this is the news line from butting creek nationalists making their voices heard massive crowds gather in front of parliament enough times warning the government they will not come for months in a long running dispute with neighboring macedonia issue the name macedonia itself will go live to athens for more. also coming up with a deadline looming to form a new government germany's biggest parties meet to how much out a deal will hear from all political corresponding to those talks. and diplomacy on ice as the joint north and south korean ice hockey team take to the ring in

a friendly against sweden and this was their first match before the winter olympics next week so was it a friendly or cross street style we'll find out. i'm helena humphrey good to have you with us on dribs of thousands of people have protested in athens against a potential deal with macedonia was the longstanding dispute over its name settled greece has opposed its neighbors you saw the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety one athens 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 say what is it that the demonstrators are looking to

achieve what are they calling for. well for starters that turnout has been absolutely phenomenal authorities are also trying to pay it 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 greeks do not want to relinquish the name macedonia greek name to it is their northern name. in light of this name dispute that eased negotiate between happens to governments in athens and so here they believe the name is wreaked 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 in a macedonia. the opposition is huge and this this protest in fact is symbolic oh how emotional and what an emotive issue this is with thirty 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. it in a bind because it has grown trying to reach to proceed with negotiations that would

include the name only in some sort of a composite name and the carousel reporting from athens for us thank you to cyprus where conservative incumbent nicos anastasiades looks set to win the country's presidential election now he's being challenged by left wing severus majlis exit polls put anasazi out as far ahead of his rival the left wing backed us has now conceded defeat the economy and a read of occasion talks where the main focus of the election blamed an associate us for a breakdown in last year's peace talks between the greek majority south of the island and the turkish occupied nor at the island has been divided since a turkish invasion in one nine hundred seventy four. now some of the other stories making news around the world a polish opposition group has demonstrated outside of the president's residence in

warsaw urging him not to sign into law a controversial bill on holocaust no knowledge now the bill would impose jail terms for suggesting that poland was complicit in nazi crimes israel the u.s. and international organizations have strongly condemns the proposed bill. 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 a columbia south carolina authorities say all passengers have been evacuated in the now trying to determine the cause of the crash. in moscow one person has been killed and several injured off the heavy snowfall downed trees and power lines the city got more than hoff its average monthly snow in just twenty four hour was thousands of government workers have been mobilized to clear the streets and people have been told to avoid driving. now germany's biggest political

parties are meeting in berlin for what they've called a decisive round of talks over forming a new government now the two sides had set a deadline for today although they have agreed on two extra days for overtime negotiations an agreement would move germany a step closer to the continuation of the grand coalition between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats but they're all still sticking points including financial and health policy. well germany's biggest political parties are meeting in berlin for what they've called a decisive round of talks over forming a new government the two sides set a deadline for today they have agreed on two extra days for overtime negotiations an agreement would move germany a step closer to a continuation of the grand coalition between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives in the social democrats but there are still sticking points including financial and health policy policy. when our political correspondent

kate brady is at the social democrat headquarters in berlin where the three parties on it goes here to kate could we see a coalition agreement coming today. well the chances of a seeing a deal on the table by tonight are looking less and less likely as the evening goes on and the latest that we've heard here from party sources is that the three parties will indeed be continuing these negotiations into monday and that won't be just a matter of hammering out the final details but actually continuing in-depth negotiations that clearly are still obstacles to be overcome here martin schulz the leader of the social democrats said himself today that going into these talks that despite the progress that was made last week there are so many issues particularly when it comes to social policy for example with working contracts and also with reform in germany's health insurance system so i doubt that we are going to in fact see

a deal tonight ok what happens if they don't solve those issues what happens if these talks for a grand coalition fail but of course that's a situation that chancellor angela merkel definitely doesn't want to see herself in and the only other options really would be either a minority government which would be quite a grueling process for the chancellor and that's something that she's ruled out on several occasions which would then leave the only other option of new fresh snap elections and of course that's also something that most of the parties don't want to and least of all the social democrats who have seen their figures plummet even further down the polls since september election so there's still a long way to go and following it all for us is our political correspondent kate brady in berlin kate thank you. well here in germany the domestic intelligence agency says north korea has regularly acquired technology and equipment for its

nuclear weapons programs through its embassy in berlin and the united nations report accuses european countries including germany of not doing enough to stop pyongyang building up its nuclear weapons and know how now we bring you this report from the journalist has one covered the story klaus sheva from the german public will cost a a audi 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 the media to get stressed 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 items.

over to you from you know former soviet union. china u.s. south korea so all countries which have rejected export control regulations were defeated the former investigator also says germany did not respond to inquiries about a possible sanctions breach 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 troubling if it's true the stuff 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 text sanctions extremely seriously officials say they've investigated cases of suspected abuse as recently as a few months ago. saying with korean hospitals news in the first of

a pick women's hockey team consisting of players from both north and south korea has ramped up their preparations for the chang when to get the side to the ring 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 fights. and the crowd went wild when they started home. be they box it was it's not sweden comfortably prevailing is three one victors. while 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 range protesters tearing up posters of the north korean flag. and the country's leader kim yong on. from. one way to convince the skeptics could be a link to glory korea kicks out there kyung chan campaign against switzerland on february tenth. to the windows leader now and our spec have continued their on precedented run of four with a three nil win against frankfurt on sunday goal strong. record and marker kept all three points an hour spec'ing now move up to seventh and are one step closer to the european places where bloodbath hosted leipsic on saturday with both teams in the race for a top four spot spot and with it champions league qualification leipsic have picked

up just one win from their last seven wonders league games but an unbeaten record against bloodbath bode well for a change in forty. the bulls headed into the game thinking that their rights had to come to an end and from the get go they charged a glove pass defense bruma testing the foals reserve keeper to be a simple early on. both sides game plan was to slowly break down the opposition but neither team showed much creativity as the injured rafael looked on from the stands. up but with a better side is the second half began and they created their best chance of the day the pats they cam on and last into couldn't convert. checking fired his team on from the sideline but it was leipzig you grabbed the game by its horns creating chances and putting the hosts on the pressure.

simple was the only man on the pitch that could keep the bulls at bay. but hospital wasn't best pleased and brought on new firepower in the form of on loan signing look man the debutante needed just eleven minutes to find the back of the net one mill for live sage in the eighty nine minutes of my life seek extend their own peace and streak to four games against club and look a man well it was a start to life in germany. and by munich continued to crush everyone and their powerful no relentless pursuit of a six straight win disney the title starring struggling minds where the latest side to be on the receiving end of some fabulous buy in strikes because when the home committee expertly found the net from the edge it was the funds into his second mean go all this season then come on this and as the other two guys had to nail another easy away win for the fairies. i.

you're watching the w. news from berlin i'm humphrey more coming up at the top of the hour. my colleague sarah harman thanks for your company and see you again soon. climate change so. it's a good time for. africa people and projects that are changing the ones that are meant for the better chance of. going to. be double.