well north korean two bypasses ukraine and ukraine has been very worried about that and merkel came to this meeting kind of hoping for guarantees for ukraine as well and in a way putin kind of handed those guarantees to her on a platter he said that ukraine would continue could continue to be a transit country but he also left a kind of back door open he said that it would be a transit country if that was economically beneficial family show in moscow thomas sparrow a maze of land and of course with me in the studio all political correspondent nina thank you very much to you all and now some of the other stories making news around the world indian prime minister nuri modi has promised more than seventy million dollars in aid for the flood stricken state of kara the government's deployed thousands of troops to the southern region off the trench along soon rains it is also has killed hundreds and thousands are still waiting to be rescued. london police say they have charged the driver of the car which hit several people outside parliament this week with attempted murder sudanese born brit

well north korean two bypasses ukraine and ukraine has been very worried about that and merkel came to this meeting kind of hoping for guarantees for ukraine as well and in a way putin kind of handed those guarantees to her on a platter he said that ukraine would continue could continue to be a transit country but he also left a kind of back door open he said that it would be a transit country if that was economically beneficial. when in moscow thomas sparrow in maze of lynn and of course with me in the studio political correspondent nina thank you very much to you all. the former united nations chief and nobel peace prize laureate kofi annan has died and that was the first black african to be the world's top diplomat he cept two terms for one thousand nine hundred ninety seven to two thousand and six in new york the united nations of blow it is flag to half staff that its world headquarters and then died after a short illness at the age of eighty. for almost ten years the face of the un for many years he still is he managed to be more than just the u.n. secretary general he was a mora

the same goes for ukraine this is the first time vladimir putin has met merkel in germany since the ukraine conflict began and peace is still elusive. of course we will talk about ukraine as the chancellor said in the context of settling the crisis. we are not making the progress we might have hoped but there is no alternative to the implementation of the minsk agreement. this top level relationship looks more active and more core deal than it has for some years as merkel said earlier this week while breakthroughs are unlikely talking remains essential. well to talk more about this now i'm joined by the w.c. and any show win in moscow thomas sparrow in a maze a bag that's the venue of the talks and here in the studio with me our political correspondent nina has a welcome to you all thomas i'd like to begin with you because merkel and putin met just recently in fact in sochi why exactly are the two leaders meeting now. well i'm going to merkel cannot focus on foreign policy one of her strengths so vibing a key internal debate on migrations of that can explain at least partially why they meet

well north korean two bypasses ukraine and ukraine has been very worried about that and markel came to this meeting kind of hoping for guarantees for ukraine as well and in a way putin kind of handed those guarantees to her on a platter he said that ukraine would continue could continue to be a transit country but he also left the kind of back door open he said that it would be a transit country if that was economically beneficial family show when in moscow thomas sparrow in maze of land and of course with me in the studio political correspondent nina thank you very much to you all. let's get you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world indian prime minister narendra modi has promised more than seventy million dollars in aid for the flood stricken state of kerala the government has deployed thousands of troops to the southern region following two renshaw monsoon rains the disaster has killed hundreds and thousands are still waiting to be rescued. at least one police officer was injured in berlin when around five hundred far right activists clash with a

well again with the most one of the more contentious issues is the ukraine ukraine conflict going home and in eastern ukraine once of russia annexed crimea germany was actually leading the european union push to impose sanctions in response but ultimately economic interests seem to be the priority in most of these sorts of geo political conversations so. when it comes to for example the issue of the north stream to. line ukraine is very unhappy about it they feel that the project could undermine the use efforts for russia to return crimea is merkel likely to vote to raise this issue well you are you are right it's all about the money as well we mustn't be naive about these things but of course it's also about stability in the region and so germany has tried to be the broker between russia and the ukraine and in this particular case of this gas pipeline germany will try and get russia to guarantee that they will have ukraine benefits from some sort of transit business deal even if this pipeline does get built and gets operational in twenty twenty germany wants russia to guarantee that t

i was spending time in ukraine trying to explain russia and ukraine and in particular the ways in which cyberand propaganda were structuring the way that we understood what we're straight tour de france like revolutions and wars that i remember hitting this back then about four years ago a little bit last and thinking wow, these people don't know what hit them. i have to say i still think about it and that's one of the reasons why wrote the book in one of the reasons for year now. thomas kind enough to say i'm an historian and i think this is one of these moments where you bring what you got and what i have this history, but the historical analysis in every single respect except for the 2010 and in every respect is aggressively conservative history book based on the huge amount of primary research across five or six languages. it's excessively annotated and it makes an argument that takes place over time. i emphasize that he cuts it seems to me what is going on in our present moment and there have been a hard time putting things together. we are overwhelmed day-to-day by news that a sur

be pushing from prosser to guarantee a future role for ukraine and transferring gas to europe u.s. president donald trump's volatile foreign policy has also piled up some new strategic interests between moscow and berlin. after really deep fall in trust between germany and russia to a korean conflict since two thousand and thirteen and fourteen we now return to pragmatic relations interest oriented relations machall and putin are scheduled to meet for what is billed as extensive talks at the german government's guest house near violin the two leaders meet the press only before not after their meeting just another indication that no real breakthrough is expected on any of the topics on the agenda at the same time there is a recognition on both sides that with donald trump in the white house shaking up the rules of international politics they need each other even more than they used to. well found more on this now as a political scientist at the institute for security policy at germany's q university specializing in russia relations and he joins us here in studio for more on these ta

not only the crisis in ukraine but also the role of ukraine as a transit country when it comes to to gas that is something that ukraine has raised on were various instances in dot's i believe is also a key issue that both leaders will have to put dress both leaders address states during their initial statements. that is obviously one of the topics that they will have to actually find a lot of the slope with can find common ground it seems really one of the most controversial issues between both countries. well thomas i think it was interesting just to note is that america all who spoke first seemed to go down a long laundry list of controversial issues that she said she would be touching on in her talks of what amir putin ukraine north stream pipeline syria iran human rights and putin for his part seemed to focus at least in the beginning of his remarks on all the positive things sort of opportunities for trade and so on emily i'd like to put the question to you is this kind of a clear indicator of the two leaders very different agendas in these talks. well i remember that in may whe

russian gas through ukraine and ukraine last year for instance made three billion euros from this transit of russian gas to europe and this is this is the crux of the matter and of course this is part and parcel of for the destabilization attempts by putin of ukraine because he does not want ukraine to be a prosperous democratically oriented country let's finish on ukraine i don't understand why it's even on the agenda between these two leaders but putin has won this surely he's got crimea he's never given it back well you know wonders in the what is on the agenda is that. at present there has been talked about is a you noted nations peacekeeping in mission and as i heard just a few days ago from the of the german foreign minister is that the question of whether it will take place but of course this is again the questions matter namely the details of such a mission very much in dispute and what it can possibly achieve is another question all right well we'll see we'll see how they get on that tomorrow for another round of the other might thank you so much for joining t.w. welcome. hundred

ukraine two continues to be a focus of attention this was the first time putin met miracle in germany since the conflict in donbass began and peace is still elusive. and of course we will talk about ukraine as the chancellor said in the context of settling the crisis. we are not making the progress we might have hoped but there is no alternative to the implementation of the minsk agreements. this top level relationship looks more active and more core deal than it has for some years as merkel said earlier this week while breakthroughs around likely talking remains essential. and i did have a personal correspondence time in young he filed that report joins me in studio now confinement so do you think yesterday's talks are a sign of a german russian and the ration ship improving yeah a little bit so angle america who says that she wants a good relationship with russia and vladimir putin and she was even talking this week about permanent dialogue between the two. i think contacts have dropped off a lot since russia annexed the crimea in two thousand and fourteen but of course in a world w

time and an exclusive report on a series of attacks by far right doings on the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the violence and breaking through the great firewall of china google is reportedly secretly working on a censored a search engine for the chinese market google for china would walk controversial terms and websites not approved by the communist party. i'm going to off it's good to have you with us tonight the capital of zimbabwe is on walk down the entire country bracing for the announcement of the presidential election result zimbabwe's election commission is set to announce the winner in less than an hour opposition leader nelson chemist says that he is the legitimate winner and he claims that the result could be rigged to favor the incumbent zanu p emerson minin god well international observers have appealed for calm and security after security forces killed six protesters last night today police raided the headquarters of the opposition movement for democratic change in herat. i think a little police and how forcing their way into the hat quotas of the opposition mo

connelly traveled to western ukraine to speak to his widow and to other victims of the by its. this is how it all began in april twenty eighth. july auntie's attacked a rome account in the ukrainian capital kiev a copycat attack soon followed across the country in late june twenty three year old david pappas was stabbed more than a dozen times in the western city of leave his death provoked an outcry inside and outside ukraine's borders the teenage suspect a noun custody but how could this have been allowed to happen i what has become the survivors. where in the village where david pappa grew up from here it's just a matter of kilometers to ukraine's western frontier with hungary in slovakia the region is home to ukraine's biggest roma community many of them live in extreme poverty since the attacks people here become wary of strangers and it's only with the help of past a failure of our guest that we were allowed in he takes us to meet david pap's with you boy the first time she's spoken publicly about her husband's murder. he says when those teenagers came to attack our camp

no reports from ukraine but from other countries oh well give us a lot of war is that. on the raise in europe we see very high official from european member states government giving statements in which they openly promote and support them as an example in bulgaria of fashion's that is convinced on the anti hate crime against roma for calling them animals get to be a deputy prime minister of the country and as the biggest irony he gets to run to national council for the integration of minorities including those people that he called animals at the same time italian interior minister silvio calls for the roma act next census promises cleaning the feet. of their own the presence openly expressed regret that he context felt italian roma. because they are protected as italian citizens in such a political climate reseed that a direct consequence is that human rights and even the rule of law is not respected last week we had a perfect example of that in rome where the local of. around three hundred roma on the street from their houses providing gold tentative accommodation and

in eastern ukraine this will be the controversial gas pipeline north stream too we do know that they will only give statements before the meeting so we won't we will probably not know what will come out of these talks but we have to remind everybody again that this is a great opportunity for those two important leaders to actually sit down and have frank and open talks about those controversial issues well on the issue of ukraine of course russia and the west have been at loggerheads over the annexation of crimea and the progression separatist continuing to battle the ukrainian army in the east of the country is there any chance of a resolution here can merican actually send a u n troop u n mission to the region but as usual it's always it always comes down to the details russia doesn't really want you and troops to control the border area but germany is pressing for this we are no longer talking about the conflict in crimea of course that led to a frozen conflict between germany and russia this is about finding a solution in eastern ukraine and we'll see just how much progress they

well mariana north room to bypasses ukraine and ukraine has repeatedly voiced concern about that about their gas supply being in danger if political tensions with russia continue and over them missing out on transit fees and medical has come to there's a book looking for assurances on that gas pipeline and it seems that putin handed her these on a platter essentially all right emily sherman reporting from moscow we have thomas sparrow standing by in raza go mazza burg near berlin where putin americal are holding closed door talks at this hour and his political correspondent with me here in the studio many thanks to all three of you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world and a former cricket star imran khan has been sworn in as pakistan's new prime minister in his first speech as premier compromise to inforce ruthless accountability to fight corruption his party won the most votes in last month's election but failed to secure a majority. of polish prosecutors says the driver of a ukrainian bus that crashed overnight in southeastern poland will be charged three pe

and the united states must hope ukraine stop russia in. that list includes vice president secretaries of state on paper matters and national security advisor both the president's own statements are much softer on russia but the policy of the administration has been quite quite tough whether some sanctions would help from congress or supplying javelin missiles to ukraine which was a presidential decision. now schools of russian diplomats after the kremlin poisoned the russian. factor in britain i believe that we should make russia pay for its aggression ukraine to persuade russia to lead therefore i welcome decision the trumpet ministry and job missiles i think we should send additional weapons and we should impose additional sanctions on the problem or is ongoing aggression in ukraine the russian people don't support this war this is a criminal war against the people of ukraine there's no question that sanctions have an impact that's why every day about the kremlin complains about them and russian economic officials have said that for exam

here and ukraine as a whole they come away in care fact here. germany's minister for family says visit the scene of a deadly staring in candidates of the crime committed last week and largely by two migrants laid bare deep divisions over chancellor merkel's decision to allow nearly a million migrants into germany in twenty fifteen following days of violent protests the families minister described the arrest as a wake up call for the government the start listening to the people. the crime scene has become a place of remembrance family minister francisco defies the first member of the federal government to visit the site where a german man was stabbed to death last sunday the minister met political groups and pledged more funding for initiatives aimed at strengthening democracy. we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that this is just a problem for saxony it is a focal point because of the current events here. but this issue affects the whole country the whole of eastern germany but also the west. and a court in kemet says confirmed that one of

the lockdown often explosion at a cafe kills the leader of the russia back separatists in eastern ukraine plus. tributes to the queen of soul as detroit bids farewell to aretha franklin at a star studded funeral and. why it could soon be summer time all year long in the european union. so the united states said it's cutting all funding to on that's the u.n. agency that supports palestinian refugees this comes a week off to the trump administration cut more than two hundred million dollars and economic aid to palestinian refugees the move for will and decades of financial support that is used for health education food security and other essentials. and the statement the u.s. state department said the administration has carefully reviewed the issue and determined that the united states will not to make additional contributions to under a when we made a u.s. contribution of sixty million dollars in january we made it clear that the united states was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of on us costs that we had assumed for many years ok let's get more

against all of ukraine. i had a difficult time hearing you there so the the rhetoric is from so i repeat it. no i think the viewers heard but i appreciate that very much that they're what i was going to ask you so this this push to to say that they are vital to the security of the european union how much weight does that carry well what is vital is that russia is committing aggression in europe it tried to change borders in georgia by war in two thousand and eight it is doing it now again in ukraine since two thousand and fourteen this is a very serious danger to european security and the russians need to be defeated in ukraine was going on don't bosses not local separatists a russian led finance a war russian soldiers are fighting russian officer in charge russian money and russian weapons or is the root of it and if moscow thinks and get away with aggression in ukraine as it got away with aggression in georgia we will see russian aggression elsewhere it seems as though they are getting away with it. well n

four years ago the list of disagreements is long with ukraine syria and russia's meddling in elections just start. she accepted the flowers but she didn't ease the sanctions over ukraine at their last meeting in russia the fact that uncle of makola vladimir putin are meeting for the second time in only three months shows a new interest to explore common ground despite fundamental differences some of that may lie in syria despite russia's role as president assad's ally. russia wants to have first a solution with us so that germany and the european union accepts that there will be a post war syria with assad and then moscow and syria also need some money money is also an important issue in balance plan to build a joint gas pipeline with russia critics say it threatens regional stability especially in ukraine. both have an interest of the pipeline will be built and we also know that mr trump already u.s. government with the next wave of saying sions also talk of north stream to merkel will be pushing from prosser to guarantee a future role for ukraine and transferring gas to europe u.s. p

of course and in ukraine an m.p. and the head of the foreign the foreign affairs committee there in the parliament in kiev said the wedding is a private thing however it goes without saying if you invite amir putin to your wedding you're not neutral anymore from now on austria can't be a mediator in ukraine period and of course she mentions the bust in courts of course and he being the chancellor of austria so you know it's not exactly the best sort of publicity we'll say you want from your wedding and the criticism that they've been getting in particular and by the way i'm talking to the foreign minister on the austrian government you said questions abound one of which could austria potentially being what took him after this well i mean from what we're seeing you know the criticism is coming in thick and fast and you know it is the weekend too you know so monday is just around the corner and we'll see whether there will be more reaction but it seems like austria is it doesn't look good for austria particularly if th

, so he did not mention ukraine itself.xander zakharchenko will be punished for that and he is waiting for that. and he also said that russia will also be with this territory, by alexandr zakharchenko. and as you have mentioned, also the foreign ministry official also told that she strongly believes that it is key of who is the zakharchenko assassination. zakharchenko's leader of this separatist region in the ukraine since 2014. he's the son of a miner, who was doing some business with the coal mines in the region. in 2014 he became one of the separatist leaders. that is what his political career started. zakharchenko survived one assassination attempt in 2014 and he was badly wounded in 2015. but still he was alive till today. and he was sitting in the restaurant with his vice head of the republic when there was the blast and that restaurant. actually they were commemorating another russian very famous singer who died recently, and that is when the blast happened. and yet as we said, last year russia had distanced themselv

we're going to give a grade of course we'll also talk about ukraine. as the madam chancellor has said. and you can given the current state of the crisis unfortunately we don't see much progress we don't see them. implemented and i want to go for them when you can we will continue working in the normandy for the format and then we will continue providing assistance to the un mission working there when we hopefully will. progress in the series world used so in general we have a lot of things we need to cover once again i would like to see i'm grateful to you madam chancellor for the supper tonight to thank you. for watching. over ok we're just listening there to a joint press conference that amir putin and anglo-american before they hold their meeting which is just about to take place they did say they're going to talk about a range of issues from ukraine to iran to or also syria and also trade between the countries and also energy supplies to an awful lot to talk about and we'll be across it for you throughout the evening now meanwhile with the syrian a

the production separatist movement in eastern ukraine says twenty fourteen russia is accusing ukraine off assassinating him ukraine blames separatists fighting. ugandan pop star turned politician bobby wine has been released from hospital and is now heading to the airport earlier police blocked him from boarding a flight to the us once a lawyer says he's been tortured in detention because of stones being thrown at the president's motorcade. and family friends and fans of the queen of soul aretha franklin are saying their final goodbyes this service to celebrate her life and music is happening in their hometown of detroit for five hours and at this point and probably a good four hours to go. i. took pictures there on the now reuters news. agency investigation has exposed members of me and military for spreading lies about revenge of muslims a book published by the army and made available in bookshops across young gone contains several falsely captioned images for example you've got the same image here in two different settings at the bottom is the version published in the army's book i

ukraine and the pro russian government of ukraine is not the only one.s bipartisan malpractice here overseas as well. the legal troubles he's facing are not insignificant. >> april, i want to switch gears. i didn't get a chance to talk to you yesterday about this. my interview with lebron james. i want you to listen to some of the things he said about this president. watch this. >> we are in a position right now in america more importantly where this whole race thing is taking over. you know? and because -- one, because i believe our president is trying to divide us. for him to like i said use sports to divide us, i can't sit back and not say nothing. >> what would you say to the president if he was sitting right here? >> i would never sit across from him. >> april, trump often retaliates against people critical of him. why do you think he hasn't done that with lebron? >> it's a losing moment for him. lebron james is riding high with the i promise school. it's amazing. at the same time once the president -- all of this kind of really came to a crescendo

customs so really it's the main issue right now in ukraine besides the war what are officials actually doing the ones who are corrupt that is. well the it should be said that ukraine this government has actually done more than any previous government but the problem is so great we've seen some progress in reforming the gas sector and there have been four major anti-corruption bodies that have been formed but at the same time there's a question of whether i mean there's still so much to be done and whether president poroshenko and prime minister vladimir growth or grossman actually have the political will to take it all the way to the end to go against the vested interest in the oligarchy who profit from this and so there's a question that he's going if they'll actually undertake it in an election year given also that there's a lot of infighting among these and anti-corruption bodies what about pressure from western creditors couldn't they just turn off the top i mean they don't have to invest their money to well exactly and this is a question that i'm sure a number of people in the wes

moment and exclusive reports on a series of attacks by four white gangs on the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the violence. also coming up alpha will become civilian first company u.s. company to topple one that trillion dollars in market value the latest while so for a company that began in a garage forty two years ago. and breaking through the great firewall of china google is reportedly secretly working on a censored search engine for the chinese market google for china with what controversial terms and websites not approved by the communist party. it's good to have you with us tonight the capital of zimbabwe is on lockdown the entire country bracing for the announcement of the presidential election results zimbabwe's election commission is set to announce the winner beginning within minutes opposition leader nelson commis says that he is the illegitimate winner and he claims that the result could be rigged to favor the incumbent zandu p.s. emerson and international observers have appealed for calm after security forces killed six protesters last night today police raided t

ambassador to ukraine he says russia remains heavily involved in the military militarily in eastern ukraine what is vital is that russia is committing aggression in europe it tried to change borders in georgia by war in two thousand and eight it is doing it now again in ukraine since two thousand and fourteen this is a very serious danger to european security and the russians need to be defeated in ukraine was going on don't bosses the local separatists it's a russian led financed a war russian soldiers are fighting russian officers are in charge russian money russian weapons or the root of it and if moscow thing can get away with aggression in ukraine as it got away with aggression in georgia we will see russian aggression elsewhere. since government has passed a decree that paves the way for the former dictator francisco franco remains to be removed franco is buried in a muslim in madrid which the government wants it turned into a memorial for those killed in the spanish civil war is opponents say is to me is the only remaining one human to a fascist leader in europe tens of thousands of

care of and ukraine as a whole i think only in care thank you. to some of the other stories making news around the world israeli gunfire has reportedly wounded scores of palestinians during protests in the west bank and along the border with the casa strip in the west bank village of rask hundreds of palestinians demonstrated against israeli land seizures for jewish settlements troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets while palestinian protesters. ugandan pop star turned opposition lawmaker bobby wine has been rearrested on ted the international airport and taken to a government hospital his lawyer says he's in a worrying condition and hungry going abroad to seek treatment for injuries sustained as a result of being tortured by ugandan or thought his allegations that mr white had been talked to during the early detention prompted widespread protests. an australian filmmaker who flew a drone over an opposition party rally in cambodia has been jailed for six years james records then was arrested in june last year and charged with espionage is arres

poutine here in germany just months after their last bilateral meeting in russia disagreements over ukraine and other issues dominate relations but with shared interest in other areas how much will pragmatism going to talks also coming up. a week of mourning after the country's most famous son kofi annan dined at the age of eighty the former united nations cheap and nobel peace prize laureate served two terms as the world's top diplomat later he became the u.n. special envoy for syria will have a look at his legacy. and commemorating the dead italy holds a state funeral for the victims of tuesday's bridge collapse in the northern city of genoa relatives and friends join the country's leaders to say goodbye to their loved ones. thanks for joining us i'm marrying evan steen german chancellor angela merkel will host a bilateral summit with russian president vladimir putin later today the talks north of berlin are expected to focus on energy issues as well as the conflict in syria and ukraine german or russian times have been tense for years the bugs are showing signs of a pragmatic fault this.

no that is you know there are quite strong words there from ukraine and from kiev of course like you mentioned before the austrian government says well the foreign ministry spokesman has committed saying that this was a private event and it doesn't change. position with regards to its foreign policy so public could austria essentially land itself in trouble with the e.u. because of this well it doesn't look particularly good for austria to say the least i mean if you're hearing these comments in particular from built of course you know he of course is on the european council and you're hearing other voices not only abroad but also within austria and you know it doesn't look good for austria i mean particularly if you've got a lack of trust now in ukraine from politicians there over how austria. is dealing with its foreign policy and particularly its relationship with moscow it doesn't really put it in a very strong position to be negotiating fully alias thank you for your insight on that very intriguing story. let's look at football now and we go to the german cup first round which c

today the talks north of berlin are expected to focus on energy issues as well as the conflict in ukraine in ukraine and syria and german russian ties have been tense for years but are showing signs of a pragmatic fog this will be the two leaders second meeting in the past three months. org for more on what we can expect from miracles meeting with putin i'm joined in the studio by nina has any good to see you so marilyn putina do seem to be seeing a lot more of each other lately than they have in the last couple of years doesn't mean there is more common ground between them i wouldn't necessarily say that there's more common ground i think there's a growing understanding between the two that they really just need each other that they've got a lot of challenges ahead of themselves that they console's without the other person and we've heard that this is the second meeting in three months time actually america went to visit putin in may and i would say that this is simply a really good example of rail politics that they'll sit down and that they'll discuss the issues like syria like ukraine

mean we have an exclusive report on a series of attacks by far right gangs on the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the bottoms. with. fellow i'm terry martin thanks for joining us election authorities in zimbabwe are urging people to keep calm the statement comes after an opposition rally yesterday turned violent and the army shot dead three unarmed protesters the opposition alleges that the rulings and party of president. has rigged the results of monday's elections election commission denies any wrongdoing. soldiers firing live rounds in zimbabwe's capital. the army into the streets of harare mid afternoon reportedly at the request of the police. the country's justice minister said the military had been deployed to maintain peace and tranquility and accused opposition supporters of going on a rampage however the protesters claim they didn't stop the violence. was going on . with. the crackdown came after a day of protest in the capital people were taken to the streets to protest a delay in the release of the results of presidential polling. crowds gathered outside the offices of

well in ukraine we just recently the latest bit of news is that ukrainian human rights on the mint has published photos she's such a receipt from the russians showing a one but still standing since all the standing in the photo now we can't confirm the accuracy of these photos but obviously this gives some people hope that his condition may not be that bad on the other hand as we've heard from you and from yuri there is great fears that his that his condition is much worse that he could be very close to the end and of course in ukraine does cause a great deal of concern he is a symbol of the ongoing fight against russian backed separatists in the country's east as well as the annexation of crimea which ukraine and frankly the majority of countries in the world have not. recognized so there is a great deal of concern here about what the condition actually is ok david nelson self-serving is this twenty year sentence or what the kremlin says were arson attacks in crimea crimea a sense also as his imprisonment is politically motivated is he a political threat to the kremlin. well it's diff

but russia's role in ukraine continues to concern leaders notably anger merkel specifically moscow's immoveable see over the minsk agreement which broker a cease fire between government and separatist forces the often does here all we hope to move forward on the issues of the minsk agreement with ukraine and russia france and germany took on responsibility many years ago we are saddened that still no day goes by without a violation of the cease fire but we don't give up hope and we know that through this the relationship with russia could be significantly improved and. ukraine assigned to the two leaders do have common ground such as in keeping the run nuclear deal both share concerns about the trumpet ministrations tariffs and diplomacy but their relationship has never been easy i think both sides have accumulated a lot of skepticism mistrust mutual reproaches and grievances that overshadow their relationship which is why few people in the german capital expect any breakthroughs as a result of this meeting dominic. bernie venezuela's president has confirmed his government is making

we have an exclusive report on a series of attacks by far right goings on the roma community in ukraine plus google caves to the chinese censor and google left china in two thousand and ten over censorship demands but a new report says the tech giant is now secretly working on a search engine for the chinese forgives the new google will block controversial websites and search terms for. the law i'm terry march and welcome to the program. tensions are growing in zimbabwe following that country's elections on monday police have reportedly surrounded the headquarters of the country's main opposition party the movement for democratic change and locked officials inside yesterday security forces killed three protesters who had taken to the streets to accuse the ruling center party of rigging the vote. soldiers firing live rounds and zimbabwe's capital. the army into the streets of harare midafternoon reportedly at the request of the police. the country's justice minister said the military had been deployed to maintain peace and tranquility and accused opposition supporters of going on a rampa

one of the main separatist leaders in eastern ukraine has been killed in a bomb explosion alexander. led russia back separatists in ukraine's the next region was brought up in a cafe in the city of donetsk russia's accused ukraine of assassinating him to provide to provoke a new war in the region kiev denies the claim blaming a chunk of death on a conflict between rebels and russia. a deadly stabbing in the eastern german city of candidates allegedly by two migrants triggered days of violent anti immigrant protests the crime laid bare deep divisions of the chancellor's decision to welcome nearly a million migrants in twenty fifteen the w.c. linda fear echo reports now from candidates on the politics that divide its residents residents and this is appointment in the political leaders. he writes down what annoys him stephanie some of fails politicians don't take him seriously he's been out on demonstrations for the far right glute pick eda for the last four years what i'm just him the most is that so many refugees have come to germany but everyone can see what we've brought into our co

it is home to ukraine's biggest roma community. many live in extreme poverty. since the attacks, people have become wary of strangers, and it is only with the help of a pastor that we are allowed into me david's widow. it is the first time she has spoken publicly about her husband's murder. >> with the teenagers came to attack our camp, they didn't say a word. they started at us with the nice. i begged them, there are children here, but they started attacking more viciously. my husband was lying dead in front of me. reporter: on the day of our visit, she received a call from the police asking her to testify in court. she refused. the fear, she says, is too great. since attacks, police have responded to requests from community leaders to step up patrols in roma district. a roma community leader and local counselor -- in the past, most of his work was about helping roma people gain access to basic services for many don't have a birth certificate, let alone a passport. in recent months he has been confronted with a totally new set of problems as the victims of att

of reporting from ukraine there. now swedish police say its criminals one zero this as they hunt they've priceless crown jewels in a daring daylight robbery the thieves took the royal rebellious from a cathedral near stockholm before making a getaway via a nearby lake police are appealing to the public for their help in reclaiming the arable. these are what the robbers got away with two crowns and an orb dating back to the seventeenth century during the rule of king karl the ninth and queen christina they were taken from the historic hilltop strong us cathedral around midday on tuesday where they had been on display the cathedral about an hour's drive from the capital stockholm was reportedly open to visitors at the time with an event being held in a site chapel the jewels were in a locked display cabinet connected to an alarm system reportedly the theft was only noticed after an eyewitness saw two suspects fleeing the scene and alerted authorities the robbers are suspected of fleeing on bicycles to the nearby dock o

tragically we now have that when vladimir putin and annexed crimea in ukraine in 2014.ve new weapons, cyber weapons that we didn't have in the cold war. and even the way that we talk about international norms i think has changed fundamentally where vladimir putin seems much more ready to defy the west in our international norms much more so than the late cold war leaders in the soviet union. >> you write that your mission to russia, quote, should have been a crowning achievement of my career, an opportunity of a lifetime to further my ideas about american/russian relations. it was not. what went wrong in your mission there? >> as a kid at stanford here, during the cold war, i was worried about confrontation between the soviet union and the united states. i took my first trip abroad to linen grad, soviet union, kid grew nup montana, never been abroad. two years after coming to california for school, i went there because i wanted to improve relations. and i had a theory, perhaps some what idealistic, if we could just understand each other, we could reduce tensions. and fo

alexander is that the chant cody's killed in an explosion in ukraine moscow is blaming the death of the separatist revelator on kiev. hello from joe harvey when i'm come out santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera. it's the final goodbye for the queen of soul thousands attending the funeral and celebration of life for a reason franklin. meanwhile the counts could carrying the body of john mccain his return to capitol hill as political leaders across washington commemorate the life of the late senator. stopped from leaving the country ugandan opposition politician bobby wine is arrested and detained again. and catholic leaders in australia reject a demand to break the seal of confession concerning child sex abuse cases and vowed to oppose a law which would force them to do so. so we're starting with breaking news out of eastern ukraine the pro russian rebel leader alexander has been killed in an explosion according to the region's official media outlets he was attacked in a cafe in donetsk the center of the city the russian foreign ministry is accused ukraine of being behind t

president vladimir putin heads to berlin to discuss a controversial gas pipeline which will bypass ukraine. turkey's credit rating has been lowered by two key agencies moody's and standard and poor's now say it's become more difficult for turkey to make payments on its debts the country's already being rocked by a financial crisis and sanctions from the united states are reports from new york. for the turkish lira it was a week that could not in soon enough he week that started with the lira sliding to a record low of seven point two against the us dollar the currency has lost nearly forty percent of its value against the dollar this year alone as a full fledged economic crisis continues to simmer the trump administration this week threatened to impose additional economic sanctions on turkey over the country's continued house arrest of a u.s. pastor on terrorism charges the diplomatic standoff led trump on friday to again say sanctions are justified turkey has in my opinion acted very very badly so we haven't seen the last of that we are not going to take it sitting down they can take our