home lenders into hugs coffeemaker home may be lower but she has to do so before. good luck. to. play. this is d.w. news live from berlin israel's prime minister under fire after a yearlong graft investigation israeli police say benjamin netanyahu took bribes and are recommending that he be charged with corruption we will go live to jerusalem for the very latest also coming up president zuma ups the stakes in south

africa's political showdown the ruling a.n.c. party tells him to go but the president says not yet. and germany's oldest political party the s.p.d. looks set to decide on its new female leader but can andre have gnowledge to unify the deeply divided social democrats. plus ukraine's opposition leader vows to fight until the very end after being forcibly deported to poland mikhail saakashvili says that he will continue his fight against corruption and rally political opposition from abroad. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. we begin with reports that israeli police have enough evidence to recommend that prosecutors consider charging prime minister benjamin netanyahu with bribery following

a fourteen month investigation the recommendation has been handed to the country's attorney general. who denies wrongdoing in a live t.v. address he said that all recommendations against him will quote and with nothing go he said that he will continue to lead israel responsibly and faithfully and the prime minister has been questioned several times over the past year and as a suspect in two separate cases. israel's prime minister benjamin bibi netanyahu has held the post nine years but now his political future seems the best. for many months a special police unit has been investigating serious allegations against the prime minister these probes known to israelis as cases one and two thousand case one thousand netanyahu and his family is suspected of accepting lavish gifts from

business people and rich friends champagne cigars and other items worth tens of thousands of israeli shekels in case two thousand the prime minister allegedly tried to influence the publisher of a daily newspaper in order to receive more favorable coverage. netanyahu has built his career on the image of mr security according to surveys he's still the favorite prime minister of many israelis but in the last few months some israelis have gone out to protest. it's now up to the attorney general to decide whether to follow the recommendations of the police. netanyahu himself has denied all accusations and called the investigations a witch hunt against him and his family. for more i'm joined now by middle east correspondent tanya kramer who is joining us live from israel this evening so tanya netanyahu has responded apparently defiantly to these allegations tell us more.

well this has been certainly a major news development here in israel i mean for months now has been this cloud hanging over the prime minister for these many months of investigation now it's official and israelis will be able to find out the details of the investigation now the police has found enough evidence as it appears to recommend a possible indictment in private and also preach of trust in both cases case one thousand and case two thousand and prime minister netanyahu has always said and that has been his montreal a long day will be nothing because day is nothing he immediately went out to address the israeli public about these three commendations saying that he wants to stay and he votes to stay the prime minister wants to continue leave the country that he feels that his family and himself have been so many times attacked over

a geisha and accusations and also he repeated again that there will be nothing because there is nothing how can he be so sure though tanya just walk us through what the next steps might be and what he could be facing. well these are now every commendations by the police now it's in the hands of the attorney general to decide whether to indict the prime minister or not and that could take some time as we understand but of course in the coming days and weeks to be looking also at the political arena what will happen there now his coalition partners already have said that they some of them at least will wait what the attorney general decides and then the joy of their own conclusions but obviously also the israeli public will have a say in that we saw in the past couple of months i have been demonstrations to speed up those investigations and it's probably also in the public opinion now of what

the future will look like for prime minister netanyahu. tanya tell us a little bit more about the exact allegations i mean we've heard about this for example this case one thousand where he is suspected of accepting gifts from billionaire benefactors what are the details there. well the details are still coming out but what the allegations are that he has been for many years taken gifts and it was always called the champagne and cigar case that he has taken gifts from businessmen especially this one producer that has been always mentioned and that has been. many tens of thousands of israeli shekels now but the question you pose for the police has he actually given some type of us in return now we're waiting for all the details to come out

on that and the case one thousand has more to do with favorites you know influencing a publisher to get more favorite coverage but to be on the stand that he hasn't been really implemented at the end tanya kramer with the latest from israel where as we mentioned there are reports that police have enough evidence to recommend well south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has formally asked the scandal head president jacob zuma to resign it says that he should go so that the country can move toward political stability and economic recovery pressure on president zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced by a.n.c. leader by south africa's deputy president cyril ramaphosa he is ready to take over the job but zuma remains in power saying that he will give his response on wednesday here's what the a.n.c. secretary general had to say a short while ago. through as we were really good for business is just do a. space. to support. we have here.

you need. to respond where we go what do you expect that you blew through the door and that is you are expecting to do so i don't know what will happen but today there is new to do because there are groups who. from art let's bring in journalist alice van gelder who is joining us from cape town we just heard there the chair is saying that he doesn't know what will happen let's leave it up to jacob zuma the party wants him to go zooming saying that he will go when he is good and ready what happens now yeah and he actually it said three and say earlier that he only wanted to get it he was ready to go but only in three to six months while the a.n.c. yesterday was clear they don't want that they urgently as they set want to want to remove him we're actually wanting to go if he refuses to go then the only option is

to impeach him or to vote for a motion of no confidence in parliament so he only way is then parliamentary process and if that happens that can be more you many a saying forty ainsley and for president zuma in see isn't that keen because this all went to a motion of no confidence on the table that was table by the opposition and they want to keep control over the process they want to keep it in their own hands so they are still hopeful that maybe tomorrow zuma will say i'm loyal to my party and i'm going to listen to them. yeah but in the meantime i mean you know if we just look at the background if we just look at jacob zuma the politician he was replaced as deputy president of south africa back in two thousand and five when he was implicated in the corruption scandal he has really been dogged by scandal ever since but the party has stuck by him until now so walk us through what has changed . yes no indeed the departed stuck by him and

a part of the party is zoom out loyal and that's also why yes so they want to party and decided to recall him this was a meeting that also thirteen hours so that says enough it says that there are still people within the party that support arms zuma that have probably been profiting from this system of corruption of petron actually build up what has changed and that in these ember there there was a vote today and new party leader all the a.n.c. his name is real or mccaw so he's meeting these negotiations as well and he's clear he's on to corruption he's and he wants conspiracy and he wants to bring. back to it's all the use and that's now ideas he's also saying look we content these two separate sources of power one in cedar and jacob zuma and that's why when i asked in the. ls why not just have a vote of no confidence in the parliament i mean it would be pretty swiftly remove

him from power and solve a lot of problems wouldn't it why is the a.n.c. not taking that route right now if they're still using words like that they want to have respect for jacob zuma the dignity is very important and loyalty is very important and then they do feel of these a core reality is amin c s so do want him to go with some sort of on or and say instead they've also said if he doesn't want to humiliate himself we will go to parliament so yeah if you deny us to go one way or they are they're going to to kick him out basically journalist alice then gelder with the very latest from south africa thank you. in germany martin childes has officially stepped down with immediate effect as leader of germany's social democrats schultz nominated andrea knowledge as his successor the move comes amid widespread disenchantment with chilton's leadership within the ranks of the s.p.d. party party members are gearing up to vote on

a deal with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives to form another grand coalition senior s.p.d. members say that they will back chilton's nomination of knowledge as leader. and for more on this let's bring in political scientist christophe wind who is from berlin's free university thanks so much for joining us this evening first off we know that the s.p.d. that they're trying to manage a smooth transition now from schultz to knowledge but it's also a very critical moment not only for the s.p.d. but also for the country because the party itself needs to vote it needs to approve this proposed coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives so does this throw a wrench into that process now well i think the hope was that the leadership transition will be smooth that's him stepping down would be very easy the fact that there are some people who were very unhappy and made the transition now a new topic shows that the transition has not been smooth the fact that we're

talking about it right now means that they have not succeeded i think their hope is now that by putting this off until april at least they give themselves a little bit of breathing room and please until march when the members of the s.p.d. get to vote on whether or not they approve the graham cluley talk a little bit more about that vote because we know andrea knowledge she gave an impassioned speech in front of the party where where you know she was she was really calling for negotiations on this coalition deal and she's pushing for it now she is for him to read that support is it more likely that the s.p.d. will seal a yes vote now that she is the designated successor so to speak i think she has seen her. potentially as a new leader may not change their minds as much there may be people on the fringes or on the edges what they will decide it's too early to tell most political parties would be quite happy with going into a government but that of course is not the case for all members of the s.p.d.

walk us through that walk us through the complications and the situation that the party is in right now indeed the studio managed to get three key ministries in the negotiations a lot of other parties would be very happy with this but even then it may seem that it especially if you are very unhappy with the general direction of the party as some of them especially the younger members are that this is just another sign that the party leadership is only in it for office rather than a fundamental rejuvenation of the party in and of itself which again the people who are critical of the direction that it's going to head and say the party needs in order to halt the decline that they have been having in the meantime germany has been waiting for a government for nearly five months now pretty staggering as the country suffered because of this political vacuum. i think the country has not so much in that the caretaker government has taken care of everything what is lacking is new leadership new direction especially of the european level where you know we have been waiting

for a german government that sort of maybe becomes another partner for the french government going ahead for some maybe much needed reforms for stuff when joining us as you mentioned your political scientist at berlin's for university thank you very much for walking us through this move at the s.p.d. party and what it means for german politics if it. let's time now to head over to helena humphrey who is standing by on our business desk talking about the u.s. markets today a little bit of calm that sarah in the united states in fact trade as a saying it is the calmest stay in new york in almost two weeks this in the wake of that correction off to stocks lost ten percent now the dow dropped by half said at its opening today but banks retailers and tech results push the into into positive territory if it manages to hold on to the gains would be the third straight increase in a row the big worry is us inflation dated jew out on

a wednesday if it comes in even a tick too high it could be an even bigger shakeout on the markets been we have already seen. meanwhile european stocks date back to what was a day off cautious trading here and although they have generally been more stable than u.s. stocks the same worries persist he is well off on the actual course when we bought some just this report. out of the. anything but i just that trading was tepid today but traders were nervous they were more nervous than the share price movements the moderate ones would suggest the question is how will inflation in the united states develop the number on not that's expected tomorrow wednesday if the number comes in under expectations that is if the consumer prices are under control will people breathe a sigh of relief that start for two considering the skepticism in the market. our financial correspondent in frankfurt that how about free public transport the

german government is touting the idea in a bid to get people to leave their cars at home and hop on a train or travel perhaps a bus less of the european union's environmental regulation laid out the plans to test it on five cities and germany's facing fines from brussels for not doing enough to reduce emissions to meet a used them that's. the scheme anticipates making public transport free and testing it in five cities but transport companies say they are skeptical about the plan because it is unclear who will pay for the extra vehicles to handle the rush of new passengers there could be other problems too this is something that has been tried and tested in other cities around the world melbourne for instance but also in tallinn and there's sometimes there was the hope that more people would basically leave their cars home because also what some of those examples did so is

that people are also reluctance to leave that comfort zone of their own car behind but if it's for free certainly here and there's a broad wide expectation that people would go for it. germany does not have too many other options big cities have emission levels that have exceeded the e.u. limits for years if the european commission believes germany continues to ignore the problem it will decide next month about prosecuting germany at the european court of justice. it's been more than a year since foam is a new south wales and australia have seen a decent drop of rain dams across the area have completely dried up water is scarce and so is cattle feet needing follows in a precarious situation. these cattle used to graze on rich green grass lands but after a year without rain the pasture looks like this farmers in australia's hunter valley are forced to hand feed their animals if they can because the ongoing drought has

dried up dams and creeks the situation is growing increasingly desperate. it's very depressing to go out to a paddock and find another cat. some farmers are even making the tough decision to kill cattle that have grown too weak others are offloading their animals at the region's capital so. there's going to be long term repercussions in this area because the get back to him is. really really significant in the past droughts have triggered assistance measures like transport subsidies from the new south wales state government but that's no longer the case. i don't think handouts but i think when you when you've done everything possible yourself and you tried to drip by various nations and you still can't manage.

with the slow growing draw every day farmers are left to fend for themselves and look out for their neighbors true relief can only come from above. now a vocal critic of the ukrainian government has found himself back in poland and sara has the latest on that story thanks so much helena in fact we're talking about ukrainian opposition leader mikhail saakashvili he has said that he will continue his fight against corruption and rally people against the country's authorities despite being deported as we just heard yesterday in fact he was dragged out of a restaurant forcibly detained and sent to poland his lawyer says he was kidnapped . a day after his deportation to poland. really remains defiant speaking to. keep up pressure on ukrainian authorities and western governments to confront officials he accuses of corruption head on.

in ukraine there are mixed opinions about the former georgian president. really didn't do anything good in ukraine anyway he would destabilize the situation in georgia he didn't do anything good. that the police acted in a bad manner but at the same time really should return to where his roots and ask questions there. he then started to see. that he's a man breaking the backbone of our corrupt government he was deported because they're afraid of him. officials say this surveillance footage shows the moment border police detained saakashvili at a kiev restaurant on monday he was then flown to warsaw authorities say he was

residing in ukraine illegally after being stripped of his citizenship in july. really had been a friend of president petro poroshenko arriving in ukraine as his advisor in two thousand and fourteen he became a ukrainian citizen and was picked by go as governor of the odessa region but saakashvili later turned into a fierce critic of the government and corruption campaigner in poland really said he would find a way to return to fight against what he called the nation's corrupt elites. day four of the winter olympics is wrapped up and. other seventeen year old american has won gold in south korea and nick mckenzie client has been following it all for us and nick we have to start with chloe cam we do indeed after sunday of course read there are seventeen old american winning gold c.d.'s later chloe kim did it again she isn't in the half pipe and starts off in the fourth one with

a pretty good lead and she would have had to do much pushing of hitting this run to be out of the park with their purpose of ninety three and this trick you see right now is a tell a teacher and once she did twice now well the female m.p. has done that before and this is the young age of seventeen you got to have nerves for that. and say look at that look at the height she gets as well. so with gold it's a lovely story can sing when she was thirteen years old she could go see them pics and such in two thousand and fourteen she was that girl she could recall how with i.o.c. said you're too young to go in this thing it's a lovely story because she also before elementary school she'd go out on the trampoline and practice a jump some flips in the morning and that's the you know that's what that's the fruits of it all that she she can do that kind of stuff with impacts and the other thing as well of course she's a korean americans that she has korean roots and her grandmother was there to see her do it she dedicated her gold medal to grandmother but she also says that happy was she was to have a family that this would have to say you know having my family. be there through the whole process was so helpful and i've surrounded myself with such amazing

people that they definitely made it much easier for me but yeah i mean i feel like i got to represent both the u.s. and korea today and i'm very honored to have been able to do that. it takes a village you got to have a lot of support and good that she's thanking everyone for that support and she wasn't the first one to win an olympic gold for the first time say she was not marcy here show but he is considerably older than she is he's been so this is the picks the first time he's must win gold is elude him so far so she want to silver before that in vancouver he went empty handed and he's considered one of the best scout prime skiis in the sport one of the greats of all time and we expected him to win gold at some point and it finally happened because has been a broken and he really is a he is the greatest i have seen since i've been watching skiing and he can add to that gold medal to c.v. next to the six world championship titles he's won so far ok so now we have to go

to the louche quite an impressive sport one that terrifies me a little bit actually what i'm watching and we have to talk about germany who is actually retained her singles title right i think so she's managed to keep gold medal and you know the glory is not going to end there she has a chance to retain her team relay medal which is later this week so she could go home as dublin to be champion again we talk about the winner so often but of course there's also a lot of heartbreak at the games you know there are usually only a war there are only three medals per vent that can be given out there was some heartbreak in speedskating right indeed at least kristie of team great britain she is one of the best skates is out there and so she was disqualified from all three of the events she took pots and one of them was a bit of a strange judge's decision in this particular time in the final she fell in the final she was actually getting close to second place she could have actually won and the sad thing about it is that in the quarterfinals she's broken the olympic record with doing the five hundred meter stretch in forty two seconds is incredibly

fast and of course going to the final she is one of the favorites but she got clips by one of our competitors fell out of the barriers and didn't finish the race is quite a sad story but she has the chance to get a medal in the one thousand meter and fifty hundred meter race this week nick just briefly what do we have coming up tomorrow we've got some skates of us from hockey and we got smaller ok it's going to be a jam packed day and we'll see you again tomorrow to wrap it all up for us nick mckenna klein on t.v. sports desk thank you so much. yes yes and with that you're up to date here on t.w. news i'm sarah kelly in by land thank you so much for watching we hope to see you again six.

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