this is the news live from berlin is it game over for israel's prime minister israeli police say that in a netanyahu should be indicted on two charges and separate corruption cases but he's hitting back saying the claims are baseless we'll get the very latest from jerusalem also coming up. police in south africa have raided the home of the prominent business family at the heart of a corruption scandal involving president jacob zuma that as zuma fuel's expectation that his resignation could be imminent. and in germany social democrats an

absolute turmoil the resignation of the party's leader triggers uncertainty over a successor shortly ahead of a crucial vote on a new coalition deal with the conservatives who can revive this fractured party. plus the german journalist who spent the last year in a turkish prison turk is holding on terrorism charges but a year on there has been no indictment and no trial we'll take a look at how his case continues to affect relations between ankara and. i'm brian thomas' a warm welcome to the show israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is future is very much in doubt this morning police say there isn't enough evidence for him to be charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust israel's attorney general must now examine the police recommendation and decide

whether to file charges in a live t.v. address netanyahu denied any wrongdoing. a little bit in my years as prime minister i have been subject to at least fifteen inquiries and investigations with the aim of toppling me from power to motion to those attempts resulted in nothing and this time too they will come to nothing. i'm sure will really i will continue to lead israel responsibly and faithfully for as long as you the citizens of israel jews me to lead you all the prime minister has been questioned several times over the past year and is a suspect as mentioned in two separate corruption cases. israel's prime minister benjamin bibi netanyahu has held the post fanaa and 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 annoying 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 with tens of thousands of israeli shekels in case two thousand and the prime minister allegedly trying 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. so what are the next steps for netanyahu and for israeli prosecutors for more let's bring indeed obvious middle east correspondent tanya kramer tanya how strong is the evidence against netanyahu that's been have it over to prosecutors. well that called the police and they say they have a son it evidence but now it's in the hands of the attorney general and his team to look at this evidence and then to decide whether to file the indictments against the prime minister and also on what charges and that could take really some months some could be a very lengthy process what people are looking at you know his father what's happening on the political arena right now now last night when the recommendations we have published the opposition already cold for mr prime minister netanyahu to

resign he has a lot of support from his only could ministers saying this is just a move to oust the prime minister that you can whence a fine saying this is a coup but what really matters now are his coalition partners two ministers in his government coalition they have said in the fog of recommendations for a popular state they were wait what the attorney general decides but they will look at this very closely and the see whether they have to leave this ship that before it saying so whether they will stay on this coalition ok this is also an issue of israeli political culture isn't it netanyahu succeeded a who overheard as prime minister whom self went to prison on corruption charges is this a case of political deja vu for israelis. i think for many it's very it's a bit like that it's a dish a real although it was expected because these and you see geisha have been ongoing for over a year but they remember very well that also then prime minister you had all much

less addressing the public saying he wanted to stay on your bench he had to resign and was indicted and later also served as some time in prison but what's very ironic here and some of us have been talking about that is that at the time netanyahu was in the opposition then had also criticized prime minister olmert that he couldn't stay on as a prime minister that he should resign so now he's in the same position and these so those israelis who would like him mother to leave his post they remember that time very well well can. and will he continue on as the nation's leader while the case against them moves forward. well i think the israelis hear that too can could simplify it that way i mean that those few of you saw it in the report they have been going out to protest they wanted to speed up these investigations and really put pressure on the attorney general to move forward they are the ones

that want to see they had enough with prime minister netanyahu they have been always scandalous around his family and they say enough is enough he should leave but he also has a huge support still within his coalition is quite stable coalition. in his fighting government and people would like him to stay you must one of their favorite prime ministers so i think he is certainly politically weakened to right now it's not what happens in the coming days and weeks but this will decide certainly his political future talking kramer thanks very much for that tanya from jerusalem. it is to south africa now where police have arrested two people in a raid at the home of the gupta family their business friends of the country's embattled president jacob zuma one of those arrested is understood to be a member of the family the raid was carried out on the gupta family's johannesburg home now this comes as part of an investigation into allegations that

a number of family members had corrupt links with zuma of both parties are denying any wrongdoing later today zuma is expected to respond to an order by the governing a and see that he step down from office. our correspondent christine. now for more in the studio on what is very much a developing story good morning christine first off can you tell us about the gupta family and why police have targeted their family home essentially this came out off a report by the former protective this is a corruption watchdog office. released a report saying that she had found that this family does this is an indian family from india had close ties with the president and people associated to the president we know that for example one of the president's son is in business with the group has and they have been reports from several people in cabinet claiming that members of the group to family would phone them and offer them certain cabinet positions

and so there has been an ongoing investigation is there but we understand that the raids today are partly due to that as well ok you mentioned the connections to the raids be tied specifically to the corruption charges that jacob zuma is facing its second one of those if it is to do with the state capture probe and we also understand that more primarily information that's coming out is it has to do with a dairy farm project when money that was meant to be given to poor black farmers was siphoned off into accounts but the state capture approach that has to do with the links to the president is also part of that investigation the timing. of these raids is very interesting almost as the you know the veil of protection is removed after the president was recalled do we see the hawks now acting and put carrying out these rates ok you know the a.n.c. has called for president zuma to step down we're waiting for him to respond will he according to the secretary general is not surely this is the party secretary

general yesterday when he briefed the media about the fact that the a.n.c. had taken the decision to recall the president he said that he expected the president to respond today in giving the media a briefing we don't know when that's going to be but we are made to understand that at some point today the president will give a briefing from the union buildings ok now if zuma fails to resign what's the next step for his party for the n.c. the a.n.c. will be forced to take the matter to parliament they've got two options and they can either take the impeachment route which is difficult and takes longer or they would opt for a motion of no confidence and that's pretty much the most likely option of the two that would mean that the party would have to to to to table a motion of no confidence it's almost certain to be paused the a.n.c. has the numbers but also not forgetting that virtually every other opposition party would support such a motion and that would mean that the president would have to be forced to resign by the parliament of the country constitutionally he is bound to do so ok so we're

waiting for two things right now for a response from jacob zuma and for the police it's also going about this raid on the govt of the later today that surprise ok thanks so much kristie the circular thousand of the other stories making the news today denmark's royal palaces the prince henrik has died and rick was the husband of queen margaret the second the palace that he died late tuesday in his sleep having earlier been hospitalized with a long infection he was eighty three years old. the former guatemalan president has been arrested in a corruption investigation nearly his entire former cabinet was also detained prosecutors and the united nations any corruption body or looking into a public transit deal they say financially benefited public service. in new york a judge's sentence the man convicted of planting bombs in manhattan to life in prison plus thirty years. rahimi is a naturalized u.s. citizen he was captured on video depositing pressure cooker bombs in september of

twenty sixteen no one was killed but thirty people were injured well after more than four months without a new government germantown for all americans hopes of forming a coalition could be under threat or hope for coalition partners are without a strong leadership after party chair martin shoulder stepped down now the party still needs to hold a crucial vote on a coalition deal with merkel's conservative scholtz has pointed to andrea knowledge she received the official endorsement of the party's executive committee on tuesday bought the party still needs to approve or. now if knowledge is confirmed at a special convention in april she would be the first woman to lead germany's social democrats in one hundred fifty years. mine of course it's them i want to express my joy about the high level of support i received today in the party executive and.

it's a duty that i now want to carry out. it's a responsibility for our country because i will endorse entering the grand coalition. i will campaign for this and do everything i can to make it work for the finding of spriggan our political correspondent nina hasa for more nina andrea and also there is talking about a high level of support she got yesterday then why though wasn't she then officially confirmed as party leader right away yesterday as was originally the plan. well that's just another sign of just how much chaos the s.p.d. is in the moment and then looked set to be appointed as martin short's a successor like you said but then criticism grew from the rank and file of the s.p.d. that this when's against the protocol that if the chairman steps down it's actually one of the deputies who has to succeed but bride to be fair you have to say that

all of this insisting on the process by the posse base is also just an expression of the mistrust in the s.p. these leadership in general and so now all of choice the mayor of hamburg is going to be the interim leader of the s.p.d. and knowledge is once to be appointed or elected by the party conference in april but there are no long weeks between now and april there certainly are not very and also set off in that time for a road show to convince the party rank and file to seal the coalition deal would ackles conservatives but there's also another row show planned as well what can you tell us about that. exactly the leader of the young socialist student called kevin has been complaining from the very beginning against the grand coalition he says the s.p.d. needs proper renewal and that is only possible outside of a government with angela merkel's conservative so he has been complaining very

strongly that the s.p.d. not only needs new people in its leadership but that it also needs to say no to the deal that was negotiated with the conservatives that we saw last week. came to an end so kevin cannot is already on the road and in alice will have to fight hard to convince the party base to vote yes because we have to remember the party base is allowed to vote on whether or not the s.p.d. will enter a new grand coalition with conservatives and we we will see the results on march the fourth and it is a very close race ok it is a very big if you know what are germans saying about all of this the chaos the projected process of creating a new government well the s.p.d. in particular has found itself in a downward spiral of support currently ranking at about sixteen percent of voter approval and they say is a terrible result already last year result in september's federal elections was the

west result in s.p.d. history and so voters are not happy at all with how things are going in the established parties nina thanks very much for bring us up to date on this and you know. well it is a completely different picture with the economy is in his mind it goes a lot clearer to what's happening there german politics might be slightly chaotic right now but the economy bryan is going strong in fact europe's growth engine keeps going out full steam fresh data shows strong exports helped the german economy to continue its solid upswing at the end of last year and grow by northpoint six percent on the previous quarter on the via europe's biggest economy grew by two point nine percent in the fourth quarter of last year falling just slightly short of the consensus forecast still the federal statistics office confirmed the strongest full year g.d.p. growth since two thousand and eleven. and that of course must be new zick to the

ears of investors let's ask what he bought off of the franklin stock exchange when he again is german exports keeping the economy on track any pitfalls in sight. i think the pitfalls are the strong euro and interest rates interest rates perhaps going up based on inflation now the problem here from the point of view of the markets which are reacting positively right now are the u.s. interest rates not the german ones the german figure as at one point six percent that's a little down from the previous month on an annual basis but everyone today is looking at the u.s. figure that's expected in about five hours to two thirty pm german time and if the u.s. inflation comes in just a tad above the expected one point nine percent for january then we have trouble here that's what everyone is saying then we could have another round of tumbles injures and perhaps a repeat or more of what one saw last week because of the repercussions for rates

and what that means for starting this before we get to the jitters that will lead just stay a while i've got some more actually quite good news because it's a welcome rebound this. to some cope the german industrial group has reported a healthy increase in operating profits rose more than by a third in the first quarter thanks to a recovery in steel prices operational earnings before interest and taxes came in a four hundred forty four million euros profits for the steel business which is said to be sold to tata steel this year have increased five fold innovative business is also doing well it's increased its profit by three percent the management is in the process of restructuring with a stronger focus on technology so let's bring in only again in frankfurt twenty i mean this rebalance in the steel six did anyone see that coming that's quite a surprise. it is a surprise i mean the basic trend was clear already for

a couple of weeks now but these are very very strong numbers and i don't think the group saw that steel was going to profit that much from higher prices and higher prices could be put through in the market but higher still prices basically a cyclical symptom the economy is going great all over the world and so now you have high steel prices when the economic cycle slows down when it cools down then you have more trouble in steel than in other businesses and you probably have losses again that's why just in crop c.e.o. hundred she's in there is staying with the plan of restructuring staying with the plan of merging it still activities with tata steel in order to be rid of this risk for the whole group you know i don't know about in frankfurt thank you very much but this. well of course there are some other hurdles for steel eventually from the would go u.s. president had

a very clear idea about he defines how he defines fair trade it is fair when america benefits from it fair enough why now he's considering a range of options including tariffs and quotas to address steel and aluminum imports he says unfairly hurting us produces. the u.s. president met with lawmakers at the white house to determine whether to slap terror of some foreign steel imports from countries like china. secretary rice submitted the result of the investigations to me last month my administration is down to reviewing the reports and considering all options. part of the options would be terrorists coming in as they don't steal that big tariff substantial tariffs which means the united states would actually make a lot of money and. probably are still industry that are limited to certain would come back into our country right now which decimated. trump insists that the new tabs being introduced on chinese steel are fair and the word reciprocal is

a very important word we have countries that are taking advantage of us they're charging us massive tariffs to for us to sell our product into those countries and when they sell to us zero we charge them zero we're like the stupid people and i don't like to have that anymore so we're going to change that and we're going to make it fair and that i call that fair trade to choose thirty no german companies fear that they'll be the next recipients of donald trump's fair trade tariffs. maybe even more so ok just as a reminder today is valentine's day millions of women around the world can look forward to receiving a nice bunch of flowers now with europe in the grip of winter chances are you'll flowers come from somewhere warm and sunny like kenya in fact the cut flower industry is key to the country's economy but competition from neighboring ethiopia

is putting business at risk. at the yossarian flour farm in central kenya all these stem to beauties are processed by hand from harvesting to bundling to packing for transport. tonnes of flowers are prepared for market on these work tables. the company's director hamish kerr runs a well organized and highly efficient operation each flower arrives in stores no later than two days after their cut. people line up outside the packing facility every day looking for work the regional economy depends on flower cultivation where employing three off hours and people we are neither when it comes to have ethical trade so we're paying ostroff the highest in the industry for providing housing medical schooling so in terms of the flowers that we produce they are putting money into people's pockets. the flower industry is the country's second most important

sector after tourism. five percent of its economic output comes from cut flowers. here at lake ny bhatia growing conditions are perfect for twelve hours of sunshine per day cool nights fertile soil and enough lake water to keep the more than fifty flower producers here in business. the kenya flower council in the capital nairobi however is concerned about cheaper competition in neighboring ethiopia the head of the association says the ethiopian government is attracting investors with price dumping they get access to land they get the subsidies on even trade let me give you an example we can't land our flowers in the us at three point five to four dollars a kilogram. big europeans on this sub today's plates on their every plane land. shouldn't we. don't speculate. as

a result farmers are leaving. this flower grower abandon operations here to move to ethiopia low cost operations to the north are endangering the industry in kenya with jobs and economic growth at stake. if the exodus of companies continues at this rate that will be bad news for the flourishing power sector in kenya. now turning to a painful anniversary now painful especially for one man brian that's right monica was exactly one year ago today that the german turkish journalist that is huge i was taken into custody by turkish authorities they're holding him on terrorism and espionage charges and yet there's still the no indictment and no trial the german government is again calling for his release saying his detention remains one of the biggest hurdles to improving relations. his colleagues in berlin are not giving up. they've been campaigning for dennis you just released since he was

imprisoned a year ago the hash tag free ten is in place and on the roof of his newspaper's offices. hugely seen here on a talk show shortly before his arrest because according to turkish authorities he's been held on suspicion of producing terrorist propaganda and incitement to hatred. but no charges have been brought and so far no court proceedings he spent months in solitary confinement and has only recently been moved to a normal cell. the relationship between berlin and ankara has been tense for some time and is huge as imprisonment is a big point of contention between the two countries. uncle america wants us to free a terrorist agent supposedly journalist who was hiding in a german consulate for a month i told her rehab adjust to sr and he'll be put on trial and won't be released before that. germany has managed

to gain consular access to you but insists that detaining him without charge is a human rights violation. let us make no mistake it is not in accordance with rule of law if an executive in this case turkey's executive pre-judge is an individual as has publicly done to dennis you. dennis you jail is one of dozens of journalists currently being held in turkish prisons reporters without borders ranked turkey one hundred fifty fifth out of one hundred eighty countries in last year's world press freedom index to the winter olympics now the man they call the flying tomato has done it again in the mountains of junk chiang shaun white's final run in the snowboarding half by competition was just enough to launch and past two much younger rivals the one goal he was the

winner in two thousand and six and twenty ten but missed the podium in sochi now the american is thirty one as old for those or his tomato red hair cropped short and he's once again on top. well tens of thousands of relevant revelers have been celebrating mardi gras in new orleans are afraid floats musicians acrobats rolling through the city on what's called fat tuesday the last day of carnival and the beginning of the latin fasting season leave you now with a look at some of the sights and sounds see you again soon. see.

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