this is the devil you do slog from bergland south korea officially kicks off the twenty eighteen winter olympic fireworks light up the sky a proposed city theone chang has for most three thousand athletes get in on the party there in south korea for two weeks of intense competition. and that's a live it's brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north's ruling dynasty kim jong un sister what's behind her diplomatic trip across the border. unloved an unemployed germany's social

democrat leader martine schultz rejects a top ministerial post just days after he because she hated his party's return to government that's after the party's base signaled that they could refuse to ratify his coalition deal. i'm sarah kelly welcome to the program the twenty third winter olympics has officially opened with an extravagant ceremony in south korea president moon day in declared the twenty eighty winter games open her fireworks going off over pianka chang. nearly three thousand hits from ninety two countries and for the sold out saving him during the opening ceremony the kings have had to overcome multiple hurdles at a winter sports most prestigious event the i.o.c. and the athletes will be looking to put their troubles behind them and keep. off

the olympics with a bang. all the court of arbitration for sport the c.i.s. has turned out an appeal by forty seven russian athletes and coaches to compete at the games the russians have been banned from taking part by the international olympic committee over state sponsored doping in sochi four years ago they argued that they had been wrongly accused excluded from those games but c.a.'s said that the i.o.c. his decision wasn't unfair or discriminatory. and the olympics is playing out under a political spotlight as well with hosts south korea using the games to call relations with the north that approach though did prove popular with everyone. demonstrators outside the olympic stadium gave the north koreans a hostile reception they clashed with riot police and made their feelings towards the north known. real he.

was. making. you know yelling you're in the. real we want to hold our own. north korea's olympic delegation mocked and historic first it included kim jong the youngest sister of leader kim jong un she's the first member of north korea's ruling dynasty to cross the border since the korean war south korean president well come to by extending the hunter friendship a sign of his high diplomatic ambitions for the games but not everyone was convinced that greeting the delegation with an open hand was the right approach. to be sure you. know 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 the time comes when they finally. of their nuclear and ballistic missile ambitions. pence was seated only rose apart from yo jong at the opening ceremony his office assured the press he gave the north koreans the cold shoulder this as the world watched the winter olympics kick off with pomp and flag the games will go on and the political tensions on the sidelines likely will too. in germany of the leader of the country social democrats has been forced into a hue. nearly humiliating climbdown martin schultz has stepped down and renounced a role in the coalition governments that he helped forge that's after party members made it clear that they could reject the s.p.d. is agreement to enter government if schultz insisted on becoming foreign minister

he led the party to a record low vote share in september's elections before reluctantly brokering a coalition deal with angela merkel's conservatives. in just three days martin schultz has managed to hit both a political high point and to low point on wednesday after a long and exhausting wrangling his pride announcement we have a coalition agreement in a marathon session of talks lasting more than twenty four hours the two parties had fought argued yelled at each other and finally agreed. because of i can see that we had a strong influence on this agreement and we are grateful that in the end we achieved some compromises that were hard for the conservative side to accept. shultz negotiated well for the s.p.d. and rested key portfolios from the conservatives he came away with the ministry of finance labor and official tim southee the foreign ministry all this despite the

fact that he said he never wanted to become a minister and michael's government and was against another grand coalition. afterwards many people in the s.p.d. said he had broken his word twice many party members were angry. that time get did not abate despite his decision on wednesday to resign as party leader making way for andrea nonis to take over. then on friday schultz announced he would no longer seek the post of foreign minister saying it could jeopardize the upcoming vote on joining the grand coalition. i hereby declare my decision not to join the federal government and sincerely hope that this will bring the personnel debates within the s.p.d. to an end the s.p.d. youth wing also said the focus should be on the grassroots vote not on person that is shoes i can only warn you now that martin shows has announced his resignation not to rush ahead and place the next candidate on a pedestal. in just three choice days march in shultz now finds himself without the

leadership of the s.p.d. without a position of authority and without a ministerial post and with the s.p.d. reeling in chaos. for the latest twist in this political drama let's bring in our political correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by at our parliamentary studios so thomas all of this hard work on the coalition agreement now of this how surprising was this development what you say. well it is certainly surprising in particular for those here in germany who thought that after months of uncertainty germany's political troubles were about to come to an end with the signing of a coalition deal only a few days ago but this is just another chapter in germany's political drama you your say and certainly big development in germany a big development also for the s.p.d. if you ask why this development happened the reason is that the debate on personnel

the debate on who would do what you know the grand coalition overshadowed the debate on content and that is something that martin short in his statement today tried to to mention as well as other politician from the s.p.d. as well it's time to talk about content and that's why he decided to take a step aside for him an incredibly difficult decision are thrown incredibly difficult just think about this only in march last year he had been hailed as the beacon of hope of the s.p.d. with one hundred percent of the delegate votes he was chosen as the s.p.d. leader as i'm going to contend but then the party started to suffer three failure in regional elections and then the federal election where they also had a very bad result and now obviously this as well for martin short a very difficult moment and for the s.p.d. another sign of deep divisions within the party but what does it mean for the

country thomas because we know that the s.p.d. they have this vote on the coalition agreement coming up next month will shortz his departure have an impact there. well that vote is incredibly important because it's the final hurdle before the grand coalition it can actually become a reality and we're talking here of the entire membership of the social democrats we're talking here of four hundred sixty three thousand people who will have to decide on the future of the grand coalition who will have to give the green light to it and many within the party in particular the youth branch of the party the so-called users are staunchly against another version of the grand coalition and all this is going to be particularly important when we start to find out the results of the beginning of may of march sorry when we will find out whether this deal in fact can be turned into reality and i don't think anyone here in germany can predict now what result we will see at the beginning of march just another surprise on the road to get

a german government just to remind our viewers those elections they were back in september thomas sparrow with the latest from berlin thank you. in libya at least two people are dead and more than one hundred injured after a bomb attack on a mosque authorities say that twin blasts hit the mosque in the city of benghazi which is controlled by the forces of military strongman khalifa haftar there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. the explosions went off right at the start of friday prayers when the mosque was packed with worshippers officials say two bombs were planted in separate parts of the complex. this is the second attack targeting a benghazi mosque in less than a month libya has been wracked by violence and divisions ever since dictator muammar gadhafi was toppled and killed in two thousand and eleven the country is divided between two rival administrations one in the capital tripoli and backed by

the u.n. the other in the east of the country which benghazi belongs to each backed by various militias oh. this latest attacks all schools of people rushed to hospital. we were sitting outside when the blast went off we were by the back door. the glass and the door fell on us and after that i passed out. the explosion occurred during the sermon we were listening to his words and suddenly the blast went off that was it the un is currently trying to negotiate an end to the turmoil but here in benghazi there's deep skepticism over whether any breakthrough can be achieved. brags that opponents in the u.k. have launched a campaign aiming to persuade britons that a second referendum on membership is needed but few people believe that gregg's it can be stopped at this stage here's our beer get mass with the latest episode in

our series road to break it. stephen grey is determined. determined to stop. every day he sets up shop right opposite parliament he's taking time off work until he achieves he's goal that is the lords every window is one of the lords offices they. are not going to let them forget we're here with a new study suggests that some who voted for breakfast now regret their decision that's extra motivation for stephen breyer and others like him should there be another vote for the people they're going to have an end goal they're going to see a charge of what they are actually voting for there has been a slight shift in public opinion and marginally more people would now vote to stay within the e.u. however the shift has not been dramatic enough to persuade many m.p.'s here in the

house of parliament to actively campaign for a second referendum. it would be up to members of parliament to pass legislation for another referendum there are harper house is a liberal democrat m.p. her party is one of the smaller ones and they are campaigning to overturn breck's it the leadership of both big political parties are committed to what appears to be more and more hard and the people need to understand whether that is really what they want do they want to have the travel restrictions to work restrictions are there actually happy that our economy might go down the too many pro european campaigns lobby online rather than in front of parliament they often run by young people posting with hashtags like e.u. flag maffia and there are petitions to parliament too. but outside one of london's big universities feelings amongst the mostly empty bricks of students are mixed as to whether they would like to have another say. we've already

made a decision i think we might as well stick with something like well and sort of change your mind so for free i think a second chance is what we currently need so i think it would be really beneficial i was on their mind side but i believe that we've already had one second debate is just going to lead to more people asking for a. referendum and it's never going to and even here in central london where the overwhelming majority voted to stay within the e.u. people are not too enthusiastic about another referendum and in mall bricks of leaning areas outside the capital the idea finds even less traction. so it seems likely that stephen breyer will remain a rather lonely voice outside parliament for the time being but that does not deter him in the slightest right. and we leave you now with some cheery news from russia to bear cubs have been rescued from a dumpster in

a moscow suburb new borns have likely been abandoned by a private owner or they were cared for by experts from the city council before being handed over to animal welfare groups who built or cubs will now learn survival skills in a bear rescue center before eventually being released back into the wild. good for that you're up to date news thanks for watching i hope to see you again soon. stories from people for information. they want to express to g.w. on facebook and twitter today in touch. everyone my name is made by you better known as milly i posed to go use these words each channel.