at the end of the day these technologies can be used against us what effect on society does the human race really need to upgrade i think it's only the beginning of this side for human machines starting february first t w. this is d w news live from berlin germany tries to end its political impasse and form a new governing coalition chance on merkel says she's optimistic as talks begin from migration to health care to europe there's plenty of room for disagreements with

her potential coalition partners little correspondent also coming up remembering the victims of attack that horrifying paris and people around the world three years ago the attacks began when gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine charlie abdo everything the other done is one hundred percent sure of what he was reducing the growth of churches and u.s. president donald trump again rejects accusations that his campaign colluded with moscow in the twenty sixteen presidential race as he pushes back against claims in a new tell all book. hello and welcome i'm marrying in evanston it's good to have you with us. german chancellor angela merkel is embarking on key talks exploring the possibility of forming a new government coalition to lead the country the chancellor said she was optimistic

going into the negotiations americal of conservatives are holding the talks with the center left social democrats after previous talks with other parties failed sticking points this time around are expected to be germany's approach to europe and its refugee policies. let's have a listen now to want america on a social democrat leader martin schultz had to say as the talks got underway. because the c.d.u. is going into these talks with the aim of creating the conditions to form a stable government. that's because we believe that the tasks ahead for which we have the voters mandate are enormous in terms of foreign policy challenges european challenges and also in domestic affairs. we all sensed that the challenges for a new federal government however at me luker be structured lie in that the new year and which we all live must also include

a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here constructively and with an open outcome. of covering those talks for us is our political correspondent rupert and he joins us now for more so rupert merkel perhaps sounding optimistic but she certainly has a lot of work ahead of her as these preliminary preliminary coalition talks get underway what are the main hurdles for her. well basically we have three parties here sitting at the negotiating table just behind me in this building the social democrat how the quarter there is first of all the e.c. is you the conservative party bloc of anglo american the c.d.u. c.s.u. and especially the c. is you the small of the two parties is more conservative and they have already pointed out that they want to be more strict on refugee policy that they want to

have. less integration into europe on one to cut corporate taxes something especially the social democrats are absolutely opposed to so the social democrats on the other side they are very reluctant to go again into this grand coalition as it is called here in germany as they have been in a grand coalition for the past four years and it didn't serve them at all they also we have to remember made. worst election result in the park city since world war two so they are very reluctant to go into these party talks and then in the end there's chancellor merkel c.d.u. party and that's the only party that has remained calm and during the last weeks they are the only ones that really say yes we want to have this coalition we want we need this prime coalition. seems to be the last chance fungal americal to remain chancellor all right so if these talks fail then what are the alternatives.

well they're not so many in the end. ready trying to form another could government together with the the business friendly liberals on the center left and eco friendly green party but these talks after several weeks of exploratory talks not negotiating not coalition troops but only exploratory talks failed at the end of november and there's no other coalition option left than the grand coalition with the social democrats but the social democrats are not going back over it he said she doesn't want to lead a minority government saying this wouldn't be stable and old so the only other option in the end if these talks here today fail would be new elections something both parties don't want to close all of them though the only window of new elections probably would sit on the far right of parliament. going to be keeping us posted on those talks many thanks indeed. you're welcome

now three years ago a series of terror attacks shook paris and started on january seventh when gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical magazine charlie killing twelve people the magazine had already received threats from islamic extremists for their irreverent cartoons of the prophet mohammed the editorial team were in their morning meeting when two masked men armed with assault rifles burst into their office and opened fire. among the dead the editor of charlie amdo stefan siobhan yeah and his bodyguard and one of charlie a cartoonist. and six other members of the magazine staff the attackers brothers saeed and sherry of quad she fled the scene and after a massive manhunt they were killed in a shootout with police. well in paris a ceremony is taking place as they say to commemorate the victims of the attack on

the charlie hebdo satirical weekly and for more let's cross over now to our correspondent lisa lewis who's in paris so he says it's now been three hears from the charlie ever two attacks what's changed since then well this has changed in the very thorough way to i mean first of all this is attack was an attack on one of the very cool principle of democracy many friends here felt i mean the redaction the newsroom all shyla do is now being guarded twenty four seventh's they are working from an armored office and have to use armored cars are being a guarded by bodyguards all the time they have to spend more than one million years crazier for their protection and they are saying that they still receiving death threats for them that it was a moment that changed their life forever but also for the rest of the country for other friends who were feeling that these people are actually saying well you can't say what you want you can't express yourself freely and many people here feel that

this attack was actually the watershed moment it brought the war. so i just i'm here as we're watching live pictures now of french president man my call taking part in the commemoration ceremony marking three years since the attack on charlie a doze we can see a very somber atmosphere at that morial now lisa back to you it was only in the very first of many attacks that france saw wasn't it. yes absolutely there were other attacks that followed especially the ones in nov twenty fifth teen where one hundred thirty people were killed in attacks across paris specially at that music hall the better and that took the whole thing to even a high level because the attack was at that point were not attacking the special

people but they're attacking the whole of french society actually they were attacking the french when they were having fun with the brigade out and people felt that everybody could become a target and even today people are still afraid that there might be new attacks it's very much a topic in the center of attention and more than nine out of ten of the french say that they think that a new terror attack in france is likely or very lucky all right lisa lu is reporting for us from paris many thanks. or now to some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of venezuelans have queued outside supermarkets after the government ordered shops to slash their prices authorities in caracas and forced price cuts and response to spiraling hyperinflation the country is in the grip of an economic crisis with food and medicine shortages affecting millions. the thirty two person crew of an iranian oil

tanker is missing after the vessel collided with a freight ship off china's eastern coast the tanker con fire after the crash a search and rescue mission is underway at the scene all crew members from the cargo ship have been rescued the u.s. east coast maybe wrapped in bone chilling weather but that hasn't stopped some avid surfers in new jersey from taking advantage of good waves video taken from a live beach cam showed a few surfers paddling their boards out towards the waves and riding the frigid waters back to shore. donald trump has been stepping up his attacks on claims in a scathing new book about his presidency trump said the book called fire and fury was a work of fiction and that its author had never set foot inside the oval office trump was speaking from the presidential country retreat camp david after meetings with

republican congressional leaders the book that questions donald trump's fitness for office seems to be doubling in its impact and largely things to the us president himself triumphal out of his series of early morning tweets defending his mental capacities as not just smart but genius and a very stable genius at dot. now at this hastily called press conference at camp david the republicans hope to talk priorities instead came questions on those tweets and the bit everyone in washington is talking about i consider it a work of fiction and i think it's a disgrace that somebody is able to have something do something like that the libel laws are very weak in this country if they were strong it would be very helpful you wouldn't have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head but just so you know i never interviewed with him in the white house at all he was never in the oval office we didn't have an interview the book is speaking on n.b.c.

the book's author michael wolff said he'd had far reaching access inside the u.s. center of power and white house reporters have supported his account interview questions over trans mental stability and nothing new they've been mounting over the course of his first year in office now it's emerged a professor of psychiatry at yale university briefed some members of congress on the president's mental health late last year she told the w y. o what work thank you that much in the office of the presidency is a danger to national and international security we're trying to educate the public about the finding. instability our doubts about. the need for us to be evaluation as more copies of foreign fieri sell trump is said to be frustrated that the issue of his mental fitness is gaining traction.

well ski jumping for a state is for hills tournaments has come to a close in austria with one name on everybody's lips stock was untouchable over the first three stages and with the overall victory almost in the bag hit a record in science he was hoping to become just the second man after germany's spend one of out to win all four of events if you do it let's find out. head and shoulders above the competition reigning champion and olympic gold medalist kamlesh doc was king of the four hills again after winning the first three stages the poll was equally impressive in bishop's stortford he set the longest distance in the first round and held his nerve on his final jump to ensure victory again. that gave him the grand slam and kept one of the most dominant for hill's

performances in years. it was a really good competition for me the chance wasn't perfect today but i did my best and can i say thank you for one team team colleagues team coaches go through they've been working so hard and i'm. after germany's best hope is a card writer crashed out of the tournament in the third stage is countryman and that is bellinger stepped up with a strong performance to claim second place for the tournament. he was followed in third by norway's and does fine and most. barcelona have made the biggest deal of soccer's current transfer window by signing a liverpool midfielder philippe continue the deal to bring the brazilian to catalonia is reportedly worth one hundred sixty million euros continuous benches under five years at liverpool scoring fifty four goals three you can close the team

is long being billed as a replacement for his countryman neymar who left barcelona last summer. u.s. space pioneer john young has died at the age of eighty seven as commander of the apollo sixteen mission he became the ninth person to walk on the moon he also commanded the first space shuttle mission when young retired in two thousand and four he had visited space six times and was the only astronaut to have taken part in nasa gemini apollo and space shuttle programs you're up to date now on d. w. will be back again with another update at the top of the hour i'm marrying evans dean from all of us here in berlin thanks for watching.