrow and just days before the u.k. scheduled departure from the bloc she's due to meet french president french president in money i might call any moment now earlier she was here in berlin for

talks with german a chance on the america may once an extension to the leaving date and it's thought that berlin favors a long extension but paris favors a short one the prime minister's office simply said she and merkel had agreed that britain should not leave the e.u. without a deal. just as with gregg's it to raise the maze of arrival at the chancellor it didn't go as planned the british prime minister was obviously a little too early and merkel wasn't there to welcome her it was only after to resume i went inside that both leaders came back out for compulsory handshakes but smiles can't hide the fact that the german chancellor and other european leaders are urging the british to provide more clarity this became clear this morning at the meeting of the e.u. foreign ministers. we are waiting finally for substantive steps in the right direction in which to talk to now is nothing at all has changed and we are of course thinking about an appropriate extension of the

deadline and also about a longer extension i must however come with very strict conditions on guns. there's a lot of speculation about what's the reason why i could offer the e.u. before the end of june or what the e.u. was prepared to offer the u.k. room is in london that merkel could be willing to put a five year limit on the backstop have been refuted by the german government and the u.k. would have to take part in the european elections in may if it doesn't exit the e.u. before that date after a visit in berlin to resume my travel to paris chancellor angela merkel said braggs it could even be extended to the beginning of twenty twenty but french president a manual mckown favors a shorter extension. all right let's get you some analysis now from berlin and paris where may is due to arrive any moment now due to the political correspondent max media and of course it is here in berlin for you and in the

french capital isa luis standing by in paris where as i said we're waiting for me to arrive any moment now lisa is a man who are going to play hardball with mrs may today he's been very clear that he's not in favor of a long extension. when a car has indeed been adopting the toughest strategy when it comes to britain in the e.u. and he has his reasons you know he wants to be the e.u. leader least one of the e.u. leaders he was once pushed through in business e.u. reforms and doesn't went want the e.u. to get blocked by bricks and business for years on end and also it seems to be part of the doc description of a french lady to be tough on the brits if you look back to the one nine hundred sixty s. the very famous gentleman shall go to the tate britain spit to join the twice actually in the sixty's so it might be that nikon gets his the gold moment now but how about i just talked to the ellie's

a government and they said that is an opening actually that no longer pays to extend it to an extension as long as it is reasonable so what's an anglo american just now came up with twenty twenty seems too long for them but a few months might be possible all right that begs the question to max here in berlin is chancellor angela merkel a moderating influence on paris and e.u. at large. she certainly is a moderating influence as a petition by with moderate success especially when we look at what she has achieved within the european union before so we have seen her go against her own finance minister the a stereotype riven both and suddenly in the time of the greek bailout crisis where she said greece has to stay in the e.u. because she is a very principled politician and she has said in the case of the united kingdom that she is very much for orderly breck's and solution that is her highest priority and she has said previously not today because she hasn't given

a press conference with trees are made but previously she has said that she wants to be everything possible for an orderly brock's it all right lisa i want to go back to you in paris you know you mentioned that this might be. the goal of a moment you know how do you how determined do you think it is to put down his foot and carry through on his stated position to not give britain another extension while another long extension at least i think is quite a determined to get something in turn the worst case scenario for people here seems to be that to reason may turns up with nothing in her pockets really that this will just go on for ever and ever so the french are asking for something in return on the other hand they also know mccall is also known to be a realist so you met the irish leader just a few days ago and we know that for the irish leader it's very important to solve the irish water question and that might need more time and i mark holmes that that

france would never let down ireland no matter what so it looks like they are happy to you know to provide for an extension but only if the conditions are right all right if the conditions are right max here and berlin how worried is is americal that the u.k. may crash out of the e.u. with no deal at all come friday. well potentially more than france is at the moment that's what we hear because i'm just off to hermes in with series a may she hasn't given a press statement but she went to meet with other m.p.'s from her christian democratic parties and sources from that meeting have already said that she was willing orus that she's currently willing to give an extension for a couple months or even early twenty twenty so the germans are very worried again about a no deal scenario they're worried about a disorderly breck said and they're wary willing a quote german chancellor angela merkel here up to the last hour willing to help to not make

a disorderly brax it happen and lisa finally want to give you the final word we're still waiting for me to arrive at the a.b.c. . everything has its price what would. want in return if and should he decide to give may another extension what would he like in return you think and i michael has been saying that what he would be looking for is for example a deal backed by parliament then reason may finally makes his m.p.'s follow her and also another option would be that she says she pledges to organize another referendum to decide on bracks again also another condition on the list would be that if the u.k. stays in the e.u. for longer than at the end of may when european elections happen that they really organize these elections and that after the elections you know with new m.p.'s new commission is in brussels that they wouldn't block e.u.

affairs so that they would come come up with somehow a code of contest conduct so that the e.u. can be sure that the grits will actually behave. lisa luis reporting from paris who are still waiting for theresa may to arrive for that highly anticipated meeting with the president my call and max question here in berlin thank you for your reporting. let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. algerian lawmakers have named their speaker have been silent as interim president he will lead the country during a ninety day transition period for president as he's good to have resigned last week after pressure from the country's powerful military and weeks of nationwide public protests a court in hong kong has found nine leaders of the twenty fourteen umbrella movement guilty on public nuisance charges they could now face jail time for their role in organizing the pro-democracy rallies calling for greater autonomy from

china. greasing the u.s. attorney general william barr has promised to release a redacted copy of a special counsel robert muller's report on russian election meddling within a week bar has faced intense pressure to release the full report after initially publishing just a short summary of it what are the trade its findings as highly favorable to president ultron you agree with your problem. it is election day in israel voters are deciding whether to extend prime minister benjamin netanyahu says conservative tenure for a fifth term is up against his former military chief benny guts a centrist who's made much of corruption charges against that know who but he's new to politics as expected to be a very tight race as always israeli elections are being closely watched in entire region. we're going to talk to our correspondent in jerusalem in just

a moment but first this 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 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 doing this 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 focused on the leaders on the indictments. on the new guy in the block. benny gantz and nothing more than that posters project that netanyahu may have more opportunities than the center left to form a coalition with other smaller parties on the right. all right let's get you latest now with merriam to god she joins me now from jerusalem erm good to see you what's

the voter turnout so far. the turnout so far the last numbers that i saw or heard about were around thirty six percent since the voting booths close to ten pm they're expected of course to rise in the general voter turnout in israel is very high around seventy percent one interesting thing the arab or palestinian citizens turnout so far has been much lower or much lower than in the last elections at around twenty percent so far and there are various reasons for that but one thing is for certain the arab vote is very important in israel because it will also make a big difference to which party center the knesset the israeli parliament how many mandates they'll have and what coalition building options the winning party will have to marry him and you know who is of course hoping to secure a record fifth term was he up against talk to us about his challenger because this is he's a bit of an unknown on the world stage what platform is you were going on and is he

risen meeting with israeli voters. yes so benny gantz in israel actually is a well known figure because he was the army chief during the last gaza war so everyone knows him but of course he's new to politics but as part of his team he took a very very popular politician into his party so we have a number of interesting figures here who resonate very well with israeli voters especially because they stand for security and security something that benjamin netanyahu has always been able to. just this was what he was voted for was elected for in the past and that's why it's one of the toughest challenges coming now from any guns otherwise there these elections haven't been so much about content or about issues i think as we heard in the reports it's very much a referendum on benjamin netanyahu as leadership and of course pentagon has been playing on that has been talking about. corruption and has been calling for unity

and accusing rightly or wrongly benjamin netanyahu of sowing division in israeli society so that's more or less been his platform right but arguably netanyahu literally has a trump card is that giving him an edge in the selection. you could say so i think what i think one thing that's very important about netanyahu and that people i think the general israeli public even those that would probably not vote for him appreciate about netanyahu or think what is one of his achievements is his foreign policy and his ties with the world leaders i think most people agree that the. relations of israel with the united states no matter who is the leader would be will continue to be good relations and have always been good relations so maybe it's not necessarily just the trump card but netanyahu general achievement and his warm ties with the with foreign leaders including our countries by the way i mean i've got twenty five guys i've got twenty seconds left does it

matter who wins when it comes to the palestinian issue and how we future peace settlement might look like neither of the leaders have committed to a two state solution but i think the direction of netanyahu is more to the right and maybe benny gantz is more to the center so it might actually make a difference yes marry him to gone reporting from jerusalem thank you. and distant from asian spread on social media has become a prominent feature of election campaigns around the world and israel is no exception to the reporter for the coverage or joins me now to talk more about this issue how has just information played a role in this particular election in israel well a lot we can look at an example just from the beginning of april or when a social media watchdog in israel known as the big butts project published a report saying they found some one hundred thirty thousand tweets that are coming from hundreds of accounts trying to push apron it's on yahoo agenda and discredit

his opponents particularly benny guns and that reports it was saying that there were there were some false rumors being spread about benny gantz for example that he's mentally ill even some sexual misconduct all of this is unsubstantiated and these tweets comes from came from hundreds of accounts many of these accounts where using false and names and even fools a picture is in some cases and for example there was an account going under the name of that was showing a picture that actually belonged to a greek modeled ok well i mean it sounds like this was a coordinated effort to discredit the well one of the main challenges of benjamin netanyahu well that is is not really clear this is what the authors of the report where is suggesting however this is not been confirmed and both netanyahu and his likud party have denied any links with this and also the elections committee has

been looking into the matter they also said there wasn't enough evidence to prove such links what we can say is that it could campaign officials and even the son of. a year they have been sharing some of these fools rumors so even if they were in they reckon involved in public aid to them they have taken part in amplifying them that begs the question. was he the only one being targeted or were the other contenders and challengers also victim of these attacks well actually not i mean there have been observers looking into the spreading of fake news during this election campaigning they found many guns was the most targeted followed by the number two of the blue and white party. but then third place came on yahoo and this goes beyond this big bucks project report we've also seen interestingly that some journalists in israel but also outside of israel they said that they have been receiving fulls reports from accounts fake accounts in israel and looks like

then again this was in bots but real people who were sitting there and fabricating these full reports bull's eye ticals then uploading them onto websites that look like real websites and then they were sharing these photos reports with journalists and we have an example here from a false account of going under dinny in the name of scuse me of being made i meant . she or he who didn't know was flagging what looked like a press release from the research center to a journalist just not that causes and she was saying or he was saying this is interesting but the journalist has exposed that as as fulls and this was just one of the many examples of similar falls reports being shared in that were then later exposed moral of the story don't believe everything you see on social media for the as always thank you. you're watching the news that still to come

a move to bring a painting from eighteen ten to virtual life in twenty nineteen is happening right here in berlin where technology has opened a window onto another world the world to find out how. but first a harrowing experience that of a woman who became entangled with the hottest she nuffin dyson is a german journalist too even though she was in the seventh month of her pregnancy went to syria to film a friend who had become a hottest friend aizen was abducted by islamic radicals and imprisoned her child was born and captivity in an exclusive report w stuff on vista tells her story. 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. 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. 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 john hardest 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 so those are 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. janina says the most extreme moment of her imprisonment 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 and had sold out before janine if in doesn't 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. next move to ring a painting for eighteen tend to a virtual life in twenty nineteen or is happening right here in berlin at the old national gallery where technology has opened a window to another world it gives you your neat insights into your romantic artistic customer david field today he and one of his best known works. 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 tan it shocked friedrichs contemporaries. kotick. contemporary critics brentano inclined 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 in 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. 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 of vanished had to be removed the darkened paint layer had to secure the image is true colors and 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 use of 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 too. that's pretty awesome all right a reminder of the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour. british prime minister theresa may is meeting french president and many of my call to plead for a second greg's extension she arrived in paris just moments ago earlier may matter with a chance i'm going back up and berlin and it is really is our boring to decide whether political newcomer of any god should unseat for term prime minister benjamin netanyahu the winner is expected to form

a coalition government. you're watching it every day is coming up next. indeed over here is asia another blow for the pro-democracy movement in hong kong nine leaders behind the twenty four thousand protests are found guilty of organizing the umbrella movement street protests. on where her aachen girl ended up going it was a job with your rush is up next and i'll be back at the top of the out.

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