pete stark focused expired to unfortunate same time we also saw this huge surge in terror and. in guns there is what is really under the auspices of this the government. will reign in rebut us. many of those reforms security law the security services and i said we embolden. the reconciliation act with this. i'm this the officials because of corruption all the corruption that they claim to know about and to build the economy star. tara suppressing the number currently the current amount of this corruption all of these really have been used to sort of calm down in many ways and civil liberties. journalist simon speakman cordova reporting us from tunis simon good to speak with you now some other stories making news around the world armed robbers have smashed windows at paris's ritz hotel and made off with jewels and other luxury

goods three suspects were arrested and two are believed to be on the run it's estimated that some five million dollars worth of jewels were taken mean mars militaria said its soldiers murdered ten captured were hinge on muslims last september during its operation in the western state of rakhine the army insists that the men were terrorists and what appears to be a rare admission of wrongdoing rights groups though say the killings are just the tip of the iceberg. the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has said it worded an attack on a saudi tanker by hooty fighters of the weekend the coalition destroyed a boat carrying explosives near the red sea port of poti saudi forces have been fighting who the rebels and yemen sectarian civil war for over two years. now there's a seventy percent chance of success that is a verdict of one senior german politician on the exploratory coalition talks between chancellor uncle america's conservatives and the social democrats almost

four months after voters went to the polls the parties have set themselves a deadline of today to decide whether they can agree on terms michel's them servitor bloc is sitting down for its fifth day of discussions with the center left s.p.d. led by martin shuls the two sides are said to have made progress on issues like taxation and clean energy but they've left the more sensitive policy disagreements until today if successful the parties will enter into formal coalition negotiations if not germany could face fresh elections and an uncertain future for chance or medical. and michele is at the social democrat headquarters where the talks are taking place today hi michelle of the next twenty four hours will be crucial how likely is it that we will see an agreement. or you cited that figure of seventy thirty that was mentioned by a leading member of the c.d.u. i think it's fairly likely that we will see a positive outcome out of this round of talks but let's just remind ourselves that

this decision that we can expect then to be reached over the weekend by the leadership of the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. would only be on whether to talk seriously about mourning another coalition with the social democrat party conference and then potentially the party base having the final say so where does that leave us leaves us at the beginning of what could still be a very very rocky road indeed if they fail to even get those key benchmarks key questions of where they want to go into more detail like taxation in the end is very often mostly about money if they didn't get that off the ground there would be a serious loss of face and loss of confidence potentially both in the leadership of america and social democrat leader martin short so looking at the issues that are on the table where are the areas where they see eye to eye and where don't they. well what has already been seeping through really was that both sides pretty much

set on giving up the climate target for twenty twenty that was actually more of a statement of fact that and we're also seeing a softening on both sides on that key emotive issue also of migration on the right of people who have less asylum status here and many of their relatives join them we might see a kind of compromise that could extend a pause in them being allowed to bring people but then figure that has been thrown around of some forty thousand potentially being allowed to still bring their relatives here but you know these are all issues they talked about before. this is these are parties that currently still are in a coalition in this caretaker government right now and what everybody will be looking out for is whether they really have a key breakthrough they were whether they can prove that this time this old political couple in this marriage not more of a convenience in

a marriage of love in government can really make a fresh start and that's where the psychology of the grassroots party basis comes in if all of these hurdles are indeed overcome and we do see these two sides there are a grand coalition of germany's biggest party and will this government have the power of need to implement necessary reforms. it certainly would have the power in parliament to pretty much push through sweeping reform and that's also been the criticism before if they're talking now about having better infrastructure at the target of twenty twenty five having broadband access across germany in every corner of the country why didn't they do that in the past grand coalition before these are really questions they have to overcome and they also have to deliver something for martin sorts these social democrat leader that he can take to his party conference coming up on the twenty first of january and then potentially to his grass roots so

he actually has something to show that this time could be different that this time would not be killing off support for those social democrats who are still trying to lick their wounds really from this past elections where they lost so dearly so it's also a question of political survival for him but also for german chancellor angela merkel if this fails they could be fresh elections because she herself over he said she doesn't have an appetite for a minority government where she has to seek majorities for every policy issue is political correspondent michelle o'connor reporting at the s.p.d. headquarters here in berlin thank you. turning now to pakistan and a city struck by a wave of child killings that has sparked an outpouring of public anger protesters took to the streets of ca's who are on wednesday outraged over what they called police inaction in the wake of the latest rape and murder of a young girl in the city several miners have been sexually assaulted then killed

there over the past year with police making no apparent headway in finding the perpetrators. the body of little sign of unsorry borne by a sea of mourners in her hometown of castle last week the eight year old was led away by this man she was and raped and murdered her body disposed of in a rubbish tip the town of custer came together in prayer on the day of her funeral shopkeepers shutting up shop as a mark of respect she was the trials girl to be abducted raped and murdered in the casa district in the past year. please no closer to finding the culprits fronting outrage from locals. now police have a pound glee fired live rounds on protesters. the result another two people dead.

he said they reacted to a question from locals who had attacked the police station but sign ups father said that he would not bury his daughter until justice is done. although much of what a lot of i have just learned that police fired people and that two people are now dead i'm going to find out what happened we're going to try not to bury our child until the issue has been resolved properly. sign ups uncle said the family wanted the perpetrator alive and no more innocent people killed what under the police should knock some innocent passion and tell us that we have now got justice. the whole high court chief justice has ordered an investigation into sign ups murder but with residents furious at what they see as a failure to properly investigate previous abductions there could well be more protests to come. rescue workers in the u.s.

state of california are searching for more than a dozen people still missing after devastating mudslides and flooding hit coastal areas this week seventeen people have died and around one hundred homes have been destroyed the devastation struck early tuesday after a winter storm drenched hillside that had been stripped bare by wildfires last month the hills came crashing down on monta sado early on tuesday morning to made is of rain fell in just fifteen minutes that unleashed a stream of mad and said she was careening on to mt to see does hillside mansions residents describe it as an apocalyptic saying the sky lit up because some buildings had blown up the gas mains it turns out so here's all this fire coming down i mean and fire going up and here's all this rain coming down and you wonder why it was happening more than

a day later the scale of the devastation is becoming clear this was one of the us is busiest freeways now it's a cesspool of the city's beach too is dotted with people's cars firefighters have been searching here for those buried in the mud and they've been searching in one to see does neighborhoods to there are just ten thousand residents many have lost friends and neighbors. and a neighborhood this small every single name that turns up is someone's dad some cousins teacher and that's got to be the worst part of it all i think we're just happy for everyone that makes it the fourteen year old lauren concent is lucky to have survived firefighters puta from the wreckage of a home in the mud slides off the mop on wednesday they rescued three more survivors but more than a dozen others are reported missing. you're

watching news still to come on the let men to do that message from catherine. to movement has triggered a backlash of online outrage. but first corn is in the headlines again. this time it's the south korean government that has sent bitcoin tumbling and the government in seoul announced today that legislation is in the works to ban cryptocurrency trading altogether just as mr parks she said the government had concerns regarding the regulation of virtual currencies due to the soaring value over the last year because it has fallen by more than twelve percent south korea previously course the cryptocurrency to briefly drop in december when it first revealed its plans. now let's cross over to the jet for the market reactions done you know called joins us from the frankfurt stock exchange down in south korea

wants to bankrupt across this doesn't mean the country is also missing out on huge opportunities. or they would be a certainly one of the biggest backlashes off the cryptocurrency that we have seen throughout the last time because south korea is probably the most important country when it comes to trade with the cryptocurrency you just mentioned we already heard this for the first time in december and now during the last days they were investigation by police and also by attacking tax authorities in south korea pretty much the south korean government is saying that people should be paying taxes off the money that they made with the cryptocurrency and this seems to be not the case also south korea has been accusing north korea in the past trying to avoid international sanctions using the cryptocurrency is this going to mean that there's not going to be any kind of groups or currency trading in south korea certainly not

maybe not any more on those platforms but there are dozens of platforms worldwide talk about world wide what else is on investors' minds today then for instance. while the oil price is certainly a hot topic here today it went up yesterday to seventy dollars that's the highest amount that we have been seeing during the last three years why is this happening while many countries in that are opec members mostly countries from the middle east they have been trying to have a higher all prize and it's perfect example right now of supply and demand there is also a very high demand at the moment because of the growing economy and exports are actually telling me that they are even expecting a high oil price to come in the next weeks and months. koeppen frankfurt thank you . so. as cars are turning into computers on wheels these days car makers are increasingly using the consumer electronics show in las vegas as

a forum to show off their newfound tech and also green credentials they're desperate to promise as low emissions and self driving technology within a matter of years and not decades and this year the demonstrations begin even before you get to the conventions at. the top eon vision of a driverless future is already taking shape before a visit even reaches the c.e.o.'s. self driving taxis like this b.m.w. awaiting to take them there for now there's still a human driver on hand for emergencies but on this trip he's not needed. it has three l. sixty degree sensing radar sensing live off sensing and vision and the fuse that information together so we combine basically the readings and we track all the objects along i don't often. when this toyota goes

into service there'll be no need for human backup it's a joint development between amazon and pizza hut. the transporter can carry twenty passengers but it can also double as a mobile office or the bar a tree or even a delivery van becomes in sixteen different versions expected to debut at the tokyo olympics in twenty twenty toyota says it's on course for the future. is changing quickly and the race is on. germany's mercedes is opting for private automobiles the luxury carmaker strategy includes onboard driver entertainment with highly promising artificial intelligence it should hit the road inside two months if you are driving at it in the morning at seven o'clock to your office why do you have to type in your address in the vehicle at. in the morning if you have to ask why the car doesn't tell you on your own that i put and set your navigation to your office

address and it gets get into the car and it just drives the way you drive it and you don't have to interact with the navigation system at all comparable hinders pictures the next zero s u v by a fuel cell it converts hydrogen into electricity to drive the vehicle emitting only steam the next owes main advantage of a standard battery driven eco's is the tide region can be pumped distrust as petrol the drawback is that there aren't many hydrogen filling stations yet. which have a model comes to dominate future mobility but chances are it's already on show at this year's c s. of our future mobility to the present forms of mobility the fumes of diesel gates and all swirling around car giant thought us lawsuit alleges ford installed emissions cheating software and two of his diesel pick ups says emissions on ford ford's f. two hundred fifty and three hundred fifty so-called super duty trucks were often

five times above the limit when tested under realistic conditions and also it also names german car parts make up bosch which said it takes such allegations very seriously last year bosch paid almost three hundred thirty million dollars to us on as a false start diesels for its part in the emissions cheatings. that's all for business for now back to sunni with a controversy surrounding the mitsu movement that's right there had a french actress catherine deneuve and at least another one hundred women have signed an open letter criticizing me to movement they accuse that supporters of underestimating women's ability to say no and of ruining the lives so innocent men but critics have condemned her remarks with some calling her an apologist for rape some french women are using satire to respond to sexism in their country.