directly in that way as an opposition party can already claim some successes i mean that's what they have done with the c.s.u. in bavaria and i think we're going to see a very very tough election campaign that in this southernmost state which was the first entry put forth for most of the markets that came during that crisis and the f.t. has a lot of opportunity to to grandstand on this issue but at the same time let's not forget the f.t. is the democratically elected into the parliament and they also now have to stand the test of whether they can do politics and whether they can actually act as a professional party they've become part of the establishment that they look down on they need to prove the point that they won't become part of the establishment so much but technically they are let's talk about the chancellor a chance to anglo-american did she deliver. so far she has that she's holding the whole thing together there's a certain sense of admiration also within her own party and also particularly the bavarian c.s.u. that she managed to survive these this these elections which were basically a defeat even for the women is. pretty much unscathed but let me tell you if she

manages to get this so-called grand coalition together she for herself is pretty much ruled out. majority government she doesn't feel that that delivers the kind of stability one needs and if there are fresh elections we're in completely new territory but we're not there yet recollect if one of them thank you so much for your continued coverage greatly appreciate it. all right i want to tell you know about some of the other stories that we're following for you right now. in japan more than four hundred people were stranded on a train overnight after heavy snow the train got stuck some three hundred kilometers northwest of tokyo officials decided against evacuating passengers until daybreak some power of northern japan have seen ten times the average snowfall this winter. saudi arabia's first car show geared to women drivers has opened a shopping mall in the city of jeddah exhibit an is taking place just months after king solomon ordered an end to the country's ban on women driving saudi women are

due to take to the roads in june. in tunisia an emergency meeting is planned between the main political parties and businesses they want to find a solution to the wave of protests gripping gripping the country demonstrators are angry about austerity measures and growing inequality as many as six hundred people have been arrested this week. u.s. president donald trump has canceled a trip to london next month to open the new us embassy there term tweeted that he's not a fan of the new embassy which he said wrongly was a bad deal made by his predecessor barack obama secretary of state rex tillerson will go in its place. and staying with president trump is also come under fire after reportedly insulting haiti el salvador and several african nations in a expletive outburst trump is said to have asked why our people are why are

we having all these people from blank expletive countries come here well according to the washington post newspaper the president became frustrated during talks on immigration lawmakers are trying to put together a reform package that includes protection for the children of undocumented migrants . well given the almost daily controversy around trump some critics have asked is he fit to be u.s. president while trump is due to undergo an annual medical check later today as allegations over his physical and mental health abound well the white house says the results of the health check will be made public. it's slurred words at the end of a major speech in december the united church thank you very much field a flurry of speculation about donald trump's health. trumps the oldest person to become president in american history he was seventy when he was sworn into office

he doesn't drink or smoke but he makes no secret of his love for fast food. or his aversion to the more rigorous forms of spores he uses a cart for golf and one said that his main source of exercise comes from moving his hands during his speeches so how does the president shape up problem in the commander's. a letter written by trump's doctor during the presidential campaign showed he was overweight and on medication to control his cholesterol pressure proclaimed him to be in excellent physical health. fast forward sixteen months and he's dealing with the pressures of arguably the most demanding job in the world questions have existed from the beginning of a term psychological and intellectual competence for the role of president just days ago he came under fire for seeming to forget the words of the u.s. national anthem. and

a bombshell book released last week claims that most of his staff and advisers think he's mentally unwell trump it back with one of the twitter verse is famous for. assuring the world he's a very stable genius. and allies leapt to his defense that now i'm not there seven days a week but i'm there once a week and i'm there for a day with white house meetings are really no one questions the stability of the president the wise has says today's medical check will be purely physical but the debate is about terms mental health is sure to rage on. or we want to go back to our top story of political leaders agreeing here on the polygamy coalition talks how is the market reacted well largely unimpressed but to find out exactly how it reacts let's go straight straight to financial correspondent daniel koch who is standing by in frankfurt i hope he should be visible right now if we can hear yes

he can hear me don you know our investors relieved. well there are certainly relief here and i can tell you that new elections certainly would have been here a horror scenario at the stock market we would have most likely seen shares dropping massively yeah you just mentioned it. is up at the moment with a quarter percent not as much as you might think it would be this is happening because we are seeing a very strong euro at the moment the euro also with the three year high today reaching one twenty one i guess that's also reflecting a very well how relieved also other european leaders are at the moment that most likely we are going to see a very stable government now happening here in germany because germany one of the key countries here of course also in europe for many european leaders it's very important that germany is stable also when we talk about the coming months such as

a brick said no good negotiations or other very important topics heart. martin johnson and america have also sort of told us what germany can look forward to in the in the next years should this coalition come into being what's most interesting from a business perspective. here the first details are coming out those of course have not been called for and we are hearing that most likely they are not going to be any higher taxes of course that's always very interesting from the investors per specter of also that we are most likely going to see a stop of the solidarity's surges the solidary tax also very interesting what i'm going to america was stating a little bit earlier that the new german government really wants to put lots of new millions into digital infrastructure so those are just some of the topics that are also very interesting from the investor's perspective gephardt. in from for thank

you. now a fresh outbreak of african swine fever has spread into europe and is threatening livestock here wild boars a common sight in many european forests a carriers in help spread the disease governments are telling hunters to shoot them onside the latest outbreak appears to have begun in russia authorities in neighboring bellerose banned some imports of russian pork products but viruses don't respect national borders so that is easy as making its went out of europe it already has crossed into the baltic states and poland where in total thousands of cases have been reported this is why the european commission is backing a cull of wild boars is also warning people to be careful with food waste that could contain the highly contagious disease it was first recorded in africa a century ago and the name since then it's spread around the world and while it doesn't affect humans is almost always deadly to pigs drug companies have been trying to develop

a vaccine so far without success now african swine fever could end up costing european governments millions while the financial damage to farmers can already be felt as our report shows. the un being on ski has been raising pigs for decades he still can't believe they're all gone now some dead wild boar were found near his farm it turns out they were infected with african swine fever in response authorities ordered that all farm pigs in a radius of fifty kilometers be called. nazi helli they came in made a list instead of weighing the pigs they made a rough estimate of their weight and they said all of them had to be killed and disposed of. an insurance policy for animal diseases paid only a fraction of the pigs value to the burnouts keys. six months later they're still

not allowed to buy any new pics. now. from young to retire actually and now we just take each day as it comes out of i'm going to receive money from our insurance but it was almost nothing the entire region eastern poland you know the village of ruin it ski has been under quarantine from months due to african swine fever and does not incite many farmers here had large herds but now the animals are all dead. no one here thinks the industry can ever recover from this blow villagers are even afraid to keep a pig for their own needs something that used to be commonplace here. even keeping only one pig poses a risk it can infect a large groups of pigs like three hundred. the african swine fever is being spread primarily by wild boar which have been infected with the virus the disease is always deadly for the animals there's no medicine to fight feeling this the river

vistula forms a natural barrier to the spread of the disease but in december of twenty seventeen infected boar were found on the west side of the river now there's a danger that the virus could spread to germany. i saw warning signs but i don't know if they're true i haven't seen any dead animals. the dead boers or just the pretense someone is trying to ruin the polish farmers have been used. before the. younger nazi doesn't believe in such conspiracy theories he's hoping that by the spring his lucrative business will be back on track. facebook has announced a major overhaul to its news feed the poor prioritize posed by friends and family over unpaid posed by companies and media organizations the side hopes to stop businesses from quote crowding out personal moments for its uses facebook says

companies using pages to promote content will likely see a decrease in reach video watch time and referral traffic as a result of facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has said the changes should make people spend less time on facebook but that the time spent will be more valuable the company is responding to a growing tide of criticism about its role in society and. in venezuela supermarkets have now to be protected by the military against looters and angry mobs are slaughtering cattle in the fields according to reports the country is starving and as well as inflation rate has reached a staggering two thousand six hundred percent according to calculations by the country's parliament which has been disempowered by president nicolas maduro us also tyrion socialist regime price controls have been put in place to curb inflation but they have little effect when shelves are empty. her sad sight

shelves have never been so empty in venezuela and it's getting worse what's the point in the government reducing the price of staple foods are available anyway. not. painful to see the shelves because there isn't anything to eat and i've got three things all i could get my heart hurt because lowering prices is not the way the government should be acting. and. this seems critical to me because honestly we're going through a very serious crisis right now. i don't know what to do because i can't get any basics. i mean i've never seen the shelves like this there's little or you can see it juices cookies canned goods but otherwise nothing. like that you know i love him. but even if shelves were stuck decently wages barely cover the cost of necessities every day offers fresh evidence of venezuela's bankruptcy with

no foreign currency available to import food or any other basic products. and i was one of the reasons why businesses in venezuela are fighting for their very survival facing shortages and the socialist bureaucracy that blocks their every move some entrepreneur still refused to give in and as well as famous high quality cocoa beans could be a good source of revenue john. around the world value it highly but exporters are forced to find highly unusual ways to sell their products of. in her caracas apartment nutrition professor nancy silva spreads cocoa on a stone counter to make chocolate bars they'll be sold in local shops for around fifty cents that's a week's wages here but there are still a few people able to spend that on candy. outside venezuela chocolate of this quality might earn many times that so silver is focusing on friends where

a kilogram of chocolate could fetch around one hundred dollars. i carried my chocolate around in two suitcases. i've been to paris three times that way. i don't even speak french but i know my product and i know who's willing to buy it i was able to sell my chocolate over the course of around a month. she could probably sell many times that if venezuela soviet style bureaucracy didn't make exploiting almost impossible for small companies to countries hyperinflation means serve been constant shortages of food and ingredients but this is offset by steady access to high quality aromatic cocoa from her family's farm in eastern venezuela. the need because in terms of the quality of the grains there variety and there yield i would say we

are in the presence of the best cocoa in the world but. for now the chronic shortages are probably the most have a venezuela's economy. but it's the chocolate maker show there are also entrepreneurs' doing their part to boost their country. some governments and asia and south korea for example planning to ban crypto currencies altogether the bitcoin craze has now achieved pop culture status japan's virtual currency goals for first concert in tokyo today each member of the band represents a different groups of currencies such as the bitcoin experience or ripple in keeping with the theme payments for the group's merchandise will only be accepted in virtual currency debut song warns against fraudulent operators just people saying. carol that online security. and that's

it from the business desk it's back to layla now for more world news thank you so much garrett in pakistan the brutal kidnapping rape and murder of an eight year old girl has sparked an outpouring of horror and anger in the streets thousands around lead into protesters have died in clashes with police is the twelfth child child to be sexually assaulted and killed in the same area over the past year with the killer still at large demonstrators accuse police of being too slow to act. on good boils over but the death of another little girl and investigators failure to find out who killed her occurred much is through the tone of kazoo are targeting the local police station officers opened fire and chaos ensues. protesters attempt to carry away the injured. the girl's family is outraged over the police response to the protests seen ups father told d.w. that he wants justice for his daughter. we demand that the government take steps

to ensure the safety and protection of all girls in this country. i'd also like to appeal to the army chief and the chief justice that steps be taken to avoid such tragedies like those taken in many army counter-terrorism operations. this is a community in grief and sorry vanished on her way to a korean cluster last week. this is the last image of her alive on a new one man leading her away holding her hand. police discovered her body on this trash heap on tuesday so you know it was believed to have been raped several times and then strangled to death her family wants a thorough investigation. i don't doubt about the murder of the rest of the life the police should look to lift the burden from themselves by killing some innocent person and then seeing no you have justice. the law or high court chief

justice has ordered the police to take swift action in this case but with residents furious at what they see as a failure to properly investigate previous abductions there could well be more protests to come. in india the high court is set to decide on a highly sensitive issue is marital rape legal all the sponsors where the supreme court ruled that if a husband has sex with his wife and is under eighteen he is committing an act of rape well that decision was a milestone in india's fight for equal rights for women on the women's activists as well as victims are hoping that sexual abuse and marriage will be judged with the same way but the issue is not as easy as it seems here as more. this woman can't go to the courts and her family doesn't understand her problem that's why she's come to this women support center priya is an early twenty's the mother of two was forced into an arranged marriage six years ago. since then she's been tormented and

abused by her own husband. it's over this thing we did wake me up in the middle of the night and pressure me for sex even when i was ill when i tried to stop him he hit me sometimes i would not be able to sit down for days or move without pain and that at that. unlike previous sixty year old suresh is willing to have her face shown on camera her suffering started twenty years ago now she wants to go public with her story even if her relatives condemn or and say she's tarnishing the family's honor suresh is now divorced her ex-husband cheated on her with his own daughter in law. not unless he still wanted to have sex with me even though i refused him. he got drunk he hit me and raped me repeatedly i ran away

a lot of it was done by talking. shite tali is a women's rights activist from delhi who supports victims of abuse she can find women new jobs or a new place to live but she can't give them justice. husbands who forced their wives to have sex with them are technically not breaking the law in india it is easy and the basis for this is the patriarchal tradition here a woman is viewed as the property of her father after she's married she becomes the property of her husband she has no autonomy she has to simply comply or she'll be beaten. the film lipstick under my burka addresses these issues it's about women's aspirations and their fears including being abused by their husbands. the film was initially banned in india after being censored by authorities the director says the film hit a little too close to home. but i do feel that.

there's a high level of. abuse if we've been we've been mad at you we didn't he should have thought someone different he would be mad and it becomes very difficult because you always toward the well get out. there could soon be another option the legal one india supreme court is due to hold a hearing on the issue the court recently ruled that sex with a wife who is under the age of eighteen is a crime but will this lead to marital rape being outlawed even at this respected and progressive women's university in delhi opinion is divided. many here say they would welcome a new law but others argue it could be misused. have seen many. women have utilized their rights for these dowdy is annoying in and they get their way and misused in physical intimidation something which is very near to a couple again it said. and of cause.

is highly important on the day of the hearing tali and a number of other women's rights activists have come to the delhi high court and. then the news that the session has been postponed to a later date but tali says that's not necessarily a bad sign. we have to be patient society is not going to change so quickly above all would have to stop is the belief that women are essentially men's property that won't happen overnight even with the new law. but it would be a step in the right direction. even if the supreme court takes its time with the ruling victims and activists campaigning for change are confident that it will ultimately make the right decision in women's favor. oh earlier we spoke with

correspondent sagna off on the car and she told us why it has been politically difficult in india to outlaw marital rape. well leaders of the ruling hindu nationalist party the b.g.p. have in recent years really rejected outright growing calls to automatically rape and they've argued that this is against the culture of the country they've argued this could destabilize the institution of marriage one indian law because that matter cannot be applied in the indian context because of factors like illiteracy poverty religious beliefs mindsets of the society that tend to treat marriage as a sacrament and the critics here have really slammed that position they say that by failing to criminalize marital rape the indian government is really ignoring an enormous problem in section by failing to protect its women from bodily abuse but of course of the same time i have to say that you know india it's far from being the only country to to grapple with this issue i mean let's not forget that not so

long ago there were countries in the west that criminalize medical rape in england for instance marital rape was criminalized in one thousand nine hundred one in germany it was only outlawed in one thousand nine hundred seven so if on the cover porting there earlier when i remind you of our main headline this hour german chancellor angela merkel and her conservatives have agreed on a blueprint for form a coalition to go she is with the social democrats the agreement paves the way for detailed negotiations to end the stalemate that has left germany without a new government since the elections last september all parties promised a fresh start for the country after difficult negotiations on sticking points including immigration taxation and germany's role in europe the social democrats must now get the green light for members for talks to continue. now nineteen different countries are set to take part at the winter olympics and challenge chang in february including plenty that you might not immediately associate with sports like skiing or ice hockey in taiwan one twenty three year old

merger is hoping that the upcoming games will help winter sports when some local popularity. yen teo and faces unusual challenges for a loser namely wrote traffic. the winter olympian trains on wheels rather than blades and on the road rather than the run time when he's climate isn't exactly conducive to excellence in winter sports but is unpaid by his disciplines local obscurity it was shown as anything else dictated by hope that the sport can be carried on and that taiwan can have people participating in each winter olympics hopefully more and more people. there's a lot more to lose than just lying down and he's keen to improve the disciplines profile in taiwan where winter events in general receive fairly little attention he believes that winter sports can establish themselves even in this unusual climate.

he might be one of the few taiwanese athletes to have qualified for pyong chang but if he gets his way there will be plenty of his countryman following in his tracks in the future. oh athletes have ernst overcome but laid a pass battle through more than most as a competitive rock climber he was named asian champion four times before an accident left him confined to a wheelchair but rather than give up late came through what he calls one of the lowest points in his life now he's become the first person from hong kong to be nominated for a loris world sports award honoring the best sportsmen and women of the year and here's why. limbering up to lift not only his body but also his wheelchair like she why was a champion rock climber until a car accident in twenty eleven left him paralyzed from the hip down but he wasn't

going to let that stop. the hong kong native has kept up his passion despite the extra challenges that come with being paraplegic by physical and logistical. i love rock climbing before there was a lot more freedom i could go to various indoor climbing spaces or if i wanted to i could go rock climbing outdoors i could do it whenever i wanted but now that i'm in a wheelchair i need to consider a lot of things is it appropriate for me to climb is it safe are people there to help me or he saw all there his greatest achievement came on the fifth anniversary of the crash when like klimt hong kong's lion rock scaling the summit of a mountain that reaches to almost five hundred metres. and saw a light nominated for the laureus sports awards and sums up his answer to towards life. i understood from a young age that you only get one chance at life so i didn't want to regret

anything. like she why hopes his story inspires other athletes with disabilities his triumph over adversity will surely see him reach even greater heights. inspirational all the second half of the bundesliga season kicks off on friday night in the opening match sees leverkusen face runaway leaders by an munich leverkusen are in fourth place and locked in a fierce battle for a champions league spot their fans will be hoping the home side can sure about the mighty bavarians and is certainly a youngster from jamaica could be just the player to cause an upset. he's only twenty but his career is taking off fast bailey has joined the young guns of laver cousin after a slow start with the club his speed and his goals have made the jamaican one of their most standout players. since of the nights in his short appearances it wasn't

like everyone was shouting at her ray but he didn't give up which is a really important quality he kept believing in his chance and worked on it he was always a total team player who puts himself at the service of the team in spite of all the public attention he gets. in these dozen thoughts and he needs them tough stand. still the winger from kingston hasn't had an easy path to the world's top leagues as a teenager bailey played in four different to european countries. that was after leaving his homeland with two friends at the tender age of thirteen. we didn't have so much money we had a budget sometimes would have to. be just. because we had a dream from we were very young he said his ultimate aim is to play in the premier league but before then daley wants to make it into the champions league with

leverkusen and more immediately to extend his team's twelve game unbeaten streak in the bundesliga by defeating by in munich on friday night. all right for more on the way because i'm buying match and the second half of the bundesliga season i'm joined now by tom donnelly from the new sports it's good to see you tom now leon bailey has impressed everyone but he can't do it by himself no certainly not but fortunately for him he's got a very good set of players alongside him up front with him is kevin folland who schooled as many goes this season in the bundesliga as any other german player and luckily for both of them they've got a brilliant coach now this is high go ahead it's first full season as coach at they've accused and. and what he's done really well is to learn from his predecessor's mistakes last year later accusing were very loudly slightly over ambitious basically they put themselves under a lot of pressure and when things started to go wrong they fell apart very quickly this year heiko hellish has brought

a bit more humility back to the club they've been doing some quiet hard work and really reaping the rewards all right well let's talk about by munich because their top striker robin down ski is out because of a minor injury who's going to step up that is going to be brand new signing sandra wagner who's just joined in the winter break for thirteen million euros from hoffenheim it's the first time actually that by and have really had a replacement for eleventh of ski for quite a long time they've been suffering whenever he's been out injured they haven't really had somebody who can come into the team and do what he does now there's a lot of pressure on sandra wagner to do what levon those guys because there aren't many players who can do it live in those he does wagner knows the club he came through the ranks at by and. he has been away for a long time those ten years since he left and he's thirty years old now so there are some people who have been you know doubting whether this was the right movies or prove them wrong straight away i don't have an eleven point lead is anybody going to catch up to them what eleven point lead that's an enormous cousin i mean

it's going to be incredibly difficult and to be honest i'm very uncontroversially i'm going to say probably no they can't because they're just too far ahead in terms of sport that in terms of the quality of their players. they're up you know they really are without competition basically in the news media they had a bit of a bad patch at the start of the season but since they got rid of colorado last so you remember your party is back. yeah they cleared up very quickly and very convincing me and i don't think there's much to suggest that they're going to folks are boring let's look at the bottom half of the table because that's where the nitty gritty and the and the fights will be taking place yeah that's right what i mean cologne i do something slightly boring this season they're so far just at the bottom of the table it must be a desperate time for their fans but you know they've had a winter break and they're coming back now this week and their first game is the rhine dalby against mentioned. i think we should try before we go into that very confidently because they've been performing quite well this season and cologne you know as i said most of the price and there's also shot against lots if this weekend

that's definitely a highlight shocker of had a pretty and start to the season and lots of that you know that's a very attacking team. that's what i'm definitely going to watch and it's not a good stuff just to watch this weekend thank you so much tonga noir from our sources greatly appreciate it. all right now i want to bring you some news some other stories of voting is underway in the czech republic and germany is hoping the results will lead to better relations with its neighbor this by the promise of a united europe east west full lines deepened in the last election the czech republic recently voted in a euro skeptical government critical of german migration policies but in the bizzare an ember heaney and four is the largest continuous forest area in central europe german and czech conservationists have found an issue that both countries agree on. powerful batch came here with the intention of doing research on black grouse hazel grouse and would grouse the shiny bugs live in the national parks on both sides of the check but that border. it's not hard overnight

so pava won't be able to find any of the its tracks. these species are disappearing from commercial woodland.