this is d.w. news live from berlin a mixed verdict that could prove troublesome for u.s. president donald trump no collusion with russia but some attempts to influence the course of justice the u.s. government publishes the much anticipated results of the investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. also coming up the candidates in ukraine's upcoming presidential election give blood samples to prove their sobriety or find out what else is different about ukraine's unusual runoff election. and living in exile and waiting to be reunited with her husband we meet

with and stuff haidar wife of the dissident rough but dowdy is in jail in saudi arabia for his liberal ideas. i'm sunni so misconducts good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump try to influence the course of an investigation into russian interference in the twenty six thousand presidential election that is one of the conclusions of the malo report that's been published in redacted form in the u.s. but special counsel robert muller stopped short of charging trompe could not reach a concrete legal conclusion that obstruction had taken place donald trump says the report marks the end of a hoax but democrats say there are still questions that have to be investigated. game over that's what donald trump tweeted after the release in redacted form of

the miller report he appears to think his worries are over arriving in florida for the easter break he was characteristically bullish. on. the miller report build a broad case that trump attempted to obstruct the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election but miller said he couldn't conclusively determine that trumpet committed a criminal act he also detailed numerous contacts between the trump campaign and russia but said they also did not amount to criminal behavior trumps adviser kellyanne conway said it was case closed apologies to anybody who feels the brace on in offering that there was no collusion and there certainly was no criminal conspiracy between russia and that report makes very clear that this white house and its president and none of us got in their way never never interfered never refused to comply with the past but democrats say it's far from clear that the

president didn't try to obstruct the course of justice. the idea that the report proves no obstruction is completely at odds with hundreds of pages in the report which document efforts by the president to undermine the investigation democrats are demanding that in an redirected version of the report is made available to congress allowing them to continue the investigation if the special counsel as he made clear had found evidence exonerating the president he would have said so he did not he left that issue to the congress of the united states and we will need to consider it for trump the miller report is finally behind him but the twenty twenty elections are looming and his political opponents are unlikely to be so accommodating. well as we heard there could be up to democrats in congress to take the next steps including potentially pursuing charges that the special counsel felt unable to press himself or maybe even using the report's findings as the basis for

impeachment proceedings. humphrey gave her assessment of how likely that was. they're going to have to be pretty sure that they're going to have a good case for him pietschmann should they want to push forward with proceedings on not front because if they try and they say oh people in the rest of the country all going to either say that you know it was vindicated this was a witch hunt or that the democrats spent too much time caught up in the to ing and fro ing off the mother report when significant issues today and whether it's wages health care child care degree new deal environmental policy whatever it may be on the left which has very concerned is not tackled in the run up to the twenty twenty alexion so really there's going to be some soul searching now i think in the democratic party with how they move forward now that they've got this report in their hands right let's get another perspective on the story we have heading rico

with us from the think tank the german council on foreign relations he's an expert on u.s. politics having good morning to you so as we heard the report details attempts by trump to influence the course of the investigation but still there have been no charges explain why the special counsel felt there was no legal grounds to pursue charges here i think it could be proved or shown the trump had tried to obstruct justice that he had tried to to. order the removal of miller himself and things like that but these orders have not been carried dollars now obviously it's not only the fulfillment of the deed that is illegal but also the attempt to do it and the intention so it shows clearly of course the trump knew there might be a danger that he was willing to obstruct justice but obviously there was no no clear case of him being guilty in having completed the task now another issue is that. federal attorney does not

indict the president there is a rule that this man actually doesn't do it and. now in the head of the of congress and. didn't feel like instruct or to to demand the congress. of the two pre-decided what congress would decide on this issue so it had he handed over the whole task to. the representatives and the senators and as you said now it is up to congress because robert miller did not exonerate donald trump either can donald trump put the allegations of collusion behind him now or is there really a way forward for democrats to pursue an investigation and also some dissenting republicans perhaps i think that the pollution part is possibly the weakest here because it could be shown that of course they have been contact and talks but to prove that there has been a cooperation according nation of activities. to have russia interfere into the

into the campaign is difficult if not impossible so then there might be not be a conclusion of that sort but what about a way forward for impeachment proceedings for example because they don't have to prove criminal action there but rather the president is unfit for the office. the leadership of the democratic party has already said even in the in the house of representatives they're not really eager to pursue that because they know that in the end the senate must approve and the senators are like pro trump they don't want to kill the president and the run up to a president until election so that there will be booby of this debt and in that regard and so they would rather have hearings and subpoena people and try to to find out. what the report has left those obit was blacked out to keep the pressure on trump and keep the attention up but i think if pietschmann is not likely what do you think this means for the remainder of this term of donald

trump's presidency and also his chances for reelection. i think it will haunt him the issue. there will be constant news constant new revelations from the report and from the hearings how he stumbled through the process how he tried to. elbow the. the attorney and of course look bad for him but all of that looks good for many of his voters they only read his tweets they don't really follow the liberal side of the commentary it's a very polarized country and even if they see look he was he was doing things wrong but he's still a strong president and i would rather have him president than any democrat in a polarized environment as in the united states that might be enough so he's shown once again and again that he's a businessman and no politician and i think this is trademark red herring week if any german council on foreign relations thank you for sharing your insight with us this morning. let's catch up on some other stories making news around the

world huge crowds have gathered in the sudanese capital khartoum to pressure the governing military council to immediately seek power to civilians protesters responded to social media and joined a sit in outside the defense ministry the demonstrations are the largest since the military ousted longtime president omar al bashir one week ago. on the portuguese island of madeira german foreign minister heikal must visit the site of a bus crash that killed twenty nine german tourists on wednesday evening last later he met with survivors that a nearby hospital investigators have not yet determined why the bus went out of control in a curves. pope francis has washed the feet of several prison inmates as part of traditional festivities ahead of easter previous popes have generally washed the feet of priests on holy thursday the current pope and stud carried out the practice in facilities such as prisons or centers for mike ritz. in

northern ireland a twenty nine year old woman was killed by gunfire during a riot in a suburb of the city of london derry police say they are treating the incident as terrorism a witness said the woman who was killed was standing or a police vehicle when she was hit the violence erupted after a large number of police searched a house in the area militant groups still pose a threat to northern ireland in january a large bomb exploded outside a courthouse in londonderry but caused no casualties well thursday's violence came on the eve of the twenty first anniversary of the signing of the good friday agreement that largely ended decades long conflict between catholic irish nationalists and protestants in northern ireland but memories of the troubles are slow to fade in london derry or derry which was the original name of the city. john donnelly is a former ira fighter from derry in his home is a small collection of treasures from the decades of warfare known as the troubles

so many young lad. the british soldiers belt back contains photos from a secret list of wanted ira members and it was a photo of myself and those are technically army. miscarry usually do. their informer. using informer. kept me here was martin mcguinness was the former provisional ira leader but later shin feigns chief negotiator for the good friday agreement twenty one years ago. for over three decades he and the ira for british rule in northern ireland. john donnelly was a leading political force in derry northern ireland second largest city. he was instrumental in persuading ira operatives to lay down their arms. twenty one years on the conflict seems to have been settled but for many this is merely

a superficial arrangement donnelly says poor areas of daring are still waiting for the peace dividend to kick in since the peace agreement up till now it there's been no tangible progress if you look at the shuffle of people who put their finger on and say look. that that that was. that's what happened a little frayed if you remove the b. and c. . in the rosemount community center the former ira fighter is a social worker helping those worse off. yes he and a colleague tom court also a former fighter share one of the hardest jobs. so we usually room there they're binders full of brutal stories. donnelly shows a particularly telling file. this will be of it if it the client's name. what age group nature of threat expulsion

baden should in the competition and this case was a literally thread expulsion from a subject. to punish so called anti social behavior radical elements impose vigilante justice in the poor areas of derry. this is a holdover from earlier times when the ira policed neighborhoods. a tradition that radical irish nationalists are carrying on today. here a mother and her son visit a community center they want to remain anonymous. the boy is accused of stealing a car his threaten punishment is to be shot in the leg. donnelly is trying to mediate. here the beating to be. i talk to people as a threat. because. because we mediated. we

only know redell enter. a letter of apology will hopefully avert the looming threat . it's a typical day at the rosemount community center an indication that for some people in northern ireland peace has not yet returned twenty one years after the good friday agreement. now ukrainians go to the polls on sunday to choose their next president after a first round vote at the end of march the two remaining candidates are slow to miss selenski a television star or petro poroshenko the incumbent president now is a lansky is the frontrunner he won the first ballot with more than thirty percent of the vote he is a comedian with no political experience and he's put forward very few policy proposals but his willingness to speak both ukrainian and russian has brought him a lot of support in the countries mainly russian speaking east now petro poroshenko

is a businessman from the confectionery industry and he is one of ukraine's wealthiest people he was elected in a snap vote after former pro russian president viktor yanukovych was toppled in the twenty fourteen my down revolution his reputation as a reformer has been damaged scrub remains a big problem in ukraine. let's bring in our correspondent in kiev nick conaway for more on this of very unusual election hi nick good to see you so a comedian could become ukraine's next president how has the lansky managed to gather so much support. good morning sue me well i think you have to understand all this that selenski is someone who's known to almost all ukrainians he's been at the top of this country show business for the last decade he didn't need to explain who he was to anyone but unlike his main competitors he hasn't been involved in frontline politics or any politics and so he's not associated with that baggage with the disappointments and the corruption of ukrainian politics in recent years

so in that sense he had a kind of clean start he also led a very positive campaign focused on optimism something that picture pushing co failed to do instead focusing on kind of aggressive war rhetoric with the conflict with russia that his critics would say he's promising all things to all people he has been pretty slow to give much the way of detail of what he wants to do we were expecting to hear more on that off the first round but instead for the last two weeks he seems to be in doing his best to avoid coming face to face with bush and go let's have a look at how those last two weeks panned out. a sitting president rolling up his sleeves to give blood for drugs test live on t.v. not something most ukrainian voters ever expected to see but they did because of this man comedian and actor to lead president pershing coast challenger has turned ukraine's politics on its head in a matter of months when selenski demanded drug and alcohol tests pershing had

little choice but to agree after picking up just half as many votes as alinsky in the first round pushing clothes had to play catch up with these younger rival. lympics stadium capacity seventy thousand and the place was immense he says he wants to debate with petro poroshenko no dusty t.v. studio facility who prefers to talk to his supporters direct through social media. feelings once again selenski throwing down the gauntlet and once again go left with no other option but to agree. astonished observers with a late night reply by video message if it's the stadium you want then so be it i'll be waiting for you. travel to paris to meet him on a visit intended to underscore his diplomatic standing selenski again picked him to the post meeting mccall and his advisors hours before pushing. tension in ukraine

was focused on the mood music between the presidential candidates and their french toast down to the number of minutes spent at the elite palace. less than forty eight hours after his return from paris petro poroshenko was walking the turf of dillon big stadium alone with his supporters his challenge to selenski to bring the stadium debate forward had simply been ignored with his poll ratings fly high selenski is apparently in no mood to compromise three weeks have now passed since the first round of voting but ukrainians are barely any wiser about what their presidential candidates plan to do three weeks debating the how and the when of a potential debate instead of discussing the issues of which there are more than enough in a country locked in standoff with russia with more than a million refugees and millions more leaving the country in search of work out critics argue that's no coincidence they say as

a newcomer to politics he has little to win and much to lose debating the details of being president today ukrainians have one last chance to hear their next president whoever that will be set out his vision before they go to the polls that is if selenski can finally agree on the terms of the debate. you know you said yourself a little bit earlier that vladimir selenski has given very little in the way of detail or policy proposals so what could you crane actually look like if you were to become president. well sumi has spoken a lot about fighting corruption stripping members of parliament of their immunity as a way of doing that also modernizing ukraine's government systems digitalisation but i think it's really worth seeing this as more a promise of generational change in a static change the new generation coming to power in the way of kind of detailed

manifesto promises we haven't had all too much he has broadly stayed on line with what the current government is doing by saying he's not going to try and solve that conflict by force also saying that he'd continue ukraine's cooperation with its western lenders the interesting thing will be to see if tonight we do get that debate and if we hear more detail from him what it sounds like now if they do meet in the olympic stadium they won't be on a single stage they haven't been able to agree instead they'll be all separate stages at either end of the football field and make a lot of people are asking what russia's role is in all of this does moscow have a preferred candidate here. here's the thing the candidate who actually travel to moscow before the first round euro boyko something that had been a common feature of ukrainian politics in the past he only came fourth place i think the war really has changed the tone here and being seen as too friendly with moscow doesn't pay off in ukrainian elections but on the other hand there is

a lot of interest in this election in russia certainly i think there is a certain level of exhaust system for russian observers about elections that don't have a predestined outcome spokesman saying that he'd be watching these debates if they happened tonight. it's clear that he is the candidate of the kind of the cold standoff with russia he has pitched presidency on this is alecky by contrast i think has a bit more wiggle room and a bit more flexibility to maybe try and shake things up and talk to president putin of russia direction a way that i think there's no going back for petro poroshenko after five years of this conflict all right nick connelly our correspondent covering the election in ukraine for us nick thank you very much. now saudi arabia ranks almost last on the world press freedom index that's according to the organization reporters without borders there is no independent media there and journalists are closely monitored the murder last year of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul showed how severe that repression can be

good to be met with and soft the wife of the jailed saudi dissident write a doubt she's been living in exile and canada. this is the city of share broker about two hours drive from montreal. it's where and stuff hyder lives the wife are probably the most well known critic of the saudi arabian government rife with. a koran teacher and stuff hyder shares none of the cliches of a saudi woman. she and her husband have sporadic contact by telephone. right in the dog's health she says his poor. little sit down the one he doesn't feel well and he's very far from us. devaney i'm glad for his children and for me he really isn't doing well its whole close it's been three weeks since he last called us. and soft hydra has

a recount of her husband's story many times. rifa die we was a blogger he advocated for a liberal and secular saudi arabia with rights for women. but for his beliefs he was sentenced to ten years in prison under thousand lashes. the first fifty lashes were administered in two thousand and fifteen the rest were postponed and serve hydra had fled into exile by that stage it's been nears since her children lost soul their father and he picked up on the phone we can't wait any more soon we will be outs are shot it's almost over and the father has been there for none of it . and stuff hyder on her way to a vigil for her husband. fifty beats of a drum for the fifty lashes but we received. she meets with supporters in front of cher brooks town hall. decisions all tories are complaining for rice but are we to

get canadian citizenship. that is the wealthy so in this race story is one of human rights and freedom of expression. the city of separate has made that story it so. why is it it's not just me longing to see right but the entire city as well. but that's of little interest to the most powerful man in saudi arabia prince mohammed bin solomon has a policy of modernizing his country. but the case of the murdered saudi journalist . shows that policy has its limits and so if hyder is very cautious when it comes to criticizing saudi arabia. you christmas. been solomon wants to modernize saudi arabia rafe wanted that too so why is he still sitting in prison. sure broca's become home to and so high your hundred children it's missing just one

thing she says her husband writes but are we. to sports now and in football a german team made a remarkable comeback in the europa league to reach the semifinals of a european cup competition for the first time since one thousand nine hundred eighty they trailed the portuguese club benfica four two from the first leg but overturn the deficit with a two nil win at home a boisterous crowd roared them to victory as a first philip and then a bus and board it scored before and after half time to send frankfurt threw away goals while celebrations follow them fine for now face chelsea for a place in the final i meant tennis and an update from the third round of the monte carlo masters germany's world number three aleksandr fed have was knocked out and a surprise straight sets to feet to fabio fognini mean bob novak djokovic cruised past his opponent but now faces a tricky task in the quarterfinals. despite showing plenty grit

and determination tayla fritz didn't stand a chance against novak djokovic playing in red jackets gave the twenty one year old american a sound beating winning the first set six three and then the second six mil. is well on his way to with good monte-carlo title however the match still proved a struggle for both players due to high winds on the court i was not many too many rallies a lot of unforced errors for you know for his side as well but in a day like this you're just trying to hang in there and talk to do the right things to to to win. battling it out of face him in the quarter finals were done deal medvedev and greek rising star stephon also. the twenty two year old fought back from a set down to draw level but medvedev came out on top in

a close third set to secure progression. still to come on d w ukraine's a. anomia struggling with one exception a booming ikea industry has brought high paying jobs to one city we'll take you to love it and show you what's made this town our programming powerhouse. guardhouse first has that story coming right up.

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