That its got nothing to do with his alleged involvement in the murder of his a strange white the and the as. Police in germany are treating a mass shooting in the western city of hono as an act of terrorism 9 people were killed when a gunman went on a shooting rampage on wednesday nights chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the attack and says there are many signs the perpetrator acted out of racism dominic cain has the latest from berlin. This is where the shooting started one of 2 she shouldve asked to be targeted which were known to be frequented by members of the Kurdish Community the 43 year old perpetrator made his way into each place and then opened fire indiscriminately on innocent people finally fleeing the scene in a car to go home and kill his own mother before then taking his own life the shock of the local community is mirrored by that of government ministers who confirmed their primary line of inquiry its what i listen to norm to be in the going to do that everything is
You know that the truck. Was a population in the wild one step back of the tours northwesterly work on that story coming up. And on people stream it with your school Roger Federer announces he will not play at the french open thats after the 20 time grand slam champion reveals he has undergone need surgery. But 1st a former advisor to the u. S. President donald trump has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison roger stone was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into whether Trumps Campaign with russia is also feed and urges to pay a fine of 20000. 00 lets go live to our White House Correspondent kimberly whole kits for more on this kimberly that sentence has been handed down much shorter than the suggested sentence why is this. Well its certainly notable and judge amy Burton Jackson did say that she took both the initial recommendation of 7 to 9 years as well as the revised recommendation from department of justice prose
The implications of all of this for its from. Well it depends whats in them thats the big question i mean the critics of the president and those investigators who want to get ahold of these returns say that they need to get a hold of them to see whats in them now everyone knows a trump a very wealthy man it was long before he was prepped was president but exactly where does his wealth come from and a lot of that can only be gleaned from these tax returns that he will not turn over so a lot of people are saying what is he having to hide there why doesnt he want to turn them over so it really depends whats in there that will determine how bad this is for trump a clearly this will be a Campaign Issue indeed next year the longer that this goes on and it seems that trump still has no no inkling to turn them over and this is going to continue to be in the court system now and just one more for you gabriel while i have you with us how much sort of public appetite is there for this whole issue
The chair of the House Intelligence Committee is a possibility thank you very much mike hanna in washington Claire Finkelstein is professor of law and flaws of the at the university of Pennsylvania Law School and joins says on skype from philadelphia great to have you on the program thank you very much now i want to ask just in the grand scheme of things how significant are these allegations and what kind of repercussions could we see from this or is it something thats likely to be swept under the rug as weve seen so many times at the at trumps white house. This is an enormous story possibly the biggest story of this presidency because 1st of all its arguably the 1st time that a whistle blower action has been filed against the president if indeed thats what this action is as we now are coming to understand. And there are extensive protections that are required by law for whistleblowers to enable them to bring Important Information of corruption to light so 2nd of all there would be as
ukrainian officials have said a deadly explosion at a cafe in st petersburg shows that domestic terrorism is breaking out in russia. there s no indication of who was behind the blast on sunday that killed vladlen tatarsky, a well known blogger who backed the russian invasion of ukraine. these are pictures before the explosion. tatarsky was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe in st petersburg when the bomb went off. sergei goryashko from bbc russian gave us this update on the story. so, for now we know that the explosion was around 6pm local time in st petersburg at a cafe where dozens of people gathered to meet vladlen tatarsky and to listen to his account on the ongoing russia ukraine war. the blast went offjust after vladlen tatarsky received a gift from one the visitors. he was given a statue, a small statue of himself covered with gold paint. he put it on the table and right after that, minutes after, the blast went off. there are reports that the statue had be