there were more candidates but some were imprisoned after they announced their candidacy others with drew from the race often under great pressure. in. the government's worry is that if there were real candidates there would have to be debates about real issues. but of the main. i would know yet egyptian media is similarly one sided there's even a hotline where citizens can report journalists who criticise the government. promised a heavy hand against terrorists earlier this month there was another bomb attack in alexandria on the same night peninsula the egyptian army is busy fighting a jihadist insurgency. supporters point to his focus on economic stability the all important tourism sector has been recovering under his rule this one who do it without sisi has fashioned the presidential election as a referendum on his leadership he's hoping for a high turnout to legitimize his rule. of better sports now the biggest scandal in cricket for years just rumbles on that comes after the australian team admitted hatching a plan to cheat in a match against south africa in a sport that prides itse

or national rifle association drew for teacher were fired for its role in opposing tighter regulations on guns. but many of the people here say they are ready to vote out the extensions to take campaign donations from various groups trying to block on here for me was that people like us the more of the war plans the more support we have and the more support we have i think we have a shot in making our gun laws a lot tighter. a showgirl force from hundreds of thousands asking their lawmakers to help make america safer and. earlier i spoke with our correspondent aleksandra phenomena who was at the march and asked her about the atmosphere there. i would describe the atmosphere here as a mixture of determination and confidence because the students i talked to are confidence that they can make a difference one of them is joining me right now it's amanda she's from new york amanda you came here from new york with your friends why was it so important for you to participate in this protest it's important to me. prices have been this because this isn't just one person issue it involves everyone

demolishing hamburg six nail a strong win for hoffenheim against wolfsburg three nil barreling freiburg drew even in a scoreless match osberg stick secured a good win away against hanover three one leverkusen are locking horns with gladbach as we speak now looking ahead to sunday stood guard will face rb leipzig and dortmund take on frankfurt on monday night raymond battle cologne and friday's night's game shall come managed a narrow win over mines. and it took just one moment of brilliance from chicago's daniel caligiuri to settle matters against mines and not encounter the royal blue midfielder dribbling past five mines players before firing off this unstoppable shot in the fifty fifth minute one victory can sit back and enjoy the rest of the weekend's action in second place the minds though the defeat means they're still in deep trouble as they struggle to avoid. the winter paralympics are underway in pyongyang south korea before the sporting action began athletes and fans were treated to an inspirational opening ceremony on friday night it's the biggest winter paralympics ever with more

burke's dollar and are still comfortably in second spot in the standings in other games laver cozen drew without ever hung over at last at home to like say hoffenheim ran roughshod over cologne so it got and how market share of the points the big match of the weekend ended with a whitewash for by and against dortmund robert lewandowski getting a hat trick of their currently have to berlin are hosting wolfsburg sunday has two games but i meant take on frankfurt and minds go up against mention glad. that soon is rad join us again at the top of the hour don't forget you can also check out our website and follow us on twitter at t w news thanks for watching. we make up over we want tons of out there and at that time we are similar to. the want to see continents future can be part of it and join us youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their champions the same seven percent plus for sharia. rule.

weekend as we just saw hamburg went down to her and frankfurt hamburg minds' three nil elsewhere gladbach drew with hoffenheim there to bremen put three past outs burke will spur take on in saturday's late game and they're sure carts went on friday and on sunday dortmund face had over cologne play leverkusen and leipzig clash with byron. you're watching the news live from berlin on abbey quasi more to come at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest on our web site that's d w dot com thanks for watching. there's been the germany is a strong country. that we have achieved so much we can do this and do something henderson says we must overcome it and they're. going where it's uncomfortable global news that matters g.w. made for mines.

steel and ten percent charge on aluminum a protectionist measures in the dell jones plummeting and drew an immediate response from the european union which said that it will respond with tariffs of its own. steel made in china. athol an internal trump side for months he's threatened to increase tariffs against chinese imports against european ones too but now the time for talk is over at the end of a meeting with steel and aluminum producers he announced the planned levies we have with us the. biggest steel companies in the united states they used to go bigger. but they got to be a lot bigger again. we have big companies in the united states fairly treated by policy. trade deals by other countries they've been horribly treated by the countries trumps primary target is china due to its massive overproduction of steel and aluminum which drives down global prices flooding markets with cheap products this would affect german metals exporters their industry association calling for the e.u. to strike back with counter measures. and for more on this now i'm joined by our correspondent in washi

comments came during a visit from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu trumps decision to recognize drew slim as israel's capital has been highly controversial aggravating arab allies and reversing decades of u.s. policy officials in the u.s. state of florida have passed a bill to create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools and move comes in response to a deadly school shooting in the state last month. britain's foreign minister boris johnson faced questions in the house of commons about a poisoning case this is what he had to say no i'm not not pointing fingers forgive me carol this is because there are seven point thinkers i say to governments around the world. that no attempt to take innocent life on u.k. soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished. well earlier we spoke to the london correspondent very good mass we asked her if this case warda hallmark of an assassination attempt. well the obvious comparison and what's really on people's mind is the case of alexander litvinenko he was somebody who used to work for the russian intelligenc

this weekend as we saw hamburg went down to hurt and frankfurt hammered mines elsewhere a lot back drew with hoffenheim vertebrae and put the bird wolfsburg take on shocker and saturday's late game there stood guards went on friday and on sunday dortmund face hand over cologne play leverkusen and life's a clash with buyer. well it's same patrick's day the day commemorating the patron saint of ireland and the day when millions of people all around the world whether they're irish or not so great with food parades street parties and of course plenty of green i'm a us city of chicago with its large irish community is no exception revelers along the banks of the chicago river were treated to a spectacle city authorities die the river green the color of the emerald isle it's estimated some seventy million people across the globe will raise a glass to the irish patron saint launches. that's all for now more from us here at the dolby news at the top of the hour with my colleague i make a dozen thanks for watching. state by state. the most colorful. a lively or. the most traditional. find all th

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and drew mccabe played a key role in investigations into hillary clinton's e-mail affair and alleged russian involvement in the twenty sixteen election he stepped down in january but remained on the f.b.i.'s payroll he was fired twenty six hours before he would have become eligible for retirement the justice department acted after an internal f.b.i. investigation concluded mccabe had quote made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and looked kinder including under oath on multiple occasions president donald trump immediately praised the move in a tweet he said it's a great day for the hardworking men and women of the f.b.i. a great day for democracy andrew mccabe rejects the accusations against him in a statement he said this attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally but to taint the f.b.i. law enforcement and intelligence professionals more generally. you need to be a correspondent clear which is and joins us now from washington clear and you kate had been only from the f.b.i. since january and he was fired shust over a day bef

or national rifle association drew particular ire for its role in opposing tighter regulations on guns. but many of the people here say they're ready to vote out to take in pain donations from various groups trying to block on here for. people like us the more of the robots the more support we have and the more support we have i think we'll have a shot in making our gun laws a lot tighter. a showgirl force from hundreds of thousands asking their lawmakers to help make america safer. as well as more than eight hundred demonstrations in the u.s. gun control rallies take place around the world in cities as far afield as london paris stockholm and sydney hundreds marched through the center of hong kong in an event organized by a group of mothers they carry pockets calling for tighter restrictions on weapons and held a minute's silence in memory of think terms of gun violence. hundreds of members of a rebel group are pulling as of the besieged of eastern huta near the syrian capital damascus both the has been lined up to transport those leaving along a corridor which has been periods of bar

or national rifle association drew particular ire for its role in opposing tighter regulations on guns. but many of the people here say they're ready to vote out of existence to take campaign donations from his groups trying to block gun before he was five people like us the more of the robots the more support we have and the more support we have i think we'll have a shot in making our gun laws a lot tighter. a showgirl force from hundreds of thousands asking their lawmakers to help make america safer. as well as more than eight hundred demonstrations in the u.s. can control drugs took place around the world in cities as far afield as london paris stockholm and city hundreds marched through the center of hong kong in an event organized by a group of mothers carrying placards calling for. these are restrictions on weapons and held a minute's silence in memory of victims of gun violence. many of the world's iconic sights and attractions have been marking earth hour by switching off their lights from the city off of the empire state building in new york side lines have been a little darke

i'm now joined by our correspondent drew chateau who's in moscow yury does this mark an end to the diplomatic of diplomatic relations between russia and the u.k. . oh yes michel absolutely i think so but the really bad thing about this scandal is that it's expanding more and more getting wider and wider look one is the conflict between russia and the u.k. but the other is a conflict between russia the united kingdom with the united states france and the germany these are all countries which stand on the side of great britain so you can't really call it an international scandal and i think that in the kremlin here in moscow and in the russian foreign ministry they are very concerned about how to get out of it the fact that the kremlin hesitated before taking the counter measures obviously meant that moscow was simply not to prepare out there was a certain speechlessness about how quickly the west reacted as the degree of diplomatic confrontation is just a very high end that comes at a very wrong time for russia and for russian president putin just one day before the presidential election yuri

his big test however comes on friday he will join his latest so i drew see a dortmund's for an open training session. to get. difficult due to. the sort of. it's a part training for now but ballz athleticism and no small measure of confidence mean the most def ready just crossover in sports could really happen. and it would be absolutely incredible if it does but meantime it is crunch time for players from the thirty two teams taking part in the football world cup as their coaches will decide who gets selected to play in russia their talents will be tested in a couple of friendly matches and one of the juiciest clashes reigning champions germany need fellow european giants spain on friday. it's almost decision time on friday night germany take on spain in the first of two world cup warm up matches for coach joachim love it's a chance to test his side's mettle against a fellow tournament favorites and an opportunity for his players to show why they deserve a states on the plane to russia competition is this thesis that. suzanne you sort of view but we have always had good play is it's. not ju

alleged theft of intellectual property the move knocked seven hundred points off of the del jones and it drew promises of retaliation from beijing they already faced steep costs for from tariffs on steel and aluminum that go into effect tomorrow. the tariffs will hit more than a thousand categories of chinese goods the identities of which are to come later trump's actions follow a trade investigation into china's acquisition of technology and trade secrets through unfair measures the outcome was no surprise china has built its own domestic industrial base in part by buying co-opting and sometimes hacking secrets from other nations according to trump it was past time for the country and others he believes or like it to be called out. we're doing things for this country that should have been done for many many years we've had this abuse by many other countries and groups of countries that were put together in order to take advantage of the united states and we don't want that to happen we're not going to let that happen. yet while china's methods have angered many critics say trumps focus on th

or national rifle association drew particular fire for its role in opposing tighter regulations on guns. but many of the people here say they're ready to vote out of existence to take campaign donations from various groups trying to block gun before it you know five people like us the more of the oregon's the more support we have and the more support we have i think for have a shot in making our gun laws a lot tighter. a show of force from hundreds of thousands asking their lawmakers to help make america safer and. the turkish ministry says it now has complete control of the ethnically courage of offer and region in northern syria as comes a wake up for turkish forces and syrian fighters gains control of the city of afrin the kurdish y p g militia turkey launched operation olive branch and january in a bid to clear the region off the white p.g. which i'm career regards as a terrorist group. turkish and free syrian army flags fly side by side enough taken on sunday talk you know claims the two allies have rested complete control of the way to a free region from kurdish forces. no those l

hanover cologne got a crucial victory over leverkusen branding be oxburgh glad back and hoffenheim drew i tracked thumped my hands how lost her shaka one involves for under way life's a take on fire and a fight a night's game should guard beat five or. thanks for watching. earth a home for saving google into those tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas that protect the climate and boost green energy solutions to inspire people to take action. on t w. we make up over three quarters of africa that hundred twenty five we are the seventy seven percent.

or national rifle association drew particular ire for its role in opposing tighter regulations on guns. but many of the people here say they're ready to throw out the things to take in pain donations from various groups trying to block for. people like us the more of the more advanced the more support we have in the more support we have i think we have a shot in making our gun laws a lot tighter. a show of force from hundreds of thousands passing their lawmakers to help make america safer. for no one now and there has been a surprise in the opening race of the season in australia with ferrari's a german driver as the bottom fattal assuming a dramatic victory mark webber was found to have views. fortis death joins me here is time you were asked and mark who actually expected that were a no no everyone thought lewis hamilton would win so it's good for the rest of the seas makes it more exciting absolutely well let's take a look at some of the action from melbourne that battle managed in front of world champion new is how will ten major race pit stop under safety car conditions battle and

win for life sick over byan in the weekend's other games where men beat out blood back at hoffenheim drew i interact from to mind last two hatter shaka one unfolds burke and in friday night's game got beat by a book. here's a quick reminder of the top story vladimir putin appears to have won a fourth term as president of russia partial results suggest he stake in more than seventy percent of the vote. you're watching news from berlin i'm all coming at the top of the hour but don't forget you can always get the latest news and information around the clock by logging on to a web site. called and people watching. the race for immortality has begun leg leading neuroscientists are researching ways to replicate the human brain. and george are taking over the physical labor. good human brain is designed for stroke lead new enjoys fun with artificial consciousness or the number one item on the market going to transfer of tissue morning.

confirmed as members of the end around it a crime family is right drew some of them from the organized crime and corruption reporting project thank you very much for talking to you thanks so much. jim is federal court has just overturned a model verdict in a case involving a death caused by street creasing the case concerns a man who was killed as a result of a navy get congress on one in spain to call for us to live on a boat in court had earlier found the two races give because they were aware the actions could cause the death of this but the federal court ruled that intention to kill was not proven and said the man should face manslaughter charges instead. for more on this case i'm joined now by professor a constant monson from the department of law at the fee university here in london he was involved in filing today's appeal welcome professor months another view of what the ruling what you had expected what's your reaction to the verdict. yes after the auroral session three weeks ago this rule could be expected and my reaction is that i think the federal court did right and second

region to separate from catalonia this comes as former catalan leader carr last pushed him off with drew his bid for a second term on thursday. in a century after a british women gained the right to vote activist celebrities and politicians are joining a rally for gender equality on the streets of london demonstrators on the march for women are calling for an end to violence and. nation and the workplace. voters have overwhelmingly rejected a plan to abolish their t.v. license fee the final count shows more than seventy one percent voting no in sunday's referendum a mandatory feat for radio and television programming costs around four hundred euros per household every year and provides funding for public broadcasters. will see because you're watching news still to come the film industries biggest and brightest stars are descending on hollywood for the ninetieth a cademy awards we preview the contenders opening for oscar glory tonight. and two weeks russians will head to the polls for national elections president vladimir putin's challengers lag far behind him but that hasn't stopped him

president donald trump has stepped in and drew a definite lime on the unsolicited approach. welcom is the words largest producer of mobile phone chips licensing its technology which apple for example depends on for its i phones is a real cash cow that brought in five billion dollars and twenty seventeen this makes qualcomm an attractive targets for its competitor broadcom based in singapore to one hundred twenty one billion dollars deal would have been the technology industries most costly take over after it would have also created a new semiconductor heavyweight samsung an intel have to largest market share individually welcome as the fifth largest producer of semiconductors and broadcom a key pass to sixth place combined the companies would have had the third largest market share in the semiconductor industry broadcom singapore connections and china's potential future influence over the u.s. chip maker immediately arrest national security concerns when the deal was announced last year broadcom it up to its decision to move its headquarters to the u.s. but dispel those conc

the british government and so they just ate their words they just sort of turn around and said ok we drew those red lines in the senate yesterday and we just walk right across them today i think because there's shifting sands and politics our correspondent barbara vigil on the story for us tonight in london barbara thank you very much. and here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world german chancellor angela merkel is making an official trip to poland where she's meeting prime minister much. more of it skeet and president. merkel's trip comes with relations between germany and poland at a low point amid disagreements on migration policy and controversial polish judicial reforms the substance used to poison russian. script all and his daughter yulia in the u.k. is due for testing an international team of weapons experts has arrived to test samples of the nerve agent which was used in the attack the nerve agent is known as no vigil a the u.k. alleges that russia is most likely behind that attack. turkey is not letting up in its campaign against the kurds i

difficult to handle and his party particularly the party leadership and the analysis now on all sides drew the line allowing him to come into the new cabinet with angela merkel the continuation of this current government and there is now it's the end of a political career absolutely he's of the running also who are the likely candidates who could replace him as a former foreign minister for the s.p.d. there's a lot of discussion now it could because it could be a poem on my bet would be on to less of a man from what i'm hearing he's the former parliamentary party leader of the social democrats and current vice president of the german parliament were due to learn exactly who will be on the social democrat side in this cabinet machall tomorrow on friday will read. who the c.d.u. is sending and we know that german chancellor angela merkel is including one of her fiercest critics also in this new cabinet is the s.p.d. reconned going into a new look a new coalition government with down signal god bless you mention these of a popular politician absolutely at the height of his popularity he now i

got a crucial victory over leverkusen in the other games braman beat alex berg back and hoffenheim drew on track dumped mines humber gloucester herta shako one involves underway leipsic take on byron and then friday night's game stood guard beat freiburg a new documentary has premiered this week in belgium portraying one family's journey into their traumatic past ninety one year old on week as a whole the cost survivor his son is a renowned cartoonist who has depicted his father's life in a graphic novel d.w. met. ahead of the premiere of the new film. litigate i'm one of the last holocaust survivors in belgium it's been there's only three or four of us left the fia. everyone else was burnt. to death. only kiszko was fourteen when he was taken by the gestapo he survived more than three years imprisoned in eleven different concentration camps. and accounted for i mean he's. my whole family died by that my mother my father and for both of my sisters they're all gassed and burned i see my study one family members who were in concentration camps i'm the only one who survived and returned to

incredibly canny move what a lot of people over thirty quickly and she also drew one of her major critics into the cabinet in the cabinet in the making and spawn a very fierce critic of angle ameritrade he's she's neutralized him effectively will potentially neutralize the by actually putting him within the cabinet rather than having him outside the cab you keep your friends close and your enemies closer if you will what is i'm going to hold what is she and this new government what do they have to do immediately in terms of relations with the rest of the world and obviously i'm thinking about donald trump and these tariffs and they talk of a trade war with the e.u. yeah well that is the most immediate challenge and she has to tackle that within the european union and the second big challenge is europe is the european project and then we have turkey and we have russia and then we have the friction within the european union. and we have brecht's that all these all these other elements that she has to take a ride away and she will know when then it's also about the european project we are ta

levy on steel and ten percent on alba minium the measure has sent stock markets plummeting average drew an immediate response from the e.u. it says it will react with tariffs of its own. china is the u.s. is main target with the tariffs for years the country has been overproducing steel and aluminum and selling it off and dumping prices donald trump has been moaned this for some time blaming china for the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in his country. but beijing is less than impressed with this response it's already threatening with measures officially though the tone remains diplomatic. john wanting to me for china urges the u.s. to show restraint in using protective trade measures and respect multilateral trade rules. trumps mating with the u.s. steel companies left open whether the tariffs would focus on just one country or on all steel and aluminum imports generally the result worldwide insecurity even among america's closest allies. this morning we joined have clarity from the administration about whether a lot of exemption will be in place for a stroll and whether or not this

his big test however comes on friday he will join bundesliga so i drew see adult men for an open training session. here which are so difficult to do. the sort of it's applied training to now but ballz athleticism and no small measure of confidence made the most outrageous crossover in sports could really happen. time now for culture news with robin merrill and we're looking at italian writer roberto saviano was just completed a book tour here in germany nothing particularly special about that except it's saviano has been under twenty four hour police protection for over ten years because a death threats from the mafia the plot thickens here it's because of his books they expose the true would talladega of the mafia in southern italy so i mean you know he could presumably hide away robin and increase his own personal safety but he chooses not to do sell why well he believes his celebrity profile probably protects him a bit i mean he thinks the media attention makes it more difficult for the mafia to get rid of him i mean he's better informed than i was about this i'm sure yeah i know. but

the exhibition beckman love the theater in one thousand twenties he wrote a few plays him self and drew where ever there was a stage nearby. he painted his friend the actor harnish dior and his family and even visited the film studios in bubbles berg in its early days but he also posed questions in his pictures what role does the individual the artist play in this world theater. i think where do i stand which stage of my on this is of course a big topical issue in our time when self-expression is a huge topic in politics and in social networks. an extensive program of cultural events around the exhibition the theme is politics as a stage discussions with theatre people and in the summer a real circus will drop by max is another big hit for the museum. so the exhibition looks fantastic but we have to talk about the museum bobbery need self that's that's been collecting accolades ever since it opened last year it has and rightly so i have to say it is completely stunning it's down to one man mainly very generous billionaire benefactor called hasso plattner he made his money in software an

started as a pharmacist moved into fitness training and is now a model as well as a mountaineer when she drew attention and to criticism for working out in her headscarf she took to social media and all set up a private facebook group and it quickly gained more than half a million members the women in the form are having conversations that they say they may not necessarily feel comfortable having in public. to come forward and share. their story moments were during this. fire they made it through. some has already climbed some of the world's highest peaks mt kilimanjaro elbrus mount kenya and mount sinai and every single expedition that i go to most of the time i'm one of the only covered women you know the expedition but they're just fascinated that the arab world actually has one of the like oh my god we don't know that you're even allowed to go driving and then it opens room for discussion and it opens room for having an open minded conversation and she took that conversation to the internet in twenty fourteen she started a facebook group called surviving who initially added. girls you kno

his daughter says belgian troops posted at the school could have stopped the killing but instead with drew leaving those inside to their fate. we hope to have a report there for you we might come back to that so moving on to the. i think we're there. for me to my place because she wants to protect her children and doesn't want them to know how close she came to death she finally once justice and believes that thousands of lives could have been saved. if i'm really angry our lives were worthless in rwanda at the time of aunty you land us father was once the country's foreign minister these pictures show him at a meeting soon after the family had to flee from hutu militias to learn i was thirteen years old the family sought refuge at the don bosco school in kigali which was protected by belgian un peacekeepers you learn that shows me a photo of her sister in front of the building she says they believe the u.n. soldiers would keep them safe but then suddenly a un jeep drove away i heard people shouting they are leaving my mother panicked and tried to get away people were asking the soldiers t

the procedure for determining age is highly controversial medical examiners such as professor henry drew it have to sign off the radiologists assessments without verifying them he finds the method floored so . the medical examiners confirmation of the assessment forms the basis of a decision on whether a person is granted asylum or expelled it's enormously important that this evaluation to be as accurate as possible to make it. so it is a quick doesn't it many medical experts no longer want to sign up for the controversial process which decides the future of refugees such as saeed international cross-checks come to different conclusions in almost half the cases but politicians are sticking with the system. of law that we decided not to process the fourteen thousand eight assessments in the same way as the criminal justice system which is also controversial everyone understands we can't evaluate exact age we can only measure a likely probability that. a bag of all thought up sides age check can only give the swedish authorities a semi scientific basis on which to decide his future the vie

you know i really didn't discuss it very much drew them honestly i made that decision by myself really it was a different mindset it was a different thing what you look at the raw deal i think it's terrible i guess you do or don't. work with like barbaric.