a reporter catherine martins is standing by at the courthouse in the hang catherine the verdict in this case is expected to set a land mark tell us why is it so important. well it is a landmark in international justice no impunity for war criminal this is the key message today from the i.c.t. why radical moderate is the very last alleged perpetrator. regarding the crimes committed in extremis labor so this is a very highly important event here at the i.c.c. why today and probably right now the chances already entered the courtroom in order to read the sentence but it will take around one hour and a half before we now how the verdict will be beyond that i talked with the families of the victims so this is very important for them this very day to day because justice is the only compensation and reparation they can expect in their lives regarding fairbairn it's so this is very important and i talked with them and eyes they said they are very glad that there is royals attention today here at the i.c.c. right but they doubt that really the verdict can kind of pacify the region because the ha

martin's for us from brussels thank you catherine. france has been remembering the victims of the country's worst ever terror attack that struck paris two years ago pictures of a french president call he paid considerable time today meeting with survivor survivors and mckone and former president francois hollande you see here and then release balloons into the air in honor of the one hundred thirty people who died in the multiple attacks the american rock band eagles of death metal gave a surprise concert but the lead singer at times appeared overcome by emotion the group's concert at the theater exactly two years ago turned into a bloodbath when examined extremists stormed the hall parallel attacks also targeted cafes and the national stadium. to a bit of sports now and in football italy and sweden face off on the second leg of the world cup play off tonight and sweden have a slender lead after winning the first leg one nil on friday and if they win they'll caused quite an upset by knocking out one of football's powerhouses. winds ba

martin reporting a from the hague thank you catherine. to zimbabwe now where people are celebrating after president robert mugabe announced his resignation a day after the shock announcement that ended almost four decades of rule the focus now turns to his successor emmerson him in god zimbabwe's next president is a hardliner with ties to the military who could prove as authoritarian as his mentor and former boss. wherever you look in some capital the news of robert mugabe's departure. for some barbarians a new era has begun thirty seven years of mugabe's true has come to an end reason for celebration for many. i've been. reading. a new. captain. now oh eyes are turning to mugabe's successor. leadership should create jobs employment and they must not revert back to the same system of leadership that we had. a day earlier in relief in the streets of paris after word of mugabe's her sick nation spread. correspondent christine moniba was on hand to witness history. the. jubilation too and some bob waste parliament as to speak of house read o

catherine martin's reporting for us outside the courthouse in the hague catherine thank you to zimbabwe now where people are celebrating after president robert mugabe announced his resignation the shock announcement ended nearly four decades of rule that followed a tumultuous week that saw military takeover mass demonstrations and a desperate mugabe clinging to power in the face of impeachment proceedings. underneath on the streets of harare thirty seven years of robert mugabe's rule has come to an end d.w. correspondent christine monday on hand to witness history. that was. the. just minutes earlier members of the zimbabwean parliament listened as the speaker of the hives read out a statement from robert mugabe i wrap it up and then in terms of folks who like to see one all because two thousand of them bob we're here by for my tender my resignation as the president of the republic of way with immediate effect. the speaker went on to read mugabe's reasons for stepping down. my decision to design. is what i'm talking on my blog and out rather than will my cause. for the welfare of the pe

martins is standing by for us outside the courthouse in the hague catherine many say this verdict will set a landmark tell us why it's so important. well of course it's important in terms of international justice but what is really important here is it might be a chance to somehow pacify the region the by concerned still deeply divided and i can tell you really you see this deep rooted hostility between the different parties even today here the day of the verdict here in front of the i city boy i just witnessed personally a kind of situation which almost turned violent just behind me you see some representatives of the mothers of said they are here is just standing very peacefully and i was in the middle of talking to one of these mothers who told me that she lost her son her brothers and her husband in cyber and it's and suddenly there is a serbian young man just close to us thawing the serbian flag and saying i can show the serbian flag wherever i want and then it turned almost while and they had a fight with the lady of several needs and the serbian man finally the dutch police got.

. >> catherine martin's in brussels, thank you. the founder of schleicher has been let off like -- lightly, but not his children. the german court sentenced the 73-year-old tycoon to a two-year suspended sentence for embezzlement. his children received two-year prison terms. >> the brand is well new -- well-known across europe. operating 14,000 stores in 13 european countries. the portrait of the self-made german multimillionaire hung in every branch of what was once one of the biggest family dynasties in germany. a court has given the businessman a suspended prison sentence of two years. his children will go straight behind bars for three years. it comes down to the money. once it became clear that his company would go bankrupt, he moved around 16 million euros in the company. money that the court says belonged to creditors. what some of the money went to a logistics company belonging to the children. anton schleicher got a lighter sentence. that is because his fraud didn't amount to as much financial damage as his children. their

martin's for us from brussels thank you catherine. well as the remaining e.u. member states get closer rod security and military cooperation the specter of hard brags that is looming over business on both sides of the channel have you that's right sumi and three's a maze meeting with business leaders from different european countries this monday must have been tough because businesses in and outside of the you are getting increasingly agitated they see that negotiations are going nowhere and not knowing how relations between the u.k. and the e.u. will look like in the future they are now demanding answers. if only life was as easy as these demonstrators in the center of london were saying on monday. it's never too late. prime minister to resume a agrees but the country is still hurtling towards bragg's it on the twenty ninth of march twenty ninth with no deal nervous european business groups who came to see mrs may in downing street and now only concerned with one thing damage limitation they want the british government to back down s

thank you very much catherine martins there reporting from the hague. the united nations secretary general antonio terrace has condemned a suicide bombing attack in nigeria that killed at least fifty people the attack took place at a mosque in the town of movie in the south in the northeast of the country police said a teenage bomb or targeted worshipers as they were gathering for early morning prayers there has not yet been a claim of responsibility for the attack dramatic footage has emerged of a north korean soldier who defected over the border to the south earlier this month the images released by the u.n. show the soldiers racing towards the border at high speed. north korean soldiers then run towards the vehicle which crashed near a tree. soldier jumps up as his pursuers arrive on the scene and opened fire. soldiers captured lying on the ground some of footage shows south korean soldiers crawling up to the man and dragging him to safety. he's still being treated for hospital in hospital for his injuries doctors say he has now regained consciousnes

martin who is following the negotiations in brussels and joins us from there. why are they are now able to agree. well the main problem here in europe is really that there is we have conflicting studies and conflicting conflicting signs whether to life as it is harmful are not and in europe there two kinds of schools of thoughts how to deal with that difficult issue there is one group saying in doubt leave it out and the other group is saying in doubt leave it in and it in addition to that the to one of the main farming nations germany and france they are not on the same page which makes it really difficult to reach a majority francis against germany is more industry friendly of a have germany as a industry location and as a giant buyer and the potential merger with one's hand in the early two thousand and eighteen just we can assume that there is a vital interest to use for sat still on the market so it is a slippery is a slippery slope in your eyes and there are some heavy lobbying going on behind the scenes. yes of course it is but it is not only one center

that is for you know correspondent catherine martins in brussels and now catherine it like to say story's been going on for years you've been covering it during that time did this fresh license come as a surprise. well as observer of service in brussels we knew that there was always a slight majority of program life aside there were a lot of countries like scandinavian countries eastern european countries very program for sale so the majority of member states all educated the guy was a case that was not a surprise but that the fact that the key swing vote came today from germany of this is quite a surprise and we only can assume because there was in the german government they verge of bidets over that question the conservatives for a program for side and the s.p.d. the social democrats were against so today obviously the conservatives wanted to use this kind of window of opportunity to get this deal done to get to keep it on the market and to kind of overall the the social democrats and just send a clear message to the german industry in the context that the chemical giant buyer is a barg

martin's asked the former president of the european council herman for on point about the e.u. strategy in the catalonia crisis. as former european council president the european union so far treats the crisis of catalonia as an internal matter of a european member state can the european union can brussels keep that defensive line because the european union is respecting the rule of law. in spain the referendum was considered by the supreme court as illegal. the unilateral declaration of independence was considered by the supreme court supreme court as illegal and we have to respect let's say not only the independence of spain the depends of the additional in spain we have to respect the rule of law as long as the rule of law is not violated the european union has nope role to play and you always have to be very cautious and i'm speaking no as a belgian. interfering in domestic politics we had a crisis or five hundred forty one days it was a major crisis it was about the future of the country. we solved the problem after one year and a half without any mediation without any int

our correspondent catherine martin's has been covering the trial after the verdict she spoke with serge brammertz the chief prosecutor for the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. as a prosecutor off the ice city why. how much of a landmark is that trial today this is definitely one of the most important trials in the history of the tribunal. courage and knowledge are both considered the the architects of the large ethnic cleansing campaigns in the ninety's in the form of in particular in in bosnia herzegovina so it's definitely one of the most important trials which which ended today wide took it so long to bring law. as prosecutor off the i city. folk a looks like we're having some technical problems with that interview there that was katherine martin's the speaking to serge brammertz the chief prosecutor for the i.c.t. why now the atrocities committed by right commodity took place in the early to mid one nine hundred ninety s. during the bosnian war let's take a look back now at his role in that conflict. srebrenica the small town in eastern bosnia-herzegovina h

catherine mcguinness, city of london policy chair. still ahead, we will talk about a company building a new factory in the u.k., aston martin, entering a totally new stratosphere in terms of price. what this means for james bond's ride of choice next. this is bloomberg. ♪ world headquarters in new york, i'm vonnie quinn. matt: i am live from berlin with the european close minutes away. aston martin that is synonymous with his most famous secret agent, 007, it's newest hyper car comes with a price tag of more than double 0 high at $2.6 million. what does this mean for a company was vehicle sales have since 2007 and one that got its headquarters in the united kingdom. joining me now is chris bryant who writes about the automotive industry. what i find very interesting is that here is a carmaker that is very small, sales have dropped since the recession and it's not owned by any of the major players here. yet they will still build a new factory in the united kingdom. how is that? it's surprising. aston martin is still independent. it's