this is g.w. news live from berlin from hero to zero in less than a week the social democrats here in germany are ousting their leader martin schulz just days after she negotiated there were turned to a coalition government what's more chill lose out on the post afford minister. also coming up south korea officially kicks off the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics fireworks fill the sky over the host city pyong chang but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate a final ruling bars dozens of russian athletes from the competition. this olympics

brings a first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north's ruling dynasty kim jong il and sister what is behind her diplomatic trip across the border. and skiers are falling hard for these slopes the all time mountains in northwest china are off the beaten track but tourists are flocking here now to the land where some say skiing may have been. time sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the leader of the germany's the social democrats martin chill says he will no longer seek the post of foreign minister in a future of grand coalition government or any other post in the new cabinet now on wednesday shows his party struck a deal with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives shuls gave up at the party leadership and announced his intention to become foreign minister but that ambition

drew a strong criticism from his party's members who must ratify the coalition deal in a vote chills said he had made this decision to ensure the success of the vote. and he said earlier i declare quote that i will not be taking up a post in the german government i sincerely hope that this will end the arguments about who does what within the past p. d. let's bring in our political correspondent tom aspera with the very latest on this thomas what triggered this decision as sensually decision was triggered by the fact the debate within the s.p.d. about personnel about who does what overshadowed the debates about the actual content of the coalition deal that was agreed a few days ago and that was what triggered the decision by martin shows today that he presented in a statement saying that he would not take up that post now it's important to stress that there was a lot of criticism towards martin shows because he had in the past promised first

that there would be no grand coalition and second that he would not serve as a minister and merkel two announcements were soon to be reversed as the s.p.d. as we saw has now signed a coalition deal with i'm going to local conservatives and then he announced himself that he planned to be foreign minister so there was a lot of criticism within the social democrats about the fact that he has some alleged put his personal goals and ambitions before the ambitions of the party still this is the first of potential minister stepping away from the post just two days after a coalition agreement was reached does that mean that this coalition could be at risk. it is still too early to say but it does stress the wobbly circumstances around this coalition deal the fact that we're talking here about conservatives and social democrats who are just to put it simply reluctant partners

neither the conservatives nor the social democrats really wanted to form a coalition the conservatives wanted to form a coalition with two other parties the social democrats had announced that they would enter opposition that they were not for another grand coalition with angela merkel but circumstances made them become partners again and signed that coalition agreement so this just shows how tricky it will be both for the conservatives and the social democrats to work together under this new grand coalition and it seems also thomas to show that there's a lot of disagreement within the social democrats at the moment martin schultz himself referring to that but was he speaking about. well let's not forget that there's a big hurdle that the grand coalition partners still have to overcome namely the fact that the entire membership of the social democrats and we're talking here of four hundred sixty three thousand people have to vote on the coalition deal that was signed this week we're talking one hundred seventy seven pages under four hundred sixty three thousand members will have to say whether they approve that or

they don't approve that and martin shows himself said that but debate about personnel within the s.p.d. actually threatened the yes vote that he believes would be the correct decision for the party the party leadership has stressed on various occasions that they would like that you know grand coalition but there are many members within the s.p.d. in particular the youth branch of the s.p.d. who are staunchly against a new grand coalition and we can just see that debate within the s.p.d. happening days before that vote is announced that a vote for the results of that vote about whether the s.p.d. party members actually give the go ahead for another grand coalition and thomas you know just about a year ago martin chills like he looked like he could challenge chancellor merkel's post and now he is saying that he's not going to become the foreign minister where does this leave him well let's not forget that martin should have been voted with one hundred percent to become the party leader only a few months ago world that idea then martin troops could become the beacon of hope

for the s.p.d. is clearly over and it just shows what a difficult position he's in right now and also what kind of internal debates are happening within the s.p.d. the s.p.d. is clearly a divided party in germany and that will be certainly a problem for the grand coalition if the party members do decide to move forward with this grand coalition of these political correspondent to thomas spare of force thomas thank you for bringing us up to date. now the twenty third winter olympics has officially opened with an extravagant ceremony in south korea president mungy indicated the two thousand and eighteen winter games opened with fireworks going off over. nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries entered at the sold out stadium during the opening ceremony of the games have to overcome multiple hurdles ahead of winter sports most prestigious event the i.o.c. and the athletes will be looking to put all their troubles behind them and kick off the olympics with a bang. and we have met her but from your sports with us here in

a studio matt what did you make of these opening ceremonies but i thought they were spectacular this is the kind of pageantry that we don't often see outside of something like the eurovision song contest you know fireworks hundreds of dancers acting out somewhat inscrutable tab started out with a group of kids spending some quality time with tiger not a real tiger thank goodness and they went in kicked off the athlete's parade that kicked off with nigeria because nigeria happens to be the first equivalent letter in the korean alphabet and actually africa are well represented in the games the bobsled team women's bobsled team made it for them. the guy who stole the show that was the guy who stole the show in rio peter. of tonga he's back he was back he was there for taekwondo in rio he's a very athletic guy so he's also good at cross country skis here as well the korean team came through as a combined force with north and south korea with a combined korean peninsula flag they got

a big welcome from the crowd and then they went back to the sort of unusual pattern how many drummers is that i can't even count how many and finally they finish things off by lighting the torch and one of the sort of iconic korean athletes of modern times you know kim lit the torch and pronounced the games let's get really you know what has been the big story as these games have opened. the doping story sort of hung. over the games in the months and weeks ahead and the you know so-called a limb pick athletes from russia since they are you know competing under an olympic flag and not the red white and blue flag of russia. they lost in court the court of arbitration for sport ruled that despite a lot of their athletes having had their lifetime bans vacated the bans that apply to this olympic games do stand so forty seven athletes who were hoping to get into the games after being barred they are not getting in however russia or olympic

athletes from russia as they're called still do have one hundred sixty eight so there will be a lot of people from russia winning medals in this game we should also point out that some events did actually begin before the opening ceremonies yeah including i mean we saw curling and ski jumping yesterday earlier today we saw for example the short program of the team figure skating this is a complicated story but the real big story to come out of it is patrick chan one of the favorites in the singles competition for men didn't have a very good short program yet he took a tumble. luckily for him his team mates you know skated quite well and canada actually came out on top of the team short program which means that the ten teams that took part in this short program five teams go on to the finals for just get their long program and he will get a chance to skate his long program coming up on the weekend what he said however was the fact that these letters are taking place in asia away from the two main

television broadcast sites europe and north america has meant that they've kind of shifted around the competition times he was actually competing in late morning which is that was a very unusual for him figure skaters are very much used to skating at night or maybe in the late afternoon so he said he didn't blame it on that necessarily but he said it did feel kind of weird all right well he was just getting warmed up all right matt herman from database for thank you very much. well these games also have an historic a political aspect a high level government delegation from north korea is attending the opening ceremonies officials from pyongyang include kim il jones the sister of north korean leader kim jong il and this is the first a member of the north's ruling dynasty can visit the south officially these two countries are still at war but these olympics appear to have started to thaw in relations at the opening ceremony athletes from the two countries will walk side by side as we heard under a unity flag. and

let's cross over to correspondent jason strother he's in ghana going outside of a young chang for us hi jason good to see you so tell us more about the significance of jong visiting south korea. all right i mean it's unprecedented that a member of north korea's ruling family would come here to south korea and i guess she's the second best thing to rule there kim jong il and her big brother you know i the whole world was shocked to begin with when kim jong un announced earlier this year that he was going to participate in the olympics at all and ever since then south korean president moon j.n. as as done his best to try to make north korea's participation in this libya had go smoothly as possible and just how the south koreans been reacting to the fact that north korea is participating in these games. well certainly i think many people here are happy for the reprieve that the olympics have brought to the

peninsula last year we had missile tests after missile tests we had transit in trump and washington threatening to totally destroy north korea we had many tirades coming from john young so certainly for the past month or so that type of rhetoric has died down and i think people here are glad not to hear it but there is perhaps not as much excitement about the unified women's ice hockey team as perhaps the organizers thought there would be there was a survey out a few weeks back that showed seventy percent of respondents here did not favor the unified team they evidently didn't want to share the spotlight with the north korean athletes so there's not much enthusiasm about that unified team do people there believe that this thaw in relations could lead to some sort of sustainable peace oh well we'll have to see and several weeks from now of course i think

during the games i think. the easiest way to make the peninsula safe during the olympics was to invite north korea here but once they're gone and all the foreign athletes go home that's another question and the u.s. and south korea are set to hold annual military exercises in late march that always antagonizes the regime so if the good if any of the goodwill that was generated here actually last will know after the games correspondent jason strother reporting from outside counts hank thank you jason. now to some other stories making news around the world a brief u.s. government shutdown is set to end after the house of representatives passed a bill to fund the federal government through march twenty third the senate passed it a few hours earlier the bill also increases overall spending limits over two years

president donald trump is expected to sign the bill into law rescue operations in taiwan have started to wind down after a devastating six point four magnitude earthquake rocked an area around the eastern city of this week the death toll now sits at twelve dead with five people still missing. the reuters news agency says an investigation into the massacre of ten were hinge a men by me and maher soldiers led to the detention of two of its reporters while on and are awaiting trial on charges of illegal possession of state secrets while reporting on the ongoing crisis. and seven of the ten taurus arrested for pornographic dancing in cambodia have been released on bail they were arrested in january after photographs emerged of people imitating sex acts at a party those out on bail cannot leave cambodia their passports have been confiscated. now reports of even more carnage in syria with government forces

laying waste to the country's last few rebel strongholds activists say airstrikes going on for five days now in eastern hotel near the capital damascus has killed nearly two hundred thirty people the bloodshed has led the united nations to call for an urgent ceasefire to evacuate civilians and deliver humanitarian aid. even by the bloody standards of the syrian conflict the bombardment of the rebel held unclear but eastern ghouta has exacted a fearful toll. for days of government air raids have left more than two hundred civilians dead among them at least fifteen children that's according to the british based syrian observatory for human rights. eastern goot is one of the last pockets of anti-government resistance near damascus in a separate incident in the east of the country u.s. led coalition forces killed around one hundred government backed fighters in dario's or province the syrian government condemned the strikes as a war crime. the u.s.

described the action as self-defense the coalition observed a slow build up of prohibition forces over the past week our forces have the inherent right to self-defense. we are not looking for a conflict with the regime any action that takes away from our ongoing operations to defeat isis is a distraction of all get out the u.s. or at one level cease fire and syria what is your position about that you understand this not really stick we would like to see a ceasefire. with with the terrorists. and agreement to be used oh yes just a question as rescuers rushed to just really to help the wounded in eastern guta the prospects for a cease fire in syria look as bleak as ever. right now global markets are skidding again ben is here with more on that thank you sumi the big folds on wall street overnight soured the sentiment across asia and europe fears of

inflation have infiltrated the financial markets the u.s. stock sell off can now be classed a correction being a ten percent plunge investors are hoping this won't turn into a crash. after the global market rout earlier this week investors were warned of increased and more frequent volatility in the next weeks and that's what they're getting as seen by the dallas plunge on thursday some analysts say that algorithm based trading in preprogram sell orders are to blame others point to market based indicators first u.s. investors fretted over a potential rise in borrowing costs as inflation picks up on increasing wages and they were anxious over the government shutdown some investors are taking a longer more sanguine view bracing themselves for short term discomfort or in one of these environments right now what do people have to realize the stock market and the economy are two different things. the technicals of the stock market are going to fight the fundamentals of an improving economy maybe for the rest of this

month asian markets have followed u.s. stocks deep into negative territory chinese stocks are on track for their worst day in almost two years and analysts have a similar outlook as to how long it will last also given the seasonal factor so it would take some time of course the mid february in the new year holiday and everybody would go to their homes to celebrate the new year and. come back until may be. fair bruce so there you see. the march sort of. for a good number of the stock market in february just go home and relax and improving global economy and little sign of an impending recession mean that a bear market or a sustained sell off isn't expected and corrections can be considered healthy but that health can falter if investors stay spooked by market swings. but see

how spooked our correspondents are by this andrea hang in singapore daniel colp in frankfurt ladies first andrea it looks like the bear is a giving the bulls a run for their money in asia or at least. it is happening as we speak asian investors are as you said spooked by such wild volatility that's been happening and this is coming after ninety long years of a bullish market relatively with very mild volatility that we saw in the last nine years that said this looks to be what's called a cyclical bear if it does indeed come. a lot of the a lot of times a cyclical bear market involves the threat of high interest rates and it's still learn still largely looks at the u.s. economy because it highly it's highly dependent on the u.s. economy growth and not to mention how anything that's happening in the u.s. will to do things will bring down the value of the stocks of asian stocks the value

of asian stocks as well as you know a threat to the flow of money into asia considering volatility has returned as andree is pointing out down or how european trade is managing to keep their cool. while they're trying to rock the day i guess but this morning when i came through the stock market yes they were again very frightened after this massive landslide happening on wall street and yes we have been dealing with quite some volatility here at the frankfurt stock it's change as well by about two hundred points i guess in general investors here try to keep thinking a little bit more realistic again they are not that scared of high interest rates in the united states for example they are telling me that here at least in the euro zone they are very sure that interest rates will remain unchanged at least until the end of two thousand and nineteen and that's the spike what analysts are saying a deutsche bank they're not really rocking along don't have

a very rosy forecast for european stocks at all. well dr banks forecasts for the bank itself is also not very rosy but yes in general they were reporting that they are thinking that the euro stocks six hundred with six hundred most important shares here in the euro zone until mid of this year will be dropping by six percent they are saying that the biggest program is the gap of strong growth in combination with a low discount rate andrea back to you is asia warming up for a deep dark death spiral or do you reckon we've already hit the bottom. i don't think the bottom is in sight just yet analysts do see however that further losses are to be expected in the coming weeks and that the markets were in the were in need of this very correction as they've been saying for months now this volatility that we're seeing right now is really just investors adjusting to the current

market conditions that said aneta is pointed out that this could be on the upside a chance to buy shares at prices that are more reasonable to the market ok there could be some bargains going around and a lot of reassessment is definitely needed and there's a welcome side to this many are saying that but what sort of data do we have coming up daniel that could have an effect could mean an even bigger readjustment. yeah there's so much on the agenda for next week mostly coming from the united states will be getting figures from the industry coming in then also here in europe will be getting g.d.p. figures for europe and also for germany as well it's going to be very interesting to see if this will be again on a record high because the crazy thing we have to remember that those figures that we had in the united states such as higher wages and also less people unemployed

those were good figures and after that we have seen the market dropping that massive the fundamentals are there is that you point out thanks for your analysis and greying thanks for yours from singapore more once wall street opens in the next ten minutes to see me first and the controversy over a new poll that will bend the polish government is actually doubled down on that new bill that makes blaming poland for nazi war crimes a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison despite international criticism of this so-called holocaust law the government has launched an all out a social media offensive to support it and it has been raising quite a few eyebrows we have federica our social media editor with us here in studio to tell us more federico what can you tell us about the story so soon the four years polls have been complaining about the use of the phrase polish death camps to refer to concentration camps built by the nazis in occupied poland and this new

law aims to fight any misconception that poland was somehow a party in the whole cost and the government and has now launched a very aggressive social media campaign to change the narrative in a way they have been posting high quality production videos through their official social media channels some of these include emotional testimonies of from holocaust survivors survivors themselves take a look. you know. groups come to believe. oh she could do. teach. you. so you can see there's some media tend to stress that the concentration camps

were only german they were in polish and a very direct slogan german death camps we have another example here another video that says germany put poland through hell on earth and tries to stress that jews and poles were both victims of the nazi terror was home to one tenth of the global jewish population back then ninety percent of them were exterminated during the holocaust. is a pretty strong presence of physically to video as well it almost looks like a movie trailer and in addition to this kind of video they've been also running ads online ads both in the us in israel and here in germany but this law it was actually already signed by the president so who is this campaign aimed at i mean it's clearly aimed at the international critics especially israel which has accused poland of trying to whitewash history through disloyal and we've seen prime

minister israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's been calling this law absurd and he's been saying you can't rewrite history and you can't deny the whole cost this has also led to a diplomatic row and we've seen the leader of one of israel's main parties and he's also the son of a whole across survivor himself he says i actually condemn the new polish law the whole acosta was conceived in germany but hundreds of thousands of jews. where murdered without even meeting a german soldier there were polish death camps and nor a law can change that the polish embassy in israel responded to that tweet your unsupportable claims show how badly holocaust education is needed even here in israel to which they added the intent of the polish draft legislation is not to whitewash the past but protect the truth against such slander. me it's important

to stress that most agreed that the term polish extermination camps is wrong because after all the comes were both by the nazis in occupied poland however what critics are concerned is that this law will impede an open discussion about the holocaust and it will distort historical truth in the sense that while poland itself was not responsible for the work crimes committed by the nazis some parts of the population in poland like it happened in other countries and worked with the nazis and we've seen to that also the german government has commented and they said that germany takes full responsibility for the nazi atrocities all right the debate of this controversial law continues online our social media editor federica thank you very much. you're watching news still to come egypt's archives of resistance activists publish their trove of videos from egypt's two

thousand and eleven revolution saying they want to stop the government from rewriting history. that story more coming right up in the next thirty minutes. for us in. let his country sink into chaos shazam. a tactician who makes deals with western leaders. is he still in power in syria only because he says western interests. and. the useful tyrant bashar assad. the.

hijacking the news. the more i go wrong the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a scripted reality show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china turkey people are told it's that simple and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond that you are the facing scare tactics intimidation and i wonder is that where work headed is well. my responsibility as a journalist is to give me young the smoke and mirrors it's not just about me dear and balanced or being neutral it's about being truthful. when he was born golf and i work in the. he created movie milestones it was an instrument of propaganda and persecution.

it underwent bankruptcy and restructuring. but it's still turning on films today. from germany's biggest and oldest film company to assume a magic history from the german empire to the present one hundred or so from the first starting february eighteenth d.w. . welcome back you're watching news our top story. germany's social democrats have ousted martin schultz from a possible government role the move comes just days after he completed the negotiation of a coalition deal with conservatives says he will no longer take up the coveted role of foreign minister after party in the fighting. what we have been with us here now wall street opening to another day of uncertainty ben what are we expecting now from new york to expecting an opening flat as you can see here we've got live

pictures from wall street flat to lower basically. we are on course for the worst week in six years that's a long time to remember so you me the most the wall street in new york stocks have been doing a fantastic past decade you know no news of almost an interrupted growth is is pretty amazing stuff we've got the dow jones industrials there unfortunately in the wrong format but. it is up slightly. by almost one percent so perhaps a slight recovery today not sure exactly a lot of people one of the downside that we could see further falls but not for the big fall now we've been hearing a lot of investors reassuring people and saying this is simply a correction of those numbers you were talking about the market being so high for a decade is it really just a correction or is it a risk that there could be something more good question what's one of the first

things you do when you suddenly find out that you don't have much money. i cry. other people cancel the holiday there you go if you take a look at the leisure sector it's one of the best performing right now it's down by about two point eight percent which isn't bad compared to other ones like resources which are down by five six percent and some of the share is that it down by fifteen percent take a look at gold as well a lot of people rush to gold as a safe haven during these times that's not happening right now which is interesting and it's also not contagion the contagion is not seeping into other asset classes like bones so there are some very positive signs there let's see what happens on wall street sort of it. well the contentious north stream to pipeline is closer to becoming reality authorities on the german coast have ok construction of the natural gas link with russia in the stream one runs along the bottom of the baltic sea from russia to look me in north eastern germany now this next project will run alongside at a double the capacity which stands at fifty five billion cubic meters of natural

gas a year critics say it will increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is said to lose out most at present over how awful russian gas exports to the e.u. pass through its territory but for how much longer nicholas connolly reports. this plant run by ukraine state energy company enough to gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggles to maintain its position at the chief transit country for russian energy needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by torture bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compresses successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russia and germany directly across the baltic sea here is set to be joined by a second connection to construction is due to get underway later this year the new

pipeline will be able to transport some fifty five billion cubic meters of gas equivalent to two thirds of the gas transit in ukraine on average in recent years the project critics in ukraine argue that north stream two would mean more than just plugs and transit income. they say will increase europe's dependence on russian energy and allow the kremlin to put political pressure on its former eastern european satellite states by halting supplies without endangering deliveries to its big western european customers feel that something nordstrom's backers including former german chancellor and current nordstrom chairman have consistently rejected saying the deal is purely tree has more to lose than just transiting called if north rim too is built will be devastating we believe in clean air wait for a full fledged russian aggression against ukraine we are fighting to stop russian troops as eastern border but if there is no transit of get there is no risk interruption we believe russian will be. well first but just

a matter of months to go to construction on north korea to gets underway ukrainian hopes for brussels and washington to finally translate their vocal opposition to the project direction. back to sue me and to our top story the news unfolding over germany's next. you know that's right ben as we've been reporting the leader of germany's social democrats martin chill says he will no longer seek the post of foreign minister in a future grand coalition government or any other post in the new cabinet on wednesday schultz's party struck a deal with chancellor merkel's conservatives and gave up the social democrat party leadership and announced his intention to become foreign minister but that ambition drew a lot of criticism from his party's members who must ratify the coalition deal in a vote now schultz says he made this decision to ensure the success of that vote a short while ago he said quote i declare that i will not be taking up a post in the german government i sincerely hope that this will end the arguments

about who does what within the s.p.d. and let's bring back our political correspondent thomas sparrow thomas what more can you tell us about what's behind this decision. well first reactions are coming in after martin schultz's. whereas some s.p.d. members have said that the foreign ministry should be kept in the hands of god or the current foreign minister there are other s.p.d. members have been stressing that now it is the moment to talk about content and not to talk about personnel and if you look at martin shows a statement that we just saw there that was precisely what triggered his decision after the social democrats on the conservatives announced that coalition deal it seems that within the s.p.d. the debate about personnel and in particular about martin short his announcement that he wanted to become germany's next foreign minister overshadowed the debate about content on what was actually in the one hundred seventy seven pages of the

coalition deal and what type of policies or social democrats would be implementing this part of that new government and that was precisely why martin chose announced that he would not become germany's next foreign minister for martin short so me this is a very difficult moment just remember that about a year ago he was elected party leader with one hundred percent of the votes since then his party has lost three regional elections the federal election martin shows then lost the party leadership and now he has lost the foreign ministry as well so a very bad for martin schulz a dramatic one indeed thomas now he said as you were saying this decision is to make sure that when s.p.d. members of vote on this coalition deal they'll vote in favor will it now. well it's important to stress that the party membership and we're talking here of four hundred sixty three thousand s.p.d. members have to give the green light for the coalition deal to go ahead and it is

under no circumstance sure that that will happen there are many s.p.d. members who are staunchly critical against the coalition deal in particular the youth wing of the social democrats have clearly said that they do not want another grand coalition has done and that's that explains why this vote in the next few days which will then be announced then at the beginning of march is so important not only for the s.p.d. internally but also for the grand coalition deal itself because the political correspondent thomas sparrow thank you very much thomas now seven years ago thousands of egyptians took to the streets of cairo to protest the regime of then president hosni mubarak at the same time a handful of young activists called most serene decided to document the events of what they called the egyptian revolution now this vast collection of videos is online as an archive of resistance. eight hundred and fifty eight

hours that's how long it will take you to watch every single video in a new online archive on the top of your square uprising in egypt the project called eight fifty eight is dedicated to documenting how every day people experience that time in egypt's history the anonymous collective being built the site they say the egyptian government is trying to change history and has even begun removing references to the protests from textbooks. history is a battleground. of the concert contested space for merits and we felt we had a responsibility to do something in the face of our history mythologically and systematically distorted and rewritten by those in power hundreds of people contributed footage most of it shop between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and thirteen their interviews personal accounts pictures of peaceful and violent protests as well as thousands of photos and documents all searchable

a new way to bear witness to the view on the ground of egypt's revolution. time with these no space to talk about what happened and no way to punish these images this is an act of breaking the silence of. the syrians mission is to preserve their version of the quote revolution and eight fifty eight is there are offensive in the new conflict over the revolutions narrative. for him and here from our social media desk with more on the story. this collective mo city in is anonymous do we know what kind of people are behind it we do i mean most serene is a well known entity from the revolution they were founded sort of around twenty eleven as a media collective for a very long time they had an office in downtown cairo where between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen they held activities they sort of they were really born out of

this. boom in citizen journalism that happened after twenty eleven and. often even held film screenings in the heart of tahir square when the political climate still allowed for these things i mean it's important to remember that they are anonymous because they want to preserve their identity as a collective they never personalize their work and they don't want to put a face on it security is an issue now but that's not the main reason why the remaining anonymous as for the two people that were featured in the report that i personally interviewed of course their identities have been verified and i do know who they are and have quite a bit of trust in the things they said and you said they've been active since two thousand and eleven so why are they publishing this information now well this is not the first time syrian has published footage they have published footage before this however the first time that they've published all of the footage that they have in the sort of very organized categorized way and the reason the reason that they published the published before it first when they were filming these things

they believe that egypt would have some sort of resort of just a space where this footage could be used in court cases that of course never happened and then they were left with this trove of material why it took so long while it hundred fifty hours is quite a bit of time so working on it time stamping it verifying it when you look at the archive itself the extent to which it is organized is overwhelming it's organized by location different events of the revolution itself really. a very well organized effort and so it took it took some time for it to be put in that way for the world to see what this collective says it doesn't want the state to rewrite history essentially what is the egyptian government's narrative on these events i mean the narrative on the political events in egypt have always been there's always been conflict there from the very beginning in two thousand and eleven when people were right in the heart of the square taking the square literally breaking down barriers and going into. state t.v.

. cameras fixed on random bridges around the city where there was nobody and telling people the streets are empty go home there have been more recent attempts to remove this entire the entire event the events of twenty eleven from school books for example and even most recently president of the to his city on the thirty first of january said what happened in twenty eleven will not be repeated again and what did not succeed then will not succeed now even though the demands of twenty eleven where bread freedom and social justice very legitimate demands from the people so i mean this is always been i mean this this claim that there's a conflict over a narrative is not unfounded and what these guys are fighting for is a very basic thing just a chance or an opportunity to have their version of events be respected regardless of what other people think just very briefly if you can how dangerous dangerous is it today in egypt to publish documents like. it i mean any work any journalistic work in egypt right now carries quite a bit of

a risk in egypt as one of reporters without borders has cost about egypt as one of the world's biggest prisons for journalists egypt is one hundred sixty one from one hundred eighty countries in the world press freedom index what sites are blocked in egypt over four hundred since may of twenty seventeen including. affiliated website but also things like amnesty international human rights watch so it's quite it's quite yes it is press work in egypt right now is it's not easy and it is it's a very useful resource to have at this time i would say all right for him from our social media desk thank you very much for bringing us that important story no problem thank you very much. turning now to the mountains along china's border with mongolia richest people may have been the first to ever strap on a pair of skis it's not just a winter time thrill there but a necessary skill to get around tourists are now flocking to the slopes to get some lessons from the locals. the l.

time out on turns and northwest china are off the beaten track this is the kind of place where you might cross paths with a real mongolian nomad in the snow. it's so cold that the car kept inside. right there only brought outside at feeding time. it's mostly farmers who live here. and most of them have skis. numerous ethnic groups live in the altai they understand each other speak each other's language and all of them learn chinese. and ethnic to van lives in this house with wife three children and his mother.

they also house tourists in the summer. mother who is herring and speech impaired explains how difficult nomadic life was but still beautiful. we're doing better these days. since the road to our village was built we're getting a few tourists and. we can now make ends meet. with ski bindings made of cost. son and has made his way home from school in the late afternoon the skis are rustic wooden planks with kickers on the undersides they help grip the snow when climbing and glide on downhill stretches.

what do you want to be when you grow up. as the race. it's hard to keep your balance on wooden skis. but enrolls father is a good teacher. training in the afternoon is the best part of the day. scientists believe skiing was first developed in the altai mountains. in. the early morning light in the village of com reveals chinese tourists from afar who are gradually discovering this remote region.

one. we're from gong show in southern china and we heard that this is a wonderful place. it's absolutely beautiful here. the male has almost never snows and growing joe we've travelled abroad but this is the first time we're having a winter vacation in china everyone should see this landscape. europeans are also among those visiting the region's oldest ski resort. the directive to develop the outside ski industry came from far away beijing. says. this is a very unusual it's very life here. but i think going downhill is pretty difficult to imagine going to be something but. it takes some getting used to. i think it's

very. the locals are extremely skilled on their skis. that quick uphill turning and descending with only one stick. the europeans fost with their high tech equipment but when they put on the outside skis they're a little bit slower. it's definitely much harder to ski on these than on mine i'm all wobbly on them. going on stuff arable. the turks and the locals are united in their love of skiing and their admiration of the vast landscapes. locals hope the natural beauty of the altai will remain intact for generations to come.

now peter paul rubens was one of the greatest painters of the seventh seventeenth century now a comprehensive exhibition of his works has just opened in the museum in frankfurt and our culture editor robin merrill has more on that yeah i mean i think yes one of the grace if not the greatest of the baroque period is certainly influenced a lot of other artists like titian and interestingly his paintings are very strong lots of movement and he had a very vivid imagination i mean the paintings of the human form a sort of reasonably sort of as the human form is but the situations he put the puts them in the right of full of fantasy and i don't think there was ever a painter before him who portrayed such a diverse range of subject matter so our great man indeed let's have a look at the exhibition. homo

behold the man wearing his crown of thorns a tortured jesus is presented by paunches pilot to the people who would guess that jesus is torso was inspired by a century a symbol of the earthly and sensuous. ruben's the power of transformation is a large scale presentation that reveals how the artists drew from the work of different parks and transposed it into a new context. the artistic creativity we see with rubens simply stunning the diversity of his process that draws from many different periods from antiquity through to his own time when i want to paintings inspired by sculpture it's very impressive to see how rubens approached all that. the exhibition gives the viewer the chance to see from way rubens got his inspiration and to observe those correlations in astonishing detail. but you missed it so his work is so rich in offer so much. it's like

a creative competition is being shown. even those who were. in the know are justifiably amazed at the sheer creative achievement and one that's right under construction. ruben's mythological venus and adonis takes its inspiration from of the same name rubens turns the scene around showing venus from the front in all her brood business glory. around a hundred works are on offer at group in the power of transformation in frankfurt. robin we heard the word they were been asking that comes from those just depictions of voluptuous women that we know from him but he did a lot more than that yeah he did i mean i think it's rather unfortunate this word because a lot of people think that he just the rubins just painted voluptuous naked women and he didn't there's lots of there is lots of sensuality in his work there's a lot of symbolism symbolism in his work let's have a look at a few paintings to show this first of all lots of religious paintings it was the

times calls for instance this one depicting jesus who's just been taken down from the cross this is actually one of thirteen depictions of the moments after his death this extraordinary one of the mid jews and the snakes this is obviously used a lot of greek mythology in his paintings i think his painting could have been done in the twentieth century it was done in the. this one featuring the gold pan and searing again a reference to greek mythology and his work finally a self-portrait it wasn't very flattering about himself i mean he doesn't look particularly lovely there but i do know that when when he. did self portraits for other. rich people he flattered them indeed it made them look very pompous wonderful so he was working pretty hard how did he complete so many they think the sculpture is a lifetime when he didn't is the truth. you got

a lot of other people to do he was clever. a guy produced bold three thousand paintings that's just the paintings not the sculptures and the drawings were he couldn't have done all that he was immensely successful and rich in his lifetime he was actually peter paul rubens and he was knighted by two kings charles the first of england for the fourth of spain at the height of fame he had one hundred s. working in this vase studio for him it was really a factory he was a brad and he was a really small businessman is that the two of the officers came and may indeed have been a part of these paintings one was van dyck another one was young boy of the broyhill family so. a great tell us is that great a great business rather clever blood and i think that when it first century rather ok so there's more on this ongoing exhibition on a website there is indeed in the exhibition in the state of museum in frankfurt goes on till the end of may and lots on the website to d.w.

dot com slash culture our culture editor robin meryl thank you very much. and a reminder now of our top stories that we're following for you at this hour germany's social democrats have ousted the march from a possible government role the move comes just days after he completed the negotiation of a coalition deal with conservatives says he will no longer take up the coveted role of foreign minister after party in sardinia and the twenty third the winter olympics have officially kicked off and chang south korea almost three thousand athletes from ninety two countries will be competing over the next two weeks among those at the opening ceremonies is kim jong the sister of north korean leader kim jong il and she's the first member of the north's ruling dynasty to visit the south thank you for watching. we'll have your latest news update right here at the news desk in just a few minutes. president

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