it is due to be a new life problem for elaine the czech presidential elections these things come front of me i should say not clinched the first friend but he failed to win a majority needed to avoid a runoff so checks will have to go to the polls again in two weeks time also calling on the. social democrats in an eastern german danger project entering a new coalition the chancellor angela merkel conservatives who called the day after party leaders agreed to begin formal coalition talks now that have to step up

efforts to win over the rank and file. on the phone as they get it back after its winter break romp inspired one last night that labor cruisin but whatever today's game will bring the typical. i'm on is on and thank you for joining us in the czech republic incumbent in the last day man has won the first rounds of the country's presidential election with nearly all of the ballots counted the progress and come to this garnered almost thirty nine percent of the votes that's far short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff he has faced the pro european counter this year is the draw us into a week's time. milosz they even was preparing to cast his vote when he was confronted by an activist from fame and. wouldn't put in slot she shouts and once

again as the focus of media attention just as he likes. the ice famine recently attacked the poll. also attacks 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 zaman. is even did not even bother to take part in the election debate instead his main rival. came out on top mainly because he is a respected as someone who cry academic contrast zeman. the czech president's popularity in the provincial districts has landed him first at the polls. ziman

connects with people in rural areas he polarizes paints the world in black and white and promises easy solutions it is classic populism. still zeman hasn't secured more than fifty percent of the vote in the end he'll face a runoff later this month. chairlift in willoughby is with us now from prague and explain why we lost a man appears to have been able to reach out and gain some with the poorest from rua voters. well there are some lights resent and so it's a kind of man of the people he trains he smokes he uses language and he seems to kind of enjoy me incorrect also when he attacks what he describes as the check or keep our brother liberal at least and that seems to play well with some people outside the capsule also in the czech republic this very low unemployment but

there's also a lot of mopane jobs here and it's people in those jobs especially in the countryside listens to you have targeted it also he plays on people's fears of migrants and particularly from muslim countries and nationals of say as we heard in the report but the politics that he pursued is really it is classic populism and he was one of the few european leaders who came out publicly in support of donald trump ahead of his presidency are ahead of his presidential when he was running for president rather at the end of twenty sixty so he's a catholic populist and he's aligned in fact a trump in the czech president's role though it's hardly a pheromone ia one but it also does have some power so what has the last name and accomplished it has thrice term. as you said the role is largely ceremonial but you just have some powers for example the top judges.

or members of the czech national bank but more settlements the breast ever directly back to check president and he's really done these up months to turn to extract the maximum political capital out of his wealth and he's going to very very active politically active presidents since he was elected five years ago and as he puts it he likes to. interpret the czech constitution in a creation of a way as for his accomplishments well he has reinforced ties with china or of western new warmer ties with china similarly with russia but i think these eastern anything in the last five years it has been to kind of divide should society as we know in one side these kind of nationalists who support him who are more inward looking perhaps a little bit eastward looking the other side of czech society or a more liberal and pro european. looking ahead to the second round how much of a favor i asked if he could be reelected. well he's less

a favorite now than he was before the first rounds he got thirty eight percent which is less he was expected to only opinion polls the second place candidate you should draw her he got twenty six and a half percent which doesn't seem so high but before the first round many of the other candidates the aren't and some apparently none seven hundred it's said publicly that they would support whoever got into the second round against and this evening they have reiterated their position they're all friends who go there and their combined support will be well over fifty percent so if their voters come out again and to leave and vote against march that we could be talking about the end of the career of one of the major politicians in the czech republic in the last forty five years or so but i would also say in closing that this is a man is a very very skilled little cooperation and i certainly wouldn't rule movements like this live on the ropes but i wouldn't room of completely. in that he's helping to

us there in practice for the. german chancellor angela merkel says she hopes to form a new government by early spring that's after her conservative reached agreement with the social democrats yesterday on launching form a coalition talks but there are still hurdles to overcome first many rank and file social democrats oppose another coalition with my party known as the grand coalition germany's foreign minister witnessed that births hand at a regional naysaying of the party in the eastern state of thaksin the on hotwire members voted against the coalition. now the social democrats big sales pitch is underway german foreign ministers and market real first stop to bang the drum for the grand coalition in front of skeptical party members. is bringing is always tough despite what many think governing with the conservatives is even

tougher because as you know we are very different from them we have different ideas that's clear on issues like tax social insurance and pensions for. many of the rank and file fear another grand coalition could threaten the species political future cabrio insisted they would not merely prop up merkel's conservatives. are we sure will become stronger if we don't try and make sure that stability returns to germany. don't we want to maintain the level of pensions would our voters see as logical to abandon governing. but among the party members here there are fears miracle's conservatives have pushed the s.p.d. around too much already one example the conservatives pushed ahead with plans for a motorway toll. then the conservatives came with the stupid roto plan and we let

them do it what do we have to show the route all is done in the conservatives are moving forward with this crap. which is missed because it's the leader of the party's youth wing hopes his s.p.d. peers will follow his lead and vote against another grand coalition. and to some of the other stories making news around the world. the new head. party has vowed to fight corruption and restore his party's reputation and the hotel with elected them or to replace president jacob zuma as head of the public fury of a crash scandal involving. rescuers have recovered the bodies of two more crew members from an iranian oil tanker burning off the choice is china's east coast since last week the blaze broke out after the time car collided with a cargo ship twenty nine crew members from the tanker are still unaccounted for.

firefighters in australia have been working to contain bushfires as the country experiences some of its highest temperatures in decades aircraft were deployed near the east coast of newcastle as the flames threatened the air force there have been no reports so far of any human casualties. and french president emanuel mcallen have called for the french big guest to be recognized as one of the world's cultural treasures mccrone proposed adding the golden cross to a close to the unesco list of world heritage traditions thing french begets and feet around the world. well the point is they get is back after it's winter break so let's take a look at the results so far from botched eighteen by in one on friday while today hoffenheim suffered a blow in a droll braman find for true with freiburg and beat. over then base of mind

three two and took our hasta life they are missing in the late game and there are two games on sunday we'll turn to the point to take a table now and in the top half of the standings we can see by and powering ahead at the top and the big winners of the day as they move up to seventh turning to the bottom half on hanover rise to tenth would have volves brick slipping back. it is a case of business as usual for buy and friday's win at leverkusen having martinez go by and off to a flyer in the thirty second minute after frank gregory made it to nail every his and then pulled one back for a spectacular free kick from home as their treat gays made it three one and sealed the points for by himself keep them on track for a direct words six consecutive title. wealth

small but possibly a significant step forward for women's rights in the gulf region for the first time ever women in saudi arabia have been allowed to enter a stadium and watch life football women turn dates in force last nice for a game in the city of jeddah the excitement in and around the stadium was palpable young saudi girls excited at going to watch the football a normal sight in most countries. but their mothers and grandmothers didn't have the privilege in a nation to tourist for its hugely restrictive stance on women's rights. yet on friday in the western city of jeddah women were allowed to attend the football much for the first time. many marked the occasion with a message on a special wall. in sight they took one of ten thousand seats allocated as a special family section and ready to cheer on local favorites. i'm happy to be at

this event and i congratulate the women and girls and families who entered the stadium and were happy because we're fans and were cheering for a team they weren't disappointed the result was a thumping five nil win for the home side. afterwards there were selfies to capture the moment one which many saudi women feel is long overdue but i had this decision should have been made a long time ago but thank god that it came at the right time and hopefully what's to come is even better for women with the lifting of the following a similar one on driving it looks like saudi women are on route to a more liberal era. of the first baby panda to be born in france has made his public to period a very safe of paris the quickly five month old is named one may which means making a dream come true they cope with already sensation. seems like that's a young one still has to practice this kind of skills. maybe it's better to stay on

the ground for the time being. the five year old bells debuted francis attracted a lot of attention. he was never has an animal gotten as much media coverage and never has and won him open followed as much on social media. and front of the big audience he has absolutely no feel. if. it. were in both if he didn't she won't is a touching huge one it's a joy it's even better than that and on its feet it really makes us happy. thing felt really good it's touching if you will with one. of the world is full of challenges. but maybe mum can help out.

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