that was boris foreman of bard college here in berlin talking to me earlier. on top item on the two leaders agenda has been syria with a major donors conference for that country now underway germany has pledged an extra one point two billion dollars in aid for syrian refugees both inside the war torn country and in neighboring countries now that pledge came as governments aid groups start the second and final day of that donor's conference the e.u.'s foreign policy chief frederick marine is called on russia iran and turkey to halt the fighting and to do all they can to stop the fighting in syria as well as drumming up aid organizers hope the conference will revive the stalled u.s. led peace goals it's. let's go straight to brussels now and our correspondent there beyond riegert a bat germany's the single biggest donor in the syrian crisis and for mr iko masses announced another billion euros that's one point two billion dollars from germany what's behind that high level of german aid. the main purpose of this donor conference is of course to drum up as much su

that was first foreman of bard college here in berlin let's get some of the other stories making the news at this hour germany has announced it will donate an additional one billion euros in aid to syria and to neighboring countries that are hosting syrian refugees germany is so far the biggest donors contributed four and a half billion euros in aid for syria since twenty twelve a court in the indian city of judge poor has convicted a high profile spiritual guru of raping a sixteen year old girl in two thousand and thirteen us from bob who faces a maximum sentence of life in prison is also on trial in another race a rape case in the state of gujarat new details have been emerging about the man suspected of killing ten people in city of toronto. a hostile message towards women on facebook moments before careening onto a busy pavement and striking pedestrians the twenty five year old's been charged with ten counts of premeditated murder. well the prime minister of armenia may have resigned yesterday but that has not satisfied the country's opposition leader of the marchers brought down

neo druids celtic bards spiritual healers and new agers of all kinds feel drawn to stonehenge even today. that the spot is a popular landing site for u.f.o.'s is not in doubt among those in the know. but it's not just stonehenge the entire area was a center of the megalithic culture. everywhere in the fields next to pounds and roadsides you come across standing stones which have been part of the local landscape for millennia there's a major concentration of them around a very. the a very stone circles a large one containing two smaller one. are older less well known but much more extensive than stonehenge though perhaps not as spectacular. over the centuries many of the stones were toppled destroyed buried or used as building material of the twenty seven stones that made up the northern small circle only four remain standing. one that became famous is the barber's stone in the fourteenth century a barber surgeon and his friends tried to topple it he was crushed by the stone during later excavation work his skeleton was discovered beneath the stone along with a few coins. a bank in ditch

jo nesbo rewrites the bard. welcome. was it scary to take on a story like this that everyone knows?ause where i come from people don't, well they know the story, but it's not like in the uk where you read shakespeare in school. in norway we read henrik ibsen in school. actually my relationship was not so much to shakespeare as it was to macbeth, because i saw the movie when i was in my early teens. i was so fascinated by the story that i would actually go and get the written edition of the play in english at the age of 13 or 14, i didn't understand one sentence. but the power of the story is so visceral, it is such an elemental story that it just draws you on. you are expressing there with the imagination what the imagination does with this tale. for me it was the first time that i had come across a story where you are sort of manipulated by the storyteller to sympathise with what seems to be the protagonist of the story, and then suddenly a few minutes later you are caught on the wrong side, the dark side, and you are sort of forced into trying to understand and sympathise with the

more on this that former boris foreman who is a professor of political science at the bard college in lynn and d.-w. correspondent accustomed phenomena joins us from washington welcome both let's start with you boris foreman what does chancellor merkel hope to achieve in this three hour meeting that emanuel mccraw couldn't in history days that's the big question i mean mccraw is known to have a good relationship as you just said to donald trump but he was invited and was a long sort of moral ritual also him speaking in front of congress something that hasn't happened to french leaders speaking in front of congress for fifty eight years so there was a lot of pomp and circumstance perhaps that's the advantage of a glimmer a call that she can act in the shadow of what just happened also the korean headlines which are much more visible right now so maybe she's going to go she did without the spotlight being on the negotiations because of our nominee what does donald trump want from germany. a number of things first of all he wants germany to spend more on the military if possible on the u

the studio here at the big table a book by boards for him he is professor of political science at bard college in berlin and in washington our correspondent clear richardson is standing by clare let me start with you your impressions i mean how was this second meeting between trump and. well as you say was in some ways a lot warmer than expected and we saw him welcome her with kisses on the cheek it had been widely expected that this was going to be a very stiff meeting that it was going to be all business no pleasure for chancellor angela merkel and her flying visit to d.c. really stands in stark contrast to what we saw earlier this week from french president and then you will not cry on she's only here for twenty four hours after that press conference she'll be going to it's the residence of the german ambassador and then back on a plane to berlin. before a dinner time and that really is a far cry from the kind of lavish pomp and circumstance that we saw earlier this week and so they're really trying to show that there is some kind of working relationship that still exists the two le

and the sun plays up the shakespearean connection to the royal birth, falling as it did on the bard'sthday. so the windrush development and the royal baby sharing the honours on the front pages — let's have a closer look. aside with the baby the picture is the poster front page. no adverse, just a picture of the glorious mum with her new son, the bit alignment i think it is. what a great picture. -- fit in i think it is. what a great picture. —— fit in line to the throne i think. it happened when world babies are born. or merit. there is a formula we follow. we have to have the fact of the day. we have to go through, anybody who is been a whole today, the less on what is happening. the key facts. what it we need to know? onstage or to say, how auspicious, the new world birth occurred, allowing the daily telegraph to offer us an 8—page supplemental this morning to commemorate this. —— on st george estate. she gave birth at 11 o'clock this morning. by the late tee time, she was on the steps of the private wing. wearing heels. rather nice flag of saint george bank outfit. colour—coordina

bite so let me pull in or is foreman here at the big table he's a professor for political science at bard college here in berlin bourses good to see you and in washington we have claire richardson she is standing by for us there near the white house players good to see you as well so let's talk first of all about what came out of these talks merkel can't come back to germany saying that she achieved much kanchi. yeah but i don't know if that was really the expectation i mean in the german newspaper it's true there was a lot of an emphasis on birkin's visit to the u.s. in the u.s. if you looked at the mirror times and other newspapers today korea seem to be the much bigger headline so this was a talk that was meant it's the exceptions were managed beforehand merkel was trying to to go at this low key because mick rule was unable to change terms mines yeah. probably i mean this is in part we don't really know right i mean the great thing about these kinds of talks that just happened is that we will see effects on may first is the deadline for for the steel tariffs there's still an element o

and the sun plays up the shakespearean connection to the royal birth, falling as it did on the bard'snours on the front pages — let's have a closer look. aside with the baby the picture is the poster front page. no adverse, just a picture of the glorious mum with her new son, the bit alignment i think it is. what a great picture. -- fit in i think it is. what a great picture. —— fit in line to the throne i think. it happened when world babies are born. 0r merit. there is a formula we follow. we have to have the fact of the day. we have to go through, anybody who is

get it with me to discuss this is a bar is for a man who is professor of political science at the bard college and then the w.'s chief political editor. is here as well the w.'s at washington bureau chief alexandra fundament is where you'd expect to find her in washington welcome to you all let's start with you alexandra a phenomenon we saw in that report that mr trump at pains to to impress upon us what a great relationship they had very have between the that did they do did they get off to a better start today than their last meeting. i was in the oval doing the meeting between the german chancellor and the you asked president and i have to say that it was quite different in that what we saw last year during their first meeting in the oval office it was much friendly they seemed to be much relaxed talking to each other we just heard the u.s. president saying that it isn't on their to. the german chancellor and there was a very warm shake shake there were shaking hands for a couple of seconds but it was nothing awkward nothing strange a quiet nice atmosphere from my perspective what i

you know bards not too often in this business we get to end the week and i'm happy you know and this is a happy note these guys met nobody thought it was going to happen the way it's going to that it happened in the demilitarized zone each of them crossing over the president moon from the south korea crossing over briefly into north korea with kim jong un pulling his hand across and vice a versa it was supposedly completely unscripted he was just saying i hope to visit you one day in the north and conduct and said come on i'll take you to the north right now so it's just one of those things it's happier than we've heard it from coming from the korean peninsula in a very long time and as you mentioned nearly seventy years of war at least on paper between the north and south and now they're saying by the end of this year they're going to end that as well as the fact that we're looking at denuclearization and you know what a lot of people don't want to hear this a lot of people do but president trump did have his role in all of this here's a tweet from president trump himself i mean he

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brent: all right, i'm joined in the studio by a professor from political science at bard college in berlinin washington, our correspondent clare richardson is standing by. clare, your impression. how is this second meeting between trump and merkel? clare: as you say, it was in some ways a lot warmer than expected. we saw him welcome her with kisses on the cheek. it had been widely expected that this was going to be a stiff meeting, all business, no pleasure for chancellor angela merkel. her visit udc stands in stark contrast to what we saw this week with french president emmanuel macron. she is only here for 24 hours. after the press conference she will be going to the residence of the german ambassador and back on a plane to berlin before dinnertime. that really is a far lavish pomd circumstance that we saw earlier this week. they are really trying to show that there is some kind of working relationship that still exists. the two leaders were cordial. we heard her in the press conference say things that were in some ways quite deferential to trump, that ultimately he would be deciding som

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table by boris foreman he's an international relations analyst in a political science professor at bard college here in berlin and tonight in washington on the story for us our correspondent clear richardson to both of you welcome i would like for us to start with reaction from u.s. president trump today with the u.s. olympic and paralympic teams at the white hell's trunk connected the winter olympics in south korea with today's meeting of the two korean leaders take a look. it was saying that was in a possibility he said there were two alternatives let them have what they have or go to war and now we have a much better alternative than anybody thought even possible i'll be meeting with kim jong un in the coming weeks as we seek to denuclearize the north korean area and the entire korean peninsula hopefully the day will come when elliptic athletes can compete on a korean peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons and we're all koreans can live together and can share their dreams you know wonderful thing to do all right claire does the u.s. president does he deserve credit or part of the

five percent and for the latest let's cross over now to our man at the from food stock exchange only bards how's the market holding up half way through the day. that's holding up quite well considering what kind of stock market performances there were that went ahead especially on wall street here in frankfurt the docs is losing a little bit over one percent of basically all the major shares losing especially hard head high tech shares also the german ones they're losing much more in there and next almost two percent than the doc says with one point two percent at the moment and that's also because of trump's threats to our it's high tech companies and that fear that that sector could be affected is spreading here in germany as well trade war conflict fears also weighing heavily people fearing the president is looking at a break with the world trade system that would have severe consequences right and of course in the midst of all of this later today we will see a much anticipated i.p.o. music streaming service also if i will go public in new york what one does is know a good time for such

different worldviews going to work together why not talk with boris foreman political science professor bard college good morning boris will president mccall be able to walk away from this visit with any success. this is something we'll be able to judge pretty soon really because of two items on the agenda the iran deal as well as the tariffs are something that will be perhaps they start by trump a may first the may twelfth respectively so we'll see if among them a call had to have to mean pact on changing his opinion or not ok let's let's pick up with iran's two issues that will start with iran that has been a sticking point it sounds like from what we're hearing on that state dinner that president trump is bringing much wrong over his to his approach to rework the deal what do you think well perhaps it looks like that i think it's also a story of. it's a question of face saving measures trump won't be able to back down without any kind of damage to his political capital at home the congress elections are coming up so he has to maintain his stature as a strong leader but what i think mccall

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don't think present government who is taking the view that they think we should have a short term bard a poet and a short term you know you had the current irish prime minister saying he understood the certain statements by the nationalists being seen as disrespectful intrusive or interfering as he put it this was not our intention he said we have no hidden agenda have you ever met a politician didn't have a hidden agenda too many. can't deny it but i think you know in the circumstances of northern ireland where were they begin situations for fifteen months and i think that the primary issue for us to do now is a cool and had a position to try and get the institutions back up and running i think that's what both government. we do not think is what all the parties should be doing. and i think a cool lassitude like sinn fein's where you get the kind of rhetoric from gerry adams the full mission failed leaders and i believe the british government has no right to be an island never had any right to be an island and never will have any right to be and that's going back to the battle it is i

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let's discuss this with studio guests but his form is with these professor of political science at the bard college. dublin is chief political editor of the cook is here as well welcome both here in the studio d.w. college ball and play which is that is in washington well. let's start with you the chancellor president appear to have got off to a better start to day than when last they met things certainly do seem to have gone a little bit more smoothly than was expected we saw trumpet give chancellor merkel a kiss on each cheek and this was widely expected to be a very icy meeting especially when you compare it to what we saw from french president and mine on the visit earlier this week he of course got the three day state visit the first that trump has hosted as president and a lavish dinner rides and helicopters and miracles of eggs visit was expected to be much more sober to be very straight down to business and she's in the united states for less than twenty four hours on a trip that is going to certainly expose a lot of tensions between germany's policies and what donald trump wants to

you know bards not too often in this business we get to end the week and i'm happy you know and this is a happy note these guys met nobody thought it was going to happen the way it's going to that it happened in the demilitarized zone each of them crossing over the president moon from the south korea crossing over briefly into north korea with kim jong un pulling his hand across and vice a versa it was supposedly completely unscripted he was just saying i hope to visit you one day in the north and conduct and said come on i'll take you to the north right now so it's just one of those things that it's happier than we've heard it from coming from the korean peninsula in a very long time and as you mentioned nearly seventy years of war at least on paper between the north and south and now they're saying by the end of this year they're going to end that as well as the fact that we're looking at denuclearization and you know what a lot of people don't want to hear this a lot of people do but president trump did have his role in all of this here's a tweet from president trump himself i mea

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i asked larry bard this. they are hoping to have more pop with mccutchen and longoria. >> yeah.ccutchen has one hit. i think he is -- he is 1 for 16. >> yep. >> so obviously there's a saying in baseball, flip the baseball card over and eventually a guy does what his numbers say he will do. and obviously those guys are not, you know, guys that have batting averages in the zeros or 100s. their bats will come alive at one point. >> i was here when it was first open. in the days of get here early with your dad's glove and your scorecard. die hard baseball fans, some people would say this park is not home to that kind of fan. >> yeah. i think the giants did a great job here. number one, you had to be a baseball die hard to weather candlestick park. it was freezing cold out there. it was a miserable place to see baseball. you had to go out just because you loved baseball. if you look at the new stadiums being built in the last 20 years, it started in baltimore and now they have -- >> the rockies in the '90s. >> san diego in the gaslamp district. they have done it in cleveland. it has

to take it well now what porton doubt has said has not confirmed well the british foreign secretary bard johnson has said but it hasn't contradicted it they say that russia is the most likely source of know of each other because russia development of the chalk and clay chemical analysis is that this is not a charge but that by itself would never prove that russia was actually behind the attack that's another matter quite well the u.k. government insists that it does have evidence linking the nerve agent attack to russia with their credibility now being questioned why doesn't the government make such evidence public. well it's a very good question and i think very shortly he could get government will have to make public the intelligence it gave not to the leader of britain localization fati jeremy goldman but gave to the german chancellor the french president the american president and so on and it is certainly clue couldn't true that the language used by britain's foreign secretary or his johnson has fallen short of the language you would expect the senior diplomat of a country to use he

says the armed french officers entered their premises at the train station in the italian village of bard on a day to drug test and i jury and passenger on a train bound for paris italy summoned the french ambassador on saturday to protest french officials say they were following procedures laid down in the one nine hundred ninety agreement between the two countries. still to come here on the news for you both want to be president is sworn in and pledges to win the country off a dependence on. spurs make history against chelsea sent us all the details in sport in about twenty minutes. hello there it might be april but it's still snowing for many of us in north america if we look at the satellite picture we can see this area of clouds here and as that works its way eastwards it's bringing us quite a bit of snow particularly to the northeastern parts now that system is fairly short lived and as we head through monday it will be pulling away and there won't be any new snow around just the snow that's already on the ground however there's another weather system that's waiting in the wings tha

jo nesbo re—writes the bard. welcome.chool. in norway, we read henry gibson in school. my relationship was not so much to shakespeare, as it was to macbeth because i saw the movie by roman polanski when it was in my early teens. i was so fascinated by the story that i would actually go and get the written edition of the play in english at the age of 13 or 14, i didn't understand one sentence. the power of the story is so visceral, it is such an elemental story that it just draws you on. you are expressing there what the imagination does with this tale. for me, it was the first time that i had come across a story where you are sort of manipulated by the storyteller to sympathise with what seems to be the protagonist of the story and then suddenly, a few minutes later, you are caught on the wrong side, the dark side, and you are sort of forced into trying to understand and sympathise with the villain. you kept it in scotland. you start with a description of a drugs bust that goes wrong at the beginning. it strikes me that's

. >> qualcomm, if they have to do concessions, no offense to shakespeare -- they got the bard deal throughit's amazing how you get it all in there. >> let's get to rick santelli with a few quotes from shakespeare up his sleeve as well in chicago. >> how's it going, guys? if you look at this morning's number, we had our february read on the trade balance, which was a deficit which was 57.6 billion with a minus sign. the last time it was at this level, a long time ago, october of '08 that chart starts a couple months earlier to give you a context of where we stand. look at the two-day of two year note yields we're hovering at 2.30 and haven't closed 2.30 or higher since 21st of march they surmounted what had been home for 22 sessions, 2.80 if we look at the two day of bunds, traded darn close to 54 basis points we all know it's been hovering right at and slightly below 50 haven't had a 54 close since the 21st of march. let's look what's going on with the hyg. i've been paying a lot of attention to this high yield/jump on etf. but for a good reason. gives us a nice feel for the anxiety levels