and a lot of his foles to pull out of eastern ghouta is shelling and bombing continues it was the first convoy to reach the rebel held district. weeks thousands of civilians are being killed. and hundreds of thousands remain without much. lines. it. was a coming out in the program goodwill the syrian refugees is wearing thin eleven a lead up that spent billions hosting close to a million people. have a special. report from one school to tell my friend. tensions are now threatening to sue. hello welcome the full pride is israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in washington this monday we

don't some hailing the strongest ties and between the two countries is plannis bases inside syria. to attack the jewish state his or missing you know you had to say about iran's awhile ago. you wanna not given up. this nuclear ambitions it is came out of this. deal i in folders and rich. this practice immigration everywhehere influence on or own borders. and i think we we have to stop this country that sheriff's dept was open up to america you all must be so that is. our common so. well that it also allows netanyahu some breathing space as an anti corruption probe gathers pace at home today his former advisor. agreed to testify as a state witness more not its cost you to reason and a correspondent is not tough

and there is explain. just how significant is it's the netanyahu's will revise and a half it. is now to cooperate with the investigation. it is significant because of near its is position he is the third of netanyahu's close advisers to turn agreed to send against him and give state evidence against the prime minister. but this one was in a special position one like tt you that's a very difficult position to be in. and he is it is understood going to be giving evidence in three cases against the prime minister not just in one but he was the go between between the prime minister. and the media in that case the that on there is now being investitigated k kay school thousands. in which it is alleged that the prime minister gave great favor as to the tune of more than two

hundred million euro to a telecommunications company in return for favorable coverage. and it is bebelied that this is the man who wa. i understand that he has. tape tapes and also. estimates find messages that he's going to head over to the police as well an aries an. of course continues to maintain his innocence he says there is nothing so to this investigation. at to what extent is it honing his popularity israel. it's interesting if you just go by the latest polls and i know we have to be cautious with calls would still. by the latest polls he hasn't found his popularity. in fact. one or two six. he's now discussion about whether there will be an early elections. and colin the election

before any charges of role for a decision is made about charges three roles. having said all that the reason may be what many israelis say to me she's he hasn't. not ties with his hand in his on progress he was. making something available to the head of the telecommunications company but he didn't take anything self. operations. such seriously. was that he was a good way to so i know there are many israelis and that's not a representation of everything but it does explain perhaps what people here also looking to be patient. with this prime minister isolate see. what's off w with a greatt he's actually. the. reason. why the french foreign is anyone has been in iran today he says this is much more work to do w wh tetehran agrees ballistic missile programme and of its

role in regional conflicts it's a delicate? diplomatic mission visual neighbourhood leon he's we've demonstratey removing sanctions which allows t trade relations between francnce and iran's resusume. we need to dodo ae can to ensure this historic trade deal is up held. that goal not. get an acoustic. the faculty studio. all rights and sent to europe parties have commercials hopefully in actions in a city the anti establishment five star party won the most fights with the anti immigrant rules and lakes together with party for promises that we have it is going to be coming a close second. neither won an outright majority that the leaders of all three parties and out came the right to full government. is sometimes wasn't't serious coalition building trader looks

possibilities. and is really fractured and politically divided. with mainstream parties on the center left and right struggling for that surviva. it's left the nation looking at a very different political equation t most expected. likelihood of some serious schools trading in the weeks to come. one of the options for coalition. right is a grand coalition between left and right centuries tervel ready crumbled. with neither the mainstream rifles it's hardly a modeling left democratic party putting in enough to kill her majority. left has now collapsed needing sunday's biggest when other for a slow movement. with the largest share of the vote. it says it's open to discussion with warm political axes disappoint traditionally refusing alliances as part of its core identity. one possibility has already been ruled out. here skeptic coalition of the finest on movements and the far right league party. despite what would be a clear majority league leader missiles so vini has refused entering what he called a strange alliance for now at least.

leads the way open for the lead to try and forty coalition with us on a right wing partners. silvio berlusconi's forza italia came in with fourteen percent to these eighteen. leaving solving the likely to push the former prime minister to order a gentleman's agreement that the leading party get supposed. that would still leave no clear majority however. opening the way for further talks once parliament convenes on march twenty third. and the possibility that it could see is he going back to the polls resume today. all of those in he will be taking part in any future government is disease will try to send a tirade z. he was once in his country's pro european. home in the wake of the year year a crisis that he has now resigned his center left party suffered substantial losses iran's he says his party will be taking part in any future coalition. they all. feel that she i will obviously step down as leader of the democratic

party. he's. a new phase to nominate a new data will begin. this will only happen once the new government is in place. but. to see it now where to aid convoy carrying much needed surprise into the rebel held district of a single test had to cut short its missio. it was the first time aide had go through to eastern ghouta in many weeks hundreds of people many of them children have been killed in government bombing raids as since mid february. activists say at least forty five civilians were killed in the latest violence when also to you how to cut to from the syrian american medical society from on a. it a it it but. imitating will causese side will saabb facing a big challenge sentences becauaue of the country was attacked overreacaching that p peopln needed. ten ambulances. were complete it is sold in the last few weeks. saudi medical teams donon't have e capacity to each of ee

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mighghte h hophat this wl coininueut unfortutely as said d ne attacks. where unable e to unload? e at eight because it just just because the time is over and the this is evident allowed them to stay inside. and with that and i side of it ends to the war in a hig. refugees by themselves under increasing pressure to go home in lebanon one in full people is now syrian and hosting almost a million people across the country will in twenty billion dollars frustrating because you need a little off. as being too one net earnings border town where good will from the locals. is running out quickly. welcome to the charlotte sun syria a message that meant to invite businesses but few travel is now dead to cross the border. where in the north of lebanon fifty kilometers from homes? the border crossing it was close to seven is only the opening at

the end of last december. since twenty eleven thirty thousand syrians refuge in the council. so i'd fled here with her husband and two children their demand this of a family left alive. now feel stated in its hands. us to stay here. she knows international aid organizations provide s some security. since he returned to syria on the homes and sococks we once thought. why would you say? three yes. there's nothing left in syria all has been destroyed and half of. killed. in this little christian villages the syrians on to welcome presesence. the population has quauadrupled now more than forty thousand people live here. and the. . movements of the lolocal economy.

hello watson the one the front here was open everything's fine. we were all doing okay. along with. the syrians arrived and then things got worse. shop assorted. since the border r reopened and much a serious been liberated from the so called islamic state group. residents of the village hope that the syrians will return home. tool that is the heart of the conditions set by the syrian regime allowing people to return are complicated. if there's no security risk and return. but if the authorities have the smallest out about someone or their family if someone has been hurt or someone in their family was killed or hurt by the islamimic state group. i remember at any opposition group then they can't retur. we want them to leave now not to wait any longer because their presence here is a catastrophe on a political and demographic level. and it's hurting our existence at risk. hidden away.

the arrival of the syrians these christian maronites find themselves the minority on that land. stocking fears of a return to civil war. according to the red cross eighty percent of syrians in the region want to return home. had another in our series of special reports from adam coming at the same time similar right judy double hopefully finding that not much has changed since the country's. garbage crisis three years ago more not free. now it's up to two months of easing tensions between the curry is a south korean delegation is in pyongyang full red told the goal of the visit is to reduce nuclear tensions. and pave the way for discussions with the united states is the first time officials from seoul have met kim jong hoon since he tookok office. sevn years ago from our international says deaths and other massey's with me now could see now that i've now i this is. quite a huge deal is this is the first time it came joanna that she sat down with a delegation

from south korea is right that is significant for precisely. that reason is very raspy condolence to attend at meetings like this you think at the end of last year that was it and delegation from china key ally of north korea came to the country he didn't eat and that. and hasn't any different south korea he wae this label of north korea as a kind of pariah state and he's. the games a really good way to try to do that i thought was good p. all of school at an old gray obviously though those kind of always walks on and off in also sells. the key question now is kind of the good will this being generated a borrowed against the use the leverage now to

try and really makes headwdy on tools and some of those most difficult issues. and that certainly is the aim of the south korean president moon jae and he's is out in the two delegates who are who are in with great today to. washington in a in a few days time and hope that they'll be trying to do that is to try and persuade washington the hope is a wiggle room on that most contentious issue here which is denuclearization what they what south korea wants to say to. add washington hg he wants to invite moon jae in himself to move great moon jae in suggested about something that that's a possibility they have so. is looking like slowly slowly

that is a basic diplomatic progress for the first time in a long time to in the region and and it would be a huge achievement to get washington the sit down with north korea would not because it was not so long ago. donald trump is threatening to white north korea faces that he's been referred to kim jong is the little rocket man and. those are things as well as a indeed and a lot has changed in the past six months of the million dollar question is why has that change happen and. if you think about it is one way that you could out that adult find ae

since november and it's at had no nuclear tests since september. me while trump has continued with the rise of the aggressive rhetoric suggested that and they are willing to strike idols great year last week while at the same time the united states is pushing ahead with sanctions couple weeks ago they. data and that was the most aggressive sanctions today that was on idols creates shipping industry and it is possible then that north korea really believes that. trump is not just all blacks that he is capable of carrying out a year after the attack and not fear may actually get them to the negotiating table now. castle walls a tight argument in favor of donald trump's out foreign policy.

for one thing. if they see it from could pass the the sound major constitutitial changes. elevated powerful presidency jim paying songs reason has this report. every year for over two weeks the chinese congress meets generally to showcase the country's economic plans this year as the three thousand representatives filed into beijing's great hall. all the talk was about xi jinping. their vote to do away with his presidential term limits. a ticket to potentially staying in power for life president xi needs two thirds of the vote. measure is likely to pounce with ease. really look forward to it because in you were requires a new constitution to ensure the implementation of various policy. if you talk to that.

that. i'm better able to meet people's expectations and improve the country making it more margin stabl. since the start of his presidency in two thousand twelve president xi has been consolidating power and stepping out dissent. the constitutional change will put an end to to a two decade old power sharing tradition within the communist party. as china slides closer to a one man rule system foreign powers are washing with trepidatio. as the world's second economy expands itsts ininfluence abroad. there was still talk though finances on the first day of the congress beijing came out with its economic statistics. after six point nine percent growth they're aiming for six point five and two thousand eighteen. the largest growth target in the world that analysts say will be tricky. beijing barring heavily from a. let's get some business he's of going out on a diseases have this and i talk about that. donald trump has just said

just a few moments ago that he is confident that he could win a trade war but that is not his goal. pulls out steel tariffs at the white house. position afraid now is keeping her donald trump is resisting pressure from members of his own party to back down on imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminium he's even ruled out crossing exemptions canada and mexic. mister trump's comments come as the latest on the talks to renegotiate nafta a new way in washington. had a very bad deal with mexico very bad deal with casts on nafta. are factors of left far country are jobs of left our country for many years nafta has been a disaster. of we are renegotiating nafta as i said i would. and will make a deal alternate after. but i do mamake a deal which is fair to the workers and to the american people. that would be i would imagine one of the points thatat will to goshen it wil be terrorists on seo for canada. and for mexico so we'll see

what happens. from speaking that idea now emmanuel michael has a statate you to react quickly to any protectionist policies out of the united states. the french president says any tariff would go against the world trade organization rules the u. is also waiting for the u. s. to formally adopt attack measures. but it could have reaction from the law could come as early as this week original court reports. a cool from the french president he used to take swift action within the rules of the world trade organization. an american cities donald trump's economic nationalism risks starting a trade war in which all sides news he then if the announcements made last week all c confis. plans. its it is clclear t t they would be in violalation of the wto rules do and see. the trade title started heating up last thursday when donald trump announced that the us would impose duties of twenty five percent on imported steel.

as ten percent on aluminium. and union has been among those threatening to retaliate with* for tat duties. who have done nothing to shake donald trump's resolve the singled out german because for a potential tax hike over the weekend? in any of this monday he doubles down on twitter saying that friends and enemies have been taking advantage of the u. s. for years. and that protects the country american steel needs to be protected. bus germany for its part says it wants to avoid a trade war with the u. s. face sheet. it is clear to the german government will continue to advocate free markets open markets free trade. we're convinced that all sides benefit from fear trade constrains. subordinate protectionism foreclosure is the wrong way and it'll be. is released last month showed the us trade deficit widened to its highest level since two thousand and eight to five hundred and sixty six billion us dollars in twenty seventeen. donald trump has made closing the gap one of the key

challenges of his administration. has it on the market snacks and over in the united states at this hour we are seeing strong gains across the board. the dow jones rising two hundred points during the session currently up a one point six percent at this hour. the meaning this is a here in europe and of the session for me in the green and shrugging off concerns off of the political political rather uncertainty over in italy. acts in fact her closing the session up one point five percent the food see made me while over in in milan closing down around four tens of one percent. next the international energy agency says u. s. oil production is expected to grow to nearly seventeen million barrels per day by twenty twenty three. now this would ease into opec's market share and move the united states closer to self sufficiency will prices have been reacting positively despite this new day you can see brent crude currently u. just under two percent at this hour the wta tier one

index up ovever two percent. that's a look at some of the other stories of tracking for you at this hour. amazon is in talks with major banks including jp morgan to launch a checking account product the wall street journal quotes insiders who say the idea is still in its early stages and may not even come to fruition. offering banking services would allow arms on to get valuable data on the customer's salaries and the way t they spend their cash. french insurance giant accessories buying the excel group in a deal worth over fifteen billion dollars to purchase allows access to become one of the biggest property and casualty insurers. shares in the french company ended the session down over nine percent this monday as investors the purchase price is simply too hihigh. ple is reportedly set to launch a cheaper version off its macbook air currents starting price for the laptop is nine hundred ninety nine dollars. analysts say apple could increase the volume off macbook air sales it plays its cards right the official announcement is said to be made during the second half

of this year. finally the academy awards were held in los angeles last night and while there were no was no prize money about a handed out directors and actors can expect to hear it's a huge. spike in their salary from now on suicides golden statue what goodies got handed out she said has been taken. the global. slows alcohol and identify delicacies these are now the only things oscar nominees and winners sievert at the academy awards. marketing companies had delivered some of them what is now become the traditional gift basket worth tens of thousands of dollars. we roll this up right to the front door to the hotel rooms if they're visiting los angeles and we love thing then act like children on christmas morning going to this fabulous it back. this year the top nominees are getting luxury vacations with private planes private safari guides vehicles and champagne breakfast dna kits

and floating bluetooth speakers. the real financial windfall usually comes months and years after the window. doors open and salary hike ski again. but not everyone gets the same increase a study carried out in twenty fifteen shows best actor winners get a three point nine million dollar reseller you boast one best actresses get five hundred thousand extra dollars on average. the need to movement could change all that mitigating

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