race creed color think it's only the beginning of this song human machines starting february first on t w. this is it every news live from berlin germany search for a new government political parties are stepping up efforts to reach an agreement to start coalition talks but they say there's still a lot of work to do well look at some of the obstacles also coming up to warners journalists face up to fourteen years in prison a new march for trying to reveal what they say is the truth about the military's

crackdown on the range of muslims me and mark uses them of breaking the law and says they must now be called to account and anger grows in tunisia over rising prices and government austerity hundreds are arrested and dozens are injured after riots erupt in several towns. it's great to have you along. a long day ahead of a lot of work to do those were the only to brief the press for fear of scuppering any deal americans conservatives and the center left as social democrats have set themselves a deadline of tomorrow to find out if they have enough common ground to start formal coalition talks. day four of the exploratory talks between chancellor

merkel's conservatives and the social democrats but much remains unclear the parties have agreed on a news blackout so information about any breakthroughs is scarce us or any statements by party leaders. and ourselves not unlike god i suppose this is going to be a long day so first of all good morning for all of you and i hope that we will make some progress today because you are. the talks are scheduled to run until thursday night on friday the two sides then announce whether they intend to launch a full coalition negotiations however the s.p.d. will also have to seek the backing of its rank and file party conference in bonn on january the twenty first at an earlier party conference in december delegates had already voted in favor of the current exploratory talks if the party conference backs full coalition talks the conservatives and social democrats then start a fresh round of negotiations which could take several weeks just like four years ago the social democrats will vent put

a final agreement to the entire membership back in twenty thirteen they followed the party leadership recommendation to enter a coalition with anglo merkel's conservatives so there are still a few are knowns before germany has a new government. are all of the potus covering the talks and joins us now from our parliamentary studios in berlin charlotte those taking part in these coalition talks or staying very tight lipped about the progress of these negotiations what are you hearing through the grapevine how likely is it that we'll have an agreement by tomorrow's deadline. i think it's very likely that we'll see an agreement by tomorrow's deadline by thursday night or maybe in the early morning hours heading into friday the every part of all the both parties see their responsibility at this point that they have to form or at least try to form a new government and the politicians taking part of the leadership of both parties they would just lose their credibility if they didn't get some kind of final result

through in these exploratory talks and they have agreed on quite a few issues for example on some climate issues also on the topic of immigration there is supposed to be a new immigration law for skilled workers but as we just heard the tricky part really starts afterwards because martin schultz the leader of the social democrats has to sell the results to his party base and the grassroots is not happy about the idea of a continuation of this grand coalition we will see a party convention of the social democrats the delegates will have to vote there if whether to start a new coalition talks then we will see coalition talks with the christian democrats and then the social democratic party base is going to vote on those results so it's going to be some weeks before germany will in fact if these talks are successful see a new government all right i don't want to put any words in your mouth shut up or

go doesn't sound very encouraging. well it's not going to be like both parties are painting a vision for germany for what they want to change in the next four years it's going to be a rather pragmatic thing it's not going to be a very euphoric new grand coalition that we are going to see if these talks are successful and it's really rather a forced marriage then you know a coalition that is painting a painting a vision for the next four years but they have reached agreements on quite a few issues and we'll see. tomorrow night if they are acts least seeing that through if they come to a positive conclusion of these talks show pot's reporting thank you. all right now i want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. there has been some relief for the roughly thirteen thousand ters trapped in the swiss ski resort of their much due to heavy snowfall trains are due to resume

service and later today after being cut off for two days of helicopter airlifts ongoing. two senior british ministers have urged germany to support a deal protecting london's finance sector bragg's it they used to break that negotiator has ruled out including such a deal in future talks on trade with britain and germany's government spokesman said berlin does not intend to break ranks with the e.u. on this issue. south korea's president moon has said he's willing to meet his a north korean counterpart under certain conditions moonset the denuclearization of the korean peninsula would be his goal in any talks with the north his comments come a day after the first high level talks between north and south korea in over two years. i mean mars military has admitted its soldiers killed ten bridge of muslims back in september referring to those killed as quote

terrorists is the first public admission of wrongdoing by the military since it began a crackdown on ethnic were hidden in august a more than six hundred thousand range of muslims have been forced from their homes into neighboring bangladesh by the violence that broke out in ricky in state while the admission to the murders appeared in a statement on the facebook page of me in mars' army chief while meanwhile prosecutors in me and maher have charged two journalists from the orders news agency with violating the country's official secrets act spied widespread international condemnation while the pair say they were just trying to report the truth about the military's campaign against the. journalist milo managed to smile as the soldiers paraded him outside the courthouse but he and colleague. seen here in a gray shirt facing serious charges prosecutors allege they collected secret

documents related to the military situation retain state but according to white lawn they're actually in jail for trying to tell the truth about what's happening in a cane or not lemme go this is unacceptable i want to tell you that they are charging us like this to stop us finding the truth their actions are wrong and unfair. and so do a bevy here you've got to get a few journalists ventured into wrecking state since last summer they are images of what the united nations coast the textbook ethnic cleansing going on there they show a burning wrecking of villages and locals fleeing the violence. the me and my army strictly controls access to read kane state it is allowed few journalists in and and the under the conditions it sets the reuters journalists say they were there to report ethically and truthfully but they were arrested under the old laws on secrecy after visiting regain their families have been devastated by the arrests

they convinced their loved ones in this and. every minute to get out and he told me not to worry because he didn't do anything wrong. he voted for this government so to get i know he strongly believes that he will be released soon. i hope that also near the again i'm obligated. to sit in on the jailing of the reuters journalists as cause an outcry both inside and outside me and my colleagues gathered outside court the fear among many myanmar is stepping up its crackdown on those who try to report a great humanitarian crisis. i want to take you to me in mar now to david greenbaum he is covering the story for do w. news in young gone a day how significant is this admission by myanmar's military the fact that they were involved in the deaths of those two ten their friendship muslims yeah i mean it's kind of like they're trying they're trying to play it on two sides here

they're egg knowledge ng that these people were killed by the military and they're saying that there's a good missions of murder between security forces and villagers are not quite we clear who did what against these are row hinges but they're also saying that these were hinges were terrorists who had threatened lucas so. it doesn't hold up a strong with the other argument that they've been making where there's absolutely zero wrongdoing where they've been making the thing that for months. but there again i'm trying to qualify by saying that they're that these people were dangerous so. you know down rather than it really comes down to what other evidence might be coming out over time and these two reuters reporters who you were just reporting on it's been widely reported for weeks that they were looking into this mass grave and we really don't know what kind of evidence those two journals have turned up so you think this admission might have something to do with them uncovering something can

we expect the army to admit to more wrongdoings. i mean i think what's good that's really hard to say because of course we've got so many row hinges who fled into bangladesh more than six hundred thousand and a period of months and so many of them are coming across the border of these horrific horrific accounts of mass murder gang rapes we've got satellite photos of villages that have run into villages that have been burned to the ground on the flip side the military has locked out largely locked out locked down northern rakhine state where the security crackdown has been going on so un investigators cannot get in journalists cannot get in except on a few heavily supervised. trips where they take a watch where you go and have you can really limit your access so it's really hard to say what we're going to be able to be able to turn up of course are so many

people trying to get you know we're trying to get information through other routes but that's much more time consuming and much more difficult to get to the facts right it's really hard to see what's going to come out but there are so strong evidence coming out otherwise that's why using the u.n. call it that nic lancing right ok so the documenting of these possible human rights abuses will be very challenging i want to shift our focus back to these two workers journalists that are being charged under me and mars official secrets act this is mission by the army what effect will it have on them. you know it's really hard to say right now because certainly what what what what what what so many journalists here are saying is that they believe the local journalists here that they believe that they're trying to make an example that the government the military is trying to make an example of these two to try and warn local journalists don't dig deep in the work i don't do anything that would go

against our narrative meaning the military's narrative this or there could be repercussions. on the flip side there it's not making this country's transition look good at all and makin affect foreign investment and clearly the military doesn't want the foreign investment to stop so and they're getting such brad press and such bad publicity and keep in mind this is really a political case the courts here are only independent in name when you talk to people who studied this court system for years they will tell you that it's only independent in name that i'm cases that are sensitive to the military notes will get handed down through a chain that will eventually tell the judge how to handle it and really challenging situation that you to pick their day for grim by reporting from yangon thank you. all right we're going to take you now to north africa where more than two hundred people have been arrested and dozens injured after riots erupted in tunisia one

protester has also been killed while the violence is being driven by anger and government austerity measures to nisha has been praised for its transition to democracy after the arab spring in two thousand and eleven but tensions are rising over the state of the economy and hardships experienced by ordinary tunisians. bangor new austerity measures spilling over into unrest tunisia's government introduced the measures on january first and placed a strain on the pocketbooks of many tunisians. in many places demonstrators took to looting stores and to board a one man died possibly from breathing tear gas from police. it was seven years ago that the arab spring began here in the west tunisia is seen as an example of a successful transition to democracy not everyone is happy though. we had ten governments in seven years but got nothing but promises. with the kind of rapid

problems are getting worse for poor people but politicians are living the high life look the same. people also took to the streets in the capital tunis as well the origin of the protests is a deal the government agreed to at the international monetary fund to help curb rising debt economic reforms were introduced one result fuel prices as well as many taxes went up as of the new year. it is our right to demonstrate for a lot of people it will be more difficult to make ends meet. that's. discontent is growing in chinese are more protests are planned for this coming sunday the seventh anniversary of the country's revolution. you're watching the news we still have a lot more ahead here is what's coming up leaving a war behind just a face another kind of battle south sudanese refugees face extortion and harassment as they seek safety across the border. but first we turn to the u.s.

at least fifteen people are dead and dozens injured after must slides hit parts of southern california thousands have fled their homes and rescue crews are searching for survivors feared trapped it's another catastrophe for the state's coastal communities who have been hit very hard by recent natural disasters. they were still recovering from devastating wildfires here last month and now more destruction authorities warned residents of santa barbara to evacuate the area mother nature unleashed her fury just before dawn. for a train coming down the hill you know you could hear these boulders rolling. yeah. i panicked i mean they were all to sleep and i was in my pants and i just said there's somebody in the driveway there's mud in the driveway therese's our family's

group. that's a survivor the second nightmare to hit the region in weeks last month's wildfires destroyed vegetation on hillsides here leaving them susceptible to erosion and in this case mud slides rescue crews have been overwhelmed by the scale of the carnage. we had a very difficult time assessing the area and responding to many of those areas to assist those people. the only words i can really think of to describe what it looked like was it looked like a world war one battle for. the battlefield which some have narrowly escaped. but an uncertain number of people are still missing. right now we're going to talk a money with the band because bitcoin remains highly volatile but it's not stopping

investors from getting into the tech behind crypto currencies are quite interesting because there's a will there's a huge amount of hype at the moment investors a really on shorts fifty fifty with the people i speak to but as far as the technology goes that's a certain at least the u.s. company kodak has just announced it's creating a virtual currency for photographers called the kodak coin with it photographers can register rights to their pictures as well as market them kodak was the pioneer of instant photos which developed within minutes lost its market share with the dawn of digital photography is recovering from its bankruptcy in two thousand and twelve kodak is specialized in digital printing after unveiling its plans to create a new cryptocurrency shares in kodak double. let's go over to daniel what's the story here a photo company is introducing its own cryptocurrency i mean can they do that. i guess they can ban and it's really the case whenever you talk right now about

crypto currencies and also one blog saying really the hard off investors is beating much faster in the case of kodak now they're introducing the so-called core dot point which then photographers can use on their platform one with this they can payments they can also make sure that their pictures are under copyright law and the website is also promising that they are monitoring pretty much the traffic in the worldwide web making sure that pictures are not being used by people who are not paying for them and just explain a bit more about why the company is doing what it's doing i mean sure it's obviously we're above shareholders while they want to make money and they want to get it again more interesting remember that the company even had to clear bankruptcy at a time because pretty much everybody right now has a camera on their smartphone so regular pictures are not anymore that famous also

photo albums that they're also selling are not really doing that well and it can really work there has been another company in the past long island i see they have only renamed themselves true long block chain after that shares off that company were tripling so i don't know maybe we should do a company physical and coo block chain and make also lots of money. lots of good ideas but they tell me about the share price reaction because i mentioned before kodak has done. is that something is sustainable do you think. well at least for the moment shares were really going after. the plaza one hundred twenty percent to seven dollars after the stock markets were closed also under computer trading that even went up to nine dollars so now let's see how this is going to go today on wall street today ok some interesting stuff from frankfurt

there with daniel cold thank you very much. is another interesting one the british government is banning the use of microscopic plastic beads they used as a brace is in the health of beauty products sold by multinational companies but the tiny plastic goes down household drains and has water supplies and the food chain ending up inside us. in this ocean lies an invisible threat might create be the plastic particles can be found in face scrubs toothpaste and shower gel and a deadly from rain life but now the u.k. is taking action the country has banned the manufacturing of products containing micro beats and will stop sales later this year it marks a move beyond regulating plastic packaging on the outside to managing the use of non degradable plastics as actual ingredients with in products. we've recommended the latte leftie because of the recyclability of coffee cups and we've also

recommended that producers who make whole to recycle products hold mixed paper and plastic products should be forced to pay more for them there are many biodegradable replacements for plastic micro beefs but they are mostly found in the more expensive brands. we've got pumice powder here which we use in body products it's a little bit more expedient ating and we've got ground rice powder which we use in our face to a scrubs as well and the benefits of these that because we've never use plastic they're all biodegradable if they break down in the oceans they don't get into the fee chain and we don't end up eating them the ban could also mean future changes for companies who make cleaning products due to the widespread use of micro be. a full fifteen minutes of business for you next oh my legs a lot greatly appreciated last month regional powers have yet made another attempt to end over four years of civil war in south sudan government and rebel delegations

signed a cease fire but once again it was broken well with peace nowhere in sight south sudanese refugees continue to pour across the border to neighboring countries and what has become the biggest refugee crisis on the african continent over a million south sudanese fled to uganda some eighty thousand others have sought refuge in the democratic republic of congo simona full time travel to the border town of that you see right behind me and sent us this report. and new day a new country and hopefully the beginning of a better life the south sudanese refugees have just crossed the border from south sudan to the democratic republic of congo they fled fighting back home grabbing whatever belongings they could carry. but what to get here we have had to come through the bush. we were trying to avoid the roads because of the soldiers.

it was exhausting and there was noise food for the children. are going to they've reached safety but their life in congo is off to a rocky start this group of refugees has been stranded at the border for several days waiting for registration and transfer to a refugee site many have tried walking the seventeen kilometers to the nearest refugee camp but say that congolese soldiers are demanding payments if you see with your eyes. as you see with your eyes we are now suffering if they allowed us to go on foot we're able to go if you start here there are too much checkpoints where you have to pay to pay to pay up to the camp. to. predict. such harassment isn't unusual says the president of the mary refugee site in our congolese soldiers often extras we. created to ask you for some money.

with. a lot of. south sudanese refugees in congo have received little international attention donors have funded less than a quarter of the united nations humanitarian appeal that means basic services like shelter are lacking this woman arrived in congo over a year ago but she's still waiting to build a house marking the southern border been able to build a circle and there is no way we haven't received anything since we arrived eleven months ago we're not even building materials. going to. this house where we are staying belongs to a relative and i did because in the mind and there are ten of us sharing the place said it enough that i began my and i get more. education is also proving a challenge many south sudanese refused to send their english speaking children to

local francophone schools instead refugees set up this makeshift anglophone school inside the camp but the authorities dismantled it now many children roam around without anything to do officials want south sudanese refugees to attend local schools even though they admit there is not enough space room there's a court appearance today the school is closed to the size of full of children learn and it's a problem. of lambie but we need to have more schools. to accommodate all the children. of water lock up i said. before faced with limited resources and the challenges of integrating some refugees are considering moving on to neighboring uganda instead but that would cost money that few can afford so for now with they have little choice but to settle in for the long haul and hope that one day peace returns to south sudan.

are at some cycling news now britain's chris froome has been urged by the director of the talk of hearts to dispel rumors of a doping violation the sound of her dog said the thirty two year old must provide an explanation as quickly as possible for his blood was found to have twice the legal amount of an asthma drug during spain's twenty seventy love wealth tour which he went on to win if he fails to explain himself the fourth time told a hawse winner could face a ban from cycling. you've been watching the news on behalf of all of us here thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us on the rock and i'll see you can of the top of the hour. come.

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