but according to its founder the grand opening has been a struggle locals in berlin a split over the idea of a mosque which has taken over from a protestant church europe correspondent peter all of us across the story. germany's first liberal mosque opened its doors on friday here inside a protestant church but despite coming together in a spirit of peace it was a plea a police presence visible as the opening so goes the way all a welcome at the even good. no matter what gender sexual orientation all religious affiliation one thing that isn't allowed is the organizers say this is partly to do with security reasons but mostly as that they see that the full face veil has become overly politicized i asked people in the local area what they meet with the new mosque how they do it i get married in this church and my children were baptized here and now here's a new culture that we have to get accustomed to meet these days we have a multicultural society so we have to deal with. is coming from. standards skeptical about whether it's going to work there is a possibility it could cause so

terrorist attack out but we saw it in nice we saw in berlin and of course where you are in london twice recently in recent months how would you explain this trend mohammed. well i mean this such attack nobody comes look at or. can try to. be in or try to prevent prevent it from from happening we experience what's happened in westminster and london bridge and here we are another extremists from maybe a different type of extremist they are and they are using the thing in the same methods and their aim both extremists aim to divide our community to spread hatred division and. racism among our community we shouldn't let them do that we should stand all together as communities to condemn such utter and try to make sure that this never happen again i mean we just only yesterday we had this event the memory of the killing of joe cook's the m.p. who killed on by a far right to extremists who we all communities together talking on this and the next day we've seen the horrible incident happen next to the governing we hand in finsbury park area and this is why the police should take these si

was really in power in berlin turned out it was the generals and that possibly wasn't a very good idea maybe that's the case in washington ok appreciate your insights on this as ever mark harmon director of the crisis research institute thank you for that. thank you. we've just heard a lot of this is the u.s. the conflicts in line with russia's proven effective at mitigating strategic miscalculations and deescalating it tensions that line from the u.s. led coalition. the u.k. now a van is plowed into a crowd of pedestrians near a mosque in london injuring ten people one person also died at the scene although the cause of death is currently unclear the incident which is being treated by the authorities as a terror attack took place in the north of the city police first responded to reports of the vehicle hitting people outside the muslim welfare house on seven sisters road within a minute of it happening crowds were leaving ramadan prayers at the finsbury park mosque prime minister to resign may has already condemned the incident. country woke to news of another terrorist attack. o

allies germany and turkey continues to escalate after berlin announced plans to come good on its threat to withdraw its troops means base in turkey and relocate them to jordan with more peter on. well it all looks very messy at the moment the latest from the german defense ministry is that the they will start pulling out of their troops from the insular air base in turkey in july on the line the defense minister she outlined their plan saying that they would continue as normal until the end of the month until the end of june our flight plans as part of the anti eisel coalition are set after that will be transferring our tanker aircraft as quickly as possible to jordan with a role that germany has been providing as part of the coalition fighting against isis has been reconnaissance air surveillance well the tornado fighter jets that carry out those reconnaissance flights won't be fully operational from their new base in santee in jordan until october we hear that because of the equipment moving from turkey over to jordan will take that amount of time well this all started because

to overcome for ties between berlin and ankara messy you know it's very messy indeed at the moment relations between germany and turkey who are well quite intrinsically linked really there's a lot of business goes on between the two there's also an awful lot of turkish people live here or people who descended from turkish people who moved to germany many years ago but the relations that diplomatic relations between berlin and at an all time low and this is symbolized really by the timeline that's been set out by the german defense minister live on the line for the pulling out of troops from the incirlik air base she set forward the plan and what we can see is that well they're going to start pulling them out next month. until the end of june our flight plans as part of the anti eisel coalition are set after that will be transferring our tanker aircraft as quickly as possible to jordan. well the defense ministry said that troops will be ready and ready for deployment in their new home in jordan at the. air base there. but however the main role of germany in that area is part of the

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between in berlin is at its lowest ebb i think it's been in recent memory we saw tensions rise over. turkish want the want from the turkish president to come here to germany to speak to the people ahead of the the referendum that took place in his country he was denied that we've also seen berlijn in and clash over german journalists being detained in turkey and we've also seen turkey and germany clash when it comes to the comes to germany potentially giving asylum to some of those who are accused of taking part in or at least organizing the attempted coup in turkey last year the very latest in this diplomatic snafu that keeps deepening is that president after he attends the g twenty summit here in in germany which will be and how coming up on the seventh and eighth of july after that he wants to address the turkish population who live in the state of north rhine-westphalia it's a big there's a big turkish population live in that particular part of western germany however he's coming up against a brick wall when it comes to finding a venue he try to book a place in dos and he was to

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between moscow and berlin. i think this is an absolutely artificial accusation it does not hold ground i am now in berlin and nobody who my spoke in those two days in berkeley in. supports those accusations i think this is just a kind of participation of some german officials in this. global interaction can pain which started in the in the united states then went to britain france and so on accusing russia about trying to subvert the political process in western countries there are those accusations of some of the stupid look in britain who were accused of trying to meddle into british elections but russia has no possibility to do this then what is russia to gain from this meddling and by the way it was dropped immediately after the elections there was no meddling to resume has partially lost the elections because she was there.

it is the king live from berlin. victims of last week's grenfell tower blaze could have been hit not just by the smoke and fire but also poisoned by an extremely toxic gas that's according to the latest expert analysis on the causes of the london tragedy let's cross live now to artie's polly boyko to find out more about this hello ali thanks for joining goes so what do we know on this investigation so far. poisons go to cyanide is probably one of the deadliest and there are reports now that some of the victims of the grand felt how a fire may have died from cyanide poisoning apparently the insulation boards fitted to the outside of the building could have been letting off cyanide as the building burned the reason we know this is because one of the hospitals treating the victims of the fire has said that they've treated three people for cyanide poisoning and a person with cyanide poisoning will feel the effects of it within several seconds and they could pass out and die of a heart attack within several minutes so one assumption is that the gas may have incapacitated the people in

artie's piece all of the reports from berlin. german parliament has adopted this law that would allow what's up messages or any other messaging service that using crippin to be loved those messages that are sent to be read by the authorities what they do is they intercepted before it sent from one device to another where the encryption takes place. now this is a move that it's been referred to by the interior minister here in germany thomas the amazing is essential when it comes to the fight against terror we've also heard similar things coming from the. european union summit that's ongoing in brussels at the moment from the e.u. council president donald he said that authorities need access to this type of information if they're to try and stop future terrorist attacks. have also agreed on the need to cooperate close loose online industry. we are calling on social media companies to do whatever is necessary to prevent the firth of terrorists or to go on the internet and practice this means developing clear tools to detect and three move such materials automatically but we have h

the streets of berlin and right in front of the bundestag to ask people here what words they associate with germany if i say germany to you what all the five words you associate with germany the five. but rushed. out. favorites it's me who did it to close on time. and. i also think perfect with germany for me to neighbors filmmaking didn't understand mrs merkel the parliament the chancellor rhee the motorway that's also very good in germany still it's leash . pride order punctuality those are only three but those are the most important things we also asked them exactly what they thought of a glimmer cols least this is part of this there's of involved oh yeah there's broad it's not bad it's all the volunteer fire department is good freedom of the press sports clubs. broadband but out west it's ok but no car you want to get torch and we are proud nation but we don't identify ourselves with the german army the federal union democracy but we do identify ourselves with the rest of the words. ok in german army is ok sport for the handicapped ok tough questions are we ready to face

your pardon here in berlin now mr gabriele had said that some of the points that have been put forward by the saudi side were negotiable however some of them went too far now what was included in this list of demands with things like the closure of an air base. a turkish air base that was located in kits are also the shutting down of the al jazeera news network and all of its affiliates mr gabriele saying that in the eyes of his government well this just goes too far. in the list of. some of them of course. able to negotiate some other this would. the. challenge to the national sovereignty of the day of the list is more or less group provocative this is difficult to answer. difficult to answer but also it's involving iran which is whose foreign minister mr gabriele's be meeting with throughout chews day the while it has been suggested that the whole idea of this blockade backed by saudi arabia was to try and isolate iran in the region but also bring qatar under control bring it to heel well what it seems to have done is that it's well brought. together and it's also you see fro

foreign minister of iran he's in berlin for talks at the moment and what we are seeing at the moment though is particularly saudi arabia and iran facing off over this issue of qatar. there have been those who have suggested that the idea of putting this boycott on guitar was to isolate iran in the region and also bring kits are. being is. seeing. to be seen with. snuff. and get support to get over some of these demands of the. diplomatic and certainly not yet will be looking to hear what the. say. later on the soft yen or to. all of europe. in the central europe correspondent be sure that. you're in moscow to deliver it goes five men accused of killing a profile russian opposition politician soft back in twenty fifty a correspondent covering this to within a couple of let's cross to. the verdict is likely to go. well we did back to to hear that coming from the court later today as jury deliberations in the trial over the killing of a russian opposition politician by the stamps are currently under here in the capital now we could get out of the jury received instructions from the judg

certainly not over yet will be looking to hear what the iranian foreign minister has to say here in berlin later on this afternoon. a jury in moscow is jus to deliver its verdicts against five men accused of killing high profile russian opposition politician parsnips off in twenty fifteen r.t.s. medina caution of a as more. over a week ago the jury received instructions from the judge to answer twenty six questions connected with them and lawyers say that the verdict is highly likely to be delivered this tuesday now all of five defendants are accused of murder for hire as part of an organized group according to the russian investigative committee these suspected killers. were offered at least fifteen million rubles which is somewhere around two hundred fifty thousand dollars to carry out the mud now the killing of bodies took place on the night of february twenty eighth two thousand and fifteen he was the regional governor and a deputy pm under the president but he's yeltsin and. back in two thousand but he became an opposition politician so many in the western media now portray his killin

being drafted in but it's one particular group from right here in berlin that hit the headlines. and formed that hundreds of forces did not behave properly there and therefore they send them back to berlin it's alleged that as many as three hundred officers are being sent home after excessive partying at the former refugee center that they were being housed in base included scenes of heavy drinking sex and public urination the german tabloid newspaper billed how some pictures of just before the party got really out of hand as you can imagine police chiefs involved in organizing humbug less than happy the forces are back in but in with this action the police commander has made it very clear that this kind of behavior by officers is unacceptable the police will now start a further examination of all facts and circumstances the scale of consequences following the incident will be a result of these examinations while police getting caught letting their let's face it just about everything else down may seem like a bit of a giggle the security operation for the g. twenty is a huge deal the

problem . before the next the red faces a berlin this police department after hundreds of officers deployed to help secure next month's g twenty summit in hamburg was sent home early after reports of wild partying is peter all over with more. just over two weeks germany will be conducting one of the biggest security operations in its recent history as the g twenty summit arrives in hamburg police from all over the country is being drafted in but it's one particular group from right here in berlin that hit the headlines. police informed us that hundreds of forces did not behave properly there and therefore they send them back to berlin it's alleged that as many as three hundred officers are being sent home after excessive partying at the former refugee center that they were being housed in base included scenes of heavy drinking sex and public urination the german tabloid newspaper billed how some pictures of just before the party got really out of hand as you can imagine police chiefs involved in organizing humbug less than happy the forces are back in berlin with the sanction the p

leave relations between berlin and korea continue to nose diverse germany issues a warning to president early on the details about down live reaction after this short break. it's called the future we don't need. everyone in the world should experience pfleger and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to a gesture. the modern world come along for the ride. of an opiate crisis in america killing thousands of people every month or so you've got people walking around the no two. trying to. iraq i'm an american and. it's quite shocking but it saves the pharmaceutical companies want to pay themselves huge bonuses executive bonuses are what matter not people's health get that much and they go there's a slightly different approach to people's well being they think health care is maybe part of the package of human rights and of course they're right about that but the culture is richer. seventy minutes into the program welcome back there is little sign of a thaw in the simmering rod between germany and turkey no the german foreign ministers advising president not to hold p

government is of the same opinion on this. let's go live now to berlin on our europe correspondent peter all of our peter i suppose it's lining up to be an or quite old g. twenty isn't it but this has been building for months. all the diplomatic relations between birth and are at an all time low we heard from sigma gabriele there the german foreign minister now martin shultz the social democratic party his candidate for chancellor of course the former president of the european parliament he's also said that foreign politicians that trade on our values at home should not be given a stage to speak here in germany talking about the one we've also seen venue's were to want to try to book to to give top give a talk in north rhine-westphalia they declined that was just last week we've also seen this diplomatic situation just descend into the gutter around the referendum that took place in turkey back in april the representatives of the zero to one side wanted to speak here in germany they were shut down that resulted in some very angry scenes and some very angry words indeed from both sides ge

president of berlin's university of applied sciences who thinks mrs merkel has to yield to what society wants now. what you can see is that society changes the problems are not always the same and the politicians who. want to drum up support for their party have to really look what people are concerned about the security surveillance issue can be negotiated in terms of you get more security you get a little less security where is the other issue when it comes to same sex marriage you cannot say you get a little more same sex marriage education maternity same sex marriage so the much more important issue for coalition negotiations. are the same sex marriage issue and not the security issue and so they. probably bound to find a solution if they want to have a coalition with the liberals. one hospital to suffer claimed republic of donetsk in east ukraine in the ongoing difficulties having in treating cancer patients from both sides of the ongoing conflict. preferably seventy covered in your car to talk with commuters when you stick. your mattress for superstar number from the famil

goldbach's lot of questions is there paula thanks the up there from berlin will follow it up with more comment i'm sure throughout the day to. the iraqi prime minister has declared victory over islamic states the army is recaptured the el nuri mosque in mosul which is where isis to clear the caliphate three years ago but months of heavy fighting between the terrorists and the u.s. led coalition of devastated not only the city itself but also the lives of hundreds of thousands of locals. within minutes of mosul's liberation headlines around the world dominated by the recapturing of the city iraq's prime minister is declaring it and. in mosul the end of the caliphate iraq's a bold claim as it takes mosul famous mosque iraqi forces say they've taken iconic mosque in the heart of mosul that was destroyed by isis iraqi forces in battle the last i think fighters in those are. in what is undoubtedly a victory in ridding a rock of the scourge of isis it's important to remember the effect on the people of mosul more against the of a senior correspondent spent over a month there during the

berlin here's our tease policy or a new bill has been passed that urges web giants such as facebook you tube and twitter to deal with the whole issue of fake news and potential hate speech now according to this bill a company has twenty four hours in which it must delete content that has been flagged as being potentially hate speech or fake news and the failure to do so well in a find that could be as high as fifty million euros now the proposal was put forward by the german minister. justice and consumer protection and it talks about companies to be quoting obviously criminal offenses but of course the question remains to whom is this obvious and at the same time who decides what is fake news this is certainly not a hard and fast rule and it's not clear now there are concerns that the bull could lead to some form of censorship this is of course not the first time that regulation is being looked at as a way of dealing with so-called fake news earlier this year you had facebook setting up its own fact checking community now what facebook is doing is a using third party fact checkers