at moscow's kremlin palace and eagerly anticipated show brought in the crowds from right across russia german electro pop giant's craft have a big following here. i've always loved electronic music ever since my school days even during the soviet union we managed to listen to. copies. the crew played in russia in two thousand and four but haven't been back since. they are the foundation of modern electronic music the roots i love this spent i've been listening to the music since i was a teenager. i think it has been sold out for months someone left disappointed after failing to secure a last minute ticket. but just legendary no one else comes close. for two hours away from a powerful bass heavy sound washed over the crowd in the kremlin palace. dressed identically in skin tight bodysuits the four techno pioneers behind their consoles entranced the crowd with new material and old classics. just not be you know we were at the concert in two thousand and four our daughter wasn't even a year old. we never thought she'd see anything like this could you have you know you some go the music is the im

behind this attack that's right over and we know the german intelligence has warned repeatedly that more cyber attacks could come from russia targeting the german governments i mean we've been warned do we know there what type of data may have gone missing. well we're talking about a data network that is used by the government by the various different ministries the interior ministry obviously and the ministry of the foreign ministry that were targeted here today but also by the chancellery by the bonus talk the german parliament and several other of very important all forwards and as you can imagine they're hosting valuable sensitive information there now these eight p.t.'s we're talking of all they're not after money they're exactly after this kind of information pool which is politically valuable and authorities are now trying to find out how big the damage really is and their biggest fear of course is that the whole data network off the government is concerned our political correspondent over selling the story tonight on that cyber attack here in germany all over thank you very much the international olympic committee h

and then there was the stepparent actually run over the high stick and on the power play russia breaking german hearts it been such a brilliant tournament really. they settle now for the silver medal still much better than they had done in previous attempts in fact the previous best was a bronze medal as west germany in one nine hundred seventy six but it's the russians to celebrate they were actually singing their own anthem over the olympics out of the million said she was that's right i don't think i see will be too happy about that because if a russian this is a win a gold medal i have to tell you i witnessed the heartbreak from german fans been there watching this match but certainly not the same news in the bobsled is it yes by then using the pope's lay this is the four man bobsled germany really getting amongst the matter was here the first team down we can see that led by a knicker vall so they traditionally when since the leads lots of support there lots of time support because then the south koreans went down i really doubt she is for them and they actually surprise the times it was a

and based on russia trying to meddle in the german and french election as we've just heard in this little film there it's quite likely because russia has has always had an interest in putting a wage between. european union countries weakening the nato alliance a weakening of the european union so it's quite likely and have we heard from russia in response may go well actually they haven't commented at least i didn't hear anything they won't probably all they will say all of course we have nothing to do with it they don't have to calm and i mean it's if they did it if the got a russian government did it they don't have to comment on it it's just enough to solve the seeds of distrust put the web's as i said between the european union countries you talk about that wedge between baltic countries and countries and institutions really of course that he also is a man the all the euro zone would this not then be a case of also an attack on the e.c.b. yes of course i mean the russian government has tried to intervene militarily and the ukraine or georgia and they can't do this in the baltic countr

to do that the syrian regime was back on its heels years ago who came in and prop them up or russia dead. german cities will soon be able to ban the use of diesel cars on their streets after a ruling from the federal court and measures are being imposed to tackle air pollution in the stomach came reports from the capital berlin ruling could have huge ramifications for car makers in germany which is europe's largest car market soon cities in germany could enforce bans on older diesel vehicles it's a move environmental groups here have long campaigned for and now thanks to a court ruling on choose day they have it isn't of him but we are certainly happy and satisfied as of today we have diesel bans in germany we achieve that in both of the places that we were fighting for doesn't go off and stuck out these cities have long been amongst the most polluted in germany stuttgart geography means vehicle emissions often linger in the air the council is considered introducing some form of ban on diesel engines now it's likely to act but this ruling spells trouble for the automotive industry millions of ve

sanctions one of the purposes of sanctions is that to change the behavior most of the german sanctions originate in russia's perceived behavior in crimea americal believes the borders should not be changed and perhaps i think it on some level even vladimir putin who will agree with her on that but the i'm sure you understand that for russia in crimea it was not only a matter of principle it was a matter of strategic security the expansion of nato the possibility of losing the the base in the black sea and those when you deal with strategic security it's very difficult to uphold principles even if you agree with that do you think russia could have played any other way alternatively do you think that russia is likely to . repeat what has happened in crimea this is a very difficult question that i would have to say your vote because it reaches far beyond the issue of of sanctions that we have chests discussed. sanctions could be could be justified i'm just. as a business reservation in relationship to. the developments in ukraine or another border states. and as in the feeling of your or not germany alone of e

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german mainly medium sized companies medicine companies we are not really concerned about that. clients work either with their own financing all they work with established banks mainly foreign barings which operate in russia and the and you're right the state influence which has increased in the russian banking center is not really effect for the german export was who are active in russia right under the ask now managing partner at accounting audit ing and consulting from google in patna joining us from moscow thank you so much. first of a move to the retail network online and now they bring networking into the retail sector china's internet companies are working on a fully digitalized shopping experience supermarkets without any staff. this in conspicuous structure is actually a mini market located in a commercial district outside beijing it's fully automatic there's no staff. it's a market of the future. here customers use an app to access the store locate products and pay for them so much a venture. there are five security cameras watching the store if a customer shoplifting or tries to leave without paying the customer service center reminds them to pay. the store contains typical many market items sn

completely focused on that one go i don't even consider it going any other way just like the german football team in russia certainly isn't thinking about what would happen if they are eliminated in the very first matches they're focused on winning and when they focus they'll succeed. former party leader sharping said a no vote could be fatal to the party and. yes i am sure this is a decisive turning point for our party as well as for all of germany. this is the most important vote since it was founded. the first time you were voted into parliament was in one thousand nine hundred eighty. different. became the chancellor and you travel to bonn instead staying in the buddhist any longer than twelve years just makes you soft in the head you've now been there for twenty years has your hypothesis proven itself. no i think the only thing it proved was that twelve years can seem like an eternity when you're twenty two or more chance that i was elected to the bundestag i just decided to run in my own electoral district where the s.p.d. had never won before i wanted to show that there were still young people engag

they really work that's it russia is our direct neighbor mundane imbalance and peace was russia is in the german and the european interest and we must treat dreiser with respect and on an equal footing with the russian people not putin and those tourists the grid people deserve. well it is germany which has felt the impact of sanctions most of all germany accounts for nearly forty percent of export trade losses since they were introduced the e.u. imposed of the sanctions against russia in two thousand and fourteen in response to the annexation of crimea measures targeted russia's financial energy and defense sectors we got a comment from our minute paul hampel alternative for germany and p. took part in the debates sanctions helping nobody russian or germany all the european countries german economy has lost between twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen some ninety billion euros. we affected by more than forty percent by the policy of the west i would america. so i don't know it's very little so off course there is no intention in washington to. stop to say but there is a much stronger course in my

they're responsible for an attack on the server of the german buddhist took just a year before that in two thousand and fifteen so we might have russia behind these attacks here and we know that german intelligence has warned repeatedly that this type of attack is probable or could likely happen i want to get back there to what may have been compromised or stolen do we know what kind of data may be missing. we're talking about data networks that are used not only by these mentioned ministries but by various german ministries also by the german chancellor rhee by the german parliament the bonus talk and other important or thorough decent they could logically host potentially sensitive data and information and these a.p.t hacking groups are by the way not interested in money or any kind of financial resources what they're after is politically valuable information now all four years are of course trying to find out what exactly happened what will still and what went missing here but the biggest fear of course is that the whole data network all of the german government is concerned all right our political correspondent all over salad on

russia is closely linked to . its is for expansion which traces its roots back to german reunification and the promises. that vera made to moscow back down and we're not necessarily saying is no kind of promises have made that was not prepared were not carried through while it is believed at least if this is an opinion in moscow. russia was promised that nato will not expand to the east following the reunification of germany. has not expended towards. unless countries in the east as to be permitted to join. nato as such has not expanded well i think that mr gorbachev there for the last president and the first president of the soviet union even in his memoirs stated quite clearly that this is not how it was perceived at least in russia many perceive that there was an explicit promise that nato would not keep moving towards russian borders and maybe that has been a misunderstanding but rather than arguing about that i want to ask you whether you believe germany has any special overall in solving the issue here in ukraine in helping russia ukraine others to come to certain accommodation or whether you beli

they're responsible for an attack on the server of the german buddhist took just a year before that in two thousand and fifteen so we might have russia behind these attacks here and we know that german intelligence has warned repeatedly that this type of attack. is probable or could likely happen i want to get back there to what may have been compromised or stolen do we know what kind of data may be missing. we're talking about data networks that are used not only by these mentioned ministries but by various german ministries also by the german chancellor rhee by the german parliament the bonus talk and other important all floridians and they could logically host potentially sensitive data and information and these a.p.t hacking groups are by the way not interested in money or any kind of financial resources what they're after is politically valuable information now all four years are of course trying to find out what exactly happened what will still and what went missing here but the biggest fear of course is that the whole data network all of the german government is concerned. our political correspondent over salad on the story to

sanctions one of the purposes of sanctions is that to change the behavior most of the german sanctions originate in russia is perceived behavior in crimea americal believes the borders should not be changed and perhaps i think on some level even vladimir putin will agree with her on that but the i'm sure you understand that for russia in crimea it was not only a matter of principle it was a matter of strategic security the expansion of nato the possibility of losing the the base in the black sea and those when you deal with strategic security it's very difficult to uphold principles even if you agree with that do you think russia could have played any other way alternatively do you think that russia is likely to . repeat what has happened in crimea. this is a very difficult question that i would have to say you're volatile because it reaches far beyond the issue of of sanctions that we have chests discussed bank sanctions could be could be justified i'm just. as a business reservation in relationship to. the developments in ukraine or another border states. and as in the feeling of your or not germany alo

landed in germany as a result ramond speaks german russian english french and understand spanish and turkish. twice for germany but eventually opted to represent russia and now he's the most multicultural player in the. my whole life. i think. i know where my roots are i know where i'm from and i'm half german of russian no matter where i was told him i was talking about almost always saying this and that i'm both so but there was never a possibility like to get a russian passport or something and so then when the possibility came i didn't have to think. a lot about it so i was almost sure i was rimando his russian passport just before you were twenty sixty and russia can't coach these last years just then they needed this stature back. of posted a photo on instagram holding the passport in his hand and do this so-called golfing squad which caused quite a stir i like to do things funny things be different than other people and then. after i did it everyone asked me you know what that you do with it you know but it's it's like the gopnik squad so i was quite called and it's a think it's a russian thing because now i see it all over inside some of the

russia just to get p. time on international level it's a no brainer getting into the russian team is way easier than into the german one but through mock quashed such notions insisted that it has been his dream team to childhood to represent russia but said that my grandfather died because he always said when they went to watch me in the russian national team and i also did it for him because he would do every problem now and then i think he would be off maybe education for a new team was easy he says barring a few jokes from the new teammates there were always drove. in both my legs more german and there with insisting on the german guys coming and stuff but i speak the language i can read i can write i can tell. and so it was easy to commit with with the team and. i think now it's even better because. for more long time together the team and your son know how does not down the problems anymore nash that's a road full of vice magazine and of what sports a grab for box open minus is an almost mind trait and he's not afraid to share his viewpoints even subjects which may seem controversial to some group of seventeen

around a lot until a result ramond speaks german russian english french and i understand spanish and turkish. twice for germany but eventually opted to represent russia and now he's the most multicultural player in the team my whole life. i think. i know women roots are i know where i'm from and i'm half german of russian no matter where i was told him i was talking about almost always saying this and that i'm both so but there was no way a possibility like to get a russian passport or something and so then when the possibility came i didn't have to think. a lot of voted so i was i was true i was rimando he was russian the best were just before you were twenty sixty and russia can't coach these last years just then they needed this answer back. of posted a photo on instagram holding the passport in his hand and do the so-called golfing squats which caused quite a stir i like to do funny things be different than other people and then. after i did it everyone asked me you know what that you do with it you know but that's it's like the gopnik squad so i was quite called and it's a think it's a russian thing because now i see it all over inside some of t

in moscow and we were lucky enough to be there but how does a cut down and russia you're about to find. even moscow the german electro pioneers craft back recently played to six thousand fans a sold out gig inside the state crime in. their show boasted elaborate three d. projections as usual a static performance from the artists themselves. what did the audience make of their performance. what do russians think of craft back in general. they do communicate with their audiences like rock musicians who throw drumsticks into the crowd or shout things to rouse the audience. when kraft perform it's like a monologue. this is the state kremlin palace moments before the concert. the room slowly started to fill up and fans put on their three d. glasses. have just won the grammy award in the u.s. but is that important to the band's. yet the worst of it i don't think winning a grammy means much i cough back of course it's not a bad achievement it's on after but for. bigger than a grammy but i'm going to do. what perhaps does strike a chord with russians is crushed back solutions to an overbearing state like in. song com

german mainly medium sized companies medicine companies we are not really concerned about that our clients work either with their own financing or they work with established banks mainly foreign barings which operate in russia and the and you're right the state influence which has increased in the russian banking center is not really effect for the german export was who are active in russia right and we ask now managing partner at accounting audit ing and consulting from a good end partner joining us from moscow thank you so much. general motors has just announced it will be closing one of its four plants in south korea two thousand workers will be affected impairment charge for g.m. will be eight hundred fifty million u.s. dollars the move is the latest in a series of steps the u.s. also make is taking to put profitability and innovation ahead of sales and volume demand has dropped for the sedans it produces there in south korea g.m. said it will decide the future of its other south korean plants within the next few weeks to israel now a closely watched trial of a palestinian teenager that's right it's all about a palestinian teenager monica who's become a symbol for many of the struggle against the israel

stream to pipeline is closer to becoming reality of the markings on the german coast of ok construction of the natural gas link with russia north stream one runs along the bottom of the baltic sea from russia to new minn in northeastern germany is next project running alongside will double capacity which stands at fifty five billion cubic metres per year. well critics of this natural gas project say it will increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is said to lose out most of president the harmful russian gas exports to the e.u. passed through its territory but for how much longer nicolas connelly reports this plant run by ukraine state energy company nafta gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggle to maintain its position as the chief transit country for russian energy it needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by torture bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compresses successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russi

it but anyway things turned out ok it was a super match and a super victory russia is the champion and we did it. the germans were playing very well it was a beautiful game many thanks to the german team and their russian team for such a wonderful final we're so thrilled russia's father christmas feeling at home in the cold side korean area there so indeed the winter olympics have wrapped up for another four years but it appears that the spirit of goodwill is continuing there north korea has said that it's ready for talks with the united states that was announced after the country's officials met with south korean diplomats at the games finale in p.r. china but not everyone was happy to see the north korean delegation there were protests korean border town against that this is scuffles also broke out between some protesters on the police independent china specialist underlining to listen but the controversies that could overshadow any north korea washington talks. as far as the sentients are concerned of course the united states want to try and up the sanctions and use military coercion is what i mean you're

organization care speaking earlier from amman jordan and german chancellor angela merkel has called on the european union to step up pressure on russia and iran to end the violence in eastern good to both countries are allies of president assad and address the german parliament merkel condemned the syrian government's bombing campaign here's what she had to say. that's him on the scene we're currently seeing terrible events in syria a regime fighting not against terrorists but against its own people the killing of children the destruction of hospitals all of that is a massacre that deserves to be condemned and which must be opposed by us with a clear a no but it also calls upon us to play a larger role so that we can stop massacres like this. let's turn to some other news now because u.s. president donald trump says that he will be strongly pushing for comprehensive background checks with an emphasis on mental health for anyone buying guns the statement follows the massacre at a school in florida last week in which seventeen people died. this is the coffin of kris hicks and hailed a hero for trying to stop the shooter at the florida

russia. so cold outdoors. knows how successful german international football has been you know and some might say well if he's german in nigeria why not go for germany they have a world cup they've won this they won so why why nigeria first of all you have to say that i mean in germany you have a lot of great footballers. by the time i might have the chance to. coming to their team i think i wasn't on that stage so there were a lot of players who were ahead of me. but the nigerians there were interested some people started writing about me and i think that's how how the. coach began stephen keshi how he heard of me and then i think it was in two thousand and fourteen. beginning of the year when he first called me. nigeria who's there. pick up the phone and then i heard his voice like he was calm. yes but who. you know who this is this is. my son and i was like wow this is about them or the. first shot with nigeria was a tough break. twenty fourteen i was supposed to be in the squad already but when i got the first call up against mexico

german chan. well, i'm going to let someone else try to pronounce that. he owns russia's alpha bank. bank and german, i can't read this name in the prompter, so i'm going to skip it. and that bank is mentioned in christopher steel's dossier. joining us, jennifer rogers, a former federal prosecutor and the u.s. attorney's office and executive director of the senate for advancement of public integrity at columbia law school. your reading of this plea today? >> well, they obviously have another cooperate or on their hands. it was information, not an indictment. so my assumption is they're going to use him to persuade gates finally. apparently he's been in talks about cooperating but it will get him over the line. who they really want is manafort who knows a lot about the trump campaign. my guess is they're continuing to exert pressure in the way of paul manafort. >> the "l.a. times" reported days ago that gates it completed a plea agreement. there was an earlier report saying he was getting close to one. what's unusual about the rhythm of that is usually when one organization gets that

they've tried to do the same in the french and german elections so it's quite possible especially in a country like lot which has been dependent on russia for so long and which has been a thorn in russia side you know joining the european union nato and also the euro currency so it's. there are other factors that could play a role here money lost money laundering charges by the u.s. administration against the third largest bank and stuff like that but it's quite likely that it's russia involved too but we're not talking about meddling in the affairs of the world's top economists the u.s. we're talking about a tiny nation what what would most go hope to change well i would say they tried to meddle militarily and politically and countries like ukraine and georgia who are not safe in terms of being nato members and e.u. members in latvia estonia lithuania of those small baltic countries that were once part of the soviet union they can't do that so they have to be more subtle they have to find other ways to do it i'm as i said before i'm speculating here but if russia wanted to meddle they would have to do it in the most subtle way such as

upon and moved upon or what have traditionally been the close in border areas of russia and you know he saw that german was either they're going to be independent or they're going to be flunkies for power interests in their own country and the journalist can't really do both well with him by the chinese government to respond to that allegation from you norman but if one lasting legacy of people like you saying grady is you think another one is the back of the cia took such an interest in him and there is a material his work and himself no doubt cia always attentive to authentic journalism that runs counter to its own dominant narrative but always had a very adversarial relationship to the cia after all he exposed its deadly machinations in central america during the reagan administration and always understood the difference between journalistic intelligence and government intelligence and that has to say the least interest from the cia and certainly the opposite of admiration no. thank you after the break a physicist and founder of the festival israelian tells us why collective economic punishment. sho

sarah: and earlier today german chancellor angela merkel called on the european union to step up pressure on russia iran to end the violence in the city. both countries are allies of president assad. in address to the german parliament, merkel addressed the bombing campaign. here is what she had to say. >> we are currently seeing terrible events in syria. the regime, fighting out against terrorists, but against its own people. the killing of children, the destruction of hospitals. all of that is a massacre that deserves to be condemned. and which must be opposed by us with a clear note. but it calls on us to play a larger role so we can stop massacres like this. sarah: and earlier we spoke with martin my list from the aid organization care in amman, georgia. he talked about the situation. >> we hear from our partners, and it has been desperate, desperate for help. it has been really devastating in the last five days, and even today at lunchtime we already had dozens of casualties reported throughout, artillery and the departments -- bombardments. it is sad, similar to what we had seen last year wit

the united states, china german france, now russia have had their trouble and have wage wars but non- have thought a shooting war against each other and almost 75 years. was the cause of this long great power peace? is it the democratic peace, the idea that democracies don't fight each other? no. our international politics in general so peaceful that major powers no longer have serious international crises? >> no. major powers have experienced numerous crises that one might think would escalate at least assisting conventional combat between their militaries, but none have in 75 years. other factors matter but nuclear weapons have done more than any other to vastly lower the risk of great power war. the existence does not stop crises that serve as a pop powerful deterrent on the escalation. the very fear that makes us anxious about nuclear weapons also serves as a break on the outbreak of major power war. the fear so great that even a whiff of nuclear gun power provokes pressures to de-escalate a crisis. consider last summer, president trump and through tweets and other moves that play