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From germanys die welt. Welcome to you all. Lets begin with britains exit from the European Union. Last summer, by a margin of 52 to a8, people here voted to leave. Theresa may wanted to stay in the eu, but now she has the task of negotiating notjust brexit, as its become known, but also a trade deal with europe. Since 1973, britains laws have absorbed growing quantities of regulations devised between the 28 member countries, on which a court in luxembourg has the final say. Those who want to stay argue this pooling of sovereignty has made it easier to trade and has created new protections in ...

To dateline london. Two examples of Power To The People for us this week, but with very different responses from those in charge. Russia saw some of the largest Street Protests of Vladimir Putins 17 years in power, which ended with more than 1,000 arrests and the organiser in jail. Nine months after the british voted to leave the European Union, Prime Minister theresa may sent a polite letter to brussels triggering divorce after 44 years. To discuss the weeks events in russia and the eu, the russian born writer Alexander Nekrassov, michael gove mp, who was a conservative Cabinet Minister until...

The country back into what it was under the ussr. impoverished, disconnected, hermit kingdom. it is tragic, it is obviously far less tragic than what is happening in ukraine, which he wants dead or alive, but he is doing a lot of damage to russia as well. cutting people off from information, i have to say by the way, this new law that gives people up to 15 years in prison for quote unquote, fake news, about the war. fake news being anything that doesn't come from the ministry of defense. russia is not the u.s., 15-year sentences are unheard of. that is a very, very long sentence by russian sta...

How many dollars? that's $14. >> it's not a lot of money coming even by russian standards , but the reality is that at some point we have to decide is their individual accountability for these decisions. we are always going to be enticed to maybe buy something or want something or desire something, but ultimately, the courts are at the wrong place t adjudicate those. people need to demonstrate self-restraint and be accountable. >> another tweet comes in from leno really who says this, russian woman sues mcdonald's for $14 because they caused her to break out one fast. only $14 for moral damage...

Could be prison sentences as well up to 15 days of administrative detention. you're right. all of this coming as putin does face historically low approval ratings. for americans, that's still pretty high. he's still around 60%. but for russian standards, that is low. we used to have 80% approval ratings. so you can see a clamp town on free speech here. even more so than before. thisment cos only two days after he gave a speech to spy services say iing he believes the west a u.s. is not only trying to infiltrate russia, but steal military secrets. >> autocrats continue to adopt this fake news l...