this is d w news live from berlin police have detained a russian opposition leader alexei in the vanni the outspoken kremlin critic was arrested after making a short appearance at an anti putin rally earlier today police also rated now about his office also coming up. another heavy day of fighting in serious offer in the region turkey claims a diplomatic success in its offensive against a u.s. backed kurdish militia. and a seven goal.

from islam is that groups from the public russian opposition demonstrators headed by election are vanny to take to the streets in a number of russian cities in protest of the upcoming presidential election that another major stories of the week after this break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be that's . going to be for the survival before three of the more people. interested always in the logs in the. first six. back more than three thousand supporters of russian opposition figure looks enough i mean gathering in a number of cities they've been protesting against the upcoming presidential election only as it is done of has details. around a thousand people have been gathering here in moscow calling for the boycott of the upcoming this march presidential election they're saying that the vote is illegitimate since their candidate alexei navalny has not been allowed to run this because he's still serving a five year long suspended criminal sentence after he had been f

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motorcycle mull vanni is here next. >> and dealing with the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> democrats aren't budging. >> they're using the d.r.e.a.m.ers as a shield for their incompetence. >> but republicans say not now. they want a deal on immigration. it is a shakedown strategy. >> will the daca debate keep the government closed? >> senators bernie sanders and rand paul respond in minutes. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington with the state of our union is still shutdown with sides not even talking. it's the second full day of the government shutdown right now and according to sources mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer did not speak all day saturday despite both spending the day on capitol hill. in an interview with cnn late saturday, schumer said he would not support a three week extension of government spending and outlined his demands to reopen the government. >> we need a good bipartisan agreement that allows us to get a good defense number, get a good nondefense number, get a vote on the d.r.e.a.m.ers bill and get that done and deal with the disasters too. >> now senate majority leader mit

stream he too was also affecting cycling's tour down under italy's ally of the vanni one stage threewhich is shorn because of the rising temperatures the vianney coming from behind to overtake australia's kaleb un who retains the overall lead but the vianney moves into a close second. and it's all your sport for now back to you during thank you very much for that update and thanks for watching the news hour we're back in just a moment with much more of the day's news see you in a minute. conservation is helping kick his stove to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're refining all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international least of threatened species. al jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth cent