i'm sara harmon welcome to the show it's good to have you with us major power. ours in the syria conflict say they'll hold peace talks in the russian resort of sochi at the end of next month russia turkey and iran so the meeting will involve both rubbles and the government damascus has confirmed it will attend but the opposition hasn't confirmed yet of the u.n. special envoy for syria staffan de mistura so the initiative would be assessed on the contribution it made to the mandated political process by the united nations in geneva and that as rights groups warn of a fresh humanitarian crisis in syria human rights watch says the government and russian forces have been pounding rebel forces near the capital damascus among the worst hit areas eastern gaga the group has released these pictures showing the attacks it says have killed dozens of civilians. over russia's sports minister says the country will host an alternative competition following its ban from february's winter olympics in south korea suspension came after the international olympic committee found evi

i'm sara harmon welcome to the show it's good to have you with us. investigators say the suspicious package that was found at a pharmacy in the german city of pasto on friday was not about terrorism but in fact blackmail investigators say whoever sent this package was demanding money from d.h.l. a german delivery company. a hissing sound that nothing but it was a close call and punched him on friday when employees at a pharmacy opened a package found in their store the device inside was much more dangerous than investigators originally thought guns didn't apparently the blackmailer or the blackmailers didn't mind risking injuries or even death of those who received the packages. the two to beleaguered and in cold. the target the delivery firm d.h.l. included in the package was a blackmail letter embedded as a q.r. code. info to whoever sent the package demanded a large sum of money if you didn't get paid he said he would send more packages. a similar package was found in early november in another city and brandenburg investigators believe the suspect

news live from berlin more from ariana abstain at the top of the hour for now i'm sara harmon in berlinthanks for watching i'll see you soon take care. of that. human rights day. d.w. . more with. our guest today is more a tory bagger former spokesman for the german green party's youth organization welcome to the d.w. interviewer. hello. mr harborough tell us why you joined the green party. i decided to join when i was seventeen or eighteen i was finishing school i was interested in politics and looked at different parties the greens were closest to what i was looking for. a party that thinks beyond this national borders and focuses on things beyond its own well being. the greens don't see politics simply as a parliamentary work. they're prepared to go out and campaign for their beliefs and not just at election time. danny green role models. not so much people the greens had a lower profile back then around two thousand and five to two thousand and ten but at that time i was reading a lot of stuff that was critical of globalisation which i also read about ecology and things like that an

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i'm sara harmon welcome to the show and thanks for joining us. aid workers in syria have begun evacuating twenty nine critically ill people from a besieged rebel town held in eastern guta evacuations were agreed as part of a deal. between the syrian government and rebels government troops have besieged eastern good us for more than four years u.n. has drawn up a list of at least five hundred people including children with cancer who need to be evacuated from the south part of francesco is the president of the international federation of the red cross earlier he told us more about those being a back he waited as part of the state. run with him yeah a concert or consequences of all of the coffee in their ads and she is well. we're very gritty some of them are. very some wide i was released over twenty nine and i there were very very urgent we did the last thing that we could access to that was that you can go on over there but only for. food for seven thousand people which was not enough when you are are facing about four hundred thousand people st

i'm sara harmon welcome to the show thanks for joining us arab league foreign ministers have demanded that the unite. states reverse president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and that decision has sparked violent protests not just in israel and palestinian territories but in other countries as well and lovenox security forces have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters near the u.s. embassy in beirut addressing crowds the head of lovenox communist party declared the us to be the enemy of palestine. president trump a said he was only recognizing reality despite warnings this move could jeopardize the middle east peace process. as another dawn breaks on jerusalem more israeli police. they fear the protests palestinians here enraged by the u.s. decision to recognize this contested city as israel's capital. the anger has echoed through the arab world as an emergency meeting in egypt on saturday arab leaders the u.s. to abandon the move saying it was a violation of international law no no no for commercial overhead but in this l.m. we call on all o

i'm sara harmon welcome to the show it's good to have you with us. kremlin critic alexina volney is urging russians to boycott next year's presidential vote this comes as the country's election commission board not only from running against vladimir putin of all these presidential bid was unanimously rejected by a vote of twelve to zero the commission said his conviction in a fraud case a conviction that was widely seen as retribution for is anti corruption campaigning makes him eligible he's been considering excuse me he's been considered. the most serious challenger to putin's bid for a fourth term in office. just moments after the election commission's decision to reject his presidential bid vuln a release to message criticizing the decision take a listen when we announce a boycott of the election and. the way they want to carry out the vote is not a real election it will feature only putin and the candidates he has personally selected the ones who don't pose any threat to him they haven't campaigned and they will not campaign is better to move th

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welcome to the show my name sara harmon thanks for joining us russian president vladimir putin is on another six year term in office and now he has been formally endorsed to participate in next year's vote for his fourth term for in society to run as an independent to make the most of his personal popularity amongst russians one of the six hundred supporters including prominent lawmakers and actors gathered in moscow for the endorsement their support allows putin to take part in the march election as an independent candidate. these young russians came to see the kremlin new year's tree but were treated to a surprise appearance by vladimir putin. one of the children had the courage to ask the president how he feels about the opposition. i got that as you know which is. positively. good old country by. the opposition has little chance of victory after the country's election commission barred alexina volley from taking part in the vote. the opposition leader is considered the biggest potential threat to putin and he has called for a boycott of the election. but there's still plenty of s

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i'm sara harmon welcome to the program it's good to have you with us russian president vladimir putin is eyeing another six year term in office and now he's been formally endorsed to participate in next year's vote for his fourth term food and decided to run as an independent to make the most of his personal popularity amongst russians more than six hundred supporters including prominent lawmakers and actors have gathered in moscow for the endorsement their support allows putin to submit documents to take part in the march alexion as an independent. these russians coming to catch a glimpse of the kremlin new year's tree are too young to vote but they're a good photo op for vladimir putin. and one of them had the courage to ask the president how he feels about the opposition. i got that this is not what it was positively. that i will have to hide. the opposition has little chance of victory after the country's election commission barred alexina volley from taking part in the vote. the opposition leader is considered the biggest potential threat to putin and he has called for a boycott

negotiations can now enter their next phase but the hardest part of this break up is likely to come i'm sara harmon in berlin and this is the day. sufficient progress as you know be very strict terms of evil. getting to this point has required give and take on both sides the whole things that you really are you sure it's a significant step forward i very much welcome the prospect of moving ahead to the next phase this is the point we had hoped to get to two months ago so much time has been devoted to that easy it. over the top let me be clear. we still have to look if we're. also coming up on the day accused of terrorism and thrown in a turkish jail tonight we speak to the german shimmered rights activists at the center of a diplomatic crisis between berlin and peter storrie and an exclusive interview that's coming up later on the day but first it's been called a breakthrough but is it really the european union and britain say they have reached an agreement on brocks that will allow them to progress to the next round of talks for his prime minister tourism and european commission president said the

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welcome to the show i'm sara harmon it's good to have you with us we begin with some breaking news authorities in new york have just held a press conference after an explosion at new york city's port authority building one suspect has been taken into custody new york mayor bill de blasio said that authorities knew of no more credible or specific threats to new york now this incident occurred during the morning rush hour at the intersection of forty second street and eighth avenue not far away from times square for people suffered minor injuries. of the area by police and other first responders immediately followed the blast appears mayor de blasio speaking at a press conference just moments ago. and let's be also clear this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did not she is ultimate goals. thank god our first responders were there so quickly. are u.s. correspondent carson vaughn naaman carson you've been following this incident the mayor just called it an attempted terror attack but not a very successful want to sounds like what more can you tell us. yes thank god not

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