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you can do something to. give the baby a future without a. make a donation safe a life. this is d. w. news live from berlin a mixed assessment 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
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candidates in ukraine's upcoming presidential election give blood samples to prove their sobriety we'll find out what else is different about ukraine run off election thoughts rioting in northern ireland's of leaves one woman dead twenty one years after the signing of the good friday peace deal police say it is terrorism and they've launched a murder investigation. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump tried to influence the course of an investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election that is one of the conclusions of the report that's been published in redacted form in the united states. but the special counsel stopped short of charging trump let's break down some of the key takeaways from this report because first of all muller found
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extensive links between trump's twenty sixteen election campaign and russian operatives who sought to influence the election but ultimately mother determined that there was insufficient evidence to support criminal charges he found the trumped tried multiple times to obstruct the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election and trump's attempts to influence the investigation were largely unsuccessful not only because people surrounding him declined to carry out his orders. no knoller added that there was not enough evidence to prove trump committed criminal obstruction and he would not recommend charging him but he said that he could not exonerate him either so donald trump saying the report marks the end of what he calls a hoax but the democrats saying 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
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arriving in florida for the easter break he was characteristically bullish. trump's advisor kellyanne conway said it was case closed not that they were accepting apologies today too for anybody who feels the grace i'm in offering them there was no collusion and there certainly was no criminal conspiracy with any russians that report makes very clear that this white house and this president and none of us i got in their way 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 an 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
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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. so as we heard there it could be up to the 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. helen humphrey assesses how likely that could be. they're going to have to be pretty sure that they're going to have a good case for impeachment pietschmann should they want to push forward with proceedings on that front because if they try and they fail people in the rest of the country are going to either say that you know trump was vindicated this was a witch hunt or that the democrats spent too much time caught up in the to ing and
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fro ing off the report when significant issues to them whether it's wages health care child care degree new deal environmental policy whatever it may be on the left which has voters 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 how to humphrey there in washington let's have a quick check of some other stories making news around the world activists with the climate exchange group extinction rebellion have staged protests at london's heathrow airport organizers were hoping to shut the airport down but so far no major disruptions have been reported greenpeace staged a sit in at the offices of the bank so cetacean arrived in paris. huge crowds have gathered in the sudanese capital khartoum to pressure the governing military council to immediately cede power to civilians protesters responded to social media appeals and joined
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a sit in outside of the defense ministry the demonstrations are the largest since the military ousted longtime president omar al bashir one week ago. and christians found worlds christians around the world excuse me have been marking the crucifixion of jesus almost two thousand years ago thousands are in jerusalem to follow the road that jesus took to his death for sessions and reenactments are also underway and many other places. ukrainians go to the polls on sunday to choose their next president after a first round vote at the end of march two remaining candidates are villota mir's a landscape a television star and petro poroshenko the incumbent president now so let's go is the front runner he won the first ballot with more than thirty percent of the vote he's a comedian with no political experience but he's put forward very few policy proposals his willingness to speak both ukrainian and russian has brought him
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a lot of support of the countries mainly russian speaking east meantime federal portion go a businessman from the confectionery industry and he's 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 might on revolution his reputation as a reformer has been damaged as corruption remains a big problem in ukraine let's get more on this now we're joined by our correspondent nick connelly who is standing by with the very latest on this election so you know one of the biggest questions that really comes up here is how has a comedian been able to gain so much support there in the country. good afternoon sarah well i think the important thing about all of them is alinsky is that he did not need to explain to ukrainian voters who he is he has been across the t.v. screens of this country for the past decade as
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a comedian and actor so he was really had just one hundred percent facial recognition and had the access to people through social media through his t.v. shows and more importantly while being very familiar to everyone he didn't have the political baggage of his competitors but petro poroshenko and for prime minister yulia timoshenko who were the front runners going into the first round they were all associated with the corrupt politics the past twenty years and he could come away as a fresh faces someone from a younger generation and as his critics would say someone who promises all things to all people has been pretty pretty slow to give detail what exactly he wants to do and in the last two weeks since first round we thought we'd hit him or we thought he'd come face to face with petro poroshenko but it seems like he's been doing his best to avoid coming face to face with the incumbent let's have a look at how those last few weeks been panning out. 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
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this man comedian and actor the misled school president pershing because 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 the lead in the first round goes had to play catch up with his younger rival. here 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 her social media. feelings once again selenski throwing down the gauntlet and once again pushing go left with no other option but to agree. astonished observers with a late night reply by video message is that you want if it's the stadium you want
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then so be it i'll be waiting for you. when pershing could travel to paris to meet him a visit intended to underscore his diplomatic standing still and again picked him to the post meeting mccall and his advisors hours before pushing. all the 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 elysium palace. less than forty eight hours after his return from paris. was walking the turf of the olympic stadium. his challenge to selenski to bring the stadium debate forward had simply been ignored with his poll ratings flying high he's 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
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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. 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. so nic tell us if selenski does indeed win this election what does it mean for the country. well we thought we were going to hear more from him in the past weeks he has been very vocal about fighting corruption taking away
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members of parliament immunity from prosecution modernizing the the ukraine's government bring in more digital governance also he says on the really big issues like joining nato the you he'll put that question to the people through referendums but it has been preciously thin on the detail but it doesn't seem to be doing him any harm if anything the polls show him increasing his lead over petro poroshenko since the first round so tonight will be the real test we've been waiting to submit for two weeks now and there's been lots of to inferring about the detail less about the actual content and from what we understand now if they do appear at this debate they won't even be sharing a single stage they will be on separate stages at opposite ends of the football pitch so let's see how much detail we actually get and how much is actually turns into being more of a concert for the respect candidates respective sports has a relationship with moscow we know it has been a very big topic in this election who is moscow's preferred candidate on the
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ukrainian side. you see in the first round we had a candidate who actually travel to moscow basically to show that he was supported by the russian leadership he met with the prime minister and with the head of russia's gas monopoly gas from and he came in fourth place so i think off the wall of this conflict with russia being seen as moscow's friend doesn't pay off at the ballot box here in ukraine having said that of the petro poroshenko has been the face of ukraine standing up to russia on the world stage he's really put trade himself as the commander in chief and someone who'd stand up to putin so in that sense has less baggage potentially he would be in a position to restart talks and to start a new page but for now it really seems like a consensus in ukraine that no one really wants to be seen as moscow's best friend nick connelly in kiev thank you nic now to northern ireland to a twenty nine year old journalist was killed by gunfire during a riot in a suburb of the city of london derry the violence erupted after
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a large number of police searched a house in the area police identified the woman as the neuroma key they say that she was standing near a police vehicle when she was shot police are treating her murder as terrorism they suspect that a militant republican group called the new ira which also took credit for a large bomb that exploded outside of a courthouse in londonderry in january now arlene foster a leader of the northern ireland democratic unionist party condemned the violence. of course violence criminality terrorism was always rome is still wrong today and twenty one thousand we condemn not wholeheartedly we hope that everyone will work in london darien and be further afield with the plane service to give them all the support that they need and can i command the officers last night who stood between the community and those who sought to do the community harm. and
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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 as they're known 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 doesn't matter of myself or technically or me. this guy usually do and usually they are informed. it was an informer. and millions martin mcguinness was the former provisional ira leader but later sheehan feigns chief negotiator for the good friday agreement
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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 derry are still waiting for the peace dividend to kick in since a peace agreement opened up till now it there's been no tangible progress. there's often the people can put their finger on and say look. that that that was. that's what's happened and it would fade if you do that it would be and see. in the rosemount community center the former ira fighter is
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a social worker helping those worse off. or else he and a colleague tom court also a former fighter share one of the hardest jobs are we asked so we use a room and they're there binders full of brutal stories. donnelly shows a particularly telling file once or this type of sheet will be of your if. you have the date the client's name where he lives. what age group nature of threat expulsion beeton should in the time addition are all are in this case was a nature of the expulsion from a civic. to punish so called anti social behavior radical elements impose a 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. there is. a mother
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and her son visit a community center they want to remain anonymous you hear what the boy is accused of stealing a car is threatened punishment is to be shot in the leg. donnelly is trying to mediate. here it will be to the we. talk to people here should the threat. because. because we mediators. we only know you write a letter. 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. to come on the program.
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a church service that goes up to a level that will check in with a church in finland where heavy metal is going down a storm with worshippers. a french president about your background is meeting unesco officials today to discuss ideas for rebuilding paris's fire damage notes for don cathedral the un's cultural agency oversees global heritage issues a problem hopes to rebuild the cathedral in time for the twenty twenty for a limp games which paris will host he has suggested that the reconstruction could include contemporary designs for. a cease fire that was added to the cathedral in the nineteenth century a huge blaze destroyed the spire and the cathedrals eight hundred year old roof on monday he's. afraid rebecca writers are standing by with the latest from paris and rebecca i mean we've heard it there mccrone already meeting with us go today and he's really going full steam ahead now with this rebuild effort he certainly
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is within twenty four hours of the fire and he'd come out with a sort of very ambitious plan of having it rebuilt in five years now experts say that's unlikely to be possible they're looking at around more to ten to fifteen years but the sort of the fact that he wants to do it so fast could be saying that he really wants to make this part of his legacy he had been expected on monday night before the fire to give his speech trying to reunite the nation which has been divided we've seen months of protests here in paris and he was going to address the issues concerning the protesters but obviously that was that has been now delayed and he's trying to possibly use this event it's really a unifying unifying thing for the nation. and what about the investigation has there been any progress there. progress has been slow still because people have
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a sense is have not been able to get access to not her dam it is still very unsafe inside the building as you can probably see behind me there's some fire crews there and cranes they're trying to working to assess the damage and remove some of the heavier parts around the roof that they feel still could collapse so. senses have not been given full access they did do an initial assessment earlier in the week and they do believe that it was an accident that it was due to some electrical failure possibly because of the renovation works that were already taking place in the cathedral and what's going to happen now. because the good friday were back there were of course services that were planned at notre dame right. absolutely it's a very busy weekend for the for the cathedral normally there are several series of events and ceremonies that happened here many of the events have been moved to a church just up the road. piece but there will be one perception taking place near
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not tried to harm obviously not inside the cathedral and not even to the forecourt that had been mentioned as a possibility that's the way of the cross where worshippers emulate jesus carrying the cross to the mount. and that will take place in a few hours near the cathedral and i believe we've been told that worshipers will be allowed on to the island that much sits on but not anywhere near the actual cathedral writers that national cathedral thank you. german team i'm trapped frankfurt made a remarkable comeback in the europa league to reach the semifinals of a european competition for the first time since one nine hundred eighty they trailed 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 first philip hostage and then sebastiaan four days forward before and after half time to send frank for two on
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away goals. from for now face chelsea for a place in the final. it's had to finland now where a church with a difference in its packing in the faithful the country both more heavy metal musicians for capital than anywhere else in the world and one church in helsinki has incorporated the nation's favorite music into its services the pastor himself is a heavy metal fan and instead of an organ to top of his sermons he has a band onstage to bash out headbanging renditions of popular hams. him the god himself could hardly help but here it's the middle man square the faithful headbang in prayer here in helsinki's come in not be church sitting in for the organist of this loser in service is the met tell us with their.
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of course you have like a different kind of feeling for the music but if it's like what you feel the creating and the art chest and stuff but you have a different connection to the songs it's themselves actually i don't like in the in the middle near seek but it was actually the experience of. lutheran pastor how could take a line in. has been touring finland's churches with a metal mask for over ten years he discovered heavy metal rock at the age of seven to him deep purple and black sabbath were almost a spiritual awakening. his love for god came much later. brought them together in his metal mouse. of course god well i was head of my so i i'm sure actually it depends how we do it because we have
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a strong word of god and we do it for god not for us so that's why. god loves us i think so. that. congregations can book pastor spammed as long as they're not worried about the plaster shaking off the walls a cd of the hymns even made it into finland's top ten and. the band keeps the hymns lyrics and melodies intact so the faithful can sing along as usual. and it has held about one hundred fifty metal masses all around finland since two thousand and six. and we have all only hear from the hymn book a ranch in metal lyrics are very strong they meet metal music they really need it
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so that's why it's so wonderful together this. is music. the middle mass has provoked hardly any criticism in finland but then the country has more heavy metal bands per capita than any other country and metal can even have a therapeutic effect. i planned to. commit suicide before evening and he. he liked it so much so he did a good ten years ago so i'm here to live now so. maybe we have a meaning. topic a column in receives invitations from congregations the world over he's already looking forward to one day blasting his metal mask beats in churches everywhere.
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a quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here on news u.s. officials have released a heavily redacted version of special counsel robert muller's report into russian interference in the chinese sixteen presidential election they concluded that there was insufficient evidence that the trump campaign did it with moscow but it did not clear at a legally obstructing the prado. optimax in good shape i'm sorry kelly thanks for watching.
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