you know not only safe but our car when i'm with you front you. want to point to conceive kids as if they're serious it. is serious for attracted more just got more chaotic as alliances shift kurdish militia in syria say they are teaming up with president assad's forces to push turkey out of the border enclave it invaded last month meanwhile critics fear the german tanks like these used to attack kurdish rebels in syria were part of a deal to secure the freedom of an imprisoned journalist believe it might have been turkey's price tag for the reporter's freedom. also chose other marital tells her

party sure would like this woman to be elected secretary general is this undergrad to cram current browers tickets to the channel ships. thank you very much for your company everyone will have more on those stories in just a moment but first human rights monitors say the syrian government has stepped up its bombardment of a rebel held area close to the syrian capital damascus killing scores of people the syrian observatory for human rights says the government air raids over eastern ghouta have killed seventy one people over the past twenty four hours and injured three hundred twenty five eastern guta has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years the united nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the area which is home to four hundred thousand people.

well elsewhere in the syrian conflict syrian state media say pro regime forces are going to help kurdish militias expel turkish troops from the border region of freeing turkey invaded last month they could arrive there within hours well turkey's foreign minister responded to the news by saying that if the syrian regime moved to protect the kurds the turkish offensive would continue present and on till the syrian government it would have to face the consequences. all right well to help explain the potential ramifications of a possible deal between the syrian kurds an aside i want to turn now to eva savile's marriage she is head of the berlin based european center for kurdish studies a very good evening misses of about how much of a surprise is this reported decision is this something that was being discussed to your knowledge. well there are people who already said like three weeks ago that

the assad regime will come in when turkey doesn't stop its in ways and and i think it's not really a surprise because some of those currents in power at the moment the white b.g. which is the branch of the p.k. has been working closely with the regime for a long time all right so this is not a surprise so it's not really a surprise that that doesn't mean if this materializes if they get the backing of assad's forces well the big question i think is how will turkey react for turkey it's of course most important that they get a solution for the security problem tokyo's the security problem with the could just north of syria because the b.g. the syrian branch of the p.k. is currently in power there and the question is will they trust the regime to really. keep the influence of this militia or will then what that's basically the question for those living in syrian curtis time it's

a different question i think they will neither they neither like to live under turkish power nor under such power and there are many of course of the criticizing the white b.g. ok well let's let's let's first start with deal with damascus with the assad regime . are they willing to grant these currents autonomy independence some though that they aspire to no i don't think so there is no reason to believe that the us who seem a lot with the kurds any form of autonomy any form of federalism any form of them local government so what are they turning to that well actually for the. turkey is the big and in need. and they have always been dealing with the assad regime and so for them it means that if they can fight with the assad regime turkey they were to turn to the us have to show you they are more or less not really interested in the interests of the kurds living in syria but they are interested in the interests of the party of the care of the p.k. k. ok let's look a little bit now towards turkey why is this such an existential issue for them that

they're even willing to get bogged down in syria over this over this issue well in a way it's understandable i mean there was a war between the p.k. k. and the took est since the one nine hundred eighty s. and now the americans have really armed the y.p. . militia with a lot of really great so there are about twenty thousand people now right on the border to turkey so for turkey it's really a security threat this white turkey came in and one could know for a long time that they wouldn't accept for at least not for mid term that. were encouraged why p.g. would stay there with all those arms on their borders so it was quite clear that they would intervene of course there are other sources say that the fact that one wants to be elected again next year is important and of course if you want to be elected in turkey it's always good to go against the courts because you can then collect certain number of people behind you so in this seems to work to what i

wonder though do kurds have any viable options in syria but i think they would test head well it's difficult to say i'm not sure if they really have other options i mean they could of course try there are groups that try to fight against the white but those groups were not really strong and to the white could turn them down because they were the only ones armed so currently there are no good options for the options for the syrians and where does this all leave the americans very brief i've got twenty seconds left for the americans right who have been supporting the kurds of course and our allies with the turf. well it seems at the moment that the americans are beginning to let the courts want to let the y.p. g. down and this seems to be at least for those living there a good thing but now since turkey came in we don't know what's going to happen. she is head of the berlin based european center for kurdish studies thank you if you. now with. turkey engaged in syria anchor is looking to improve military ties with

some of its allies including germany where the past few days have seen a thawing in relations of all this after released german turkish journalist dennis your child who was held in istanbul for a year without charge but now some are wondering what turkey might get in return they think a deal for a tank factory may be turkey's price. seeking speedy approval from germany turkish prime minister banally yielder him is hoping the two countries might soon cooperate on building tanks in turkey a deal potentially worth billions. in january german foreign minister sic mark gabriele signal berlin would ok a proposal to retrofit tanks with new anti mines systems but that plan was put on ice after turkey invaded syria's afridi region with german built leopard tanks gabriele rejected speculation the deal for a tank factory would be approved critics fear there may be

a secret deal to approve the factory in exchange for the recent release of the german journalist denise you tell also list of the foreign minister would never admit it but in my view it's perfectly clear there's a connection there if you look at the whole story i assume is a direct link to the balances among exist yet the german foreign ministry has denied those claims it says the country's acting government doesn't have the mandate to make such a deal would be putting on this to court this country's future governing coalition has agreed in its negotiations to further tighten the weapons exports so i wouldn't be able to support an agreement like that. after turkey's controversial use of german leopard tanks against the kurds in northern syria both sides know a strengthening of ankara and butlins military ties would likely be unpopular. while turkish officials have said the trial of dennis you child will begin on june

twenty eighth in istanbul no charges were made against him during his year in detention but on the day of his release last friday he was charged with supporting terrorism are want to flee in now on some of the other stories making news around the world. iran civil aviation authorities say they cannot confirm reports that wreckage from sunday's plane crash has been found the airline's domestic flight went down in a mountainous area in the south of the country while sixty five people on board the plane are presumed dead. five women have been killed in a shooting at a church in the city of kids lee are in the russian republic of dagestan a twenty two year old man fired at people leaving an evening service before being shot and killed at the scene the islamic state group said it was behind the attack . in the knees as mount sinai volcano here shot a huge column of ash into the atmosphere measuring five kilometers the volcano

erupted this morning no fatalities or injuries have been reported indonesia has put airlines on the highest level of alert. now on a grat crown put on by our might not be a name that rolls off the tongue especially for non german speakers but you might be hearing a lot more in the future because john's ongoing merkel has told her conservative c.d.u. party that she would like. to become its general secretary and that means she would be in charge of the party's day to day operations and it places her in paul's position to take over as chancellor if merkel steps down. it's by all means a colorful choice and agreed to come take the position as general secretary of the c.d.u. although she already has helped more important posts within the party but conservative leader wanted to party manager whom she can trust one hundred percent and on a good come come by has been close to america for many years taken on said one when

we have known each other for many years now and i can say that we can rely on each other even if we both have our own opinions so i think we'll have some exciting times ahead of us. the media has given come combo the nickname mini america a.k.k. as she is known in the c.d.u. party is much more than just a mini unincluded com combo or has been state premie of the saar region since two thousand and eleven. victory at the state elections last year was key to merkel's win in the nationwide elections just a few months later now she gives up a strong position to help marco to set up a reform agenda within the c.d.u. . even though it has never i'm firmly convinced that germany needs and will continue to need strong political parties not political movements dominated by single persons. and agreed to come come by was considered to be down to earth

a matter of fact approach to politics is very popular her nomination as general secretary can also be seen as a way of reaching out to america's critics of those she's loyal to the bharti leader articulate come combo has never been too shy to voice opinion in the past hour at let's go to our political correspondent all over south for more on this are going to say you have chosen america's party members welcomed her decision to nominate and i can't come and our. well it certainly shows this move that. is taking care of her legacy and this is certainly appreciated within the party we have to consider that america has received enormous criticism in the recent weeks and months for the weak election result of the conservative party in the parliament in the parliament elections here in september but then also of course for her open door policy in the refugee crisis of two thousand and fifteen and sixteen and for a general move to the left off the conservative party so the overall arching

question always was will she at some point present her own successor. come conboy is not necessarily her successor but what's interesting to see and to consider here is that she's going to be in one of the most influential positions off the conservative party the secretary general which by the way even until america held herself before she became party head and before she became chancellor of germany so she certainly this name is a name to watch out for in the future all right talk to us now about the social democrats oliver is their house in order. well the s.p.d. party is in a complicated situation right now it took them weeks to get this coalition deal underway to negotiate with the conservative party after having had one of the biggest election defeats actually the lowest results in in modern german

history now they the party obviously promised their their vote their vote their party base actually to vote on the outcome of these off this coalition deal and this is going to happen and as you can imagine there are very different standpoints within the party not many are happy. to go way back into a grand coalition sound has been think that the party can only gain strength in the opposition so there's a group of young social democrats fighting passionately against going into forming part of a government again and this will be a major challenge then to convince the party base to vote yes for another grand coalition an hour before i let you go some new polls have been released today. that's right and we see the a if tea party the far right populist party coming out stronger than the s.p.d.

party we were just talking about that's quite unusual it's the first time we see something like that happening here but we have to take into consideration this institute is run by a person of forma c.d.u. party member who was positions were so far right that he had to leave the conservative c.d.u. party is considered an a if the friendly politician himself and he is running this poll this institute who just came out with these results in fact so we have to be careful on the one hand side on the other hand if you look at other institute results then they come out pretty similar or so this is certainly also a result of the long week lasting negotiations here for for forming a new government in germany and people are simply upset with this are right all over south reporting thank you

our corruption authorities are investigating a top official at the european central bank been accused. of bribery he's also governor of latvia's central bank the government's been meeting in an emergency session it has a lot on its plate one of the baltic nations because banks is accused of busting sanctions on north korea. he is top banking official from savage arriving at the country's anti-corruption agency rim savage seen here wearing a cap was questioned by authorities after they raided his offices and property authorities say he is being held for demanding a bribe of at least one hundred thousand euros the news comes a week after u.s. authorities proposed banning one of latvia's largest private banks a.b.l. the bank for alleged money laundering that he as finance minister sought to offer reassurance. mean honestly staying up i can assure you that the latvian finance system is stable banks don't have liquidity issues so depositors

can feel completely safe because. of the snow meet i'm going to use this only about two hours of interest in order to protect the finance sector stability and reputation i think the transept should resign from his post while the investigation is ongoing. now cops know that. the latvian prime minister has also called for him savage to step down but markets are still likely to remain an easy about the state of latvia's banking system on monday the e.c.b. said it was stopping all aid be bank payments over liquidity concerns and while they were in savage a case isn't linked to the a.b.l. the problem it also goes beyond the country's borders as a member of the e.c.b. as governing body has access to confidential information relating to europe's most powerful financial institution. teri schultz is covering this one for us from brussels terry let's start with the financial stability of latvia should customers or other countries be why aren't you. well i think they definitely are worried i

spoke with the european central bank and they said it is highly unusual in fact this may even be the first time that they've ever had to impose a moratorium on one of the banks in the euro zone and that means that nobody can take money out of the bank of course you're free to make deposits but that ranges from large institutions that have money in a b o v to the the average let the in pensioner nobody can take any money out of this bank and this was sparked of course by the u.s. treasury accusing the bank of being a money laundering tool in fact i'm reading directly from the treasury report it said that a.b. l.v. institutionalized money laundering as a pillar of the bank's banking practices so i think everyone should be worried that lefty is banking sector is very much in turmoil this isn't the first time this has happened there have been five banks accused of being connected to north korea's ballistic missile program in the past so this isn't new but this is certainly the

biggest the third largest bank in latvia that's now being accused of this ok look to deal with the european officials yeah this monday at the same time the future of lot of your central bank governor is up in the air. yes i mean this is a separate issue but when we're talking about stability it certainly plays into it saturday night overnight mr and ketches office and one of his private properties were raided and then he was detained and now this forty eight hour period under which he can be held expires today it remains to be seen whether he will be charged on these accusations we heard about of taking bribes or whether he will be set free but we'll find out later today and eve in any case he sits on the european central bank's governing board as the latvian central bank chief and this is certainly something that's going to be causing ripples here in brussels as well as in libya back to the sanctions busting story what does it mean that the u.s. has pulled

a lot for your on this and annoyed europe's banking supervisor in europe has a special banking supervisor to do just that that's right and the only allegations that we've seen have come from the u.s. in years past it was the f.b.i. and the u.s. treasury that said five banks which at that point didn't include. were money laundering two of those banks were fined millions of euros by latvia itself and three banks remained under suspicion now would be accused of of basically being a tool for offshore companies to funnel money to the north korean regime in this current environment those are very serious allegations and they came from washington not from here in europe and briefly what's the european commission have to say about all this. well they were asked exactly about this whether we can have any faith in the european and the european union's own supervisory authorities that they're basically following the u.s.

allegations the commission not surprisingly say it does have faith in european union banking supervisory authorities and they point to the e.c.b. action imposing a moratorium on v as proof that the e.c.b. can take effective action but again we should point out that these are only coming because of the liquidity problem following the u.s. treasuries allegations last week teri schultz there thanks for your coverage. and just briefly copenhagen's famous restaurant reopened on the weekend after closing down last year critics have named it the world's best restaurant for years in a row it took copenhagen on the world food map and promoted locally sourced menus turning the idea into an during trend on hearing chef and a remains in charge of returning for the global to a militant costs just over three hundred euros per person. drinks and tables in the forty seat restaurant are already fully booked for the next six months.

all right some sources now for you to use this force pablo fully elliott is here with me with the big stories from the olympics n.p.r. chang problem and sadly a case of doping on day ten that's right we start with something not so positive and that of course is that a russian medalist has tested positive for a banned substance modo name which we've actually spoken about many times before it was banned in twenty sixteen and it was sort of it became famous in quotes because of maria sharapova who of course was banned for a year from tennis because she was taking it now the thing about this drug is that it's actually available over the counter in russia and several eastern european countries of course responded twenty sixteen this and the person of the center of this doping scandal is alexander crucial and who is a curler which is sort of yeah which is why we're having a bout of it is sort of ironic that we're told might occur. for

a substance which increases your ability to perform an exercise all right well let's let's go to happier let's talk about the action on the ice there's been some amazing results and bops like you're absolutely right there's been an absolute dead heat and this doesn't happen very often germany and canada and we can see that these lovely images here are sharing the two man bobsled gold because they got after four wrongs both teamsters to reuters. in each bobsled got the exact same time which is incredible milliseconds here so they're sharing the gold germany of course great achievement for them and kind of the boat of course we're not used to seeing this no one gets silver but there is a new construct so what are the chances as well very very slim so there was also a debut for of a new sport tell us about that that's right and this is called big air snowboarding equip small with the snowboarding equivalent to ski jumping beautiful women chair of course and you know they have to jump on a fourteen nine meter tall you slope which were about to see that would say that

this is fabulous because they basically get one job to impress the judges i'm no judge you're no judge light up but this looks pretty amazing to me so a very nice new sport joining. the olympics this year and. as you know my god you do know there's a lot i certainly don't know the public thank you so much i. thank you so much ok i want to take you now to the berlin international film festival and charlotte shell some pill is standing by surely good to see you tell us more about the movie utopia which is screen today you were at the press conference. hi that's right yes utah is an absolutely harrowing story it tells the tale of the terrorist attack in norway back in two thousand and eleven who can forget there was a bomb attack first in oslo and then a short time later a gunman went on a rampage on an island the island of utah where dozens of children was staying in

total he killed seventy seven people now this film is shot is shot in one shots no constant between and it shows the seventy two minute or deal that these children had to put up with it follows one girl in particular as she experiences this horror . unravel in front of her eyes now the press conference after the film was also extremely moving noticeably three of the survivors of this attack three of the people who were on that island on that day in two thousand and eleven they got a round of applause from members of the press i think it was extraordinary having watched that film and seen the horror that that took place that to then see the actual people that experience it i think people would deeply moved by the. show and we're already in a few days into the belly now of any favorites so far. yes we are a few days and there are also of course a few days ago there's

a lot still to see but so far i have my money on a german film called transit snow that tells the story oh of refugees in nazi occupied france but here's the twist it is set in modern day now that film stars a german x. of course ranks france a go ski now he's definitely one to watch of the balun are this year he keeps on popping up he extraordinary has two films that he's in in the competition and he's also being awarded with the shooting star awards that's for upcoming acts is european actors here festival we have a quick synopsis of his career so far let's take a listen. from talk of ski plays offbeat characters hard on the outside but with hidden depths he looks a bit hard but he plays oddballs. you know. doesn't have a college you've only. been in

the system. as a trained dancer and his physicality stands out as much as his lips or his symmetrical face the result of being born with a cleft palate. the stars in two films in competition at this year's barely knowledge. transit and in the aisles of films. he's also a european shooting star one of a select band of actors being promoted as the stars of tomorrow he's an actor who loves extremes and prefers to take risks. all right charles thank you very much and i thank you the viewers first spending this part of your day with us. odd.

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but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something new in peace time what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance for darkness cities after a war starting march tenth. but very in winter wonderland and a very warm welcome to this special edition of check in. there's no business likes no business as looters stay guy tries his luck on a snow bike in the i'll go on. and off about one.