this would make us more ethical persons what would life be like as a cyborg. at the end of the day these technologies can be used against us and what effect will it happen society does the human race really need to upgrade i think it's only the beginning of this. cycle works human machines starting february first t w. this is state of the news coming to you live from the first awards gallo of the new era in hollywood. good night. on it found

that. women don't black dresses for the seventy fifth golden globes in a show of support for victims of sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry making the me too movement the night's biggest winner also coming up. day two of exploratory coalition talks between uncle michael's conservatives and the social democrats they promised a new style of politics for germany with ken lay deliver. plus a chance to put tensions in korea on ice figure skaters from both sides of the border look forward to an unlikely reunion at the winter olympic games. oh i'm sorry martin good to have you with us. hollywood has paid a powerful statement against sexual harassment and abuse at the seventy fifth

golden globes event kicks off awards season but was overshadowed by months about legations against men in the entertainment industry and to show solidarity some of the world's most photographed women wore black transforming the red carpets normal glitz and glamour. they stood arm in arm women from the world of film music and sport dressed in black showing solidarity their message sexism and sexual violence will no longer be tolerated they may be hollywood's elite but many here have their own heart wrenching stories of sexual harassment and assault. there. have to get there we're drawing a big black line between yesterday. and the way things used to be the way business used to be done to be that way. i think it's amazing i think it's historic and i love seeing solidarity an arab industry shining

a light for all industries across all countries and this is the time to change everything it should be shouldn't even have to have this conversation with clearly we don't feel like i'm ok with that conversation continued inside suzanne as an eighteen marijuana is finally allowed in sexual harassment finally is. here. and in a rousing speech oprah vowed that change was on the horizon for too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. but their time is up. thank you. thank you and that message was the biggest winner of the night thank you culture editor karen

has been looking at that award ceremony care in the the me too movement and times up as it were took center stage at the awards ceremony last night how did the protest movement make itself felt during the ceremony well as you can see a lot of emotion i mean there were there were quite a few moments especially amongst when that when the women were giving their their acceptance speeches i think this is really going to affect the whole season terry i mean this is obviously the first awards season post harvey weinstein and i think it would be pretty safe to say it looks like it's going to be a season of of discontent the mood there last night was good but very somber and obviously a lot more political an emcee seth meyers really didn't pull any punches i mean there were some some some very close he said he even said so himself two. figures like weinstein and kevin spacey are they were the butt of several jokes that need to has morphed into times out but she said i'm that's an initiative of over three hundred women from all across hollywood who are saying it's time to stop for

harassment and for lack of accountability in the industry so women were interesting the as i said very very vocal on the red carpet already and in their speeches but the disappointing thing is that the men were very un vocal and there's been a lot of noise about that on twitter and maybe we can just have a look at one of them here. this is a twit tweet that says not a single man who accepted a golden globes tonight spoke out about sexual assault need to or time's up wearing a black tuxedos isn't enough we need men to speak up and stand beside us to fight and to end sexual assault and rape culture there were a lot of other tweets in that vein so definitely there is you know the that lack of vocal vocalist on the part of men was noticed and there's a lot of work to be done is this is this protest movement karen is addressing sexual harassment exclusively or are there other issues at stake here absolutely there are a lot i mean obviously with the times that with the development of the times up initiative there calling for the end of harassment in this culture of sexual abuse

but also for more diversity more gender parity and equal pay this is still an issue in two thousand and eighteen especially in the entertainment industry but of course in all others and and there was lots of criticism actually about the nature of the protest on twitter too we can have a look at another one here from carney when who is the a fashion writer and she wrote for several tweets but this one we chose mandating that everyone wears black gives the false illusion that everyone is on board with wage parity professionalism in the workplace and treating all people fairly and humanely it's naive to think that this is true and counterproductive to fake solidarity so that time's up. initiative really trying to address a lot of the deeper systemic issues in the industry and across all industries i mean they really are making a plea to victims of this kind of treatment and behavior and and lack of equality in all sectors so hopefully we'll see

a lot of momentum i mean that this is something we're going to be talking about for a while i think clearly a lot of talk about about abuse and excuse exclusion at these awards ceremonies that year but of course there were films to talk about too and we all should move on to the let's talk about this year about what we've saw the german movie in the fade understand took award for the best foreign language production is the german turkish director to you it's from your german terry straight your body again and stars the actors joining him there diane kruger it tells a story of a woman whose husband and son are killed in a bombing you know she suspects neo nazis were behind the blast the film echoes the so called ennis you attack the neo nazi terror cell that show germany in recent years there's still a lot of fallout from the german director they're taking home work for best foreign language film production tell us a little bit about in the fade as the film is called briefly an incredibly intense story and a very very strong story that sort of sort of takes

a kind of an element of of this kind of a situation that you just mentioned at the end as you scandal and obviously speaking very deeply to german audiences because of that we are still in the midst of the trial of the only surviving n.s.u. orchestrator and has been over four hundred days and it's going on costing all kinds of money to taxpayers so very personal film for the team and a very scathing comment terry on the justice system. so it's very gratifying that it's striking such a chord with foreign audiences and the role of a lifetime for diane kruger very already took best actress that you kind of time for diane kruger and. of course other films and it notable films you want to mention it's notable are women and on the side of another the films are best film for drama best film for comedy at the golden globes they get split up a bit and don't have to really all compete together three billboards outside every missouri one over dunkirk and over the post for the best drama and i think that's

interesting heading into the oscars the shape of water really didn't get talked about much a tall in the wake of all of this so i'm not ladybird also of the gregor wait another strong female performance a female director ok if they get another chance at the oscars and how stuff from our culture does thank you so much as to terry. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today authorities have warned that in the rainy an oil tanker burning off china's east coast is in danger of exploding that's more than thirty crew members remain missing after a collided with a cargo ship over the weekend the effect on the environment could be the worst since nine hundred ninety one when two hundred sixty thousand tons of oil leaked off the angolan coast. in vietnam a trial has opened against a polaroid executive who was allegedly kidnapped from germany and taken to hanoi he's facing corruption charges that could carry the death penalty germany has accused vietnam of ordering the abduction of the executive from

a park here in berlin last year. meanwhile a broken water pipe has disrupted travel at new york's flagship j.f.k. airport adding to the worries for passengers already stranded there by a blizzard official say bad weather appeared to have caused the pipe to break the airport is warning of further delays. well here in germany chancellor angela merkel is leading talks in berlin aimed at forming a new governing coalition heckles conservatives are holding the discussions with the center left social democrats today is the second day of the exploratory talks with germany's approach to the e.u. and integration among the box members said to be key points of discussion the chancellor led previous talks with the greens and the pro-business free democrats that failed to produce a coalition in no member. of germany's role within europe it is a key policy area for the head of the social democrats martin scholtz he of course

is a former president of the e.u. parliament let's listen to what he had to say as he arrived for today's talks. with the board today we will mainly talk with the party leaders about europe yesterday's talks took place in a very constructive that was here and we hope that today's can also continue in this atmosphere with the christian democrats as host. europe will certainly be one of the key issues regardless of the shape of the future german government is that's why i hope we will get some results on europe today particularly results that can once again make germany the motor of european policy at least that's our common i hope but i'm optimistic. my. mind's almost see the. well tim scholz they're the leader of germany's social democrats well covering the talks at the seaview headquarters in berlin for us is our political correspondent killer watson shows there sounds like he's doing his

best to appear optimistic about forming another coalition with ackles conservatives does the s.p.d. party as a whole share the optimism. absolute you know this is the democrats actually in this city she is that very modern when after those election results came out in september sewing that anglo-american had lost significantly and the social democrats had lost significantly and then she turned around said he would not stand for another grand coalition and now he's sitting in the building behind me with the german chancellor talking about exactly that that didn't go down well with the grassroots of the social democrats in fact right to the top of the party there are many skeptics whether this indeed could be the right course for the party but in the end martin souls argued it was the responsibility of the social democrats to at least start talking after that initial attempt to

forge a coalition between the green party in the free democrats basically fail so that's where we are right now with a big question mark hanging over what at whatever might come out of this with the social democrat grassroots to get to vote on this would agree to it i don't. think it would tell us what are the biggest sticking points in these talks in terms of policy. well today they are talking about europe and they're really the parties aren't absolutely miles apart martin sorts speaking to his own party has a much tougher tougher stance he's pro integration he wants to see by twenty twenty five states moving much closer together he'd like to really go along with what montoya markhor of france said physically on euro policy and beyond that now the c.d.u. is against having that much closer integration in the sense of financial responsibility for other european states but these are all issues that the parties can reasonably

talk about what seems to be much trickier domestic issues like the health care system here in germany the social democrats would really have to deliver a complete change in the structure abolishing the private insurance here in germany to really demonstrate that they can really make their mark in a further continuation of the grand coalition the c.d.u. has completely ruled that out by now and then of course there are migrants where the social democrats really don't want to see a further tightening of regulations so both parties miles apart but as they say at least willing to talk about their differences. thank you political correspondent. you're watching the news still to come steve bannon in damage limitation mode transformer chief strategist retracts remarks about the president's son in an embarrassing climb. but first investors are eyeing

some bumper public offerings this year and twenty eight thousand one hundred has more you can say there twenty eighteen is shaping up to get really exciting for investors lots of companies plan to go public analysts say the market for initial public offering so i.p.o.'s that's company issuing shares for the first time a total of two hundred ninety billion dollars this year alone let's have a look at what's on offer first and foremost we could see the largest i.p.o. in history worth up to one hundred billion dollars if saudi arabian oil co goes ahead with its plan to sell only five percent of its says on global financial markets music streaming platform spotify is doing somewhat less than an i.p.o. it's a direct listing they're looking for avoiding dilution of already existing share spotify has already raised more than a billion dollars from private financing ride sharing company lyft just got

a billion dollar injection from google parent alphabet but it's still expected to go public at the end of the year u.s. cloud storage heavyweight dropbox is also expected to make its initial public offering in spring and there's at least one big german i.p.o. on the rise and siemens medical technology unit health than is hopes to raise at least five billion euros in march according to some sources now let's talk to financial correspondent daniel cope with standing by in frankfurt daniel which of these i.p.o.'s is especially capturing investors attention there. well garrett is really going to be a very interesting a year also in this is will be looking very closely at all those tech companies that are trying to enter the stock markets because those i.p.o.'s always considered his very unpredictable but the i.p.o. everybody here at the stock markets and also worldwide will be monitoring very

closely is the one from our marco in saudi arabia many investors are telling me that really the future of saudi arabia depends on how successful this i.p.o. lounge is going to be lots of pressure also for more mid been on the crown prince of saudi arabia he has been trying to open the country in the past more for foreign in investors and since it's going to be such a mega i.p.o. i guess you can really call it like that everybody will be looking at this very closely you have the huge figures involved but german engineering company siemens seems to be very keen to get its subsidiary health the nears on to the stock market what is the rush you can really kind of feel that they are in a rush at the moment but i guess the main reason behind all of this is because we are really seeing a very good climate right now as stock markets already with new records in two thousand and eighteen remember last week on wall street

a new record there were twenty five thousand points also very strong numbers here at the friend for stock exchange and usually when an i.p.o. is really happening at the beginning if the company is really hoping to get many investors and shareholders being interested in it remember. this was the also the big launch that we saw more than twenty years ago by that time there was really this hype and siemens is hoping to get the same hype as well daniel thank you very much. at the consumer electronics show in las vegas a chinese start up on veiled its vision for the car of the future the company's name is by tom which refers to bytes on wheels. form a b.m.w. executive says the car will have a range of more than five hundred kilometers the battery can be fast charge within fifteen to thirty minutes it will be available starting next year for forty five

thousand dollars and aims to compete with. model three now from ordering pizzas to checking your bank account all you have to do in future is a digital assistant but these devices also called smart speakers not only listen to everything you say them are actually possible to the manufacturers' at the c.s. in las vegas imus. is now facing off with a google assistant the next time you're bored and happen to have a digital assistant why not ask if it's better than its competitors at least amazon's alexa and the google assistant are each determined to prove they are they're both going to be at c s in las vegas and what's being billed as a showdown first smart speaker technology but the jury is still out as to which one superior. personally you could bet on both and probably come out on top lxi definitely has this really strong sales shopping environment and google just

has so much data it's hard not to think they're going to come out on top but at the same time it still seems pretty even i think google assistant is the fun one. it's the one day you can say play me a song you know it's the one you want to go out for a drink with but then. probably the one the more business in your the one you see in your office the one that you have. in-depth conversation with but that's more likely to get things done than your mate down the pub. becoming the smart speaker of choice could lead to pretty payoffs the market is set to grow quickly in the next two years as consumers increasingly turn to voice assistance to switch lights on recommend recipes and make calls analysts say a quarter of all household requests will be made through police assistance and twenty one thousand provide news. now former trump ally is backing away from critical comments about the president's family terry that's exactly right steve

bannon has retracted explosive remarks he made about donald trump jr the former white house chief strategist was quoted in a new book saying that trump jr had committed treason during his father's presidential election campaign the remarks earned bat in a string of angrily angry rebuke from his former ally president trump. he was the man with his seat at the table now he's increasingly isolated president chavez former chief strategist steve bannon has clarified the president's son was not the target of remarks attributed to him in a recently released book saying. donald trump jr is both a patriot and a good man my comments were aimed at paul man a fort a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the russians operate he should have known they are duplicitous coming and not our friends to reiterate those comments were not aimed at don jr those comments are contained in

this book in it bannan is quoted as calling a two thousand and sixteen meeting between donald trump jr campaign aides and a russian lawyer treasonous and unpatriotic since then trump administration officials have rallied around the president he's been called a genius and the book a work of fiction yes really hard questions. he delivers policy outcomes based on the information they were provide him my observation the president is that you know we deal in serious matters and that this book is in no way that twenty for them but author michael wolff is standing by his words in an interview on sunday he claimed there are rumblings in the west wing of an impeachment officially known as the twenty fifth amendment it's alarming in every way and then this this this went on ok this is a little twenty fifth amendment so the twenty fifth amendment is a concept that is alive every day in the white house the president in turn has

doubled down on his defense in a tweet he said he wasn't just a victim of fake news but now a fake book as well but trump's scathing criticism doesn't appear to be putting a damper on book sales. the man suspected of orchestrating a bomb attack on the ball rusia dortmund football team bus in april last year has confessed his guilt in court three devices were detonated in the incident which injured defender mark a mark potter a suspect surrogate v. as he's known is charged with twenty eight counts of attempted murder he has admitted responsibility for the explosions but denies that he intended to harm anyone it is believed that he had speculated on a fall in the club's share price from which he stood to gain half a million euros in profit north korea is likely to compete at the winter olympics across the border in south korea and that's making political waves for two

south korean figure skaters at strictly personal they recently trained in canada with their north korean counterparts and they're desperate to meet again on chang in a friendly rivalry. you'd be forgiven for thinking that the north korean winter olympic team i'd get a frosty reception across the border. but. the two figure skaters that comprise the north's modest olympic squad a warm welcome they trained with southern parts and come on in canada last year and the foursome became fast friends. as we trained together for two months in canada we became close easily because we speak the same language we rooted for each other and we said that we should meet. despite inevitable differences resulting from growing up under regimes dancing to two wildly different tunes the athletes' phone they still had plenty in common.

peace to meet each other and could get along with them more than the other we ate together and it made us closer. to. a sense of togetherness among the korean athletes shows that the olympic spirit is alive and well. of both countries are hoping it's the first step on the road to more cooperation. joins us from seoul south korea just north korea's participation in the winter olympics is a priority issue for talks taking place right now between the north and the south if that pans out could it help pave the way for a future dialogue. that is certainly the hope among south korean officials especially who have floated this idea for some time now. south korean president moon went so far as to ask the united states to delay the. usual spring time

military drills between south korea and the united states until after the olympics as something of an olive branch and chance to potentially use this opportunity to reduce tensions and possibly lead to some kind of diplomatic breakthrough down the road that being said many people still remain very skeptical and are waiting to see whether north korea is indeed willing to use this as some kind of forum to make some kind of concession about their nuclear weapons program now this is the first meeting between the two koreas in two years as you mentioned the diplomats tend to be pretty optimistic about this but what about the people in the rest of the country in south korea what are they expecting. i think there's a diverse range of views that being said i think all south koreans are hoping

that this past year of increased tensions can. be reduced in some way and they are equally interested in making sure the olympics go off in a way that reflects well on on south korea and is obviously a safe event you know regardless of whether this leads to some kind of breakthrough down the road i think that north korea participating in the games allows many people here to breathe something that was side of relief josh thank you very much a smith from reuters there joining us from seoul south korea. and before we go just a reminder the top stories we're following for you today hollywood stars have hailed a new era in the entertainment industry at the seventy fifth globe golden globe awards the first major awards gala after a tide of sexual abuse allegations stars dollar black dresses to show support for victims of the so-called me too movement. and germany's main parties have begun a second day of exploratory talks about forming

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