big dreams on the big screen in. the movie magazine on d w. this is d w news like from burlesque on the american bows to stay at the helm the german chancellor says she will see through a full term as head of government and her party ever she faces a groundswell of dissatisfaction from her own rank and file also coming up russian investigators search the snow for clues as to why an airliner went down soon after taking off from moscow killing all seventy one on board. a showdown for south

africa's jacob zuma his party meets today in another bid to oust him from the presidency will his chief rival finally succeed. and in sports better bremen rediscover their fighting form against both spark every man has to pull off an important win we'll have the highlights from that one dislike i'm not sure. i'm serious i was gonna get to have you with us i know america has promised to remain both chancellor and conservative party leader for another full term in her first interview since clinching a new deal for a government she quassia should step down early to make way for a new generation of leaders though many in her party are not satisfied with merkel we'll talk about that in a moment but first this report. the german chancellor stepping up to defend the

coalition deal specifically the key foreign and finance ministries going to the social democrats it was the only way to stop the talks collapsing she says. and for so long for now as i also find it painful. i would like to have kept the finance ministry but it's what we decide as politically and in the coalition agreement and the finance minister cannot just do whatever he likes to merkel also address the question of staffing within her own party there have been growing calls to begin promoting a younger generation of c.d.u. talent to cabinet level posts. from my notes i naturally have to make sure that we keep in mind not just the over sixty's but also the younger people. my message to the party conference is that we need to be clear about how we go forward into government get involved in the cd use ministerial line up should be clear in two weeks' time merkel avoided talking about a successor saying she plans to remain as chancellor and party leader until twenty

twenty one. long do you think you have lost your authority. and i mean i'm finished so no i don't feel that because of course i do understand that the party will be thinking that i've been the chancellor for twelve years and clearly i can't be chancellor for another twelve years. on the other hand i had extensive discussions with the party before the election on whether it was right and desirable for me to come pain for another four years. that it was merkel's message to her party is clear i'm still in charge but i'm listening to my critics well just how much is anglo-american listening to her critics we have our political correspondent kate brady with us here in studio hi kate will uncle michael really stay on for a full four years well considering the political turmoil that's going on and in germany right now especially after what we saw happen last week with the social democrats is nothing to say that she will stay for a full term if this grand coalition deal comes into fruition that said she did use

that interview yesterday evening to really present herself especially to those party critics right now and she really presented herself. as a figure of authority and showed that that stability is still there and obviously she hopes to bring this through into a grand coalition deal and of course we've also seen merkel and so much pressure particularly since september election if you think back her party came away with that with the worst election result. in post-war history and yet she's still here at the helm of the c.d.u. of course the big question is regardless of whether she makes an early exit or not is who is going to be merkel successor and right now there isn't anyone lined up so that is going to be a big task for the c.d.u. in the next few years right and a lot of speculation swirling on just who that could be and merkel herself as

promised to bring in a new generation of young leaders in her conservative block will that satisfy her critics exactly i mean the comment that she made yesterday evening about bringing younger people into the into cabinet positions is is that will that's likely to appeal at least to younger critics and they've been particularly loud criticism from the youth wing of the conservatives who have been demanded more younger people in the party to prevent it becoming this kind of over sixty's member club but of course one of the most contentious issues for some of her critics was letting the finance ministry go to the social democrats in this grand coalition dayo we could have a listen now to see what else some critics have been saying. his history his frustration in the rank and file i've been hearing that every day for the past three days nonstop no one vital it can't go on like this we need a renewal in store for toy long about the cabinet posts but many of my part of your

senate even depressed disappointed and some are fairly angry some didn't. so we heard the criticism there kate and it's coming to still an open process isn't it exactly these personnel debates really a side issue right now and the real task at hand is first forming this coalition now those two votes coming up the first that the conservative policies just the delegates of their parties will vote on the grand coalition deal that's expected more to be a formality the real upset could come from the social democrats now all four hundred sixty thousand of the party members actually have a chance to vote on whether they want the grand coalition deal to go ahead or not and we'll have the results of that vote on march the fourth so that's definitely does the day to be looking forward to now if they do in fact vote against a grand coalition deal then merkel really will be in a sticky situation and she'll be left with the choice of a minority government which she has ruled out on several occasions or we could even

still see new elections in germany where their political correspondent kate brady with us here in studio thank you very much kate now at some other stories making news around the world egypt's army says it's killed twelve islamist militants and detained some ninety others after gun battles in the northern sinai region the operation was part of a government campaign against insurgents blamed for a string of attacks in the area security forces said their latest airstrikes have destroyed dozens of militant targets in the u.s. the state of new york has launched a lawsuit against hollywood mogul harvey weinstein and his company it alleges he and his brother robert broke the law by failing to protect employees from pervasive sexual harassment intimidation and discrimination harvey weinstein is facing accusations of sexual misconduct from dozens of women. and the travel frenzy is well underway in beijing and other parts of china as people head home for the chinese new year most will be taking the train to join their families for

celebrations nearly three billion trips are expected this year alone it's the world's largest movement of people within a short time span. a russian federal investigators say the airliner that went down outside moscow exploded when it hit the ground and there was no previous fire on board the saratoga airlines regional jet disappeared from radar screens shortly after takeoff on sunday all seventy one people on the plane died authorities are still searching for what clues caused the crash. there battling the biting cold to find answers to one of brushes worst ever plane crashes but with the site covered in six no it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. nearly one thousand people as well as drones and snowmobiles have been deployed to comb through the icy fields his signature which we plan to continue the main stage of search and rescue operations fist seven days. the wreckage is

scattered across a very large area the snow is heavy and the terrain is difficult. for the street to be of use. the plane came down just outside moscow minutes after taking off for the southeastern city of course all sixty five passengers and six crew members were killed three children were among the dead. but what exactly caused the crash about whether technical failure were human error c.c.t.v. footage caught the fatal last moments. of this or something like a firework and then it fell and there was a big explosion. but authorities say they received no distress signals as a search operation continues investigators believe one of the black boxes found on the site could provide some answers. turning to south africa now where top leaders

of the ruling a.n.c. party are set to meet any minute now to decide the future of the country's embattled president jacob zuma now he has resisted enormous pressure to resign since being replaced as party leader in december by the man behind me cyril ramaphosa the succession threatens to tear the a.n.c. party aport apart but from a pose that has pledged a new beginning at celebrations honoring party icon and nelson mandela. on. the a.n.c. is nearly air rousing party supporters with the n.t. apartheid rallying cry of nelson mandela cyril graham of poser was addressing crowds in cape town at the start of celebrations marking one hundred years since mandela's birth. but gone are the days of relative unity of the party enjoyed under its most famous icon a drawn out transition of power is threatening to tear the a.n.c. apart for months the party's former leader south africa's president jacob zuma has

refused to step down despite growing pressure to do so zuma faces widespread corruption charges funneling some nine years in power including allegations he used millions in state funds to upgrade his private home he denies wrongdoing at the celebrations rehm oppose assad to calm the party discontent. over as you don't want your job we're doing for kids we now want. what is in their interest or not. at all we continue to organize. but that unity could have a the a.n.c. end its top leaders are meeting to decide zuma fate today but he's already shown he's unlikely to go without a fight. business now in iraq as they're trying to rebuild a ticking international help to do so monica arrive soon and some help is already

coming iraq's way the country will receive three hundred thirty million dollars worth of immediate humanitarian aid from non-governmental organizations now that is the first results of an international donors meeting currently underway in kuwait the meeting aims to discuss iraq's reconstruction of the years of war and economic turmoil what sounds like a lot of money is in fact only as a starting point for an effort that will eventually cost almost one hundred billion dollars. rebuilding iraq will cost eighty eight point two billion dollars after years of civil war and decades of under-investment that's according to the planning ministry complicating matters is the fact that the country is effectively under two governments there's the autonomous kurdistan region in the north with around forty five billion barrels of oil reserves the rest of iraq has at least one hundred fifty billion barrels. but it's difficult to get reliable data from

a country like iraq which is plagued by political instability but what's clear is just how dependent the country is on oil it's estimated to account for around ninety two percent of overall state revenues. that some fifty seven billion out of sixty eight billion u.s. dollars. the iraqi government is currently looking for investors for refineries pipelines and production facilities at its manned you can all field one of the country's largest the government hopes to double output and the chinese led consortium could be the favorite to take over the field. state owned petro china is already the largest foreign investor in iraq and it could work with us chevron and francis to tout to exploit the field other big players include exxon mobil russian look at oil and british petroleum but the world's second largest oil company royal dutch shell was less optimistic about the field saying it

wasn't profitable enough it's pulled out and plans to focus instead on gas production. investors around the globe heaving a sigh also relief the trading week had funny on the front so it's over now to a man at the front of stock exchange so when you tell me how sustainable is this recovery going to be. well i think people are hoping it will be sustainable that one will have seen the worst of what two thousand and eighteen perhaps has to offer in terms of stocks being tossed upside down and heading downstairs but i don't think anybody can really say now at the beginning of this week where the dots for example is gaining but that was it now the turmoil is over and everything all the worries about the rates inflation and perhaps economic growth are tossed by the wayside no i think the discussion is going to continue and probably the volatility

that is the ups and downs some quite marked are probably also going to continue at the same time that's what i sense from the nervousness from the kind of answers i get from people i talk to in the market also to analysts but the economists up front say that economically fundamentally everything is in line for the economy and for equities to tinge to new on going strongly broad support and of course thanks to the earnings season we do get some solid figures as well these days and up to my shareholders has listen to be happy. that's right because their numbers are super solid monica they doubled their profits in two thousand and seventeen and i think linked to a change in ownership which is somewhat a change is their investor make up their offering a one time one off dividend of a healthy twelve year olds and fifty cents which gives

a great deal done on the shares this after the profits being doubled but you know the market isn't appreciating that as one of the few shares among the most important shares here to go down but you know one when you look at the share price doubled in the past two years then you can understand that maybe on good news that often happens with the stock market some investors are taking profits here below the bottom line they should be happy with what they're having been offered oh yeah well they take the money and run that's happens from time to time when he bets and frank thank you so much. now than coffee to go i'm sure you're all familiar with it is big business in many countries but that means mountains of discarded plastic and paper cups about three billion a year just here in germany alone well now the german city of hama weighs taking on the disposable coffee cup culture with a reusable cup scheme take

a look. street sweepers in hanover have had enough of disposable cups with all too many pedestrians simply dumping them on the street as soon as they finish their coffee the explosion of coffee takeaway outlets in recent years has unleashed a steadily growing flood of extra trash not in the least ecological. it's time to get rid of them. the city's answer was to market its own reuse of all cops with a deposit the hanno cino it costs two euros which is refunded when customers drop it off at one of the participating cafes over one hundred fifty outlets are already taking part in the plan and the network is growing by the week. easy solution for coffee drinkers they normally don't have to go far to find somewhere to drop their cups off pick up pop off drink up drop off the city doesn't make a cent from the scheme for cafe operators the service is free and they save on the

cost of paper cups. it's good for their image to. be. the only condition is that participants have a dishwasher to keep the cups clean and hygenic that was no problem for the staff of this popular cafe they're happy about every customer who switches to that has no chino. the street cleaning squads now have far fewer paper cups to deal with and the trash cans don't fill up as fast either that all saves money. you really see the difference it's made here with loads of businesses joining in that there are far fewer cups in the trash cans now. initial estimates suggest the new head coach you know system has cut the number of paper cups in hand over by around a third. was an interesting idea and i think sumi this is one that football stadiums so that. you know because you've got a lot of press so. definitely and

a lot of sports of course lebanese media that's right moniker there is going to take action over the weekend of all spurred travel to bremen on sunday with both teams desperate to avoid being dragged deeper into the relegation fight but it was the home side that managed to pull off an important when. max cruz and his brain when teammates rendered a two goal lead in midweek such slip ups must be avoided if they want to stay on as an laver couzin they caught off to a flier against will school back in the news of a cheese crepes corner powered hey minute vic augustin sent. the host looks out for the fight even when they were clearly punching above their weight. but sometimes football's as much about beauty as it is brute force for him heights was transferred back to. his stunning doubling braman sleet it was maybe more than they deserved for that first half dominance. would have

settled for any kind of goal at this point he sighed got one off the beer still found in the books. even then it wasn't pretty as captain paul was a hog needed two attempts to school. but braman weren't going to repeat she stays mistake encountered to good effect to see all the way kinds again on target. it was a critical finish from the austrian midfielder running braman a crucial three points and that's of vital bit. now wind is wreaking havoc on the olympics and chang it will be joining us in a little minute in a moment to talk about that but the bitter cold is also having an effect a wind chills were down to minus fifteen celsius at some of the venue several high altitude events have been postponed others and just up the road went on as scheduled. and here is alina when i was eventually made that went on as scheduled

was a snowboarding tell us more about that he has a one of the athlete actually called these vicious wins the p.r. chang gus that's how bad it was and it created all these challenges especially for the women in the soaps snowboarding final i think or even a fictious of that because there wasn't sumi there wasn't a scene i. that did not fall in this event that's how bad it was at this very hour of a turkey that was they couldn't get a clean ending but despite all these hurdles america has cheney anderson she's the defending champion she ended up taking home gold but as you just saw there the pair even she had trouble keeping her balance and she stumbled on her last run but by then she had already won the gold what have they been saying about this when the oh a lot of them they've been they have not reacted kindly to any of this they have been saying for example that the final should have never taken place on the these sort of working conditions that this wasn't even a good show for women's snowboarding and that in general they're just really disappointed that the organizers even went through with it because we're also

speaking about the the safety of the athlete so what about the international olympic committee the i.o.c. what's their reaction to this criticism exactly so that question has been put forward to them and this is what they actually have to say about it let's take a listen. you know their athletes and they know the kind of conditions that they work in so i can only assume that they take all precautions this rate is safety vacillates is i know we keep saying it but it is the number one priority for us. and you know we have time there are reserved days there is plenty of time to get all the competition in so i don't think we would take any chances. as you just heard nobody wants to take responsibility of but he's just passing on the buck in-doors canada got a golden team figure skating yes they did it was a controlled environment and the team event is based in figure skating is very similar to the team event in gymnastics at the summer olympics and every country puts together they have best skaters from each this upand canada's patrick chan as

you decide on the screen he took you by surprise had to huge jumps and he landed them but one press of these two that's test over two and scott morea the favorites in the ice dancing event and sunita have been together they've been dancing together since they were kids that's almost twenty years and the chemistry is undeniable. beautiful action their own ok what else can we look forward to day three of the olympics so it's a really difficult question just because of all the delays and cancellations so the women's giant slalom for example has been postponed but the halfpipe is still on your american sumi you should definitely watch out for teenage sensation we came she's american korean she's only seventeen and she's already considered a huge favorite good luck to her the ileum her talking from day to be a sports thank you for joining so we were. there what if you want to see how medals are celebrated at the winter olympics so take a look at these pictures here a david gleiser received a hero's welcome at the austrian house and kyung chang she had just become the

first austrian to win gold in the luzhin fifty years upsetting the german favorite felix luck in the process and blusher wasn't the only medalist celebrating the party was so good he was joined by canada's snowboarder mark mcmorris who leave the austrian house is the place to be. a millions of dressed up revelers have taken to the streets across germany to celebrate the country's biggest costume party carnival the western city of cologne is particularly famous for its flamboyant carnival perceptions and those taking part today are set to throw hundreds of thousands of bunches of flowers and chocolate bars to the crowd the festivities are also traditionally a chance to make fun of those in power of many of the floats feature of huge on slaughtering puppets of politicians and businessmen. a reminder now of our top stories that we're following for you at this hour german

chancellor angela merkel has vowed to serve out another full four year term this despite being under fire from her own conservatives for making sweeping concessions to form a coalition government and hang on to power. and top officials from south africa's ruling a.n.c. party are meeting today to quote finalize the departure of president jacob zuma has already refused to call it down and is under no constitutional obligation to do so . don't forget you can always get your news on the go download or out from google play from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and you can also use the data to send us all of your photos and your video. thank you for watching every will be back at the top of the hour with more news.

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