busy and that action is my guest this week here in strasburg is johann pashto a vice president of the european parliament and a former defense minister of romania can the e.u. he'll its divisions and start living up to the values it claims to hold so dear.

on reporting for us from strasburg thank you max. now the world's last mail northern white rhino named sudan has died in a kenyan conservatory caretakers made the decision to euthanize him after his health deteriorated sudan's genetic material has been collected in the hope the future technology could potentially revive the species only two females remain the life of a northern white rhino can be a lonely one sedan the last remaining male of the species has died aged forty five intensive poaching has significantly reduced numbers scientists even turned to dating apps for sudan in an attempt to raise awareness and enough money to pay for an one million dollars for tele t. treatment. on the kenyan conservationists looking after sudan led the tributes only a couple of weeks ago they spoke of their hope as he tried to recover from an infected leg seven days ago we thought that we knew would make that decision. because then one morning he could not be complete he was unable to christ. that was seven days ago but then after some medication

it's up there with france so you need that and that's the that's the main message coming out of strasburg today all right of course not knox hoffman in fact we've also been speaking to our chief political editor michelle a cliff there who's been standing by for us in the bundestag michelle i thank you and also to our guest here with us in our studio you know has a from to give you politics and then as i'm a journalist and author thank you both for your analysis. and a reminder of the story that we've been covering you've been watching our special coverage as i let michael start her fourth term as chancellor she was sworn into office or short while ago taking the office for oath of office rather from the inside president. in front of germany's lower parliament this follows her reelection earlier today she needed a majority of three hundred fifty five votes to win came away with three hundred sixty four out of six eighty eight votes cast. thanks for watching. a good. book. from fairy tales. to mayor challenged history. in northwestern germany is full of stories. nicole flinch discovers what

their right to liberty and security and our very own a maxell hofmann has more from the court to strasburg you can't really get much higher than the european court of human rights in europe at least because this is the guardian of democracy and human rights for the whole continent not only for the european union and they highlighted again the situation in turkey and let me let me explain that again because you really have to savor that the constitutional court in turkey which is the highest court in turkey ruled that those two journalists should be released then a lower court said no we're just not going to do that so you can't really be much more outside the rule of law than in this case and of course this was an easy verdict for the european court of human rights this it here this is not in agreement with article five the right to liberty and security and also it is a violation of article ten the freedom of expression so they basically followed the constitutional court of turkey here and this of course is significant. max hoffman there reporting from stroudsburg well with a threat of a t

busy and anxious my guest this week here in strasburg is johan pashto a vice president of the european parliament and the former defense minister of romania can the e.u. heal its divisions and stop.

busy and anxious my guest this week here in strasburg is johan pashto a vice president of the european parliament and the former defense minister of romania can the e.u. heal its divisions and start living up to the values it claims to hold so dear.

this week here in the strasburg is yellow caution a vice president of the european parliament and the former defense minister of romania. felix multiple divisions. in sixty minutes go for. climate change. waste. pollution. isn't it time for good news eco africa people and projects that are changing no one far meant for the better it's up to us to make a difference let's inspire shut. to let it come to environment magazine. long d.w. . storm so that people world over information provided. the fans they want to express d.w. on facebook and twitter and up to date in touch follow us. hope. welcome to focus on europe i'm michelle henery thanks for joining us after defecting to the west a former russian double agent is found poisoned on a park bench in england this isn't the plot to aspiring movie.

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busy and actions my guest this week here in strasburg is johan pascoe a vice president of the european parliament and a former defense minister of romania can the e.u. he'll its divisions and start living up to the values it claims to hold so dear.

busy and actions my guest this week here in strasburg is johan pashto a vice president of the european parliament and a former defense minister of romania can the e.u. he'll its divisions and start living up to the values it claims to hold so dear. to your own past who welcome to comfort zone thank you very much the e.u. spends a lot of time talking about human rights how come it does so little to uphold the well you know it's a question of value of a club. they were you know posted at the entrance door whoever wanted to become a member of the club would have to abide by them but they don't. they don't think i would agree with you shelly say the attractiveness of the european union has been affected by the crisis by conflicts around and today there is not so much enthusiasm as it used to be in late ninety's the beginning of the two thousand but you. trumpet human rights and everything that said in all the documents and you lie think pull down you let people down consider this just give you an example last june greece was able to block a european union statement at the un that would hav

busy and banksias my guest this week here in strasburg is you know i'm a vice president of the european parliament and a former defense minister of romania and the e.u. he admits divisions and stop.

next hoffman for us in strasburg that's good to talk to you you're watching news still to come the world the last male northern white rhino has died leaving just two females behind is the species doomed to extinction. but first chinese president xi jinping has called for his country to take its due place in the world and vowed to fight a bloody battle against its enemies speaking at the people's congress in beijing unveiled sweeping reforms aimed at positioning china as the new world leader at the top of the agenda strengthening the military and the economy this comes after the communist party removed presidential term limits allowing shia to remain in power indefinitely now the president also issued a stark warning to taiwan discouraging the island against pursuing independence from mainland china let's listen to what he had to say. on the one it is our shared aspiration to safeguard china's sovereignty. territorial integrity and to holy reunify our nation. any attempts or tricks to split china are doomed to fail and will be met with condemnation and the punishment of history. oh sure.

this is what it looked like along route 33 near the strasburg exit earlier this afternoon. >> from monroe lie valley, that's where nbc 10's steven fisher has been all day long. he is joining us now in easton. and the snow has stopped finally, steven. >> reporter: yeah, jim, for the first time i'm talking to you guys, there is no snow falling on me. it's a pretty good feeling. you recall this morning we were in bucks county. now in northampton county. everywhere we went, it was snowing all day. now i know a lot of people stayed inside today. but people in quakertown actually use the snow day as an opportunity to hit up one of their favorite places in town. on a snowy day in quakertown, people stop by signs 5 and 10 to step out of the cold and into the past. >> back the day, everything was 5 and 10 cents, basically. >> reporter: the prices may have changed over the years, but little else has. >> thank you. >> the building itself hasn't changed since '56. >> reporter: it's a one-stop shop with a one-man show on the grill. >> like today i'm busier than i thought. >> i didn't know if they were

blame our own governments here but do you think one element of that then was lobbying in brussels in strasburg and that some are lobbying all over the place yes absolutely and lobbying here in brussels all of the food lobby is very powerful but wouldn't you say that all of this started then from the major years the blair years of this trying to copy a commercial environment within the n.h.s. well it's a very commercial idea to get inspectors from head office look at the world we need to get rid of the tent need all the swarms of inspectors i mean a professional is an organization which should look after itself and police itself you see and in fact you see doctors much better at policing themselves than people coming out coming in from outside who don't know really think about the subject say that but also as we began the royal colleges are saying it's never been as bad as it is fundamentally do you not think the problem with the whole of sustainability is the fact that we fund the n.h.s. and how as a percentage of g.d.p. that the united states doesn't way lower than germany or fraud well it's

the strasburg's became the parents marilyn never ham. you are. wilder faced another challenge how would he bring josephine and daphne to life how would he make women out of the two male leads tony curtis and jack lemmon tony curtis the athletic handsome young man from brooklyn displayed a convincing feeling for sexual ambiguity i once had a man anymore i was maybe more of a girl i could behave like when i saw how people treated me pull their chairs out jacket and i on the set we would be waiting to work we loved it and there's joey brown waving at us. and flowers come. you know it was. really suck it we got suckered into it you know who we were strong men but all of a sudden. you know it it became a double standard for us for jack and for me when we got tony and i what we thought were the right make ups deli said ok says now we were on the samuel goldwyn lot where we shop he said go to the ladies room we said what he said you go to the ladies are never going to find out whether this box or that he says a quote of the ladies were mysteriously. rig

language i did have reservations about coming because i left the frankfurt via brussels to come and strasburg to to come. moscow our last thursday and i did have reservations but i was made very very welcome and i said i don't want to comment on the screen case because i just don't know and i found that everybody that was just asking for about a stark image was it was attacked but i just found everybody so very very friendly i went to many polling stations there were lots of international observers there and who knows what goes on behind the scenes but there was one particular media i think we sort of facebook of can't remember where so-called extra ballot papers were being pushed into a ballot box now i would just say that only ten percent of ballot boxes or manual crossin who you're going to vote for the majority which is ninety percent are actually electronic and i watched the electronic process which is very smooth and verification of people showing their passports get through so it's only ten percent of paper ballots and they are monitored so i don't know where that about screen shot cam

thanks thanks so much to you there in strasburg and to run out because of the greens as well thanks very much to both of you write out let it go for saying there of the lord gives you an office he's going to give you the wisdom tooth to fill all of its obligations as well we're looking at the foreign policy challenges coming from as you go from mention there russia the u.s. and china you also mention a man we've been talking about michael mast what do you think is this the best possible coalition rhyno it to go for want of the jamaica coalition including his party the free democrats they've been rejuvenated under lender is this the best possible coalition for germany looking at the alternative which would have been the free democrats in the greens when it comes to europe it's the best thing that you can get because there's broad agreement between those of democrats and the christian democrats to support the european project. we have to see what it means when it comes to the details and it will not go goes to ransom for on friday what the real signal will be i would be very much surprised

he addressed the european parliament today in strasburg. as the clock ticks down, it is now time to translate .peeches into treaties eu leaders will publish the bloc's position on the future relationship that some planned for this month. earlier this month, prime minister may outline her vision for life after the u.k. leaves the eu. florida prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against school shooting suspect nikolas cruz in the massacre of 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school. the 19-year-old will be arraigned tomorrow. his attorneys said he will plead guilty if the death penalty was not pursued in last months shooting. thousands of pairs of shoes were lined up in front of the capitol washington. the issues represent children killed by gun violence in the u.s. since of the sandy hook school shooting in 2012. the shoes were donated from across the country and arranged this morning. news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. scar

the european council and commission give brexit statements to the parliament in strasburg, formerly ofow of france. and donald trump makes his first trip to california as president. we will see how that state welcomes him. , as we haveup today been teasing all day, my interview with the volkswagen executive ceo matthias mueller, as well as the cfo. we will talk to them about diesel, we will talk to them about trump and tariffs. and we will talk to them about trucks as well because they will reporteranalysts and say, need to monetize some of that business. we will bring you that interview with matthias mueller at 12:320 u.k. time. guy: matt, it does seem that his biggest concern at the moment i know is that there are not enough to get trucks in germany. matt: it does worry me. i have to say, every truck i see here is a ram. i was looking at the possibility of purchasing a ford rafter for germany and it was over $125,000 on the road, so there is something going on there. surveillance is up next. ♪ >> demanding answers, theresa may accuses russia of attacks on british soil. should the fed