this is deja vu news live from berlin posturing and provocations ahead of the winter olympics in south korea america's vice president arrives for the games with promises of tougher sanctions on north korea and shock and put on a show of force just as him just one sends a trusted envoy to the south in a bid to go home for lunch. also coming up germany's new government starts to take shape revealing potential shifts and policy that could ripple of cross europe we have seen what could be yet. the man europe needs but can barely stomach the post-coup crackdown orchestrated by trucks president underscored need today as the

european parliament examines back countries human rights record. i'm sumi so much scandal welcome to the show north korea has staged a military parade and rally just one day before south korea opens the winter olympics the timing of the parade is being seen as a provocation usually a holes this parade in april to mark the founding of its armed forces a speaking at the parade route korea's leader kim jong il and set his nation had become capable of showcasing its stature as a world class military power to the rest of the world now this all comes as u.s. vice president mike pence a said the world should not become distracted by warming ties between south and north korea and it comes as the two nations are prepared to join up under a unit. flag at the winter olympics in chiang earlier today has landed in south

korea after a visit to japan while there he said the u.s. planned to shortly unveil new aggressive sanctions against the north and he said washington could not allow killing and to quote hide behind the olympic banner as it threatens the region. let's bring in journalist jason strother who is standing by in seoul hi jason mike pence is promising new aggressive sanctions as we heard against the north what could they entail a ride well there's no word from washington what on what new sanctions could be but we could expect that the u.s. would go after more foreign companies that are doing business with north korea now of course here in south korea seoul has been bending the rules in regard of sanctions allowing some north korean officials to arrive here as well as a north korean boat to transport its orchestra here however if new sanctions are

imposed against the regime following or even during the olympics it would certainly be a blow to south korean president moon j.n. who's really tried to bridge the gap here and bring north korea into the fold could this announcement from pence then throw this entire process the stall that we're seeing into doubt. i don't think so right now there is good momentum built here of course on friday north and south korean athletes will walk together into the opening ceremony under a unified korean flag they're fielding a joint women's ice hockey team and other north korean athletes will be competing in and several of bents at the peeling chong olympics so even if the u.s. were to impose new sanctions or tighten existing sanctions i don't think it would derail some of the goodwill that is being generated right now here jason that being said as we saw in north korea has held

a military parade on the eve of the games what do you make of that is an act of defiance i was certainly could be provocative but at the same time it appears to have been scaled down from what we were all expecting it didn't even broadcast this footage live it came out many hours after it took place in pyongyang south korea has been watching it i think they estimated around thirteen thousand soldiers took part in it as you mentioned the before i started speaking to you the parade had been moved from a date in april to now so certainly it is taking some of the spotlight away from pyongyang which is where south korea would much rather have the world of world's attention on right now journalist jason strother reporting from seoul thank you jason thank you now to some other stories making news around the world officials in venezuela has set april twenty second as the date for the

presidential election despite criticism that the early ballots won't be fair president nicolas mother who has already launched his campaign for a second term and stance asthe only candidate. deadly flooding and mudslides have swept bolivia following days of heavy rains homes and cars have been damaged by mud and rubble a state of emergency has been declared in several weeks since. and germany's two biggest political parties have agreed on a deal to form a coalition government they made the announcement in berlin after another grueling game of give and take more than four months after the country's elections chancellor angela merkel from the conservatives and martin scholz from the social democrats and now nst the deal no it means merkel will keep the chancellor's post but the social democrats will have control of some the most important ministries of the deal does so have to be approved by that party's rank and file.

more that story now with our political correspondent hans front with us here in our studio and also max hope i'm a standing by in a process good to have you both with us let's start with you as we said germans finally have a blueprint out for a new government if the s.p.d. rank and file approve it that is the next hurdle what did you make of this coalition agreement what is the vision here what stands out well the vote by the social democratic rank and file still has a dictate they say as you say but i think in the end they're likely to approve of the deal simply because the alternative is up to costly to contemplate as it were for new elections in which the social democrats would likely lose even more support if you look at vision in this in this coalition agreement vision is in short supply in politics at the moment but i think the strongest point is european policy they make a point of emphasizing that this agreement starts with a chapter on europe and that they want to continue integration and europe that they want to support european policy initiatives that this government is in fact going

to very strongly engage on the european scene especially with martin shuls with as many years in european politics that to be the foreign minister that's right the social democratic leader is giving up that leadership of his party in order to become foreign minister and obviously he was president of the european parliament for some years he was very involved in european politics and he has said that his role as foreign minister primarily will be a european role max that brings us to you know there in brussels a lot of sighs of relief i imagine over there from germany's european partners. there are some sighs of relief and by the way that wasn't only the head of the european parliament but he's also a close friend of another very important player in european politics and that's the president of the european commission and his influence can be felt in that coalition treaty we caught up with her yesterday evening and this is what he had to say about this. inclusion is that i wasn't able to study the finer points of the

coalition deal but i've been told that europe is mentioned three hundred twelve times what other country has made such a commitment to european topics right from the beginning of june i welcome this and i especially like the chapter on europe. so no huge surprise there are very happy european commission president in there but still there still some conflict also on the european side even if it's mentioned three hundred twelve times and that is because this coalition treaty this coalition deal is closer to a gentle include your crew in visions it's a little bit farther from what the french president in money we might call in visions for the future of europe max we also have to say that a social democrat here in germany is expected to now take over the finance ministry of very you know powerful position what are the implications then for the rest of europe in particular for the euro zone. and that's something that especially of course the parties on the left were very happy about we talked to some european

parliamentarians about it including for example from greece greece that thinks they suffered a lot from one of the former finance ministers of both going sharply he traumatized that country in a way although his insistence on austerity was weakened in his last years but he's still a symbol for that and so the hope in greece and with other social democrats all across the continent is that this spells the end of the german insistence on austerity and that's something apparently that mountain shoots was very examines about he said that also during his time as president of the european parliament i have to see of these hopes are dashed or not because a lot of shows the new finance minister in germany might be a little closer to show blood than some people on the left some politicians on the left would like him to be right could be some changes underway for europe will have to see our correspondent max hoffman for us in brussels and our political

correspondents front with us here in studio thank you both now turkey says human rights record is in the spotlight today as the european parliament in strasbourg votes on a resolution over measures introduced by on korea in the aftermath of an attempted coup in two thousand and sixteen this includes the sacking of civil servants the closure of media organizations the arrests of journalists turkey has also been heavily criticized for its ongoing military assault on a kurdish enclave in northern syria and i meanwhile turkish president edge of type there to one has been invited to talks with e.u. ministers in vogue area in march let's get more on that now us from the european parliament in strasbourg we have a green party member of parliament rebecca herm's with us we're back i thank you for joining us on the program first of all president ever to one has been invited to these a round table talk that we mentioned both area in march why is the summit being held. so i think it's not wrong

to meet and to talk with president other one but this meeting makes sense if and therefore the resolution is a preparation for the if the heads of states and also the presidency of the european union is ready to talk on all of the negative points of the development internal development in turkey so in our resolution with the huge majority of the european parliament we will just all of the violations of human rights and what we call the disappearance of rule of law and respect to fundamental rights like freedom of expression in turkey and european union leaders have to be much more involved in the debate with turkish government and also the turkish president on this but rebecca what you call the disappearance of the rule of law you mentioned sacking of civil servants closing video in his ations arresting journalists. this

is crucial to national security there was an attempted coup it is facing threats of terrorism at home what right does the e.u. actually have to interfere with congress home affairs. i can tell you that i follow the situation closely i have even many friends across the political spectrum of turkey who are now it is imprisoned for being terrorists and i can tell you all those cases names and that i would swear they are not what turkish prosecutors call them but so besides my personal experience i would like to say that my reading of the situation is that the necessary investigation of the coup based on rule of law so far does not really take take place but instead this investigation and the fight against

terrorism is used as a pretext to put thousands and thousands of people into prison they are in pretrial detention some of them many of them more than a year i mean why they have no chance to a fair trial so the public in europe they know this about some journalists they are famous journalists and we all follow the cases of famous journalists what is good but behind this is the amount of cases nobody is following very green member of parliament rebecca harms with us i thank you so much for joining us on our program today. the watching t.v. news still to come the olympic torch is edging ever closer to young chang making its way to the winter games in spectacular fashion we have our olympic roundup later in the show. but first it is

a damage control time for deutsche bank let's get more with us as rescue we see a steady slide in its share price last week's release of fourth quarter results showing the worst revenue in seven in seven years from the despite of analyst downgrades from low price targets to sell recommendations they don't have on stall hell the dubious honor of being the worst performer among european banks years today. now what's going on that spring in our financial correspondent done in frankfurt the basal bank. daniel john cry and was hired a couple of years ago as the new broom but he's still struggling to set a new course for germany's heaviest financial battleship how hard can it be. yeah john crime the man from the united kingdom who by the way speaks almost perfect german came to the bank he was hired as

a true reform and by well he has been really struggling and during the press conference last week i was attending as well you could really feel that he is so much under pressure he has no promise to bring dacha vankin two thousand and eighteen back in the winning zone and he is very certain i guess that if this is not going to be the case most likely he is going to lose his job yes and the share price development of the bank or rather disappointing just during the last week it was dropping with eleven per cent in one year with eighteen per cent and the last three years forty five per cent so you can imagine many shareholders are very disappointed and that's why also big financial institutions at the moment are advising shareholders to sell their shares because they're even expecting the worse than in other good records cry and their rival commands bank has come out with fresh numbers today is investors happy about what the big hearing there yet

totally different scenario at home asked by the second biggest german lender their share prices actually went after within one year but almost seventy per cent and yes they came out with their numbers today they're reporting a net profit of one hundred fifty six million euros for last year's i was listening in two of the words from the press conference their goal is to focus in this year again more on the private customers until twenty twenty they want to gain two million new customers so yeah it looks much better over there a collapsed bank. thank you you thank. china's trade picked up in january after stumbling the previous months or snoopers insurgent imports put it the chinese economy under new footing imports surged almost forty percent year on year exports jumps to by eleven percent china's trade surplus narrowed that's being closely watched by the u.s.

as the two countries tussle over trade the trump administration in greece duties on chinese washing machines and so on more duels recent live in beijing retaliated by starting an anti dumping investigation of u.s. sorghum export it's. thought of the successful launch of space x.'s falcon heavy rocket into space on tuesday the image of a red tesla roadster floating in orbit is said to become an unforgettable unforgettable part of the legacy of a long musk bust down here on earth tesla revenue is anything but taking off it posted its worst ever quarterly loss of six hundred fifty seven million dollars amid warnings of increased spending the nice car company has yet to see real revenue from its mass market model straight after production delays and put the livery only about what one thousand five hundred vehicles needed to buy is last order and that's far below expectations. u.s.

government investigators say they've struck a major blow against an international cyber crime syndicate the u.s. justice department says thirty six members of an international crime ring have been charged with the fifth offenses thing to prove god and personal identity for certain members of the organization called in fraud have been arrested in the u.s. australia britain france kosovo and serbia investigators say the prime bring was a key harmful credit card fraud is believed to have caused more than five hundred million dollars in losses. that's it for me soon now texans back across the atlantic with the british prime minister faces some tough talk today that's right there have a prime minister theresa may is due to meet with her senior ministers amid infighting over their differing visions for the country after breakfast now there are a number of options on the table let's take a look at four different models that theresa may could adopt now britain could follow canada footsteps here it's concluded

a free trade agreement with brussels that's called sita that means a few trade tariffs and limited obligations or turkey it is also part of the customs union gives us a limited access to the single market and no role in e.u. decision making and then there is switzerland holding dozens of bilateral trade agreements with the e.u. and also with other countries it is not part of the customs union but it is part of the border free zone and then finally there is norway it has full access to the single market it participates in the schengen open border scheme and it also contributes to the european union's budget but it is not a fully you member has no voice and how the block is run so is norway a fitting model for a post brags that u.k. we've met norway's minister. heartbreaks it will affect no way astronauts again as any other e.u. member states and we really hope for an orderly withdrawal of the ok from the

european union because heartbreaks it creates a lot of uncertainties. to reach a bridge which. i am i might have played a slum in which a minister for e.u. affairs we are participating as a full member of the single market and we have all the same regulations in place as the e.u. countries so that makes the e.u. our whole market eighty percent of our exports goes to the european union and it's a market of five hundred million people. today i will give my speech to the parliament the current interferes the the. dog unsettled but as you know no is not a member of the european union but we're cooperate closely with the european union on many issues. noways one of the countries having the largest portion of foreign labor from the e.u.

countries in the way and we depend upon the workers and labor force from from other european countries. i think we see a more optimistic picture looking at the developments in europe than we had just a year ago and the economy is looking better and unemployment is the creasing and there hasn't been any domino effect. the reason why our model will not be a good fit for u.k. now is that we have the four freedoms including the movement of labor and part of the reason for u.k. wanting to leave the european union was not to have a free moment. neighbor so i think. for obvious reasons this will not be your case model because we also need to implement all the regulations for the single market

with less decision making power than u.k. has today. so i think they want to have the first freedoms and the single market regulations and a mission perhaps and just say here opinion and i don't know. what that interview was part of the special series a road to brag that and let's bring in our brussels correspondent garrick for more on the story hi carol you have been speaking to the norway's e.u. affairs minister and also to other politicians what advice do they have for managing it focus on the facts leave out the emotions to me and that is their message basically and you have to understand that norway has rejected e.u. membership twice so they know the debate they know all the arguments and basically they know as well that if you want to have the good parts of europe access to the internal market for instance you have to swallow some bitter pills almost back to tears and want a brags that agreement that

a similar no way except for those four freedoms of movement of goods people services and capital is that really realistic if you take the red lines that the u.k. has provided to you with things they do not want and if you take the models that are out there relationships like the norwegian model. let's semi detached style of relationship what you end up with is the canadian model that is what the chief negotiator of the human shield on you said and basically the message here is there will be no cherry picking so is it realistic no it's not what the british government wants to join asked after breakfast that's the association of non e.u. countries that have close relations with the e.u. including norway is britain welcome. i've asked the minister twice and she hesitated awhile and then she said well of course if they really want that seeing that norway is a law take her not and nor make her and she doesn't believe they want that but if

they would want that they would consider it so i would say a diplomatic way of saying not really and gary just briefly if you can we keep hearing it's better to have a some deal than no deal at all or rather sorry the e.u. is saying it's better to have no deal than a bad deal what would that mean for the u.k. if there is no deal. of course that's when the bulldozer goes over the cliff but but you're right to me both sides have made this argument i think the chief misunderstanding of breaks to tears was they thought they'd be better off with no deal than a bad deal but what they feel misunderstood is that for the e.u. the all the functioning of the internal market here is at stake if they start allowing some members to carry or or. countries that want to leave to cherrypick they would have to do that to everyone and that is why some norwegian diplomats have already hinted that they would also be if the u.k. gets to cherrypick they'd also be interested so the e.u. really has zero interest in making a bad deal here don't use garrett much as in brussels part of our road it to brag

that series thank you very much garrick. and now for a limb pick a round up on the eve of the opening ceremony dominating the day a thirteen russian athletes have failed in their bid in front of the court of arbitration for sport to take part in the games will take a look at that decision and more of the controversies curiosities and thrills under way in chiang. the olympic torch is journey is almost over we're just days left until the opening ceremony the olympic flame took a spectacular ride on a zip wire on its way to pyong chang. this stop is one of the more daring stages of its two thousand eight hundred kilometer journey around south korea not a feat for the faint hearted. at least the next leg was far easier for those watching to stomach. at the olympic village there were some unexpected visits is

russian athletes who've been banned from the games by the i.o.c. who are presenting their case of the course of arbitration for sport in the hope of having the decision overturned at the last minute the hearing concluded we presented the arguments and the fifteen athletes were here last week but had to cast ballots and thirty two hundred athletes were not invited by he was she a final decision for all the athletes expected on friday with only hours left to spare before the games open but the i.o.c. aren't the only ones with a close eye on the court's decision the world anti tipping agency's president craig reedie made his go with respect to russia's doping scandal very clear. but from what bunch of you much older says that wada operates entirely eighty two a process that in eight degrees and duchess to try to obtain the compliance and the improvement of the russian not to doping agency on

a lighter loads one spore was already on the way ahead of the games pin collecting another the pins specially made for each games offer a great opportunity to meet and trade the most sought after those offered by the national teams this year the most coveted pin will be one for the north korean delegation if there is one and thanks for watching t w we're back at the top.

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