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reports in the u.s. house of representatives that says. i'm for the program for a suspected murder case is there renewing tensions between germany and russia as expelled 2 russian diplomats of the killing of a georgian citizen in the city in august for the chechen rebel commander. villy was shot dead in broad daylight in a public park a suspect named only as and has been taken into custody prosecutors suspected russian state involvement russia denies involvement and says it will retaliate against the expulsions. all speaking of the nato meeting in london german

chancellor angela merkel defended her government's actions reporters asked if she discussed the matter with allies. everyone in a position i'll be meeting the russian president next week and then i will let you know whether i have spoken with him and how that goes and we've taken this measure as you know mainly because we have seen that russia is not supporting us in investigating this murder and of course i've spoken with allies about this through bilateral contacts not the on contact the whether through all that problem it was for you know. let's get more on this from d.w. political correspondents 1000000 other. russian journalist and political commentator constantine i get welcome to both let's start with you max a 1000000 or so selling tell you that in congo severely killed 3 months ago so why are these diplomats only just now being expelled so the german foreign ministry gave a statement today saying that they declared 2 russian diplomats persona non-grata

says that's diplomats speak for them being expelled off this services here in germany and having to return to russia and the german from ministry says that they have come to this decision because after continuous efforts trying to get the russian authorities involved in the investigation of the killing off so. severely that they didn't get these supports by the russian authorities and therefore decided to take this diplomatic step. without looking at german federal prosecutors taking over this investigation why is that significant yes so the german federal prosecutors take over investigations when they consider a case of imports hands and also national matter of national security and they consider that in this case because they say they have indications that there have been potentially roughs. authorities russian forces involved in the killing

off the chechen man. let's go to constantine. constantine why would russia want to kill this man. well russia since quite a long time since probably well 15 or even more yes' pursues policy our policy of selectively offing those it doesn't like that was actually 1st practiced in the united arab emirates when former president of separatists government of chechnya also accidentally zelin khan yelled out to be and was assassinated in the gharana and i think that's because of mr congress or it is participation in a war against against russian forces in jest and because of his late up in georgia and other places ukraine including against russian interests as it seems

was the case that he was a target and i think these sort of signal killings if you wish is nothing new in russia ah so now i think the german things they are pretty effective and so the rich are pasch off a lot of my persons a spokesman he says russia knows nothing about this case and played no part and what do you think. well you do not expect them to say you did it right i think the that is the reaction is pretty much predict ago and there's going to be told to deny a little in these results it is quite different from what it used to be in other cases like this credo case in the u.k. because that said the suspect seems to be in the hands of german police now so how russia is going to extricate itself from these circumstances we'll see what i'm sure of is that there's going to be reciprocal expulsion over probably 2 german

diplomats very soon probably tomorrow because that is a classic russian. practice of retaliation and to protest in such circumstances so much so really on a coach that. the the relationship between german germany and russia is complicated it's hot it's cold it's very how is this likely to affect that yes i german russian relations specially germans take on russian times foreign policy as was been a tightrope walk so to speak so on the one hand that has historical reasons if you look back at the history of germany being a one time occupied by russia but at the same time then we have looking back at the last couple of years for example germany leading the sanctions on russia in the 2014 after the 2000 foot in attics a sion of crimea and at the same time germany being very kind of engaging with russia when it was trying to bring both russia and ukraine back to the table after the ukraine crisis and forced the minsk agreement together with the help of fronts

but germany also when you look at the european landscape has to look in this case that we now have ahead of us how it can work with allies so if you know for example france was very interested to bring russia back to the table and to limit sanctions towards russia and the german chancellor angela merkel which we heard earlier today is very skeptical to still to what's russia and this of course bill now be the question how germany wants to continue this case political correspondent max 1000000 a co shock and that constantine that i got that thank you brooke. and nato leaders meeting in london have wrapped up a contentious summit marking 70 years since the founding of the ministry alliance members have adopted a joint statement recognizing the challenges posed by china they've also reached agreement on defense and spending despite that the proceedings have been marked by

deficients and angry outbursts from donald trump at times frustrations with the u.s. president on full public display. it was meant to be a celebration but turned out to be a display of disagreements and distaste for each other's opinions. with them bursting moments caught on camera. for these 2 1st. 3 days i thought you were nice guy but you know the truth is. told there is a good. idea this is the. area of the nato families currently going through a rough patch not unlike any regular family ahead of the holiday season tensions have been brewing over financial contributions and alliances core values in the meetings host to try to remind everyone of their common purpose i'd like you to

welcome everybody here the fact that we live in peace today demonstrates the power of the simple proposition of the heart of this alliance the for as long as we stand together no one can hope to defeat us and therefore no one will start a war. despite the lack of love between some of the nato delegates there was some good news here is president donald trump's repeated calls to members of the alliance to boost their military spending has added 130000000000 dollars to nato as budgets in just 3 years this is unprecedented it is making nato it stronger. nate the remains still on the platform were north america and europe discuss this saw it and take actions to get there every day to protect almost warm 1000000000 people. no one seems to doubt the future of the 29 member park but as nato leaders depart from the universe resul abrasions in london internal conflict

looks set to stay. and take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world to a use commissioned a new commission presenters who were found alive says she expects a thorough and independent investigation into the murder of multis journalist daphne kind of want to convince you it was kind of watergate's who was killed in a car bomb 2017 following her reporting on high level corruption in politics and economy. riot police in lebanon her 5 tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the capital beirut people have gathered to protest against the nomination of problem businessman. to replace the country's outgoing prime minister and the government demonstrations began 2 months ago. iran's president has an rouhani has called for the beliefs of innocent people arrested in protests last month demonstrations broke out across the country after the government raised petrol prices despite the

announcement the president said protesters who used weapons should be dealt with by the little. i mean well the prestigious you carry a turnip prize has been awarded to all 4 of the shortlisted artists. xabi alonso abu hamed on helen keller and. i will share the award after they asked the judges to consider them as a collective. for now in the united states the house of representatives is considering the evidence for possible grounds to impeach president donald trump for impeachment the experts are testifying in a 2nd round of public hearings this comes a day after the choir into the president's dealing. with ukraine released its findings house democrats are investing investigating whether president trump abused his. authority leader ukraine's president to open an investigation into one of mr trump's political rivals office or personal in dublin correspondent propofol that i

guess is following the story for us from washington welcome pablo so what have we learned from this 2nd round of public hearings. hi phil well i've just stepped out and after hearing the statements from jerry nadler he's the chairman of the house jury and judiciary committee who's now overseeing this next phase in the ongoing impeachment inquiry of president trump it was very clear what he said to republicans who doubted why it should continue he said we cannot wait for the election to address the present crisis and it was in response to republican calls for an end to this ongoing impeachment inquiry you mentioned that there as there are 4 legal experts there the witnesses today 3 have been called by the democrats one by the republicans the democrats were very clear legal experts called by the democrats were very clear in why president donald trump impeachment inquiry and impeachment should continue in fact they said that trump's actions meet

the standards for impeachment that was very different what the legal expert called by the republicans had to say that's professor jonathan turley he said i believe this impeachment not only fails to satisfy the standard of past impeachments but would create a dangerous precedent for future impeachment so very you know starkly different approaches to this inquiry that we're seeing at the moment so given those differences pablo what happens next. was expected that this house judiciary committee will basically be saying this for the next couple of weeks they're going to be preparing articles for impeachment and they want it all wrapped up before the christmas break in just a few weeks time at them what would happen is that when stow's articles have been decided on and debated by the judiciary committee they pass on to the house of representatives who will then have to vote on it and then or on them and then it

would pass on to the senate but it's hoped that by the route democrats that that won't happen. until at january of next year they want their basically their investigation wrapped up in the next few weeks is going to be a busy few weeks fill. us up capitol hill in washington thank. a former basketball star of duck the wicki has received a japanese highest civic in a ceremony. a german present from shellfish on not presenting him with the order of merit for his sporting exploits and charity work just ahead of its cable tied in april at the age of 40 after playing 21 seasons for the dallas mavericks in the n.b.a. in 2007 the germans votes of the league's most valuable player and later led the mavericks to an n.b.a. championship and 20 enough.

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