belarus had taken a few steps toward opening to the west.hey see this as a giant step backwards. vladimir: we're not protesting against russia here, nor against the russians. we're protesting against our government. its irresponsible policies are dragging us into a military conflict and endangering our future. reporter: the russian defense ministry disagrees, saying zapad-2017 is an exercise by two allies in the interests of the security of both countries. alexander: this exercise is absolutely peaceful, and it's defensive in nature. we're not planning any intrusion into neighboring countries. reporter: experts take a different view. the current war games remind many of russia's last major exercises -- in 2014 on the frontier with ukraine. they ended with russia's unrecognized annexation of crimea. alexander golz: the crisis in ukraine began in february three years ago. back then, russia stationed its troops on the ukrainian border under the pretext of military exercises. bearing this precedent in mind, you can understand the anxiety felt by

going to see your clubs and volved in europe early action on thursday cologne face a body solve in belarus while hoffenheim course istanbul. nights colognes first european campaign in twenty five years and hoffenheim finest ever the both clubs have found out how unforgiving european football can be. cologne started the season with such optimism that back in europe after a twenty five year absence but now the smiles have disappeared domestically cologne have yet to find to shooting bullets they have picked up only one point in eight games. the signing of thirty nine year old cloud on a free was perhaps a cry of desperation in the europa league form hasn't been any better one goal in two games no wonder they have lost both their matches but they determined to make a breakthrough in belarus loose. doesn't that seem a feat for it's our goal to first win a game so that we can get that monkey off our backs and this is why shouldn't we pick up points just because we have none in the league doesn't name a flood of belarus and get destroyed and if something doesn't give coach the man that took colo

a hard-fought win in belarus on tuesday night. they are on a road to beating -- they had a tricky two qualifiers. they enjoyed the attention of the playoffs they had to endure to reach the finals. here is the french coach speaking. done: i feel like we have the job. of course, i am really happy for the players. they deserve it. i am happy for all of the staff. >> the most important thing was to get results and to reach our objective. now that it is done, we can work more serenely. >> it is going to be a beautiful world cup with great teams. on, we have time to work preparation for brazil. rochelle: from sport to business. out with a nafta renegotiation talks set to begin a bit later today. they are. the talks around the north american free trade agreement will take place this wednesday, as the u.s. and canada trade barbs over allegations from washington that the canadian government unfairly subsidizes certainly aircraft. the u.s. is warning of consequences if the deal gets tweaked too much. rebecca russman reports. rebecca: the mo

now, this video was posted by an agency of the government of belarus, that's the border with lithuania, and you can see that elk, they call it an elk in europe, we call it a moose. the agency of the government of belarus says this elk wasn't happy with the tax increase that was recently enacted, so it did this. they said it was so upset with the tax increase it decided to make its way to the e.u. or specifically lithuania. >> i'm willing to bet that not five minutes after the world's first tar-paved road was completed in the 18th century that a fight broke out between a cyclist and a driver and it's continued ever since. you can see this peloton of riders heading down the road, moving over to the right-hand side, and fortunately, before they do that, an idiot turns up. >> whoa, okay, there we go. >> oh, come on, man. >> like ridiculous. it's just -- this white car comes up on the left-hand side. i should tell you, this is australia where you should be overtaking the right-hand side, but decides to go for that gap not big enough for a bicycle and tries to slot right through it. >> did i

is of course completely untrue upon the completion of the drills the russian units returned from belarus to their permanent bases so that was completely unfounded but so far it looks like it's the u.s. troops that are there to stay. as far as the latest deployment of troops the pentagon's budget requests for operations in europe have also been steadily growing as you can see from this graph their request for next year is nearly eight times higher compared with what they spent last year civilian casualties from asked trying to in afghanistan are up by more than fifty percent compared with last year that's according to a report by the united nations assistance mission which also says many women and children are having to live in makeshift shelters more than two hundred sixty six thousand people from the thirty provinces in the country have left their homes due to the ongoing war. you know the. u.s. forces bombarded everyone including children men and women our houses have been destroyed and the children and women were wounded and killed there are no houses left. some homes by islamic state

it's returned from belarus to their permanent bases so that was completely unfounded but so far it looks like it's the us troops that are there to stay and. the million casualties from as strikes in afghanistan are up by more than fifty percent compared with last year according to a report by the united nations assistance mission which also says many women and children are having to live in makeshift shelters and more than two hundred sixty six thousand people from thirty provinces in the country have left their homes due to the ongoing war. you know the. us forces bombarded everyone including children men and women in our houses have been destroyed under the bombardment children and women were wounded and killed there are no houses left. some homes were burned by islamic state militants and others were hit by u.s. drone strikes like your own leaking telephone like what you're. going through or from the fight that is ongoing islamic state militants came and started the clash and they want to cause a head self then u.s. troops bombed the area so we left and came to the our houses were des

claim is of course completely untrue upon the completion of the drills the russian units return from belarus to their permanent bases so that was completely unfounded but so far it looks like it's the u.s. troops that are there to stay. besides the latest deployment of troops the pentagon's budget requests for operations in europe they've also been steadily growing as you can see from this chart their requests for next year that's roughly six times higher than compared with what this but last year. i was always north korea is generally russians who get blamed for alleged interference in u.s. domestic affairs but the insinuations are becoming increasingly elaborate now the global gaming sensation go is big name just one of the meddling tools that moscow used during the u.s. election. ok mine broke. it did it went far beyond facebook twitter you tube. the elaborate. supposedly rush website is part of the black movement. to intensify u.s. racial tensions but no attempt was made to explain just how. the u.s. election the claim was. targeting or highlighting something like this i think is breakin

is of course completely untrue upon the completion of the drills the russian units returned from belarus to their permanent bases so that was completely unfounded but so far it looks like it's the us troops that are there to stay and bring us up to speed on the situation as jock invader thanks a lot. the civilian casualties from asterix in afghanistan are up by more than fifty percent compared to last year that's according to reports by the united nations assistance mission but u.n. also says more than two hundred sixty six thousand people have been displaced since january with many women and children having to stay in makeshift shelters. you know the. u.s. forces bombarded everyone including children men and women in our houses have been destroyed and the children and women and children there are no houses left. some homes with the islamic state militants and others were hit by u.s. drone strikes like you only eat a little like watching. the drunks who were thrown the fight that is ongoing islamic state militants came and started the clashes they wanted to cause a head self and us troop

despite beating belarus they need to win theirfinal game despite beating belarus they need to win their to reach russia. that's it from me. but the bbc sport website has much more, including how bradford bulls won the first women's super league grand final. thank you so much. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. that's all from me. goodnight. hello. this is bbc news. the outer edge of hurricane nate has reached the us gulf coast. the hurricane is expected to make landfall in the coming hours. warnings are in place from new orleans to panama city in florida. it has caused devastation across the central americans. it has killed at least 25 people and caused heavy rain, landslides and floods. julia mcfarland has the report. last—minute scramble to the supermarket. food, supplies, fuel, anything that might be needed. new o rlea ns anything that might be needed. new orleans is not taking any chances, as citizens make their final preparations. curfews as citizens make their final preparations. cu rfews have as citizens make their final preparations. curfews have

they have to be belarus. as for france, looking good for them.ack to the top of the group and have everything in their own hands, because sweden have beaten luxembourg comfortably. today bulgaria stopped france qualifying for the world cup back in 1994, so there are nerves for this great france team, packed with talent, including lots of english premiership stars. and looking at another fixture, belgium, who premiership stars. and looking at anotherfixture, belgium, who top premiership stars. and looking at another fixture, belgium, who top of theirgroup, another fixture, belgium, who top of their group, they were losing to bosnia but are now leading them 4—3. and this is significant, because bosnia are currently second in that group and they were the lowest team in terms of points channel 4 teams like wales and scotland, who want to be finishing second, they need to make sure that they are one of the eight teams who go into the play—offs? yeah, one team which finishes second will miss out on the play—offs, and i the moment that tea m play—offs,

unseeded aleksandra sasnovich of belarus pulled off the shock of the tournament so far, beating the frenchf russia in the quarter—finals. and the second seed is also out. the american coco vandeweghe lost by 2 sets to one. tsurenko will meet germany'sjulia goerges in the last 8. when you're two of the world's greatest formula 1 drivers, there's bound to be some rivalry, even when you're team—mates. in the past few days, former champion jenson button has been speaking out about his strained relationship with lewis hamilton in his new book, describing the three time champion as "a bit weird". he's been discussing those comments with my colleague hugh woozencroft who began by asking him his memories of the day he won the world championship in 2009. i remember that day so fondly, to get out of the car and to see my father after winning the world championship, to give them that hard, so many emotions, so many things, so many memories up until that point of my career. the world championship is something that will never leave you. very emotional in that moment. very high adrenaline. the world cha

ended up as winners in group a, above sweden — they wrapped up qualifying with a 2—1 win at home to belarusrom antoine griezmann and olivier giroud. so european qualifying is over the teams in the left hand column are already through alongside england. it will be seeded with switzerland, portugal, denmark and croatia likely to be the seeds. the syrian national team have fallen short in their bid to reach the world cup. australia pipped them in their world cup play off. there were high hopes for syrian fans after the first leg ended level at 1—1 last week. in fact, the second leg finished with the same score and went to extra time but former everton midfielder tim cahill‘s second goal of the game gave australia a 3—2 win on aggregate. they must now play either panama or honduras for a place in russia. it was meant to happen and we deserved it. it was a tough game. we believed and we knew that it was going to go to the end. it is a great feeling to win because we have worked so hard to be where we are today. liverpool have been dealt a big blow with the news that a key player sadio mane could

will be there next year after alleviate euro and on greece mom scored and if you want victory over belarus european champions portugal also got through after andres so it was a go help c o two nil win over switzerland who now face a playoff to try to reach the world cup. there squires here now from the sports desk for more on this good morning he does however and let's start with the netherlands they've had a terrible campaign it was really unexpected that they crashed out yeah their campaign was as the dutch say that nader's and humiliating this is it's a as we as you just said three times runners up two time european champions and they can't seem to get their act together and european all world cup qualification the reason for this is the court that best ever plays they don't play anymore the open we see behind us there he's the last of the bunch and now he's gone after ninety six cats are the seven goals retiring it doesn't matter who coaches holland holland just don't have the players at a young level that it can bring in so i was going to be tough times ahead for the dots on the good

belarus but for turkey this is the first time or course like in nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's during the cuckoo years turkey had the same suspension is a suspension decision from other countries better they have been both allies they are both nato members so this is very distinct to actually turkey retaliated by retaliated back last night by. suspending sending the services to the foreign occupier to use the government governing parties spokesperson market and also that we respond to them on the same level by our embassy in washington because u.s. decision was released by the u.s. embassy in ankara right we are trying to be a call and you know call blathered so we want everything to be settled by diplomacy this is what he says but we are reading from the news reports and i also had some confirmation from a source as an anchor at that what triggered united states for taking out this the situation to suspend service is that right turkey arrested one of the employees in u.s. consulate he was a translator working for the american consulate in istanbul and he was accu

keep an eye on this security footage in belarus.e are casually walking on the sidewalk. >> he almost got 86'd. >> as he's walking up he looks up probably because he hears the slab of concrete that's about to fall on him and manages to run out of the way just in time to miss getting hit by it. >> i love everyone else's reaction which is literally just bust a 180 and continue on their day. no, don't need that anymore. >> i'll go this way. >> we don't see any more incidents fortunately in this viral video and everybody appears to be okay. over to brazil where this next video is taking place. you think mom's pots and pans are for cooking. no. they're not. they're for wearing as a hat, like this little boy thought. the little-year-old boy was stuck in what reports say is a pressure cooker. so they had an especially difficult time trying to get him out. you say they used some kind of tool to cut into this pot, and they used what looks like the jaws of life to pry it open. this little boy stayed calm the entire time. reports say he even fe

. >> france plays belarus in paris. argentina is playing ecuadoror n the ecuauadorian capital.t is a very important match for argentina because the two-time world cup winners could face a humiliating non-qualification for the russian world cup next year, if they do not win this match. the spanish sports paper are talking about it on their front page. football owes you a world cup, si, whiler say, to mes another paper calls it the last tango. the argentinian sports paper pressure, he under was confident and motivated ahead of the match. >> more serious story in france were greenpeace has released a truly frightening word about just how under protected french nuclear sites are. >> so serious they only released a little part of the report. a redacted one. because the focus is so serious. greenpeace work with -- worked with experts and the bottom line it is really bad, french nuclear sites are severely under protected from potential terrorist threats, in particular these things called cooling pools, for nuclear waste is stored. it is outside of the nuclear center. they say that bee

could be as high as eight fifty discuss the problem and the ministers blunt idea for tackling it with belarus quiney he's from the conservative think tank the bo group and on the other side of it was a rights campaigner someone but. you know everyone agrees that you know ice is bad and somebody's killing innocent people and all that kind of stuff is bad that's that's not the issue here issue is how do you know somebody who has gone there has gone there for the purposes of supporting the ruling classes and this so-called hateful ideology mr sharon and woefully unaware of the actual reasons the natural causes us to why people go out to isis it's not they're not you know advertising hey come over here and you know we can hate britain together with a whole propaganda message it's a false message but their whole propaganda message is you know you're not welcome in britain you know if you come here you'll be welcome here not only the practice should be to kill those people but that is the practice that has been in place for a long time these are people who pose a real threat not just to british peo

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on the heels of the zoppot drills which were conducted conducted in september between russia and belarus and they cause an uproar in international media lots of speculation that the new where is war being known turns nontransparent with speculation just swirling that the russian troops that came to dollars were actually there to stay. they're about to do an exercise in russia. it's going to up to one hundred thousand russian troops moving into into the country the great concern is they're not going to leave now that is of course not true upland the completion of the drills the russian units that were all returned to their permanent bases but so far it looks like it's the u.s. troops that are here to stay ok thanks for the update doc in vegas thanks for coming in. civilian casualties from strikes in afghanistan up by more than fifty percent compared to last year as according to a report by the united nations assistance mission but u.n. also says more than two hundred sixty six thousand people have been displaced since january with many women and children having to stay in makeshift shelte

in belarus colognes hopes for picking up their first win in any competition in eleven games were dashed when alexey rios found the back of the net in the second half worrying times at cologne. and forgo just a reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on the news britain's prime minister theresa may is pushing e.u. leaders to agree to a break sit deal that will help silence her critics at home may wants to move talks on to the u.k.'s future trading relationship with europe but the e.u. wants britain to improve its divorce settlement offer first. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin we have more for you at the top of the next hour and if i'm worn or stories a lot of you w dot com thanks for watching. you go offline. take football personally. i do it. this time we meet our role model. president. titan. and the brazilian. will tell us what it's like to be part of by our new neighborhood. next on t.w. . quadriga the international talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week when the right wing politics in europe has a new face sébastien cts one a

she beat peng shuai in straight sets at the tianjin open — she'll face arnya sabalenka of belarus for. nadal‘s resurgence continued with a straight—sets win over marin cilic. the world number one has now won 16 straight matches and is looking for a seventh title of the season. federer came from a set down to beat juan martin del potro. he has faced nadal three times this year, twice in finals, and the swiss has won on each occasion. england's matt wallace will take a two—shot lead into the final round of the italian open in monza. he sank some really impressive putts in a round of 67, to move to 17 under—par. he's just ahead of the defending champion, italy's francesco molinari, and another englishman, tyrrell hatton, who won the alfred dunhill links title last weekend. in motogp, yamaha'sjohann zarco claimed pole position at the japanese grand prix. with just one minute remaining in a wet session, zarco clocked the quickest time ahead of ducati's danilo petrucci. it's zarco's second pole in his debut motogp season. marc marquez — who leads the championship by 16 points — will also be

match france will be there next year after live a zero and one responds in a two one victory over belarus european champions portugal also got through after andre silvers goal help seal a two nil win over switzerland they now face a playoff to try to reach the world cup in june july. and esquire from our sports desk joins us now to talk more about the penultimate bout of world cup qualifying morning good morning let's start with the netherlands they've had a terrible campaign have yeah yeah i don't know about under the dutch word for embarrassing if i knew it i would probably use it they'd missed out again this is after missing out in the european championship in two thousand and sixteen why are they missing out now because their top players are no longer top play is the days of having good it from boston. playing to the dust as a team they've gone up in the last poll but now he's gone up and coming to us talent isn't good enough and i think it's a collective lack of self belief when they're playing they know they've been playing bad the last couple of years and they just have a feeling o

griese when each put the ball in the net in a two one victory over belarus european champions portugal also got through after andres silvers goal help seal it to know when it was switzerland so it's now face a play off to get in the netherlands didn't make it however even though our end rogan helped the dutch beat sweden sweden moved on because they finished higher in their group after the game robin announced his retirement from international football. there is a reminder top story. spain's prime minister mariano rajoy has told catalonia to return to the rule of law as the region pushes for independence in a speech to parliament he rejected the need for mediation over the crisis and dismissed kathlyn his palms to break away as a fairy tale. to cheer up to date off most of the top of the hour in the meantime of course there's always the website that state. of the day. cooley flossy he doesn't use christina does need powerful and influential women. if they were sued for success. with. him for you an example followed with have one. more thing and wouldn't have to commence to be successfu

arsenal—macro has made nine changes to the team winning in belarus. —— the arsenal manager. consistent now with our performances. the results are consistent with the performances and overall i am convinced the team is hungry, united and we show that in every single game and the fans are behind us. moeen ali said he is excited about playing in australia in the ashes series and he thinks they can win even without ben stokes. following the arrest of ben stokes. following the arrest of ben stokes last week after an incident in bristol, the ecb said he would not be considered for selection until further notice. meaning not be considered for selection untilfurther notice. meaning stokes might not travel to australia. we know how good a cricketer he is. and what he can bring to the table. he is one of the main players that we have. it would be great to have him out there. we will see what happens. iam out there. we will see what happens. i am looking forward to it. i played in australia in the world cup. the wickets are in australia in the world cup. the wickets a re really in aust

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shouldn't we pick up points just because we have none in the league doesn't mean we're a flight of belarus and get destroyed and if something doesn't give a coach the man that took cologne to the european competition after such a long wait could be on his way out. colona not the only german team struggling in the europa league it's hoffenheim every european campaign that. it was in need of a news i'll be back with you shortly with more news to stay with us because. he searched his home for a place to call. the jewish poet. he documented dong times laden traumas of the holocaust. his works challenge the reader. and moving piece of german history. the voice of humanity in forty five minutes on. every journey begins with the first step and every language of the first word i looked in the. germany. but it's just why not. it's simple online on euro mile and free. to suffer. a w z learning course a german made easy. progress there where they start to divide the country a huge deal where they start to divide the language blood will flow for cattle. ninety nine the soviet union to split part. of.

the dutch being held against belarus. they must win.alify automatically. that will be settled in the final round of matches. alex iwobi scored as nigeria beat zambia to become the first african side to seal a place at next year's tournament in russia. and ghana have asked fifa to consider replaying their qualifier against uganda. they have launched a protest over the performance of the referee after a 93rd minute goal was co ntroversially referee after a 93rd minute goal was controversially disallowed. there are 18 world cup qualifiers taking place across the globe on saturday. for all of these scores and news, head to the bbc‘s website. lewis hamilton says he's driving better than ever after taking his tent pole position in 16 races ahead of tomorrow's japanese grand prix. the championship leader broker track record several times to take his first pole position at the suzuka circuit. he was three tenths of a second quicker than his team—mate about bottas, penalised for a gearbox change. —— valtteri bottas. simona halep will become worl

you just look at the railway system the silk road railway goes from china through kazakhstan russia belarus poland germany and basically connects asia to europe so this is one big part of this whole equation and it's not just about connectivity when we're talking about it from a people point of view it's a about construction it's about infrastructure is about roads about railways it's about the maritime movement of goods and services it was making china the center of this whole trading basically it is a scheme and of course for themselves that makes a lot of sense now opportunities here we have a quick rundown of the five key opportunities that china is talking about in these areas it's policy coordination planning and supporting large scale infrastructure development projects facilities connectivity building facilities to enable connectivity along this bells and road route or routes i should say the trade in investment facilitates across border investments in the of course supply chain co-operation supply chain something we've been talking about lot north america when it comes to knock dow

>> there are exercises we have seen recently, 60-70,000 troops engaging between russia and belarus. we need to be concerned about that. we cannot trust putin any further than we can throw him. rush is not our friend. we should be concerned about that. our friends and allies in eastern europe are terrified of what can happen. our friends in the ukraine always remain concerned about what putin might be next. will it go beyond crimea? is overt activities like the military exercises or whether it is through cyber attack. whether it is through assassination that have been traced through russia. there is a lot going on and it has not been in the spotlight because of afghanistan and north korea. >> are we doing enough? >> we need to provide them with providedid and we have the ukrainians. i have supported this. i have a measure in the tenant which would provide for the legal aid, legal assistance to ukraine. i think that is very in order. it is wonderful weekend been it is it is wonderful -- wonderful we can send help to ukraine but they need that legal aid. russia will not get that messag

she plays world number 102 aryna sabalenka of belarus at the tianjin open later today.of five birdies yesterday. he's 17 under, two shots ahead of fellow englishman tyrrell hatton and the defending champion, italy's francesco molinari. he isa he is a man you know very well, wasn't he? we are a member at the same course in hertfordshire and he isa same course in hertfordshire and he is a lovely guy. he is brilliant. he is a lovely guy. he is brilliant. he is something big, isn't he? he won the portuguese or —— the portuguese open earlier this year. and the whole club is behind him. fingers crossed. ranked 150th to now lead. will the nerves get to him? imagine waking up to those nerves? he has got a level head. good luck to him. bally fan? this might change your mind. —— ballet. many people think of the royal ballet as plush chandeliers and all of it posh. for the first time, the ballet company has swapped its usual home for a disused warehouse in south—east london. so that audiences can get up close and personal to the performance. an unusually intimate view of world —cl

a draw for sweden and defeat for france at home to belarus, that would put the french into the play—offsezmann. portugal need to beat switzerland if they are to take top spot in their group. the swiss have nine wins from nine in qualifying. that game is still scoreless. bernardo silva has just had a good chance well saved for portugal. the syrian national team fell short in their bid to reach russia. australia won their world cup play—off. there were high hopes for the syrian fans after their first leg ended level. the second leg finished i—i. leg ended level. the second leg finished 1—1. it went to extra time. former everton striker tim cahill‘s second goal the game gave australia a win. they must now play either panama or honduras for a place in russia. that was meant to happen and we deserved it. it was a tough game. but we believed and we knew it was going to go to the end. it is a great feeling to win. we have worked so great feeling to win. we have worked so hard to be where we are. liverpool fans will not be happy. they have been dealt a big blow with the news that sadio mane coul

she beat peng shuai in straight sets at the tianjin open — and will face arnya sabalenka of belarus forts win over marin cilic. the world number one has now won 16 straight matches and is looking for his seventh title of the season. that's all your sport by now. i will be back with sports day at half past six. coming up next for viewers on bbc one is the latest news with kate silverton. good afternoon. a canadian man kidnapped with his pregnant wife in afghanistan has been giving distressing details of the five years they spent in captivity. distressing details of the five joshua boyle and his wife were released earlier this week after being held hostage by islamic militants linked to the taliban. mr boyle told reporters his wife caitlin had been raped, that she had given birth to four children in captivity — one of whom he said, a baby girl, had been murdered. john mcmanus reports. a baby girl, had been murdered. afghanistan. a baby girl, had been murdered. outside a baby girl, had been murdered. the capital many | the outside the capital many parts of the country remain in the grip of