i am. sure this is from clashes between migrants in a leave several critically injured french police plain organized gangs for the violence which a top official calls on president of the port city is a long time magnet for migrants trying to cross over to the u.k. . also coming up saving the children of so-called islamic state fighters who follow on that hoping to retrieve his grandson from an iraqi prison and save him from

a childhood behind bars. disappointing results out today for germany's biggest bank more than half a billion girls in losses so what is going on at the country's largest lender. will bring you a special report from inside the latest flashpoint region in the syrian civil war we'll take you on the ground in our freedom to meet the people caught up in the fighting and the mothers and during a daily battle to protect their children from joining the ever growing list of casualties. plus how popular are german chancellor angela merkel's new coalition plans a week and heads into make or break government building talks this week as a new poll suggests less than half of german support her attempt to join forces once again with the social democrats. i'm still me so. thank you for joining us french police have sent extra officers to

the northern port city of colombia after clashes broke out between migrants more than twenty people were injured in the violence at least four are in critical condition with gunshot wounds police say the clashes broke out between afghans and eritrean migrants waiting for food handouts authorities are blaming organized gangs for the unrest no word rests have been made so far the french interior minister visited the scene on thursday night he said the violence in which serves as a gateway to britain was unprecedented. i've come to cover because what we've experienced is of exceptional gravity. to the number of injuries five people were very seriously injured by bullets including four migrants who are in critical condition. we can say that we've reached a degree of violence here that we've never experienced before could. you

correspondent standing by for us in calais with the latest on the story good to see you so tell us what you've been seeing and hearing there. well coming here on my way from brussels to calais of course of bit of business as usual you still have a microphones waiting to hop on that is in the next truck to get via the haba and then what the ferry into the u.k. on the on the other side i'm not not far from the place where the shooting took place now you still have a lot of makeshift camps you still have a lot of migrants refugees waiting to be fed by international organizations there's been just some soup handed out and if you talk to people let's take a look at the site here with the some elektra's city places this is basically an industrial site full of makeshift camps in fact the decision by the government to stop any of the big cams has created micro cams all over the industrial sites

of calais and we mentioned there that authorities are blaming organized gangs are for this on russ what more can you tell us about that. exactly well i talked to a number of the people here who of course say you know they're desperate the pressure by the police is increasing by the day and they said on the other hand they are facing organized gangs who are basically. half their territories where people are they they they control way you can hop on a truck and someone might and put it to me said look this is where the violence comes from we come in peaceful means we are desperate we left our countries flee from while and what we now find is cold we have to struggle to find food we have to struggle to find shelter and then we find violent gangs here in this side there's a lot of ethiopians and many of them complains that it's afghan gangs who are creating violence garrick you mentioned that the french government had closed the

jungle camp that was the large camp and now these many camps have sprung up what has gone wrong with the authorities approach. mostly the hard hand of the brooch that the government has tried over while bonus to state decades now has not worked out you know the concern of the government is that any form of official refugee camp would be a pull factor about of course the people the real pull factor here is that people want to cross into the u.k. and as long as they can do that they are ready and willing to come here and i talked to them today and they said still people are making it across and seeing that it's now a many said it's getting tougher and tougher throughout europe to find a place they've tried switzerland they've tried germany they fly to other places in fronts here and see that they can still make it in the u.k. that is the factor that is pulling them and of course if they have no shelter if

they have no food that does not help the met a number of them said look this this even creates a crisis moot if you are starving. and you're trying to get somewhere but it doesn't help at all it is this sort of ha ha ha ha tended approach of the got french government that has also led to the situation we're facing now. garrett reporting with the very latest for us from garrick thank you. now to children living in a world of terror and violence boys and girls growing up under the brutal rule of the so-called islamic state in the middle east some were born there others were brought over by parents who joined fighters as the jihadists lose ground what happens to their children we follow a german man who is trying to rescue his grandson it is a journey into the unknown the man who has asked us to call him to bring him his own routine iraq he wants to bring back his grandson who was born and i as

territory and is now held in prison together with his parents. children aren't responsible for their parents do definitely not the children suffer months or years in prison this is unnecessary and funny cide in the abbey and he had straight to the german consulate. the plot of assault according to the iraqi government i will be able to stay here for a week and spend time with a child every day so he can get used to me. by this kid honestly given. in the past weeks germany's government has been making efforts to bring back children of german i.a.s. reporters for humanitarian reasons iraqi officials support this move there are dozens of cases some even involving older children the question is could they pose a threat in the eyes of the islamic state they were future fighters security

officials have issued warnings. and of the fastest user can second are there is a risk that these children come back brainwashed that they are ordered to carry out attacks so we have to consider that these children could be ticking time bombs eunice's putting can on them david let's have munden come to the knesset kind of these children aren't perpetrate as they have victims in the first place victims of the circumstances and of their parents who brought them into a war zone and exposed them to indoctrination so it also doesn't stop. parents such as those incarcerated in iraqi prisons reporters from german broadcasters and the avidity and the daily newspapers the dutch its title were able to meet with three german women and their nine small children one lady agreed to an interview. on the do you look at i.a.s. critically by now. that's almost you don't want to comment on that instead

of talking about the terrorist groups atrocities she preferred to discuss her children who she wants to go to germany we have altered her appearance in this drawing. this is one that's six zero there are a hundred and six women and children living together in a room that is roughly one hundred square metres there's only one toilet and not a square meter is empty. there are matches is everywhere and most children a sick i mean they play with awful cats they collect bottle caps and use them to play with speeding. back to ybor him he's the first family member who with the help of the german government is able to bring a child of i.a.s. members back to germany on the condition of a d.n.a. test he saw the taller in prison twice before taking charge of him the child's mother agreed to or son's departure he is fourteen months old now and apart from stories he didn't know his grandpa at all now he has received his german passport and is allowed to board the plane it remains to be seen how his past will affect

him in the future all he knows is war and prison. he will be examined by doctors in germany i think with love and compassion you can succeed in anything but. the grandfather has brought in friends and family to help his grandson settle in and turn a victim of bias terror into a survivor. now to some other stories making news around the world a man who deliberately drove into a group of muslims in london has been jailed for a minimum of forty three years and was convicted of killing one man after plowing a van into worshipers near finsbury park mosque in june of last year the judge said osborn was motivated by hatred. russians have been marking the seventy fifth anniversary of the red army's victory at stalingrad a military parade was held in the city known today as volgograd the battle between

the soviet union and nazi germany it's considered a turning point of world war two. and crowds in the maldives have celebrated after the country's top court overturned the convictions of several opposition leaders including the former president mohamed nasheed he is in exile in sri lanka and vows to run again for the office the court ordered a retrial of the lawmaker saying the guilty verdict had been influenced by the government. at least ninety people are feared drowned in the mediterranean sea after a boat capsized three people are known to have survived while ten bodies have been found on beaches in libya it is thought that most of those on board were from pakistan they would have already undertaken a long overland route to get to libya people smugglers continue to operate out of libya although the number of migrants crossing to europe has dropped since the e.u. pressured authorities there to crackdown let's bring in an investigative journalist who has been following the story need joins us on the line from doha now

the thank you for being with us first of all what more can you tell us about this boat and the people on it. it's largely assumed that migrants who are the illegal migrants were travelling. on the sunken boat. or the. pakistanis who were employed in north african countries since the economy started to. take them brunt of the british a situation and violence they wanted to escape to do the european countries and they're largely they were from libya and tunisia that's what is assumed that are going gesture in the saga is that there have been some too much marketing wreckage that have been operating bringing people all the way to daunt to africa and taking those boats with other. african.

strugglers to turn to europe that's what we know so far that's a fairly new development in that pakistani refugees are on the move what are the main reasons that are people are leaving pakistan for europe. for a large number of people employed in the north african countries and they don't want to come back to pakistan instead they need to cross the mediterranean towards europe taking off to a second prospector there in pakistan economy has been doing much better than the past few years but. those who leave pakistan they prefer not to return given various concerns for their family and for their livelihood so the gendered opening is to head to a europe was stay outside and send money to their families and loved ones working abroad so then the desperation of african pakistanis living in north africa will

give no one to talk to her and to pakistan a couple of years ago and now the situation worsened significantly and they might have tried to go to journalist naveed amada joining us on the line right now from doha thank you very much for sharing your insights with us today. you're watching d.w. news still to come a crusade against corruption in malta more than three months after the murder of an anti-corruption journalist he got to meet local residents continuing her fight. but first disappointing results out today are bad for germany's biggest bank and a whole lot of criticism sumi so it's a bank has just enjoyed its third annual loss in a row close to half a billion euros the lender insists it's making good progress in cutting costs and that it'll take time to improve profits by streamlining operations and installing a low cost culture let doesn't include bonuses so get to that in a moment deutscher has a major p.r. problem in just the past days u.s.

authorities find the german bank a combined eighty million euros for market manipulation it's already paid out billions for a series of scandals involving its mortgage business and the pressure is rising on chief executive john cryan he took over in twenty fifteen to turn the bank's fortunes around three years in crimes only posted losses he says he needs more time and they have been reports the frankfurt based lender is planning to hike stuff bonuses to a grand total of more than a billion euros for twenty seventeen the german government says the bank should consider the impact on its image here's what crime had to say about today's worse than expected results. this is yes it is the third loss in a row. for however it is also our first pretax profit since twenty fourteen shots. would be without the one of hit we took as

a result of the u.s. tax reform we'd now be reporting a net profit of almost one billion euros. but that theoretical billion could be headed straight for company bosses bank accounts and executive bonus hike for all the good work in the midst of scandal fines to mention all those losses let's go over to daniel cole station a dodger bank headquarters for us following the annual press conference and getting reaction to those u.s. tax reforms really the only one thing the bank can find to blame. they had there been from the frankfurt stock exchange that by the way is today very much under pressure because of those very negative numbers off daughter bank shares are now under the magical line of thirteen thousand points yes the u.s. tax reform that's what it is saying has been really hurting mostly their fourth quarter without the u.s.

tax reform they were saying that they would have made at least nine hundred million euros but john crying was also very frank frankly and he was saying that even this would not have been enough there are other factors for example the very low interest rates then also a problem in the end vesting banking sectors then still lots of pending lawsuits although all of those didn't have a bank at all so lots of challenges but boy was it taken cry and so long to perform the bank. well he was already facing those tough questions also during the press conference remember that dodger back in the past has been called also the most dangerous bank in the world with hundreds of different divisions worldwide he is trying to make it the bank smaller to be more sufficient but it seems that all of this is really taking a lot of time they called for is ousting i mean bolin has been quite vocal about

those bonuses. well i was listening very closely to his words and you can really feel that he is under pressure on the one hand because of employees inside of the bank also because of shareholders just during one year shares of dodger bond were losing more than ten percent in five years actually more than fifty percent and yes they are worth and people are saying if he is still the right one for the job on the other hand many people very onset is very unsatisfied because of those bonuses that will be paid to investment bankers that are already the ones in the bank making lots of money if you don't you call upon a bank that's meant to be the pillar of the german economy thank you very much for your analysis. bitcoin is falling below eight thousand dollars as a miserable week for cryptocurrency is comes to an end it best as a confronted with a mounting list of concerns about the future of digital money setbacks include

regulatory threats from authorities around the world including south korea india china and the us and last but not least a record five hundred million dollars heist the japanese exchange coin check a week ago fears of price manipulation and facebook's bad on crypto currency heads the list is long since reaching a record high of around twenty thousand dollars on december eighteenth because it has lost around sixty percent. to malta struggle with corruption after the murder of an investigative journalist in me ben last october daphne. an anti-corruption journalist was murdered in malta by a car bomb three men have been charged with her killing but the fight against corruption on the island is far from over and those carrying our third jobs even their lives. sent us this report. history and beauty but behind the fortresses and thick walls of ancient malta the

anant is riven by conflict and scandal investigative journalist money media is fighting for the legacy of dufner. was murdered reporting on government corruption . it's a mixture of responsibility and good will to because we're left to pretty much alone responsibility because the word needs to continue so yes i do feel that my colleagues movie i think the government has never been more under pressure than it is no. on october sixteenth last year a bomb blew up in daphnis cars a few hundred meters from her home. shortly after the police arrested three small time underworld figures who are now in jail awaiting trial. jonathan ferris is a former police investigator i believe that these three people between individuals . are a lot of the men that did a short of their circulation they just should be executed and that fit for the

government and prime ministers of miscount the case seems ever lost its agencies and in malta investigations into political scandals can have consequences johnson ferris was fired from his job in an anti-corruption taskforce they didn't want me to guide my team to dig more of a definition of. money dealers on his way to planter's the private bank it's secret dealings and links to figures in the maltese government were part of one of the last big stories investigate dafna covered. the murder journalist well it's a banquet one hundred of the clients are under the columns many of them that we know from politically exposed persons in azerbaijan and. even more now why would the royal family over there by john. on me the bank account and more probably because they are talking about illicit money being laundered.

people more aware shocked by the murder and to paul that the string of scandals three months later a small group of women activists tragic engage the public in their fight for justice and change they come regularly to the site of the bomb attack to tend to the real person a journalist was mid it was assassinated because of what she knew and because of what she said and if this isn't a sign for the rest of us to shut up then i don't know what is and that's the last thing that you know you can't take away our freedom of speech. monreal lives in a village near the capital violet he's well aware that he can't hide in the small island and he too feels the climate of intimidation some of your spirit is a state where the infrastructure the institutions of the state appear to service the interest of crime. interest of justice and yes we do have that. small group of people trying to bring change to malta but they're facing strong

resistance from local powers under a nice picture perfect surface lies a political symbol of intrigue and corruption more on the story now with spending gold or lawmaker for the green party in the european parliament and he was part of a delegation sent to me late last year to investigate the rule of law corruption and money laundering there said thank you very much for joining us has the murder of. actually changed anything in malta for. well it has clearly changed something in europe because doesn't get away with its lack of enforcement of laws against corruption money laundering on the other hand in malta so far the government refuses to take any real action in order to change the situation of impunity we have we mentioned that you went to malta on a fact finding mission

a late last year tell us what you experienced there well the most striking was that members of the law enforcement bodies were not investigating proofs and hints for financial crime and corruption so although the anti money laundering authority if you issued clear reports the police and the magistrates didn't investigate that only changed when the reports leaked and the police has hardly any resources intellectually and personal resources to research complex cases of financial crime so therefore there is a cultural thing punitive and the government is not ready to take action on this so you actually released that report earlier this month and the justice minister a one bunny two didn't miss the findings from that report what do you make of that

. well first it was well come that to mr bill needs he came into the european parliament in order to give a declaration and he gave a ten minute speech and in that speech he basically pointed to what he regarded as shortcomings of report and he praised things the government did but he didn't move one inch in the direction of the recommendations we issued and that is the reason why the mission will continue and the european parliament will continue to help those in malta went in favor of free speech and the fight against corruption and for the rule of law but i want to ask you about your report because you said to me just now there is a culture of impunity your report says quote a perception of impunity for criminals was the printing so is it a perception or is it in purity why were you more careful with the wording there well it depends in the report you have also the figures on corruption and there

were four hundred and twenty five cases in looked into by the so-called independent corruption. independent commission against corruption but it didn't trigger one prosecution so there is clearly a culture of impunity which is proven by b.'s figures and it looks very similar when you look into money laundering of the business of gaming where which is big in malta and where cases of financial criminality not effectively uncovered these are great problems are talking about multiplying the european union in two thousand and four was that a mistake. no definitely not but unfortunately as so often in europe when member states join afterwards the controls that they keep on track record with the rule of law a much weaker we see this in hungary we see this in poland we seize it's base in romania and bulgaria and many other places but in malta the panama paper publications with

the offshore accounts of ministers have shown that this cannot continue and therefore there is no welcome pressure on all types of change then he told a lawmaker for the green party in the european parliament thank you very much for joining us. as. now every year thousands of people gather to hear his weather prediction and today fill the groundhog has given his wintry forecast. warwick so when are to go and so according to the rodent prophet there will be no early spring this year every year on february second to fill us hauled out of his burrow in the town of the tony and pennsylvania if you cast a shadow you enter continue not spread the comes early but what it is worth pointing out the famous isn't always right though he is always popular take it there. you're watching give you news still to come will bring you

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. it's an underground war against crime. more and more young men are being gunned down in the slums of nairobi by the police. there were more than three thousand such killings last year alone one of the victims was nineteen year old brian friends and neighbors tell us what happened why it was brian killed extrajudicial killings in nairobi reporter on the radio. welcome back you're watching news our top story the french police have sent extra officers to the northern port city of colombia after clashes broke out between migrants more than twenty people were injured in the violence several of them with gunshot wounds police played organized games for the armrest. to a special report now documented the horrors of life in

a war zone dozens of civilians are feared to have been killed in less than two weeks in the syrian region afraid that's as turkey battles to expel kurdish fighters our next report takes you into the heart of the city to meet the people whose lives are being ripped apart by conflict. this cellar is their only protection from the airstrikes a descent into darkness and misery this woman says her family's house just southwest of affray has been reduced to a pile of rubble. i pulled my children from the debris and by the grace of god we were able to save them and came here. a lot of. p.t.o. taking on thursday by kurdish activists purportedly shows destroyed homes in the center of our freend. sixty civilians have died since operation olive branch was launched ten days ago according to officials here. the number of injured grows by

the day this clinic treats patients with grave injuries including children. that also we are currently treating sixty nine people perform various operations including limitations and abdominal surgery million tons of that but in order to get on the infrastructure in the district of ash rain has been severely disrupted by the airstrikes this historic temple was also completely destroyed the local government is hoping the international community will come to their aid and let's talk to vladimir fan building back he's a freelance journalist currently in the kurdish capital of bill in northern iraq latimer you have also reported out from northern syria what are your sources are telling you about the situation in a free while the situation is worsening because civilians saying the number of casualties is increasing because the turkish operations have increased

because of better weather conditions so there are kurds and our friends are calling for the west to do more to stop the turkish operations in africa why has turkey launched this operation while one of the main foreign policy drivers for the turkish state is to undermine any form of kurdish autonomy in iraq and syria you can also see that in turkey it's all poor turkey also suppresses kurdish rise because there is no as of course living in turkey and also of course it's also related to domestic politics because i don't want to be reelected and with this war . turks are rallying behind him what does all of this mean then for the kurdish and their aspirations for more autonomy. well it's a huge threat for the curtain in syria because now a circle is attacking labels after eating bugs our don has also threatened to attack other areas that the curse that previously liberated from isis such as the

city of mumbai which and of course of the west doesn't stop further attacks from the turkish left forces disco to undermine kurdish autonomy in the future of syria what about international support for offering i mean these are the same critics fighters who have been helping the west a battle i s yeah the situations are different in africa first of all because there's no western troops. but also it seems that the west has really been reluctant to support the kurds are because they also want to have good relations with turkey and this is wild card fodder. so it's a little bit difficult for western states they want to have good relations bowlful it with turkey and also want to support the kurds against isis and saddam is there any end in sight to this operation wallah because the turkish forces haven't progressed much and also turkey especially to the president out on one through reelect themselves in the upcoming election so for the presidency in two thousand

one thing it's very unlikely that turkey will stop its operation and as a result there will be more civilian casualties in asking and maybe in the future also in other cities that are controlled by kurds journalist let me fun vulcan villain burka joining us from the critics capital of erbil in northern iraq thank you very much welcome. time now for a monthly look at what a germans think about politics and their politicians we have the latest survey by pollsters in for a test for dummies public broadcasters are deep and pollsters asked germans how they would vote merkel's c.d.u. c.s.u. the conservative bloc would get thirty three percent the same result as in january the social democrats lose three percentage points a dramatic all time low of only eighteen percent the far right a.f.d. party gains one point of fourteen percent the pro-business f.d.p. gets ten the left party in the greens eleven percent and let's bring

in ryan hunch linker to he's the head of the german polling institute in for test reinhard we have to talk about the social democrats first why are voters turning their backs on this party. well they have to back to the esprit de long time ago already last year you remember the s.p.d. want you to to win for elections for a stated we should elections in twenty seventeen they did manage to and that the federal elections last september the s.p.d. even the ready down to twenty percent so it's two two points more down the direction is important it's not going up so what do you think that means for the ongoing coalition talks between these two sides michael's conservatives and the social democrats. you know it's more difficult for the social democrats what's their choice the choice is new elections most probably according to our findings right now they will have even less all the alternative is to to themselves through

with michael into a new so-called grand coalition and try as much. to put as much of the ideas into a new government as possible hoping that within the next four years they can recover somehow they don't have any other choice than to continue ok well we have some more numbers to talk about how the biggest political question here in germany is what is the country going to get a new government and the negotiations between the conservatives and the s.p.d. should be over this sunday so in protest the map asked us how germans would view another grand coalition it's a mixed picture forty six percent say their view of it is good or very good a majority fifty two percent or less positive or even say it would be bad so looking at that how much support is there really for another grand coalition is this changing. well growing through elation was out of discussion for about three months after the elections you know that the discussions here between the c.d.u. the liberals and the green party trying to phone a government that didn't work so there were only two of three alternatives minority

government you elections or a new grand coalition and since people here in germany prefer stable coalitions they opted for a big call asian great coalition and at the beginning of january sixty one percent who said yes let's have regulation came down to below fifty percent but that's clear because the s.p.d. itself is split into two parts half of the s.p.d. says yes we want to go into it because they should the other half says no and so it doesn't surprise very much that the that the figures are the exception exceptions for the great coalition have not been going up but let's wait until the end of the discussions i also want to ask you about the chancellor herself because voters were also asked what they think about machall thing in office for another term majority fifty one percent of respondents said it was good or very good and forty six percent were opposed to makeover meaning an office asked chancellor at so with her

still retaining consider over their support over fifty percent this number has slipped how can she were verse that trend well she is some oh she's lucky because her own party with eighty nine percent followers the voters of the c.d.o. voters they're standing behind her and three quarters of the green vote is as well she's a lacking support. in the from the liberals looking like locking support from the social democrats and of course the two extreme parties the left and on the right hand side they don't want to read all but in principle but she's the only but it's asian who is the majority party at the very moment. all right trying to shrink out with the latest polling numbers here in germany thank you very much now lympics spirit is that fevered pitch in south korea with the young chang winter games just one week away teams are

pouring into the olympic village and getting in some final practice sessions on the slopes before competition starts in just a few days' time and so will be able to tune in as early as wednesday with some advance kicking off before friday's opening ceremony at the olympic stadium. all right let's move on to some football now we have nick mechanic line in here from g.w. sports nick good to see you tell us what the big game is that we can look forward to this weekend this week three in my opinion that we can look out of the brain membrane of those in quite a few interesting players in this last translate period of course also on saturday to attacking teams quite possibly quite a few goals there but the most interesting story with the weekend is the return of pizza started to cologne with the opening that's happening tonight in just a couple of hours time ok well we have a preview of that game cologne versus dortmund let's take a look. game like no other tell pizza this evening league clash in cologne the dortmund coach arrives back at his old club tonight two months after getting the sack the man who led cologne back to his league and

european action is looking forward to his return. to visit the stadium it's a game like no other. since arriving in the room vallecito there's a scene an upswing in dortmund fortunes a team that was floundering under former coach peter boss will move up to second with a win it will be the club's first match since the departure of. those still believes new signing mitchie bats why he is ready to step in. believe it's easier first central striker than for a defensive player. because the guys who play in attack goals. you can do that can do it's any club. group alone things remain bleak but a win will lift them out of the relegation zone for the first time this season coach different is refusing to be distracted by the return of his predecessor from which is a. huge event against one of the best teams in europe. c'mon

chuffed and they are a tough opponent for me to coach against. much of to coach and. everything else that comes with it is not so important. is for me to. crash davis homecoming parade it will be another positive step towards safety. car things looking for cologne are they going to stay out of the relegation zone. of the season obviously quite a few games are coming up but the chances are they're quite surprised they change their fortune actually if you remember the first sixteen games this season they were without a win just three jewels and three measly points in the table and to think in the last four games since then they've won three and drawn one. and they're slowly cooling their way back into contention this could also just be a blip and we've seen this before that teams of have awful form and then all of us that have a great patch of good for me then have a full form again to still get relegated so that could definitely happen to cologne

but out of the season they've had it could be tough to get into safety but what they have done is they've addressed one of the biggest deficits of course last season they had and seen the best as they strike the school twenty five goals for the team guys means a year for the first time in the course of a century and in this pos transfer window break they've brought simmonds about it in from the form of cologne player as well who scored three goals in three games now he's not quite the politike striker the ultimate test was always but at least he'll be able to school goal here and there which will help keep cologne up possibly possibly only the big news of this week with that long awaited transfer news peer emerick obama and leaving dortmund going to arsenal in the premier league where does that leave the dortmund will his replacement be able to keep them going on let you say his name. i think he's coming from chelsea over the six month loan and he's not quite but he is an interesting player definitely he's performed well the previous clubs a must say for example and also the belgian development's national but he's more of

an expensive backup at chelsea very rarely starting more from coming on in the last five six maybe ten minutes of a game so he was more of an impact sub but he has a very good scoring record so in one goal every eighty eight minutes which has only been bettered by one striker in the premier league does harry cain. has a very strong body which means you can fight off those defenders and he's also very fostered using get past and that's which had as well another aspect of about me which brings with him is the fact that he's light hearted when he signed for the club he wants to eat saying that the batman position is free because of course about me i went out of the name of batman occasionally and these coming in to take over the role i think i could have lots of fun with him over the next six months and it's going to be an interesting addition to the club that being said dortmund i've been very inconsistent this season why is it that they've struggled and do you think they've lost their man to lead germany's second top. your team they definitely have it mean this is been something which has been happening over the last eighteen months especially in last six months ago they sold. guitar and then of course in the last summer period they sold as men then belay and now obama and

of course going to six players who are vitally important for the ultimate success so they can no longer call themselves the second best team in germany that's also a good thing for the bonus to get means now the teams get to say it's just behind by and of course in second place we've had leverkusen this shocker that we have frankfurt there which makes the leagues that pos the bonus league are a lot more entertaining ok looking ahead to a good weekend in the bundesliga next mechanic line from sports thank you for. you watching the news still to come the venice carnival is in full swing but not for everyone we find out how the floating city has finally put its foot down on truest numbers. but first super bowl fifty two is due to kick off on sunday bad has the business saying show do sue me this isn't just the sporting event of the year in the united states it's every advertisers dream the whole country's watching at the same time and at least a third of the broadcast is reserved for commercials which are always trying to outdo each other while last year's sponsor offered subtle digs at president donald

trump a more conservative game plan is expected this year. there's no doubt about it the super bowl is big business and the show begins long before the players take to the field even the arrivals of this year's contenders the new england patriots and philadelphia eagles at minneapolis st paul airport it was a media event some of the u.s.a.'s highest paid athletes. television advertising during the big game also attract the money galaxy as advertisers go on a no holds out and spending spree. now. this year's lineup includes big hitters danny de vito. morgan freeman and missy elliott. soft drinks snack foods in celebrity motorcycle may because they have brand to be

associated with the big game but in the desert talking to us. thirty second spots are going for five million dollars this year but that's only the beginning for advertisers they spend many millions more on production on celebrity endorsers and so this is a major investment for marketers but one that they continue to to think is pays off because of the massive viewership of the super bowl more than one hundred million people watch the super bowl n.b.c. the network carrying the super bowl also has the rights to the winter olympics and is selling a package to advertisers which includes both events some estimates say the network will reach a billion dollar bonanza you can. after a football season in which politics seeped into the field super bowl advertisers will likely steer clear of anything potentially divisive and it's airing.

even celebrities who animal apra legit raf seems to have avoided control the sea tipping super bowl favorites new england patriots. the u.s. tech giant apple and amazon a both out with record results but the bottom line looks much less rosy for rival alfabet google's parent company posting a net loss of three billion dollars. it's all signals go for the titans of the new economy retailer amazon posted its first billion dollar profit that's a remarkable change for a company that's issued profits until now reinvesting all its income into new high tech ventures like a supermarket without cash registers. for the company's new headquarters in seattle founder jeff bezos said the alexa voice assistant had well exceeded expectations ok jeff. meanwhile google parent alfabet said its profits would have been up but it

chose to pay a one time charge of almost ten billion dollars to bring cash back to the u.s. under the new tax reform there. and bumper results for apple two sales of the i phone may have dipped slightly but c.e.o. tim cook called it the biggest quarter in the company's history saying the flagship i phone ten had to be in sales projections. it is carnival season in europe and that means many countries are getting ready to celebrate but nowhere is carnival quite so exciting as in venice the city on the lagoon where the costumes and especially the traditions have a special elegance our culture editor karen helms that is here with us in studio to tell us more about this karen the italians they really do carnival differently don't i certainly do you know carnival in the german speaking world is is really much more of a rough and ready kind of affair with a lot of tomfoolery and even slapstick humor but the venetians then is just has

a completely different tradition a carnival there dates back to about the twelfth century and it's particularly famous for its masks of course which are an art form in themselves and this was of course traditionally to disguise your identity while you were taking in all of that during carnival as nobles were mixing with commoners so the costumes can be incredibly elaborate as you see here in venice how is that notion of escapism to it but it is simply a lot more sophisticated than any other carnival i think and needless to say such an incredible spectacle is a huge draw for tourists all of whom want to sample a little bit of that venetian magic and a lot of that happens on the water so it's a joke. every year thousands of visitors from italy and abroad come to see the historical procession on the rio de cannot reach.

in a church venice is just always beautiful we come here often montauk a lot and it's so colorful picturesque and vibrant the vasher it a little warm hearted at least in. the cannibal boasts a long but broken history it began one hundred years ago it was outlawed at the end of the eighteenth century after a long absence it returned in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the celebrations are a chance to head n'est to get their patching in before the most on the time of lent the flushing parades are among the commonest oldest traditions. booster ignition time of from my fifteenth year the fourteen centaury where divination decided to make the star a day to celebrate their lives but the one in the bottle of laugh until. it was quite different but anyway symbolic a way so we decided to see years ago to repurposing like

a lot of things here we do in the car new idea just reconstruction a want to rid of any sermon even the past. d.c. esteem and create an atom city tuscaloosa can be roughly translated as creativity city the schools the rebel rate and on time place to change. the course just so for just those pictures educators have why so many people flock to venice absolute it's also partly a problem isn't because venice a needs that tourism for its economy but it has also become a problem it's certainly a double edged sword isn't it i mean and particularly for venice which is probably one of the most fragile cities on the. planet i mean not just because of its situation on the water and architectural but also in terms of its ecosystem so some people say that venice is dying a slow death as a result of mass tourism and sort of have a very negative take on things and visitor numbers are intensely high on any given

day but during carnival they can actually swell to about one hundred thirty thousand tourists a day and it's gets pretty tight going through some of those smaller streets now one of the major problems has also been these monstrous cruise ships that literally the city and in fact just last november the city finally imposed a ban on the really big ones and they can no longer come right into the grand canal which i think is a good thing authorities you know trying to alleviate this this incredible paradox that tourism is destroying the very things that make the city so charming in the first place and unesco also actually threatened to put it on the endangered list of world heritage if it didn't act so this is interesting because this year they have actually limited the number of tourists on the famous. during carnival to twenty five thousand and that's you know admittedly put a little bit of a damper on the charm but because it is a city with cannot instead of streets you know venice has also a lot of very specific problems for instance there were reports today of the canals

actually even drying up due to lack of rain and low tides and that turns the whole place into something of a murky. so climate change and pollution also a lot of a lot of havoc there and this is not a problem that just venice is facing with the discussion being had across europe doesn't it certainly is you know with the hordes of tourists obviously local residents in a lot of cities are finding that they have to leave the city centers simply because they can't afford to live there anymore because basic shops and services are are giving way to tourist traps in france is the population in venice today is only fifty five thousand in the city center back in the one hundred fifty s. it was over one hundred seventy five thousand so you know it has it has really diminished and in that short time it is like barcelona. member there were there were actually a narcotic protests there quite recently to prof nick in croatia's yet another town where you can hardly move for the hordes of people going through the streets in the

summer anyway so greater global prosperity all the cheap air travel and of course huge increase in the accommodation opportunities thanks to companies like air b.n. b. i mean these are these are many of the things that you know they're wonderful for us getting around the world but they are causing a lot of problems for cities so what is the solution for cities like these so much as i hate to say it starts with greater consciousness i guess for all of us that we are definitely part of the problem and i think everybody has to sort of look at that for themselves and what their own carbon footprint is going to be in terms of travel but as much as i hate to say it i think communities and governments have just got to get really tough with regulation they have to limit numbers they have to start regulating air travel and hotel. accommodation but also development i don't think there's any way around that to be able to keep these places beautiful we'll still want to be able to show them to our grandchildren of course those who are headed to venice carnival is happening and that is something to sell absolutely

until february thirteenth that is the one of the most exciting times of the year there and obviously this is with the water so low the least mark a square is a flood it will get wet feet that are right karen helps that our culture editor with us here thank you very much carol. and you're watching news from berlin phil gayle will have your latest news update right at the top of the hour please stay with us. to. move. move. move. move. move.

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