this is deja vu news live from berlin more threats and maneuvering on the korean peninsula the u.s. and south korea begin a week of joint military drills said to be the largest ever north korea says it is

an all out provocation that could lead to nuclear war we'll get reaction from seoul also coming up fighting intensifies between rival factions in yemen's capital sanaa residents warn a three year rebel alliance is collapsing into a bloody street war. also on the show we'll have a roundup of sunday's german soccer action another tough weekend for coaches in the bundesliga and we'll show you how the wolves take a bite out of the engine block box a title campaign. and a lost generation this eleven year old girl is one of an unknown number of syrian child refugees who must work instead of going to school we have a special report from istanbul. i'm cindy summers gonna get to have you with us the tensions on the korean finance . well our in focus today is the united states and south korea kick off five days

of joint air exercises set to be their largest ever now the drills involve more than two hundred thirty planes including two dozen stealth fighters they've predictably drawn an angry response from north korea on state television pyongyang called it an all out provocation that could lead to a nuclear war and this all comes less than a week after north korea test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile thought to be capable of hitting the u.s. mainland president trumps national security adviser warned that the possibility of war was growing every day the greatest immediate threat to the united states and to the world is the threat posed by the rogue regime in north korea and his continued efforts to develop a long range nuclear capability and so it's immensely important that we work together with with all of our allies partners everyone internationally to convince

kim jong un that the continued pursuit of these capabilities is a dead end for him and his regime white house national security advisor mass mcmaster speaking there let's bring in journalist jason strother he joins us from the south korean capital seoul hi jason we're hearing some pretty influential voices in the u.s. so warning of a possible preemptive war what is being said there in south korea. this is something that president moon julian has long been concerned with ever since he took office back in may he has said throughout the past several months that he expects washington to notify or at least collaborate with seoul first before any sort of military maneuvers could be taken against pyongyang but that certainly is a rising concern here in south korea typically south koreans go on with their daily lives whatever the u.s. and pyongyang throw back and forth to work but now there is concern especially

considering some of the words coming directly from president trump that the u.s. could spark back in korean war these military maneuvers are said to be the largest joint exercises ever what should we read into that. these are the these drills were prescheduled before north korea's i.c.b.m. test last week south korean media says that while. right it looks like we've lost our our running. all right it looks like we're having some trouble with that line to our correspondent jason strother reporting there from seoul well move on to some other news now a u.n. chief antonio terrace is calling for an immediate halt to air and ground assault in

yemen expressing deep concern at the latest escalation in violence yemen is caught in the middle of a proxy war to extend influence in the gulf region on the one side a coalition of saudi led forces who backed the internationally recognized government for three years they have fought a rebel alliance backed by iran now it appears that that alliance is unraveling triggering intense fighting in the capital sanaa once again civilians are paying a heavy price. amid the ruins they are searching for signs of life but finding only day. that. everyone who was here. almost fifteen killed by the destruction. it killed everyone. a home in the village of so is the latest target lost saudi led airstrike. in hospital

some of the few survivors are fighting for their lives. if. they targeted my house while they were eighteen to twenty guests the whole family was inside as well as all of our cattle everything is gone there's nothing left. yemen has been at war since twenty fourteen when these iranian backed rebels seized control of the government so has led the offensive against them combating manpower with aerial bombardment in an escalating proxy war. more than ten thousand people have died over half the population have inadequate health care no clean water and barely enough food to survive. no the rebel alliance is

fighting itself iranian backed hooty soldiers have clashed with forces backing their former yemeni president until last week they had fought alongside each other . but now the former leader has called for dialogue with riad and the hutu rebels see him as a traitor. wow. i am calling on the armed forces and the police to not take orders from the who tease in any circumstances or any place to the armed forces the police and all the state institutions take orders from the military that is represented by the historical patriotic leaders. as the deadly battles between former allies intensifies life in the capital sana'a is suspended i shall send schools are forced to shut the violence.

jordan has warned u.s. president donald trump that recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel could have dangerous consequences trump has repeatedly pledged to make the controversial declaration and move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem previous u.s. presidents have declined to do so many fears the move would enraged palestinians who claim east jerusalem as their capital of donald trump's son in law and adviser jared questioner says the president is still deciding on whether to formally recognized him as israel's capital in the coming days. the president is going to make his decision. and he hasn't made his decision he's still looking at a lot of different facts and that when he makes his decision. he'll be the one to want to tell your nominee so so i hope he'll make sure he does that at the right time now to some other stories making headlines around the world president trump has lashed out at the f.b.i. tweeting that its reputation was in tatters after years of fire director james

comey is leadership this after it emerged a senior official was removed from the agency's russia probe last year for having a political bias against trump. britain's prime minister teresa mayes off to brussels where she is hoping to reach a deal on rights that divorce terms with european commission chiefs. that you sides are said to have agreed that britain will pay around fifty billion euros to the block allowing further talks to proceed in honduras thousands have marched in fresh protests backing leftist presidential candidates over the last they say that the incumbent president wonderland or not does is trying to steal last week's disputed election electoral officials have begun a partial recount of some contested ballots the vote sparked deadly protests and a military enforced curfew and relatives of the crew aboard the argentinean submarine that vanished last month of march to protest against the government's response to the tragedy on thursday the navy said it no longer considered the

search and rescue mission although it would continue looking for the best. now german authorities say the suspicious package found at a pharmacy in the city of potsdam on friday was not terrorism related but actually part of a black male. investigators say whoever sent the package was demanding money from d.h.l. a german delivery company. a hissing sound then nothing but it was a close call in parts time on friday when employees at a pharmacy opened a package found in their store the device inside was much more dangerous than investigators originally thought. guns. didn't apparently the blackmailer or the blackmailers didn't mind risking injuries or even death of those who received the packages. the beleaguered and in cold.

the target the delivery firm d.h.l. included in the package was a blackmail letter embedded as a q.r. code tater for. whoever sent the package demanded a large sum of money if you didn't get paid he said he would send more packages to send in. a similar package was found in early november in another city and brandenburg investigators believe the suspect may make good on his threat to deliver more dangerous parcels. it watching t.w. news still to come goals and drama galore in the bundesliga on sunday we have all the action and expert analysis that's coming up. for some corporate news from the u.s. making a big splash in the health care industry monica you can say that again soon it is said to be a major tie up in the u.s. health care industry america's biggest drugstore chain c.b.s. has agreed to acquire health insurance aetna for almost seventy billion dollars the

deal will link c.v.s. nationwide network of ten thousand stores and clinics with twenty two million customers analysts say it will trigger further consolidation in the industry as firms seek to defend themselves against amazon the online retailer is threatening to enter the market as it acquires pharmaceutical licenses across the united states as well a bit further south in latin america as if the recent bitcoin boom went enough you may soon be able to invest in venezuela's very own crypto currency the country's president nicolas maduro announcing the so-called petro which will be backed by venezuela's oil and gas was it's an attempt to close back financial independence as opposed tension and desperation grows the venezuelan bawly vaal has plummeted over ninety five percent against the dollar on the black market over the past year sending the price of food rocketing. on staying with currencies euro zone finance ministers will pick the replacement for euro group chief john dice

a bloom later today the job is one of europe's top posts on it was especially crucial during the to malta yes of the eurozone debt crisis for some years it's into the euro zone was doomed and with it its currency but recent data shows there's life in the old dog yet. years of recession on three bailouts if there was ever a poster child for europe's economic crisis it was crease but now the country's fortunes appear to be turning around growth is returning and borrowing costs to fall and. southern european nations spain and portugal are also showing signs of recovery dr especially good news for the e.u. single currency. since january of this year the euro has risen to around fifteen percent against the dollar landing most recently iran to dollar nineteen so is it

all rosy not quite says the european central bank while things are improving economic with remain italy's fragile banking sector is a big concern and public debt in the country is high should europe's third largest economy find itself on shaky ground the euro would be likely to suffer too. now this weekend was the first sunday of advent and that means germany's christmas season is in full swing now germany is of course the home of the christmas market where the first once a p.s. in the late middle ages and those hundreds of years they've grown to become a seasonal economic factor and they are regulated including one of its most popular products here in the center of cologne locals and visitors are getting into the festive spirit for many that means indulging in a thief will drink or to. food quality tester all of our maya has come here to

check they're up to scratch. the boiling point of alcohol is seventy eight degrees or so mulled wine shouldn't be hotter than last. and don't go together while the whole bit evaporation and that will reduce the quality. when it comes to drinks there's no competing with mulled wine in the four weeks before christmas a store like this one can expect to bring in a rant one hundred sixty thousand euros. with some two thousand markets across the country it's no wonder germans consume a total of fifty million liters of mulled wine a year so what makes for the perfect you've tied experience like. colder weather maybe a bit more mulled wine and another few visits the christmas market it's only a matter of time before you get into the spirit. getting into the christmas spirit is big business and at this market at least visitors can be sure their mulled wine

has enough of the other kind of spirit to. the talent poland used to make fiat's cast in the one nine hundred seventy s. has captured the attention of hollywood as part of the charity drive residents also collected money to send tom hanks yes that actor his very own fee at one to six p. that is a cult vintage car familia in eastern europe but really it stands out in tensile town. it may not look very hollywood but it's certainly what dreams are made of. this is the moment veteran star tom hanks took the theater one twenty six p. for a spin. so how did one of the world's biggest stars come to drive one of the world's most forgotten cars. time to back up.

it all began with a tweet back in november twenty sixth season during a trip to europe hanks posted a picture of himself posing with a vintage vehicle along with the joke caption i got a new car. that captured the attention of this polish woman who lives in the city of bell school biala where the theater was originally produced. the idea was to present the famous star with the theater as part of a promotion for the town and a local children's hospital room it. was. not one to do things by halves she arranged to have the fia one twenty six p. flown from warsaw to los angeles. prior to that she spent a week showcasing the car at the airports. you know what i thought so shocked at home and loves this initiative because it's just beautiful. it penalises my sizzix it supports

a hospital that's up to about vintage cars. doesn't accept it in the movie all the others got what it is outside the car was fully restored and then personalise for hunks. when it arrived at its destination in los angeles he was keen to strike a pose with his new baby you know. this is the way this is the way americans show up already here. and there is certainly something to show wolf about the money raised is going towards event of a sing the pediatric psychiatry ward in the children's hospital. i feel like that story if you like the next one as well engaging one from down under. parliament has started debating a bill that could soon legalize gay marriage across the country one lawmaker took this opportunity to propose to his gay partner this debate has been a soundtrack to our relationship we both know this issue isn't the reason we

got involved in politics give us tax reform any day. but in my first speech are defined. by the ring that sits on both about left hands that diaby answer the questions we cannot ask. so there's only one thing left to do. ryan patrick but we will you marry me. go but you. were checked out in the memo you can't just let her go to record that was a yes it was in your. right to life thank you speaker. well done all right to sports now and in the bundesliga while sprigg entertainment on sunday night had been on a roll in recent weeks but the visitors knew they needed to put more space between

themselves and the relegation zone. data hacking abroad involves the knowing take three ivory's old club would elevate gladbach to second the false but had other ideas mario gomez found space in the box the be in a smiley commonly slotted home abut the hosts one pov to just full minutes but. unfold sperber soon two goals to the good the bad the davian molly combining brilliantly for the second. to darby's fifth goal of the season. but doc did manage to find the back of the nats the box words annoyed by the offside flag to nil to vosburgh at half time the big way through the second half it was three nil end game over the

but just kill of the game with an absolute pile driver. biggest win of the season. packing making a hasty exit. jonathan crane is here from or it's with this weekend jonathan a big win for of all spike is this going to turn the season around for them very big win for them in front of the in-form side we're not. under him and you're kind of thinking. ok fine but then you start. if you lose games after that then you're going to be looking. and they have won two or three important. times that they did manage to keep. getting a lot of value for money and i think they will be one of these teams now they will

look at a lot of teams in the european mix. they will fancy their chances of getting in there what about this is a missed opportunity do they have what it takes to qualify for the champions league show because they beat by and munich. so they will be disappointed that they can follow that up interesting because. the last nine. they couldn't then follow that up with a win seven defeat there is something about having a high and then coming down but i think. very good players. from. those players have been performing well and again they will be one of these teams that will look at this table and think ok you know last time when we know about that struggles sure we can maybe get into the top three if we can get a run together and consistency and string together some wins then they would also

fancy their chances of being right up all right let's look at some of the other action on sunday's early game ahead frankfurt. obviously we know about them really struggling for a front for brilliance on the road but they have kevin prince boat sank of course the brother. he was returning to his hometown club so we were all thinking could he deliver on his own backyard. character came out swinging and forced their visitors into errors paid out a base of each with a great chance to get on the scoreboard. frankfurt coach nico coverts was not pleased berlin were clearly the better so. matthew lucky we had his way through the defense and davies made it one nil with after a long stretch out injured the german is turning into ever more of a threat in front of goal. then concentrated on defending their lead in frankfurt made them pay marius bolt somehow left uncontested and he

simply fired the ball in. at half time. to the match got scrappier after the restart but there was one standout moment kevin prince by tang making it to one against his hometown club and that's how it ended frankfurt remain the strongest team in the league on the road well here to continue their tumble down the table. ok quite a good homecoming there for kevin prince going to push frankfurt to new level by then back back in berlin scoring a result that he didn't really celebrate the goal out of respect for his former club the club or he started his career best. yeah i think he was actually a very good signing a free transfer from last on the spanish team a few eyebrows probably raised when i'm struck frankfurt forty men because he does

have a reputation as a bit of a bad boy questions every attitude journeymen player he's played all over europe but on this day with a goal that he can be brilliant and. he is only thirty still it seems like he's been around for ages but he has got some experience so he can really help some of the younger players in the sport of his experience brilliance away from home fifteen point eight that's the best in the business. if they can match that away form with some good results then yes they can maybe start climbing up the table as well what about her to what's going on they're heading in completely wrong direction that five points off the relegation zone and they were a team last season that did very well this season that's struggling and then that's the reason why they're forming down maybe now we're going to start talking about pressure on power. that has a coach it is all about consistency they just don't seem to string the results together they have a very talented squads save their record signing from light signals back from

injury he has been getting among the goals and goings missis there not just been able to turn the end result was out of the europa league of course so if they don't start getting some wins they're going to be looking down thinking we are possibly going to be in a relegation fight and not looking good for the berlin club we've taken a look now at two match two matches let's take a peek at the bundesliga standings after match day fourteen there was no change at the top for us off and i'm expecting frankfurt moving up dortmund and labor groups and taking a drop now in the bottom half of the table the only gainers freiburg bremen and cologne still make up the relegation zone well another big talking point from the weekend came out of cologne the club confirming they parted ways with coach after four and a half years at the helm last season cologne into europe for the first time in twenty five years but the season has seen a catastrophic run of form the club still winless in the league after fourteen games not even a fighting draw with chalk on saturday could save him. ok jonathan is gone was

that the right call yes they've made the starts were in this league season no points. and fourteen eleven points adrift from safety already no team has never come back from that so it would be a remarkable state if by the end of the season we are saying that they have survived the only issue for me is the question of timing if they want to sack him why didn't he. a month before when things were already looking. you've only got a few much days left before the winter break a lot of injured players may be looking to brings new ones in of course we know they've never really been able to replace. all those goals of them last season without a sporting director because he. saw that one so they're in all kinds of trouble maybe they should. go through the winter break to see if you could have time around because ironically. that was probably the best performance of the season i think the writing was on the board he kind of said in this press conference before the

match that he just needed to marry the way i think he was already. waving to the fans and the pitches i think one thing we can say there is a least loyalty count for something this time in football often get fired quickly claim to stick with him for quite a bit. thank you. you're watching news still to come syria lost generation a look at the plight of more than a million child refugees in turkey many are foregoing an education to help support their families. and kenya's waste management problem we meet one man who wants to help the country make better use of an untapped resource. plus the latest on germany's political uncertainty that's all coming up in the next thirty minutes. women in the driver's seat revolution at the vatican for the first time ever

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has labeled the drills an all out provocation that may lead to nuclear war they come less than a week after pyongyang fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. in yemen a fresh gun battles have broken out in the capital sanaa between forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh and two of the rebels that you side had once been allies but sol a broke ranks by offering talks with the saudi led coalition fighting iran. now turkey has taken in more refugees from war torn syria than any other country more than three million syrians are officially registered in turkey and the un children's agency unicef says about one point two million of them are children but living as refugees in turkey many syrian children have to grow up fast. the reckoning noise of sewing machines has become the soundtrack of assist childhood she works twelve hours

a day monday to friday in this clothing workshop in east on board the women he a sewing underwear and iris has to make sure they never run out of fabric. she earns about fifty cents and allah. as the house and i have a room of course i'd rather go to school but it's just not possible we have to pay a lot of rent and food the water bill everything is expensive that's why i need to work and help my family. out us is eleven years old and not the only child in this workshop. has been working here for two years like out us he is from syria. from the moscow's is thirteen he is the oldest among the kids. the youngest here is only six years old. the turkish owner lets us film but only because we promised we would not show him in our report child labor is illegal in

turkey the owner knows this but says the families would be much worse off without the work. these children might be safe from the war and terror all back home in syria but what they really need now is education and the chance to build a future despite efforts by the turkish government to get refugee children off the streets and into public schools many here remain out of the classroom. many other children us and out by their parents to beg on the streets they can be seen everywhere in istanbul. up to one million syrian refugees live in the city about one third of them are children no one knows exactly how many of them are working instead of going to school. has finished work for today she takes me home with her to meet her family.

she has two little sisters her mother is pregnant and had to stop working they don't receive any financial support from the turkish state her father found a job but even with the money. they can still only barely make ends meet. we have to send her to work we don't have any other choice every morning she cries and tells me i want to go to score it's heartbreaking i know she is too young to work and many people would not offer her job because she's still a child but i know the owner of that clothing workshop and he said he wants to help us. in syria i was the only one working. and it was enough to support my family. even my parents. but here it's different

rent the kids expenses i just can't do it all on my own. i meet. one of the stumbles district may as he admits the child labor is a problem in turkey one that has grown with the arrival of the syrian refugees. visit. our options are limited. do we try to get these children into our schools give them books and pens and school banks of course we do . but we don't always reach all of them. it's often the case that more help is needed and we are able to give. is the talk. that's why others are trying to help in our houses neighborhood syrian teachers are

giving classes even on weekends for children who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend school turkish arabic or math the basics at least. for arris these are precious moments when the sewing machine stop rattling and she can be a child again if only for a few hours. we studied of yulia han in that report and she has a back you're berlin with us now in the studio to talk more about the story how you leah we're talking about one point two million syrian children in turkey vastly different stories of course but what was your impression about how they are coping well working children are coping basically like adults if you talk to them you know they worry about things like how much is the rend electricity water bill everything is so expensive so they're wrapping their little minds around problems that are usually for adults to safe to to to souls. and my feeling was that

many of those kids are carrying a very very heavy burden on their little shoulders and when we when we entered that sewing workshop for example the noise was it was really really noisy than the sewing machines would be rattling all day except for two breaks so we noticed but the kids wouldn't even notice anymore they're used to it. so. and then you have to know that many of those kids went to school back home in syria but then the war started they had to leave they had to settle in a totally new place and when then they start working it's like their childhood stops for a period or maybe forever so that's these kids situation turkey says that about a half a million syrian children are unrolled and its schools are not being is enough being done to integrate them into the system well the schooling system in turkey used to be very chaotic now the text government has announced a plan to get every single syrian refugee child into

a public school within the next three years this of course is going to be very difficult now the schooling rate is about sixty percent so forty percent of the syrian kids are not going to school yet this is about three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand kids we're talking about and then there are a lot of issues you know language barriers that the parents have to know about the options and what. they can't which kind of help they can get but then again providing schooling is not enough to solve this issue of child labor because what you really need to do is offering the parents economic options and possibility to integrate into the labor market because otherwise if they're so poor they will still insist on sending their kid to work because they need the additional income so what is the turkish government doing to tackle this problem well my impression was so far they're looking the other way. there are not as many controls as there could be that's what human rights organizations are criticizing for example i

mean that sawing workshop we went to is not was not the only one in the neighborhood i mean we passed at least five or six of them and every time there were kids working in there but this shows the problem i mean child labor has been a problem in turkey it says decades it's a problem in turkey already and then one million additional people came desperate children desperate with their support families so what happens they already find the structures and some people in turkey they even think it's not a problem if kids are working so there has to happen something like awareness changing you know the mindsets have to change this is something that you can't really maybe pay with money it's not a money issue it's something about mindsets in general what was your impression how well integrated are syrians in turkey. this is really really a difficult issue since syrians and especially poor syrians are very very visible on the streets if you if you walk down the main shopping street in istanbul for

example the judges say you would see a lot of syrian people begging there have been frictions in the past there even have been attacks but i think a lot is due to the fact that turkey's protection system was temporary at the beginning they allowed syrians to stay as as guests but in the pastas they have realized no these people are going to stay this war is going on since seven years now so many of them will maybe stay in turkey forever so now the government and u.s. authorities have realized we have to come up with long term solutions to integrate them otherwise it's really going to be a problem for society at large how about turks how do they see the syrian refugees well some of them have prejudices they they would say well syrians are only bagging there or stealing or they getting everything for free from the government but i think this is really also an information issue i mean the turkish government and that's what critics say has not managed to explain people and this is similar to

what happened here in germany germany during the so-called refugee crisis the government has failed to explain people why they have taken in so many people and what's their plan to integrate them and make that work so i think there is a lot of. a lot of stuff a lot of work that still needs to be done. on reporting on the struggles facing syrian refugees in turkey thank you very much julia. now what is the human cost of pollution the un estimates that it causes around nine million deaths a year seven million of those are blamed on car exhausts factory fumes and indoor cooking well to tackle that issue environment ministers from one hundred countries are gathering in the kenyan capital nairobi they're expected to issue the beat pollution pledge calling on individuals to commit to cleaning up the planet well one man living in nairobi has already taken that challenge to heart he's launched a company that's looking to tackle the city's serious garbage pile up.

employees from tucker tucker solutions collect trash twice a week and can give me a poor sprawling neighborhood on the outskirts of nairobi susan corinne decided to use talk attack as service she likes the fact that the company recycles the trash it collects. now and then. i thought ok with the way they work. i really like this initiative. and the sacks are also better. they're cleaner than this. one. that took a took a solution serves six thousand households and can give me a nearby cow and several firms have realized the commercial potential of collecting trash in poor neighborhoods the trouble is most of the garbage and on the illegal don't talk i talk is the only company here that also recycles its trucks take twelve tons of trash every day to this sorting center in cannes gamey by the way is

the swahili word for trash done yourself and it's who is swiss founded the company and twenty eleven he lived in nairobi as a teenager and knew about its garbage problem his startup is backed by a number of international development aid organizations it's now starting to breakeven functional it wants to expand its operations. and he would want to become like a wholesale waste manager so we want other companies to come to us but now in order for transcends advise them we need to be able to accept their waste at a very low fee and so we need to become more and more efficient each order is supposed to process four hundred kilograms of trash a day if they manage more they get a bonus there are one hundred people on the payroll ruth more than we have on the base pay is the equivalent of only one hundred euros a month still she likes her job and that she's doing something for the environment . it must have been here at the game. but.

look like they were. because there was. and at the moment. the company now has clients across the city among them shopping malls and hotels it's looking for more firms to take the materials it recycles country like in kenya you know timber is so much cattle feed so it's making sure people understand what we're to do and making sure people embrace using more. creativity and flexibility are needed to make a recycling operation like this work in nairobi to attract poor residential customers the prices for collection are staggered. as a company would always like to charge more if possible but that doesn't work like that so especially in low income areas you need to be able to charge very little otherwise people just don't have the ability to sign up for from her ex's social

enterprise has taken root attack attack us solutions provides work and helps the environment it's helping to solve very material problems and also to change attitudes in society. let's bring in katherine a one though is standing by for us in nairobi hi catherine are startups like the one that we saw there the only ones really pushing recycling efforts what is the government doing. well mostly it is private companies because they're the ones who probably have the will to do it the government has been accused of laxity when it comes to recycling and waste management in fact just recently it was under pressure to put in more policies that will integrate collection recycling and separation and just the whole waste management chain to bring in policies that work better given that this current situation even if

a household does separate. their rubbish it still ends up in the same dump site which is known as the done door a dump site or an illegal dump site so right now it's only private companies that are doing this but then there is push for more investment one policy the government has tried catherine is a plastic bag ban it is the third time that the countries try to rein in plastic bag use what has worked there and what hasn't. well it's worked in the sense of getting the citizens scared because you see a lot of citizens now not carrying plastic bags and they're rather going for other alternatives are the newspapers or other recyclable materials but then it comes to the issue of creating awareness in as much as the plastic band was instilled in kenya those not really much awareness when it comes to nurturing and waste management down to the household level so it may have worked in scaring the citizens but rather creating that come to life or creating that that practice among

the people to create to to manage their waste better still is lacking nairobi itself struggles with a severe pollution what are the biggest contributors to the problem and what is being done to combat it. both right now you can see the traffic behind me it's moving but one of the major issues in b. is vehicular pollution as well as marine pollution and water pollution these are just the major issues that we're facing you know that you have the coastline you have a lot of plastics in the sea and you have issues of how we can collect that and how we can you know clean the marine system so the these are the major issues kenya is dealing with it also deals with issues of extraction in the extraction sector and how are the sectors managing environmentalists conservation in these various sites . and catherine you know you're covering the u.n. environment meeting in nairobi for us what can we expect from back out very.

well you can just hear you can expect the discussion on pollution and how to prevent pollution but also how to bring in civil society you know how to have them create awareness among the people how we can put an end to marine pollution but also again the extraction sector africa is a growing continent and right now a lot of focus is on its muni roads and natural resources so how can we extract these natural resources while still maintaining the environment while still reducing pollution and ensuring that people who are living around these sites a safe so that those of us just some of the discussions that we'll see today and tomorrow. catherine among the reporting from nairobi catherine thank you very much . now here in germany social democrat leaders are meeting today to consider their next steps in deciding whether to enter a coalition talks with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives they're due to

announce their position at a party conference later this week term in march and initially ruled out another grand coalition with the chancellor party following the horse showing in september's election but after america's attempt to cobble together a coalition with smaller parties failed germany's president appealed to the social democrats to rethink their stance. let's bring in your political correspondent kate brady she's with us here in studio hi kate the s.p.d. has really been struggling with this question should they join this coalition government or not why are they so reluctant because if we think back to september when the night of the election when the results first came out martin short's the leader of the s.p.d. said very clearly that the s.p.d. would not go into a grand coalition and that was largely due to the result in september's election they managed to win just twenty point five percent of the fight and that was the s.p.d.m. worst election result in post-war german history and that's been logically attributed

to the participation in the last grand coalition for the last four years and of course the compromises and that have come out of that and at the moment the s.p.d. is still in a real kind of personality crisis and they're trying to revive themselves at the moment obviously juicer those compromises of being made it's become quite difficult to differentiate between many of where the c.d.u. stand on certain issues and why the s.p.d. stand on the same issues so what do you think we can expect to see to come out of this party conference later this week they're said to be a pretty sizable bloc within the party that would be against a coalition yes that's mainly the the youth wing of the party were expecting the same friday this week for martin schulz or at least he's hoping to be re-elected as the s.p.d. party leader but he'll also be looking to collect that mandate to at least go back to merkel and the conservatives to at least just have a discussion in

a smaller group covering all options are still available and not necessarily just a grand coalition which is a mention the youth wing optically against and they want to see schultz standing by that statement from back in september and they want the s.p.d. to just go into the opposition so if he does get that meant what happens then does it go very quickly i know we've still got a long. long road ahead because a if he does get that monday this week that will only be a preliminary talk and there's still the option of. tolerate in a minority government but this is this kind of timeframe is actually not so unusual at the moment if we think back to two thousand and thirteen it took september to december and for that grand coalition to actually be formed but obviously this time we've had insulated so to speak of the coalition talks between the greens the conservatives and the liberals which of course put the idea of

a grand coalition even further on the back so if we look at possibly goshi asians between the social democrats america's conservatives what would be the stumbling blocks there well if we look at the actual approach of both of the parties to any potential coalition talks it becomes quite clear already that there are a few differing points that merkel is very much about economic growth. like he did in the elections to lead the company in there with social equity and so they'll be a lot of difference is there on tax cuts as well but on foreign policy the two parliamentary groups do actually stand quite close side by side to that but one contentious issue in foreign policy could also be with regards to e.u. reforms. have said they're quite in favor of this idea proposed by the french president manuel mccollum for a joint eurozone budget and that's something that the conservatives in favor of atl

there are critics here in germany who say a grand coalition is bad for germany's democracy is that fair well they're all parties and cons obviously to the grand coalition one of the things that they are good at as we've seen in the past four years in the last grand coalition is that they're very good at pushing through a lot of basic day to day proposals but at. saying that once it comes to pushing through new agenda on the issues where german voices. passionately divided as we've seen with the refugee crisis of migration that's where that becomes this sad nation so to speak and so sometimes you do run the risk with this grand coalition of hindering this political debate and just briefly can we have been hearing that there could be some changes within merkel's conservative bloc itself the sister party the c.s.u. might change its personnel would that have any influence on possible talks at the moment well there is due to be a vote this morning among the c.r.c.

that's the bavarian system. and so we'd have to really wait for a result from that vote but should depending on who is put at the party at the top of the party list that could result in some intraparty disputes and of course that would be unsettling for macos conservatives political correspondent kate brady for us here in studio thank you kate. or minder now of our top stories at this hour the u.s. and south korea have started their largest ever joint air exercise north korea has labeled the drills an all out provocation that may lead to nuclear war they come less than a week after pyongyang fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. in yemen fresh gun battles have broken out in the capital sanaa between forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh and who the rebels the two sides have once been allies but saleh broke ranks by offering talks with the saudi led

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