this is v.w. news live from berlin israel's prime minister under fire after a year long graft investigation israeli police say benjamin netanyahu took bribes and are recommending that he be charged with corruption we will get the latest from our correspondent in jerusalem. also coming up germany's oldest political party the s.p.d. looks set to decide on its first female leader but can andrea ballasts unify a deeply divided social democrats and sea levels are rising fast and threatening

the coastlines on full flow line islands and larger nations that's according to a new u.s. study based on twenty five years of satellite data. i'm sorry kelly welcome and thanks for joining us we begin with reports that israeli police have enough evidence to recommend that prosecutors charge prime minister benjamin netanyahu with bribery following a fourteen month investigation the recommendation has been handed to the country's attorney general that yahoo denies wrongdoing in a live t.v. address he said that all recommendations against him will quote end with nothing he said that he will continue to lead israel responsibly and to faithfully the prime minister has been a question several times over the past year and is a sign. aspect in two separate cases for. israel's prime minister benjamin

bibi netanyahu he's held the post phenomenon years but now his political future seems at best uncertain 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 munch all the long day will be nothing because days 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 vote or their own conclusions but obviously also the israeli public will have a say in that view so in the past couple of months i have seen 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 was always called the champagne and cigar case that

he has taken gifts from businessmen specially this one producer that has been always mentioned and that has been. many tens of thousands of israeli shekels now what the question he was for the police has he actually given some favors 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 popular show to get more favorite coverage to be understand that deal hasn't been really implemented at the end time you cramer with the latest from israel where as we mentioned there are reports that police have enough evidence to recommend that prosecutors consider charging prime minister benjamin netanyahu with bribery tanya thank you for your reporting. martin shultz the leader of germany social democrats

and former chancellor candidate has officially stepped down schultz has nominated andrea knowledge as his successor the move comes amid widespread disenchantment with shelters leadership within s.p.d. ranks party members are currently preparing to vote on a deal with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives to form another round coalition. martin short sleeves empty handed just a week ago it looked like he would become foreign minister and new government now he's given up that ambition as well as the s.p.d. leadership. the only people to have resigned from my s.p.d. post and from the government because i want to help and the debate about personalities in the party. members can focus on the coalition agreement. s.p.d. members will vote on the coalition deal between the social democrats and conservatives

early next month it's fear that grassroots members could reject it out of frustration with debates about ministerial posts. many members believe could now rejuvenate the party the s.p.d. executive has endorsed charles schultz a successor. the former parliamentary group leader is likely to be formally elected at a party conference in april bill it is a fun talk to you and i want to take on this you too it's a responsibility to the country because i will endorse entering the grand coalition . i will campaign for it and do everything i can to make. sure it's was at the helm of the s.p.d. for less than a year towards the end his popularity hit rock bottom. i'm not. of course you get hurt but time heals all wounds and i'm sure the social

democratic party will get back and form a strength and a government under there not less at the top and with our members support. our coughed. and has until march to convince the s.p. d.s. four hundred fifty thousand members to approve the grand coalition with macas conservatives the vote will show whether the s.p.d. backs her as leader and whether germany will have a new government. and earlier i spoke with our correspondent thomas sparrow and i began by asking him if it was more likely that the s.p.d. would say yes to a grand coalition with merkel's conservatives now that knowledge is expected to be the next party leader. while the four hundred sixty three thousand s.p.d. members will certainly be voting on whether to accept or not to accept that deal and it had become evident that martin shows had become a burden for many of those s.p.d.

members from that perspective it can be seen as a positive news for those who want another grand coalition but the fact is also sorrow that many who reject the grand coalition do so not because of martin shows but because they want their party to not be in a grand coalition but rather to start dutch ridicule from the opposition as the largest party in opposition so it is still unclear what this this decision today will mean for the wider party for the vote of the four hundred sixty three thousand members and obviously for the grand coalition itself. thomas sparrow in berlin thank you. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world ukraine's opposition leader mikhail saakashvili has vowed to fight to the end after being forcibly deported to poland he says that he will continue his fight against

corruption from abroad and rally political opposition on monday satisfyingly was forcibly detained in a restaurant in kiev before being deported. the suspect in last year's truck attack in stockholm has pleaded guilty to terrorism at the opening of his trial rockmart aki love said that he wanted to punish sweden for fighting against the so-called islamic state the prosecution is calling for a life sentence the attack killed five people and injured fifteen others. south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has formally asked the scandal hit 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 as a.n.c. leader by south africa's deputy president cyril ramaphosa he's ready to take over the top job but zoom over maine's in power saying that he will give his response on

wednesday here's what the a.n.c. is secretary-general have to say. through as we go really good business is to be as you were doing speeches. to restore. we have we really. do need. to restore where we go what do we expect the deep blue to do would do this would be very expensive to do so i don't know what will happen but to there's a degree to do is there are groups who. are melting ice sheets in greenland and antarctica are spreading up the over the rapid rise in sea levels that's according to researchers at the national academies of sciences in the united states they've been studying satellite data and they protect that by the end of the center of the world's oceans will be sixty centimeters higher than today some low lying islands are already saying more flooding and so are the coastlines of larger nations and

continents. rising sea levels of already flooding the homes of people in the marshall islands in the south pacific that powerless against the salt water which has made the farmland barren and replace the fresh water. new satellite imagery shows that other low lying nations are also under threat. the countries that are vulnerable as those with coastal regions that could be germany's coast which is experiencing rising sea levels as well a small island nations around the world like fiji. the main finding of the new study climate change is driving rising sea levels global warming melts glaciers and ice caps the oceans warm up the salt water expands and sea levels rise policymakers are under pressure to

act especially against coal the most polluting of the fossil fuels. political pressure to battle climate change. countries need to stick to the paris accord and that means. it's a big challenge for the new german government. preparations for the rising seas are already being made along germany's north sea coast flooding is becoming more frequent and powerful so dams and dikes must be strengthened the investment will cost billions of euros but it's the only way to protect the coastline. you're up to date now on news we will leave you now with a look back at three days of carnival in rio de janeiro brazil is biggest party which has now come to an end i'm sorry kelly in berlin enjoy i hope to see. and.

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