with the killing of ten muslims which we documented in that reuters investigation in general though authorities in me i'm on. abuses of civilians they say that their activities targeting the range of community a simply targeting insurgents and militants who are posing a threat to them in the region show it thank you very much for bringing us up to date there d.w. charlotte charleston pill there in bangkok. well some football and german cup the german cup is down to its final four teams raymond host by new nick tomorrow but tonight's first semifinal features an interesting match up between hamburg and life's a hamburg were relegated from the bundesliga last season for the first time in their history but suddenly this season fans are dreaming of a german cup title for the first time again since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven i heard says you're in the second tier may be nearing its end sitting second in the table but it's not because of their recent form the top hasn't won the league game in their last five encounters in the german cup though it's been a different story has cr

intelligence program which was exposed by a reuters earlier this year this is their report. i am hoping that cooler heads will prevail when the united arab emirates and its allies broke with neighboring could tor over a host of grievances in june twenty seventh a group of american hackers working for a secret u.a.e. spy program sprang into action as first revealed by reuters those american operatives had once worked for the n.s.a. and other u.s. spy agencies but they now worked as part of a u.a.e. cyber squad called project raven using skills they learned in the u.s. to spy on opponents of the u.a.e. monarchy the team of americans now turned those skills an american ally qatar as the u.a.e. joined by saudi arabia egypt and baccarin imposed a blockade accusing could torah financing extremist groups in the region writers correspondents joel shechtman and christopher being uncovered the story so what we found was that after the blockade took effect project or a van ramped up its monitoring of. you know of qatar in general of its surveillance of qatar and specifically ramped up

with the killing of ten muslims which we documented in that reuters investigation in general though authorities in me i'm on. abuses of civilians they say that their activities targeting the range of community a simply targeting insurgents and militants who are posing a threat to them in the region show it thank you very much for bringing us up to date there d.w. charlotte chelsea until they're in bangkok. you are watching d.w. news still to come rich in tradition but desperate to show they belong to the best hamburger tonight take on a young life's a club in the semifinals of the germany come. to russia where the upper house of parliament has approved a controversial new internet law as did the lower house two weeks ago the law supporters say it will help insulate the country from cyberattacks it aims to keep as much internet traffic as possible on russian servers but critics say it's just the latest move by the kremlin to stamp out dissent mccance veto of blogs about political and social problems in russia he thinks the new little could spell the end of internet freedom. when the

supreme court has rejected the final appeal of two jailed reuters journalists they are serving a seven year prison sentence relating to their reporting on a military crackdown against rick lynch of course. watching the news from berlin we have more soccer for you coming up in kickoff in just a minute that will give you a review of the bonus league is match day searching for smaller stories. thanks for. playing. kickoff. so how was. ours was the best. the best place for. the best gold. cup going to sleep the highlights. the colby's in germany to learn german to look beneath. why not learn with him d w z learning course because fake. we like to think it's cheaper to burn the fossil fuels that is to get the energy of the way it is the real cost of doing things is the fact of the world around us is warming up. at all to read late fifty years from now the sea levels will rise and we'll have the problems in almost all coastal countries the world. requires the governments to begin to act begin to try to tax. the tax the carbon it's released into the atmosphere it's one of the ways of trying t

and we're used to saying that they believe that these senior officials are telling reuters that these men were spying on behalf of the united arab emirates and that the reason they may have been here is because the first man arrived shortly after the death of saudi journalist and washington post columnist jamal khashoggi he was murdered in the saudi consulate here in istanbul in october and according to what a senior official has told reuters he arrived just days after chris show g.'s murder then another man followed perhaps to assist with quote the workload now an official tells roeder reuters that the operatives have been monitored for the last six months but again it's still very unclear exactly what they were looking for a senior official says that they may have been here as a result of the shoji murder but they also may have been here to spy on arab dissidents this is a developing story and we'll bring you more when we have it. and sasha thanks very much. thousands of protesters are still gathered outside the military headquarters in the sudanese capital khartoum after the bigges

reuters is reporting that a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helped the united arab emirates spy on prominent arab media figures targets for the hakas included the chairman of al-jazeera as well as a host of a b.b.c. arabic television show those are your headlines the news continues announcer after counting the costs they were lost. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week indonesia's on the road to becoming one of the world's biggest economies we find out what's holding it back and how that could damage the president's hopes for reelection. also this week as the world's biggest democracy gets ready to vote who's financing political parties there. and mexico's leftist president swept to power on a promise to help the country's poorest but now he's axing social programs we'll look at why. indonesia's economy isn't growing as fast as the president promised when he was elected five years ago joko widodo is spending huge sums to try to get

this according to reuters. sevengain, sony adr's up point super tent on reports that third point is looking for investment in 70 shares -- in sony shares. it is looking at up to $1 billion for those sony shares. let's check in now on the bloomberg first word news. here's kailey leinz. kailey: a lightning rod for criticism over immigration policy is leaving the trump administration. bloomberg has learned homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen has been asked to resign. people familiar with the president say he wants a strong law-enforcement type figure in charge of the department, frustrated that the border control issue is being solved faster. british prime minister theresa may has lined up meetings tomorrow with the leaders of germany and france. the eu may press the u.k. to stay longer, trying to avoid recurring crises and other drama. eu leaders meet wednesday. in turkey, the lira falling after comments from president erdogan urging the country's election board to look into alleged about tampering in lo

meanwhile supreme court has rejected the final appeal of two reuters journalists serving a prison sentence because of their reporting on the country's crackdown on muslims should also and by whom have spent more than sixteen months in detention they were arrested during an investigation into the killing of ten during a muslim men during a military crackdown in the western part of man ma a district court sentenced the two journalists to seventy s in prison last september for illegally possessing official documents they've been since awarded the pulitzer prize for their work. for for more now southeast asia correspondent charlayne joins me charlotte not that this appeal has been rejected what prospect of the journalists have of being released. well there is now know why a court that these generals can take their appeal to the supreme court is mia mas top court so that really does quash any hopes for these journalists of some sort of judicial reprieve that doesn't mean to say though that all hopes are lost their supporters have been putting out statements today saying that they will continue

it and two of the people they murdered were reuters journalists so you would think maybe reuters over all the media our lives maybe reuters would prize their hair from the exhaust and fight for a songes freedom but no their head is firmly planted in their eyes like a vise grip like joe biden's hand on a young girl shoulder all right it is on their on their. zero people have been arrested for the collateral murders yet julian assange has been arrested for revealing them moving on wiki leaks brought us to guantanamo bay procedures showing that many of the prisoners were completely innocent and that some were hidden from red cross officials because you know when you're torturing innocent people you don't want to do it in peace and quiet away from the away from the prying eyes and it's very easy to get distracted and then you lose your place and then you've got to start all over ok none of the soldiers torturing innocent people to get mole have been arrested for it yet julian assange has proved to be a wing it wiki leaks also came out with the secret bibles of scientology which showed tha

just to update that, from the reuters news agency, 6a% of votes counted, neta nyahu at reuters news agency, 6a% of votes counted, netanyahu at the moment forecast to take 38 of israel's 120 knesset seats forecast to take 38 of israel's120 knesset seats against 35 predicted for benny gantz, that coming in from haaretz, via reuters. only a partial prediction at the moment but slightly more up—to—date than what you have heard there. with just three days before the uk is officially due to leave the european union, there are signs the eu may be favouring a long extension to the brexit process, longer than the brief extension the british prime minister has been seeking. if so, it is likely to cause further problems for theresa may at home, particularly in her own party. she spent tuesday visiting germany's chancellor and france's president, and meets all 27 eu leaders for a summit on wednesday. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. no—one could accuse the prime minister of not covering the ground. but clocking up the miles isn't the same is convincing your audience. theresa may la

and meanwhile supreme court has rejected the final appeal of two jailed for reuters journalists there serving a seven year prison sentence related to their reporting on a military crackdown against rohingya muslims. up next kick off a review of the bundesliga subash state thirty i'm amazed that she appears to have your company and do remember you can see lots want to read said this interview dot com about a. kick off. was. ours was the best. the best place for. the best goal. the bundesliga highlights. the other codons a significant cuts to the environmental good nutrient rich fruit is slim so soft last in chile a major producer the boom has had devastating results the reason growing its uses vast amounts of water and not has human and environmental causes avocado. close up in sixteen s d w. o. o. earth home to millions of species a home worth saving. google ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world like to use the protect the climate boost clean energy solutions and reforestation. using interactive content to inspire people to take action global a

journalists so you would think maybe you reuters although all the media are lags maybe reuters would prize their head from the exe and fight for a son just freedom but no their head is firmly planted in their eyes like a like a vise grip like joe biden's hand on a young girl shoulder all right it is on their on their. zero people have been arrested for the collateral murders yet julian assange has been arrested for revealing them moving on wiki leaks brought us to guantanamo bay procedures showing that many of the prisoners were completely innocent. and that some were hidden from red cross officials because you know when you're torturing innocent people you don't want to do it in peace and quiet away from the away from the prying eyes and it's very easy to get distracted and then you lose your place and then you've got to start all over ok none of the soldiers torturing innocent people are getting.

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meanwhile supreme court rejects a final appeal by two reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the running a crisis. and scientists sound the alarm about pollution levels in the world's largest lake. is a national day of mourning in sri lanka for sunday's suicide bomb victims the police have confirmed three hundred ten people were killed with the total expected to rise mass funerals are being held today and more than five hundred people remain injured ranging from a critical to a serious condition. i heard about he was points when i jumped into the interior and i saw them i don't. know the way the flow. i don't know what to do. and i was. just almost total on the floor. and not only a tight lipped so did. exactly the same next time there. were also lankans did observe three minutes of silence in memory of the dead the easter sunday explosions devastated several churches and hotels targeting worshipers and tourists the police have now arrested forty suspects the government's accused of failing to act on intelligence reports that muslim fighters possibly with foreign help were

also, weaker than the reuters poll of 47.9, and that number was 47.5 in march. i guess if you really want to find some positivity in this, we are seeing a little bit of an improvement on the manufacturing side of things, but still, overall the picture is still pretty bleak when it comes to manufacturing. and that overall number as well. early half of the day we had detail on germany and france as well let's bring in -- neil sharing group chief economist from capital economic joins us on the show we're seeing big reaction in the currency the currency is about one-third of a percentage point weaker. >> the big picture here is that green chutes starting in parts of the world yesterday we had that chinese data it seems to suggest that the chinese economy may be going through the worst. this may temper some of that deep below the data there's lots of different things going on germany -- german manufacturing, which is, of course, the powerhouse of the german economy, that is flat on its back that is a dodo and in real trouble by the looks of things by countered by the

of bashir the sudanese president has stepped down just to recap we're getting reports from reuters news agency that armored bashir the president of sudan has stepped down and see if we can go to him. morgan our correspondent in khartoum him if you can hear me can you tell us anything more about these reports that the president has in fact now stepped down. well from what we do know that is that there has been awful statement yet we are waiting for a statement from the army and the military they said that they will be announcing a statement that has been going on for four hours now north and has yet been made the head of the military the head of national security and the head of police are currently in a meeting people are the speculation is that they're trying to figure out who will replace president bashir most of his close aides and convey the confidence and the head of the acting head of the ruling party at her own have been arrested so it's very clear that at the moment here is in a very tight spot so he doesn't have any option but to hand over power to the military but no statement

so, from reuters -- [applause] >> one last honorable mention for the edgar allen paul award goes to "hidden cost" by the weather channel and telemundo. thank you, thank you to our judges, and congratulations to the winners! [applause] at this point, there is no way you are not sick of hearing me talk, so i will keep it short. when i run for this position in 2016, i told one and all but i thought it was time we reset the focus more squarely on journalism and a little more on the men and women who help to hold the most powerful institution in american life to count. i have tried to keep that promise and as part of that i have invited someone who doesn't need much of an introduction. i will simply say that i learned in the process of doing this but he is in that she has been featured three times in the new york times crossword puzzle and one-time in jeopardy. his latest book "grant" on the was published in 2017 and spent four months in the bestseller list on the new york times, it was named one of the 10 best books of the year by the new york times. chernow to twots chernow's reputation

i want spreads in general are force disappearances such as the ones alleged in this reuters report and have widespread are these so important appearances are already white spirit we know that they are being backed to systematically by say tips and so it is we have said we have documented zen heavily we have seen our eyes and number of importance appearances we documented around thousand seven hundred case when corsets appearances offers us a few years and we know zero point practice we know that the affected children we know that the effect all the people we know that they can happen even for individuals that have after cortef even ordered release we knows that there's no sort of have actually kidnapped individuals before they are being released and in course abuse appears in four months at a time so they are quite common indeed and i was behind this. so there are a number of factors behind it most importantly is a complete and absolute impunity the egyptian security forces enjoy it's a moment which is encouraged from world's youngest bicester judiciary on so one hand by not taking mea

an investigation by the reuters news agency details a bushel crackdown by the egyptian president until fatah say say after one of his main allies was killed the operation began in the summer of two thousand and fifteen after egypt's chief prosecutor has barak out was assassinated sisi responded with a sweeping anti-terrorism law that shell that security forces from prosecution over the use of force. since then egypt's interior ministry says four hundred sixty five men have been killed in shootouts with its forces official say they were members of and some had links to i sell but relatives of eleven of the dead men have told reuters their loved ones were not terrorists and they don't believe they were killed in shootouts with soldiers they say the interior ministry counts are cover stories and that the men actually died in custody after being snatched off the streets or from their homes are saying is amnesty international's egypt. he says the government is systematically targeting its critics the figures are quite shocking. everyone knows in egypt that it isn't a sort is have committed

leaving the country trying to remove president nicolas maduro is pushing for him to be arrested and reuters is reporting a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helps the united arab emirates to spy on well known faces in arab media the chairman of the al-jazeera network and the host of a b.b.c. arabic t.v. show are among the reported targets the espionage was part of a u.a.e. intelligence program exposed by reuters earlier this year has a long with the news hour in about twenty five minutes next life it's. armed vehicles transporting players riot police with. one on one east explains why indonesian soccer fight and die for the sports analogy. it's a mobile world. with cold text apps to help make our lives easier. but not everyone's benefiting. can mobile phone apps be designed to help make a better world. this series challenges app developers from around the world to visit communities who are missing out and then come up with an app that could help . a life. this week life apps is in brazil. a country that's in love with a smartphone but which remains deeply divided between the haves an

saving the building itself, thatis reuters. saving the building itself, that is key at the moment, and you can see the firefighters, you can still see the water jets can see the firefighters, you can still see the waterjets getting inside the building because it seems as though flames are inside one of the bell towers. i havejust seen notre—damejust the bell towers. i havejust seen notre—dame just a few weeks ago. we we re notre—dame just a few weeks ago. we were in paris, my family, and crowds of people from all around the world queuing up to get inside. how does this building managed to be iconic for people, from the other side of the continent come about also maintain its spiritual character? in part, is its age, and for a period, the papacy was split between rome and france. there was the avenue on papacy. the building itself is what makes it such an attractive place to visit. when you visited, i will assume you went inside and saw the magnificent front facing window, the spire and everything, but it is also a functio

intelligence program exposed by reuters earlier this year is their report. i am hoping that cooler heads will prevail when the united arab emirates and its allies broke with neighboring could tore over a host of grievances in june twenty seventh a group of american hackers working for a secret u.a.e. spy program sprang into action as first revealed by reuters those american operatives had once worked for the n.s.a. and other u.s. spy agencies but they now worked as part of a u.a.e. cyber squad called project raven using skills they learned in the u.s. to spy on opponents of the u.a.e. monarchy the team of americans now turn those skills an american ally qatar as the u.a.e. joined by saudi arabia egypt and baccarin imposed a blockade accusing qatar of by announcing extremist groups in the region reuters correspondents joel shechtman and christopher being uncovered the story so what we found was that after the blockade took effect project or a van ramped up its monitoring of. you know of qatar in general and surveillance of qatar and specifically ramped up its

that story is available on reuters. alexandria,s in virginia. you think that the immigration question should be added? caller: i am a former employee of the census bureau. i do not speak for the bureau. keep in mind that the citizenship question has been on without censuses challenge. there is a precedent. the government has the right and the power to know how many citizens live in this nation. that is a no-brainer. adding the citizenship question may discourage some people from answering the census. that being the case, that may lead to a slight undercount, but that is the risk. the people not answering have a reason. they are illegal and they do not want to be picked up. the senses is required to count the number of persons, regardless of citizenship status. therefore, states eminence apologies -- and minutes municipalitiesd should be encouraging to fill out the form. the information on the form is confidential including law enforcement, including the fbi, all of the information goes into magnetic bubble memory and is buried in a nuclear bomb

beyond our supreme court has rejected the final appeal of two reuters journalists serving in prison serving a prison sentence because of their reporting on the country's crackdown on revenge of muslims. and wall own have spent more than sixteen months in detention they were arrested during an investigation into the killing of ten rooms of muslim men during a military crackdown in the western part of myanmar a district court said sentenced to two journalists to seven years in prison last september for illegally possessing official documents they've since been awarded the surprise for their work well for more let's bring in david obvious charlotte chel some pills he's standing by for us in bangkok charlotte now that this appeal has been rejected what prospects to the journalists have a being released. terry this was me and miles top court the supreme court that issued this that means essentially that legal avenues are exhausted for these two journalists now let's be clear that is a huge blow not just for the journalism cells but also for their wives who were in court to hear the verdict and t

economic sanctions according to a report from reuters the wire service review documents they say rips records sales from oil of venezuela's state oil company p.t. b.s.a. to his russian counterpart rose at discounted prices the reported sales to rose now would be partially effective as a means of selling oil and obtaining desperately needed a foreign exchange while venezuela is ravaged by u.s. sanctions those sanctions have worsened the oil rich nations decades poured on mastic production and recurrent inflation problems that are typical and petro states reuters reports that the sales from p.t.s.d. to rose now are the product of discussions between caracas and moscow that began in january and that an indian company reliance industries is party to the transactions . cryptocurrency companies are taking big steps to bridge the digital world with the physical world while the majority of the users now are still traders a big portion of the population wants to spare. adoption to currency to be used for goods and services you have the hoarders and you have the spenders while it is still diffi

reuters is reporting a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helped the united arab emirates spy on prominent arab media figures the hack was part of a u.a.e. intelligence program exposed by the news agency earlier this year targets for the hackers included the chairman of al-jazeera and the host of a b.b.c. arabic television show. as the headlines were back to the top of the hour. in the colbert of twenty eight dean the eyes of the water were fixed on the domestic events until it is biggest city istanbul. the saudi jordan a list working in the us for the washington post jamal khashoggi walked into his country's consulate in istanbul but was never seen again. all the evidence points to his murder and said just his body was first dismembered and then disposed of. this horrific story has since been well documented but there are still bits missing and serious questions remain unanswered as to what has been through the body and who was ultimately responsible. i am terminal miss how old are big and they have been to stumble sever

from further back in the city we, last hour, were talking about whether or not the spire had fallen reuters is reporting it has, but we are seeing it on some video we don't know whether that's a live feed from them or tape but we're still working on that. the spire certainly was completely engulfed the last time we looked french president macron was scheduled to address the nation on a completely separate issue tonight. he has cancelled that and there are reports that he is headed to the scene. they've evacuated the entire neighborhood around notre dame the ceiling and the roof of the cathedral pretty much completely engulfed at this point we know some of the artifacts outside of the cathedral were removed just last week because this is a $12.5 million renovation project that the french state has been financing and so they wanted to repair and restore some of the artifacts. if there is a little bit of good news in such a tragic situation, it is that some of the artifacts when you go to visit the cathedral, you would be seeing, they've been removed offsite, but it is an extensive fire and pr

thank you for bringing us the latest >>> i want to go back and reiterate the flashes we got from reuters because these are some interesting developments with respect to brexit just to reiterate, angela merkel seemingly is willing to put a five-year limit on the northern ireland backstop, and we've just heard from a brexit supporting lawmaker, according to the bbc, that if merkel did indeed put that five-year limit on the backstop, then it would be difficult to reject may's brexit deal, but it would need some extra assurances you can see that the currency has bounced on that. we're up about .3% up through 131. i think that juliana, you know, with everything that we've been discussing, sylvia was talking about the developments domestically and also the developments with the e.u. council. for once we're getting some sort of a tangible concession perhaps or tangible government from the e.u. side and from angela merkel herself. >> this is exactly away we were discussing earlier with simon french about the german versus the french view, and germany has a huge amount at stake here with their ex

that recently with saudi arabia somebody within saudi arabia who have the authority to do so spoke to reuters and said we're going to no longer price oil in just the dollar we might use other currencies and then they roll that back and said no no no that's on another hand these could be negotiating techniques we don't know what's actually going on behind the scene in terms of that relationship and in terms of china china of course is the ultimate general in this game theory a war here happening because they own more debt u.s. debt than any other nation so i thought a story that's really interesting is this one kind of got overlooked in all the oh they're crazy stories whether it's russia gate the mall or report julian a song is all this stuff china's gold buying spree continues as central bank markets booms so we're. last year twenty eight hundred we covered that central banks but six hundred fifty one point five tons of gold the second highest on record the previous record high was while we were on the global gold standard so now we're off the gold standard allegedly and yet governments are

in global trade and weaken its ability to enforce sanctions on nation states those are the words of reuters saying that it's not as it's not you know gold bugs or anything like that they're saying just the facts and i think this is reflected on cable news as reflected in ray dal you know they see what's coming but they don't want to address it because there's no solution other than to like go on global s.t.r. or gold or another standard which is inevitably coming and they're scared well and all they're showing is competition from capital and that's a raid ballio is saying ok you end up with countries run by in. your words are there for to understand the psychology in the ego driven machinations of the. gives one an insight into the trends of the global economy and it's not a fact based it's ego based it's freud in has been is will continue to be unless there is true competition i have to take a break and when we come back much more. but i can. see. you didn't do you manage to do. with hundreds. that you'll see this who do. you think it was national guard. at the base. of the. supreme push f

are supreme court rejects a final appeal by two reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the rocking the crisis. is a national day of mourning in sri lanka for sunday's suicide bomb victims the police have confirmed three hundred twenty one people were killed total is expected to rise mass funerals are being held today and more than five hundred people remain injured ranging from critical to being in a serious condition. i heard about that he was points and i jumped into the terry and i saw them i don't. know what the flow. i don't know what to do. and i was. just almost total on the floor. and not only a tight lipped soul is. exactly the same next time they're. both throwing coons observed three minutes of silence in memory of the day that the easter sunday explosions devastated several churches and tells targeting worshippers and tourists the police have arrested forty suspects the government's accused of failing to act on intelligence reports that muslim fighters possibly with foreign help or planning attacks across the easter holiday let's get more now from my colleague n

spy program sprang into action as first revealed by reuters those american operatives had once worked for the n.s.a. and other u.s. spy agencies but they now worked as part of a u.a.e. cyber squad called project raven using skills they learned in the u.s. to spy on opponents of the u.a.e. monarchy the team of americans now turn those skills an american ally qatar as the u.a.e. joined by saudi arabia egypt in baccarin imposed a blockade accusing could torah financing extremist groups in the region where there's correspondents joel shechtman and christopher being uncovered the story so what we found was that after the blockade took effect project or a van ramped up its monitoring of. you know of qatar in general of its surveillance of qatar and specifically ramped up its you know its surveillance of media figures according to documents the u.s. mercenary hackers begin targeting a number of journalists especially those at the could tor funded al-jazeera network both countries viewed the network's expansive coverage of the arab spring uprisings as a deliberate attempt by qatar to fuel opp