this is news live from berlin at this year's grammy awards in new york a white rose was the fashion accessory of the evening for. her. confronting sexual harassment in the recording industry it was a night of politics and music on the awards front the ceremony belonged to bruno mars he took home six grammys also coming up. the latest in a series of attacks in the afghan capital at least eleven soldiers killed as jihad a strike near a military academy in the capital kabul the so-called islamic state claims

responsibility. plus a shocking report that german automaker's funded diesel emissions tests on humans raises more disturbing questions about the country's car industry. also coming up handball gets a new european champion at the final in south grabbed spain at sea off sweden to lift their first ever title in the european competition. i'm sumi so much gonna thank you for joining us the stars of the music biz a descended on new york city for the industry's annual grammy awards the surprise winner of the night was bruno mars who beat out tough competition the likes of jay z. and kendrick lamar to take home six awards but music wasn't the only item on the bill following the lead of the golden globes many participants and attendees wore white roses. as

a visible show of solidarity to the times up movement confronting sexual misconduct in show business. swept the grammys this year with six wins including record and album of the year for twenty four k. magic and song of the year for that's what i like he gave a heartfelt speech as he accepted his award and you know those songs are written with nothing but joy and one reason and for one reason only and that's love and that's all i want to bring with this album hopefully i can feel that again and see everybody dancing and everybody moving but it's miles went into orbit rappers kendrick lamar and jay z. were left down on earth leaving the hip hop community without a win in the coveted album of the year award the man had to take consolation in just five prices for his album down and single humble but this year music wasn't the only thing center stage with sexual misconduct allegations rocking other areas of the entertainment business music industry figures showed solidarity for the

times up and me to campaigns by wearing white roses and pop singer catcha who has spoken out about being a survivor of sexual abuse herself deliver top powerful ballad praying. sing a gentleman a gave a rousing speech that pulled no punches silence us we offer you to our times. the we say times that the pay inequality times up for discrimination time's up for harassment of any cause and time's up for the abuse of power because you see it's not just going on in hollywood it's not just going on in washington it's right here in our industries where these grammys were all about women raising their voices to call time on sexual abuse. you have in this culture reporter mark s. that are was following the grammys for us hi mark it was sold out. to you from the

grammys in new york well i think it said in that report cashes performance which was highly initially charged was a real con a show stopper really in a very glamorous event. it was also made very special by the fact that she was flanked by the resistance revival chorus group of women including celebrities such as cindy door and andra day who were lending their voice to back her up also very controversial because the herself was involved in a dispute now a protracted defamation suit with her former producer dr luke so that was a real really key moment but then outside of the venue you two were performing on a floating podium a barge in the hudson river echoes of the clash and london calling on the thames perhaps but also politically charged in its very direct voice against donald trump so caught up to extremely sort of political performance political performance the surprise of the evening i suppose it was we were talking about earlier is bruno

mars sweeping sweeping the board the six awards six awards and it was also kind of unexpected because the old song the smart money was on kendrick lamar and jay z. jay z. didn't take anything home. of course managed just of clutch a few awards but kind of a surprise that pretty amazing to see jay z. go home with no words from the grammys and what about germany there was an award for germany in that i was indeed kraftwerk craft who won the best dance electronic album i mean to paraphrase the one of their well known hits they're the models and they're looking good with such a when they've had a fantastic time since they sort of pioneered alec tronic music in the seventy's and eighty's and one of the few bands that have really broken out of germany's borders to get worldwide acclaim sellout shows of the last four or five years and this album is a collection of some of those live performance moments so as a night as. liberating music and the stars of the music industry but it was really

those white roses that seem to stand out from the night i think that's absolutely true i mean i think you could almost dubbed these the meet to awards rather than the grammys i mean it was a really powerful show of strength from all of these women and some men who were sporting these white race is a powerful symbol. the people who organized the white roses for the evening called it a symbol of hope peace sympathy and resistance but it was also of course a symbol of the white rose resistance movement against the nazis in the thirty's for purity and innocence in the face of evil whichever way you look at it it's a useful it's a useful way of bringing attention to a subject that is hotly discussed at the moment in the entertainment industries and i think really what we need to think about is women in entertainment and the music industry in particular is in the grammys that there aren't enough women behind the scenes in the more powerful positions with the labels with publishing and of course produces it's hard to think of people who are strong women at the moment too who

really need to be there to make a difference reporter mark s. been following the grammys for us thank you mark. now at least eleven soldiers have been killed in afghanistan after gunmen attacked a military academy in the capital kabul were port say there was a gun battle between insurgents and soldiers at the base after one of the attackers blew himself up some fifteen soldiers were wounded authorities say the jihadist did not manage to enter the military academy the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack the third in couple in recent days and earlier we spoke to look full out not just the head of tolo news t.v. in afghanistan we asked him why kabul was coming under so many attacks. two reasons one is because the united states. president trying to get up as there was a new policy. which means more pressure on pockets on the taleban and they are seriously trying to resist second is that we are in just went two years. meaning

that there is less fighting more pressure. like kabul and this is certainly not a new trend but this year we see more of the one today which will. be a bomb and the one two days ago which killed a border collie people in central kabul now to some other stories making news around the world paris is on alert for flooding today as the river saying swelled to four meters above its usual levels the river of flowing through the french capital reached five point eight four meters this morning the water levels are not expected to begin receding before tuesday after weeks of heavy rain hit the area regional authorities say the floods have already caused damage in a number of towns. finland's president sally who has been reelected in a landslide victory that saw him receive sixty two percent of the vote in the first

round avoiding a runoff the former finance minister has been a highly popular president since he took office in two thousand and twelve he ran as an independent with no affiliation to the conservative national coalition party he once chair and ten western tourists have been charged in cambodia with producing pornographic images they were arrested after pictures emerged of people imitating sex acts at a party in a resort town. you're watching news still to come in the philippines some ninety thousand people have now fled the area around the active my own volcano fear of a major eruption that's triggered the exodus but conditions and relief camps are close to a crisis point. and a new european handball champion spain down sweden dramatic final in zagreb on sunday. but first some a shocking new revelations in the diesel the mission's emissions scandal kristoff troubling news indeed sumi reports a german car makers commissioned

a test that exposed humans to a hazardous gas found in diesel fumes another set up saw twenty five healthy young people inhaling nitrogen dioxide in various amounts over several hours in a study funded by carmakers falsifying environment and the industry is already facing mounting pressure over the future of the diesel technology including possible inner city bans now it's confronted with another p.r. crisis how do you like my new car isn't days old they're all saying in two thousand and fourteen this v.w. commercial set out to prove just how clean diesel was with the help of a white scarf they out clean it is around the same time twenty five healthy young people were taking part in a series of tests for several hours a few times a week they had to breathe in the pollutants nitrogen dioxide the tests were commissioned by the european research group on environmental health a body funded by come a could see b.w. dime led b.m.w.

and pumped supply ambush and the results were a relief nitrogen dioxide the study concluded had no negative effects on people an all clear for diesel and a snub to the world health organizations research its conclusion was rather different namely that diesel emissions cause camps of the human tests are a new low point for comic has they fully revelations last week that monkeys were forced to inhale cull fumes in two thousand and fourteen. something v.w. has since apologized for in two thousand and fifteen the emissions scandal showed v.w. had spent years manipulating its vehicles nitrogen dioxide output become a cat had hoped to leave all that behind it but these latest revelations suggest that that is unlikely any time soon. now for more of the story there are a growing is from d.w. scions joins me in the studio wacom very good to have you why would carmakers want to know how to nitrogen how much nitrogen dioxide is actually hazardous to people

how much they can inhale before they get sick is this no one already well obviously it's not that nitrogen dioxide and high concentrations is very toxic it's a poison and certain certain groups of certain professions are actually endangered by it and but but the problem is the whenever you run into health issues like this it's a question of what are we all exposed to on a general level on a daily level and when you get into into lower concentrations then things become tricky at what point does something really become dangerous for your health and of course you've got on the one high side you've got health regulators like the w.h.o. trying to regulate and decide who is who is who's in danger and how much is bad for us and on the other side you have industries for example the car industry saying. more is better because that means they're going to be able to produce cars more cheaply right when the car industry funded this started this controversial study the results were there was no harm but the head of the organisation a did the study

said the results were only partially significant for example because they couldn't be applied to the entirety of the population well that's that's true i mean if you if you in any test in any testing situation any case study like this if you take twenty five healthy young adults and you submit them to particular levels of a gas that you know in high concentrations is toxic they're obviously going to have it's not. the effects that it's going to have on them are not going to be the same as it's going to have on an eighty year old it's become very very clear that nitrogen dioxide even in lower concentrations can pose a health risk and for it for things like lung disease and asthma there's no question about that but the question is is where are those levels and other responses study of the revelation that humans were using it has been damning we have a german government spokesman saying that emissions tests on animals monkeys for that matter and people are in no way justifiable and obviously there's an ethical

point here i mean should people and potentially toxic gas for scientific reasons this is this is you have to that's kind of the only way to make process progress and in a situation like this you're going to have to eventually look at what does this do to to a human being for me the bigger ethical question here was not really what happened with the humans because they were informed probably about what was going on in the test and they they they made a decision that even went through an ethics committee in germany which had the final say on whether or not it would be able to be conducted the test with the monkeys is for me a much worse test to shut up a monkey in a in an airtight chamber with a v.w. and let it run for four hours that for me is almost even a bigger ethical dilemma now funding for these tests came from big corporations b w dialer b.m.w. will these revelations change anything in the way research is done. whenever you have opposing interests industry and health organizations you're going to you're

going to have these kinds of problems it's not something that's going to be resolved overnight especially the question of how much gas is how much of this nitrogen gas is is bad for us is not going to be resolved even now even though we have evidence that it isn't good for us because the problem is is that we like our cars and internal combustion engines in particular diesels produce it in large amounts the question of how we deal with that is suspect a. the longer term whether we move to mobility or other options is one that has to be addressed both by society and by this industry there are growing them from v.w. science thank you so much. philippines president rodriguez has visited all bay province where tens of thousands of people have been displaced by an active volcano mount my own has been objecting lava and ash for the last two weeks now geologists say it may have a major eruption within days. the philippines most active volcano

is at it again for weeks now mount my own has been spewing a white hot cocktail of gas and volcanic debris down its flanks complicating matters nonstop brain is mixing with the volcanic ash and rock that's resulted in fast moving much flows which have damaged roads and could potentially sweep away entire settlements. more than eighty thousand residents have fled their homes and are living in temporary shelters which are quickly getting overcrowded food in others the pines remain adequate but concerns are growing over health and hygiene conditions. i mean really it's going to hurt if people want to help us i hope they give us water because it's so hard to get that here and it's not enough we have to wait in line here. authorities have cordoned off a nine kilometer danger zone around mt my own but that hasn't stopped defiant

farmers from tending to crops and livestock that they depend on for their livelihoods and. whole villages are living in evacuation centers sometimes they go back to be hard to feed their animals and then they return to the evacuation centers. life at the moment. the government is bracing for a possible three month long emergency in the areas around my own more rain is forecast for the coming week. at the beginning of the china banned almost all imports of plastic waste from abroad china was not only the world's biggest producer of plastic products it was also importing millions of tons of plastic waste for recycling beijing gave only six months warning it was going to impose the ban and that left countries scrambling to find alternatives to sending their plastic garbage to trying to our report now looks at the impact of all that waste from abroad on china. these chinese children have little to look forward to each

day they spend most of their waking hours between plumes of smoke and mountains of plastic. their families are now livelihoods by sorting waste these scenes are from a chinese documentary. one too long spent many years filming small chinese garbage dumps he was haunted by what he witnessed. the way it was i have a daughter of my arm i couldn't bear to see her grow up in such a horrible environment some of these children have been surrounded by garbage since they were born i don't want kids living in rubbish every day. this is the dark side of the recycling business. these families sorting the trash are exposed to numerous health hazards including toxic fumes and harmful substances some of the children here don't go to school. what's not recycled often ends up elsewhere in the landscape polluting the groundwater as

a result animals. some of the mountains of garbage catch fire. pretty creative the stench here is horrible it's almost impossible to bear. but what else can we do. with the air is no good the water is. the only thing that's good is the money. while shooting his film. one to learn made another discovery most of the garbage comes from overseas. so for a while one day for my research i was at a massive garbage dump and had a province when i took a closer look i saw the packaging from the u.s. japan germany france and i realized that i was looking at the garbage dump it put the entire world. until the beginning of the year more than half of the world's

ways to insult to china when also shot footage in the us where waste was the six largest export to china germany has also been exporting several hundred thousand tons of plastic waste and to the far east. but now in an effort to protect the environment and its own population china says it no longer buys so-called foreign waste. your hard to. shop this is good for the environment. and it is urgent a needed. of course it will also lead to a laugh over all materials such as paper and plastic. now china itself is producing too much waste but environmental awareness is increasing modern recycling and incineration plants are being built in many locations as a result other countries are stuck with twenty four types of waste banned from

import to china. before there was and there i would see how that countries such as germany britain the us all the european union should all think about how to solve their waste problems. instead of relying on the world market and simply export water to treat it. when jay leno also sees change many of the recycling plants he visited have since been shut down the filmmaker says the conditions at this garbage sorting facility in beijing are satisfactory. meanwhile his film has won several international awards for one to learn the import ban is good news and will contribute to solving china's environmental problems. we also hope that people in industrialised countries will see the facts and hear the truth are off film and that they give more attention to this issue. lang lang is no longer allowed to show

his film on china's strictly controlled internet but he's convinced his work has contributed to a positive change in china's ways to related activities. and we have more on that story on our website. fit to handball now and spain have been crowned european champions after defeating sweden it was the fifth time lucky for the spaniards after losing four previous finals they had to fight hard and dig deep for the title here's what happened. sweden played a fast paced game just as they had in the semifinal against denmark and they got off to the better start with a strong performance from goalkeeper mikhail apple again and fast counterattacks making it six for i but spain stayed composed changing up their attack and were only two goals behind at half time then the experience spaniards turned the match around far right davi by their hair making it twenty fifteen and at the back keeper

are part stab it was hard to beat i the swedes were lacking the strength to stand up to the aggressive spaniards in the second half with their passing errors leading to many easy goals for spain the final score twenty nine twenty three sweden went down in defeat. and after losing four previous finals spain were finally the european handball champions. to sunday's bundestag at matches and leverkusen took on mines hoping to solidify their second place thought in the standings they've been one of the surprises this season here's how they did. patience was the main with again flavor cues and coach heiko hellacious his side struggle to make any impact in a frustrating first half of the parents minds happy to sit back and disparage after captain bender went close because the lhari his head was as good as it got for the

hosts before the break. maybe accusing needed something special make of it from a familiar source leon bailey curling in from twenty yards out as a goal of the season the jamaican like his team just can't stop scoring at the moment bailey's effort was so good following a union branch try to carbon copy but without the same success. no matter because the three points were secured midway through the heart formulate accusing man julio's n.r.t. filed a lower rio in the box penalty when dealt with the rest from the spot to me finish maybe cruisin hold on to second place. sunday second match so local rivalry as had over involves squared off and over went into the match with plenty of confidence but also were determined to spoil their rivals after new. kind over as nicholas for

the club has been red hot lately and the home faithful were ready to see him take it to the whole sport defense and he got his chance when pearman straggler took a corner in the thirty fourth minute. so thrilled tried to head home but the ball deflected off victor or siemens head and wide of the net. and over also wasted other chances and full support made them pay eunice molly firing a rocket from about thirty yards out one of these shot had so much firepower that philip chona had no chance of stopping it. in the waning minutes hanover pushed for the equaliser but could only send it crashing into the woodwork i could tell billy's forward unlucky after some pinball in the bus and that's how it ended hanover wastes the opportunity to ns closer to the european spots while both sport put some much needed space between themselves and the relegation zone. the

international paralympic committee has announced that russia will be barred from participating at the chuang winter paralympics in march the i.p.c. announcement was made on monday in vaughan but they were going to zation did say it would allow some us thirty five clean russian athletes to compete as neutrals a similar policy has already been implemented by the i.o.c. for the upcoming winter olympics russia was banned from competing after allegations of state sponsored doping dating back to the two thousand and fourteen sochi winter olympics. a reminder now of our top stories that we're following pop singer bruno mars has swept the grammys winning six awards but white roses were the recurring theme many stars displaying them in a show of solidarity against a sexual misconduct and a shocking report that german automakers may have funded diesel emissions tests on humans raises more disturbing questions about the country's current history.

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