this is deja vu news live from berlin germany's future hangs in the balance behind closed doors the social democrats leader has to decide whether his party will

consider helping break weeks of political deadlock just on the machall is hoping for their support to form a new government and and the political stalemate in germany but will she get martin schulz on board also coming up. pope francis breaks his silence on the plight of the row hinge are calling for decisive international action on the refugee crisis he's been celebrating an outdoor mass in bangladesh where some six hundred thousand the hens are now living after fleeing the violence and me and mark. plus the countdown to next year's world cup in russia begins with excitement growing ahead of today's draw for the tournament groups. and. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show today sees a key meeting of germany's. social democrats as they edge towards

a possible agreement on joining talks for a new coalition government now this follows a push by germany's president to get a machall and social democrat leader martin scholtz to break the impasse over forming a new government they met last night of the presidential palace here in berlin at bellevue with discussions lasting more than two hours council machall has been trying to put together a workable alliance since september selection the social democrat leader martin schultz had earlier ruled out forming another coalition with merkel's conservatives but pressure is building on phil's to reconsider that position. joining me now in the studio is our correspondent oliver salat joy following this story this morning martin shelton party leaders meeting this morning this is a key get together can we expect them to give the green light to exploratory talks this is what the whole country is waiting for right now will the s.p.d.

agree on going into these exploratory talks with the christian democrats with angela merkel's party or will they not and it's quiet on his toric situation as well it's the first time that the german president had to step in in such a scale inviting all the party leaders there to his office is there. this is exactly what happened last night they are we have not heard any confirmation any statement about what exactly the outcome was of this meeting so all eyes are on the social democrats right now and especially their party leader martin shultz finds himself in a difficult situation as he promised several times before that his party would under no circumstances go into government and now we're discussing exactly that will they go into government again so all eyes are on the s.p.d. right now to see what the further further steps are his challenge will certainly be to sell this further step this decision to go into exploratory talks to his voter base which might happen by the end of next week already when there will be

a party conference and the voter base will be asked do they agree or not but for now the question is. is he in or out ok we'll find that out hopefully today at the latest in the next days because we have this conference you mentioned coming up where does the process go at that conference after that conference right so we have to say if there will be an agreement made at the conference and we really have to stress if they are because it's simply not guaranteed that this whole process will eventually lead into another grand coalition so because this would be a u.-turn for martin schulz as i just outlined. and the fear is high that the s.p.d. might put a very high price tag on cooperating once again they could sort of try to push through further social democratic policies one for instance that is discussed right now is demolishing demolishing the jewel health care system this would be quite

a revolutionary step actually for germany and the christian democrats conservative they would not be very much in favor of these policies so what we can expect if these process moves on it will be a complicated one and we have also heard a social democrat leading figures since last night saying that if it happens it will be slow rather than what the c.d.u. claims and calls for which is a fast process ok with all of this in mind what about the concerns about the stability of the german government right now is it business as usual in berlin germany still has an acting government and of course it is stable right now i think the interesting question here is what's going to happen after that will there be another grand coalition and by the way this coalition will not be as grand then stability is granted in other scenarios it's simply unclear ok oversell of course bring us up to date as that key meeting gets underway here in berlin today thanks very much all over now for a look at some of the other stories making the news at this hour argentina's navy

says it has given up all hope that the forty four man crew of a missing submarine will be found alive efforts to locate that vessel will continue our burn the ocean off argentina's coast it's believed an explosion on board caused the submarine to sink about two weeks ago. riot police in honduras have clashed with supporters of the main opposition candidate in the presidential election after he accused the electoral court of fraud delays in releasing results from sunday's election have raised suspicions of vote manipulation with ninety three percent of all ballots counted the incumbent president won or lost over none does holds a slim lead. a panel chaired by japan's prime minister shinzo ave has agreed to a date for the country's emperor to abdicate akihito will step down on april the thirtieth twenty nineteen with his eldest son the crown prince nora hito taking the throne it is the first occasion in japan in about two centuries akihito is eighty three years

old and has suffered ill health. well pope francis is in bangladesh where he's praised the south asian nation for giving shelter to reinjure refugees fleeing me in mar the pontiff celebrated an open air mass for about one hundred thousand roman catholics in the bangladeshi capital dhaka but he did not directly mention the ethnic identity of the me and more muslim group francis has stayed away from allegations that mean mars army is waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the hinge on the part of we'll meet some or hinge of refugees later today. and following the pope's visit for us in dhaka is correspondent marcus peaker joins us now from there marcus thanks for being with us the catholic minority in bangladesh has been under immense pressure how important then is the pope's visit for them right now. so it's

a matter of recognition of the group looking at them and it's also a matter of just joy just being there today it's looking in their faces at the they are that the pope is there they've been chanting before he came in there was so much scening and like a little release from all the pressure off the last two years. has mounted. on people in bangladesh and christians have been killed and where there is a lot of fear so for them to just sign hope that the pope is ok is also no doubt this visit a sign of hope for the six hundred thousand right henge are living right now in bangladesh and refugee camps what are they hoping to hear from the pontiff it's also they just want the world to recognize their suffering and hopes been criticized for not going to grant the particle spazz out they were hoping he would do that now today he wanted to king that but that the government of bahrain has

told him it's not secure and that even his bishops here in environment actually are against it so he's now meeting dedication of eighteen people to the families from. the area where they are and see if he mentions the. then yes that he hasn't done it but he has been very very clear and outspoken saying he was talking about people from the region you know where the op from it's a mistake of the reinjure so he's been much more bold than he's been in myanmar you know how did those comments about rocking that the pope made go down with the muslim population not only of course of the hendra but in bangladesh generally. you know they really liked it because you need to spend sometimes and he also said that i'm not there to spend like this or that thing needs or that they need money on the rest of the world and you know people from the press the legation this is

a very tricky task for him so far and it's i misspoke everything right now for him how to deal with this tries this with out into answering your mars immediate and a lot of people have been disappointed but yesterday kind of it turned into a book that will begin with him being so outspoken and let's see what he's going to say later this correspond marcus speaker joining us from dakar thank you very much thank you. for emergency plan has been put together at a summit of european and african leaders in ivory coast in response to the shocking reports of slave auctions in libya the emergency measures will see the evacuation of nearly four thousand migrants stranded there but the african union says there could be as many as seven hundred thousand migrants trapped in libya a good number of them at the mercy of the highest better. french president among them i call it led the way by saying that migrants should be have to leave libya as

quickly as possible delegates from the african and european union summit in ivory coast agreed on an action plan and a crisis meeting on the sidelines of the summit it involves increased spending and setting up a task force to facilitate the rapid repatriation of migrants. next year the stimulus we must act quickly we must evacuate those who are willing to help them get back to their home countries will be diligent mccall was talking about people like adam from ivory coast adam was abducted on his way to europe by people traffickers in libya and sold on many times you know often we don't see ms and. they looked at us and the house was up and then someone gave me a telephone to call my mother he took a knife and cut my leg. while i was screaming he kept shouting i want money i want money she cut my leg again and again while i cried cause he pleaded with the rest of us. in the end addams family paid

a ransom of five hundred fifty euros. two weeks ago he was flown back to ivory coast by the international organization for migration. the organization plays a central role in the new action plan it is tasked with bringing the migrants home but according to regional director martin ashram many parts of libya are too dangerous for her workers without the help of the military. may have access to detention facilities around by the libyan government in the north of course it remains challenging security is still a difficult issue even in those areas. so the logistics of these of these operations are quite quite complex however participants in the summit have promised to start implementing parts of the action plan in the coming days according to mr faqih chairperson of the african union commission thousands of my brits and libya

have already been identified. that there is no we haven't convinced our international partners in europe and the united nations to repatriate three thousand eight hundred people immediately with the help of the task force. but you always did when you saw. libya is the only issue delegates were able to agree on there was no resolution on what was meant to be the main goal of the summit developing a new strategy to help africa's youth expectations have been high but it seems africa's most vulnerable have been left out in the cold. this is state of inner still to come on the show the countdown to next year's football world cup in russia begins with excitement growing ahead of today's draw where the tournament group. of jurors here now in oil is at above that sixty dollars mark right now and opec sure want to say see it stays there absolutely liz that is the name of the latest deal

they agreed to in vienna on thursday opec will keep the pumps on low revs extending a cap on global supplies for the next nine months saudi arabia believes the market has yet to rebalance and warns it's premature to talk about exiting the cuts at least for a couple of quarters due to on rest in libya and lower than normal production in nigeria opec members also decided to limit nigeria's output but have yet to agree on a cap for libya. so what impact did this decision have on markets let's bring in danielle cope at the frankfurt stock exchange danny a opec always a green zone something and then some of the members do what they want anyway is opec as an organization still in charge. well you do really have to keep in mind care that opec of course is an organization that can give recommendations to the member and nonmember slaves but the end they don't have any legal option to say ok you produce this mound of oil and you don't but there are countries who pretty much

do what they want nigeria for example a member of opec but exempt pretty much by all of this because for them all such an important income for the economy but experts are really telling you when you were for example look back at two thousand and fourteen by that time all was really at this record low many countries were fearing that this would create a great problems for their economy by the time those reductions off their production were in force and we have seen the oil president going up from that time at about twenty six percent so traders are telling me that even though opec sometimes seems like a big kindergarten basically it still makes sense and they are actually thinking that it's going in the right direction. traders tell you it's going in the right direction where is it going where's the where is there is ceiling they can see. well we have to talk about i mean you mention a dollar right now at

a level of about sixty three dollars per barrel and i was talking to an oil expert a little bit earlier he told me that he thinks that by the end we're going to see an oil price pretty much between seventy and seventy five dollars per barrel and of course it's going to be really interesting what the next year is going to bring if there is still too much oil on the market or if maybe even more member states will also stick to the reduction of the oil production value of hope in frankfurt thank you. and we're staying with commodities still producing nations have agreed to end subsidies that distort markets g twenty ministers have been meeting in berlin to avert a trade war over steel overcapacity has been causing international tensions but deep divisions remain. expectations were low from the outset the interests of

the participating countries were just too varied the goal of the summit was to put the brakes on steel production worldwide to reduce crippling overcapacity but in the end that mission remained impossible there was at least some agreement as to the cause of the problem though it can and you know it finished members recognize the need to make sure that the market forces are working better and that means agreeing that there should be a reduction of steel subsidies that are distorting the market so. that agreement is not binding though the o.e.c.d. says currently the market is flooded with an extra eight hundred million tons of steel around five hundred million tons of it comes from china by far the largest steel producer in the world but europe is also producing too much and the u.s. is threatening further punitive tariffs and complaining of dumping prices. after weeks of stunning gains bitcoin is now tumbling virtual currency has been all the

rage lately inspiring ever more investors to jump on the bandwagon just this week the price hit a record high of over eleven thousand three hundred dollars but since then bitcoin has lost over twenty percent of its peak value reaching a low of nine thousand dollars its recent volatility has prompted warnings from prominent investors that bitcoin is well into bubble territory. diplomatic tensions between kenya and tanzania are flaring up over pastures for cattle belonging to the massey people who live on both sides of the border and tanzania president john magaw thirty eight is keen to implement a livestock ban saying his country is not a grazing land for cows from across the border in kenya the struggle for regional power is being felt in the daily lives of farmers who live near the border and are used to trading freely to survive mary materia is

a worried woman the times i mean widow and mother of one took a business risk that has left her devastated in early november her deal chicks were burnt alive by her country's authorities in among a town on the border between kenya and tanzania. i thought i'd try out the poultry business so i took out a loan of about three thousand eight hundred euros i bought the chicks in kenya to sell them here and russia but when i got to the kenya tanzania border pointer no manga they said the chicks had to be destroyed because they could have bird flu all six thousand four hundred of them were killed here for their communities living in east african border towns usually move freely from one country to another some families even split their time between two countries mary thought this was an asset for her new business. tanzania banned the importation of livestock from neighboring countries in two thousand and seven this year it's had an extra push in november

alone government confiscated eleven thousand three hundred cattle from kenya and uganda and rwanda and herders auctioning them prisoners list thirty euros each we had to a large stock market on the kenyan side of the border. of the traders who manage to make it to the market if the tanzanians who end up making the most money their cows a cheaper and seem healthier the residents here say that on a normal market day you wouldn't even find space to stand in this enclosure but the recent spat between kenya and tanzania seems to have obviously affected business here near the kenya tanzania border. there's a lot of pressure on kenyan traders most of dealing with a severe drought and now that they can't trade in tents anya they're beginning to get agitated. and.

we depend on these cows for everything if trading with tanzania is going to be difficult then we'll take matters into our own hands if this issue is not result which then will block the tanzanians from entering kenya. for these rules are very stupid. kenya has since written a protest new to tanzania through the east african community but president seems undeterred insisting rules of rules have of these rules a greatly affecting business and lives of those at the grassroots level. today is world aids day and brian has more that's right you heard that means it's time to look at the fight against each ivy new medical developments are showing promise for example prep or pre-exposure prophylaxis it's a drug that can prevent an age hiv infection during unprotected sex now was expensive this pill is now widely affordable critics though say it encourages risky

behavior like having sex without a condom and certainly changing the rules for the gay community including here in berlin a man or a professional musician he's gay and hiv negative and that's how he wanted to stay . that is why he relies on prep and antiviral medicine against hiv infection it's mostly meant for the high risk group of sexually active gay men this. until about two years ago i just used condoms but there were always risky situations. i started to mistrust condoms. then i heard about prep and it really sounded like a savior. people used to pay up to eight hundred euros a month or semi-legal the order a cheaper generic version from abroad but recent efforts by

a cologne pharmacist drastically lowered the price to fifty euros a month today over sixty pharmacies in germany offer the medicine claudia and i how store was one of the first in berlin. not. the demand has been very high since october we've heard two hundred to two hundred thirty patients here just in this pharmacy and in germany in general it's around one thousand three hundred fifty now i. think for a man who well the pill changed his life as. prep took my constant fear away not only in the bedroom but in everyday life it helped me get emotionally intimate again before and every potential partner was also a potential danger. to get far critics of the pill are afraid that unprotected sex will spread other sexually transmitted diseases but

people who take prep like a man who will get tested regularly for other is t.d.'s possibly coming the spread the combination of better hiv treatment and prep is having a significant impact abroad. yet under the lender's we are now certain that prep can definitely start new infections and the u.k. new infections have dropped significantly and we can see the same in san francisco we can have these successes in germany as well. for a manual prep is already a success it finally means freedom from the once life threatening hiv. sports now and friday is a crucial day for football fans only about two hundred days until the world cup kicks off in russia next year tonight the competition groups will be decided by the luck of the draw at

a star studded ceremony in moscow did abuse emily sure one has been out gauging the mood among russian fans. it's minus seven degrees celsius in moscow but that doesn't stop the amateur football team. they play at least once a week no matter what the weather. alex on the moral him has been playing with the team for two years he's a school sports teacher but on and off the pitch soccer has always been his passion . for both around the world now here in russia football is the game of the people you have to strike shoot beautiful goals we may not be at the world cup but we definitely try to play in eleven game over seven hundred thousand tickets to the world cup in russia have already been sold so far about half of them have gone to the country's own fans including alex on the. list there are reminders of the upcoming event dotted across moscow even a countdown to the kickoff. and the majority of russians feel positive about

hosting the world cup this coming year. was it in the crowd yes it's a good thing of course a lot of tourists a lot of guests will come we're always happy to have guess. it's a serious major event and i know that a lot of people are already buying tickets online people here are definitely looking forward to the world cup. the world cup has given a boost to the infrastructure of cities like rest of. and wonderful stadiums have been built now the guests just have to arrive. there still. the city of moscow has been feverish lee preparing as well investing one and a half billion euros to improve protests. and roads. in cooperation with the city has even given one of its metro trains a make over it will be spreading the soccer spirit across moscow until the end of

the world cup. but alex on that and his team mates won't be needing any encouragement when it comes to the soccer spirit today they're watching a game at a teammate's local bar. alex on that has been an avid football fan since he was six he'll of course be back in his home team at the world cup and will be watching the draw closely. with the hosts so the main thing is for us to at least come in first or second in a group we hope that the russian team will end up in an easy group but the whole country is hoping for an easy group just on the top of the russian national team currently is the lowest ranked of all the world cup participants but no matter who wins fans like alex on the can still enjoy a month of the beautiful game. and we are of course following that and other stories very closely for you here you can

find out more about them at our website dot com for now though so long and we'll see you again at the top of the hour bob. thanks. laundry done international talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week

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