u.s. aviation giant boeing has revealed that the company's grounded seven thirty seven max airliners are suffering from an additional software problem regulators say it must be fixed before the aircraft can be cleared to fly again the problem relates to software affecting the flaps and other flight control hardware. amazon owner jeff bezos and his wife mackenzie have agreed on the biggest divorce settlement in history she will receive twenty five percent of the online retailer shares now you've got about thirty five billion dollars the deal maker the third richest woman in the world will base those will remain the world's richest man. crowd. a new zealand court has ordered the suspect in the christ church mosque shootings to undergo a psychiatric evaluation that will determine whether he's fit to face trial on fifty counts of murder and thirty nine counts of attempted. well is to turkey now where officials are recounting votes in that country's largest city istanbul after president bunch o

the u.s. is by far the biggest spender on weapons and it shows no sign of changing course in twenty eighteen washington increased its military spending for the first time in seven years. china has the second largest defense budget which it also boosted in twenty eighteen saudi arabia a traditionally well armed country with the third largest budget reduced its spending india and france increase their defense budgets last year as did russia. major world powers china and india have outpaced russia in their defense spending which is why the asia pacific region is sent to be arming itself by contrast african countries spending on weapons has declined. eastern europe and parts of the middle east have also reduced their defense budgets according to available data. but that has no bearing on the overall trend for many countries the requirements for security have never been higher. or the u.s. is renewed saying sions against iran take effect next month they are likely to hit hard because of crucial oil

police in the u.s. city of colorado have confirmed multiple deaths in a crash involving more than a dozen vehicles the accident took place on interstate seventy in a suburb of denver police say a driver lost control of his truck and plowed into stands to traffic beneath the bridge causing the two fires and explosions. adjournment of russia. new york's elite into believing she was a billionaire heiress is facing up to fifteen years in prison on a sort of guilty of multiple offenses off the fortunately acquiring tens of thousands of dollars in bank loans she managed to fake a long time involving private jets and lengthy protest states. she says a suspected leader of the easter sunday attacks died in the hotel bombings addressing journalists in colombo might. also appealed for calm and warned against a backlash against the country's muslim community many muslims have fled their homes fearing retaliatory attacks to did there was some subdued attendance in mosques at friday prayers authorities warn more atta

the commander of the u.s. military prison at guantanamo bay in cuba has been filed a statement from the u.s. southern command said rear admiral john ring had been removed because of a loss of confidence in his ability to lead a controversial prisoner guantanamo was set up to distain in a suspected terrorists captured overseas after the nine eleven terror attacks on the u.s. . and in asia as president of the joker widowed has decided to move these countries their capital away from the crowded mega city of jakarta a new location hasn't been finalized but thirty million people live in or need to cotton which is in the lower right lying a coastal region susceptible to flooding. of united nations is giving thirty million dollars in emergency funds to mozambique which is struggling in the aftermath of a second cycle within six weeks the death toll from cycle on can if it's reached thirty eight according to the government now the storm hit northern mozambique on sunday causing massive flooding rainfall is expected ov

authorities in the u.s. say cases of measles have climbed to their highest levels since the year two thousand nearly six hundred ninety five cases of the virus have been reported this year it's resurgence is largely attributed to misinformation that is turning parents against vaccines. and in london environmental activists have blocked the entrance to the stock exchange and climbed onto the roof of the train as part of protests calling on britain to take action on climate change the group called extinction rebellion wants the government to declare a climate emergency and eliminate carbon emissions by two thousand and twenty five . in sri lanka it's a country on high alert after a series of suicide bombings there on the easter sunday officials have now bans drones and unmanned aircraft and have carried out more controlled detonations on suspicious vehicles and items more than three hundred fifty people died in the attacks which targeted churches and hotels his president has vowed to take action for intelligen

the u.s. is renewed sanctions against iran take effect next month it looks like a veil hit hard because crucial oil exports will be halted could be halted the international monetary fund expects iran's recession to deepen saying the economy could contract by six percent. here in teheran people are exchanging realises fast as they can faith in the iranian currency has fallen dramatically it now takes a stack of them one hundred forty four thousand at the moment to purchase a single dollar and most people fear the u.s. sanctions will drive the rio down even further. of course the country's revenues are going to drop and maybe the real value will drop as well and the end the pressure that they're putting on is pressure on the people. here does not enough you know you some people have fixed limited wages like us. when prices rose we had to change a lot of things our rent went out. then we were forced to spend our money on rent instead of food at the core of. the i.m.f. is warning that inflation wi

the biggest single raid since large groups started traversing the country last year in route to the u.s. mexico initially welcomed them but as hardened its stance since the increasing numbers started overwhelming u.s. border crossings. african union leaders meeting in cairo have extended their fifteen day old to maidan for sudan's interim rulers to hand over power to a civilian government following the ousting of president omar al bashir in sudan protests continue with tens of thousands of people joining rallies across the country. me and more as a supreme court today rejected the final appeal of two reuters journalists serving a prison sentence because of the our reporting on human rights violations against roy hinge of muslims in the country. and what the one had spent more than sixteen months in detention they were arrested during an investigation into the killings of ten were injured muslim in stepped up military operations in the western part of me in mar a district court sentenced a journalist to seven years in prison last september for illegally possessing official documents of t

think about talking again with the palestinian side but there are also speculations that maybe the u.s. administration might publish a release this so-called peace plan they have said that many times but some u.s. officials had suggested that after the israeli elections they might release parts of this plan so this would be also very. important to see how this will play out. in jerusalem thank you. ok let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world new zealand's parliament has voted to ban military style weapons in the wake of last month's deadly mass shootings just one lawmaker voted against the ban fifty people were killed in the attack on two mosques in christ church a white supremacist is facing murder charges. the dalai lama has been taken to hospital in delhi as a precautionary measure after feeling chest pain a spokesman said the eighty three year old is in a stable condition and has been ordered to rest the exiled tibetan spiritual leader said recently he hoped to live long enough to see political change in china. german police have raided ninety off

about daddy remains the world's most wanted men the u.s. has a twenty five million dollars bounty on his head and says it will continue to hunt him down until he is found. let's get more on this from him back from the german institute for international and security affairs welcome to the. if this video offended this i think so it looks like a dirty it sounds like but. the video is clearly an i.a.s. video it has an i.a.s. logo it has the logo of the media production company of us. perhaps most importantly the old one the one that was used until the islamic state was founded in two thousand and fourteen so i clearly believe that this is by daddy and that this is an official video so if the last time we saw him on video was our it was two thousand and fourteen so why is he popped up now well i think because i was under pressure yes has founded a state and as it has lost the state in iraq and syria it has there are even some politicians who believe that i.a.s. has been defeated and now the organization has to show its supporters that it remains

i was one the u.s. i'm american you me and but you know here they don't look at it that way they just say oh hey the the foreign girls but yet in day i'm i'm very iranian at the same time very american so i try to bring the best of my both worlds together. although i'm young you know i have a very strict system is set in place because i want the girls not just to come here to play football i want them to also have a future in whatever they like they wake up very early they train twice or even three times a day and they have to take care of themselves and this is something that if you can teach them they will teach their friends and their friends will teach the you know so and so on so i want that domino effect to happen throughout the entire country i just a few months ago we were able to enter the stadium see iran which is bolivia see the asian championships and whatnot i think this is a good step it's something that we can fight. for but in general i think internationally we need to be recognized as n

the u.s. city of chicago has elected its first black female and openly gay marriage lori life but defeated her opponent by a lab saud political novice told supporters they had created a movement for change issues of gun violence economic inequality and political corruption dominating for her campaign. the former prime minister of malaysia has gone on trial for his alleged role in a massive corruption scandal brawls act is accused of misappropriating four and a half billion dollars from a state development fund if convicted the sixty five year old could face life in prison. while a law is set to go into effect in the state of brunei today that makes gay sex and adultery capital offenses punishable by death the country's new islamic laws sparked an international outcry with the u.n. calling it cruel and inhuman but eyes to a penal code introduces death by stoning as the punishment for homosexual acts and adultery. salton. says that he wants to strengthen sharia law and islamic teachings. for mor

former u.s. vice president joe biden has officially announced he run for the white house in two thousand and twenty and lots of speculation biden enters a large fund of democratic candidates of the nineteen other hopeless his candidacy has been welcomed by many but also sparked a debate about the direction of the modern day democratic. but the six time senator is trying for the u.s. presidency again you're picking up some pizza from a restaurant just hours after the news broke he was asked by reporters if he had a special message for the world. yes america's coming back like we used to be ethical great told the truth what were the words reported around was that all those good things that i got to find out if we have yeah you guys thank you biden made his announcement on twitter saying the soul of the nation was at stake taking direct aim at donald trump's bid for reelection. biden joins an already crowded field of nineteen of the democratic hopefuls competing for their party's nomination . but th

u.s. presidents donald trump has vowed to withdraw from an international arms trade treaty approved by his predecessor rock obama's trump told members of the pro-gun group the national rifle association that he would be informing the united nations of the move toward the agreement regulates the trade in conventional methods for a series a russian woman who admitted to secretly infiltrating the us political groups or the kremlin has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison or will be deported to russia after her jail term you know was the leader of a small russian gun rights group and used her ties to the national rifle association to build a network of powerful republican contacts. a major summit is underway in beijing as china shows off the expansion of its key infrastructure projects known as the belt and road anish leaders from some thirty seven countries are discussing this gigantic project with china's president. launched five years ago it's set to boost trade between china and the

after the chinese contract agreed to cut the construction cost by a third to ten point six billion u.s. dollars but manhattan here did raise some environmental concerns. the straits of malacca and then the national route then the leisure community most assume responsibility for keeping the seas clear and polluted but so far there's been the falls on a little steam is the are the ones who suffer pollution. and the have them in force to clean this sea and their shores it does not seem fair that the poor little should be burdened with this responsibility others including the u.s. russia japan and india are worried that china is trying to build a trade and political network which expands its strategic influence russia however seems supportive so far. russia is willing to make efforts to create transparent conditions contributing to the development of cooperation and collaboration across the eurasian continent because it's important to find an effective response to the risks of the fragmentation of global political economic and technological space and to the rise in protectionism five years

now let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the u.s. city of chicago has elected its first black female and openly gay mayor laurie lightfoot defeated her opponent by a landslide the political novice told her supporters they have created a movement for change the issue of gun violence economic inequality and political corruption dominating the campaign. thailand is preparing to hand out face masks at an upcoming summit of regional finance ministers in chiang rai as the country struggles with soaring air pollution across nine northern provinces authorities have already given nearly two million masks to the residents in the region. still to come on the program we'll visit a party that picks up more than just your spirits. but first now we're heading to ethiopia where the prime minister abi ahmed is marking one year in power the country faces daunting challenges millions of internally displaced people ethnic conflicts and growing frustration the politics isn't changing fast enough but he's also chalked up some notable achievements and enjo

military and u.s. diplomats especially in iraq where many militias and iraqi political parties have close ties to iran and revolutionary guard so how are you going to address those concerns i think it's a two part question on the first part this. it is a tool that congress gave us in one nine hundred ninety seven we have over that time designated almost seventy various terrorist organizations as foreign terrorist organizations that has not impeded the conduct of our diplomacy and it won't competed in this case complicated in this place the second part the i.r.g.c. and their expansionist operations that is the biggest threat to american troops and if we were to guide our foreign policy on the basis of iran's threats to retaliate we would be playing under their rules and when you play by house rules the house always wins we think this is very important to expose the i.r.g.c. in the ca's force for what it is it has all of the attributes of a terrorist organization and we should not lie to ourselves that t

technology which the u.s. is pressing them not to do also the threat that china poses in buying up for example ports in europe that nato may have to use if there was a conflict so there will be some very serious issues on the agenda but the most important thing for nato will be that it comes out of these meetings showing that they are united. no matter what the threat from the outside the challenges from the inside are going to definitely be be bridged by this meeting the seventieth anniversary meeting that was correspondent teri schultz in brussels speaking to me a short time ago. now last september a member of the russian activist group posi riot was rushed to a hospital in moscow after suddenly losing his side his hearing and his ability to walk after a few days giotto verus loaf was airlifted to germany where doctors diagnosed a likely poisoning he's now back in moscow where he talked to our correspondent drug storage. people to vs off was happy and healthy when we met him in a restaurant there is home in

and that they would fight extradition to the u.s. for a song. so this is what we know right now now i mean we had some dramatic footage earlier today your sons' being dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy by british police after basically embassador invited them in because ecuador terminated his diplomatic asylum what's behind that. well the relationship between assaults and his ecuadorian hosts and the embassy have been deteriorating far a while we have to remember that a so much was granted asylum by a different by the foma ecuadorian president so the leadership changed and with that the attitudes towards assault changed so the new president moreno saw him as an unwelcome guest he cut his internet access he made us all to pay for his own food and assault apparently also being quite hostile to his hosts so what ball the moreno the most was that a socialist still engaging in political activity that wiki leaks was published. information about other countries that could have relationships. with other countries and that is why in the end the ecuado

the founder of the in famous u.s. company blackwater that was involved in war crimes in iraq has opened an office in hong kong experts even warned that clashes between security providers are becoming more likely as the market is poorly regulated but in way home does not view this as a risk for his company. or one of those all of these companies are not our competitors they provide military services we just offer security services like they are two different businesses we're not going to get into the business that they are doing here you know how i'm going to see all this or that there's a one with what. for these new recruits that's all a long way off for now they are being trained for the domestic market weight and most dangerous condition and back to us. so much he is looking at what a cornerstone project this is for china what do you think we can expect from the summit well let's make clear this is not a summit like other some as we've known the g. seven the g. twenty etc this is a summit organized by the chinese g

security council passes a weekend très aleutian on sexual violence in conflict zones russia china and the u.s. all took issue with the german initiative. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the death toll in sri lanka has risen to three hundred fifty nine after a series of suicide bombings on sunday officials there held a press briefing a short while ago where they announced they've made dozens more arrests of suspects possibly linked to the attacks his government says it is taking action over failures to pass on advance warning of possible bombings. in a moment but first a reporter brings us this look at those coming to terms with sunday's attacks. a family waiting forty one year old sean p. went to attend the easter service at st anthony's church they have not heard from her since after multiple trips to the hospital and even the mortuary they have not found her. i only did it in the morning and we're only one of the little boys she went to the church i'm sure of it more than ever did that she always comes home after going to the church. but she never came back you know a mother

former u.s. vice president joe biden has promised to change after four women claimed he touched them inappropriate a lot of in a video posted on twitter biden promised to be more mindful of other people's personal space he's seen as a likely contender for the twenty twenty democratic presidential nomination. well it's to japan now where police have arrested the former nissan boss carlos going for a fourth time over new allegations of financials conder prosecutors saying the arrest based on the suspicion that go on diverted five million dollars the company went to him when he was term he's on. his lease from jail after posting nine million dollars bail he is denying the allegations. mark jones from business is here with more on this what else do we know about the smaller of one we know that this is huge huge drama brian this is the fourth wrist it comes apparently in the moment going he's giving an interview to a journalist and it also happens just a day after he took to twitter valuing that he wo

with regards to reproductive health saying that this is a tacit endorsement of abortion in fact in the u.s. has threatened to veto the text on this issue and rita this echoes this increasingly hardline stance that we're seeing from the trump administration with regards to women's reproductive rights and european union states have said that if that was to be taken out the united nations essentially would be rolling back progress made on women's rights human rights over the past twenty five years a hugely important issue helena humphrey in washington thank you very much for being us up to date on it. the hinge of the right wing populist party into different. ones germans to be proud of being german and that's because the party believes people spent too much time remembering the crimes of the nazi past germany has developed scored a culture of remembrance to ensure that a dock chapter in its history is never repeated. not far from berlin sucks and house and concentration camp was one of many sites where people were brutally annihilated on a huge scale german world war two. school groups come

now u.s. aircraft maker boeing has posted a steep drop in quarterly profits the company's still grappling with the fallout of two fatal crashes involving its flagship seven thirty seven max model while boeing says the seven thirty seven max crisis has cost one billion dollars so far it is now abandoned its financial forecast for twenty nineteen u.s. regulators ordered the plane grounded around the world last month the decision came after an ethiopian and an indonesian seven thirty seven max have gone down killing all on board a fault in the aircraft's anti star system is thought to have been a major factor in both incidents. i don't mind an hour of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour. officials say there's. no longer say the death toll has risen to three hundred fifty nine after a series of suicide bombings on sunday they have also announced dozens more wrestling to their you time special on can president meanwhile has asked the country's police and the first chiefs to resign.

appeals for unity in an address to the u.s. congress to mark nato seventieth anniversary he rejects a new arms waist race with russia we'll go live to washington for reaction also coming up tonight british prime minister theresa may holds talks with opposition leader jeremy corbyn to try and break the brakes it deadlock with just nine days left to avoid a divorce from the european union and a cloud of controversy in italian football a player for you ventus becomes the target of resist abuse from the fans at an away match on tuesday but the player is drawing criticism as well tell you what. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us tonight we begin with nato the secretary general and bag says that the alliance is not seeking a new arms race or a second cold war with russia he did say though. today that he was calling for greater efforts at deterrence and for member countries to increase their defense spending calls that we've heard before and he was addressing a joint meeting of both chambers of the u.s. congress to mark nato'

the u.s. is by far the biggest spender on weapons and it shows no sign of changing course in twenty eighteen washington increased its military spending for the first time in seven years. china has the second largest defense budget which it also boosted in twenty eighteen saudi arabia a traditionally well armed country with the third largest budget reduced its spending india and france increase their defense budgets last year as did russia. major world powers china and india have outpaced russia in their defense spending which is why the asia pacific region is sent to be arming itself by contrast african countries spending on weapons has declined. eastern europe and parts of the middle east have also reduced their defense budgets according to available data. but that has no bearing on the overall trend for many countries the requirements for security have never been higher. the middle east is a leading destination for foreign labor from africa and asia but domestic workers often find themselves

the u.s. is by far the biggest spender on weapons and it shows no sign of changing course in twenty eighteen washington increased its military spending for the first time in seven years. china has the second largest defense budget which it also boosted in twenty eighteen saudi arabia a traditionally well armed country with the third largest budget reduced its spending india and france increase their defense budgets last year as did russia. major world powers china and india have outpaced russia in their defense spending which is why the asia pacific region is sent to be arming itself by contrast african countries spending on weapons has declined. eastern europe and parts of the middle east have also reduced their defense budgets according to available data. but that has no bearing on the overall trend for many countries the requirements for security have never been higher. and we turn to sports now in formula one for sadie's driver valtteri bottas capitalize on his pole position start to clinc

women also taking off their mandatory had jobs and let's not forget another photo that was taken in the u.s. state of louisiana in the summer of two thousand and sixteen this one right here of this woman who is a nurse who had traveled practically across the country to take part in a black lives matter protest this movement that was really ramping up in twenty sixteen and she was arrested there and this photo has now been compared to that other iconic tank man the photo of the tiananmen square protests in china in one thousand nine hundred nine i mean they give me goosebumps just looking at them i assured her thank you so much appreciate it. and sports news now for your week after quitting his job as president of the german football federation . is now also stepped down from his two posts in international football to know it was vice president of european football's governing body you a fine as well as a member of the fifa council the main decision making body of world football associations come in the wake of reports that he accepted an expensive watch from a ukrainian official and failed

here at the council building said she ones the thirtieth of june to be the brakes a date now but the u.s. is not trusting anymore and the leaders are saying we have to push back this breaks a date longer in this paper is maybe there's a road map any of these the conclusions which the twenty seven deliberate misses may leaves the room and the conclusion say such an extension should last only as long as necessary and in any event no longer then and then there's nothing to date has to be filled in it might be twelve months it but be nine months but for sure go beyond the european elections that means that britain has to take part in these elections and also has to keep a kind of this since cooperation after that not to block and the e.u. business these are the conditions that will be applied and now the big question is mrs may accept this long the extension which is more than she actually wanted but everybody is frustrated here this is already is a second summit within fourteen days dealing with the organization of an orderly breck said how difficult will it be to get every single member st

movement now women across iran are doing the same thing regularly and let's also not forget in the u.s. state of louisiana in the summer of two thousand and sixteen here we go this woman was a nurse who had traveled across the country to participate in a black lives matter protest movement that is still going on or is really ramping up in twenty sixteen and she was arrested and this photo unlike the other two was taken on a professional camera by professional photographer and has now been compared to that iconic tank command photo of the tiananmen square massacre yes in one thousand nine hundred nine yeah exactly my sweater as always thank you. each radio telescopes in different locations across the globe have made the invisible visible . swelling milky way as a massive unseen object a black hole it's so dense. it sucks up anything that comes close even light itself the point of no return the boundary beyond which there is no escape from the black holes gravitational pull is called the event horizon. world famous scientist albert einstein predicted the size and shape of this boundary o

to think about talking again with the palestinian side but they're also speculations that maybe the u.s. administration might poplars a release their so-called peace plan they've said that many times but some u.s. officials had suggested that after the israeli elections they might release parts of this plan so this would be also very important to see how this will play out the w. senate came out injuriously and thank you. have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world these events parliament has voted to ban military style weapons in the wake of last month's deadly mass shootings just one lawmaker voted against the ban fifty people were killed in the attack on two mosques in christ church a white supremacist is facing murder charges. the dalai lama has been taken to hospital in delhi as a precautionary measure of just feeding chest pain a spokesman said the eighty three year old is in a stable condition and has been ordered to rest exiled to. betton spiritual leader said recently you hoped to live long enough to see political change in china. german police have ra

the u.s. is by far the biggest spender on weapons and it shows no sign of changing course in twenty eighteen washington increased its military spending for the first time in seven years. china has the second largest defense budget which it also boosted in twenty eighteen saudi arabia a traditionally well armed country with the third largest budget reduced its spending india and france increase their defense budgets last year as did russia. major world powers china and india have outpaced russia in their defense spending which is why the asia pacific region is sent to be arming itself by contrast african countries spending on weapons has declined. eastern europe and parts of the middle east have also reduced their defense budgets according to available data. but that has no bearing on the overall trend for many countries the requirements for security have never been higher. now w. is teaming up with other major international broadcasters to launch a new source of independent information for peo

u.s. president donald trump is ignoring the rules of free trade and setting global markets on edge but are europe in germany doing that much better. who are the winners and losers in a high stakes game. because up next on d. w. . blank will be our fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a plan that initially assumes so nothing is just on the children who have already been the boy and those that will follow are part of a new kind of. they could be the future of. colombia. granting opportunities global news that matters d. w. made from minds. when the water starts rising people fight for survival in the case on a bike it's legal to buy it when there's a flood of water comes up to your waist on your clothes fast every morning. but a lack of water is equally dangerous. there's junk you yes leave will move south so they can plant crops and find food. floods and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could not write

to think about talking again with the palestinian side but they're also speculations that maybe the u.s. administration might poplars a release this so-called peace plan they have said that many times but some u.s. officials had suggested that after the israeli elections they might release parts of this plan so this would be also very. important to see how this will play out. in jerusalem thank you. some of the other stories making news around the world new zealand's parliament has voted to ban military style weapons in the wake of last month's deadly shooting just one will make a voted against about fifty people were killed in the attack on two mosques in christ church a white supremacist is facing murder charges. the dalai lama has been taken to hospital in delhi as a precautionary measure after feeding chest pain a spokesman said the eighty three year old is in a stable condition and has been ordered to rest the exiled tibetan spiritual leader said recently that he hoped to live long enough to see political change in china. and german police have raided ninety offices across the coun

u.s. president donald trump is ignoring the moves of free trade and setting global markets on edge but are europe in germany doing that much better. odds are the winners and losers in a high stakes game. because up next on t.w. . belonging to an official estimates more than one point two million venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. it's already a. return to vast raila. to visit friends is that i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure . bearing witness global news that matters detail made for mines when the water starts rising people fight for survival a little in the case alibi difficulty but you know when there's a flood water comes up to a waist on your clothes fast for everyone but. the lack of water is equally dangerous. there's just give us the people move south so they can plant crops and find food processor. floods and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write a

over the years got to a point where it's paid four point three percent which is very unfair and the u.s. g.d.p. especially under me because the g.d.p. is going up so much because it's four point three of a much larger g.d.p. so we're paying for a big proportion of nato which basically is protecting europe so we're protecting europe let's go straight to brussels where nato has its headquarters and interviews terry shell standing by for us good morning terry president trump there again pressing nato allies especially germany again to spend more on their militaries as nato marks and seventieth birthday can you give us a picture of its overall financial health. that's right brian and let me break this down a little bit because it is very confusing this spending issue that president trump talks about all the time what he really means is that he wants european allies to spend more on their own militaries because need only has a very tiny administrative budget but it's made up of the collective militaries of its twenty nine allies so the mark by which it's measured is how much countries spend

it'll be an epic deal but it'll take another four weeks that's what u.s. president told the world following a meeting with a chinese vice premier in washington we'll talk to a u.s. political advisor to find out what exactly is going on. also coming up some of the rebels out its first five g. capable smartphone in south korea the euphoria is distance five plunging profits in the first quarter. come to this.

the u.s. is by far the biggest spender on weapons and it shows no sign of changing course in twenty eighteen washington increased its military spending for the first time in seven years. china has the second largest defense budget which it also boosted in twenty eighteen saudi arabia a traditionally well armed country with the third largest budget reduced its spending india and france increase their defense budgets last year as did russia. major world powers china and india have outpaced russia in their defense spending which is why the asia pacific region is said to be arming itself by contrast african countries spending on weapons has declined. eastern europe and parts of the middle east have also reduced their defense budgets according to available data. but that has no bearing on the overall trend for many countries the requirements for security have never been higher. it's to india now and the halfway point in that country's mammals thirty nine day general election the biggest the world's

u.s. government publishes robert miller's much into his appointed investigation into russian election meddling. i've sara kelly walk into the program ukraine's presidential candidates go head to head tonight in a debate that will be televised nationally from the country's biggest soccer stadium it is the last big event ahead of sunday's runoff election between t.v. comedian voloder mare's alecky and incumbent president petro poroshenko now for schenkel has been holding a rally with supporters in the capital kiev opinion polls show him trailing badly making tonight's debate his last chance to boost his chances did that week's nick connelly sent us this report from kiev. a sitting president rolling up his sleeves to give blood for drugs test live on t.v. not something most ukrainian voters ever expected to see but they did because of this man comedian and actor quality misled president pershing because challenger has turned ukraine's politics on its head in a matter of months when selenski d

a very accurate word down there their telescopes and ceiling and hawai and on the south pole if the u.s. and mexico and spain eight in total so it's a very important scientific network and that works very accurately to gather all those important data rightly am ok well we're actually going to go live now to the press conference. to find out more about what these international scientists have got to reveal at one the size of the distance between these telescopes truly turning the earth into a virtual telescope all the sites that we used to seeing here we have telescopes from hawaii to arizona to mexico to chill a to the south pole and spain but even these even this broad global network is not enough by itself to make an image you can think of them as being silvered spots in a large global mirror the key is that the earth turns during a night of observing we are able to sweep out more baselines more coverage of this virtual mirror to make our image so on the left you'll see the earth turning every pair of telescopes provides us with one point on the center panel which fills in the earth s

mavericks to their first ever championship he was achieving his dreams after thirteen years in the u.s. . his accomplishments made him a superstar in the united states and his recognition wasn't limited to the sports world. it's fair to say that we have very rarely seen a better. playoff run then dirk wins he had last year it was. his stardom and the more than two hundred fifty million dollars he's amassed over his career haven't kept novitsky from staying grounded a humble team player he's also helped to lift up germany's growing basketball scene he received a hero's welcome in his homeland after winning the n.b.a. title. whoa i'm totally speechless. despite plenty of success for club and country one of his biggest honors remains carrying the german flag at the opening ceremony of the two thousand and eight olympics he's been bestowed numerous awards on both sides of the atlantic dirk novitsky the greatest european basketball player in history and a towering personality. some fascinating news now for any history buffs amongst you archaeologists in turkey thinks they may have found the

to nearly two trillion dollars a year in twenty eighteen a sharp increase over twenty seventeen the u.s. is by far the biggest spender on weapons and it shows no sign of changing course in twenty eighteen washington increased its military spending for the first time in seven years. china has the second largest defense budget which it also boosted in twenty eighteen saudi arabia a traditionally well armed country with the third largest budget reduced it spending india and france increase their defense budgets last year as did russia. major world powers china and india have outpaced russia in their defense spending which is why the asia pacific region is sent to be arming itself by contrast african countries spending on weapons has declined. eastern europe and parts of the middle east have also reduced their defense budgets according to available data. but that has no bearing on the overall trend for many countries the requirements for security have never been higher. it's to india now and the halfway point in that country's mammoth thirty nine day general election is the biggest the worl

donated five hundred thousand dollars to help migrants stranded in mexico as they try to reach the u.s. border the money has come from peter's pence fund from church collections around the world will be distributed among religious congregations that are asked for help in order to continue to provide food and shelter. sudan's military rulers and a civilian coalition have agreed in principle to establish a joint's transitional council but the makeup of the council is still undecided thousands of protesters calling for civilian rule are continuing their week's long demonstration in the capital khartoum he correspondent melanie ball is there harlow who are there. was ever there. they called it they didn't but in the streets have gotten nothing and still working among the greatest in the capital just around it by the time. free to send her a treat him for his new status and cool seventy three songs and be at sydney's next not free everywhere. easy to release an across the generations is the overwhelming sound you hear all over town nevertheless people here it's a done people insisting that

u.s. president a donald trump has welcomed a nato secretary general younes stoltenberg to the white house trim called on some countries such as germany to spend more on defense stoltenberg is visiting washington for events to mark nato seventieth anniversary. more turbulence ahead the world trade organization is cutting its global trade growth forecast by nearly a third and the international monetary fund is trying in as the list of issues weighing on global trade only seems to be getting longer also on the program china is moving and shaking on the african continent again this time building and financing airports in the ivory coast city of abidjan and show you two entrepreneurs in india shirts and dresses made out of textile waste are making that an impact as environmental awareness is. going to have a. political instability the persisting trade conflict between the united states and china and the chaotic proceedings surrounding an increasingly likely no deal all are taking their toll.