darkness city's after war. starting march tenth. this is d.w. newsline from berlin german chancellor merkel names her new cabinet the german chancellor surrounds herself with fresh faces including a cabinet job for one of her fiercest critics look at the latest from conservative party headquarters in berlin also coming up if you don't. know risk by in syria despite a unanimous u.n. vote for

a cease fire the bombs keep waning talent on the people of eastern time. and the olympic flame has been extinguished bringing the winter olympics that beyond chang to a close we take a look at the game's final day which saw fireworks both inside and outside the venue so. i'm michel henery welcome german chancellor angela merkel has announced her cabinet nominees to solidify a grand coalition with the social democrats pending their final approval merkel's choices will determine the future direction of the cd u.s. political compass and several senior politicians in her party have been outspoken about wanting to tip the party's politics to the right as expected merkel appointed yen spawn as health minister the end dishes john conservative has been an outspoken

critic of her welcoming refugee policy but the choice of the piece calls for fresh talent in the party as was the point of yulia clucking or as many. server agriculture the forty five year old is known as a loyal ally of merkel another ally the current defense minister or fonda lion will keep her position despite a series of scandals in the us there here's what the chancellor had to say about her new cabinet. for me this not particularly easy tasca involved making sure in consultation with many others that our team is shaped for the future . because if that it combines experience with new faces and importantly that it also leads to a renewal of the cabinet months of. earlier i spoke to detail because mikhail occur from her and i asked her if chancellor merkel's new cabinet picks will lead to any real changes in policy. well we can certainly expect

a different kind of tone and what she did is she brought in someone who is completely unknown really on the broader political scene and a car to check she's an m.p. who comes from the same region as you and smart who's this very prominent critic of german chancellor angela merkel who is now taken over or is set to take over the health ministry and if this coalition comes together because that's by no means certain in the end the social democrat party those grassroots will get to vote on this but if it does this means somebody who's an open critic of merkel taking over from hammond who or who for many years has been a very close ally of hers the epitome of loyalty within her own party and this shows really that there isn't just a change of tone really there but that merkel feels she has to react to criticism and she has to open the door to those in the party critics who've so in the past of

taking the party further towards the left than many conservatives feel comfortable with and mckillop let's talk about foreign policy can we expect a new direction here or is it a bit of the same old same old. well let's put it this way the social democrats would be able to nominate the prime minister currently the sick man god will who's embroiled in the deep awful within his with his own party whether he can keep that job it's unlikely that he will be able to one thing is to show that both the social democrats and the c.d.u. party of angela merkel both have a rather broad consensus that there needs to be a fresh commitment to europe that's also the first chapter in the coalition agreement that's on the table and that will be voted on by c.d.u. delegates meeting here in berlin on monday morning and they are expected to vote through the resoundingly yes to this their more question marks over how the social

democrats will in the end vote on this because the grassroots get to have a vote there but on the whole there is a positive sign from this potential new government also to them on my call in france who wants to take your it forward she wants to really make headway also on the eurozone moving closer together he's likely to have moved backing now with this new government with the social democrats are strengthened within that continuing potential continuing coalition mechanic offner thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world china's communist party has proposed removing a two term limit on how long the president can stay in power that would mean president xi jinping could remain in office after his second term ends in two thousand and twenty three he's already the most powerful chinese leader in decades his ideology was enshrined in the party's constitution last october. north korea is

willing to enter into direct talks with the united states says south korea issued this statement during the closing ceremony of the p.r. winter olympics the white house said any talks with north korea must lead to an end to its nuclear program. thousands of russians have marched in moscow to mark the third anniversary of opposition leader boris nemtsov murder five chechen that had been convicted of his assassination but it remains unclear who ordered the killing . german chancellor angela merkel and france's president amanda macron have urged russia to cooperate in maintaining a ceasefire in the rebel held on clay of eastern ghouta in a conference call today they called on president putin to put maximum pressure on the syrian regime yesterday the un security council voted to pass a cease fire resolution but despite that vote deadly airstrikes by russian backed syrian forces continue. there were supposed to be a break in the bombing and stayed the stone gets his first responders are back

plucking life from the rubble it has been a long and deadly week in this rebel held enclave. and at this hospital doctors are seeing the washed of it most of the patients have grown up and the seven year war medical supplies are running out for these children any truth cannot come soon enough this is a matter of life every hour counts at the moment. this fire has been agreed and security council there's no reason why it should be able to come into effect immediately. without people. with the bombing. every day we see more schools hospitals destroyed. goes on to more children. for seven days the syrian regime has been bombarding this suburb of the capital trying to wipe out the rebels who control it.

just a few kilometers along the road to damascus it feels like a different planet. once looked like this empty street speak to a fear of mortar shells fired from the nearby rebels. a well managed since mortar started to hit the area no one has been on the street and if you find anyone they're probably going only to do something very important or to buy stuff. in downtown damascus signs of life but let's all hope that a truce will end this war. the truce is useless i mean after thirty days everything will return to the way it was whatever happens it is a chance for vital supplies to reach their cities desperately hungry and it's injured . the former leader of the main syrian kurdish political party known as the p y d has been arrested in prague at the behest of turkey has been seeking sullen muslim

after turkish court charged him with sedition turkey launched ability fence of last month and serious african action against his party's armed affiliate which it perceives as terrorists some a muslim spoke to earlier this week host sara kelly asked him if his party had links to the p.k. a kurdish movement outlawed by turkey. well let's just ask you turkey says that the why peachey and that the people id that these are terrorist organizations. they say that they are no different from the p.k. k. which we know that many governments around the world have classified as a terrorist organization the links are strong aren't they know it's not true i mean we're where you yourself though once with the p k k no i was with them civilian and you know open so there. was an injury and you know to do this

what is it that the. most and to do with why is it them. that was still a muslim the former leader of the main syrian critics' political party at the p y gene speaking with the deed to abuse there are kelly last monday so they muslim was arrested in prague today at the request of turkey you can watch the whole interview with him on our website d.w. dot com. the place where christians believe jesus was crucified and buried has closed with israeli authorities the church of the holy supper curragh shut its doors sunday its leaders are protesting legislation that would tax church assets and allow the state to seize church property they called it an unprecedented attack against christians in the holy land no word was given on how long the closure will last. the twenty third winter olympics have drawn to an end and all over good from d.w. sports is here to talk about the highs and the lows at the games all of our welcome let's start with the closing ceremony and one of the biggest questions on

everyone's minds were the russians allowed to march behind their flag they were not in the end they had to march behind the a lympics flag off of the i.o.c. decided to hold the russian bad for the closing ceremony we see here athletes coming into the arena carrying fives from all over the world and it wasn't a great celebration of some brilliant achievements in the last couple of weeks we've seen we had so many good stories come out of young shall you have been so many great athletic and sustaining athletic performances and in terms of russia tell us about the i.o.c. president said the positive diving says the file doping test from two russian athletes at the games. meant that the i.o.c. just couldn't consider allowing the russian flag to be flying at the closing ceremony and i think that's absolutely the right call is the only decision that sends the right message about doping but generally it was a good celebration and i think this decision as well helped that happen without it being clouded by anything else and met

a big can of norway and won the last event at these games and became the most successful one. of all time in the process what an amazing two weeks yet she has been an absolute phenomena not just at this eleven pace but a previous games as well and she was a fitting champion for the last event of the current winter olympics winning gold in the thirty kilometer ski cross country classic it's her fifth medal of these games the second of which is big gold and those totals add up to her career totals which really are just stunning just put her in a world of our own basically in the olympics and fifteen olympic medals she has won eight of those gold it's stunning really it's she. was sometimes these days but she is a legend of the olympics and she says she won't be competing at beijing next time around so it's nice to see her bow out with a win in her last olympic performance i'm really curious to know if you know it will have some sort of parade to welcome her house or something really exciting and and germany's ice hockey fairy tell didn't have the happy ending that they were

hoping for it didn't it did no unfortunately and it was a really kind of devastating way to lose the final as well against russia so we're going to see some pictures from the final hey we join the action with about a minute to go normal time germany three two up about to win then russia heading back for nikita khrushchev to take the games overtime in overtime germany went a man down patrick reimer allies for a high stakes and russia use that to their advantage carol to preserve scoring the winner on sunday but you know germany should still be very proud of the performance at these games it's jimmy's best ever performance in ice hockey at the olympics and they cause some real upsets along the way they beat the reigning world champions they beat the previous olympic champions to make it to the final and no one expected them to do that so these athletes although they're disappointed i'm sure very disappointed and came so close they can certainly from china with their heads held high yet they still very good and that's it was over is not too shabby you know and let's take a look at the medals were there any big surprises overall i think certainly not at

the top of the very top no. it was in the end to lead the medal table with thirty nine that's a record as well thirty nine medals face in the previous best of thirty seven germany actually also had a fantastic winter games are going to see here that's germany got their best ever return from winter olympics and always pits no way to the top of the table until that last event where no one gold again i think if anyone is going to be a bit disappointed with the whole it is going to be the united states they did not hit their targets for for these games but i'm sure you know it's like the united states i'm sure they'll just be even more motivated to stop the title next time in four years time in beijing yeah i magine they will be all over many thank you very very much breaking news now just coming in british police are responding to a major incident in the city of leicester they're advising people to avoid the area local media are quoting witnesses who say they heard an explosion and a video posted on twitter appears to show a fire in a building in

a residential street we'll bring you more on that as it comes in. that's all for now this is the w.'s live from berlin and join us again at the top of the hour thanks for watching. on freedom and the whole. world i come from the region is rich in history. but so cool oriented your creation group of trinity and freedom this makes it special you difficult for independent journalists i see very promising developments .