>> this is dw news live from berlin. tonight, the dutch give the european union -- they have said no in a referendum. police raided the headquarters of european soft -- soccer. after ted cruz's win in the wisconsin primary, a contested republican convention is looking more likely.

the european union facing a somewhat annexed to test tonight. votes are counted in the netherlands after a referendum on a deal that in size between the eu and the ukraine. skeptic groups forced the vote after the agreement was approved by the dutch parliament. it has already been ratified by other eu states. a no vote would not be binding but would be an embarrassment to the netherlands at it -- as it would underscore growing eu skepticism. voters have a check to the deal but there needs to have been a 30% turnout for the referendum

to be valid. as it stands, on a knife edge about whether that figure has been reached. good evening to you. do we know about whether this referendum is going to be valid? >> i need a crystal ball here to figure this out. they have just sort of venture out and have gone beyond the 30%. but it still is a rather large margin of error and is white inexplicable why the dutch are not able to count their voters more quickly. but that's just the way it is. the message behind it is quite clear as you pointed out. a majority of people, those that

went say no to the ukraine agreement. and that is a rather clear message for the government, brussels, and the organizers of this referendum that have already started to open the champagne bottles. they say this is good enough for us. we reached the goal that we wanted to reach. we can show the eu that they are not wanted by many dutch voters. >> we can't say whether enough people voted. that can't be success for any cause, right? >> legally and politically, you're completely right. it is not valid and all this attempt fell flat on it face.

many already pointed that out. recognize a rather large margin of dutch voters actually do want to show their discontent to the european union, the it to the ukraine agreement or more general to the functioning in a general sense. that message seems to be quite clear. >> counting the numbers for us on wednesday night. a top fee for world soccer official has resigned and the fallout from the panama papers leaks. ethics committee member was named in the leaks and is under investigation.

this gentleman right here has also been in the firing line tonight. swiss police raided the headquarters of the governing body on wednesday. they were looking for a document that he signed during his time there. it was a tv rights deal. it has raised a lot of questions. can soccer's governing body really clean up the act? >> the european football governing body. the swiss attorney general's office requested rate on headquarters in connection with an offshore registered agency.

the two argentinians indicted last year by federal prosecutors working together on the fee for bribery scandal. uefa handed over evidence of a television right contract in a show of full cooperation with authorities. the television rights contract was cosigned in 2006 when he was the legal director. the details were leaked in the so-called panama papers that reveal the offshore financial dealings of the rich and famous. big knowledged federal police issued a warrant to scrutinize cross trading. the ethics committee announced their uruguayan lawyer has resigned as a member. he became the subject of an investigation after being identified in the panama papers

on sunday. they suggested he is linked to a disgraced warmer fief of vice president embroiled in the ongoing scandal. his exit served to put another dent in the damaged reputation. something the president is keen to rebuild. >> mark meadows is here to talk us through this. it never ends, does it? the first casualty ofse papers for the cc world. >> it is a rather sticky situation, obviously. when you're forced to resign over a possible ethi breach. with the papers seem to show that he had business links by offshore company with former fief of vice president that is

wanted in uruguay and the u.s. on bribery charges. he's not really put out a statement. always done is we have heard from fifa. >> you have your offshore life as well. let's talk a little bit about his time at ua for -- uefa. >> it is one signature on one document. in the issue is, why on earth were they selling tv rights through offshore middlemen? why didn't they sell directly to the broadcasters? they sold the rights for triple the amount to a number of ecuadorian broadcasters. uefa will say the highest bidder has to get the right so why didn't they bid direct? >> this

would've been going on during that time and he would've known what was going on. >> he knows there would be lots of these documents signed. and the key thing is the whole fifa scandal has basically been about tv rights and how they are sold and bought. i don't think this is the end of it. maybe something else will come out in the coming weeks. >> as always, thanks for helping us six through the dirt. in the united states, it is an open race.

donald trump and hillary clinton performed badly, leaving the door open for republican ted cruz and democrat bernie sanders to seize their opportunities. >> it was the moment ted cruz had been waiting for. he dealt a blow to republican front-runner donald trump. >> tonight is a turning point. it is a rallying cry. it is a call for the hard-working men and women of wisconsin. we have a choice. a real choice >> donald trump still leads the polls. makes it less likely trump will be able to secure the delegates needed to win the nomination outright. john kasich's campaign is all but over. they're hoping for a contested

convention. her party delegates and not voters choose a nominee. >> either before cleveland or at the convention, we will win a majority of the delegates and we will beat hillary clinton in november. >> clinton has not wrapped up the nomination. bernie sanders is gaining ground. >> momentum is starting the campaign asked he or 70 points behind secretary clinton. momentum is that within the last couple of weeks, the national polls have had us a one point up or one point down. >> renton still has a 250 point lead over her opponent but the

gap is closing and so it is for donald trump. the republicans seem to be heading towards a contested convention. >> let's pull in our correspondent in washington on this story for us. good afternoon and good evening to you. it looks like he is trying to catch up. can we talk about him beating donald trump? does he have a chance? >> i don't think so. i don't have a crystal ball here, but i don't think he's going to win the next primaries. and it will be new york in two weeks, as you know. have a look at the polls. 52% in favor of donald trump. 25% in favor of john kasich, the governor from ohio.

i think definitely new york is trump's home city. he will win new york. when you think back about ted cruz talking about new york values, new yorkers haven't forgotten what ted cruz said about new yorkers. >> new yorkers have a very good memory. bernie sanders, decisively beating clinton. is this going to make a dent in her lead? >> lives open about new york as a home city for trump and new york state is the home of hillary clinton. she was senator for many years

so she has to win and probably will win new york. the latest numbers are 53% in favor of her and her 2% in favor of sanders. she has to win new york and i think she's going to. here is a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. attempts to form a government after the inconclusive elections have been hit by another setback. if they fail, ireland faces fresh elections. more people were executed in 2015 than any other point in the last order century. china executes more people than

the rest of the world combined. we're going to take a 62nd break. when we come back, more news and we will have the business headlines.

>> welcome back. live from berlin, swiss police have raided uefa had orders looking for a contract signed by the new fifa boss. the contract is revealed by the panama papers and was signed 10 years ago. a top official has resigned from his ethics committee after being named in the panama papers. a number of adults in the world with diabetes has dribbled in less than four decades according to a report out today by the

world health organization. the study is one of the largest to date on diabetes using data gathered for more than 4 million people. the researchers behind the study say an aging population and rising levels of obesity are the main factors behind the trend. the who says the diabetes prevalence has risen fastest in low and middle income countries. we spoke to the who to director for the management of noncommunicable diseases. we asked him how diabetes can be managed in poor nations were there is a shortage of. >> a lot can be done relatively cheaply. eating healthy, getting physical activity. exercise in different ways. some of them will need diagnosis

and treatment. and in the poorest countries, this can be a challenge. 23% of countries report they have good access to insulin. three quarters of countries don't have access, which can be the question of life and death. they make sure they get diagnosed on time. >> one of the main causes of diabetes is too much sugar innnr habits by cutting all sugar out of their school meals. >> here, they can learn which foods are high in sugar and which are not.

on the outskirts of stockholm, there made without added sugar. >> for sausages and meatballs, we don't usually get regular catch up. they make caret catch up without any sugar. >> it is not only the ketchup that is different. sugar has been removed from the entire menu and the student understands the health benefits. ties as much. >> at home, we eat a lot of sugar so it good we don't have it at school. >> most kids seem to like food. we have had good reactions so far. the people wish they could get

jam or real catch up. >> caret catch up? alere is here with the business news. >> i don't want caret catch up. >> those poor kids. let's talk about this merger that was going to happen and is not going to happen. >> big companies merge when their products are compatible and their markets complement each other. viagra and botox can be considered a fairly good match, the merger between their makers had other reasons. by setting the company headquarters in ireland and save millions of dollars in taxes. they are now giving up the merger by mutual agreement.

>> it was the latest in a string of so-called inversion mergers with ireland the preferred destination for u.s. companies relocating their legal domicile offshore. barack obama called the deals in city is. president obama: when companies exploit loopholes like this, it is hard to invest in things to keep america's economy going strong. it sticks the rest of us with the tab and makes hard-working americans feel like the deck is stacked against them. >> they were planning to move their headquarters to ireland. >> let's bring in our financial correspondent standing by on wall street. was tax relief the only reason

for this merger? >> if you asked the companies, they claim it was not about tax is but the companies saw a lot of synergy and strategic potential, new market, creating a new leader in that business. and it was only a byproduct that texas -- taxes would be lower. there were estimates they would've saved about 35 alien dollars in taxes but you just wonder. with the new rules from the treasury department within one day, so obviously it was mostly about avoiding taxes. >> hearing the president say that these types of mergers are insidious, do you think that

washington is sending a warning to the corporate world? >> certainly. there is no doubt about that. the treasury tried twice before to block the deal but the lawyers of the companies basically just laughed it away. now the treasury obviously is playing hardball. is understandable, there is a bit of a shale healing. they pointed out that the treasury changed the rules after the game was played. there was nothing illegal there and the rules changed. now the company's had to end this multibillion-dollar merger.

>> thank you very much. the leaked panama papers have caused outrage across the world and showed how the rich and powerful sends money overseas to avoid or evade taxes. the law firm is under pressure and is fighting back. >> the name has become synonymous with creation of shell companies that many of the clients used to avoid paying taxes in their home countries. >> new news would be who is investigating the hack? nobody said a crime has been committed here. but the media is gunning for high-profile tax dodgers in dead.

the scandal has aered people in france as well. the country's finance minister says he is taking action against hannah montana at they decided to put hannah montana, list with all the consequences it might have for those that had dealings with hannah montana it will be the biggest financial center by far on france's blacklist. nations threatened to retaliate but this could just be the first of many repercussions. >> when germany announced it would shut down all its new year power plants, utility companies were shocked. some consider the state policy unfair. a company filed suit for a compensation of 260 million euros hoping to reduce the financial impact. >> fukushima disaster in japan was the last straw.

in 2011, they voted to take the countries atomic power plants off-line to the approval of the majority of the german public. the move faced stiff resistance from energy firms they say the state broke his contract and should hand out compensation or billions in lost revenue. the firms are in negotiations for deep underground shafts as well as the demolition of the power plants. all that could cost around 50 billion euros. 20 court decisions are pending over the shutdowns, the fallout of the nuclear decision being in the air for years to come. brent: the legendary country music star merle haggard has died at his home in call-up ornette.

the manager said he passed away on his 79th birthday. barack obama and fellow country singer were among the first to pay tribute to him as a legend of the industry. he will be remembered for his hips like sing me back home will be back with the day in a few minutes.

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