cumulatively making a difference. this is d.w. news live from berlin a seismic shift in middle east policy president trump is expected to confirm that the u.s. embassy in israel will move from televisa to just loose a law that means recognizing the city as the capital of israel one palestinian diplomat has called it heads of death for the two state solution. also coming up

the lupica committee is suspended who is immediately for. a living official's ban russia from the upcoming winter games over state sponsored doping clean athletes will only be allowed to eat as neutrals. and look out for those bitcoin millionaires as the crypto currency breaks through the twelve thousand dollar barrier they can't champagne corks are topic for some lucky investors who will find out what is played in that line and ask is it a bubble. plus an artist breaking all the records as the turner prize as receiving the turner prize of awards movie not comics is the first black woman to win britain's prestigious prize of the oldest at sixty three we'll take a look at the work like a satire called a fashionable marriage. i'm

sorry kelly welcome to the program it's great to have you with us u.s. president donald trump is expected to announce today that he will move america's embassy in israel to jerusalem recognizing the city as the capital of the jewish state it is a major change in american policy and one that palestinians and arab states say could threaten the middle east peace process one palestinian diplomat has called it the kiss of death for the proposed two state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict. israel long ago declared jerusalem as its eternal capital but the rest of the world never recognized the move and to date no major countries have an embassy in the ancient city donald trump's decision would change that and could have an explosive effect on the region not least because the palestinians insist

that east jerusalem must be their capital if a two state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to become a reality. if . this is going to move. this is again. this is this. this. would complicate things. peace process maybe. the end of the peace process other leaders promptly echoed that warning. drew the red line for muslims. in cairo the head of the arab league said moving the u.s. embassy would be an unnecessary provocation to the arab world the kings of saudi

arabia and jordan both criticize the move as did iraqi prime minister how dare a body. that has had. the iraqi government warns of the consequences of this decision on the stability of the area and of the world it ignores the rights of palestinians and arabs and muslims alike. the united states appears to recognize that trumps announcement may trigger unrest in the mideast the state department has ordered its consulate personnel in israel not to conduct personal travel in jerusalem's old city or the west bank and earlier our washington correspondent carson phenomena gave us some background on trump's. basically all presidents and bill clinton have been kicking this can down the road every six months because twenty two years ago the u.s. congress passed

a law the jerusalem embassy act which says that jerusalem is the capital of israel and that the u.s. embassy should move there now that law gives the president of the united states the chance to postpone the implementation of that law by a six months at the time if it is in the national interest of the security of the united states and that has happened again and again bill clinton and george w. bush and then barack obama have all postponed the implementation of this again and again donald trump also did it one day in the summer this year but only grudgingly after he was. supported in this by his advisors and arab allies of the united states but now he seems to have changed his mind it could be that he declares he wants to the embassy in jerusalem but still postponed the move for six months so legally not much would change but it would still be a game changer politically and diplomatically. that was the carson phenomenon

earlier and washington joining us now in the studio is aaron tell tent for some more analysis on this move so aaron tell us why is trump making this move now what is his motivation well the short answer is he's just fulfilling a campaign promise the long answer is that if you look at trump's i'm situation back in the united states he's under extreme pressure he's never really been a policy president he's more a polling president and his polling numbers are suffering i mean he's under pressure from the miller investigation into possible collusion with russia he's also has his name all over one of the most unpopular tax bills in u.s. history and combine that with a very contentious senate campaign where he's backing a candidate who is accused of impropriety with under his age persons and that's resulting in him losing a lot of support even among his core demographic now if you look at it the drews in question has always been an important question when it comes to even gelcoat christians and they make up really the backbone of trump support and this could be

if we're speculating here a little bit i have to admit this could be a way for trump the kind of drum up support among his base while his polling numbers are sliding drum up support but also perhaps you know get the drums of war going right i mean this is an inflammatory thing which you know he is doing here where does that leave the peace process which you say that is really the big question now and trump has said the peace process in israel especially in jerusalem is one of his key standpoints he's described it as the deal of the century and even has put his son in law journal cushion or on finding a workable peace deal with the next year however as many people the mideast have said backing israel in the jerusalem question really kind of makes it seem like the u.s. is attempting to play sides i mean fact some commentators have said this disqualifies us from even having any type of moderating role in the future and even more worrisome many foreign offices foreign ministries including the state department

have. warned that this could result in extreme violence on the streets of jerusalem if people really do take the streets which is what people are expecting them to do ok we will see what these consequences will be aaron tells and walking us through a number of potential scenarios here thank you so much for your reporting thank you let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world british police have reportedly foiled an alleged plot to assassinate the country's prime minister theresa may the extremist islamist plot is understood to have involved a bomb attack on the prime minister's residence two men arrested last week have been charged with plans to carry out terrorism security officials believe it is the ninth plot the police have thwarted this year. hundreds of nigerians were flown home from libya on tuesday as the u.n. steps up efforts to fly migrants out of the country the move follows an outcry over reports that migrants they're hoping to get to europe are instead being sold into slavery it is estimated that more than four hundred thousand african migrants are

stranded inside living in detention camps french rock icon johnny holiday has died from lung cancer at the age of seventy four known as the french elvis holiday helped popularize rock'n'roll in the francophone world helping him to sell one hundred million records in a fifty year career. the international olympic committee has banned russia from competing in the twenty eighteen winter olympics some clean athletes however will be able to compete as neutrals under strict conditions with just ten weeks before the games begin in south korea the i.o.c. says that there was enough evidence of state sponsored doping to justify the bat. after poring over several reports detailing evidence of systematic doping in russia

the i.o.c. is executive board finally came to a conclusion on the country's olympic future thomas but the i.o.c. president made the announcement that the russian olympic committee is suspended with immediate effect. individual clean russian house leads will be able to participate under strict conditions at the olympic winter games you have a chance two thousand and eighteen these in right it astley so will participate be it in individual or team competitions under the name olympic athlete from russia with the acronym. seen such as these from the such the winter games in twenty fourteen will not be repeated in pyongyang by refusing to allow russian flag a national anthem at the twenty eighteen games the i.o.c. has gone beyond any previous doping sanctions it's also handed out lifelong binds

to russian officials including vitali moat called the former sports minister and current deputy prime minister of russia. no official of the russian ministry of sport will be accredited for the olympic winter games young china two thousand and eighteen. the minister of sport restored it early would go and then deputy minister yuri not going it will be excluded from any parties from any participation in all future olympic games although tuesday's decision is far from the complete ban many had hoped for it does show that the i.o.c. will stand up to russia whether it means an end to this doping scandal depends on how russia reacts to the decision. and let's get more now on the olympics and of russia we are joined by our correspondent emily surely who is standing by in moscow

for us so emily how has this been received there where you are. well there is just been a official reaction just now and the reaction is that the kremlin spokesman. called for there to be no emotion in the reaction that's kind of going on in russia and he said that the decision of the international olympic committee with regards to russia has to be seriously analyzed before there can be a reaction now now the kneejerk reaction on the part of a lot of politicians here and officials has been to say that russian athletes competing under a neutral flied would be a humiliation in fact earlier this month putin himself said that such an option would be a humiliation for russian athletes now it would be interesting to see what putin himself says about the decision he hasn't commented yet he's expected to say something about the decision today at another public event and we don't know what

his position will be now but this call for a kind of no emotion almost leads me to speculate that they they probably won't boycott the games they might comply with the decision but that's all speculation at this point and we'll have to wait and see what putin says and and what happens next and does it seem as if citizens are likely to heed that call based on the mood that you're gauging there how have citizens themselves been reacting to the decision. well in contrast to that call from the kremlin the reaction amongst the russian people has been very emotional in fact there's a hash tag trending on social media at the moment. it's. stagnant that i've seen yet eager which is in the english version no russia no games people are calling for a boycott of the games calling them unfair saying that this is all politics and in

fact talking to people here in moscow you get the impression that people think this is all part of a kind of western campaign against russia which includes the sanctions the widespread allegations of hacking and now this doping scandal so you know i think the the reaction amongst the people here has been in ca in contrast to that official reaction very emotional that reaction emily how is that likely to impact politics because we know for example that there's an election coming up in russia is it likely to have an effect on government for example. well absolutely there are elections coming up in march and putin actually. put in hasn't actually announced that he'll be running he's expected to do that in the next few weeks in december certainly but you know the campaign is likely to kick off soon for him and even before this announcement there has been there's been

speculation in the media that this team of russia being punished by the west of a campaign against russia could be used by putin in his campaign this idea of an external enemy as already in some ways works for putin if you take the example of the annexation of crimea that was widely condemned internationally there were sanctions and here is seen by many people as putin kind of standing up to the west not cozying up and surveys show that a lot of russians are very proud of the kind of this move to as they see it take back crimea so this could be a blessing in disguise in disguise for putin's election campaign when he announces it presumably soon and will a sure win in moscow thank you. you're watching d.w. news still to come on the program him it is the first black woman to win britain's prestigious turner prize. and the oldest at the age of sixty three we'll take

a look at our work. but first it is time now for a business with monica johns and we are asking the question what is the strongest currency the dollar the euro. and it goes from strength to strength it seems on stoppable the cryptocurrency surpassed twelve thousand dollars this morning it's now hit twelve thousand five hundred and thirty dollars soaring from less than one thousand dollars as a start of the year so the sky is the limit it seems but i'm honest sworn the price is based on nothing but speculative frenzy and that the asset bubble is poised to bust now that doesn't stop some the stock exchange's future markets from joining the party. bitcoins may be a mystery for most people but many are intrigued by the crypto currency bitcoins are mind in massive data centers such as here in china the currency only exists online there's no bank or financial institution behind it the cash flows are

anonymous and there's little oversight and yet big coin is currently enjoying an unusual run. at the start of this year one bitcoin was worth one thousand dollars but for weeks there's been a lot of hype surrounding its more recent surge in value on wednesday its price reached a record high of over twelve thousand two hundred dollars that means bitcoin has jumped in value by over eleven hundred percent an unparalleled rise. it's even called the attention of the reputable trick cargo commodities exchange which announced plans to begin trading bitcoin futures investors will be able to buy and sell bitcoins at a fixed rate this will make the currency much easier to trade even japan's on board bitcoin is listed on stock exchange now the ones g.b.'s cryptocurrency is well on its way to entering the financial mainstream. all right let's find out how

mainstream big client is in europe listen is at the front that stock exchange this week. so do you think that croydon will be traded in frankfurt any time soon. well i talked to him and markets operate as though it's a burger here this morning and he told me that they're looking into this but they still have a lot of questions first if you want to create and manage a future contract on an asset you need this asset to be liquid you need it to be transparent and you also need a certain grade of price stability you also need to know what this acid really is the chicago exchange operator says that the bitcoin is a commodity you monica just said like most other people would that bitcoin is a currency but here in germany the financial supervisory authority says no bitcoin

is not a currency because it's not issued by a central bank so the discussion is still going on and people hear the regulators of course still have a lot of problems to solve ok well of course i mean germany in particular is known to be very cautious with with any kind of new development certainly in the tech sector and we know that bitcoin and some stock exchanges already started trading bitcoin so if bitcoin is all the rage do you think that germany is running the danger of missing out. no i wouldn't say so you know the bitcoin has an underlying technology the block chain technology this is that many people here in germany's financial center frankfurt are very busy working on birds itself the market's operator is currently working on three block chain projects one together with the bundesbank which is the national reserve bank here

another project i fink is very interesting is all of the german developer development bank a f w it is currently working on a project where the block chain technology can be used to control money flows in foreign aid projects because in frankfurt thank you so much for that entrepreneurs in tokyo have been cashing in on the huge success of nintendo's super mario video game for seventy dollars an hour you can hire a go cart and drive around the city as your favorite video game character but now the city is cracking down saying these rides can be dangerous tokyo police have introduced a ruling which requires the mario cards to be fitted with seat belts still firms like to operator mary cannot say they will comply with the law now there's a saying where there's smoke there's fire and right now thousands of homes are

actually threatened by firing california some saline monica were heading to the u.s. state because it is in a state of emergency it has been declared there in southern california where firefighters are battling severe wildfires almost two hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate nobody is believed to have died in the fires but local media report that one person was killed in a car crash while fleeing the area. and he hoped to save this house now gone up in flames one of hundreds of homes destroyed by wild fire. at this point all the firefighters can do is stand and watch. the biggest fire burning right now in california is here and ventura county northwest of los angeles some neighborhoods have been spared others now just smoking piles of ash and debris authorities warn

residents to get out while they still can. so we want to be really clear with folks we have lost structures we have not lost lives do not. leave your homes. hot dry winds have whipped the flames across more than eighty kilometers nearly to the pacific ocean twenty seventeen has been one of the worst years on record for wildfires in california. the state fire chief blames climate change for spawning more and bigger blazes and warns that this wildfire could continue on its path of destruction for several more days. in sports news this week sees the final round of the champions league group stage the best placed of all age groups moved to the knockout stage manchester united eventis roma and basel all went through with victories on tuesday evening but but

athletico madrid who reached to the champions league final back in two thousand and fourteen and twenty sixteen are out after drawing with chelsea in group c. byron munich missed the chance to talk or be but still got some revenge over paris on a man by beating them three one that results concluded with goals from cornton told least so both teams go into the knockout draw this friday. and the remaining matches will be played this evening dortmund who hope to break their poor run of form when they face weigh on the trad hip hop poses side are sixth and have had a dismal time in the champions league a draw in the trade could secure dortmund qualification for the europa league but their opponents are also keen to get back on track. when listen ten consecutive games taught minerva in a rut if. the problem skate

mounting for coach peter bosch with injuries to gonzalo castro and maximillian phillips further decimating his squad. so it's back to the drawing board once again. under the bright lights of the santiago bernabeu men desperately need a morale boosting performance. morgan will try to play a good game it's very important for our confidence besides playing a good match we care about getting one or three points but we'll have to wait for that. morgan. real madrid have already qualified for the champions league knockout rounds but dawson won't be in for an easy ride the spanish giants a fourth in their domestic league and want to build momentum themselves. the situation is not ideal in the league ok because we're eight points behind us. that's for

a raise unless you know what i'm relaxed about it because i'm sure that's going to change secure store. two wounded teams face off but more is on the lawn for dortmund's on the pressure coach. and. host. still hoping to make the knockout stage in their first champions league campaign for that to happen they need to win and they hope that the results elsewhere in the group go their way coach ralph cousin who tells task will be. will be all of the tougher following an injury from a new forsberg leipzig so keep playmaker. he can count on a team over a man who is has had to retire from the reverse fixture against the sheep cash in september. a tanzanian born artist has made history by becoming the first black woman to win britain's most prestigious art award the turner prize not

him it scoops the award worth about twenty thousand euros for her work addressing racial politics and the legacy of slavery with them that she is still in a price. is the banner ok mate it's been a long wait for pain ahead she's not only the first black woman to pick up the turner prize but also the oldest ever went to britain's most prestigious are towards the sixty three year old artist thank those who supported her since emerging in the one nine hundred eighty s. as a leading light of british blackheart to the arts and cultural historians who cared enough to write essays about my work for decades thank you you gave me such students in the wilderness use tanzania and born him it who's working clits postal indiana sets painted with images of black slaves benefited from a change in the prizes rules where previously only artists under fifty were eligible it used to be viewed as

a vehicle for younger artists do what i wanted as it's praised by judges uncompromising tackling of racism him its historic win means he's finally got the recognition she deserves. congratulations that's your full news update you'll have more at the top of the hour we will leave you now with johnny holiday francis king of rock who has died at the age of seventy four from lung cancer here he is in concert thanks so much for watching enjoy. this.

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