and moscow police tracking down on a protest against constitutional amendments that could give president putin another 16 years in power. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today spain has been paying his respects to those who've died during the coronavirus and demick spain is one of the hardest hit countries worldwide with at least 28000 people dying of covert 19 thankfully pay the prime minister no other guests including relatives of those who died laying flowers at the royal palace in madrid in remembrance of short while ago the ceremony was broadcast live on t.v. and online. along with the grief there is anger at the way the government's handled the pandemic did only as young philip schultz met one woman who lost her mother and is determined to bring to account those she believes are responsible. rose unlike a studio always found peace of mind in caring for houseplants but not anymore thoughts keep circling around the 7th of march the day she learned of a corona virus outbreak in her mother's retirement home her mother had a loss for life even in old age even if dementia had w

i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today antiproton protests in the russian capital moscow have ended with more than 100 arrests demonstrators have gathered to collect signatures against changes to the constitution passed earlier this month police moved in quickly and put an end to the gathering. dozens of arrests follow anti-government protests in the russian capital where officers in riot gear forcefully rounded up protesters people took to the streets to protest the outcome of a recent referendum on constitutional reforms that allowed president putin to govern for another 16 years. we do not accept the results of the constitutional reforms vote we believe it was all raked we are against the crackdown on independent journalists we are for a rotation in government and we want our country to have an opportunity to live well. it's going to. be controversial votes that amended the constitution earlier this month also included populist measures such as an effective ban on gay marriage as part of their campaign protesters also collected signatures against persons new measures $5000.

president vladimir putin was probably the only person who came to this moscow polling. without a mask it was the last day of the nationwide vote the kremlin even declared a bank holiday so that as many people as possible could take part in the constitutional reform had already been formally approved by the country's national and regional parliament puton turn to a public vote to validate the move the amendments and shrine many popular social changes including regular pension increases and a minimum wage but they'll also allow putin to keep running for president directly he could remain in office till 2036 this man voted no he says i don't need a new tsar. i like it because i'm afraid of change whenever things change in russia we end up worse off than before you started playing some voters only had to show their passports as proof of identity the election observers were not allowed complete access and well voting was still in progress the 1st results were published with the procedure is highly questionable the vote itself the whole process was invented solely for this pu

in moscow for us thank you evan. the british city of bristol has a new skull and paste a statue. pulled down last month a sculpture of black players who helped topple him now stands in his place the all clear was installed without permission and the on wednesday. if. if the moment that sparked a nationwide to pay supposed head to deal with britain's colonial past. the 17th century slave trader at work colston was pulled down by black lives matter protesters in bristol and june. and tackling the face of many of his victims thrown into the sea. the print he once looked down from now has a new occupant local resident chen read. the artworks inspired by a viral instagram post but read the and picturing her shortly after the coast and statue was toppled you know for me it will not play you know i raise my fist and i raise my fist to give power back to the people back to the slaves who died at the hands of pollsters and titled a surge of power at the sculpture was installed without the local councils approval and intervention dreamed up by our says mark quinn you know we had to keep it

this is deja vu news live from berlin protests in russia calling for a future without president putin moscow police cracking down on the demonstrations more than a 100 people arrested after protesting against reforms that could give putin another 16 years in office also on our show rising waters behind the renaissance danny theo pierre threatened water shortages downstream in egypt and in sudan could the breakdown in talks over water between these countries lead to a war over the not. and many of india's migrant workers left their jobs in the cities to flee their coronavirus now back at home they risk living into crushing debt so they can just feed their founders. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today and he putin protests in the russian capital moscow have ended with more than 140 arrests demonstrators gathered to collect signatures against changes to the constitution passed earlier this month police moved in quickly and put an end to the gathering. dozens of arrests follow anti-government protests in the russian capital where officers in riot gear forcefully rounded up protesters

here in moscow last week dozens of people protested in individual single person protests against the arrest of a journalist many ended up detained themselves. single person protests do not require a police permit. yet human rights observers say that in the last 4 and a half weeks 270 russians have been arrested for demonstrating peacefully. this is the state's answer to the civil courage of a citizen exist who dare to resist restrictive and repressive measures citizens are showing their rage and the state oppressors them for it. all of this the silencing of political activists the jailing of government critics and of protesters is nothing new but what is striking is that such cases are becoming increasingly frequent again yet activists like honest as you have refused to let these repressive tactics shut them down. is soon to say if we don't organize ourselves to have some influence over the situation if we don't decisively say no. i don't want to then nothing will change then we'll be stuck in prison cells again after our statements from our posts are like some tweets. this week the

opened in 1957 baikonur cosmodrome was moscow's gateway to the stars. after the launch of several sputnik satellites and unmanned moon probes in the late 1950 s. the whole world assumed that the soviets would also be using baikonur to send cosmonauts to the moon. there were certainly concrete plans but nothing was leaked there were no official statements nothing to indicate the soviet union's plans separate. all decisions on the space program were classified top secret including the moon program. should one day program much and in fact if you browse the newspapers of this time you won't find anything not even iraq the plans for the unmanned probes were flipped and there were no america. nowhere did it indicate we were working on moon projects . that. secrecy was the order of the day there were no preliminary briefings before the moon probes in 1959 nothing was to be revealed until the sensational mission was complete. sergei kind of the off the father of the soviet union space triumphs had been wondering for some time how to approach a moon landing was.

the latest now with to their views if joining us from moscow good danger of on a walk you tell us about the police arrests. i was quite interesting yesterday being on the square for the 1st 2 hours or so police sort of just stood by and watched and let the protesters gather it was quite quiet signatures were collected and then at the end few young teenagers started flying a gay pride parade gay pride flag against the ban on gay marriage and the crowd started getting rowdy here in about 2 hours into the protests a group of the teenagers group off the square and they started marching through the city center they collected something like 20300 people along with them and as i was following them along overheard one of the cops say we're going over you know detain them on bats and that's essentially what we saw we saw about 150 people detained and out of around the 300 and so that was you know quickly cleared out of the streets and the by the arrests as they are usually most of these protests are quite violent you see people ripped off into the police wagons and taken away most of these peopl

hopes although police have so far left the marchers in peace moscow has a habit of coming down hard on dissent. while journalist ivan desk of edge has been covering this story for us here's his assessment of the protests and russia's far. it's truly one of most surprising protests we've seen in years in russia in all of putin's 20 years the 1st protests that took place here 3 weeks ago was 40000 people a week later last saturday we saw 50000 and today estimates around as much as 90000 and to put that in perspective there's about 600000 people who live in the city of karbala so it's like 10 percent of the city is coming out to protest the main thing that the protesters have repeated day after day is that they feel that their choice was taken away they feel that even if their governor is guilty of these crimes he should be tried here in combat if they voted for him they feel that moscow the kremlin has taken him away for a political reason these alleged murders were 15 years ago so if they did take place they believe that the kremlin would have dug this up a long time ago and so they

in moscow for us thank you evan. and now to some other stories making news around the world the u.s. secretary of state. preparing new sanctions against a russian gas pipeline project any firms that help construct the old scheme to face penalties the trumpet ministrations phase the pipeline from russia to germany would make us more dependent on russian energy. new satellite images show that ethiopia has been filling its controversial grand when they stand on the river nile the move is likely to spot prices from both egypt and sudan which depend on water from the now talks between the 3 countries on the issue ended in deadlock this week. iran says it needs 7 ships have been damaged in a blaze that broke out at a shipyard in the 7 course. there has been a string often explained fires and explosions at military nuclear and industrial sites across the country since late june. and flooding is continuing to take its toll on north eastern india is a some stage over 2000000 people have been displaced the floods also inundate

earlier i spoke to our correspondent in the show there in moscow and asked her what was happening where she was. well i'm in the center of moscow at pushkin square where opponents of the these constitutional amendments have called on people to kind of gather for what they say is a public discussion people here have said that these amendments essentially will mean that they hope that russia will have an eternal putin and they said that this whole vote is a farce that's what people here have been telling me that's what the people who called for people to gather here have said as well there aren't that many people here as you might be able to see behind me and that's because the opposition here in russia is very divided and including on this vote some people have said that you should stay home that you should boycott the vote some people have said you should come out and be counted to kind of say that you are against this vote now the situation here is pretty calm there is a lot of police at this where they were preparing i guess for more people to come out but the police even have been ha

sure it's a lead just from moscow thank you. you're watching the w. news live from berlin monica jones is up next with this mystical real chilly run for. girls to get over now live. in support of. saving. over. the river. and gemini live. at any time any place using news media man as yet.

hopes although police have so far left the marchers in peace moscow has a habit of coming down hard on dissent. we shift now from russia to a legit russian influence in foreign democracies this week the british government published a long awaited report into alleged interference in his political system by russia or its agents the report criticized the u.k. government for failing to prepare for or fully investigate possible attempts to influence its elections and referenda the british parliament intelligence and security committee looked into the influence of bots and trolls which are fake accounts used to spread misinformation on social media. and a reporter i even him has been following the story for us and she's here with me in the studio for more and hello to you i am so firstly maybe if you could just explain to our viewers what exactly is a troll or a troll campaign so researchers at the university of princeton who have been looking at this issue have come up with this definition that a troll campaign is a cord needed group of accounts that simultaneously spread a specific mean

well for more tonight i'm joined from london by quentin peel he is the former moscow correspondent for the financial times and his and associate fellow with chatham house and from moscow alec loued correspondent in the russian capital for the daily telegraph to both of you gentlemen welcome to the day quentin let me start with you 2 points about today's announcement it doesn't beat around the bush it names russia and it was the u.k. that went public with the accusation not candid and not the u.s. what is your read on these 2 things. well funnily enough i don't think i can get too over excited about it i suspect that every intelligence agency in the world is trying to track who's getting ahead in the desperate search for a vaccine and with a view possibly trying to get the benefits for themselves that seems to be perhaps behind the russian thing because russia are announced only last night that they were doing very well in getting a vaccine and they were going to go to the level of testing very shortly so i wonder if that was part of the reason for precipitating this announcement there'

it's discussing with international partners possible meshes in response german foreign minister haiku moscow has called developments in hong kong exceptionally worrying. these protest is a worry to the they've pledged to try as hard as they can to keep their voices heard. well for more i'm joined now by reinhard critical for he is the chair of the china delegation in the european parliament he's also the foreign affairs spokesperson for the german green party mr berger coverage good to see you again international reaction to to this the security law in hong kong it has been very tame almost muted and that includes the european union why hasn't brussels been able to come up with a concrete statement in reaction why don't we haven't heard anything yet. well 1st of all on this day i think we should all. say thank you for the courageous the fenders of democracy in hong kong and express our great level of solidarity with them it is a fact that the european parliament in its last session did adopt a resolution that spoke out very clearly and we identify measures that should and could be taken if b

also coming up hijacked barack obama bill gates and moscow are among the high profile figures whose twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your account. hundreds of thousands of india's mind migrant workers left their jobs in the cities to flee the coronavirus now back home they struck 2 feet that found. a classic german novel 21st century make up a new film based on the novel bellino that sums up plots tells the story undocumented migrant who tries to build a life and germany's capital but gets caught up in the criminal underworld. of his welcome to the program spain has been paying its respects to those who have died during the corona virus pandemic it is one of the hardest hit countries worldwide with covert 900 claiming at least 28000 lives at the royal palace in madrid. phillipa and community joins members of the government and their families of sorrow and the families of some of the victims in a solemn ceremony e.u. leaders also attended sending a sign of solidarity ahead of a summit on friday i would still discuss a controversial

and now to some news from out of this world nasa has just launched a new mission to moscow search for signs of life an atlas 5 rocket blasted off from cape canaveral florida just moments ago on orders perseverance new rover that will take rock samples and help scientists study the martian surface like never before with the most complex were bought 6 system nasa has ever developed. excitement is growing mission control let's bring in mitchell t. he is a program scientist with the mass 2020 exploration program at nasa headquarters in washington and joins us now from their midst they have been rovers on mars before what is the big difference of the spot. the very big difference is that we've finally designed instruments to really look in detail at the rock record to see on the level of microorganisms which is what we think life might be the kind of life that might have existed on mars so we'll be finally be able to see things in the detail that we need really to tease apart whether this landing site in these rocks where he was habitable and whether it left behind evidence that life might

a top target for russian interference but it says officials turned a blind eye to allegations that moscow is trying to influence king votes such as the referendum. now the british have it in black and white the kremlin interfered in the $24.00 teens nonissue independence referendum members of the intelligence and security committee also believe russia intended to. it's the bricks that referendum to help so discord in the e.u. but they say the government was not interested that no one in government knew if russia interfered in or sort influenced the referendum because they did not want to know the u.k. government of actively avoided looking for evidence that russia into field their report says that the 2014 referendum in scotland in which 55 percent of scots voted against secession from the u.k. was the 1st post soviet interference by russia in a democratic election in the west russian influence is the new normal says committee member kevin jones so the question is is who is protecting british public from interference in our democratic process when a no show we found no one is parliamentar

of these crimes he should be tried here and caught if they believe they voted for him they feel that moscow the kremlin has now taken him away for political reasons not reasons that. they believe to be fair because these murders were if these alleged murders were 15 years ago so if they did take place they believe that the kremlin would have dug this up a long time ago and so they believe that their choice was stolen away and so at the end of the day it's about a right to a fair choice it's called a democracy it seems journalist evil and good if it's there highlighting now some other stories in the news. a heat wave in siberia has been fanning devastating wildfires pushing them north of the arctic circle the u.n. weather agency warned that temperatures in the russian region were 10 degrees celsius above average last month the heat wave has also contributed to a rapid depletion of psionics is the. gunmen have killed at least 20 people including children in sudan's darfur region a tribal chief said the victims were farmers visiting their homes in the war torn region for the 1st time in years

around the world today russian police have arrested more than 100 people at an opposition rally in moscow demonstrators had gathered wednesday in the capital to protest constitutional changes passed earlier this month the reforms could allow president vladimir putin to stay in power 16 more years. china's economy is back on the block returning to growth in the 2nd quarter the economy expanded by 3.2 percent year on year that's higher than experts predicted it raises hopes of a similar recovery elsewhere in the world. another 1300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week roughly the same amount as over the previous 2 weeks millions of american workers have lost their jobs since the coronavirus and the national unemployment rate stands at 11.9 percent. u.s. president donald trump as replace his campaign manager. less than 4 months before the election the man taking over his former deputy bill stepien the reshuffle comes as trump trails his democratic opponent joe biden by as much as 15 points in the polls. for social media platform twitter was hit by a massive hack dupes peo

and canada accuse moscow taggers of targeting labs working on preventing the spread of coronavirus to russia denies any involvement also coming up a turkish court sentences german turkish journalist and denis you're jealous of almost 3 years in prison for spreading a what he calls terrorist propaganda the verdict is expected to strain relations between ankara and far left. you and the children in the gaza strip and getting adults everywhere a lesson in perseverance to after a pandemic lockdown at least n.q.t. athletes are back on the pitch today. i'm going to read and welcome to the show the u.k. u.s. and canada are accusing russian agents of carrying out cyber attacks to steal information on potential covert 19 vaccines according to british and u.s. intelligence the attacks targeted coronavirus research centers and were carried out by a p t $29.00 a hacking group linked to the kremlin also known as cozy bear it's the same group that was blamed for interference in the us elections 4 years ago moscow has denied any involvement. well washington correspondent stephanie simon has been fol

media in moscow on thursday a multimedia news outlet is funded by self exiled kremlin opponent may hire khodorkovsky but the journalists working here can only speculate about the reasons behind the rate. in syria it could be about anything some article that someone didn't like. was a bit of a seized our equipment and are refusing to return it. you know it's a way to disrupt our work. earlier this week respected journalist eve on safronov was arrested and charged with treason he most recently worked as an advisor to the head of russia's space agency. is accused of spying for an unspecified nato member which he denies the 30 year old faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted. at a closed hearing of court decided he must remain in custody who it would. be useful to review the decision by the district court as unfair and in violation of the law we trying to lodge an appeal within the legal deadline that. other journalists and former colleagues are shocked they've protested against after nobs arrest and started a petition demanding the allegations against him be made public they fear there c

and packed in hijab barack obama bill gates and moscow are among the high profile figures to use twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your account. classic german novel as a 21st century make over a new film based on the epic book alexandre plots tells the story of an undocumented migrant who tries to build a life in germany's capital but gets caught up in the criminal on the. m gallop as well come to spain is how the state ceremony to pay tribute to corona virus victims and medical workers but the national struggle is far from over spain again faces a surge in cases and an e.u. fund that could prove a lifeline for the country's battered economy is still not certain what today's focus was not on the future. it was about remembering the 10s of thousands the nation's lost. it's been a difficult time for us country king sleeping and his wife queen the t.c. presided over the solemn and dignified ceremony for the trainee 8000 spanish victims of the coronavirus. or usually get on showed what emotion can restore memo to you today is a day

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untold story of moscow's effort to win the space race by putting a man on the moon. in 45 minutes. i'm not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am but most and nothing with the tell me that you have been thinking deep into the german culture yet you did see ridiculous grunt day on the east coast it's all about who they know i'm rachel join me to meet the gem from the gulf coast. it's thursday evening and stayed in a district of the german city of s. and members of a local group called state dice for a walking the street says they have once a week for the past 2 years say hey if people from accounts amazement support diversity and. if you just got it there's something menacing about the situation we don't want that here in stable. but scenes like this are not unique to essen similar groups have formed in many of the german cities vigilantes who claim them maintaining law and order because the police no longer do. i the 1st time we met with founding members of the count in this minting december 28th scene there was a clear sense of unease. they view the far right tendencies of

and a cease fire has gone into effect in eastern ukraine moscow and kiev agreeing to implement a full ceasefire between government forces and pro russian separatists earlier this month more than $13000.00 people have died in the conflict which began in 2014. somalia's president has ousted the prime minister has on ray in a no confidence vote and internet blackout immediately followed legislators accuse him of failing to move the country towards democratic elections the u. says his removal disrespect small is constitutional foundations. well the spanish government says the country is safe to visit that despite a surgeon trona virus cases the foreign minister was addressing concerns after the u.k. reimposed a quarantine on travelers returning from spain there's a particular concern about the city of barcelona which is seen more than $7000.00 people infected in the last few days residents there fear there will be a new lockdown on philip shoals as this. it's not much of a lockdown barcelona's regional government recommends that people only leave their homes if it's urgent but few people

germany has rejected inviting moscow back into the g 7 that after the prospect was raised by u.s. president donald trump the german foreign minister hike a mosque in front of the situation in an interview published monday russia was expelled from the g 7 following its addicks a sion of crimea from ukraine and 2014. and a cease fire has gone into effect in eastern ukraine moscow and kiev agreeing to a full ceasefire between government forces and progress in separatists more than 13000 people have died in 6 years. most banished government says the country is safe to visit that despite a surgeon coronavirus cases that statement coming after the u.k. reimpose the quarantine on travelers returning from spain there's particular concern about a cluster of outbreaks and catalonia and its capital city barcelona residents fear tighter restrictions than they already have will be reimposed as we hear from the full of shots. it's not much of a lockdown barcelona's regional government recommends that people only leave their homes if it's urgent but few people are paying heed. is having a drink