this is the w. news live from berlin germany moves one step closer to having a new government as on the americans conservatives vote yes to a coalition deal with the center left social democrats frankel also make some surprising picks for her new cabinet. also coming up russia orders a daily break in the bombing of eastern ghouta in syria to allow civilians to leave but for now the horror goes on with more than five hundred feared killed in the last week including many children. plus children in northern nigeria are too afraid to go to school after more than one hundred girls are kidnapped from a school by suspected boucle rahman stream s t w speaks to one family trying to find their daughter.

i'm sumi so what's going to thank you for joining us. conservatives have voted overwhelmingly in favor of entering a coalition government with the center left the social democrats the s.p.d. will announce the results of their vote taken among its members next week at earlier medical announced her picks for her new cabinet a most of the candidates are younger and there are more women. it has become a tradition at c.d.u. conventions to applaud party leader and chancellor angela merkel after his speech as long as possible this time the delegates managed to clap for little more than four minutes considerably shorter than in recent weeks this reflects the growing dissatisfaction with merkel's policy of the disappointing result of the last national elections and she's aware of that that's the good news and this result is not at all but we were hoping for we all fought hard and we were all disappointed

we need to do better the next time. doesn't have any smoke you know this obstinate . but many delegates whether this can be done with a new grand coalition together with the social democrats have reached agreement has been criticized especially by the conservative wing within the christian democrats but merkel defended the agreement as the cd you have managed to make its money so you know stuff is played so the headlines show that this agreement wants to give the right answers on the most urgent matters and just drawn the right conclusions from the election results a new start for europe no new momentum for germany and more solidarity within our society i know this is unheard. prior to the convention merkel had presented her picks for a potential new cabinet which will include one of her harshest critics the thirty seven year old m.p.g. and span half of all posts for the c.d.u.

will be held by women these decisions helped to silence most of the critical voices . this gives the whole thing to be a really good so i'm very satisfied. it's a new team it reflects the seaview i do it's interesting for people. but still most of the participants today went to two ministers who will no longer be in office interior minister to most of its year and health minister come on through the message to party leader clear the party may follow but it's not quite convinced . our political editor michelle has been covering the party convention today for us and she joins us hi michelle good to see you so the city who has approved of this coalition deal that was largely expected were there any dissenting voices today. they were some dissenting voices but really not much of the criticism remaining

that we've heard in recent weeks and months although we heard german chancellor merkel once again reiterate pretty much what she said after that election night saying that she really didn't understand what she did wrong that she wouldn't do things differently well today is a different signal there's a departure here for the party particularly in the new secretary general and it could come. by was suggested by angela merkel into this post and voted in by ninety eight percent so the party might not be completely convinced of angela merkel's leadership anymore but she now has somebody who has very very broad support indeed who has a track record of sometimes dissenting with her basically having her back within the own party so that solidifies her own party base and she's demonstrated that she's also willing to open up to criticism. this then takes the country one more step closer to the formation of a new government doesn't it. it does but it takes us that one step that we all

expected to go right. in the sense of of the continuation of the so-called grand coalition with the social democrats it's really that vote that is still underway as we speak right now that postal ballots by the social democrat party grassroots who are sending in their replies those will be counted this coming saturday and we'll know the result by sunday and we really will see the grassroots vote on the future not just of the current government but also potentially on the future of america herself as chancellor in germany and that is indeed the question you said the criticism was quieter today than it has been perhaps in recent weeks has merkel emerged stronger after this convention. absolutely she has yet spawn the man who currently is that secretary in the finance ministry soon if it comes to this grand coalition to be health minister she's now bound him into

a potential new cabinet so no threat really expected that if you sit around that cabinet table but he's also seen as a symbolism of a potential change should jump chance ungrammatical come to either an early and all the end at the end of four years what everybody seems to agree on here that the expectation is that she wouldn't really continue beyond that but early days and that's a vote let's see whether that vote actually goes through this coming sunday. political editor michelle okun are covering the story for us thank you michelle. now the bombing of eastern go to in syria is carrying on despite u.n. calls for a truce more than five hundred people have been killed there in the last week alone the u.n. has described it as a hell on earth earlier today russia called for a daily pause in airstrikes to help civilians leave but at the same time russia is

denying reports of forces if bax have used chemical weapons medics on the ground however say the injuries are consistent with the use of chlorine gas. these are the images that observers claim of proof of a chlorine gas attack that is killed at least one child in france still in diapers or among more than a dozen people being treated doctors say their skin and clothes a heavy with the odor of chlorine monitors say a syrian regime warplane dropped bombs carrying the toxic gas on a village in eastern guta on sunday. a cease fire is yet to come into effect despite a resolution passed by the united nations security council on saturday the wounded continue to feel of the district's over run hospitals. there's been no calm whatsoever there hasn't been time to catch our breath the blood is flowing in the hospitals are overflowing with patients and there are no places to evacuate them.

but syria's ally russia denies the assad regime is behind the chemical attack foreign minister sergei lavrov says the reports are an attempt by rebels to provoke fresh fighting but for the crew to do so their only goal is to bismarck chen to demonize the government forces to accuse them of all possible deadly sins and military crimes in order to continue actions in the eastern regions. russian president vladimir putin's demand for humanitarian pause office hope of a much needed rest bite been eastern ghouta. and let's bring in journalist alec loon with the very latest from moscow now hi alec of lattimer putin as we said his government ordered a daily cease fire for the region in eastern guta the united nations on the other hand has called for a thirty day pause in fighting across the country is sliding or put an undermining

the united nations here to a certain extent is he's going part of the way to meeting that resolution but not the whole way as you know the defense minister has announced a daily five hour humanitarian pause they're not calling it a cease fire they call it just a humanitarian clause and also humanitarian corridor or for peaceful citizens to leave eastern guta that of course five hours a day is less than a thirty day cease fire all of the u.n. called for and humanitarian corridor doesn't seem to address the u.n. calls for a delivery is an evacuation of wounded people and alec it also raises the question how will this cease fire a humanitarian pause as he said russia is calling it be in force who will be who will be deciding who is a peaceful civilian and we also hear that syrian syrian forces are preparing for an offensive as well. so it looks like the russian military will be deciding this for

the most part it's really russia right now is the most significant fighting force in the region are certainly more effective than the syrian military all of that of course are both. fighting very actively to take back eastern guta and oh really it just highlights that russia is not going to let anything probably get in the way of. their goal and bashar assad's goal of taking back eastern due to this last major rebel stronghold oh it also highlights how complex this conflict is how much clout does putin wield over the assad regime. you know this is a tough question earlier it would seem like you wield a lot of clout over assad because really russian russia's bombing campaign was the only thing that kept assad's regime in power and turned the tide of the war however there have been indications recently bet's russia's influence over assad may not be

as absolute as as we once thought notably arks answer to every seventh there was. dozens of down hundreds of russian mercenaries died in the u.s. air strikes but questions have been of why and some people are saying that russia perhaps perhaps let this mercenary operation which was being carried out to take an oil field near tears or for assad's purposes purposes that russia has not signed on for in that particular instance maybe russia allowed them that are russian to fail to send assad a message that he had better clear his actions with russia all right journalist alec leung reporting for us now from moscow alex thank you very much. you're watching d.w. new still to come the bundesliga served up two sensational matches on sunday labor has been locked horns with shocker in a battle for the champions league and desperate cologne went up against like that we will have all the highlights for you. but first a chinese carmaker has taken

a big stake in germany's diamond moniker you have more on that not everybody is all too happy about that soon enough the german government for one says that it will scrutinize a decision by chinese automotive company gili to buy a nine point seven percent stake in diamond. is currently in germany on what some called a charm offensive that of course as chinese investment in german companies is often met with skepticism so who is leash to fool and what might he have planned for diana let's meet the man. it's a rags to riches tale the son of a rice farmer genies found early shoe food is china's tenth richest man according to forbes magazine the fifty four year old started out with a refrigerator parts factory in the one nine hundred eighty s. back then though the sector was strictly state run inevitably also richie's shut

lease factory down but by then lee had already made a small fortune and so he simply switched industries producing first motor bikes and then cars as lee himself said all you needed for a car were four wheels and two sofas an insight that for several years reflected the quality of his vehicles but just two decades later julie was selling around one point two million cars a year in china making it the nation's knowledge as to independents car maker in two thousand and ten lead bought up struggling automaker volvo from ford people ford money into the swedish plants and then with great success brought a volvo on to the chinese market since then li shu fu has held a central position among international carmakers and now he's invested in dima acquiring just under ten percent of the luxury car company the state of q wait until now the largest shareholder has been bumped into position to with six point

eight percent followed by rent. the rest is divided up among small investors. leases he's not reducing his commitment to volvo he says buying the stake in diamond allows him to focus on the technologies of the twenty first century electro made billet and driverless cars huge challenges that no manufacturer can tackle alone. especially given the invaders from outside describes google tesla and other companies encroaching on the auto industry. with g.e. plans to benefit from german technological know how it says its overriding aim is to get to become companies to join forces in an effort to stand up to the coming on sloat from silicon valley. and over to our financial correspondent in frankfurt danielle gamba smaller investors some eighty percent had a whole weekend and to this whole monday more or less to digest the news that's

their verdict yeah lots of time to think about it and actually here investors at the frankfurt stock exchange were very excited about how the share price of diallo would react and i can tell you that it seems at least on the shareholders perspective that they are not too excited about it there are just a lot of question marks also we have to remember that chinese investors in many cases don't have a very good image for example of our daughter bank a the biggest shareholder of daughter bank just the real announced recently that they will be all running out of money also we have to keep in mind that you more we are expecting a verdict regarding the diesel regarding possible diesel band of course that's also what is investors making very a nervous thursday here at the stock exchange let's say was genie for a while because it also holds a major stake in swedish carmaker volvo of course and one major shareholder of two competing comic is how is that going to work out. yeah that's exactly the other

problem because there's also the question of gee now might even get a seat in the supervisory board of dima to competitors down to involve our direct competitors when it comes for example to produce of buses and also charts we are also getting a statement from volvo all they are also in sweden that excited about this news they have already announced that there will be a change in the supervisory board we are also getting statements for example from germany's economy minister but i get to also saying that all of this needs to be watched very carefully all right corp in frankfurt thank you so much for bringing us up to speed well the mobile world congress kicked off in barcelona but with global smartphone sales declining at the end of last year the big question is how to woo customers and for its part market leader some sun believes the answer is

beefing up its new flagship model. samsung is focusing on cameras its new galaxy s nine and the slightly larger s nine plus might not look a whole lot different from their previous sensors but the pictures they take in low light are less grainy. and there's a new super slow motion feature it takes nine hundred sixty images per second and is able to capture even the fastest moving objects samsung says that could even attract professional photographers but it at mit's most of the improvements are under the hood. is it is a huge amount of innovation that you do not see on this device because we've we've kept the best design of a phone out there that we introduced last year that we've we've designed around that best looking phones and then there are the animated emote g.'s that something apple already introduced on its i phone ten users can create three dimensional

avatars that match their clothing in facial expressions the new galaxy is cheaper than the i phone ten still they cost around eight hundred fifty and nine hundred fifty euros when they go on sale in europe next month. samsung has this show to itself a fast growing chinese rival huawei won't be unveiling any phones in barcelona just tablets and laptops but even without having to share the spotlight the s. nines refinements might not be enough to wow consumers after a year of flat smartphone sales. fell right sumi you're looking to nigeria now government there is under pressure after obviously another mass abduction it seems that's right monica now the government after a week of silence is now confirming that one hundred ten girls are still missing after an attack on a school in the country's northeast bowker on insurgents are suspected of targeting the teenagers in the town of doubt change as adrian creech travelled there and

spoke with one family desperate for news of their daughter. they came to come for their loved ones but the relatives of the family themselves console. god help us christ one just crawled. in the inside the family home. shows as a picture of his missing daughter ayesha she's just seventeen years old. her sister was the last person to see her. sitting outside the school's mosque. then we suddenly saw her around five and heard shots. my sister said we should grab our

things and run we held onto each other's hands but at some stage i lost sight of her while we were running. the school is now deserted a few belongings live sketch on the ground. this is the school where the siblings i should have sat where divided when they tried to run away during the attack since then the school is deserted classes are suspended its and nobody knows where i currently is. the parents have compiled a list of the names of the missing schoolgirls. eyewitnesses have told. them that boko haram drove the girls out of town on a truck. totally disappointed by the action of the government. security suits in the in the town. three weeks ago. so this.

would. get them. that moment. and then. come as a result of that the state's commissioner of education rejects any responsibility he says it's impossible to place soldiers on guards at all schools under his charge but he's concerned that parents in the region might stop sending the children to school. for one week. i don't think it would open that school after the one week would have given because the pattern is developing code to fit they may not be willing. to go back to the school after one week that is already a setback so the terrorists can achieve their target.

was younger daughter doesn't want to go back. she says she's too afraid will her father continue to send his children to school. to get into that. about sending. prayers and face hope the family do not lose hope that their daughter will soon return continue her education and fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor. to bonus league a soccer now and a major showdown on sunday a labor couldn't lock horns with shaka both sides have exceeded expectations in this campaign and this clash was bound to be a good one. to ambitious teams battling for the champions league laverick who is in coach heiko hair lish looked skeptical at the start of the match he may have suspected the visitors were poised to pounce

a long ball and vito book style of deep panicky artist red sauce. one deal for shaka in the eleventh minutes of the austrian made it look easy and served up a perfect finish. laverick who is in needed some time to bounce back liam bailey with a good chance after twenty minutes. both teams went all out leverkusen stomach or going a bit too far here a second yellow card in the hosts were man down. after the restart shaka dug in at the back and threatened on the counter-attack band play no preventing bailey envelope from adding to the score but it was only a matter of time after a red sauce followed him below in the box substitute not be able been talib stepped up to the spot to make it to nil i am shaka celebrated a win on the road well laverick who is in continued to struggle on their own turf they've lost three home games in the second half of the season. and in sunday's

late game bottom of the table cologne travelled to lights a cologne needed points and they face an uphill battle against a light six side bent on finishing the season second in the table. colognes fortunes have been turned upside down in this season but the billy goats fans were still here in numbers on a freezing night and leipsic. coffee and winter clothes were the order of the day and like sixteen movie i don't know how to wrap up to after he was surprisingly left out. but things hotted up for lights they got to just five minutes when john came up with them one no look at him a look one with a shot against the post and focused on with a finish. for him or a thought he'd equalize for cologne i put the goal was ruled out for offside and late six to one nil lead into the break. the court roughhousing who looked like he thought things were over at half time but the visitors came out with fire in their

bellies vance on. his debut goal for cologne to equalise on seventy one minutes. six minutes later cologne sensationally took the lead through sub leonardo button could. outstanding work on the right by marcel fisa and britain could took advantage. couldn't find a reply and colin went wild at the final whistle no wonder as they cut the guy in the relegation playoff spot to seven points. and it was cologne coach tiffany who to turn to dish out the consolation. ok let's take a look now at the a bonus they got standings a bar in munich have a whopping twenty point lead despite their draw against terror to. move up to a seventh after their win and down the other and stick our well clear of the drop zone bremen move up to fourteen things are still looking very bleak for hamburg and cologne through

a minor now of our top story that we're following for you reports out of syria indicate that chlorine gas was used in an airstrike by russian backed government forces health authorities in eastern go to say one child has died and several other people are being treated for exposure to the gas russia. tonight a chemical attack. the watching news we leave you now with the pictures of the fourteenth annual homemade sled race in sioux city iowa the weather was perfect for winter fun and children and adults have the chance to demonstrate their creativity with homemade sleds built entirely out of cardboard take a look. the

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