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this is the news live from berlin what will the pope's aide to the leader of me and maher of his having to tread carefully because his visit to that country comes amidst a violent persecution there of its muslim minority and on the sausage shape the country's de facto leader has come under fire for not stopping it also coming up bali holding its breath as awaits to see what the smoking volcano will do next torrents of cold lava are already eroding the landscape and everything is covered with volcanic ash. and defying terror the berlin christmas market targeted by and his longest attacker a year ago as opened for this season a first psalm the memories are still very painful.

i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show but francis travels to me in mars capital today for a number of highly anticipated meetings now international rights groups are urging the pontiff to speak out for the muslim muslims as the subject right now of a military crackdown slammed by some groups as ethnic cleansing now the pope will meet with the nobel laureate and civilian leader aung sang suu kyi although catholic leaders are stressing she has no influence with the country's military leaders or with its treatment of the revenger now we'll get an update from our correspondent in myanmar boskin hearties but first he sent us this report on the hopes of many of the people in myanmar right now. church courtyards and yang gone are bursting at the seams this week. hundreds of thousands

of believers have flocked from all four corners of the country wanting to see the pope and many of them are young. to resupply and i was part of a catholic youth group from pitchin state in the north of me and mark. a region that's been plagued by a war between the military and ethnic rebel armies one third of the population there is christian. for teresa and most of the others in the group it's their first ever trip to the big city so they're eager to set out and explore. most of all they want to experience the pope. they hope to return home with the courage to make their country a better place but are you this is about tomorrow in our area there is civil war there is no place and i don't want the approval of president we are here to receive the pope's message of peace and to pray together the job or not i need ten years

that i will know and that's important i hope that can bring us peace to name him up will be mean to me alone i say to him and then you see that in a country rifle ethnic and religious tensions many believe the pope's message of nonviolence and understanding could help me and mar overcome its numerous conflicts . and no conflict currently looms as large as the one between the army and the muslim rule hinge a minority that has displaced more than half a million people in just a few months but only catholics in myanmar are closely following the pope's historic visit many of this country's muslims are to they hope that the pope can not only draw attention to the fate of the hundreds of thousands of fled to bangladesh but that he can also convince the powerful army to back off in the name of humanity. when isn't imaam in years gone he heads an organization that is

working to strengthen ties between youths of different faiths he's aware of the debate of whether and how the pope should weigh in on the sensitive issue of the road. for the sake of me and mars muslims he wants a clear statement from the pontiff what muslim. hoping from. it's you know the situation of the northern rakhine state about the people the wall have been doing that do you know when a part of the wall where happening this genocide and it is also the time when the messenger of peace is visiting he must have mentioned about that situation to research her friends have made it to one of the most sacred sites in the buddhist world and me and mars most famous landmark the shrader gone pagoda she says she feels welcome here in spite of her religion she wishes everyone in

myanmar could also say that about the country. and able friends a lot of pope francis can unite the different religions and foster love between people of different faiths as this is what i hope and believe. it's a noble wish but in myanmar's current reality it seems it will take nothing short of a miracle to make it come true. so can the pope help bridge some of me and mars many divisions from young daughter we're joined now by correspondent boston harding to put a report together for us do we know what the part of talked about with his meeting during his meeting with military leaders yesterday. well what we do know brian is that the meeting was very brief it only took fifteen minutes and it was moved up in the pope's itinerary it was supposed to take place

on thursday then they rescheduled it yesterday at two yesterday afternoon a few hours after the pope arrived and we know that the pope reminded the commander in chief of the myanmar military general min on lying about the responsibility that authorities have especially now at this moment of transition in myanmar if you have to understand that this is a country that until a few years ago was under a military strict military rule and it only started opening up back in two thousand and eleven and military civilian government has only been in africa for a year now the general on his behalf he was saying that there is no. religious or ethnic discrimination in me and mar that is an assessment that not only the muslim world hinder minority will strongly disagree with but also members of other minorities might be critical about brian abbas and you mentioned the

country's relatively new civilian government as well of course by nobel laureate aung san suu kyi and the part of we'll be meeting with her later today she's come in for a lot of criticism for not doing enough to protect the ranger. so the pope will definitely be raising the rohinton issue with her in her meeting or in the meeting with her but i think it's important to understand that this is the rohinton issue is not the only reason why the pope is here in fact this visit the pope's visit to myanmar was scheduled months before this crisis in northern iraq and state. spiraled out of control in this way and there are as we heard in the report as well there are many other conflicts that this country is dealing with at the moment myanmar is home too. some of the longest running internal conflicts in the world and these are conflicts between mainly between the military and ethnic rebel groups especially in the border areas for example in christian state where

the young people that we saw in the report were from and their fighting has been going on for many years and there are many people who are displaced and they have to live in internally displaced persons camps and they've been doing that for many years and there's their future is very uncertain and many of these people are in fact christian like the people that the young people that we saw in the report so their fate and their future is something that the pope will definitely also have at heart and that's something that he's very likely to bring up in his conversation with alongside of course the overarching. issue that is overshadowing this whole trip of the pope brian boston thanks so much for that and for your report this morning. is to kenya now where police have fired tear gas to control crowds of people trying to attend the inauguration of president who can yasser now you arrived at his swearing in ceremony at

a stadium in the capital nairobi it's been delayed by two disputed polls and deadly street protests this comes after kenya's supreme court validated kenyatta specter in last month's rerun election but months of political evil upheaval have left that country deeply divided. a bawley is very much on edge at this hour as all cannick ash continues to spew from out stopping flights at the international airport there for a second day now indonesia's old ology center says there are strong indications a major eruption could happen at any moment. mt occurring is turning into the main attraction on the island of bali indonesia is biggest tourist destination that's if is it is could get there to see it. the closure of the international airport for a second day has left thousands stranded many more unable to fly in. these

villages live outside the danger zone but the mud and ash from the volcanic activity mean daily life cannot go on as normal. covering everything makes it very difficult for us. our cause cannot eat grass that has been covered with ice so i have to move the cattle from the. tens of thousands of others have been evacuated from their homes and the coping as best they can with makeshift accommodation. seeing the lava starting to flow out has made me scared. yeah i worry this time the eruption will be worse than lost. last time was in one nine hundred sixty three back then a guns devastating blast left more than a thousand people dead and told a billion cubic tons of debris into the atmosphere enough to cool global

temperatures for a year with the alert already raised to its highest levels scientists believe another eruption is imminent the question is when and how big. now for a look at some of the other stories making in the news today police in australia have arrested a man accused of planning a mass shooting on new year's eve officials say the twenty year old was trying to obtain an automatic weapon for an attack in a crowded melbourne square the suspect is a known extremist and islamic state sympathizer. a flamboyant t.v. host looks set for a surprise win over the u.s. friendly president in elections in honduras salvador riaa as an unexpected lead an early election returns but both sides are claiming victory president won hernandez had won praise during his term in office for cracking down on crime and one of latin america's poorest countries. over some people is being compared to

the tulip bulb frenzy in holland in the sixteen hundreds and brothers is being called the future of cash we're talking about bitcoin as it slowly approaches that magical ten thousand dollar mark or that's right brian last weekend alone the price of bitcoin soared in value through nine thousand dollars and is expected to hit hit ten thousand dollars soon because it is just one of thousands of so-called crypto currency is currently in circulation crept across is a digital payment system in which the currency is created on privately owned computers the technology used is called block chain unregulated by any central bank digital currencies could undermine monetary policy investors also on protected it coins values determine entirely by supply and demand and therefore very sensitive to market developments and volatile after recent low in september the price more than doubled central bankers warn bitcoin has no tangible value and is destined to

crash it still seems that more and more regulators investors and big business are taking bitcoin more seriously. recalling has never ceased to surprise markets and now they want to cash in on the rush the world's largest derivatives market place the chicago mercantile exchange group says it will start offering bitcoin futures by the end of the year in recent days three hundred thousand users are reported to have signed up to bid going bringing the total to over thirteen million but it's still quite hard to actually buy things with it a slew of trading platform such as fancy dot com and fast tech dot com offer everything from armchairs to ferrari's and watches but these are peer to peer sales platforms you won't be able to exchange your bitcoins for that flash b.m.w. in your local showroom but they can buy you some things. there are coffee bars that will only accept big corn like this one in prague you can book that perfect trip to

the mt d.h. on expedia with that comment and speculation is rife that amazon could soon accept because in for payment. with japan also recognizing bitcoins is legal tender it could be said that the crypto currency future is looking good so if bitcoin doesn't actually crash it'll probably be only a question of time before the broader economy has to join the rush. what's all this hype about bitcoin about let me the studio is financial correspondent from new york yes caught on a rare visit to home base in the studio for a change yes you've covered the rise of big point from from the beginning really can we know trust this virtual currency well i would certainly say that it's devilish by now so not join the crowd saying it's like the tool of crisis what some people are saying and then also if you if you look at the practical value of bitcoins i'm always getting angry when my clients transfer money to me from europe

to the united states i always pay banking fees thirty thirty five dollars for transfer and i don't really understand why because that's also just a technical click of a basket right it's a click of a button why should i pay thirty five dollars for that and was the block chain technology for instance you could avoid those fees so there was a certain reason for what many people are asking themselves including me is it time to jump on the bandwagon now at nearly ten thousand or is it too late you know well that's the ten thousand two hundred thousand dollar question i have two younger colleagues and they actually just started buying bitcoin so obviously some people still believe that it's not to late to jump in but then also the whole block change of knowledge is rather complex and should i buy shouldn't i buy it really depends also on your risk level it is complex we don't have that much we would. i don't know that much how it works so it's i would say there is a certain risk attached to it if it's too late. there's

a certain amount of secrecy around the whole thing as well who invented is not quite clear and all that while central banks are worried about it well first of all bitcoins and other crypto currency is as well and not really that regulated and if we talk about crypto what is really problematic is the so-called i see something like an i.p.o. for stock as an initial coin offering the already we could decide in a few minutes ok let's start the cryptocurrency and then we just need people to buy it and trust us so it's so that is one reason the whole regulation part and then just do we see a bubble that's also something what central banks are concerned about early this year with current stood at seven hundred dollars now we're almost at ten thousand of the speed is just pretty breathtaking it's mind blowing it is indeed the ceiling well the sky's the limit. so yeah it's really tough to tell but but one thing is

for certain people are not just buying cryptocurrency is they're not buying bitcoins they're buying everything they're buying stocks they're buying currencies they're buying commodities and they're also buying kryptos and one thing is for certain it is still pretty young and and we will also see a certain question at bitcoins at some point but that doesn't mean that in the long run they're justified yes go out on your correspondent on erev is a studio thank you very much. well there's a political storm brewing here in berlin and brian more of that it's related to an e.u. decision get hard the european union decision to extend the license for the controversy zero weedkiller glyphosate could end up complicating chelsea on america's efforts to form a new government here in germany germany's agriculture minister now he's a conservative party ally of machall backed the move but it was opposed by the environment minister now he's

a social democrat and according to current coalition guidelines that difference of opinion meant that germany should have abstained in that european union vote social democrats are crying foul saying the go alone decision will make talks to form a renewed coalition between the two much more difficult let's take a look at that. when i spoke by phone with my colleague mr schmidt today it's been thirty and made it clear that i was sticking to my no and that therefore germany has to abstain on this issue and cannot agree to the extension of this kind of behavior is not designed to promote trust between negotiating partners. sockless i can only say that i made this decision based on the fact. and in this bird of our own the standing of strong environmental protection. as it were. and i think it's well known that building trust account is one of my main priorities. now

once belonged to. ok this comes at the worst possible time for germany with the collapse of a possible coalition talks between partners that might have worked christopher spring gate from the political bureau joins us now from our christopher what effect is this going to have on the hope for coalition negotiations between the social democrats and all americans conservatives well. initially it'll have a destructive effect the one key thing one needs to know about the way that political coalitions government coalitions in germany work they agree on procedural rules one of the key rules is that if ministries held by different parties disagree on an issue then the relevant minister has to abstain on that issue if there's an international vote such as the one we saw yesterday within the european union so this is a clear breach of those rules and it's not exactly the way to create the kind of

trust that's going to be needed to form a new grand coalition between chancellor merkel's conservatives and the social democrats ok now the as for these parliamentary leader andrea knowledge is expected to lead those discussions on a possible coalition she's accused agriculture minister of making the decision unilaterally let's take a listen to what she had to say. this is and this is a serious breach of trust within the acting government and i have to ask myself in light of this go it alone decision whether mrs merkel has her own people under control for america ok that's quite a heavy accusation there are people under control now you mention the question of process the question of rules now we're looking at a possible breach of trust how much damage has been done and can that be contained well i think the pressure will be on chancellor merkel to sort this out and specifically on the agriculture minister who is one of the varian allies christian

schmidt. angela merkel is expected this week to call for exploratory talks with the social democrats and as those talks get on the way the social democrats i'm sure will be saying what is the value of those procedural rules are they worth any more than the paper they're written on if they are then consequences need to be taken the opposition green party is already calling for the resignation of the agricultural minister and i think pressure on him and as i say on chancellor merkel will increase during the course of the week ok do you think machall knew what the agriculture minister was going to do is there any way to know that well you know we won't we're not in the chancellor over time what we're hearing from government sources is that she was not in the loop and that the. bavarian politician the agriculture minister acted more or less off his own bat. but that

obviously begs the question you know does angela merkel have full control over her cabinet in times of great political uncertainty ok has to be said that glyphosate is a very emotional and important issue in here in germany right now what's behind that which not only in germany you know worldwide it's a weed killer that's widely used it's relatively cheap it's built into the infrastructure if you want all of industrial agriculture a lot of money riding on whether to say can be used yes or no the problem is that the scientific community is divided there are studies that say glue for say may cause cancer there are other studies that say there is no proof of that ok now where does this story go from here or who's move is it now who can we expect to hear from next well i think everybody will be looking at chancellor merkel for an explanation of what went on and to see how she's going to react to this ok chris first brigade thanks very much bring us up to a story we will be following of course very closely as they have to do with the

next government here in germany thanks very much welcome. well the berlin christmas market targeted by an as a missed attack one year ago has now opened for this season twelve people died when . his truck into that crowded christmas market dozens of others were injured let's take a look now on some of the people who survived that attack and what they have to say . it's one of the german capital's most popular christmas markets but last year it was also the scene of a terrible tragedy. we've come to berlin's but i tried plants market to find out what has changed since then. this is what the christmas season in germany is all about enjoying a glass of wine at one of the many christmas markets but can that be possible to enjoy when everything reminds you to those who lost their lives in last year's attacks let's find out. we need to do any kushal

a survivor of last year's attack he was selling mild wine to a customer when the truck raced directly towards him then he knows he was lucky to survive but the memories of the attack still hurt. and kept in a guardian wolf we talked to comes in i just saw the truck approaching me in our shop that then the hunt suddenly collapsed i can't remember anything after that. i woke up the rescue workers were pulling me out of the rubble and yes. the fire veiled you know it's just it will like it's all on. the truck hit the back of lady's heart and came to a stop just a few meters away twelve people were killed that night dozens were injured. one year later security at the market is tight police are on patrol hopefully that will make people feel safe. this is the place where the truck

plowed into the christmas market steering directly into a group of people these concrete barriers were set up now to protect the visitors but they also keep reminding everyone of the current danger of further attacks. despite the high security the atmosphere is fisty for many visitors say they feel resilient. it's a different feeling it's not the way the used to be we were here the day before the attack and then it's happened it's terrible. i guess i missed it. i share the opinion of many others we can't hide after an attack like this it's a christmas market and we have to come back. we're celebrating being a life and the fact that we still have each other we won't let them frighten us the

last of us needs to be. the memory of those who died is being kept alive by a temporary come immigration site it's appointment reminder to everyone who visits the blind child plots christmas market. this is date of years live from berlin while more from you at the top of the hour guns leave you right now though it's news if jimi hendrix he died in one nine hundred seventy at the age of twenty seven in what it would have turned seventy five this week enjoy.

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