and i can imagine simon and yobe as well also listening to you and if i can yes please michele it. you know what could have happened as we saw those people who counted the ballots behind us and they disappeared just a couple of minutes ago now i would expect them to have been handed back their mobile phones so i could because they were to those phones were taken away from them so that could potentially be a source for this but we'll just have to wait and hear what the official confirmation of that is if it is indeed michelle that is an important point to soon as twitter goes on line there with those people who might have been tossed for counting those ballots because get some early reports that again are unconfirmed but i imagine that would be an expected but important side really for a lot of people here berlin going to be a huge sigh of relief for the s.p.d. leadership first of all and second of all for anglo-american. you know actually for the whole political establishment really and across europe i should say because people i think around europe are looking at germany and hopin

rural areas indefinitely last week it follows the abduction of one hundred ten girls from neighboring yobe a state last month hundred five of them were freed on wednesday syrian opposition fighters have surrounded one of the last rebel enclaves near the capital damascus in an evacuation deal with the government thousands of fighters and civilians are now leaving the town of her austin east and guta of the rebel factions are still holding on to two separate pockets of territory those leaving harasta fleeing north to live province which is being bombarded by syrian and russian warplanes rescue workers say that at least thirty seven people were killed in an ass strike on thursday now donald trump says he's open to testifying before the special counsel robert miller who's investigating russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election a president spoke just hours after his keep us in a lawyer announced he was resigning john dowd had reportedly clashed with trump over his handling of mother's investigation you're up to date with all of our top stories more news coming u

series of attacks by the group and the kidnapping of one hundred ten girls from dutchy in neighboring yobe a state last month hundred five of them were freed on wednesday and have been taken to a blue jephthah medical checks or a father whose daughter is still missing told ouches areas ahmed address that she's being forced to become a muslim this third a barmaid made. false hard to change how to lead john and she refused and that's why they kept her there. and what are they saying i think going to release her to save she can bug these hot. do you think she's going to do that i don't want. well now to france where police have fired tear gas and water cannon a protest is taking part in a public sector walkout trains of flights have been canceled across the country and many schools have been closed unions are angry at plans by the president emanuel macron to cut one hundred twenty thousand public sector jobs by the year two thousand and twenty two from paris natasha butler reports. thousands of public sector workers protested in paris united in anger at the french government's plans to reform

of attacks by the group and the kidnapping of one hundred ten girls from that she and neighboring yobe a state last month one hundred five of them were freed on wednesday and have been taken to a medical checks well a father whose daughter is still missing told al-jazeera is ahmed address that the kidnappers are trying to force her to become a muslim. and she refused. and what what are they saying i think going to release or. do you think she's going to do that i don't. well i made it just brings us more now on the story from northeast nigeria this is the rule book fighters drove through with one hundred and four goals initially they dropped one of them in a village on there we hear and then they drop them off the one hundred and fall right over there some two hundred meters away from this place and we were told by residents that one of their be cool developed a puncture or other they have had a flat tire they change the tires here and then they drove back they spent nearly thirty minutes in this particular route they came through it's the same road they used to go back to where they c

series of attacks by the arm group and the kidnapping of one hundred ten girls from dept in neighboring yobe a state last month one hundred five of them were freed on wednesday and taken to the medical checks one father whose daughter is still missing don under there is a common interest and should be forced to become a muslim they said about my daughter that. was hard to change how to leave john and she refused and that's why they kept her there. and what what are they saying i think going to release her to save she can bug. these heart do you think she's going to do that i don't think she will do that and it just has more now from that she in northeast nigeria. this is the rule book was around fighters drove through with one hundred and four goals initially they dropped one of them in a village on their way here and then they dropped them of the one hundred and four right over there some two hundred meters away from this place and we were told by residents that one of their vehicle developed a puncture or other they have had a flat tire they change the tires here and then they drove back t

weeks after booker and kidnapped one hundred ten school girls from the town of that chin neighboring yobe a state the search for the girls has now been extended to neighboring countries. now if you're in europe this will come as no surprise the region is in the grip of a deep freeze after the so-called beast from the east a blast of siberian add that brought widespread snow and freezing conditions at the start of the week the united kingdom and ireland are now being battered by storm emma it's forced dublin airport to close and twenty four thousand homes and businesses are without power across ireland while in person the army has been called in to help rescue hundreds of drivers stuck in the snow. and gas supplies are beginning to be affected in a number of areas in ukraine people are being asked to cut usage after russia's gazprom unexpectedly decided not to restart supplies it threatens to open up a new front in a long running route between kiev and the company a byproduct of political tensions following russia's an exit of crimea in two thousand and fourteen. this is the scene in italy

nearly two weeks after book around kidnapped one hundred ten schoolgirls from the town of neighboring yobe a state search for the girls has now been extended to neighboring countries there's been a second suicide car bombing attack in two days nance somalia's capital market issue this time a suicide bomber rammed a car into a military base thirty kilometers from the city killing one soldier says it was behind both attacks. well fish oils from the five countries contributing to the african union force in somalia are discussing plans to withdraw their troops by the end of twenty twenty the force is known as amazon has been battling al shabaab for ten years it's now training local police forces for me to miller spend a day in bed it with an african in police patrol in. these local police offices a stationed at one of several high risk areas in mogadishu it's not far from the old parliament building an african union police patrol made up of kenyan nigerian and ugandan officers stop to check in where they are what are the odds what they're up to but the local police meant to keep the area safe