who lends you to. coughing all maybe you know of that has to do so for lunch. good luck. missing v.w. news live from birdlet it's been a roller coaster ride but today south africa has a new president and thank you paul for this great overture a new team. didn't you didn't and i would try to work very hard to disappoint the people of south africa thank you very much. so what can south africa and the

rest of the world expect from cyril ramaphosa. also coming up we'll have a round up of another exciting day's action at the winter olympic games in south korea and. could be called the over knocks at the berlin international film festival begins with a bang this evening with an animated feature set in the future we will have the latest from the berlin allah and the reaction to the need to campaign. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. his appointment has been welcomed with singing dancing and a standing ovation in parliament cyril ramaphosa was sworn in today as south africa's new president his predecessor jacob zuma resigned barely twenty four hours

earlier after being ordered to stand down by his party the a.n.c. ramaphosa will set out his plans for the country in detail on friday evening but he's already said that tackling corruption will be his top priority. now. that pulls it off on that in part because some of the things the moment the nation had been waiting for the new leader promising a break from the past was the issues that you have raised issues that have to do with corruption issues of how we can straighten out all state owned enterprises and how we do with states. is issues that are on our radar screen and i would try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of south africa thank you very much. and on the streets there was

jubilation as south africans welcomed their new president. to glory and to the whole people because they got to put. it on the boil that is my rule but it is also i will be able to take two days a i'm like i'm rich this is the happiest day of my life. has gone out in who did the dreams offsets that. graham opposed his political career spans more than four decades he was a close ally of nelson mandela and played a key role in south africa's transition to democracy later overlooked by mandela from a person focused on his business interests said to be worth around three hundred sixty million euros now in the top job been firing to tackle corruption there are many challenges ahead. south africa is rich in resources but many live without

electricity or running water health care and schooling remains rudimentary in much of the country eight out of ten nine year olds are illiterate unemployment remains alarmingly high more than two thirds of young people are job less. a lot has been lost and it's going to take several years to recapture lost ground without a doubt. but hopefully hundred new leadership especially in the realm of course that we will story growing back some of the most. and in the longer to the sky's the limit with this country. the task of reconstruction has now begun. to change and yes south africa's new leader will set out his plans in more detail in a speech on friday evening. and journalist alice van gelder is covering the story for us from cape town thanks for joining us ls it has been quite

a busy twenty four hours zuma out run a post set now in how is all of the change being received by the people of south africa sloan's in parliament today and there are people who are deathly certain bracing on the stairs of the parliament stairs saying we need to change now what we've basically given up hope we're told unemployment prices are rising a lot of people are not managing to to get kids through school they're saying something has to change the name hope that soon the process is going to get out. and one of the things that they want him to do is to fight corruption and he mentioned that that was one of his biggest priorities what else is on his agenda and does he have that legitimacy to fight the corruption. well he came into power in december as a party leader of the a.p.c. saying that that is exactly his agenda fighting corruption also probably going to see is that he is going to make sure the some of the very important institutions in

south africa like the national prosecution of dorothy and will kind of become more keen again we noted to this national prosecution authority there's a boiler subsume out and that's one of the leaders also of course for state owned enterprises there's a lot of state businesses where there's money to go it is so i think that's also where he's going to start he's going to look at the state business is he going to get the sea state into institutions and see if he can replace people there to move ahead agenda that he has and to corruption and better administration and what happens to zuma now when a lot of people hope that he will get is the imports i mean there's still a lot of corruption allegations against him as a eight hundred allegations even going back to the late ninety's and they were about. ten or the government of buying weapons and us from there is record tearing

this corruption and still a lot of citizens do feel that now he should face justice and he should be able to get away with this. alice van gelder from cape town thank you. let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world the ethiopian prime minister is stepping down seed here and twenty thirteen. said in his resignation letter that he would continue in the role until the transition of power is complete this comes amid ethiopia's worst antigovernment protests in a quarter of a century demonstrators have been calling for political reform and an end to government corruption. zimbabweans gathered outside of the party office of iconic opposition leader morgan tsvangirai to mourn his death and celebrate his life he nearly became president in two thousand and eight but robert mugabe held on to power until he was deposed in november recognized as the symbol of the resistance

the ruling zanu p.f. for decades jungle ride died from cancer on wednesday sixty five. the charity save the children says that more children than ever are living in conflict areas and are at risk of death and violence they report cite syria afghanistan and somalia as the worst countries for young people and goes on to say that more than three hundred fifty million children one in six worldwide are living in conflict zones. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has met with turkish president. to live since visit comes amid rising tensions between the nato allies over syria's kurds fighting the so-called islamic state washington supports the white p.g. group while ankara says they are a terrorist organization that must be expelled from the region. you're watching news still to come on the program we've got a story of an amazing comeback when. the winter olympics of course that's coming

up in just a few minutes time and an unusual start for britain's international film festival this evening the opening film is an animated feature also different this year. the starring role played by the need to campaign against sexual violence. but in the meantime there has been a frenzy on the south african markets and helen humphrey is tracking all the action has been a frenzy on the markets sarah seem scenes of jubilation in south africa many people in the country out on the street celebrating and as i just mentioned investors are apparently over the moon as well that the pro-business reformer cyril ramaphosa has replaced jacob zuma as president now benchmark south african stocks climbing over three and a half percent on thursday chalking up their biggest daily gain in nearly three years of the country's currency the rand also climbing to its highest it three years at over eleven sixty five to the us dollar broader african share indices also

up today and of course it could all mark the beginning of an economic turnaround analysts used to refer to south africa as the gateway to the continent the corruption has taken its toll. so it's africa's economy took a beating under x. president jacob zuma it's full mental recession the country's bonds are rated junk and its political elite is no longer trusted. due to political mismanagement its second largest city cape town is running out of water fast growth has declined steadily for more than three percent seven years ago to less than two percent in recent years one of the weakest rates of all of sub-saharan africa. the country's hope is resting on the newly elected president still ram opposes a former union leader who's become a wealthy businessman since he was appointed head of the ruling african national congress in december the country's currency has surged by ten percent against the

dollar remember during the. conference when that ends who are doing the election a window who did for the boys and that's a good sign that investors are banking on a change in fact africa's fortune. well to talk more about the impact on the south african economy i'm joined now by barnaby fletcher and analyst at the risk consultancy firm control risk spawn to be zuma is out the country's economy is in tatters is is there a pose of the man to turn it all around. rove was as a very good reputation as a pragmatist as a skilled negotiator and he understands business from his own experience of course south africa has some deep rooted problems that said in the undertake of zuma you have a culture of corruption that is pervasive down to the lowest levels of government you have state owned companies that racked up significant debts these problems do not get solved overnight they'll take time to properly address but what robin poser

can do is he can come in he can provide a level of policy certainty that has been lacking on the exuma presidency that frankly was distracted by. candles and corruption we talk about those potential easy policy wins aside from that he does have to tackle corruption which goes to the halt of the a.n.c. as you mentioned and the a.n.c. is also a party he badly needs to unite so how will he synthesize these two things. that's a very good question as say the a.n.c. as a party is a party of populist and pragmatists and capitalists communists nationalists and pan-african this augury the key job of the president is to unify all those conflicting voices into a single coherent policy direction as i said something that seem a fail to do kind of those that do this well it helps that a he doesn't rely

on patented systems and corruption he has his own wealth he himself has not been accused of any corruption he is likely to get rid of many of the ministers that have been implicated in corruption with sense of a powerful system signal that the culture of impunity will no longer be be tolerated. so you have an independent judiciary that he can rely upon to properly tackle and rule on the cross he is going to have to tackle this because investor confidence is key we've seen international credit rating agencies downgraded south africa do you think the international partners are now going to want to work with the country now that there has been a change of hands so as i said there are still deep rooted problems that will take time to address but it shouldn't be forgotten that south africa still has huge potential it is still oddly the largest sophisticated market in sub-saharan africa it has huge mineral wealth it has a large consumer base

a good manufacturing sector and from a control respectively certainly are seen clients express interest in it and and hope for a level of policy clarity all right on to be fletcher and analysts to control risks thanks for your insights. european aviation giant airbus has released its annual results and that pretty good profits jumped to two point nine billion euros some two billion more and in the previous year with its stock taking off but there are clouds on the horizon in december announced a management shakeup in the wake of corruption allegations and then there's some trouble with some of the models still there is a ray of hope on the horizon. this beauty is what airbus now has its hopes pinned on the a three twenty one. is based on the mid-range a three twenty one family but thanks to the addition of a third turned it can fly over seven thousand kilometers the narrow body plane has

only a single aisle but can still carry up to two hundred forty passengers and cost a third less than regular long haul aircraft it's already garnered one hundred orders. it's hoped the new plane will compensate for the poorly performing a three eighty super jumbo. week demand had cast doubts on continued production of the world's biggest passenger plane but it was given a lifeline when dubai based carrier emirates placed a large order recently. that's not airbuses only problem either it's a four hundred military transport has also been beset by technical difficulties it's been posting losses since two thousand and three year that good was not short on challenges. it was not short term turmoil and reporting particularly in the media to sort of this year two thousand and seventeen for us it was is very can encouraging it ever since we those of you who know us know that we fly from

challenges. and we never ever give up last year was delivered seven hundred eighteen aircraft a new record albeit less than us rival boeing. this year bus is on course to sell eight hundred planes that's due in no small part to the company's new champion the a three twenty one meo. now the european union's trade of surplus with the united states widened last year a fact that is likely to intensify u.s. president donald trump's to crack down on what he terms of very unfair relationships so just how big is the gap let's take a look at the numbers now in twenty seventy the e.u. exported three hundred seventy five billion euros worth of goods to the united states but it received goods worth only two hundred and fifty four billion euro as in the other direction leaving it with a trade surplus of close to one hundred and twenty one billion euros that's an

increase of close to seven percent compared to the previous year now the data comes a month off to the european union one to charm that any attempts to curb imports from the bloc would be met with retaliation. now hyper inflation the has hit venezuela cash that is increasingly in short supply which is bad news for everyone aside from a few tech companies that have been able to carve out a nice amid the crisis. this is the kind of scene you can expect if you're hoping to access cash in venezuela soaring prices have led to shortages in paper money and long lines at a.t.m. . but the country's hyper inflation has produced some surprise winners in the business world small tech companies offering shoppers mobile payments. one of them is very cold its founder says venezuela's economic crisis has sped up what was already

a burgeoning trend. we saw in twenty ten and twenty eleven that alec tronic payments were going to be a trend globally. what's happened is that has accelerated in some countries for various reasons so perhaps our economy will become cashless before that of denmark and therefore which put more effort into payments in america. last year the company saw a thirty fold increase in customers those availing of the service say it's made shopping easier. to make that so i would like to admit that i think that for me personally it's very practical to pay with the poll because it enables transactions on the way that the only thing missing is more information about how to manage the hour and it's technology. you know of that if i did that because we had no money

going. out the developers in venezuela usually don't need too much starting capital salary expectations among coders are no electricity and data costs next to nothing still the boom in mobile payment is a result of the bust in nearly every other sector of the economy. all right speck of a t sarah now thank you so much helena and we're hopefully heading to the united states for a story now because president trump has been speaking about yesterday's mass shooting in florida where seventeen people were killed and many more injured when a nineteen year old gunman opened fire at the florida high school where he used to be a student the suspect named by authorities as nicholas cruz was arrested and now faces seventeen charges of premeditated murder here's an excerpt from president trump's speech our entire nation with one heavy heart is praying for the

victims and their families. to every parent teacher and child. who is hurting so badly. we are here for you whatever you need whatever we can do to ease your pain. in germany chancellor angela merkel has welcomed the turkish prime minister to the capital of berlin for bilateral talks high on the agenda is the fate of a jailed german journalist that has chilled relations between berlin and i'll go prime minister denali told merkel and the turkish government put it. said that the turkish government would not to be able to release reporter that it's you child for the time being he's been turkish custody for a year since his arrest on suspicion of terrorism related offenses but you chel has yet to be charged with any crime americal calling for fast and fair proceedings against him. well we're going to head now to the winter olympics n.p.r.

chang day six of the games the very own matt herman is joining us here on the set to talk all things sports all things olympics we have a really great story coming out of the snowboard cross right yeah absolutely this is a real comeback story i mean some of it is wrapped up in the nature of snowboard cross but it's still pretty great story. phil on the semifinal and looked like he was going to be out but in fact that crash took out so many guys that he got back up to finish the race alone sixteen seconds behind the winner and he came in third which qualified him for the final and when the final finally went down he ran a pretty much perfect race he finished going away he repeats as gold medalists in to snowboard cross. it's just you can't count anybody out in this sport. when it comes to correlate and made can you count anyone out there i hear some teams are having difficulties but at least one is looking pretty good when they're

doing and you could say that norway they have been making the scene with their fancy pants as they did in two thousand and ten and twenty fourteen so in that respect it's not new but their parents are new every time they never play the same pair of pants and today they broke out for the floral. abstract pattern that really set tongues are wagging and yesterday they had special valentine's day commemorative pants with pink hearts all over them they're really setting the games on fire they have their own facebook fan page unfortunately they're not winning they lost to japan they lost to canada which is a bit of a surprise as a chapter or two to the cool runnings story of twenty teen or a nine hundred eighty eight rather their coach sandra curiosus a german gold medalist from two thousand and six refused to accept a demotion from driving coach to technical systems meant she would have had to know access to the athletes during the competition because she helped them procure their

sort of high tech sled she is claiming that she owns the sled and she's going to take the sled and not let them race with it which seems like a terrible position to be put and she apparently has a good relationship with the bobsledders themselves but it's the the jamaican bobsled association that she's clashing with let's hope they get this sorted out by tuesday when the qualifiers start it would be a bit awkward to try and compete without a sled now wouldn't have matt she's not really giving them much of a choice there i guess not her men play hard ball exactly i've met her and from day bevy of sports stats but the latest a little bit action from young tank thank you. it's that time of year again berlin's international film festival known as the berlin wall it begins tonight it is ten days of screenings talks workshops and more the opening film this year is wes anderson's dystopian animated feature i love the dogs

tilda swinton and bill murray are among the stars to lend their voices to the characters in the story of a pack of dogs were ruined on a bleak japanese island. and this is the first time that an animation has opened the berlin film festival have a look called i look dogs is set in the dystopian future japan due to a dangerous dog flu the canine population is rounded up and banished to trash island on atari as a young boy whose dog is among those seized he goes to the island in search of his beloved pet. and he's helped by the other dogs. because layover noxious sludge marsh leading to a radioactive landfill goodbye toxic chemical garbage that's our destination growing out of get richer. and the. little pilot. should because he's a twelve year old boy. dogs love those we'll find him. three years if he's

alive to find your dog during his search he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to destroy the city's dog population for ever can atari and the canine crew save the day for somebody langridge. and reporters of the berlin film festival my colleague sarah harman and david levitz were down at the red carpet here's what they had to say. well right outside of the world premiere of wes anderson's new movie the isle of dogs this is a really fun movie and the red carpet has been really fun as well there was even some drumming sara yeah that's right they had this movie is set in japan so for the red carpet premiere they brought out some traditional japanese drummers and as the director and the voicing cast arrived wes anderson and bill murray jumped up on these drawings and just gave a little impromptu concert it was so cool we tried to get video of it for you it was just it all happened too fast but that's a kind of thing that happens on the regular girl an hour and the crowd out here

just went crazy for there's a lot of berliners out tonight hoping to get autographs hoping to get a glimpse of their favorite stars who we have i mean are there a lot of stars so people getting autographs from tilda swinton she's also one of the voices in this movie who marie. jungle ranson jeff goldblum very tall man yes he was one of the few you could see over all of the heads actually so we were really thankful for that it pays to be tall so greg eric of course is nominated for an oscar for her own film and lends her boys to this film aisle of dogs one of excitement and it's kind of cool that they're opening with an animated feature that's never happened in our history. up to date now i'm d.w. news a quick reminder of the top story that we have been following for you see all around the post that has been elected south africa's president says that he will set out his plans for the country and address to the nation on friday evening he said that tackling corruption would be a top priority. i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks so much for watching and don't

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children running for their lives as the gunmen armed with an assault rifle tears through their high school in florida tonight more than a dozen families mourn their dead and a deeply divided nation once again clashes over gun control i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. with. each person. who.