manuel valls >> the headlines tonight. --manuelllstakes over valls takes over. desire in his words to take over it further, even faster. nato into its cooperation with russia, the alliance's foreign ministers about two -- military assets could be redeployed. the lines decided to intensify

its cooperation with ukraine. the observatory for human rights says the number people killed in syria's civil war has now reached 150,000, one third of them civilians. also coming up, business news rivet we will be hearing about american lawmakers grilling the chief executive of general motors. facing difficult questions over technical glitch that led to the deaths of 13 people. that is coming up in just a moment. inst, news just coming

tonight, john kerry has been speaking about the middle east peace process which seemed the last few days to be on the brink of collapse. not so to the secretary of state. speaking in brussels tonight he said a lot of strategies were still in play and it is far too premature to write off the peace process. john kerry has canceled a planned visit tomorrow, he was due to meet with the palestinian president mahmud abbas. he was trying to rescue the talks in which a faltered over the issue of 26 palestinian prisoners that israel is refusing to release. a palestinian refusal to extend the april 29 deadline for those middle east talks. tonight palestinians have announced that they are to resume their bid of seeking recognition with you and will be, which considered provocative by israel. we will continue to follow that developing story.

john kerry was speaking from brussels. he has been attending that major meeting today, the first time the 28 foreign ministers of nato members had met sent the annexation of the crimean peninsula by moscow. at the meeting, the nato members decided to end their cooperation with military and civilian with russia. also to renew cooperation with ukraine. >> a strong condemnation from nato. the opening remark at today's ministerial meeting, it was said it amounted to redrawing european borders by force. corrects it is serious concern to those of us who are committed to a europe both free and at peace. and a serious challenge to which

we must respond. >> and they did respond. nato announced it would suspend all practical civilian and military operation with russia and urged moscow to return to compliance with international law. the alliance said it would strengthen cooperation with ukraine as a partner and help train its troops. concern over russia's military buildup along the ukrainian border has been mounting. tuesday, german chancellor angela merkel said president vladimir putin had assured her he was moving troops back. it is certainly not the final step necessary as the true concentration on the ukrainian border is very high. but today i'm i have no reason to doubt his word. note sounded more cautious on the supposed russian pullout. but this is not what we are seeing. next we have not seen the evidence of that yet. of course we continue to call for that. >> russia could invade eastern

ukraine and might try to extend its influence to other former communist countries like latvia and lithuania. >> at least 150,000 people have now been killed in syria's three-year-old civil war, according to the syrian observatory for human rights. according to the ngo, a third of those killed were civilians and it may be that the actual toll is far higher than the one given today. on the ground, the story the last few months has been one of losses on the rebel side as the regime forced to take back land that had been lost. the latest blow to those opposed to the rule of bush are al-assad , rebel forces had taken control of the city last week and now

troops have wrestled that area back. we will feature our correspondent in beirut about the latest of elements in syria. lucy fielder joins us now. gain?a significant >> what the state media are reporting today is that the first 45 strategic posts in the countryside have fallen back into regime hands. what has happened over the last 10 days is that rebels have major assaults and have managed to take back a string of been -- of villages. they have managed to overtake a string of villages including a border crossing with turkey. in some ways it is a very symbolic battle. toehold for the rebels on the mediterranean. it is also the homeland of the assad regime.

it is peopled by a lot of minorities. it is seen as very important in that way. it is also being seen as a morale boost after the rebels lost an important town on the lebanese border. but the regime is still largely in control and it does seem they are tracking back fiercely with this victory today. >> the other headline of the day regarding syria is the announcement by the syrian observatory for human rights which has been keeping this toll going on what has been happening inside syria. the toll they give today, 150,000 people have been killed since the start of the civil war for years ago. the ngo almost immediately says that in fact the toll could be much higher than that. >> absolutely. in fact, it's very difficult to keep track of the events in syria. the artist nation said in

january there were no longer going to keep the toll because it was too hard to verify. it is unlikely the toll is more likely to be accurate. it is more likely to be closer to two hundred 20,000 people, relying on a network of informants on the ground -- 220 ,000. among the 100 50,000, from what they have been able to ascertain, it includes 75,000 civilians including nearly 8000 children. soldiers and pro-regime militias, three years into the conflicts. peace talks have never seen so far away. the u.n. said last week at the resumption of peace talks, which broke down in february, were not going to happen anytime soon. it is looking pretty hopeless in the situation on the ground. . expect he very

right police have fired water cannon in turkey's capital. thousands of people gather to over the weekend. vote so the ruling party of erdogan dominate the electorate. outside the elections authority , water jets as you can see on those images were used to disperse the protesters. to each of now where there have been violent clashes in cairo and three other cities between police and university students loyal to the ousted president. since mohamed morsi was wrong from power, students have been making themselves heard all the more since the heavy crackdown on his supporters. several thousand are now being detained. hundreds have been killed in the last few months. -- here in france

it is a roadmap that will mean going further and faster. that was a pledge made today by the new prime minister, manuel valls. today he officially took over from the darling of the right, he was appointed yesterday the francois hollande after the local elections. the on his look ahead, manuel valls took the opportunity to have a look back at the track record of the man he was to replace. be your very proud to interior minister and we worked well together. i am proud and honored to be your successor. because it is a case of carrying on and building on the fantastic work you have already done.

>> for more on the story we will andk to a senior consultant a pollster here in france. thank you very much indeed for joining us. whobig question now is manuel valls is going to a point. we will hear some announcement of ministers tomorrow. so far, we only have manuel valls himself to go on. tell us a little bit about what the french public make of the new prime minister. >> when we look at the polls, he wase last 18 months very popular on the left wing but also popular among the right wing supporters. like quite aeem good choice for francois , his approval rating

was pretty low. what has been interesting so far is that when we look at manuel approval rating, over the last 18 months his approval rating has increased. who is nowel valls is looking at a positive trend. >> his appointment is being billed as a chance to renew francois hollande off catastrophic 22-year-old -- 22-month-old presidency, to give it a new breath of life. how bad are the french president's polls? can it be done? >> and we look at history, we have no such case when you

appoint a new prime minister and you change things in a few months. we will have to see how will help francois hollande to have a and amelioratele his approval rating. parallel and it was -- the keyerent question now is to see whether if in this new couple of valls and hollande, which one is going to lead clearly here. >> we will continue to keep an eye on the pair and indeed, who

leads the other. thank you very much for joining us tonight. malaysia has released the final cockpit transcripts of the missing flight 370. according to malaysian officials, there's nothing abnormal in the transcript, contrary to earlier reports. the last communication at 1:19 in the morning comes from the cockpit, with a voice saying good night. searches for the missing aircraft have concluded for the day today with no significant siding of the plane. the search has been described by the australian official coordinating it is the most challenging ever undertaken. the calendar may say it is spring, but in russia, it definitely looks more like winter. fellthan 10 inches of snow on the russian capital overnight. this morning more than 10,000

snowplows were deployed across moscow to battle with the elements and try to help motorists stuck in traffic jams. moscow enjoyed unusually warm , breakingr march eight all-time records. the warmest ever march day in moscow fell on march 24. then came the snow, which is expected to last throughout the day and evening. there is some developing news this evening. that they has said middle east peace process is far from a write off. it would be premature to suggest that the peace process appear to be on the brink of collapse after israel refused to release 26 palestinian prisoners and ramallah it -- refused to extend the deadlines of the talks

beyond the end of the month. overl valls has taken france's at -- taken over as france's new prime minister. a new prime minister with the new roadmap and a desire, in his words talk --, two go even further and even faster. the syrian observatory for human rights says the number of people killed in that country's civil war has now reached 150,000, a third of whom were civilians. time now for a look at the latest business headlines. with markus karlsson. >> a developing story coming out of washington this tuesday. that's were the chief executive of general motors is facing

difficult questions on capitol hill. a is appearing ahead of congressional committee, being whizzed over technical problem with the ignition switch and some gm models. the issue has been linked with at least 13 deaths. there was a recall of 1.6 moving cars back in february. it has been revealed that gm knew about this issue much earlier, without taking action. ahead of testimony in washington, families of the victims dollar did -- gathered in front of u.s. congress. they want to know why gm took more than two months to recall the defective vehicles and why the government did not intervene. today, i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program. but i can tell you we will find out. while i cannot turn back the

clock, as soon as i learned about the problem, we acted without hesitation. i would like this committee to know that all of our gm employees and i are determined to effect a new standard. >> this is a story that we will keep watching and we will keep watching that testimony on capitol hill. we're going to move on now. ukraine is facing higher gas bills as the russian giant gazprom has announced it is hiking gas prices by more than 40% for ukraine. that is likely to put for further strain on the country's already embattled finances. latest blow to an economy already in crisis. the price of gas ukraine imports from gazprom has shot up by over 40%. it is up from the discounted

price. in december, russia agree to offer ukraine a quarterly discount on gas exports along with its financial bailout offer. discount is now off the table. the gas from ceo has just declared a price increase. it claims ukraine owes it 1.7 billion dollars in unpaid gas bills. the latest development will likely placed a weak economy under further pressure. >> the ukrainian economy is not doing very well, given that the country depends heavily on russian gas, price increases are going to affect the country quite dramatically. >> ukraine parliament has already improved to 50% increase in the price of gas from the first of may. jill and the companies are set to see a 40% increase in tariffs from the first of july -- utility companies will see an increase.

it includes up to $18 billion to cushion the latest blow to the country's economy. ukraine has been working on ways to cut its dependence from russian gas. >> we will do some number crunching next. european stocks crate -- traded higher tuesday afternoon after reports on the state of the eurozone recovery. unemployment in the eurozone held steady in february at 11.9%. the eu statistic say it has been stable since october last year, marginally lower than february 2013. hiring is not getting off the ground in 18 countries that use a single currency. the private sector in the eurozone continue to grow for the ninth consecutive month in march. at 53, a slight

slowdown from february. the reading is still above the key threshold of 50 which indicates the private sector is indeed growing. car shares did good -- did better on the news of higher car sales. in the united states this our .tocks are above the flat line the nasdaq is currently up 1.3%. or reports show -- report shows u.s. manufacturing grew at a quicker pace in march than in february, which is helping out shares overall on wall street. with that i will say goodbye for now. i will be back in about one hours time with more headlines in the latest from washington dc . time for a look at what is

making news now in cyberspace. >> welcome to today's web news where we will be taking a look at some of the stories making online headlines. coming up on today show, the french government cabinet reshuffled selfies. brazilian women campaign against sexual violence. russian artist bring marge simpson to the real world. as rumors were rife that the french prime minister was about to resign, his cabinet could not resist attempts nation to immortalize his time there. one went around his colleagues offices taking selfies before they said goodbye. the pictures were initially

published on his twitter page but he has since protected his account. available on an instagram page, however. it was just a few hours before the announcement that manuel valls would succeed their old boss. behavior.urprising a shot shared on his twitter page of the past few months will hadst that the former pm become rather partial to these self photographs. hisel valls has not used twitter account since may 7, 2012.

a clear message, no woman deserves to be raped. the campaign was launched by a journalist on friday. they are under the i don't deserve to be raped #. the movement is steadily gaining ground on social media. the online campaign was sponsored by survey released last week by brazil's institute for applied economic research. the study revealed a strong proportion of the population leave victims of sexual violence are to blame or partly to blame. 65% of people surveyed think women wearing revealing clothing deserve to be attacked, and 58% believed there would be less rape if women knew how to behave. the poll has gotten lively reactions from both men and women across the country,

including political figures. ae president has posted series of messages to twitter in which he said the country still has a lot of work to do in combating violence against women. she calls on the government and civil society to work together to fight the scourge. american web users have been posting under the ebony hashtag after a high school girls dream came true. she was able to warm up with lebron james ahead of his game against the milwaukee bucks. thousands have been campaigning for weeks to make this meeting happened and it finally paid off. an emotional encounter for the young lady and for the basketball star. scientists with nasa's space

telescope have created this 360 degree view of the milky way. it is the most detailed image of the galaxy to date. astronomy buffs can explore cod

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