to my coffeemaker maybe a little bit that she has to do so. she. good luck. this is it every news line from berlin pushed out to germany's foreign minister. margaret weil says he's leaving his post after a bitter round with the party leadership and that means he won't be part of france ongoing marco's new coalition government will find out what exactly is behind his departure with our political editor plus the trial of a danish inventor accused of brutally killing journalist kim wall and his submarine is underway in copenhagen is a gruesome murder that shocked the world peter massa is charged with premeditated

murder. also aid convoys blocked again as the assault intensifies on eastern huta syrian government forces seems half of rebel territory around four hundred thousand people remain trapped and in the line of fire. and on this international women's day we meet a pair of russian women fighting discrimination with power tools as they defy government regulations making more than four hundred fifty jobs off limits for women. from layla herad great to have you along everyone or we begin that right here in germany where one of the country's most popular politicians foreign minister is even more gabriele has announced he will not be included in chance on the american new coalition government when he was pushed out. after

a bitter rout with the leaders of his own social democratic party replacement at the foreign ministry is likely to be heiko must the outgoing justice minister well the news made for a slightly uncomfortable appearance by gabriele today at a scheduled press conference with his counterpart from bosnia-herzegovina. it was a routine appointment for a german foreign minister but. things are anything but routine right now i'm going to the meeting with his bosnian counterpart igor sir not out on thursday was his last official international engagement. and gumbel has been germany's foreign minister for just over a year during that time he became the country's most popular politician even beating chancellor merkel and future economics minister paid to in opinion polls aren't much respect for his work for example his handling of strained german turkish relations god will often met his turkish counterpart medlock shovel so new and invited him to his home as he worked to get german journalists and human rights

activists released and he succeeded and part some of the prisoners were freed. but there is another sign to see he is notoriously independent and volatile for example on the sidelines of the munich security conference he broke ranks and appealed for sanctions against russia to be lifted following a cease fire in eastern ukraine and. that sort of i am convinced that if we succeed in this then we must begin to gradually lift the sanctions i know that the official position on this is different and i know it is more importantly feel irritated members of his own party in the s.p.d. he even attacked them party leader personally which many and his party found unforgettable above all his relationship with the future party leader on three analysis as you just dysfunctional. now media reports say his successor will be high call mosse the previous justice minister. is playing down the loss

of his position when asked how he feels about leaving positive words. then it's been through that hike will be the new foreign minister then i have a really good feeling he will do an excellent job i'm also fine. take care. our political correspondent joins us now from our parliamentary stereo's ok this is a man who ruffled a lot of feathers and burned a couple of bridges on his way out. he said they did and despite gaining much respect for his work as germany's foreign minister they say it was all forgotten in recent weeks by the s.p.d. rating and this was due to the breakdown of a friendship between haiti and the former s.p.d. leader martin schultz and you might remember that when the grand coalition deal between the social democrats and merkel's conservatives was first agreed martin

schultz said that he'd be vying for the position of foreign minister but gabriele responded saying this was a broken promise as you might remember back in september immediately after the german elections elections schultz actually said that he would never take a ministerial post and a medical led government and so gabriele responded actually even quoting his daughter in which he said that she had told him daddy don't worry now we can spend more time together and you won't have to spend so much time with the man with the hairy face and this comment was regarded by the s.p.d. as something which disqualified gabriele from being able to continue to hold his place as foreign minister so now he will just be seven as a normal member of the german parliament what does this mean his exit mean for germany's foreign policy. well kaberle was a very straight talking foreign minister which isn't always the case with people in

that post so be it very interesting to see how his successor deals particularly with turkey and it will be a big challenge and he did gain a lot of respect and not only in germany abroad for his work as the german foreign minister and this comes at a time when there's real pressure on germany particularly in europe to really stand out and take a strong stance on the world stage. kate tell us about his successor the man tipped to take over the reins who is heiko moscow so. has actually been the justice minister of posts that he'd be the obviously leaving if it is confirmed that he is indeed going to be the new foreign minister and he's been holding that post since two thousand and thirteen and one of the one of his biggest moments here in germany was bring in in the anti hate hate speech

a law which has gained quite a cause quite a lot of control the state here i'm sorry doesn't have much background or experience in foreign policy so this could be quite a challenge for him over this next term in this new merkel led government kitty is just very quickly if i may is he more diplomatic. that's very difficult to tell at the moment of course we've never seen him in dealing with foreign policy so we'll just have to wait and see while have to wait and see time will tell kate brady thank you so much. and next to a gruesome murder case that made international headlines danish inventor peter mattson is standing trial in copenhagen for killing swedish journalist ken wall amounts and entered a not guilty plea to murder on his first day in court while disappeared last august after boarding a submarine that belonged to mattson she intended to profile him but never made it back to her headless torso was later found in copenhagen harbor prosecutors are

seeking to have mattson jailed for a life he says she died in an accident but has admitted dismembering walls of body before dumping it and dumping parts of it in the sea. her killing shocked the world prosecutors say swedish journalist kim wall died under her rhetoric circumstances. inventor peter madsen invited her to interview him on his private submarine the nautilus in august last year these pictures are said to show the vessel leaving port the indictment says manson had planned the murder because he took a saw and naives with him the next day the submarine sank police think deliberately only mattson was on board and he was rescued on harmed i'm falling ill so obviously . was unfortunate but oh well. first madsen told police he dropped off a denial and then he changed his story saying she died in an accident and he'd buried

her it seems he still denies killing her. later walls mutilated torso washed ashore and divers pulled her body parts from the sea her blood was find in the recovered submarine it's here that investigators see manson cuts and stop wall before killing and dismembering her the nautilus is now wrapped up but the trial is only just beginning prosecutors want months in jail for life for so brutal the crying the very date is expected at the end of april. art want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. british police are racing to find out who poisoned a former washing double agent and his daughter or the nerve agent last weekend investigators are treating the case as attempted murder lawmakers in the media have speculated that moscow is behind the attack sparking a wow between the u.k. and russia. japan's chief nuclear regulators says the two thousand and eleven

fukushima disaster isn't over radioactive waste is still being removed from the three crippled reactors a hugely challenging task that could take decades and this weekend marks the seventh anniversary of the nuclear accident and the tsunami that caused it. police says sierra leone. have quassia clashes in the capital freetown following wednesday's election tensions mounted after an opposition spokesman said authorities had come to search the party's offices without a warrant at least one person was stabbed in the skirmishes vote counting is ongoing with initial results expected by friday night. to syria now where an aid convoy bound for the besieged rebel held on klaver eastern huta has been postponed as the fighting in the area intensifies syrian government forces have seize half of the territory held by rebels in the damascus suburbs the last

opposition stronghold close to the capital around four hundred thousand people are believed to be trapped in the area the un has urged all parties to abide by a cease fire in order to the do it to deliver aid and evacuate the injured. while the situation at least in a hoot is getting increasingly dire the u.n. describing it earlier this week as apocalyptic speak now tomorrow from the world food programme she joins us from damascus good evening mara so good to have you with us again aid convoys blocked again and this is terrible news for the civilians what happened exactly what made your organization the site to hold off what it was mainly the escalation in fighting and insecurity on the ground. paralyzed the un's ability to move into areas that are besieged hard to reach a case in point is our inability to go ahead with

a convoy today into dilma. to deliver the remaining. assistance that we were unable to continue offloading on our first entry on the fifth of march is there any other way to get around and ensure that your supplies reach the people of. well for a humanitarian operation to work successfully we require unhindered safe passage and access to people who are desperately in need and in order to do so all parties to the conflict need to abide by humanitarian principles and also give us that window of opportunity to go in safely deliver and get out safely as well and time for distribution are any aid organizations operational in the area still to your knowledge well we are aware that there is a local charity on the inside and when we were there on the fifth of march many of the families called is that they were receiving very simple meals about maybe

a small plate of playwrights and another plate of bulger wheat to survive on for the day so we know that there is some kind of help but the situation on the inside is getting progressively worse and people's inability to access food is increasing and not more a couple of days ago you and i spoke to you were cautiously optimistic you know what the situation visibly deteriorating what's your biggest fear i mean you worry yourself in eastern. things possibly get any worse. well definitely could get worse if the access is the late as you were saying earlier that because the un's response is paralyzed because we're unable to move because of ongoing insecurity and also retaliatory fire mean there's been also retired tory attacks or shellings in damascus and civilians get caught in the middle of it so as humanitarians we keep stressing the point that we need the kind

of access that would only be available if there is a ceasefire that is adhere to our words from the world food program in damascus thank you very much. all right let's get some business news now on the eurozone with funny. the european central bank has just flagged a small change to its monetary policy after its latest policy meeting the bank drop to reference to potential hikes or extensions to bond purchases that's being seen as a signal that the three year old can extend your. course or taper out later this year obviously things to eurozone economy is in better shape lifting its growth forecast . to two point four percent or twenty eighteen but stimulus is not dead yet to bank space interest rate is staying put percent where it's been for some two years now.

all right let's get more on that from our very own financial correspondent. nice to see you what else did mario draghi just have to say. well first off right after the policy statement was released everybody of course focused on the elimination of that reference that stimulus could be widened if the need arose so that was seen as a bit of a nod to the policy hawks that would like to see stimulus and sooner rather than later but when draggy spoke he sought to downplay the effects of this move he called it a unanimous decision a backward looking decision and for the most part of the markets seem convinced now we know that stimulus tends to weaken the value of currency after the policy statement was released and that sort of signaled and to stimulus right after september the euro's saw a bit of a boost but it was back down after dr was done speaking and as you said it yourself

the stimulus is probably not just going to disappear from one day to the next inflation still isn't where the e.c.b. it wanted to be and additionally draggy highlighted increasing risks to the global economy like increased regulation and increased protectionism now those are both kind of a nod to donald trump he also wondered aloud at the state of international relations asking the room if tariffs are going to be used on your friends then who exactly are your enemies speaking of donald trump for us to potentially being signed off on today want to invest seeing behind you are they concerned about. you know this isn't exactly the most predictable white house that's ever come into existence so it's hard to be certain about the specifics and investors a certain the aren't now donald trump already tweeted earlier today that he's looking forward to a meeting in the white house later on themes around saving the steel and aluminum industries as such a tariff proclamation could really be in the cards to be even as white house

officials say that the specifics are still being hammered out as such investors have every right to be concerned about the threat of a looming trade war the kind that the just the dispute mechanisms that within the world trade organization might not be enough to fix. the front for stock exchange for us thank you so much for your analysis. now there are riots to vote equal opportunities the same pay for the same burke women around the world have been fighting for these rights for well over a century so milestones have been achieved but many have not been in germany or less than man and sometimes it's for the same job but more often than not it's because they get jobs that are paid less they're still not enough women in positions. the gender pay gap in germany is what's in the e.u. average occasionally women are less for doing the same walk as men or more often they land in poorly paid jobs there are still very few women in managerial

positions women are also frequently forced into part time job as they try to juggle work and traditional family roles the situation is was only in a stone yeah in the czech republic. in germany women almost twenty two percent less than men on average the e.u. gender pay gap is around sixteen percent and statistically it is the smallest average pay gap of five point two percent. less pay and part time work has a devastating effect in many ways the less money a woman in her career the lower pension the number of women in germany who are in danger of suffering poverty in old age has been rising steadily over the last ten years. french companies will have three years to raise that they are gender pay gap store face possible fines that's on our plans presented by a prime minister. there was a special women's day message quote. now we take action lighting up the eiffel

tower the government it's time to implement a french law requiring equal pay for the saying work it's been our all and for forty five years but the government men are still paid on average nine percent more than that. huge. even mcdonald's has been mocking international women's day too by turning its iconic gold an upside down. and has been invented in hundred stores across the united states as well as in packaging and human forms the company it's an attempt to celebrate women to move has attracted a lot of activity activity on social media it uses weighing in their opinions on this stunt. and will continue to cover it international women's day on this day thousands of women around the world have states protest against gender inequality thank you so very much well this demonstration in the

space capsule we're going to have the footage for you are right now brought madrid to a standstill many women in spain are also staging a twenty four hour walkout to demand an end to unfair wages in gender violence and elsewhere women gathered in solidarity around the meet to movements in various cities including seoul new delhi and jerusalem. well in one of the places where gender inequality is most apparent that the job markets in our next report we look at the situation in russia where a government resolution actually bans women from working in more than four hundred fifty jobs that are deemed dangerous to women's health women in russia are not allowed to work as miners carpenters firefighters or metro conductors to just name a few examples but some women are fighting back against the current laws and the stereotypes that accompany them. a passion for power tools is hardly

a crime but in russia this repair and remodeling business is officially illegal because yulia and nadia run it and their women in russia women are banned for more than four hundred fifty jobs they're considered too dangerous carpentry plumbing and electrical work are on the list. also legally off limits for women at work lifting more than ten kilos more than twice an hour and nadia are pushing back against these laws found against gender stereotypes this is. people only very rarely react well to our work especially men people don't say it's great that you do that they usually incredulous or they just loff they react negatively. in that gender roles are deeply entrenched in russia and russian law and forces that apparently doing too much heavy lifting at work can harm a woman's health and also harm her so-called child bearing function. protecting

women and their reproductive organs from dangerous work is a remnant from post war soviet russia when the government wanted to increase the birthrate but the latest list of banned professions was passed in two thousand and many russians still approve of its spirit. existence with family but some men's work. for a long long time men were hunters and women guarded the home office. resumed his little girl he's made you go i would marry women probably can't carry railway ties and men would probably find it hard to knit or do embroidery so everyone has their role. cocked up you wouldn't cut most the merits of. you yes dr scales from the center for social and labor rights in moscow thinks the list of banned women's professions is outdated sound discriminatory. just it's not so new to deprive his

guy new stylist of professions needs to be reviewed to see if that dangerous nowadays. and if the working conditions are dangerous then they would have just as negative an effect on men as on women this lore treats women and men differently. with meshing emotion. for union and nadia changing attitudes to gender is as important as renovating apartments to make a point of only working for women and of treating their clients as if what could have come time is a client will say that's interesting that's probably hard we tell her grab the wrench and don't pull it too tight and often our clients end up helping with the repairs of course we don't charge them. unlike when i have worked with men not januvia treat me as an equal and they actually listen to what i want. do it.

instead of sticking to russian labor laws and not to expand their business hire other women and put such work within the reach of a new generation tradition. north and south korean athletes will not march together at the winter paralympics opening ceremony on friday like they did at the winter olympics last month officials say the two sides had a disagreement about whether to include islands dispute it would japan on the united korean flag while north korea has sent athletes to the winter paralympics for the first time international a paralympic committee said it was disappointed that the two sides could not reach an agreement to march together. now you don't need me to tell you that it takes courage to race down

a mountain all skis but it takes a whole lot more when you're almost blind like no me right so the twenty six year old will be competing in all five alpine disciplines at the paralympic winter games in pyongyang and our reporter joined her as she carried out some final practice here at home in germany. i. think. for the big one the paralympic winter games in. doing the risk is severely visually impaired without her guide lucianne who skis in front of her the twenty six year old wouldn't be able to tackle the slopes despite all her courage. when the sun is shining and i can't see anything when it's shady during the giants i can see lucy right. in front of me from time to time but i can't just follow him in a focused way. that's why she just doesn't follow lucy but is also connected to him via radio with less than two percent vision amy sees the

downhill run something like this. much does a shell sometimes they see a gate but it's more like a shadow passing by and by. car it is the most important thing about no way me and that's what makes us fast and if she dares to do more than work fast together. noémi has been skiing since she was three when she reached puberty she gradually lost her sight due to hereditary illness but she didn't lose her courage and it takes a lot of it to go down a ski slope in blind flight at the paralympics she'll be competing in all five disciplines downhill slalom giant slalom. and combination. that's just like at this season's world cup which was a big success for her. i was on the podium in every discipline so

i think i've got a good chance to win a medal. this saturday noon will have her first opportunity to do so in the downhill visually impaired. and i want to remind you of our main headlines this hour durham. foreign minister is even more gabriele has announced he will not be part of america's new coalition government the move comes amid rumors of a bitter route between gabriel and me heads of his social democratic party former justice minister heikal mots is expected to replace gabrielle at the foreign ministry. here burnett washington we news i'm leyla iraq on behalf of the entire team here in berlin thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour.

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