what do you know about. march thirteenth w. . this is deja news coming to you live from berlin have been confirmed to be here from an eyewitness also coming up colombian voters back conservative opponents of the government's peace deal with marxist rebels on the formal fox guerrillas the bottom out in the last ever election. and amnesty international accuses me and maher of building military bases on raised religious we talked to the rights group

of these reports and among the repatriation of refugees who fled ethnic violence. those stories in just a moment but you're just standing by to hear from the german chancellor angela merkel who is due to speak of the country's new coalition government coalition government agreement the parties are expected to sign the deal this afternoon bringing an official end to delhi how fear of political uncertainty we'll take you to that press conference as soon as it starts meanwhile let's head to nippon next where reports of dozens of fatalities are coming in after a plane crashed at airport the aircraft reportedly burst into flames after touching down on. runway risk you crews arrived on the scene to bring the fire under control

the reports of an unknown number of people being rescued from the wreck the aircraft was a bombardier dash eight a propeller pit plane it was reportedly our route to kathmandu from the bangladeshi capital and was run by the u.s. airlines and for the very latest i have on the line amanda some us from under the capital often and amanda panky you witnessed the incident unfold at the airport tell us what happened. there ryan. up a little bit higher than katmandu so we were sitting up on the top. airplane it looked to me like it was taking off but it was because i saw it as it was after it was northbound coming out of the airport so then it flew near by i saw

a car to the right to the east and i thought for sure it was going to hit you it wasn't in time but then i said oh yeah there it goes started decline a little bit but about a minute later it came back around and it looked like it could come right into our little hill pop village and then the lights were on and it was very close and then it went and then looked like ok it's going to make it and it was like it was going to be just fine but visibility is boring a lot today so once it landed then i saw one like explosion and then another one light next to it like it bounced i guess so obviously you saw in very graphic detail what exactly happened but you seem to be a little distance away from the actual wreckage what are you hearing about the emergency response at the airport. well from my peers.

it was very low visibility. within a few seconds the fire was. so i saw the explosion and then as i went to show everybody to look at it blew up the ground fire. by the. so i believe. because it was a plane. they had time to go first responders there and i think. amanda summers thank you very much for giving us your a firsthand account off that plane crash in kathmandu. voters have decided and in the country's election on sunday they handed victory to critics of the peace deal with former leftist rebels it was the first election for

the formal fock rebel group and voters soundly rejected its radical agenda the result questions over the future of the deal that ended the guerrillas decades long insurgency. victory for the opponents of fark he campaigned heavily against a peace deal with the former rebels his democratic center emerged as the strongest force in an election seen as a test entry into colombian politics. it was a catastrophic defeat for the new party which took less than one percent of the vote regardless fuck will still take ten seats in the senate guaranteed to them by the peace accord many colombians would prefer to see them in jail for their decades long insurrection campaigning was marred by angry protests against their participation was that. fox former commanders had hoped for an historic outcome.

i think this is going to mark a milestone we're entering the consolidation of peace it's the first time in my life that i've voted and i do it for peace. colombia's president juan manuel santos was the man who brokered the deal that ended fox decades long insurrection. isn't it eunice these elections are very special. this is the first time in a half a century where the far east and instead of sabotaging the elections are participating in the elections. and i think your news it's something historic and very important for our democracy here his party polled poorly many voters felt his peace deal was too lenient on the former rebels whatever power fock wielded jaring its insurgency has now disappeared at the ballot box. so what fox going to play in the democratic

process funding these elections the zombie correspondent will feel duty had this to say from what the. well i would probably say for now they will have nothing to say in parliament we see that most of the leftist movement and the leftist parties don't want to have to do and don't want anything to do with them they are trying to stay as far from them as possible. we also heard the presidential candidate gustavo better who i was telling you is a former guerrilla member himself that if he becomes colombia's next president he doesn't want them to be participating in his government but we will have to wait and see if he actually does become the president and if he might even need the voices of the fark of the votes of the fark in parliament to pass the legislation is true that he wants to let me now take you live to the federal press

office here in berlin where german chancellor angela merkel is addressing jennings just ahead of the formal signing of a coalition government agreement have a listen. to this is the government beginning its work after a very long time of forming a government and that had a lot to do with the way the elections panned out and this is why in the coalition agreement itself i believe we made a very good attempt at finding responses to the concerns of the people in this country. which is to ensure that the promise of prosperity that these social market economy requires. be delivered on in times of digitization and globalization and that means we must ensure that everyone in our country benefits from the general prosperity of our country so we need to ensure that the business economy is successful that we create enough jobs

for the people that people acquire new skills so that they can work in the new technologies the new sectors that are emerging and that will ensure that wherever you live in germany you still have access to this prosperity because at the moment the situations in rural and urban germany are different. we want to ensure that in questions of security not just social affairs but also domestic security we do our homework. and that means particularly around integrating people who have fled their homes to come to germany but also when people come to germany and don't get rights the right to stay here and sure that we also focus on this issue too this is a priority of work and when it comes to europe i think we all realize that many of the issues that are facing our people from climate protection to fair trade to

combat in the reasons that drive people to leave their homes cannot be done by one country alone not even a countries because germany but that we must join forces within europe to tackle these issues a europe that shares values and speaks with one voice particularly to the outside world as it were and we as germany want to contribute to making this happen both when it comes to stabilizing the euro. but also about having common defense efforts both within nato and within europe itself and in protecting our external borders and. foreign policy. activities not least in terms of the transatlantic alliance but also in terms of our relationship to russia to china and to other regions in the world in other words we have a very ambitious program here i think that in our negotiations we have all agreed

that we want to do this work obviously we will have new challenges coming up all the time recent developments in trade have shown just how quickly things can change obviously this was not reflected in the coalition agreement and will have to respond to this but i believe we will succeed. thank you very much mr show it's just for the social democrats the s b d governing has never been a means to an end and governing is something that always has to be well substantiated and in this case it is about making people's lives in germany better ensuring that there's more social justice in this country step by step day for day and that is exactly what we are less by to be signing a coalition agreement today that interest will recede to you and the c.s.u. and the social democratic leadership asked for the support of its party membership successfully and now we will be focusing very seriously with

a constructive attitude on putting all of this into action and i think it's a very good thing that a phase of uncertainty that arose from the long period of time it took for us to form a government in this country is over but it's not despite the many national and international challenges facing. our country is in a good position we are strong democracy with a very lively society a strong business climate and a strong social system they ate and we can be proud of this and we have every reason to look to the future with confidence to major challenges. need to be borne in mind one from my two point of view is the further development of the european union and we need to ensure that the project to europe is tackled in

the years to come in a manner that ensures that democracy and the market economy in europe can be shored up and preserved in an increasingly more difficult world the chance of just talked about the changes that come in how quick the pace of change is which makes it all the more important that the europeans find a path forward and tackle the future and shape their future together another major challenge is one that has caused many much concern among many in our society reflected in the headlines again and again an issue however that is very important . and that is the question. in the middle of an economic boom with the fact that many of our citizens uncertainties are not sure whether. they will continue to have prosperity and ten or fifteen years to come it's quite right that we address the issue of digitization and agreement and sure that germany

be ahead of the game in this development but that's just one side of the equation the others that we have to ensure that we retain good jobs in this country despite the changes that digitize ation will bring and this will be another of the major challenges that we need to solve on the basis of this coalition agreement. you. know just what politics is different from science and journalism and one basic idea it's not enough to describe and analyze reality as policy makers whatever party we belong to our job is to act we must find solutions make decisions shape the future even in situations in which we don't have all of the information there is. sometimes we have to reach agreements with partners who have very different values than we do and why am i saying that here because i think it's important to tackle this challenge of policymakers and be aware of the differences between politics and

others it's the fourth grand coalition in germany and it wasn't a marriage of love from day one but the c.d.u. and the s.t.d. and the c.s.u. even though we're very different parties. and will always be very different parties are able to work together constructively and to ensure germany has a good government that is the challenge we are facing and we will do it as best we can mr silver and ladies and gentlemen we are very happy with the coalition agreement the response.