military operation should the pipeline project continue with that transfers in ukraine the economic cost to the country could be up to three billion euros only. and that s going to correspond david stern who joins us from kiev david tell us more about ukraine s objections to this second phase of the project what s behind it exactly. well as you ve heard it s both an economic and political case for ukraine economic and you heard the figure three billion dollars annually that s a great deal of money for a country like ukraine on any day but obviously they re going through some very difficult economic times right now and so the question is where they would find that money they ve been a major transit country for russian gas all this time despite the difficulties with russia so they need to find that money elsewhere if this if they re going to be cut out of the equation so to speak but for the ukrainians also it s very much a political question as well they re looking to try to limit any i
replacing its c.e.o. muchas miller as part of a management shakeup the new board is due to meet on friday for consultations and accusations have been flying over suspected poison gas attack in syria president assad s regime has invited international chemical weapons experts to inspect the alleged site of the attack well russia says it s found no evidence that it actually happened. and a facebook boss mark zuckerberg is due appear before u.s. lawmakers on capitol hill today he faces a grilling over revelations that eighty seven million users personal data was improperly accessed during the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen. for the first measures that could force facebook to take its users privacy seriously aren t coming from washington but from right here in europe and we have been from the social media with this high car so we re talking about the new privacy laws tell us more about it we re talking about the general data protection regulation we can just call it the g.d.p.
a very good prospect for a row of but it will look like barcelona will pull that out there early mottaki from dint of you sports thanks for bringing us that. reminder now of the top stories that we re following for you here on new german carjacking folks wagon says it is considering replacing its c.e.o. much smaller as part of a management shakeup the new board is due to meet on friday for consultations. accusations have been flying over suspected poison gas attack in syria president assad s regime has invited international chemical weapons experts to inspect the alleged site of the attack russia says it has found no evidence that it actually happened. u.s. president donald trump has reacted with fury to a raid on the office of his personal lawyer by the f.b.i. has called it a witch hunt designed to undermine his presidency. and a facebook boss mark zuckerberg is due to appear before u.s. lawmakers on capitol hill today he say says
has to go through all sorts of different levels of bureaucracy of approval from various different judges and mandates to get the rate approved and make it happen so it s getting much much harder for trying to say that this is simply a witch hunt and there s nothing behind it that all those who are waiting to see what happens with miller himself all right i m irish waiter thank you very much for bringing us up to date on that story. right ben is back now with the latest on a controversial gas pipeline project here in europe thank you sumi ukrainian president petro poroshenko has demanded a stop to the north stream through pipeline it links russia and germany under the baltic leaving the current trends a country of ukraine out of the equation in a meeting with german chancellor angela merkel poroshenko called the project a political bribe to inflict an economic an energy blockage against ukraine. the planned pipeline will be twelve hundred kilometers long and transports russian gas to eu
but really that it s difficult to say what you can do at this situation obviously they re trying very hard we ve heard from the president poroshenko we ve also heard from the head of nafta guys who are trying. very strongly that the that the europeans and the germans in particular need to think twice three times before going ahead with this but obviously it is going ahead at least at this moment what do you think about the objections to the cycle political motives of moscow s behind a pipeline do you agree in any way i mean is this all part and parcel of a of a greater russian divide and conquer strategy. well i don t think i can go as far as to say whether it s divide and conquer but obviously that s what the ukrainians are saying and other people besides ukrainians are ukrainians to have their supporters in germany and in in europe what we can say is that russia does use energy as a as a leverage and sometimes as