. >> dortmund beat nathalie in the champions league midweek, but they lost their last two bundesligaches and need three points to keep in touch with the leaders. >> the chances that we will drop in and when by accident or not that they. there's just too much riding on the match. >> the bundesliga leaders have already shown dortmund how it is done. >> do not forget, you can find out more sports about the bundesliga at our website, at dw.de/sport. >> that's all from us for now, but there's more to come. do stay with us. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- watching live from paris from france 20 four. tough words from moscow after ukraine turns its back on brussels. russia is accused of bowling the the country.llying of killing aed soldier in broad daylight. we will have the latest in just a few moments. changing the way france cockles prostitution. the lawmakers debate a bill which would see clients being punished.

yesterday by ecuador's national court of justice between that country and chevron corporation.with us is nathalie cely, ecuador's ambassador to the united states.the environmental damage was done between 1964 and 1992 by texaco which is now owned by chevron. is your government's position that the courts have spoken - it's time for chevron to pay? > >this is a private litigation between chevron and the community of lago agrio---and we respect the verdict. the contamination is overwhelming and the court has spoken. > >chevron is fighting very aggressively in several international tribunals. they're filing a civil suit against the lawyers alleging that there is all kinds of acts of misconduct including fraud, extortion. here's the quote from the company...refering to the lower court ruling. is there corruption in ecuador's courts? > >this is very convenient now that chevron is telling about these allegations of corruption to the courts of ecuador. ten years ago, back in 1993 the request the litigation taken to ecuador. it was under their request. > >so you're saying that chevron chose the venue to h

nathalie is here.asure things in terms of rockettes. >>> damage casualties mounting as one of the most powerful storms hit the philippines. >> no one has seen anything like th this, the storm of the century. it slammed into the philippines today causing wide spread damage and disruption. no one has seen anything like this for a long time. it is probably the strongest storm ever recorded in asia. there are a number of storms around this region all the time. about a million people have been forced to leave their homes, a massive evacuation mission ahead of this super typhoon making landfall. thankfully because of that the death toll has been relatively low. there have been huge waves crashing into the coast line. many areas are still cut off. perhaps sadly the death toll may rise as some of the information comes in. the authorities here are saying that the storm will now be downgraded as it crosses the capital and then off towards china and vietnam. back to you, willie. >> we are just seeing the beginnin