plane. this is d w news live from bergland belgium on high alert as a trial gets underway for a top terror suspect the charges relate to a shoot out before his capture he is believed to be the sole surviving suspect in the twenty fifteen terrorist attacks but so far he has refused to answer any questions we will go live to brussels. also coming up israel begins issuing deportation notices to thousands of african migrants the government says that they could face jail time if they refuse to leave and protests are banned in rome as

turkey's president meets with pope francis the two men have clashed publicly before we'll see what's behind the vatican's moves to tone down dissent this time around. plus a stunning super bowl win for the underdogs fans go wild after the philadelphia eagles defeat the new england patriots to win american football's biggest prize for the first time. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. belgium is on high alert today as the trial begins for the man who is believed to be the sole surviving suspect in the twenty fifteen paris attacks. slum arrived at the palace of justice in brussels earlier this morning his first appearance in public since

his arrest today's session will focus on the shootout with belgian police that led to his capture. and we will get more on the court case in just a moment but first let's take a closer look at the slum once the most wanted man in europe. the end of an international manhunt on the eighteenth of march twenty sixth seen belgian special police capture one of the most wanted terrorist suspects in europe the man believed to be the only surviving suspect of the paris terror attacks that just four months before this police raid had left one hundred and thirty people dead. a french citizen born in brussels in september one thousand nine hundred eighty nine his current trial is focused on the shootout that led to his capture but the real focus of investigators is whether he played a major role in planning and executing the attacks or was he merely a low level follower. to learn more we spoke with

a former member of the french secret service klugman a-k. had spent decades researching terror networks between europe and the middle east and he says the evidence is clear. a descent some kind of side islam is a central figure and the only survivor not counting supporters in syria or iraq without up to slam there would have been no paris attacks on the thirteenth of november or the brussels attacks of march twenty second. it was up to slant he brought the terrorists into the country in small groups who rented the hideouts and the vehicles that they used to want to kill him. investigators worked intensely to locate up to salaam and he started making mistakes in the end he had almost nowhere left to hide. take by day the house searches interrogation research large scale surveillance operations all of that steadily

reduce the circle of people that could trust them. after his arrest after slum was taken to a maximum security prison near paris and since then he has said nothing his lawyer spend money. described as a small time criminal who's too stupid to plan a conspiracy in one interview by re says of the salaam has quote the intelligence of an empty ass tray. and family has also tried to reinforce this line of defense one of his brothers has up the salaam lost his nerve and intentionally failed to set off the suicide vest he was wearing care experts say it's all part of a deliberate defense strategy since some cuban can deconstruct us about that suicide vest which they say he didn't use today we know two important things that had too technical faults and that's why he didn't go off. on up to slams computer there's an e-mail in which he complained about the equipment and

demanded better stuff for the next time but the. pushing for him of all material he was involved from start to finish not someone who was frightened to the aura most of all he said he could go civil. observers expect lums lawyers to do everything possible to cultivate the idea that he was just a small fish the start of his trial march the accused first public appearance and it could set the tone for how the trial against him for the paris attacks will unfold. and for more let's bring in correspondent teri schultz who is standing by at the palace of justice in brussels where that trial is underway now as we mentioned and terry i mean we know that this is the trial for the shoot out with belgian police just before obviously on was captured it's not for that terrorist attack in paris that he was said to be involved with terry walk us through the charges that he's facing today and what's been happening there.

well as we can see we wanted to get some perspective from our correspondent teri schultz who was on the scene there at this trial which is currently taking place in brussels but she cannot hear us at the moment so we'll try and get her a little bit later in the show but in the meantime we'll move on to some other news while we try and establish that connection for you once again and here is what else is taking place other news taking place in the world syrian activists say that there have been new chlorine gas attacks in the rebel held it live province medics in the town of sara cab say that they treated civilians for breathing disorders linked to poisonous gas following government airstrikes the syrian regime denies using chemical weapons. north korea's ceremonial leader will travel to pee on chang this week for the winter olympics kim yong naam will be the most senior official to ever visit south korea as hopes grow for high level into korean talks during the

games that began in four days. south african president jacob zuma has come under renewed pressure to resign top officials from the ruling a.n.c. party met with him sunday to persuade him to step down his term expires next year but the party's popularity has fallen amid claims of corruption linked to the president. israel has begun serving deportation notices to tens of thousands of eritreans and sudanese who have been seeking asylum there hundred stood in line outside the immigration authority offices on sunday seeking to renew their views says but the israeli government wants them to leave and is offering them money and plane tickets to an unnamed african destination now if they stay they face imprisonment. kramer sent us this report. to keep this home country every twenty or more than twelve years ago and sought asylum in israel now his future is once again uncertain because he's facing possible deputation the

stationer always very sensitive especially for me personally in the for my community the people i love because. of. deportation and. imprisonment so very tough here at the eritrean community center the new government policy is on everyone's mind their choice go to prison or take a free plane ticket a payment of almost three thousand euros and leave the country. over the past years israel has recognized only ten people as refugees to keep never received a response to his aside a request. sometimes we want to require some time in thirty or sometimes consular everything with them. really and i left my country because of danger so i know i'm

a refuge that's why you came here in israel to ask for a protection between two thousand and six and two thousand and twelve about thirty eight thousand asylum seekers from every trailer and sudan arrived in israel by the egyptian sinai peninsula then that was closed by a border fence ever since there has been a fierce public debate in israel about the asylum seekers speight human rights activist warned their safety cannot be guaranteed if they are deported we're talking about less than forty thousand people immigrants asylum seekers in israel who seek asylum in a land of eight million people this is less than half a percent of the israeli population so our first question to the government is why can't israel absorb those people give them shelter or allow them to build their lives here this is so much less than other countries have to deal with many asylum seekers ahead here in a detention center in the desert in the south of israel. this have settled in the

southern neighborhoods of tel of being a poor area of the city while some residents support the migrants many plame them for advice in crime and want them to leave. call these are foreigners infiltrators it is impossible to live like this all our infrastructure collapsed the sewage system education welfare everything all the budget is going to what's there if you will feel like those there's various who want to help them right as rabbis from the diplomats holocaust survivors and pilots are calling on the government to stop the deputation plans the state we are obliged to deal with refugees and with asylum seekers we would have liked the european countries and the usa at the time to have treated jewish refugees who tried to save to save their souls running away from persecution and from

extermination. to keep his mortgage about his safety peace deported to a third country he says a should pray at the door of a small chapel he wants to stay positive but given the choice to keith says he would rather go to prison than be said to know the country. now gary hart is here with some news on the corruption scandal that has been rocking south korea's samsung that's right sara south korean appeals court on monday freed the arab the some some group lead j. young after nearly a year of detention the court suspended the five year jail term he received for bribing the country's former president the forty nine year old out to one of the world's biggest corporate empires was detained in february twenty seventh team a lower court had to jail leave for corruption and a political scandal that rocked the country and led to the ousting of president park and he. ryan

now is flying high with its latest quarterly figures showing its earnings sought twelve percent to one hundred six million euros that's despite the consolation prize a few months ago when thousands of flights had to be cancelled due to a problem with pilot scheduling resulting calles cost the irish budget carrier its position as europe's biggest ally and passenger numbers in favor of proof tongues are in large by its takeover of ryan as figures also come off it announced a so-called briggs's clause applying to tickets sold for the summer of twenty nineteen a warning to passengers that their tickets will be invalidated if aviation regulations remain unclear after the u.k. leaves the e.u. . have a quick check on the markets man in frankfurt is done he'll cope today here danielle following wall street mainly stocks went down last week on the whole world coming spec this week. yeah the guy had well the little guy here in the brick around the

bear is really the problem here this morning at the spot stock market giving investors quite some headache yes we really have seen quite a correction at the stock market remember and generally twenty third we had a record high of the blue chip index next with thirteen thousand five hundred points already on friday shares were dropping this morning we're also down with about half percent the main reason behind this high interest rate in the united states that's what many people are fearing could happen investors don't really like this is usually taking liquidity out of the market and that's why we are seeing this quite a rather big correction here at the stock market the new federal reserve chairman jerome powell will be sworn in later today investors expecting that. well remember that mr powell has been already working for quite some time at the fed he was in gov position there and he has been mainly following what

also janet yellen was doing he was always in favor of higher interest rates so people here are thinking that he will be doing this as well we might see up to three maybe even four interest rate hikes this year there was just one of a situation that is very that is seen very different by him he is more in favor of more regulating when it comes for example to banks but yeah it's going to be very interesting to see how the monetary situation in the united states will be going and maybe even changing this year. trying to thank you for the spot where all the doomsayers was predicting the eurozone economy expanded and it's fast as frightening and in a decade in twenty seventeen completing three years of consistent growth accordingly despite a slight dip from a seventeen year peak business sentiment also remains high it looks like it's going

to be a good year but they're still wrists. the economy of the nineteen member single currency union posted its highest growth since two thousand and seven before the global financial crisis the european commission statistics body euro stat says annual g.d.p. growth for the bloc went up two and a half percent that growth was largely driven by france which has a new economic impetus with a manual macaw at the reins and spain which expanded by just over three percent in . the value of goods and services produced in the eurozone has been rising steadily . in twenty fifteen eurozone growth rose by one and a half percent. in twenty sixteen the eurozone economy grew by one point seven percent. and last year the economy charged ahead by two and a half percent this momentum was partly because the european central bank in

frankfurt has pursued a huge stimulus program slashing its main interest rate to zero and buying billions of euros a month with the financial assets known as quantitative easing the e.c.b. has gradually been tapering off the stimulus measures which were introduced in the wake of the financial crisis last week e.c.b. president mario draghi into that the strong euro wouldn't affect the block's economic prospects but he said global factors were a wild card that could have a negative effect the european commissioner for economic affairs pierre moscovici said the eurozone would maintain its momentum at least into twenty nineteen but he hinted at worrying issues including a lack of investment persistently high youth unemployment and stubborn public debt . business is back to thank you so much. well we turn now to a very big meeting happening today because turkish president rector typed out a wan is at the vatican for

a meeting with pope francis protests have been banned in central rome for twenty four hours as feelings run high over turkey's offensive against kurdish militia groups in northern syria their talks are expected to focus on the controversial u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel both men oppose the move. they couldn't be more different. the all three tarion turkish president and pope francis known for his humor and humility but over the years both have attempted to build bridges. when the crisis erupted over moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem to on made a number of phone calls to the pope to get his council. donald trump's decision led to armrest and drew criticism around the world including from the vatican.

the last meeting between the turkish president and the pontiff wasn't two thousand and fourteen francis was received with military honors an uncorrupted he was the first guest to visit the new lavish presidential palace. it was a demonstration of power and a charm offensive. visit will leave an important trace in the islamic world and will also change the view of islam in the christian world so should i leave in ten the pope who had criticized the role of the e.u. in the migration crisis praised turkey's efforts and taking more than a million refugees from war torn syria. but the relationship between the two men is not without tensions. francis has described now two years on it looks like they're prepared to mend ties. yet the turkish offensive against kurdish militias and northern syria may prove to

be another stumbling block it is drawn international condemnation and many may expect the pope to admonish turkey over its controversial military operation. well now to a turning point in history the berlin wall stood for almost twenty eight years or rather more than twenty eight years but it has now been down for as long as it was up. it was in august of one thousand nine hundred sixty one that overnight berlin became a city divided east germany's communist authorities constructed what they call to an anti fascist barrier around west berlin its real purpose was to keep people from fleeing from the east to the west a d. w. needs a west berlin or who dug a tunnel under the wall one of the many attempts to help ferry people out its entrance has been recently just rediscovered funny for char reports. the streets of berlin are steeped in history from the second world war to the cold war one of

the best places to get a sense of the cold war is right here in berlin although many important this rise and. things. clearly indicate where the brewery war was. over there. and they're swapping stories of germans who try to make it across this war. some try to escape before the war was even finished they said connick picture shows a young soldier from east berlin who jumped over a barbed wire fence in nine hundred sixty one while some tried to flee to the west above ground many hundreds try to escape underground at least seventy five tunnels were dug beneath the war in berlin most of them from the west to help friends and relatives trapped in the east we met car holds up full who told us how he tried to

help east germans to freedom he showed us the place where he started digging a tunnel today it's a construction site the goal back then to reach that house on the other side in the east about eighteen meters away. very hard work you could only progress one to one and a half meters per day i remember being completely alone in the tunnel for a few days hearing the tram rumbling above me my heart was pounding like i was really scared i thought the tunnel would be discovered it was well known that security forces in the east could open up a tunnel somewhere and just start shooting inside. the wall from the beginning an activist in one thousand nine hundred sixty three he teamed up with these five men to dig the tunnel they worked on it for four months almost six decades. he's the archaeologist who recently discovered the tunnel

entrance this dark patch of earth. to meet the man who actually built this tunnel was a special moment for me we spoke for several hours when we first met and it's like a piece of puzzle that you put together we have the excavation the findings but now also the actual exchange with a living source that's an important element of the tunnel was almost complete when the east germany secret police found out about it and shut it down but it wasn't all for nothing. the result was in vain yes but the fact that we try to bring people to freedom and to give them hope that is never in vain that's always good regardless how it ends. as for people we felt committed to help those who were not free and couldn't raise their voice was diminished. it's been almost three decades since the brawling war came

down and discoveries like a secret tunnel entrance show that history in berlin remains very much alive and relevant as long as the stories are told. the winter olympics in p. young chang in south korea are on friday or rather they begin on friday and all eyes will be on the women's ice hockey where the two koreas are fielding a joint team for the first time and after months of tension in the region the team hopes to unify a people but many south korea are not happy and protesters vented their frustration at the joint team's first ever game. careers joint women's ice hockey team have held their first winter olympics warm up game against sweden outside the arena in incheon they were angry protests of some demonstrators travelling hundreds of kilometers. i support a unified team only if it's sincere but the north korean players are part of

a propaganda campaign by the king john regime so i oppose this unified team on the table but. for others however the exhibition game was a reason to celebrate intense interest has followed the unified korean team since the idea was announced last month tickets sold out fast the swedish team dominated for large spells but fans were greatly infused by some good play from the hosts north korean forward young so young is optimistic about the team's prospects of p.r. chan games. more than two mothers as a unified team if we skate and skate all together i think we'll put on a good show and i hope the results will be cared. for. and we would like a lot of support from all over the world. the koreans produced a brave performance against the fifth ranked swedish team the final score sweden three korea one expectations were high ahead of the first joint korean women's ice

up again the north korean players had a lot to prove polls have shown the south korean public opposes a unified team coach sarah murray thinks her team could get out of the group stage four years ago we were just happy to be here and we didn't think that we could win we wanted to but we didn't think we could in now and seeing how much our teams improved seeing how well we competed in this game we think that we have a good chance of advancing this saturday korea's unified women's icici team will face switzerland at the olympic games itself. on now we head to the united states where the philadelphia eagles have finally shed their underdog status to win their first ever super bowl against long time favorites the new england patriots and wow did people celebrate in the streets that amazing victory a forty one thirty three victory in american football's greatest match and a trophy drought stretching back fifty eight years that wind triggered scenes of

high emotion in philadelphia even some fireworks as you can see thousands of fans packing the city center to celebrate have a look. of the way is. the if you would selfie of finally has a super bowl after years in the shadows eagles fans are rightly making the most of the forty one thirty three victory over the new england patriots. they may have been the underdogs but the eagles went on the offensive right from the start the bold and adventurous game plan led by quarterback nick foles paid off as they've raced to a lead. and they pay tom brady and the patriots made a late comeback this wasn't enough the eagles sealing a forty one thirty three victory. follows who was on the drafted in three games before the playoffs was the hero he threw three touchdowns and racked up three

hundred seventy trey yards you know being a part of this being drafted to philadelphia and be unfortunate enough to come back and be a part of this team to be a piece of disposal. i mean is there a long time coming and you know i know there's going to be a lot of celebrating tonight tears were flowing in the streets of philadelphia a first ever super bowl ranking is the city's proudest sporting achievement i. just amazing it's just amazing and the fact that that game was the best super bowl maybe ever face yes but that was a cherry on top of what a night. it's

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