you know holding back his dreams. cinema dumb starts may 27th on the c.w. . this is the news live from berlin the u.s. plays down speculation is heading for war with iran secretary of state mike pompei o says america is not seeking conflict although the u.s. would respond if its interests were attacked. on the issue of talks with russian leaders also coming up. britain's prime minister brings her bracks

a plan back from the dead trees and they will put it to lawmakers early next month in a bid to get britain out of europe in time for the summer holiday. and ukrainian women becoming surrogate mothers to make ends meet they earn thousands of euros to carry babies for couples in western europe including from germany. and the competition heats up in the euro vision song contest 10 countries booked their place for saturday's final intel of even israel will go live to israel about the euro vision that's being overshadowed this year by politics. i brought in thomas thanks so much for joining us u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has been reassuring russia andie you that washington is not heading for a conflict with iran comments coming during his 1st official visit to russia

a key backer of tehran now iran has blamed the current crisis in the gulf on washington's decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. and mike pompei is on a mission a mission that didn't go quite the way he planned pompei has been on the road for the past week rallying support for washington's iran policy last wednesday he abruptly pulled out of a scheduled meeting with germany's chancellor angela merkel instead he met iraqi leaders and warned them that iran's threat to american interests in the region was growing he then postponed a trip to russia to share iran intelligence with european leaders in brussels but they didn't offer him their backing. opinion aside the states of the european site that's full determination to do all we can as i said with all the students to implement it for our part of the nuclear agreement as long as

iran remains compliant next stop sochi in the russian black sea resort pompei i met president vladimir putin and foreign minister sergei lavrov but again he got very little. we didn't support it and we consider it a mistake that the u.s. exit did the iran nuclear deal. with my games we hope to find a political solution to the situation in iran and we'll try to assist you through so that the situation doesn't turn into a military scenario. where you're mr marty in recent days the us has considerably increased its military presence in the persian gulf but pump a 0 denies that the trumpet ministration is preparing for war we're looking for iran to be a work a normal country and that's our ask and we have applied pressure to the leadership of the islamic republic of iran to achieve that we we fundamentally do not see

a war with iran iran's leadership also denies it's heading for conflict now pump a.o. has returned to washington on his european tour allies and rivals alike warned him against war. let's get some analysis now as sasha loman america expert at the german institute for international security affairs welcome to the show thanks for joining us having is this the start of a deescalation in the gulf well i feel no these processes hardly controllable and it's a huge potential for missed perceptions so steps on both sides are perceived to be offensive even if they essentially meant to be defensive do you think it's reassuring tehran nonetheless that pales but out there talking to people talking to russia talking to the e.u. well i think it's kind of reassuring that he's so far unsuccessful unsuccessful to garner support for the so-called my small precious strategy but at the same time the u.s. is deploying new military assets in the region and i think that's highly unstable

ising for also the reigning leadership what do you think about this shuttle diplomacy on behalf is it a one off effort or do you think america will be keeping. up the pressure for this maximum pressure strategy that that you just mentioned will basically pay was trying to garner some legitimacy from allies in europe but also from partners of the remaining parties among the just a few a but he must not be successful necessarily because the u.s. can and has not backed sanctions unilaterally and they are pressuring to run regardless of what the other studen their efforts at trying to save the deal so far have also been proven not successful at all ok well the administration in washington believes that the sanctions will strengthen the opposition undermine the regime of the mallos could they though wind up strengthening the hardly liners in iran. sure i mean those are the 2 theories and it looks like as the 2nd theory

that it's strengthening the hard liners the so-called rally round deflect theory is actually what's happening on the ground into russia ok as part of that rally around the flag theory in tehran we've seen a deployment of iranian assets in the gulf as well polluting the the elite units of the republican guard what are the iranians doing off for their side now to to strengthen their position in the gulf militarily well they're trying to put pressure on the u.s. at the same time because they cannot match up militarily on the scale with the u.s. navy in the persian gulf so what they're doing is that they are trying to somehow retaliate asymmetrically and that's why they're flying some so-called proxies in the region and this also heightens the potential for escalation because of the proximity between u.s. forces in syria. and iraq and these ukrainian backed forces and just this morning we have reports coming in from iran that iran has indicated the country has already

stopped some of its commitments under the nuclear deal what impact do you think that could have well those faily small steps and they are also only pertaining to these areas that the u.s. reimposed sanctions on so these are actually steps which indicate that the iranian leadership is still interested in maintaining the deal and we will see the so-called ultimatum to the europeans to 60 days what they will do afterwards because it's not really likely that the europeans can actually deliver economic benefits to iran because u.s. sanctions are prohibiting european companies even in europe to follow e.u. law and with the economic threats and pressures increase you know all of the military threats and pressures increasing as well what needs to be done right now to cool the situation off to get in effect of the escalation well as a. these processes are hardly controllable and what needs to be done is there needs

to be an actor that might be able to deescalate the situation but in this kind of environment it's really hard to actually send signals of deescalation because the potential for misperception is so huge so i think this is kind of what's really dangerous about this whole situation that there's hardly a kind of space for for deescalation ok briefly if you could who should be the into look cute or you just mentioned could it be the europeans well prefer play the europeans but so far they're really cautious and kind of. getting the united states to really accept that they want to maintain the deal and kind of put some put some money where their mouth is such a loman american expert at the german institute for international security affairs thanks for coming in this morning's it's to britain now where prime minister treason may has promised to put her breakfast deal before parliament again in the 1st week of june she hopes that if it's passed britain can formally exit the european union before lawmakers have all for their summer vacation in july but the

terms of britain's divorce deal have already been rejected of course by politicians 3 times so she's currently talking with the leader of the labor party jeremy corbyn trying to find a way out of the impasse but prime the right wing of her conservative party well which wants a hard deal or no deal is suggesting that again it will not support a privatised maybe. and maybe it will be reintroducing a bracks a plan of support for her conservatives plummets to a record low level percent of opinion polls just days before the european elections where with charlotte potts covering the story for us from london good morning charlotte why is the reason a choosing to do this right now. well prime minister theresa may is determined to bring her withdrawal agreement through parliament in the week of june and the 1st week of june in order to then get the great britain out of the european

union by the summer before the break here before parliament goes on at some a break and in order to do so she has chosen the only way that is left cross party talks with the opposition labor party they've been talking for around 2 months now very little movement so far but they are both determined they say to find a compromise to find a way forward and to change the political declaration of the deal so that would define the future relationship the labor party wants to remain in a customs union with the european union and to rescind may obviously see some hope that they will find common ground be moving a little bit towards set so this is something that there is some hope that they will pass that deal with the help of labor votes at some point in parliament but we have to also say both are under tremendous pressure from their party so from within

the tare and labor party especially to resign may from the right wing off the paci and at the moment it looks like this would be wishful thinking that she would get now all the votes that she could really pos her deal done in june it certainly does look like a wishful thinking when you consider how the political sands are shifting in britain right now just days ahead of european elections certainly looking at the opinion polls what's the mood in the country ahead of these european elections which britain was not meant to participate in. well it certainly seems like british voters are very tired of the breaks that cause chaos of the past 3 years we've seen that in the local elections where the vote really pretty much voted out the incumbents of tory and labor party and chose parties so that was a big blow for the 2 main parties for labor and tory and we're thinking that the

european elections are going to be some kind of mini referendum a protest vote that we are going to see there's a new party on the horizon here in great britain the bracks of paci under the leadership of nigel farrar she was the architect of the leaf referendum they can painting extremely successful throughout the country we're seeing crowded rooms when nigel frosh takes the stage and they are polling highest at the moment in those european elections followed by the labor party the liberal democrats and then in 4th place only teresa mayes conservatives and of course that would be a tremendous blow for the conservative party and so after the european elections there will be pressure on may if if the party really loses that many votes of course it will be more pressure for her to resign and it looked more make it even more difficult than for her to put that deal and front of parliament again and and get the votes this time to force time around some real question about her choice of

timing right. thanks very much. let's brief you on some of the other stories making the news right now sudan's governing military council says it has agreed with the opposition alliance to a 3 year period for the country to change to civilian rule a spokesman for the military council said a final agreement on the balance of power would be reached within $24.00 hours. the venezuelan opposition leader one wideout has accused president nicolas maduro as government of trying to silence congress after security forces stopped opposition lawmakers from entering the national assembly is the legislators would reconvene for another session wednesday meanwhile the country's supreme court has charged for lawmakers with treason relating to last month's attempted uprising. extreme san francisco's board of supervisors has banned police and other government departments from using facial recognition technology making it the 1st american

city to do so but the ban does not apply to private businesses and federally controlled facilities such as the city's airport and ports the technology is used to identify people from video footage or still photo ops. now a woman gets pregnant and gives birth to a child for other parents this is the concept of surrogacy in the last 2 decades surrogacy has become a global industry in many countries there still are no legal regulations on surrogacy in some countries like germany spain finland malaysia surrogacy is simply illegal now then there are countries like south africa india parts of canada and britain where only so-called. surrogacy is legal now that means the surrogate mother is only reimbursed for her expenses and cannot charge for the service itself

commercial surrogacy though is the most problematic form of surrogacy because of the ethical concerns of course linked to it financially and socially vulnerable women can be targets for surrogacy recruitment attracted by very large sums of cash . now concerns about exploitation of lead countries like thailand india nepal to ban commercial surrogacy and shut down their previously booming industries but now other countries are picking up the demand countries like ukraine are correspondent it connelly such as this. reaffirms whenever the baby moves i speak to it at night when i read my children stories it's for the baby to. cause. metallica is 8 months pregnant it's ago but it's not has the talia is the surrogate the baby's parents live in germany. such

a happy moment when you hold your baby in your arms for the 1st time i'll be happy for them. to tell his own children with her for the day for the final months of the pregnancy she's moved to be closer to the clinic and to. natalia took the decision to become a surrogate to help family finances so that her kids would have it better she tells us her partner earns just 200 euros a month working full time. this clinic on the outskirts of hard to attract childless couples from around the world among them the german couple whose daughter an italian is carrying they were unwilling to be interviewed even anonymously the fear of being recognised is just too great. it's a different story with this woman from germany we're calling her and she's in her early forty's and has 6 failed attempts to get pregnant by idea behind her adoption

wasn't something she has been willing to consider so sorry to see an exile donation was the only option remaining. a procedure that's illegal in germany anna says that is pure hypocrisy. surrogacy is illegal in germany but you see celebrities and those who can afford it doing it all the same it's when you get back to germany that social services treat you like a criminal. surrogacy is big business and one that's growing in this clinic in how to give couples pay upwards of 30000 euros for a package think glued to the surrogacy and egg cell donation there are no official statistics but insiders estimate that many hundreds of children are born to surrogates every year in ukraine. it's a month since we last met natalia now she's back with her partner and children the child she carried for the past 9 months has been with its new german family since

it was born. there although they it was a bit confusing emotionally after the baby was born on the one hand you understand that it's not your baby but you still want to know everything about it you've carried that child for 9 months but i wouldn't call it a maternal instinct you feel very clearly that it's not your. the baby's new parents say they want to stay in touch with their talia but what does not take from it would she do it again for now she won't rule it out but one thing is clear the demand is there and it's growing. and there's more about that story at our website well the euro vision song contest and is coming up that's that time of year again in the 1st 10 countries have booked their spot in saturday's final in tel aviv among the lucky finalists this year the czech republic san marino iceland and

australia. which is represented by classically trained soprano and miller high here with her song 0 gravity. thursday sees the 2nd round of semifinals before the big event that's on saturday or israel correspondent gives us a sense of the atmosphere right now in tel aviv. beach sun and music as the e.s.c. as it's known to its legions of follow was hit tel aviv on the beach a mix of tourists and fans await such a day's grand finale with anticipation. this city when it's it's always fun and when people from the whole europe come here to see something i think it will become more fun then it's always be to. go in the big stage here. i am happy to represent my counter banya and read this there they go. israel is hosting this year's year edition song

contest because of this single minute about silly who won in lisp and last year she will perform her new single man a banana at the final on saturday. making people come here and see how amazing israel is giving us a chance to show how how how big of a party we can make and how amazing and genuine it can be energy wise. wow. $41.00 nations are competing to win europe's oldest song contest it's the 3rd time isabel is hosted it security has been beefed up along the beach promenade but the ever glitzy event has not escaped country of the sea. the event has been highly politicized from the beginning there have been some calls to boycott the event because of israel's military occupation of the palestinian territories. international palestinian and israeli artists signed petitions to urge

of this just a way from the event now that it's arrived they still want to highlight what they see as the political reality. let's stop for a 2nd try to look at reality for a higher perspective not only this you know the speech is really beautiful and everybody is happy and smiling in the beer is the state. but just a few kilometers from here really. crazy things are happening here at the eurovision press enter politics couldn't be further away the organizer of the contest the european broadcasting union has said strict rules spending politics from the stage among bloggers and journalists covering the event it's all about who is going to win this year's contest the dutch entry is one of the favorites lawrence duncan with kind of a cheesy nice ballad isn't 1st place but my favorite and my bad hopefully is

bilawal fascinated the french singer 19 years old muslim gate and he's now climbed up to 4th place in the odds hopefully he'll win sweden with john ludwick in 2nd place so it's weird in france holland that's the big battle fewer foreign visitors than expected have turned up but this pop icon madonna making a guest appearance the final on saturday is to sold out. today vs tonya kramer put that report together for those she joins us now from jerusalem good morning to you tanya can you tell us how much are politics right now overshadowing the music this year. well as you could see in the report i mean digit pens really. very early on when it was clear that is well the host of this music event there were at kohl's football i caught one of the main groups boycott

divestment and sanctions complain approve the sting in group arguing actually that this bringing this event here with wife was israel's policies in the occupied palestinian territory and they had called on both cost as the artists and also on the fence not to take part in that and also they have been petitions by international artists also seen and israeli artists to highlight human rights human rights violations by the israeli army and the palestinian territory but at the same time you also at the titians who said this fight this event shouldn't be boycotted also by international artists and having said that the e.u. has set up very clear rules that this is not a political event and called on at this event to go ahead and none of depart because this actually have followed these calls so people we have to wait and see a bit if some of the local protests that have been happening in the past days the

continue also on to the grand finale. ok there wasn't only the increased pressure from the b.d.'s community but there are also huge security concerns especially since last week's rocket attacks by hamas on israel how has that affected security for the contest. yeah this has certainly added at the time more security concerns. between gaza militants and the israeli army that time had been ended by understanding. broken by egypt and those understandings are now slowly being implemented but the test really comes this week because it also coincided actually last like last year a vision again with the new votes released today and come in the races today palestinians are commemorating the nakba day it's the day they commemorate every year. when they and sisters had to flee from their homeland $9048.00 during the

arab israeli war so they are always in every year demonstrations and protests we also hear their protests being had again again along the gaza border and last year just to remind you it was a day when the. u.s. embassy was moved from tel aviv to jerusalem that coincided also with your vision at the time well the 50 protesters were killed by israeli sniper fire so all this acts of course to some of the tensions but having said that you saw it in the report security has been beefed up along the beaches and also the main euro village where all the fans will be watching those who are not having tickets will be watching on the big screen the events so security is certainly heightened around the event for the whole week talking just a few seconds last madonna's appearance could that be a bright spot for this event. but she has already said she will come no matter what

. she doesn't want to hear and he calls her by coach and she said she wants to bring a message of peace to this area and that she doesn't really care about what's happening here so that will be her message she says is supposed to be guessing at the grand finale on saturday. for us thanks very much for that. if you're a minor now of our top stories this hour u.s. secretary of state michael peo as playing down the prospects of war with iran speaking of talks with russian leaders he said the united states was not seeking like those though it would respond if attacked you know when coming this rising tensions in the gulf. well coming up we have business with ben ben good morning what you're looking at or iran we're looking at the trade war of course and whether or not a resolution is on its way you know sometimes all it takes is a tweet donald trump so often during his time in office has tweeted about certain

companies that ship prices have gone down into the dumps this time though it's a case of trump tweeting and share prices around the world going up ok we look forward to finding out exactly what that's all about but we'll be right back after the break i'm brian thomas from the entire news team thanks for being with us this morning.

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