this is d.w. news live from about a great nationalists making their voices heard thousands gather in front of parliament in athens warning the government they will not compromise and a long running dispute with neighboring macedonia at issue and a macedonia itself will go to athens a little. closer coming up with the deadline looming to form a new government germany's biggest policies meet to hama and a deal will hear from all political correspondent at those talks. and diplomacy on

ice sounds the joint from south korean ice hockey team take to the rink in a friendly against to sweden this was that first match before the winter olympics next week so was it a friendly only proximity stocks we'll find out. the. time when all for a good to have you with us a massive protest is underway in athens to oppose a potential deal with macedonia that would see a longstanding dispute over its name settled a greece has opposed its neighbors use all the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety one nothin's says it suggests a territorial claim on its own northern province of macedonia the two sides have pledged to find a solution this year. well for more on this we can bring in our correspondent in athens and the kara salva and they what is it that the demonstrators are looking to

achieve what are they calling for. well for starters the turnout has been absolutely phenomenal authorities are also trying to pay down they put out an initial statement saying that about one hundred forty thousand just showed up organizers are putting that number up to one point five million. difference between the two but we've clearly seen hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people out there in the demand is just why the greeks do not want to relinquish the name macedonia greek name to it their northern neighbor. in light of these name disputes that eased negotiate between athens the government in athens and so here they believe the name is greek they do not want to hand it over and they believe that this tiny balkan state which

is just north of greece has territorial aspirations and wants to claim united which is simply not there what about within greece itself how big is the opposition to the use of the country name macedonia. the opposition is huge and this this protest in fact is symbolic oh how emotional it happened what an emotive issue this is with the years after this if this name dispute kind of erupted and yet it stokes a lot of passions here to be bringing out so many people and the latest poll over the weekend show that seven in ten greeks oppose any use of the name macedonia in a solution that's being figured out between these two countries and that puts the government here. in a bind because it has in fact agreed to proceed with negotiations that would

include the name only in some sort of a composite name briefly and i mean are police expecting any turmoil. oh well. it's largely been a peaceful protest but it's not over yet and authorities are bracing for some violence that happened some streets on the on the french. they're staying put in there hoping to keep militants extremists from both sides hardened nationalists and hard headed excrete this from the last from coming together in clashing and reporting from athens for us thank you and now some of the other stories making news around the world polls have closed in cyprus's presidential runoff election conservative incumbent in nicos anastasiades is being challenge to divide the

nephew witnessed several smallest now he blames anasazi odyssey for a breakdown in last year's peace talks between the great majority south of the island and the turkish occupied no this audience been split in two since talking dated one thousand nine hundred seventy four. a train collision in the u.s. has left at least two people dead and some seventy more injured the amtrak passenger train reportedly struck a freight train and derailed in the columbia south carolina already say all passengers have been evacuated there now trying to determine the cause of the crash . african migrants have been brought to safety off a ship wreck claimed the lives of at least twenty others need the spanish enclaves of melia on the moroccan coastal spanish american security forces are looking for other possible survivors. germany's biggest political parties are meeting in berlin for what they have called a decisive round of talks over forming

a new government now the two sides have set a deadline for today though they have agreed on two extra days for overtime negotiations now an agreement would move germany a step closer to a continuation of the grand coalition between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats but there are still sticking points including financial and health policy and our political correspondent kate brady is a social democrat headquarters in berlin where the three parties are negotiating kate kurt we see coalition agreement today. well of course we have seen progress has been there in the last few days from all three of the parties involved in these talks but we heard as well from martin shultz the leader of the social democrats this morning who said despite this progress there are still many issues which need to be resolved and a lot of these obstacles revolve around social policy and we've already also heard

today that the c.s.u. that's the bavarian sister party to merkel's conservatives that they've actually already canceled a board meeting for tomorrow which could indicate of course that these talks will be expected to extend into monday and of course today's deadline so to speak was a very loose deadline and the parties have given themselves a two day buffer so it could well be that we are still here in two days' time or a case to tell us more then about these topics that are still causing trouble. or the main obstacles are as i mentioned these social policies that martin schulz mentioned and they cover the german health insurance system and also limited contracts in the german work market and also and and so these are going to be more obstacles to overcome and the conservatives are very much against any sweeping reforms to the german health care system whereas the social democrats are very much

in favor of abolishing the current two tier system here so we still have a way to go or at kate dare i ask what happens if these talks for a grand coalition fail. well as we know the only other coalition option for merkel with the business friendly f.t.p. in the greens is already off the table those talks fell through back in november so the only other options would be a minority government which merkel has already rejected on several occasions and the only other option then would be a new election something that all of the parties are against and most certainly the social democrats who saw their party plummet down the polls again they so weak and they're currently at eighteen percent and so they've already fallen another two percentage points since those elections back in september so there's really no good option for anyone right now so merkel is certainly keen to get

a deal on the table and as soon as possible of course we have to remember as well the nany deal if we see one come out of these negotiations will be voted on by all four hundred forty three thousand members of the social democrats that's a promise that martin schultz gave to members so again this is still going to take quite some weeks political correspondent kate brady at the headquarters of the social democrats in berlin thank you. now here in germany the domestic intelligence agency says that north korea has regularly procured nuclear weapons related equipment through its embassy in berlin a united nations report as accuse european countries including germany of not doing enough to stop young yang acquiring a nuclear weapon know how. these north korean agents wanted ukrainian rocket designs instead they walked into a trap set by ukraine's intelligence service that was in two thousand and eleven but german officials confirm that spies in north korea's embassy in berlin still

try to obtain high tech. when we learn about something like that we stop at all but we cannot guarantee that we always detect and prevent every operation. north korea's missile capability has made rapid strides in recent years despite u.n. efforts to enforce sanctions on technology when south korea recovered a north korean missile from the sea they made startling discoveries most tied to. overtake from you know former soviet union. u.s. south korea so all countries which region exposed to regulation were defeated and u.n. investigators say germany has not done enough to help enforce sanctions the. government for information about more what technology seeking for but we never got any reply from german government german opposition politicians say

that's an outrage if it's true that can't be true and i hope it didn't happen but accusations like that must be thoroughly investigated germany's intelligence service says it takes tech sanctions extremely seriously officials say they've investigated cases of suspected abuse as recently as a few months ago. i will say with korea and the first evelyn pick women's hockey team consisting of players from both north and south korea has ramped up their preparations for china when to games that was saw it took to the rink together for the first time this weekend in a friendly match against sweden the twenty two player squad featured four north koreans. it's the most talked about team at this year's winter olympics the combined north and south korean women's ice hockey team don this kates for the first time in front of three thousand fans in incheon former olympic silver

medalist sweden lined up against them for the historic fixture. korea showed a lot of thought. and the crowd went wild when they started home i beat box it was it's not sweet uncomfortably prevailing is three one victory is. well the combined team is seen by many as a step towards storing relations between north and south korea not everyone has welcomed the news. rallies were held outside the rink protesters tearing up posters of the north korean flag. and the country's leader kim yong on. one way to convince the skeptics could be a limpy glory korea kicks out there kyung chang campaign against switzerland on february tenth. also football news now and on saturday shaka were hungry to

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