so the news today described doesn't historic and moral duty by the greek premier athens demands three hundred billion euros from germany in world war two reparations how long generations of generations having to pay for things that they did to get through of course we should claim something not only because many years have passed and because of german intolerance to. the night sky could soon be turned into a huge billboard for adverts projected from space with pepsi lined up to be the first company to test the russian innovation. good morning eight am here in moscow live from russia this is art international with me kevin going great if a company if you tuned in around the world this morning the big story then this friday goes to say after a two year investigation and almost nonstop media coverage of the so-called russia gate scandal the heavily redacted miller reporters finally sorted it out the document reveals there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with the russians in the twenty sixteen presidential elections. the russian government sponsored efforts to ille

described as an historic and moral duty by the greek athens demands three hundred billion euros from germany in world war two reparations. generations of generations having to pay for things that they didn't do too of course we should claim something not only because many years have passed but because of german intolerance too and if you're a light sleeper don't know what you think about this night maybe or maybe a groundbreaking opportunity plans to turn the night sky into a huge billboard for adverts projected from space. there i'm kevin i'm part of the team here at art international from russia today great to have your company thanks for being with us a big story than this friday to hear investigation almost nonstop media coverage of the so-called russia gate scandal the heavily redacted miller report finally came out and the document revealed there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with the russians in the twenty sixteen presidential elections. the special counsel's report states that his quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump campai

who's monitoring the situation from athens why is it that these people are still stuck in greece. well don't forget greece has seventy thousand at least seventy thousand migrants and refugees stranded here trapped here from two thousand and fifteen at the height of this refugee crisis with when more than a million mainly syrians fled through hoping to go into the heart of europe and as a result the authorities here have been completely inundated and processing these asylum requests it's actually have been a nightmare for them so as a result many of these refugees have been stuck here for years trying to get their asylum request simply hurt and fed frustrated and unhappy by the circumstances here in many of these state camps they're trying to find other ways. to seep through into europe to find their loved ones and to meet up with their families and that's why this rumor just had such a knock on effect and illustrates how vulnerable the situation is here with the refugees and how limited in poor this reception system here is and how inundated and overwhelmed the authorities simply

today modern athens is alive .ith new life and new vigor and just across the border, turkey, southerntly on the soviet nationturkey is another threatened by old perils but alive with new vigor, and , one sees people busy, learning new ways. theears ago turkey tore off veil and liberated its women, who now work side-by-side with their men building a new nation, hoping someday to be free of ancient fears. fear may have been the cement of nato, but hope is its superstructure and freedom its trade. ♪ men may argue and quarrel, and by a communist newspaper, which denounced nato. and they are free to buy it, for in the atlantic decade freedom has prevailed. since nato was formed, not one foot of free soil has been lost. [crowd cheering] ♪ the postwar world began with a hunger for peace and home. ♪ began to set in early after the war, for liberation brought slavery to some countries. [marching footsteps] but there were some brave men who attemptedst the impossible. a new target, berlin. fear.a year of the western peoples had not wanted this, but this time the west acted, this time foresighte

thousand nine feet it's no for the reparations were planned but what do the people the berlin and athens think should happen next. we have a very very big. responsibility to. to world war two but how long generations of generations having to pay for things that they didn't do as a country we have the responsibility to react now the simple solution would have come a little bit earlier now would still eight they're broke and trying to see where they can get money. for of course we should claim some things not only because many years ago that just because of german intolerance to step do you think we have governments that can claim in a sane i think there is no political will from any government to claim german restorations. germany looks after its own interests what are we looking after one of the darkest periods in european history still echoes today and ideas about what to do when it comes to reparations for wartime atrocities still fairly split peter all over r.t. . big names towards this channel talking a wedge following all the drama or this we should wait for champions league footbal

to the sum of nearly three hundred billion euro athens has long been seeking compensation for the nutty iraqi patient but berlin says that it's been set off or europe correspondent peter oliver has the latest details on this long running saga. europe could be set for the reopening of some painful historical wounds the greek parliament has asked germany for billions of euro for the nazi occupation of the country during world war two the demand for german war reparations is a historical and moral debt for us it will help us build a better future in our relations with germany today therefore we have a duty to give our two peoples the opportunity to close this chapter athens as next step is to send what's known as a verbal note to berlin that will be seen as the starting point for negotiations to kick off from now back in twenty sixteen agreed parliamentary committee put the figure that should pay is reparations it well at least two hundred and ninety billion euro that's as compensation for the deaths of tens of thousands of greeks at the hands of the nazis as well as the extortion of the b

and in the news described as a historic and moral duty by the greek lawmakers in athens. demanding. reparations. watching all to international law from all the studio in moscow with me and welcome to the program off to a two year investigation the four hundred page plus and have the redacted in the report on russia collusion is finally in the public domain and we're going to cross live. in new york now kaleb plenty of anticipation leading up to the release has it lived up to expectations in the us. well it's well over four hundred pages that we have from the robert muller report and if you look over at the conclusion seems to be pretty clear we heard from william barr the attorney general of the united states and he concluded that it seems to pretty clearly conclude that there was no collusion there was no collusion between the u.s. between u.s. president donald trump and russia during the elections let's take a listen so that's the bottom line after nearly two years of investigation thousands of subpoenas hundreds of warrants and witness interviews the special counsel confirmed tha

and now to athens where we have exclusive for he is the director and writer for the duran dot com welcome to the program alex let's talk about the how the media can say sorry and is essentially choking every single day and every succeeding day after the report was filed and we got the four page summary from attorney general barr i mean it's it's pathetic comes to mind it's sad and it's dangerous because you have a liberal media that is in denial and in a deep deep denial and they keep continue to fight back with no results go ahead alex yeah this is this is peter this is the worst election hangover hangover defeat in history i mean we're three years now two years from the election three years of this of this trouble russia collusion hoax and that's what it is it's a hoax it was a hoax from the beginning it's been proven a hoax. barr specifically says there was no collusion he is not recommending that mueller is not recommending any more indictments it's over ok release the three four hundred pages fine no one no one in their right mind expects to see anything different i'm sure the mainst

other top stories we're covering described as an historic and a moral duty by the greek premier athens now demanding three hundred billion euro from germany in world war two reparations. how long generations of generations having to pay for things that they didn't do them of course we should claim something not only because many years have passed but because of german intolerance to i'm sure you'll have your views on society for a nightmare or maybe a groundbreaking opportunity to turn the night sky into a huge billboard for adverts projected. good morning kevin here with you this morning in this is us international live from moscow as i just turned eleven in the morning there and there's one big story dominating let me tell you about it after a two year investigation almost nonstop media coverage of that so-called russia gate scandal the heavily redacted report has finally sorted it out the document reveals there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with russians in the twenty sixteen presidential elections. special counsel's report states that his quote investigati

to strive doesn't historic and moral duty by the greek athens demands three hundred billion euros from germany now and world war two reparations . how long generations of generations having to pay for things that they didn't do through of course we should claim something not only because many years have passed because of german intolerance to what you make of this nightmare or groundbreaking plan is to turn the night sky into a huge billboard which projected from space. good morning live from russia this is not international with me kevin a great to have you company were featured in around the world the big story this friday that the two year investigation almost nonstop media coverage of the so-called russia gate scandal the heavily redacted one a report has finally sorted it out the document reveals there was no cooperation between donald trump already american with the russians in the twenty sixteen presidential elections. the special counsel's report states that his quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian go

across italy and the focus is that price of weather just started to push its way back into greece athens at twenty celsius on wednesday getting up to around twenty one more sunshine coming through as we go on into with plenty of sunshine further north to some places of low cloud yes but plenty of sunshine as you push up towards the baltic states across northern parts of europe seven celsius of berlin is cool crisp sunshine eleven degrees in london getting up to eighty eight in madrid some fine in tribe weather coming through his nose still want to wintry flowers there over the alps unnoticed from all the parts of africa we have still got some bits and pieces of cloud just floating out to the northwest just pushing a question is here over towards libya but by and large is fine and dry. weather spot. i can't tolerate this. as protests over welfare cuts exploded nicaragua's from trying government launched a brutal clampdown. now after a year of debts detentions and political suppression crisis negotiations are underway. but could the dark days of civil war still return. people in power inve

we together can achieve so much and that is a message of athens. maria: many european institutions will tell you the european commission is legislation to enforce the law, that every country does things according to standards but at the same time, the european commission needs to become much more aware of the political implications of decisions that get made in brussels. if you think the commission, if you become the head of the european commission, should be more in that way? manfred: absolutely. at the european level, it is deciding the real life of people through legislation. thousands of issues in the daily lives of the citizens of the european union. there are more than 40 million europeans and people must get an opportunity to enter into the decision-making process. we have only to practice what we did in the past, to bridge between citizens and the political decision-makers and that means parliaments and democracies. that is why our party is the biggest in europe, with the biggest faction in parliament. we have to present a program at candid

since then the country has changed its name to north macedonia for decades athens refused to normalize relations out of fear macedonia could claim its namesake province in greece north macedonia now hopes for significant investments from its newly gained ally the balkan state is currently in the process of joining nato and in the long run aspires to become a member of the e.u. . well the battle head of germany's football federation rinehart grendel has resigned he's been facing growing criticism over payments he received from a federation subsidiary as well as some of the decisions he made one in charge of the world's biggest sports federation. brian hart grindle was forced to go on the defensive more and more in recent times germany's twenty eighteen world cup last year one such example but some of the criticism hit much closer to home the final straw allegations last week grindle failed to declare income of seventy eight thousand euros for being chairman of the federation subsidiary media company questions over green doors leadership style never went away especially his handling of t

aegean sea was seeing some really heavy rainfall and we've seen the recent days of flooding around athens in the lots of it forty two millimeters of rain here in twenty four hours see april averages forty six millimeters so that's about a month's worth of bright little one of that we have seen the widespread flooding but it is in the process of improving to see athens in the clear now twenty celsius shot showers there longer spells of writing also spilling the way across into italy and the balkans little disturbance here that we've got winds coming in from the north winds coming in from the south meeting together lots of cloud and rain sleet and snow to over the high ground that's the picture as we go through thursday twenty one celsius the for athens on thursday afternoon as it brightens up when it stays dry and right across that eastern side of the medicine go through friday central areas do that just but the showers never really too far away. sponsored by qatar. he came from a wealthy background in paris and became an artist against his family's wishes he went on to bring a fresh persp

we are in beautiful athens. opinion polls, are joined by the man himself who could win the elections. >> thanks for having me. maria: one of the things you have said is if you get to office, you will cut taxes pretty much across the board. to do that, you need fiscal space. grace needs to post a budget surplus of 3.5% to gdp to 2020. how do you go about that? >> first of all, let's acknowledge that 3.5 primary surplus is too high for an economy that is trying to come out from a profound crisis. what i have said is i will try to convince my partners that we need to gradually lower these high primary surpluses but i will only do it once i restore the credibility of the country, meaning i will, if people put their trust in me and the party, i will put forward an aggressive reform package and make sure i restore greece's international to 12ility and after six months, have an honest discussion with my partners about reducing the primary surpluses in order to have more fiscal space to cut taxes. this is an overtaxed e

nine hundred ninety it's no for the reparations were planned but what do the people of the land and athens think should happen next. we have a very very big. responsibility to two world war two but how long generations of generations having to pay for things that they didn't do as a country we have the responsibility to react now they should have come a little bit earlier now would still ate their broke and trying to see where they can get money. from of course we should clean not only because many years ago this is because of german intolerance to step do you think we have governments that can claim any same i think there is no political will for any government to claim german restaurant. german looks after its own interests what are we looking after one of the darkest periods in european history still echoes today and ideas about what to do when it comes to reparations for wartime atrocities still family displaced peter all of a r.t. . a group of anti fracking protesters in australia have come up with an unusual way of getting their message across. i. got money to listen up wrecking a co

thousand nine feet it's no for the reparations were planned but what do the people the berlin and athens think should happen next we have a very very big. responsibility to two world war two but how long are the generations of generations having to pay for things that they didn't do as a country we have. responsibility to react no they should have come a little bit. now would still ate their broke and trying to see where they can get money one of the darkest periods in european history still echoes today and ideas about what to do when it comes to reparations for wartime atrocities still family displaced peter all of a r.t. . now a group of fracking protesters in australia have come up with a novel way to get their message across. i. need to listen wrecking a country i'm putting out water. drilling this is. killing. many experts agree with that sentiment they say that fracking has a huge impact on the environment including possible earthquakes because of the high pressure used to extract the oil on the gas from the rock below it also increases the risk of oil spills pollution something t

thousand nine feet it's no for the reparations were planned for what to the people the berlin and athens think should happen next we have a very very big. responsibility to two world war two but how long generations of general. nations having to pay for things that they didn't do as a country we have the responsibility to react now should have come a little bit earlier now which still eight they're broke and trying to see where they can get money one of the darkest periods in european history still echoes today and ideas about what to do when it comes to reparations for wartime atrocities still fairly displaced peter all of a r.-t. . h. of the other side of the world our group of anti fracking protesters in a stream have come up with a novel way to get their message across. i . need to listen wrecking a country i'm putting out water. this is. a lot of experts believe exactly what that woman saying is true critics say fracking has a huge impact on the environment getting possible earthquakes because of the high pressure really used to extract the oil and the gas from the rock below it als

aimed at protecting students from police brutality is instead tying police down from athens explains.once a year the student body in every greek university elects a representative to the rector's council to vote on academic and administrative masses it's taken so seriously that national parties have created proxies to campaign for the student vote but today democracy is disrupted a group of people dressed in black shows up with thick wooden poles some of these people have been spotted on campus before and may be responsible for attacking a faculty member eighteen months ago. this was hospitalized after he lost his attackers to stop spraying graffiti on campus walls in practice. there are many teachers professors of the university cannot express free. their thoughts because they're afraid that there will be attacked by these people in my case after this incident i have another five times that. groups from various other universities or people were not in the university where entering in the classroom and creating problems or sometimes twice in my life this is exactly the opposite effect

because further south in europe temperatures not quite as high. 18 in barcelona on saturday, 17 in athens and ten in istanbul so our weather looking pretty good. today weather looking pretty good. today we have seen mist and fog patches, most of it thinning and lifting away to give hazy skies but much sunshine as well and you can see the process happening on the satellite picture. still a few patches of cloud left over though. through the day it will feed in colder airfrom over though. through the day it will feed in colder air from the scandinavian high, into shetland but otherwise the wind is not too cold and today is the big switch over in how the weather feels. it feels much warmer and sunnier out and about. there are exceptions as cloud is breaking in northern ireland with patches of low cloud and mist affecting southern coastal counties and an outside chance of a shower for eastern england, but most of us dry, fine, settled and sunny. overnight, low cloud moving in from the north sea affecting eastern scotla nd the north sea affecting eastern scotland and eastern england as well and

but down into the southeast a very different story and in greece we saw some really heavy rainfall athens hundred forty millimeters for a twenty four hours that's now in the process of easing away so some dry brush the weather gradually coming back in behind that dry fire where the push is right up into all the possible future of through germany oppin sue and mark and then we go with the unsettled weather this just still drifting into the far northwest and wet windy weather for now but that will be set of the way back down into the southeast and colder we see the con of really heavy rain that we did have here now making its way further east was seventeen celsius in the sunshine for athens put the heavy showers and they will be lively at times possibly with some hail and fund and pushing across turkey cyprus seeing some rather wet weather it'll push on into the levant lost a little system just developing just around ukraine as well central areas as i said fine and dry over towards the west some basin places a cloud right but it warm up here sixteen celsius in london a way to stay in ninete

it's a drama that conducted this stage is exquisitely born in athens educated in st petersburg he founded the orchestra music attorney in two thousand feet before being named the director of the state oprah in russia the forty seven year old is a perfectionist he pushes his musicians to the edge of their abilities. he's a genius meaning that he is totally in the music he's completely enfold in what he's doing and for me the genius is this person who is what he explores what he magnifies and for me to is really this he's the incarnation of music. live it and the final movement of the requiem after ninety minutes of emotional ups and downs betty's piece result that resonates long after. and i'm joined by another. musician a completely different musician jato welcome to the show. a multi instrumentalist you play completely different music you're also an artist on your latest album which is called deliverance is often if i say you're collaborate you've collaborated in your career with so many different people this is the only the second solo album so did you feel. no i actually enjoyed it i m

program last summer so has now approved a nine hundred seventeen million euro debt relief payment to athens and money consists mainly of e.c.b. and other eurozone central bank profits made on the greek government bonds during the bailout period. u.s. and chinese trade negotiators will continue their talks next week by video conference as they try to reach a deal to resolve the nine month old trade dispute the white house announced on friday high level meetings between the world's biggest economies continue continued for a third straight day on friday and u.s. president donald trump said quote epic trade deal with china could be just weeks away but he stopped short of mentioning a summit date when any such agreement would be signed. months of wrangling hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tariffs and a u.s. pledge to radically change china does business now u.s. president donald trump is indicating that the trade conflict between the world's top two economies is nearing an end we've agreed to far more than we have left to agree to. try to i would say i think i can say that some of the to

summer so the market has now approved and nine hundred seventy million euro debt relief payment to athens the money consists mainly of east india and other eurozone central bank profits made on greek government bonds during the bailout period. european regulators have accused b.m.w. dialer and fox wagon of colluding to prevent competition on emissions cleaning technology the allegations from the period between two thousand and six and twenty fourteen and come two years after raids were carried out on company premises the firms now have a chance to respond before the e.u. commission decides whether to pursue an anti trust kids. it's a pakistan now where inflation is at its highest for over five years prime minister imran khan's government was elected in twenty eighteen with a promise to eradicate poverty it's not even been a year but patients among average pakistani voters is very thin. inflation is killing us reads this sign is currently running at nine point four percent in pakistan not since november twenty third team has it been they say high with hefty increases in the costs of food a

further east to the mediterranean where it is drier, northerly breeze in cool weather, 17 degrees in athens home and the second half of the weekend, that area of high pressure mostly holds on. these weather fronts will always be there to the north—west, wriggling around and threatening to move in, some uncertainty about the extent to which these fronts will make progress, always the chance of some cloud into northern ireland, north—west scotland, may some rain in the far north—west but away from these areas, again, a lot of sunshine on easter sunday. plus you again, those temperatures well up into the 20s. plus you again, those temperatures well up into the 20s. and for easter monday, it is more of the same. more spells of sunshine, more warmth, but always the chance of some of that cloud and maybe a bit of rain into the far north—west. good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: a woman is shot dead in northern ireland after a disturbance in londonderry — the police are treating it as a terrorist incident. climate change protestors are tol

a reporting from athens thank you. some smart now and the biggest game in germany for all four years turned out to be a very one sided affair i destroy thought and five mil and leave probably arrivals at the top of the table there one point in the favorites for a title with just six games left is the best off the action. mark or royce knew the stats as well as anyone head of this potential title decider dortmund hadn't won in munich for five years and they lost their last three matches there heavily with robert levy on top ski scoring on each occasion doman set out to get their noses in front right set off down the wing and found mahmoud dude in space but the midfielder could only get the post it was clear dortmund were relying on counter attacks but before they could make one count by and were head match formals letterheads palma corner by do it once defenders were called nothing was and they put another goal want to play for by and in the seventeenth minute done so that it is like to pass on our love and dusky to dou

further east to the mediterranean where it is drier, northerly breeze in cool weather, 17 degrees in athenshe weekend, that area of high pressure mostly holds on. these weather fronts will always be there to the north—west, wriggling around and threatening to move in, some uncertainty about the extent to which these fronts will make progress, always the chance of some cloud into northern ireland, north—west scotland, may some rain in the far north—west but away from these areas, again, a lot of sunshine on easter sunday. again, those temperatures well up into the 20s. and for easter monday, it is more of the same. more spells of sunshine, more warmth, but always the chance of some of that cloud and maybe a bit of rain into the far north—west. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is duncan golestani. our top stories: robert mueller‘s long awaited report on russian interference says there was no collusion with russia by the trump campaign in the 2016 us election. the heavily redacted report doesn't exonerate him and it also raises questio

the river thames might not be as glamorous as the sydney or athens olympics, but forjames cracknell,britain get the gold medal! he has won back two olympic gold medals and six world championships, but after a biking accident left him with a head injury, he has not lost the desire to compete. as the men's race gets under way, there is only one man that everyone is talking about, and that is james cracknell. at a6, he is now the oldest man to ever compete in the boat race. but getting a seat in the boat was only half the battle. cambridge have made the stronger start. cambridge kept their lead, giving us the sporting finish that many of cracknell‘s fans had hoped for. it is going to be victory for cambridge's men, the latest chapter in this age—old story. i haven't felt like this for 20 years? 20 years? 20 years. the race has topped it because of the difference in age and experience on the day. it is the biggest race by far, and they stepped up hugely well. three in a row for the light blues as they cross the line. it was a clean sweep for cambridge, with oxford well beaten in the wome

the sydney or athens olympics, but for james cracknell, this the sydney or athens olympics, but forjameshampionships, but after a biking accident left him with a head injury, he has not lost the desire to compete. as the men's race gets under way, there is only one man that everyone is talking about, and that everyone is talking about, and thatis that everyone is talking about, and that is james cracknell. at a6, he is now the oldest man to ever compete in the boat race. getting a seatin compete in the boat race. getting a seat in the boat was only half the battle. yellow might cambridge have made the stronger stop. cambridge kept their lead, giving us the sporting finish that many of cracknell‘s fans had hoped for. sporting finish that many of cracknell's fans had hoped fonm is going to be victory for cambridge's men, the latest chapter in this age—old story. cambridge's men, the latest chapter in this age-old story. 20 years. the race has topped it because of the difference in age and experience on the day. it is the biggest race by far, and they stepped up hugely well. three in a row

were it was in one nine hundred sixty eight don't release aeration treaty to sell and then you have athens eventually not now made a few centuries later russia united states shane as they all have had made such a promise so well moscow he has a saying the same maybe they build them even if it can even at that they do to invent a field to save probably means three to four centuries to exist six and train on. no russian presidential spokesperson best of have said earlier that the storm six party talks are the only route of addressing the issue of denuclearization do you believe that. well it's my day with a dear russia is interested because it has the rights of the marginal and is deeply interested in having some kind of multilateral like say japan the same rights and same situation because as advice all major decisions are going to be made in washington and russia look at their impact on how their future of loss is asia he'll be discussed so it's great nations as russia somewhat less extension than and south korea all this countries really would like to have some kind of miles away so talks