Pressure to respond with unprecedented strength by canceling or pausing the nearly completed north stream to gas pipeline with russia my guest this week is germanys Deputy Foreign minister and meals on it is it time for a tougher stance against authoritarians in russia and beyond even if there is a financial cost. German minister of state meals on and welcome to calls of happy to have you tests confirm that alexina volley was poisoned with the military grade chemical weapon no he took the german chancellor she has demanded answers from russia she says the following there are very difficult questions that only the russian government can answer and must answer. Russian response has been defiant will there be kneeling for sanctions well i still hope that we can prevent this but this is entirely the russian governments decision and i have to say i want to be very clear very very disappointed about that reaction because instead of making clear what happened and to cooperate in an investigat
Europe was split and impenetrable border divided east from west but one german entrepreneur refused to accept that you could believe that science transcends board is he set up a prize awarded to Research Projects where scientists from eastern and western europe work together. Endowed with 1000000 euros the cover prize remains to this day one of the most prestigious and lucrative science awards in europe this year it went to a hunk area neuroscientist based in switzerland. Basel is a city constantly on the move. Full of colors and contrast. Shades dimensions and perspectives. We perceive them with our eyes. But this window to the world closes for people who lose their site. Reopening that window is the foremost goal of the institute of molecular and clinical ophthalmology. Here medical scientists to vote on the oscar is working on ways of giving blind people back their eyesight. My main goal is to understand vision and to use this understanding to create new treatments for blinding dise
Groups say no. Hello and welcome to your business i want to get johnson berlin good to have you with us ever heard of and group if not now is the time to find out more and group is the Financial Technology of Chinese Commerce giant ali baba and its just filed for a do you a listing in shanghai and hong kong the i. P. O. Is being billed as one of the Worlds Largest stock market listings which could well raise a record 30000000000. 00 and group operates ali pay 1. 00 of chinas 2 dominant Online Payment Services now for more on this story lets bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt thats Chelsea Delaney good morning to you and a man in taipei its so hans soo good morning to you too and id like to start with you. Because why is it you will have listing and both of those basically taking place in china. Well actually the end financial is not the 1st Chinese Company to list both and china and hong kong we know Companies Like net. And financial Sister Company they all went to hong
4000000 countries leading the world as new infections the government is sticking to plans to ease restrictions open up the economy. On nick spicer thanks for joining us the american president ial race has taken on a new turn following comments allegedly made by the commander in chief of the u. S. Armed forces President Donald Trump is reported to have disparaged americans killed in battle in europe the atlantic magazine broke the story said trump refused to visit an American Military cemetery in france because it was quote filled with losers. Also allegedly referred to marines who lost their lives as quote suckers for getting killed. Part of the story had been corroborated by other news outlets including the usually. Fox news but trump strongly denies he ever made the comments you know its a fake story written by a magazine that was probably not going to be around much longer but it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by many people who were actually there it was a terrible
Im british welcome to news asia laughter had with us 75 years ago today japan officially signed its surrender in world war 2 even though it had announced an end to the fighting 2 weeks before it wasnt until the 2nd of september 1905 that the surrender was officially signed it came however at the cost of some 30000000 lives in asia from targeted mass killings such as in china fighting and occupation by Japanese Forces at its peak japan controlled territory from eastern china to most of Southeast Asia but with it came suffering in the local populations and death however there were also those who were forced to work for imperial Japanese Forces such as the protagonist of our next report. For 95 year old lee had gray memories fade slowly during world war 2 the south Korean National fought for the Japanese Army afterwards he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison and his home near tokyo the horrors of the time continue to haunt him. I was going to go back to korea b