this is it everything is fine for berlin posturing and provocation ahead of the winter olympics america's vice president arrives in south korea for the games with promises of tougher sanctions on the north meanwhile pyongyang showcases its military might for some though it's all about the spectacle excitement builds in host city john chiang as the olympic torch glides ever closer we'll have all that

built up for our sports team plus a germany's or probable new government gets the european stamp of approval and that's not just because berlin will contribute more to e.u. budgets forget the details from brussels correspondent and the textile company in burke enough i also using the internet to fend off chinese competition a look at the quality cotton garments of that are a runaway hit in europe. i'm loyal to her are great to have you along everywhere. the feud over north korea's nuclear program moves to center stage on the eve of the olympic games in south korea u.s. vice president mike pence has arrived in seoul and is promising new more aggressive sanctions against the north while he met. with south korean president moon jay in

following on his warning not to allow pyongyang to quote hide behind the olympic batter and today kim jong owner presided over a military parade a show of force after sending athletes and performers over the border well that move is seen as either a bit to thaw in relations with the south or a ploy to provoke the u.s. north korea and the united states are still sending mixed messages a day before the twenty teen winter games. despite signaling it was willing to talk north korea hasn't traded the same for the olive branch quite yet pyongyang staged a massive military parade marking the founding of its armed forces. addressing his troops north korean leader kim jong un called on his military to be on the ready to repel quote invasive forces much further celt pyongyang is trying to put its best

foot forward sending kim jong sister of the north korean leader as part of their olympic delegation she'll be the first member of the north's ruling family to cross the demilitarized zone. the u.s. is response is also a mixed bag american vice president pence is meeting regional leaders ahead of the games he's already warned the u.s. is preparing more aggressive sanctions on the north. and he promises korea's president that the u.s. wouldn't rest until pyongyang abandons its nuclear ambitions. and allow me to do for sure you. and the people of south korea and the united states of america will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder in our effort to bring maximum pressure to bear on north korea until that time comes when they finally and permanently. and to reverse employee abandon their nuclear and ballistic missile ambitions. the

world may be coming together for the winter olympics but the gulf between washington and north korea is as wide as ever. our joining me now is eight and foster carter korea expert at leeds university in the u.k. a very good day aiden up john yang holding a military parade as it rattle south korea's nurse just before tomorrow's winter olympics opening ceremonies i think i think it's annoyed when this sort of new rather delicate time in the stair bonhomie they have set sail and it's totally gratuitous without going into lots of detail we haven't got time full thirty eight used to be the army day in north korea but it hasn't been for years they changed it to april and so if suddenly it brought it back again lickin we know the reason that that slightly rained on the south's no military parade so it's a kind of annoyed that the south has kind of brushed it off and hopes that it is things will go well nonetheless ok well arguably it collapsing tomorrow is opening ceremonies as the arrival of the north's

a diplomatic delegation on saturday that slated to meet with the south korean president tell us more about that. well this really is something i mean until the announcement that kim jong un's sister was company m i tended to the view that mr what was happening although very welcome it's nice to have some respite from months and months of crisis if he doesn't seoul and you know a lot of course but it was it was all stuff that's happened before you know we've now got a twenty year history there not recently most of it ten years ago almost ten years ago of the last south contacts you know they've had cheerleaders for a vote that's not but it's really interesting as as was correctly said it's the first time a member of what i guess you can call the royal family of the logo this must be a coat his country is coming south we don't know what can come of that because of course the whole situation is hemmed in by the new there is still an if we were so forget that we have vice president pence of the us a firmly reminding everybody at every opportunity how battles careerist. have talked

a little bit about south korea is that president because he finds himself a bit between a rock and a hard place. that's nice i've just written something with a different much a full i think as a kind of olympic sport cold mountain tightrope walking. is good too but you know he he's going to be really capitol hill lose his balance so should we have skating on thin ice sorry senator says he really it's a very delicate line because what is the space exactly i mean it's not tickle of faith that people like him center left south koreans of a certain age but she his family was from the north that you want to you know the circle sunshine policy who may remember back in the day that engagement is a good idea now a lot of younger south koreans to his surprise don't actually share that view they wouldn't say pleased about the joint hockey team for instance and the americans certainly have and i have a prime minister of japan reminding everybody that north korea is a nuclear family factor which is true of many other things horrible human rights

record so it's quite easy to see how each will be watching to see how he how far he leans i wish him luck in late he doesn't fall off that tight rope all right a name just for the record i'm going to go with the nice to foster carter korea expert at least university in the u.k. thank you so much for weighing at leisure. all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world. gumby eye has rejoined the british commonwealth after all fifty two member states unanimously approved the move a flag raising ceremony marking the change has been held in london while the west african nation withdrew from the group back in two thousand and thirteen but new president dumbell barrow signalled if he weavers the decision to leave the commonwealth and other international bodies. the united nations says more than three hundred child soldiers have been released by rebel groups in south sudan hundreds more are expected to be freed in the coming weeks the un estimates that

nineteen thousand children are serving in armed groups in the civil war broke out in twenty eight thirteen. zero eight people have died and three others are missing after a world collapse in southern china local media report that a sudden leak inside a subway station construction site cost the major road to cave in. rescuers in taiwan are combing through the rubble following choose days powerful earthquake around fifty people are still on accounted for at least nine were killed and hundreds more injured in the quake aftershocks combined with rain and low temperatures are hampering rescue efforts. hard to believe that this was once a three star guesthouse in a taiwanese beach town today while ian's marshall hotel is just a pile of mangled wreckage. how low can you hear me the rescue is you know they're

hoping that somewhere in the rubble someone is left alive but this search is proving very difficult and dangerous. aftershock the rescue his colleague and his walkie talkie here so the first responders of forster trait for now many of the quite victims why the inside the mosque or not the three star hotel the bt in. the residential tower it's located in is still listing precariously they support have been brought in to stop it fully niver entirely. and this is the moment the cost of the destruction a sane captured inside a utah style. people rush for the exit as the magnitude six point four tremont strikes it hits in the middle of the night a used to quite a even side that was shocked by these quakes impact. states and that's what then it

got out this time i was really scared until now icon is that fear is still that you know that i am still a phrase because things kept on fooling both and chopsticks fell in the kitchen and broke my mother that was even more frightened because she cannot walk by you it may be too much all over and it's a rescue operation continues people are starting to us why did some buildings but not others collapse taiwan has strict building codes but construction experts say the worst hit buildings were built before then now some a asking if more should be done to enforce the codes and stop more towers toppling when the next quite. strikes. european leaders are welcoming the deal reached by germany's two biggest parties to form a coalition government it's been more than four months now since germany held elections european council president donald tusk traveled straight to roland for talks with america he called the deal quote good news

a coalition agreement reached on wednesday would see berlin contributing more to e.u. budget something proselyte sees as a welcome change also due to meet with the commission president yorker this evening . our right let's find out what this would be government could mean for europe with political correspondent thomas they're here with me on the set and with max hofmann brussels for chief a very good day to you both gentlemen want to start off with you thomas if i may the e.u. is not wasting any time to v.i.p.'s in town today indeed and that just stresses the importance of europe for this coalition agreement if you read the coalition agreement it's one hundred seventy seven pages long but it starts with the message of a new stocks to europe and that something is also reinforced by the fact that the foreign ministry and the finance ministry will be in the hands of the social democrats the foreign ministry will be in the hands of martin schultz who is passionately pro european hides who has indeed stress on various occasions that he would like

a strong good judgment participation within european institutions and he has a proven track record as well all right to max nobody's breaking out the champagne just yet but is this agreement a step in the right direction for germany's european partners. well i think i heard some champagne bottles over there at the european commission because of what thomas does mention it's all over the handwriting of cruel joke or the president of the european commission i'm sure he's very satisfied with it and he told us as much but the real importance here is the real important message for the rest of europe germany is most likely at least back has most likely again or likely at least a functioning government and that's important for what the european union is attempting to do in the next months and years big reforms for example the euro zone reform and again as drawn through do you want to put it we have to repair the roof of the european union as long as the sun is shining and you can't do that without

german government ok you can't do that without a german government thomas this is a marriage of convenience it's a day after give us a sense of how this deal is going down well it's such a not a marriage of love you can say that these are very much reluctant partners feel the need to work together in order to avoid fresh elections or avoid avoid a minority government so from that perspective there is a certain size of relief that germany at least has this coalition deal but that has been criticism today criticism leveled against i'm going to merkel in particular about the loss of that key finance ministry let's remember that the finance minister was held for a very long time by a vote conservative here in in germany that has also been criticism leveled against not in shows who have previously said that he would never enter merkel led government and now he's saying that he wants to be the next foreign minister of germany on government so although they have to be in some relief that germany has this coalition deal it has also been accompanied by a lot of criticism now right now max you're features prominently in this coalition

deal but it's short in detail and substance does that worry brussels. and you're right it's more of the big vision for europe and a commitment to the european union but if you look at the text that it's unclear how they want to fulfill this goal just to give you an example more importance to the european parliament all right but that's this and this is treaty change for example how do they want to do that more money into the into the e.u. budget ok but does that mean only germany or also all the others but i think the bottom line here at least for the european institutions right now is that the message is positive that the euro germany is willing to pay more that is one of the key messages as we just heard earlier so for now even if there is a lack of detail and even if we know that. michael the french president are not necessarily on the same page when it comes for example to eurozone finance minister or euro zone budget they have proven in the last months that they're more than willing to work together to try to find some common ground thomas does this didn't

deal now mean that the social democrats are out of their rut got their mojo back well it's suddenly good for them that they got those three key ministries foreign ministry finance minister. minister they can push their european policies forward on the social justice policies forward but if you look internally in the s.t.g. there is a very big division among s.p.d. party members and in fact those party members will be deciding whether this goes ahead they have to vote four hundred sixty three thousand of them have to vote on whether they approve this deal than just under no circumstance sure that they will give the green light now right thomas sparrow max hofmann thank you both gentlemen . well this whole attempt to form a new government it could still fail if party members reject it as leader martin shows who went into this election hoping to turn the party's fortunes around oversaw the s.p.d.m. worst ever election result well now he and parliament group leader andrea

knowledges face the difficult task of persuading the s.p.d. as party base to give its approval to this new government. and for that from our social media desk is here with me to discuss that we actions online you've been tracking the spotty members reactions to this deal to listen well there's one word that stands out looking at comments by s.p.d. members on social media and we're days into which means disappointed the backlash online was pretty huge and immediate as soon as the leadership announced the deal this member says here i will vote a big fat no and the party member ballot and after that i will leave the party another member here says i feel betrayed by the leadership i will vote no roco at the party member ballot so you can really tell a lot of party members are disillusioned and this will be

a big problem for the s.p.d. or they blaming well a lot of the disappointment is there acted towards. the head of the party as we also heard from thomas just earlier and many viewed him as a breath of fresh air during the election campaign and back then he clearly said no to a new grand coalition and now here we are not only he's supposed to he supported the gro after all and i mean he's a me too he's going to abandon the party their ship so many s.p.d. voters are feeling betrayed and here is one of them saying i cheered for you during the election campaign i guess i was wrong another one says i have been a loyal s.p.d. voter for eighteen years in the next election i will have to place my vote somewhere else for the first time in my life. and of course they that not everybody's taking to social media to share their views it's mainly the youth and

they are also the ones who want to push the most for change and also considering that if we look at the average age of s.p.d. party members across germany there the average is. between sixty and eighty years old so in we need to take what we see on line with with a grain of salt right you know what the youth wing of the s.p.d. is important in the sense that they've been very vocal in their criticism of totally i mean since the election last six to ten for the s.p.d. as a youth wing has been speaking up against older party leaders they've been saying we need to renew the party and they have been very vocal online and they've definitely leading the debate online they also made the hash tag no growth they their slogan and they made it into a successful social media campaign they have also a passionate leader young leader kevin kuhn at who has been spared in the movement

and that's him saying no growth doesn't only mean rejecting the coalition treaty it also means rejecting the current political style that's been inactive and they use in the s.p.d. they see the leadership as out of touch and out of date they also see it they've been complaining that they are they've not been taken seriously because they're they're young only because they're young and so i mean they're certainly among among the most disappointed by yesterday's deal but they're also the ones who will probably keep fighting very hard he for change so this still could turn into a nail biter or for us are i thank you so much for that about your thank you. and i want to hand you over now to daniel because he's got some more good economic news for germany's future government is that even possible that's right and only the tiniest of time the downsides joni's trading partners constantly complain about its high plus the country ships out

a lot more that it buys in and exports have reached a record high yet again hitting one point three trillion euros worth of algae cars i mean shoes and bags. b. as to name just a few that's an increase of more than six percent compared to the previous year's figures which were also a wreck hold but that's not the whole story imports increased as well to just over a trillion euros narrowing germany's notorious trade surplus to two hundred forty five billion euros a step in the right direction for trading partners but could it be the very start of erosion in the german economy after all other countries are lowering taxes and spending on infrastructure to stimulate domestic demand well comments bank's chief economist telling low attacks actually isn't at the top of the wish list for german industry. you are right the corporate taxes and germany are still high also

they have been a couple of years ago they have been lowered but i think when i talk to our corporate clients they do not primarily complain about high corporate taxes they complain that the new government would continue to put more bureaucratic burdens on them that they tighten the regulation of the german labor market i think if the new government is they're not investing enough in better roads bridges and did to infrastructure i think these are the main problems from the viewpoint of drug companies. china's stats for january show a similar picture to germany though more dramatic most troubling imports surged almost forty percent last month the country is clinging on to its trade surplus of about twenty billion dollars after an increase in exports by eleven percent that's being closely watched by the u.s.

as the other as the two nations tussle over trade the trumpet ministration recently increased duties on chinese washing machines and solar modules and beijing retaliated starting an antidumping investigation of u.s. sorghum exports. that's a plant you had to google tough talk on trade from justin trudeau the canadian prime minister saying no deal could be better than a bad deal on nafta the countries in the middle of renegotiating the decades old trade pact saying that he won't accept anything that doesn't benefit the canadians he striking the same tone as donald trump has called for through free trade to be fair trade both sides are now under pressure to strike a new deal within just a few months. it's been one and a half weeks since the latest round of nafta talks between canada the united states and mexico computed but they go shooters saying they're moving forward but with very slow progress. during

a visit to the united states canadian prime minister justin trudeau indicated his government is willing to compromise on renegotiating the trade pact that u.s. president donald trump called the worst trade deal in history but trudeau said there are limits we know there are ways to modernize and improved enough that in a way that will create a win win win when we include mexico there is a path absolutely for that but we are not going to take a win loss just for the sake of getting a deal there is several sticking points in the talks like demands from the u.s. delegation to have more u.s. content in north american made automobiles that makes the deadline to wrap up talks by the end of march the man vicious to many observers the pressure is on the negotiators to reach a resolution before the mexican general election in july and u.s. mid-term elections in november. more business later on but now it's back to late and the e.u. is getting tough with her earlier parliament to strasburg has adopted

a resolution expressing deep concern about the human rights situation in turkey the debate addressed measures introduced by presidents a rich to watch and the aftermath of an attempted coup in twenty sixteen all this includes the firing of civil servants the closure of media organizations and the arrest of journalists while turkey's also been the heavily criticized for its ongoing military assaults on a critical enclave in northern syria. all right we can talk to our turkey correspondent now a giuliani is in istanbul. how has this european parliament resolution gone down in turkey. well that criticism hasn't gone down well with ankara for sure turkey's even says minister and the challenge today picked up on especially on the concerns regarding turkey's military

or peroration in syria and he said on twitter i quote him here the concerns of our allies are baseless turkey is only using its right to self-defense and that's what the e.u. and others don't want to understand and he also accused the e.u. paul humans of showing sympathy with terrorists here referring to the syrian kurdish y p g militia he was rather silent though on all the criticisms concerning the domestic human rights situation in turkey and this might be due to the fact that i'm current now claims it actually fulfills all criteria for the long desired visa liberalization let's remember the e.u. gave turkey a list of seventy two criteria it has to fulfill on its way to visa free travel for turkish citizens to the european union's schengen zone and that includes an improvement off freedom of expression and other human rights here in turkey but i'm gross says we did our homework we're fine and we're sending everything over to brussels but but in the end the e.u. member states and the european parliament will have to decide on that's and after

today's resolution i doubt a the european parliament will come up with a positive vote all right while relations are between turkey and the e.u. are in a deep freeze for some time now what leverage does the e.u. still have with on craw. well when it comes to influencing democrats here in turkey the rule of law i actually think the european union lost much of its credibility in the pastas and much of its leverage on her and that actually makes it so easy for president and his party to use the end card whenever it suits them domestically is saying that the e.u. doesn't respect us they don't want us and that's what many of his vote actually want to hear in fact turkey e.u. relations are on hold right now nothing is really happening concerning membership talks but that doesn't mean that there is nothing turkey wants from the european union they do want a visa free travel they want economic cooperation specifically an upgrade of the

customs union and they want continued cooperation when it comes to migration and security so the e.u. does have sticks and carrots the problem is that the u. member states in brussels will have to come up with a coherent political strategy on how their future relationship with turkey should look like and the uncertainty concerning this is something turkish politicians here are very well aware of and they are politically playing with this are turkey correspondent julie yulia han from istanbul thank you for your continued coverage. experts have called it the rarest white diamond ever a flawless one hundred two carat stone is on the sleigh in london where it is expected to fetch a world record prize at auctions other bees auction house says it expects the strong berry sized stone to sell for well over the record of thirty three million dollars mined in botswana that is the only stone over one hundred carats to receive

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sanctions on pyongyang and europe has really welcomed the deal between germany's biggest political parties to form a new coalition government but party leaders faced a criticism domestically for the concessions made to finalize the negotiations. russia has registered the eight candidates who will face off against vladimir putin in march's presidential election while this might sound like the premise for a hotly contested vote but with putin's approval rating at around eighty percent and one of his biggest rivals alexina volley barred from running he's expected to stroll to victory. an ice cold start to election year for vladimir putin this russian orthodox ritual symbolizes rebirth a reinvigorated putin is vying for his fourth term as russian president current polls show the odds are on his side. so who are the top three candidates taking on

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his showmanship. in the last presidential elections a campaign video showed him whipping a lazy donkey supposed to symbolize russia into moving forward looking like. chalk is another fresh face in the elections though she's currently only polling at around one percent her platform if you're sick of all the other candidates then vote for me. sub chuck started out as a socialite and a reality t.v. star before becoming a well known opposition journalist she's a fierce government critic and argues that the annexation of crimea was illegal. i want another kind of russia with the best scientists the best people who do their work best innovations a european russia this is very important for me because i consider russia to be

europe checks opponents say she is actually a kremlin pond to legitimize the vote they point to her close family ties with pollution. there are these three candidates maybe livening up the political debate in russia public support for them is moderate. even with some newcomers on the scene there's hardly a doubt that vladimir putin will win the upcoming presidential elections the latest opinion polls show him taking nearly seventy percent of the vote now the president just needs to make sure that it's many people as possible actually turn out to cast their ballot. and ensure when they're reporting we want to head to west africa now and a clever new company looking to bring in business from abroad that i was talking textiles but you know fast so is a traditional farming society and one of the main exports of the landlocked country is cultural but the competition from asia is steep textiles from. fast so are more

expensive in part because the country is phased out cultivation of genetically modified cotton wool entrepreneur and started up a website to sell traditional book cannot clothing and orders coming in from abroad including europe. all the fabrics here are made by hand every item is unique seamstresses so pillowcases suits and dresses the designs are developed by the boss herself. and they've been so successful that they sell as far away as europe the fabrics are made of one hundred percent organic cotton so good a sheltered affair. what i'm working on right now is intended for rome the people there are very interested in the material where it comes from made and the material to. see. that makes my team film is products more expensive than mass produced clothing the fabrics are woven on traditional looms

a single panel can take a day to produce. marketing the clothes might be difficult without the help of a buffet. he works together with ten small workshops and he offers their goods on his website today he's picking up a few jackets he tries them on himself on behalf of his online customers as it were he says the traditional craft is experiencing a revival. for saddam for the savvy to do quite a lot meso dolphin only in its hand woven cloth off a very traditional activity here and like you know it and i think there are at least one million women who are involved in it but if you saw that office that dotted it done it in so it didn't villages and cities it's become a new profession for women because they can learn a trade and the fabric is very durable more and more people here are buying it work you know so on three hundred also made you feel sort of what. this company is

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now you know your country is experiencing an intense export boom when it runs out of something as mundane as wooden pallets used to transport goods all that's what's happening in germany it doesn't matter how good your planning is there are so many factors involved from the machines that make the pallets to the forest the produce the wood it's an operational might not. the family owned company a monster is running at full capacity now in its sixth generation that specialized in producing wooden transportation pallets forty years ago. the head of the family says they've never had to cope with the kind of overwhelming demand they face right now. and the other shanty last year they said was piled high from wall to wall with pallets now it's cleaned out. and why is that now that the economic boom industry is literally pulling out pallets straight out of the dryer and straight on to the trucks we can hardly even manage to build up a small buffer as

a reserve. not just on off the ball. last year vingle hided took on twenty new workers now with a total workforce of ninety the company is having to work in shifts just to keep up with the demand. last year germany's pilot manufacturers turned out one hundred ten million of them. that would fill up over one hundred fifty thousand forty ton trucks. the sector association says output has doubled in size ten years . in business in general the companies are scraping the production barrel basically they're trying to squeeze everything they can out of their production lines with extra shifts holding people back from holiday times essentially taking all possible measures to ensure that every last minimal capacity is utilized just to make sure the demand is met somehow enough but. think of it is waiting impatiently for new machinery. would dry as and heating systems were ordered

a long time ago. but the economic boom is evident here as well. as keep their own enough of the company's left that make us special is machinery those still on the market today have extensive lead times we sometimes have to wait two or three years for a new machine. even the mild european winter is a factor behind the shortages managing director marcus winkle hider says it's hard to get wood from eastern europe right now. logging in eastern europe is done mainly in winter there's a lot of moral and i. think i heard it is lucky it can process locally sourced wood in its own sawmill that means it can compensate for the shortage of eastern european would at least. unpalatable fraud investigations in hungary have reached prime minister viktor all

once family and gary in particular is following a recommendation by the european anti fraud office to investigate a suspect fraud involving e.u. funds and thirty five public lighting projects in several hungary and towns they were carried out by the company controlled by son in law and he also says the investigations are politically motivated to head the national election a from. hungary receives billions of euros in e.u. development funds every year and that's it for your business. the athletes are raring to go and there's full any going on in and around the olympic village of course we're talking about tomorrow's start of the winter olympics say in south korea and that harm is here from our sports plenty of sports that we have to get prepared for also a lot of drama has already played out even the olympic athletes from russia as they are going to be known at this live picture of desire to get the drama started with

some courtroom drama ahead of the games they you know they're still trying to fight their way into these games all right now the court of arbitration of this four sport turned down the appeals of thirteen a russian athletes an additional forty seven russians will find out on friday if they can participate well meanwhile the olympic flame has a couple more obstacles to overcome before it reaches its final destination. the olympic torch his journey is almost over with the opening ceremony just around the corner the olympic flame took a spectacular ride on a zip wire on its way to be on chang. this stop is one of the more daring stages of its two thousand eight hundred kilometer journey around south korea. not a fate for the faint hearted. at least the next leg was far easier for those watching to stomach and the olympic village there was an unexpected visitors

russian athletes who had been banned from the games by the i.o.c. were presenting their case to the court 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 work appeared last week voted to cast panels and thirty two hundred athletes were not invited by you see a final decision is expected early on friday with only hours to spare before the games open but the i.o.c. on the only ones with a close eye on the course decision regarding the russian athletes the world anti-doping agency is also in south korea for the games president craig really made his views clear. but from my point of view much wider. entirely. to a process that greed and to try to pin the compliance and the improvement of the russian not you don't think agency. organizers are

hoping the legal wranglings and other issues surrounding the games will fade into the background once the action is fully underway freezing host city pyong chang is ready for its moment in the sun for the next two and a half weeks it will be at the center of the sporting world. it will be the center of the sporting world but at the same time is this casting a dark cloud over the games i think if it's casting a dark cloud those clouds are going to clear pretty quickly once the games actually get started i mean fans of the russian team are probably upset about their athletes being unfairly targeted by a political conspiracy undermined by the by the western media a few other people who are really into this sort of anti doping movement are going to say that it's great that the russians aren't there in big numbers because they have proven themselves to be cheats in the last winter olympics but you know most people are engaged with that that much they're going to turn on their t.v.'s they're going to root for their countries they're going to look at some beautiful

winter scenery they're going to watch unusual sports at least by our everyday standards like curling and biathlon and they're going to enjoy themselves i'm pretty certain that once these games get started even maybe russian fans who are going to watch their team under the olympic banner under the you know olympic athletes of russia name everyone's going to just enjoy these games ever going to be rooting out for their team of course let's talk about curling you just mentioned it because the games officially start tomorrow for crying out already underway yet curly did get underway and in fact the olympic athletes from russia were among the participants in the mixed doubles round robin face they face off against the united states and last night was one of the many of the. events underway and one of the good things to come out of this event you know a bunch of teams winning in others losing was a strong turnout and the crowds organizers were thinking that maybe curling might

be a hard one to attract people to what they actually sold more than ninety percent of the tickets and that's been basically the case as the games have closer and closer the organizers are selling tickets and some of the worries that we're going to see a lot of empty events have begun to dissipate. right now at these games they have been dubbed the pisa games because north and south korea will march out tomorrow under a unity flag is this just symbolism oh it is symbolism it's not just symbolism symbolism is important in areas like this i mean north korea and south korea have had a symbolically fraught relationship for a very long time and to see them putting together a joint's ice hockey team as we're seeing some footage of here i think is a really positive step. they have traded insults at times north korea has called the south a puppet regime of the west and of you know thrown around symbols in a very negative way and as we've seen here they walked together in the two thousand

and two thousand and four games here in athens and it's always better when these two countries are talking when they are cooperating and not simply trading insults and or you know one shooting test missiles over the other i think this is a very important step in the right direction for these divisions and specially that part of the same team moving forward thank you so much matter and we greatly appreciate it are going to turn out to were german cup football last year's finalists frankfurt booked their semifinal at thanks to a three now home win over mines they can thank their opponents for some easy scoring chances. to defeat gelb's berg in the league frankfurt's working to put things right a red beach had their first chance the resulting corner was delayed though as mine sprang through carnival suites on to the pitch gratefully by the referee at the mines defense was handing out gifts to keeper ready adler's catastrophic error

allowed the sign read page to make it one nail. after half time it got even worse for minds alexandre hacks missed control dribble beyond out of his reach and into the nets to bale. and tack. was it folds again soon after his lax thoughts aloud to moscow rail to chip out and confirm frank puts place in the same ease their opponent's misery was and over the journey lance received a straight great colorful base at least minds have the carnival to cheer them up but frank puts cup run continues. and in thursday's other cup clash oka were made to work very hard against guests but managed to book their spot in the semifinals got off to a perfect start when the grito burks dollar scored after ten minutes was worth apply pressure on the hosts and were unlucky not to level when eunice smallest

struck the crossbar literally on the great sky see the game for a shocker would be clear the shot off the live one nil the funhouse for. moreland a syrian film director talal derek a has just won the world cinema grand jury prize for his documentary of fathers and sons at the sundance festival in the us our merrill from our culture desk is here and robin this film takes us inside the lives of a radical islamic family in northern syria where the father is training his entire family to become jihad us yeah i mean he's posed as a war photographer and also posed as a sort of radical islam a sympathizer a managed to infiltrate this family of abu osama who's one of the

founding members of the al nusra front and he's training his eight almost from busts to become feiss for an islamic caliphate you know and interesting me in the film you never see his wife or his daughters tell day he didn't see them in all the time he was that he hugged them sometimes in another room they're sort of keep kept completely away from it. it's a very chilling documentary because the father loves his as a father of the children idolized and yet he is sort of indoctrinating them and training them to be fighters from a very very young age and he also in the film it shows two of his eldest sons at the time there were twelve and thirteen acts as a sort of training camp the film is produced here in berlin let's see a little bit of it we talked also exclusively to the director who we'll hear from

him too tom. an islamist training camp for children in northern syria. documentary filmmaker talal durkee returned to his home country at considerable risk to share the daily life of a radical islamist family. i want to understand. how it's happened how you become what you are who are those people how they look from the inside what is the courts what is the thing that they can the used to to brainwash the people. the family home is the meeting place for radical islamists from all over the world the film's focus is on the children who grow up with

a mix of dedicated parenting and radical doctrine. that the the. this middle or the. without comment of fathers and sons looks at a generation of children who have no understanding of anything but war. they want to have a normal life they want happiness even if they are to grow up in a war zone and in the jihadist term the kids just see the war they had a child. and and that is the measure of the measure of a buoyant on the fear of a boat about their legacy would say you want that the father of the side from the moment his son is born he named him she knew it was so nobody loved him and that's mean that the kids in all his life you don't have

a choice. with both haunting and beautiful images of fathers and sons shows the hopelessness of those whose lives will only lead to the front. armor of an amazing inside view and he's evidently a very brave man is he in danger now what yes i'm sure he is i mean he spent two years behind enemy lines pretending to be somebody else he except he's a marked man he doesn't char way from it i mean he accepted his warder sundance in front of the world's press who were photographing him he was interviewed by our reporter sonya stallman didn't request that his face was covered or anything i mean you know he's a filmmaker. it's not to say he isn't concerned about his safety as he told us himself nobody wrote me or thread me on or at and this is

very weird this is make me feel not sick you know because you know if reports just start to try to get revenge or writing this is be they are not serious and when like nothink have been like this silent before the store so this is this is thing i have to take care of it take care of it very carefully. i mean he's on to stay a very brave man he can't go back to syria incidentally the rest of that interview you can read online at d w dot com slash culture and just like things like you recommend but this film and his other film which won a prize when sent to holmes both extraordinary films that people should see a little make sure to check him out. for the.

good all right thank you so very much robin i greatly appreciate that all right this is you know we news thanks so much for joining us we don't forget you can stay updated twenty four seven on our web site at w dot com we'll leave you now with video of canadians singing a different song members of parliament belted out the country's updated national anthem with a line being amended to make it gender neutral enjoy. oh god all their years lon through gabriel hot dogs come on highland run last year because you yes didn't you understand all its years off a log on east log you up you did leading on his hands was in august

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from berlin tonight political posturing and provocation on the eve of the winter olympics american president arrives in south korea for the games with promises of tougher sanctions on the north meanwhile. its military might for some though it's all about the spectacle excitement builds in the host city beyond change as the olympic torch ever closer. all the latest on the build up for.