that it wasn't much to do with brics it really that that is also another issue that has come up mr polman has not really been. vocal fan of the hard brics that issue that has been talked a lot in the past few months richelle it's undergoing a life for us in london sonia thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera. we will not allow land grabs we will not allow a land invasion is of our friend south africa president as australia offers to help never publix a white farmers in nigeria promises in a military offensive to find one hundred ten missing schoolgirls. from flowing the island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello and welcome to international weather forecast the weather across europe splits nicely into three cold and snow across eastern areas fine across central areas and then low pressure across the west and so we've got heavy rain associated with this frontal system across western parts of europe mild air pushing in with that mind temperatures well into double figures although we have got snow across the alps those central areas looking fine snow there across parts of ukraine and i

president in a generation and now he has the right to remain in office indefinitely that's after china's polman passed a constitutional amendment scrapping the presidential term limit the presidency had previously been limited to two five year terms. if chinese politics is dominated by one party that is no even more firmly in the grip of one man president xi jinping. the new rules will allow him to govern until he dies even enshrining his philosophy and the constitution despite close scrutiny of the ballot papers it was a day more of formalities than surprises. and the end just who people had the nerve to disagree. outside the great hall of the people not a flutter of dissent. removing the limit on the tams of the presidency will allow the continuity of our policies and provide strong political support for the realisation of our great nation i think it's great. the changes have revived memories of mao zedong whose leadership was marred by bloodshed after mar rules were drafted to prevent a repeat analysts say these reforms undo those safeguards. it is quite obvious a step backwards and i do bel

wednesday and then she's off to the german president he nominates have formally and she's back to polman where she gets sworn in so it looks like it is a done deal after all but can this coalition last for the next four years is it on solid ground where both sides say they're in it for four years i should point out though the coalition agreement has a new mechanism also to two years both sides will have a major review of the coalition agreement so that is an opportunity if it's politically opportune for either side to say we've had enough let's go back to the voters. having said that i think there's a fair chance they will survive for the next four years simply because the outgoing government is the incoming government they've been working with each other for a number of years they trust each other there are personal relationships involved there the difference of course is that both sides both chancellor merkel's conservatives and the center left social democrats lost a lot of support at the last election so they're both looking to score victories some in the conservatives are lurching t

he's already firm grip on power she jinping can now rule the country indefinitely after the chinese polman to proves a constitutional amendment scrapping presidential term limits we'll have analysis of that move for you from our correspondent in beijing. also on the program in front of the far right fall nasir nodded concerts ties with founder of pan abolishing his onery presidency his daughter made up mother independent propose.

earlier, our business editor, simonjack, spoke to the ceo of unilever, paul polman. and obviously create longer—term shareholder value, or continue to create that value. we have announced that we would move to three divisions, two of them located here in the uk, which is the beauty and personal care division and the home care division, which is about 60% of our business and fastest—growing. that secures about £1 billion per year in spending. the second decision we have made is to simplify our legal structure. instead of having two legal structures, we are simplifying that in one legal structure in the netherlands, and that will allow us again once more to run our business a bit faster and more efficiently. sweden's h&m, the words second—largest clothes retailer behind zara owner inditex, has reported flat sales for the first quarter of its financial year despite an increase in store numbers compared to last year. the swedish retailer recorded £4.06 billion of sales, excluding vat, during the three months to 28 february, compared to sales of £4.13 billion last year. l

the german security services and the intelligence community and what the government is telling the polman and we've seen that there might be another country behind that attack and this is definitely something we need to know as members of our you convince that it is russia that is behind this cyber attack no i'm not convinced because i don't i want to see facts and i've talked to to many security experts and we know it's quiet delegates to to locate the origin of an attack and to really understand who is behind it because we know that intelligence services are very good in faking some of the. tracks yeah. that's the case and that means you have to be just as good if not better when it comes to finding out who launched it and how to defend your. so there's been a lot of criticism that german the german government is not up to snuff when it comes to defending itself against cyber attackers is that the case had been sleeping at the wheel no i don't think so i mean we learned over the last years the areas where we need to improve and if we have a new government over the weekend i know that we

government agreement has been signed on wednesday morning polman convenes there is a vote. needs to secure what's called the chancellor's majority there is something like seven hundred nine members of parliament so she needs i think three hundred fifty five yes votes the conservatives and the social democrats got to have three hundred ninety nine so it should be a formality then she goes to the president gets nominated comes back and is sworn in so still a couple of steps to fulfill before dealing has a new government because if it's bringing it up political correspondent thank you very much you've been watching do you do you news coming to you live from berlin and we're going to have more news feed coming up in half an hour i look forward to seeing you then life in our. it's time to celebrate the world premiere of the new audi in six it couldn't be more luxurious. now we're rolling. b.m.w. x two stones with a new look a fuss over that's part true first s.u.v. . the top stories followed across social media share comments and content welcome to the. germany is a strong count

resourced well the british side in the negotiations is disorganized not transparent doesn't involve its polman in the decision making so overall the european union as a result or through the brics negotiations we better understand what the european union can do now than we did at the time of the referendum so we had to flee heard from john lots of good reasons for people to stand within the european union how many people in britain at the moment are feeling very unsure and they are uncertain but greg said what do you say to that. well you have that the decision the decision making process is over there was a decision the decision was press it and now keep on going and i think what we should stop doing from from the european union side and germany is still part of that is stop trying to keep the u.k. and not this let's go for a very good free trade deal which is in in our interest and in the interests of the u.k. is and i'll both interests we should stop talking about politics about ideology about you know living seas and all this kind of stuff we should be interested to have a free trade deal

students in helsinki university he had delivered an address and that he had been speaking to various polman terry and we don't know exactly how he came from finland into germany but as i said it is assumed that the most likely route would have been for him to have crossed the baltic sea on the col ferry and then travelled by denmark straight across the border into germany where he was arrested several hundred kilometers across the border. all right thanks very much allan with all the latest from berlin and as you've been reporting the tensions have been rising some wants a boss alone where we have seen so forces of. crowds clashing with police there as they want to make their opposition to push to months arrest known this is he faces possible extradition to spain on charges of rebellion still continue to follow the situation there. in syria hundreds more rebel fighters and civilians have been evacuated from eastern guta government forces a close to controlling all of what had been the last rebel stronghold need to mask this after a month long offensive just one group jaish al islam is holdi

now he was actually in finland giving a speech at the university of helsinki and may sing various polman tarion stay in finland he had of course been based in belgium for his self-imposed exile since his self-imposed exile from spain and it's believed that he was making his way back to belgium of course germany is on the way if you if you take the road route he was booked on a flight from finland to belgium on saturday afternoon but off to the authorities in spain arrest warrant he didn't take that flight the assumption was that authorities would be waiting for him at the other end so instead we believe that he has taken a cough ferry across the baltic sea into denmark and then crossing the border to germany where he was not very far inside the border just a matter of one hundred kilometers a wall when he was arrested at the side of a road at or at a rest stop we understand all right well thank you very much an account of bringing us all the latest from but. now to syria where hundreds more rebel fighters and civilians have been evacuated from eastern guta government forces are close to

and again you're watching al-jazeera is a reminder of our top stories china's polman says votes to remove term limits for the president and vice president to change the constitution paves the way for seats in the paying tremaine and office beyond twenty twenty three it is until now restricted to a maximum of two five yet its. kurdish forces in syria have announced they're mobilizing a human shield resistance around a frame as tuchis and three syrian army troops approached the town bus loads of people of believed to be on the way to a free. and saying syrian government on russian gas trucks have killed forty people on sas then injured dozens more in rebel held eastern groups are women and children are amongst the latest victims of the offensive to take the last remaining rebel stronghold that syria's capital. how the founder of france's far right national front has lost his last remaining position losses daughter marine le pen has been re-elected as lead up the move comes at a crucial time for le pen she had to broaden the party's appeal joe marie le pen was expelled into thought to that.

paul polman said that it was really more to do with the streamlining of the company to make it more focused more efficient and that it was simply the corporate of that would be rebalanced over to. that the majority of those seven thousand three hundred jobs that are based in this country would remain here he also went on to say that the company has invested in manufacturing and research here in this in this country that it wouldn't do so if it had been thinking about sort of pulling out all together so really looking at some more of that streamlining effect having it and more to do with the legal headquarters being based out of holland thereby instead of making it a jewel headed company just making a single entity in that respect but it may have something to do with the fact that over the twelve year review it did have a hostile takeover bid from the u.s. food giant croft times trying to make a bid for that that was unsuccessful but if it continues to remain in the u.k. the u.k. has loosened rules surrounding that making it easier for such corporate takeovers to happen where is in the nethe

earlier, our business editor, simonjack, spoke to the ceo of unilever, paul polman.older value, or continue to create that value. we have announced that we would move to three divisions, two of them located here in the uk, which is the beauty and personal care division and the home care division, which is about 60% of our business and fastest—growing. that secures about £1 billion per year in spending. the second decision we have made is to simplify our legal structure. instead of having two legal structures, we are simplifying that in one legal structure in the netherlands, and that will allow us again once more to run our business a bit faster and more efficiently. russia will expel uk diplomats soon, its foreign minister has said, in response to the expulsion of 23 of its diplomats by britain. sergei lavrov told russian media the expulsions would definitely happen. the uk took its action after moscow refused to explain how a russian—made nerve agent was used on a former spy and his daughter in the uk. i'm joined by chris wheafer, senior partner at a macro—advisory

and state polman is actually. nowhere in the government yet we have to stress that and i don't see. a time soon but you never know on the state level just we don't know but anyway they they will be and this that we will we will. you know will hunt them will hunt them as i think out on the party leader who will hunt them exactly this is what they said and this is what all of this see their old to the os the tough questions which in a way is good in a democracy to a degree i mean they are very populist and they will ask the populace that question and the government will have to answer or hundred of course be very important in the field of migration and then we see a very substantial change ok we're going to talk more about this we're getting these live pictures from the underside of the voting has just ended we're going to the bundestag right now and our correspondent there michelle acuff they're looking at the chancellor right now and binder results on the line the defense minister theirs will functionally like and let's bring in michelle acuff there at the bundestag if we couldn't a

editor got a bit more detailfrom helpful our business editor got a bit more detail from the ceo paul polmanee divisions, two of them here located in the uk, which is the beauty and personal ca re which is the beauty and personal care division and the home care division which is about 60% of our business and fastest—growing, that secures about £1 billion a year. the second decision we've made is instead of having two legal strictures, we are now having one legal structure in the netherlands and that will allow us again once more to run our business little bit faster and more efficiently. in the us, the senate passing a bill to roll back banking regulations. yes, we are referring to the. f act of 2010, put in place in the obama administration to prevent any crisis happening again, and it beefed up the controls and checks and balances the controls and checks and balances the banks had to undergo in the us. trump made a campaign promise to repeal the bill, calling it a disaster and has made good on his promise. somebody who knows more on thatis promise. somebody who knows more on that is here.