but everyone has the right. everyone has the right to show. business d.w. news live from that in the czech presidential election season incumbent tamil notions they manage clinched the first round but he failed to win a majority needed to avoid a runoff that means the czechs will have to go to the polls again in two weeks time . those are coming up. after months of dead not a gemini maybe on the russian forming

a new government chancellor i'm going to moscow says the coalition could be in place by easter evidence only if social democratic leader malcolm shalit can win over his skeptical members. and the voters they get is back off to its winter break ground and buying one last night at lady goosing but what about today's game covering you all the results. on how to humphrey thanks for joining me in the czech republic incumbent diminish as a man has won the first round of the country's presidential election now with nearly all of the ballots counted the pro russia candidate is gone and almost thirty nine percent of the vote but that's far short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff and he will face the pro european candidate yes he's a harsh in two weeks' time. milosz they even was preparing to cast his vote when he

was confronted by an activist from fame and not good to put in slot she shouts and once again semen is the focus of media attention just as he likes. the ice famine recently attacked the poll i am on or that they also attacked me. zeman is used to making headlines he's aimed at journalists with a fake rifle railed against refugees called for an end to sanctions on russia and there's no one to indulge in worldly pleasures. i'm voting for the man because he's against migrants and he's a good man. i just hope the next president would be like zuma. is even did not even bother to take part in the election debate instead his main rival e.g. dropoffs came out on top mainly because he is a respected if somewhat its right academically contrast to zeeman. but the czech

president's popularity in the provincial districts has landed him at the polls. ziman connects with people in rural areas he polarizes paints the world in black and white and promises easy solutions his class any populism. is. still is even hasn't secured more than fifty percent of the vote in the first round he'll face a runoff later this month. and journalist in whatever is with us now from prague and explain to us why manish is the man appears to have been able to reach out and gain support from rural voters. there are some on like street present himself and some out of the people he drinks he slopes uses vulgar language he also likes to attack what he calls the liberal elites and that seems to play well with voters outside the capital also in the czech republic there is very low unemployment but

there's also a lot of low paid employment and it's these people especially outside right in the countryside with low paying jobs that he seems to be a human issue he also plays on fears of migrants specially. muslim countries and i think essentially as we heard in your report what he does is classic populism and i should point out that he was one of the few e.u. leaders who publicly back donald trump when he was running for election in the u.s. who likes to kind of align himself with from the right so we're talking about classic populism as you say that he paints himself as a man of the people the czech president's role however is largely ceremonial with some palla what has is a man managed to achieve in his first ten. the role is largely ceremonial and has some powers for example a kind of or a pointer or other judges or governors of the of the czech national bank bus

mr simon is the first ever directly elected czech president and he is really stretch the role to be diminished of what he can do as president he really tries to take maximum political advantage from what he can do under the constitution he says that he has a creative interpretation of the constitution as for what is a compass points are well he has reinforced ties with russia you can call it an accomplishment he's also strengthened ties with china but i think more than anything what he's done in his five years as president has been to divide check society allow these two lines of pro pro e.u. road west or looking more to the east all right well in light of that division then and looking ahead to the second round how much of a favorite is say to be reelected. well he's less of a favor going to was before today's first round of they vote because he got under forty percent he got thirty nine percent which is

a lot less than opinion polls gave him his nearest rival unusual for. him he got twenty six or twenty seven percent and pryor his liberal councillor proly prior to today's vote a number of liberal candidates came out and said that they would support any liberal who got through to the second round and if all of their supporters go to the polls in chile it's time to vote against there are some and they would have a combined total of something like this these four percent of the of the of supporter of balls in the second round so if that actually happens what we're looking at i think could be the end of our cell and he's been one of the dominant politicians here in the czech republic and was ninety nine period but it looks like his days could be numbered unless we can stage a fight back in the next few weeks in willoughby in prague thanks a lot. german chancellor i'm going to moscow says she hopes to form a new government by early spring that's all for conservatives reached an agreement

with the social democrats yesterday on launching formal coalition talks there are still some hurdles to overcome first many rank and file social democrats opposed another coalition with merkel's party known as a grand coalition jamey's foreign minister witnessed that first hand as a regional meeting of the party in the eastern state of saxony and. after the marathon talks the social democrats big sales pitches underway german foreign minister signaled gabriele first stop to bang the drum for the grand coalition in front of skeptical party members yen is zero musicianship and governing is always tough in contrast to what many believe governing with the conservatives is even tougher because as many of you know we are very different from them we have different ideas that's evident in issues such as tax social insurance and pensions many in the rank and file fear another grand coalition could threaten the species political future gabriele insisted they would not merely prop up miracles

conservatives didn't create it but soit are we sure that we will become stronger if after the failure of previous coalition talks we do not want to ensure that stability returns to germany. do we not want to keep the stability of the tensions that. is in fear does not a logical argument that our voters will understand english of. it is one the party members in the room have trouble understanding with no shortage of opponents to a grand coalition here there's concern that the party has been pushed around for too long. in peak of emotion but when the conservatives came with their stupid road toll plan and we let them do it what do we have to show them the road toll is done and the conservatives are moving forward with this crap that's the leader of the party's youth wing is one of those hoping that the majority of his party peers agree with him next week and vote against another grand coalition. oh i mistaken

have not some of the other stories making news around the world the new head of south africa's ruling a.n.c. bosses cyril ramaphosa has vowed to fight corruption and restore his policies reputation as it was elected in december to replace president jacob zuma as head of the sea made public fury over groff scoundrels and moving zuma. rescuers have recovered the bodies of two more crew members from an iranian oil tanker burning off china's east coast since last week the blaze broke out after the tanker collided with a cargo ship twenty nine crew members from the time on accounted for. firefighters in australia have been working to contain a bushfire as is the country experiences some of its highest temperatures in decades aircraft were deployed near the east coast city of new cars sold as the flames flattened the airport have been no reports so far of any human casualties.

and french president to manually michael has called for the french begets to be recognised as one of the walls of cultural treasures michael proposed adding the golden crusted loaves to the nest a list of world heritage traditions saying french baguettes are and indeed around the world. now the bundesliga is back off its winter break and i'm joined in the studio now by audie moody from v.w. sports to take us through the weekend action once again ali good to see you. how relieved are you that the good his league is back in action oh absolutely relieved and i mean it was a shorter winter break than we had last year because of the upcoming woke up but it still felt like and it's a phrase bathers back for it well i just want to take a look now at the results so far because we've got by and winning on friday waller today hoffenheim suffered a blow when actual at became in frankfurt jury with fibro and beat hamburg.

three two in a cracker and got edged how-to lights they can shout a meeting in the late game and neither are two games on sunday. well you back over see that what piqued your interest in that little lot well firstly getting back with a bang not by and leverkusen game last friday night for goes and it's always good season goes when you're just coming out of the winter break sort of blow away the cobwebs a bit but also as we as you just said crack between minds no one really expects about to be quite so exciting. want to weigh all season taking it to go late how to reeling them back in with nickels full crude scoring a hat trick that really good game in that one and we also saw hoffenheim dropping points in the battle for european places athens as well one of the goals of the season with nicklaus stock of hezbollah and putting through his arnette to give a win if you didn't see that one live i definitely recommend that you check in with

the bundesliga on the twenty three sixteen u.t.c. it's all that and that's just touch and hoffenheim them because they slipped up with that tool what do you think it's going to mean and for that to see if one of the top four spots i think they're really going to struggle you know the up against a lot of big teams in that battle you've got dortmund leipzig leyva couzin as well glad to have qualified for the champions league in recent years they've all kind of underperformed so far this season and you'd expect at least a couple of them to really pick up the guy in the back half of the season on top of that often have just lost a third player to buy in to transfer windows with under wagner the striker moving by and you wouldn't be surprised if the mood is a bit down there having lost a really good goalscorer like that so i think you're not going is really going to have to pull something out the back if hoffenheim going to finish in the top four all right any big these events in the table so far this weekend we've got a couple of movements but really it's just to make the league even more so if we can take a look at the table on the screen now we'll see the bye and of course our why ahead

in the in the table way out of the top of the lake shouted just below them and below that we've got eighteen. separated by just a couple of points race for european places that we're talking about is so tight and all the teams that i've just been talking about as well it's going to be really interesting to see who can get ahead and whether they can then stay ahead for the rest of the season but we could see it changing on a weekly basis pretty much and it's a similar story down at the bottom of the table if we take a look at their cologne way out at sea at the bottom the table they look like they're relegated already but above that we've got six teams separated by just five points so it's going to be very tight it's going to be almost like a different team every week is in crisis so although the top and bottom places like set in stone there's still a lot for the fans to keep themselves interested fabric of the season and of course last night we had my own winning three one by eleven and i want your take on not

much would you make that same old buy in isn't it you know what a lot of teams are in flux this season by and just keep on being by and you know they took a two goal lead and not one with the goals from martinez and ribeiro did get paid back by having fallen back as so often is the case by had enough to get and cross the line with thomas with restoring the two goal lead and securing the victory. the last time they actually want to live because it was find me is a god and the coach back then was your plan because. it's just back to the good old days basically from buying at the moment your point is just knows how to win with that c.b. fits them like a glove he does all the midi from d. w. sports thanks a lot for joining us. now the first baby founded to be born in france has made his public debut at a zoo south of paris the cuddly five month old is named one man which means the realisation of a wish or accomplishment all the tree now you're on will be sent to a chinese pandarus when his wings are in two or three years time and of us a

closely watched because they remain rather only around two thousand pandas while white. and her mind in our top story we're following for you in the czech republic incumbent is a man has won the first round of the country's presidential election populist comet almost thirty nine percent of the vote that was not enough to win outright he'll face the pro european candidate if you get out in two weeks' time. and also using. the whole g w one. for been focused global insights on the news out for local euros. a double made for mines.