this is deja vu news live from berlin zimbabwe facing an uncertain future that after a military intervention session motion the endgame for president robert mugabe after almost four decades in power and the country make a peaceful transition to a future without talking or corresponding capital harare also coming up cows

coal and cars just three of the topics giving on the macro a headache as he tries to form a possible new government with unlikely partners to get an update as the latest round of talks come to an end. and the five hundred year old masterpiece by leonardo da vinci becomes the most expensive piece of park ever sold at auction a cool four hundred fifty million. i'm by thomas a very warm welcome to the show zimbabwe is confronting an uncertain future after the army intervened in the succession to president mugabe the ninety three year old is under house arrest as the army patrol streets now many are hoping the military

will make good on its promise of political change. the army stresses this isn't a coup but with tanks and military vehicles blocking off parliament and government buildings in the capital harare it sure looks like one and the coup is something the rest of the african union has said it will not accept. you know we in the african union are against any violent government overthrow. issued a statement saying the army should retreat and return to constitutional order. we support the legitimate zimbabwean government and in no case will we accept a forceful seizure of power for the fate of president robert mugabe and his wife grace is unclear but they appear to be in the custody of the military who say the couple are safe the army's intervention comes after months of power wrangling over

who will succeed ninety three year old mcgovern who has ruled the country since one thousand nine hundred eighty last week mugabe fired vice president emerson one ghagra he was widely viewed as the hair apparent and backed by some of the country's most powerful generals that sacking seemed to clear the path for grace mugabe to become the next in line now the military has stopped her ascent at least temporarily and an influential group of war veterans once stunned mugabe supporters themselves is calling for him to step aside completely. the robot government so the bit core from his role as the president and first. frustration has been growing in zimbabwe it used to be wealthy but thirty seven years of mugabe's rule have left the economy in tatters and the question of who will take over to try and repair it has now been thrown wide open. let's go

straight to zimbabwe now where privilege most on here is standing by for us reporting from harare what's the situation right now where you are in the capital. this situation i would describe it is tense and calm tense in the sense that you it is unprecedented to have tanks stationed in the central business district you know. it's unusual and then calmness comes in this sense that people are going about their business some not going to. particularly civil servants and some shops today shops are open and people were asked to queuing in and have been queues to try and now exist the amount of. people of course the skip to go there. just to know what is going to come out will fuck

this kind of situation ok certainly certainly a lot of anxiety where is right now the man who ruled this country for forty years president robert mugabe and his wife grace do we know. president that it is still going to find to house arrest their whereabouts of these why. not very clear there were reports that one tuesday when i mean in this statement that would intervene in windy beach where the deed negotiations that seek would be given out pretty placid to leave the country with your family but is that the some reports we're coming out to see that she is now in the media but all of those are unconfirmed reports ok it looks like south africa has started taking

a role in this crisis could you fill us in on that. yes yes the date was so so logical president zuma always the current subject to piss in the sand delegation. of two released one. foreign affairs minister and the other one we did security reduced to come and speak to for the site meet and present gabi to really come to find out. the problem and what is this interpretation by it. dittos of what discussing it to come out we are also expecting. that maybe probably today we may have some details coming out but. it it true that to date this sudden or so is cooler to troika meeting.

their own with three countries that are in the tree couple decided it out way to meet it decided it could as you got it really don't want to discuss about this situation in zimbabwe ok a very fluid situation right now politically privilege must fun harry reporting for us from harare thanks very much now for a look at some of the other stories making the news today human rights watch has accused the me and more military of the widespread rape of raw injure women and girls rights group alleges that the past three months in mar security forces have used sexual violence as a tactic for ethnic cleansing against the muslim minority mean mars army has denied the allegations. greece's the clarity day of national mourning after severe floods near athens left at least fourteen people dead more heavy rains are expected today officials say the death toll could rise as crews search flooded homes.

the u.s. delegation at the united nations climate conference in the german city of boston is expected to defend president trump's rejection of a global action plan on climate change this is other leaders have pushed negotiators for urgent action. while it is crunch time for germany's would be government as a deadline for exploratory talks between coalition partners and all americans conservatives have been trying to thrash out a deal to free democrats of the greens but the so-called jamaica coalition has hit a number of real obstacles in a moment i'll be asking one observer of the deal can be done at all but first here's a look at the outstanding problems for the parties to resolve their party colors may reflect those of the jamaican flag but germany's conservatives greens and free democrats don't match up so nicely when it comes to forming a coalition. it won't be easy it'll be a tough experiment even so they seem to be on the same path in at least

a few areas there's little disagreement on foreign policy with compromises reached over how to deal with difficult partners. and all agree that affordable housing is urgently needed there's also consensus on the right to extended child care for elementary school children as well as increased support for families. and the parties see the need for a label indicating fair treatment of animals the clock is ticking and the parties are still miles apart on other issues. issues like climate protection the greens want a rapid shutdown of coal fired power plants. but the conservatives and free democrats are against it even though that would mean americal misses her own climate targets . through this in us dollars on the us and we know that germany's a country that still uses a large amount of coal and so it has to make a considerable contribution in order to fulfill these goals. figuring out exactly

how to do that is something that we will have to discuss together precisely in the coming days. but the biggest hurdle to a coalition is the subject of migration and especially whether to allow family members to join those already here something the federal government has suspended for two years. refugee organizations closely allied with the greens are up in arms . the evidence from to my we expect the same of the jamaica coalition as we would have every other federal government that they respect refugees fundamental and human rights and not violate them. but which tradeoffs can the parties agree on how many compromises will they be able to swallow while still looking their supporters in the eyes. for more of this i'm joined by all of our left of the university of

vienna political scientists all in these talks for us good morning to you thanks ring with us all over bringing families from more places like syria and iraq to join refugees already here in germany is a hotly debated issue right now it's a huge barrier in these talks could it lead to a breakdown. yes absolutely so i mean one of the reasons why this topic has similar so quickly as one of the most contentious topics is that it touches to the very core of these sort of at least two parties. which ideological ideologically speaking and two opposite camps if you like and this is the you saw the greens on the one side and mainly the bavarian christian democrats on the other side i mean the greens have a leftish liberal view of the world if i may say so they see the society as an open society as a cosmopolitan society with with boldness and and human rights and so on and the others on the other hand the christian democrats emphasize rather old fashioned way

the nation state and its capacity to provide for security and shelter and that of course splits. these two sides very much a pop from each other about let's not forget that there are also two more parties at the table with distinct strategic interests and this is the liberals which have a ring of reinvent themselves as sort of say the body of the rule of law and i think that push they push this approach now by spikes showing that also migration should be subject to the rule of law so to say and of course you which is widely seen as being responsible for this policy which is now at stake ok these are a lot of competing interests do you see them being brought together within the next few hours and some type of deal being patched together. it's an open question it's really an open question and this question involves so to say the character of this new coalition that we see i mean it isn't these are unlikely bedfellows if you

like i mean you have the pro-business party on the one side the inventor of the screens on the other side you have two conservative parties involved this is a make show which is on like you but on the other side i mean you have experienced this in the silence so far a few years ago and we just mike it has existed already. and it exists in this because on the business and the level so it is a rather unlikely coalition but they also do want to be successful i mean the longer they they talk with each other and they are committed to the success ok so there is a thin bit of light out there and do models to go on if these talks don't work what happens that briefly well i mean yeah we will most likely face new election which will be a horrible scenario for the studio mainly the christian democrats especially for my self future will be bright open then and it's totally unclear whether she will

actually lead to a party into this. campaign. and. i think the christian democrats so to say to avoid this desperately at any attempt to see new elections we have to leave it there all very good joining us from the university of yeah thanks very much. this is d w still to come on the show it once changed and as for if it means that wasn't all is true creator came to light now a record four hundred fifty million is laid down for this event she asked us. and the world that he does the gates he backs a ban on russia participating in the winter olympics we'll talk to the journalist who broke the story of kremlin back yard cheating. or crisis talks getting under way at a german industrial powerhouse how a few people saw this coming people certainly didn't but things could get very tense today at zeman that's because management at the german engineering firm have called for an emergency meeting likely to announce mass layoffs prompted by

weakness in the turbines business a gas powered turbines belong to the oldest and most important products from siemens they generate electricity gas fired power plants but demond has collapsed the firm for cost orders for just one hundred turbines next year and i should say that that is actually globalise across all manufacturers is the means alone has capacity to make one hundred and thirty turbines so clearly more the needed at that other supplies into the mix all of the turbine makers put together could make four hundred units so well why demand what she loa that means of course huge problems for siemens is to have on subsidiary is one of the biggest in the company and the second most profitable bonds made up twenty percent of as humans profits and that is why work has off during the worst entire plants are actually under threat of closure thousands of jobs are at stake and that most new jobs in europe. because.

all indicated the company workers have been out protesting at the plant cops they're calling on management to show some vision above all they don't see why they should lose their jobs when these events can blow right as a whole is still raking in billions of euros in profits. so i just want more about this now i'm joined by my do business colleagues with me in the studio and jeanette do my lown who is a frankfurt stock exchange for us welcome to you both now firstly. talk us through this because we're mainly talking about gas turbines to generate power where demand has dropped off i mean we certainly don't want to see mass layoffs but could this be a sign that renewables all gaining more attention more orders well all the big players in the market general electric siemens and it's a big she have heavily invested in the guess turbine market because they believe

that the governments would turn to more environmentally friendly sources of power but they made two mistakes and one they thought that governments would favor i guess over coal as coal is not good for the environment as we all know but it seems that many governments hang on to call because they want to protect jobs in the coal mining industry mistake number two they did not see that governments would support and subsidize renewables the way they have done it solar and wind power for instance and that's why you now see this huge glut in the guest turbine market and that's why you'll now today hear that thousands of people will be laid off by siemens or at this curve sujan now then what's the sense where you are doing invest is believe that siemens have any chance of getting through the crisis without what closures in those job cuts ginnell. well you know investors are actually quite familiar by now with the person of chief executive joe kayser he's not

exactly known to be sentimental when it comes to introducing sweeping changes to the company even if massive job cuts are the result we've seen this in the last four years that he's on his feet now at the same time investors know that as you said it would be difficult to explain to workers why they're losing their jobs at a time where siemens is doing quite well financially so they'll be expecting pushback on that front on the other hand the landscape is changing a sprawling conglomerate really isn't a future proof model anymore and they will welcome efforts to make the company more focused on more agile alright you know so what then will siemens plans be its ride this out and where will it make its future investments. you know these moves are actually part of an ongoing strategy that qasr had already put in place in the last four years it's gotten rid of a lot of units including appliances nuclear energy nobody has a theme and phone anymore because it got rid of its telephone systems unit

a few years ago and its priority now is realigning towards areas like automation electrification and digitization at the same time i want to create smaller more independent units that operate under the banner of the siemens holding company and that is where investment is expected to flow from here on the right to now thanks a lot you know i want to come back over to you for a final question then because the humans is not the only. one facing an extension crisis general electric as well also facing a huge cash crunch i mean i'll be seeing a global crisis of traditional industries would you say well traditional industries are usually big companies which have a long history for instance was founded in eight hundred forty seven siemens is big and often the times appears like a dinosaur compared to new highly specialized companies which taking a bigger and bigger pieces of the pie away from simonson all the other traditional companies but those traditional companies are striking back siemens for instance

each division separately as general just explained which means that each division has to fend for itself carry its own weight and will not be supported by all the other businesses at siemens which are doing well and that may actually sound like you know the survival of the fittest but it may be a successful strategy. yet a next from any business thank you very much indeed. perhaps as humans might want to look to china orders the country's converting to gas in a bid to clean up its legendary at pollution problems there the rapid pace of industrialization left little room for environmental protection and along by the country's appalling environmental problems the government is trying hard to clean up coal has been a major pollution not only for steel production but also in daily village life that's set to change as china converts to gas just in time for winter. china's

toxic air pollution is said to cost two million primitive deaths there every year and household coal usage is a major contributor to the misery. now the government is weaning consumers into natural gas for their heating and cooking beijing gas has been racing to start piping it to over three hundred rouble villages like here in south asia and one. fifty three year old resident wang yang is one of the last of millions to be converted but the conversion has a price a family's energy bill will rise a full forty percent this year though she does see the benefits yeah whole energy you know i think when cold turns to gas it's much cleaner than before you know there's no need to out cold and be very dirty and i don't need to wear a mask to fix the stove. when cooked or sun the first meal on the new gas cooker scrambled eggs and steamed dumplings for her it's a major improvement in the quality of life. now it's more convenient than using

coal now the gas comes immediately when you switch it on you don't need to feel as anxious as before when you're cooking this is faster. but village life remains hard to save money one will only heat with the gas after six p.m. when her grandson returns home from kindergarten. back over to brian now to talk about a painting that once changed hands a sixty dollars to a little bit pricey not least you know how even the expression deep pockets doesn't go far enough for us anonymous buyer has paid four hundred fifty million dollars for a painting by the renaissance master leonardo da vinci now it is astounding price a record price for a painting that was once thought to be by one of the vinci's students previously it had changed hands for just a few thousand dollars christie's in new york well it was a completely different story for the spending. and we move to the rich

a the suburbs are modern day savior of the world for trade of jesus christ like quote the breath of everyone in the room. many wanted to record the historic moment the auction that was selling one of the last m twenty known paintings by the master of the italian in a sense. christie's four hundred million dollars is the pit and the paris. so was the glass was cash just by an unidentified by a via telephone at a price that shattered the record for artwork sold at auction plus the feast that's four hundred fifty million dollars four times the price christie's had asked to meet it fifty million dollars fifty two million dollars the buyer obviously wanted the painting. which was an advantage for me. and. the buy it was was was what i would say rather calm for making this kind of. money.

to portray dates from around fifteen hundred and was presumed lost until the early twentieth century. over the years it had been partly painted so people thought it was only by a discipline. its true identity was only revealed when the event owners had it cleaned and discovered the original painting and then leave. the auction house not it was a rare opportunity when it announced a sale last month works by him come on the market never and it is not just a painting by leonardo it's a great painting by leonardo of a sort that is absolutely unobtainable and has been on the quantum attainable for well over a century so this is a once in a not even a lifetime a once in several lifetimes opportunity the bias identity has not been revealed so it remains an open question whether the public will have the have a chance to see the book again. russia's hopes

of making the winter olympics and south korea in february hang in the balance after the world anti-doping agency decided not to lift the suspension water says russia's anti doping body has made improvements over the past two years but that the country has not fulfilled all requirements first russia still refuses to publicly accept the results of an investigation that detailed state sponsored doping and they still will not allow access to urine samples gathered from suspected cheats the international olympic committee has the final say next month in december. joining us now for the latest on the water decision is hi yo subtleties the investigative journalist who first broke the russian doping scandal joins us from seoul thanks for being with us iow. how does this decision affect russia's hopes of competing in the winter games. well as

a pressure gets higher for the international olympic committee because if the russian anti-doping agency is not cold cold compliant that means that. and then doping work in russia doesn't work. good way let's also suspend it in moscow so there are many reasons to believe that it's a constant of us russia and russia is flawed doesn't allow them to compete at the olympics but to most bosses drama is he president has a different take on that he is against a collective punishment so i believe there is still a chance that russia will compete actually that the olympics intention two thousand eight hundred ok there's some wiggle room the i.o.c. will have the final word on this in december how do you think it's going to play out. different possibilities one is that there were no band at all for the russians to be allowed to compete in a very malta way that meet with their own slack with their own national m time they

will be allowed to be participants at their opening sterile and that is one option the other option is that the i.o.c. is enormous pressure and will tell the russians ok you can compete but only with their sleeves will prove to be clean it has been subject of a record of doping control system but you cannot have your own flag hero national anthem if that would happen then and it has been said already by the russian government that the russians will not go to the olympics it will be a boycott that would be really a dramatic development. that was higher speaking was the earlier your minder now of our top story at this hour as i'm bob way remains under military control a day after the army seized key institutions president mugabe's honor house arrest as officials seek a peaceful solution to the military intervention. i'm dr thomas for the entire news

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