because. the rooster will go when will start march twenty first t.w. . this is detail to you news live from berlin and historic vote china's parliament hands president xi jinping free reign to rule indefinitely will the constitutional amendment mean a return to dictatorship for the asian superpower we go live to our correspondent in beijing also coming up. seven years since the fukushima nuclear disaster

as people across japan to mark the anniversary to speak to those still coming to terms with the trauma. by michelle henery welcome to the program and historic vote in china today as the country's parliament amends the constitution to allow president xi jinping to rule indefinitely so far the presidency has been limited to two five year terms the amendment also calls for inserting she's personal political philosophy into the preamble of the constitution joining us now is the correspondent matteis bolinger in beijing. matthias the constitutional. amendment allows president xi jinping to remain in office forever is he becoming a new mouse a dog. not to something a lot of observers as a comparison

a lot of observers have been drawn and the mill of chinese president has been powerful as small as a dome within the since knowledge of don't and there is a cause of personality around teaching about a proposed propaganda department that reminds of the cult of personality around monza don't however have east to politician very. very different personalities and they have a very different style of ruling mao was somebody who liked to incite chaos to. just to get rid of his opponents who relied on spontaneous movements of the masses or as he is some buddy who wants to keep who tries to keep everything under control who heavily relies on the security of parishes and the party of parrots and can you tell us why did the communist party decide to do this and why now. well it

seems that this has been passed quietly since september that is before seeds of paying. a consolidated his power at the last party congress it has been kept very silent the rules were out that this is going to come now because people have been expecting him to extend his his power beyond the two terms but this was quite a surprise that it's coming now and my only explanation is that he feels secure to do it now and he would probably might it might be a week i took in week in a few years time when his term and so he decided to seize the opportunity and get this done. are there fears or criticism among the chinese people about this. and there are there are a few people who have spoken out publicly which is a dangerous thing to do because he is not somebody who is generous with his critique. i have

a lot that's been looked at content on the internet have been making fun of him making criticizing this all of this has been corruptly suppressed by the censorship of coroutines so. private conversations people might. this content but probably key all of the media of course are stating that the masses enthusiastically support base move if it's dangerous to avoid conflict confront the current discontent. correspondent matthias bollinger and berlin thank you very much thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world at the meeting in brussels top trade officials in the european union and japan have pressed the u.s. to exempt them from upcoming steel and aluminum tariffs the e.u. has said if it can't secure an exemption it will consider tariffs of its own japan called for calm head of behavior as the dispute threatened to spiral france's far

right national front party have held a vote to ditch their name in the pen who was running unopposed to lead the party for third term is backing the rebranding the moves are seen as an attempt to move away from the anti-semitic openly racist party of her father john marie. syrian government forces have made significant advances into eastern huta splitting the enclave into two parts eastern gooda is the last major rebel stronghold near the capital damascus the army has intensified its assault in the past three weeks the fighting has already claimed the lives of over a thousand people. the next strike is never far away in duma. another victim is rushed to an ambulance. call for. observers say east includes his largest rebel held town and is now

completely isolated government forces have reportedly cut off the main highway linking it to the town of harassed and the rest of the besieged enclave meanwhile state television shows the army rolling into the center of misrata. but the syrian observatory for human rights says assad's forces have night taken this rebel time as the syrian army proclaims major gains opponents and aid groups have accused the regime of using chemical weapons. they used it during gas and they used. force for end they're now. i mean in just a sea days there were already more than one hundred fifteen people killed most of them children the government strongly rejects the allegation that. we absolutely denied the existence of any chemical weapons including chlorine gas. the united nations has condemned the intensity of the government assault. in the

last three weeks the shelling and as strikes have been almost constant monitors say the bombardment has now killed more than a thousand people. police in england have identified more than two hundred witnesses and the investigation into the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter survey and nearly a script all are in a critical but stable condition after they were found slumped on a bench in the city of salzburg last weekend police are said to have found traces of nerve agent in the restaurant where the pair ate before they collapsed in broad daylight. forensic teams examine the cemetery unsolved barry where sergei script paul's wife and son are buried it's one of several sites in the city where authorities are looking for clues they include the restaurant where st paul and his daughter yulia had lunch before heading to a pub for a drink after an emergency meeting of senior ministers british home secretary amber rudd said it was too early to speculate on who was responsible.

there were over two hundred fifty counterterrorism police from eight out of all eleven counterterrorism units involved there's over two hundred witnesses involved and there's over two hundred forty pieces of evidence so we need to give the police and all the investigative pots around them the space to get on with that sergei script paul revealed the names of dozens of russian agents to british intelligence prior to his arrest in moscow in two thousand and four six years later he was given refuge in britain as part of an exchange for russian spies the brazen attack on script paul has been likened to the two thousand and six killing of former k.g.b. agent alexander litvinenko who died after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium two ten a recent investigation by the website buzz feed described fourteen deaths of people linked to russia that may have involved foul play besides the go

they include russian businessman boris berezovsky speculation is mounting that the kremlin could also be behind the latest attack. agents are not usually used by non-state actors so i gives a pretty good indication of where it's come from british officials are already talking about coordinating retaliation with their u.s. and european allies if the investigation confirms russian involvement. today seven years ago a magnitude nine earthquake struck off the coast of japan it was the fifth largest earthquake in the world and it triggered a tsunami that led to the worst nuclear disaster since or noble within an hour of the quake water came rushing in land a lot depends northeastern coast the tsunami overwhelmed entire towns and took the lives of more than eight hundred thousand people at a commemoration ceremony in tokyo prime minister says such a plan must dedicated to continued reconstruction more than seventy thousand people remain displaced and they may never be able to return. the government still faces

a daunting challenge of how to contain radioactive materials released by damaged nuclear reactors in fukushima but it is not only the nuclear disaster the troubles people in japan thousands are still missing after the tsunami and their relatives are still struggling to cope with the loss such eco writes a letter most every day sometimes love letters sometimes letters full of anger but her husband macaco never responds because he's no longer alive. to be. recently on t.v. i saw the three dead people who were identified. where can you be. they last saw each other on the day of the tsunami. here in rikuzentakata in northern japan. if i put away all of the photos i was losing hope so i won't be doing that for

a long time but. only the ruins of yuichi even assad as store remain he can only enter with a hard hat he knew immediately that his parents and brother were no longer alive after seeing the damage caused by the giant waves he fled to the roof during the disaster. this is how i held on with my feet firmly on the ground so that the water came closer and closer luckily it only reached this white line. a day later he was rescued by helicopter here alone the tsunami killed around twenty four hundred people yuichi refuses to tear down the devastated house the ruins serve as a reminder. today rikuzentakata is one big construction site they've taken soil from a mountain and used it to raise the center of the town twelve meters higher japan

has earmarked eight hundred thirty million euros for the project but it still wouldn't be enough of a powerful tsunami struck again. he has built a new house on top of the mountain far from the sea his daughter tyler was born just a few weeks before the tsunami her grandparents spent only a few days with her. no i mean i want it did she not be able to explain to her that her grandparents were swallowed by the waves and she understands the meaning of death. such eco says she hates the sea she suspects what happened but she refuses to say that her husband is dead. let's bring in sophie jackman journalist from kyoto news in tokyo sophie in the report we heard from people who were affected by the tsunami itself but of course there's also the nuclear meltdown in fukushima today there are

a large protest in japan what are they about well people are opposed to the government's plan to try to bring back nuclear power plants as a big part of japan's energy mix there are about forty five i react is around the country that only three are online at the moment and they were brought back online after meeting new strictest safety rules imposed after this disaster but protesters say these rules don't go far enough and many of them say japan should never go back to nuclear power again they don't trust the nuclear industry to get it right they don't trust the government to get it right and they point out that if we where in japan at any time is vulnerable to natural disasters like the one that happens if it's a go. can you tell us what is the situation in fukushima like today have you contamination efforts been successful. well the government has put a great deal of money and time into decontaminating people's houses the area around their houses and roadways but these areas are still surrounded by thick forest

which can't really be contaminated decontaminated effectively and then there's the issue of the plant itself the inside of the plant is still so radioactive it's hard to get in there and know what is happening to the radioactive debris inside there have been if it's just stopped radioactive water from seeping out underneath the plant but those if it's a have struck difficulties recently as well and the local governments it should take about forty years to fully decommission the plant so this is so many complex issues going on at the plant and the radiation in the surrounding areas has only been contaminated to a certain degree. and to the people of japan feel that they've had enough support from the government. many do not the governments if it's in recent years have been focused on getting people to move back to the areas from which the evacuated but many people feel that they that it's still not safe even though these areas a meeting the government's targets for radiation. although evacuation orders have

been lifted in many areas around the plant there are still about fifty thousand people who choose to stay outside in the prefix of because they don't feel safe so the jackman journalism the news in tokyo thank you you thank. and in german football byron has played host to their favorite whipping boys hamburg to find out how that turned out and all the weekend's action so far stay tuned for the bundesliga show with matt herman that's coming up in just a minute as well. d.w. media center see it find it here it discover. video and audio podcast in language course. in the w media center at the video centered on the w dot com. main news analyst paul

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