this is t w news line from berlin russia has paraded captured ukrainian sailors on state television following some very splash off crimea their parents' kindness a russian court ordered the detention of a number of the man all told the captured ships of world leaders have called for calm in the escalating confrontation also on the program as the u.s. closes its largest mexican border crossing migrants are forced to consider the options to stay in mexico like this man will go home to central america. and scientists around the world condemn the chinese research and says he's creating the

first genetically heavy editing even his own university says the work violates ethical standards. also coming up in the next sixty minutes nigeria's president under pressure to defeat boko haram the jihad use of killed dozens of soldiers and civilians in northern nigeria over the past week with presidential elections due in just three weeks its happiest place presents bihari under five. i'm german scotto easy. seventeen she's been up for something obscene for four decades work is mike so he's moving funny and downright bizarre. i'm frugal welcome to the program russian caught in crimea has reminded several ukrainian sailors in custody for two months as. elating tensions between kiev and

moscow three sailors were shown on russian t.v. they were all captured on sunday one russian vessels fired on board and seized three ukrainian boats as they were about to make their way through the catch straight between russia and the disputed crimean peninsula can reacted by demanding the return of it ships and crew and has introduced martial law in parts of the country. is going to night and from the ukrainian capital i d w correspondent nick conley is in kiev welcome nick what reaction has there been from ukraine to this court sentence good evening fell well the ukrainian position has consistently been that this is completely illegitimate that russia has no right deciding who passes through the current straits crimea obviously internationally recognized as ukrainian territory and so they have been demanding their immediate release. under the terms what the so the sailor said when they appeared on russian

t.v. was there any suspicion of coercion. well indeed they said that they recognized that what they'd been doing the current straight was quote provocative and that they had ignored warnings from the russian side to desist now most people here in kiev say that the language used seemed very unnatural that they seem to be reading if they were reading off a page and that their whole body language suggested that this wasn't done on the basis of free will but this latest a standoff between russia and ukraine clearly it's not the first why is it so dangerous. well what really makes this different feel is that unlike in eastern ukraine donbass where you have ukrainian government troops facing off against russian backed separatists here you have really the military might of both ukraine and russia facing off against each other directly potentially firing at each other that is something that is new that we haven't seen since the crimea which went off mostly without

a shot being fired and going forward the really difficult thing is to see who if anyone is willing to step down ukraine insists that it has the right to pass through the straits to get to its ports on the sea of as all of russia insists on its part that it has the rights to manage passage through that waterway so for now it looks like no one is willing really to take a step back president calls for the imposition of martial law the parliament agreed how does that help vis to get the sailors on the ships back when the first instance it doesn't they are in russian custody and looks set to be there for quite some time what it does do though it gives the government further powers and further. instruments to deal with any further incidents poroshenko yesterday when he was explaining his justification for seeking these extra powers said that he had intelligence to suggest that the russians were massing their forces along ukraine's borders he has shared that intelligence but he says that the

government needs these powers for instance to reduce the freedom of assembly or freedom of speech that those are essential to protect ukraine's sovereignty and that is the government reason for now. they call the link here thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the president of france says his country will shut down fourteen of its fifty eight nuclear reactors by twenty thirty five emanuel mccraw made the pledge in a speech laying out his road map for france's transition to clean energy you know when it comes amid ongoing protests over a fuel tax increase aimed at financing initiatives. u.s. prosecutors say donald trump's former campaign chairman paul maeder forces violated the terms of a plea deal with the justice department i say he lied to investigators looking into russian interference of return to sixteen election despite agreeing to help them is currently behind bars awaiting sentencing on conspiracy charges. conservation

workers of rescued six whales stranded on new zealand's north island and return them to the ocean ten rare pygmy killer whales were found beached four of them later died volunteers hope the surviving animals swim away soon into deeper waters . of the united nations refugee agency has said that asylum seekers the us mexico border fleeing violence of persecution are entitled to large claims in the united states to obtain sanctuary u.n. officials have repeatedly urged washington to ensure asylum seekers are protected but president trump and said mexico should send migrants back to their home countries some migrants to turn deterred by a firmly closed border crossing or going home of their own accord others are applying to stay in mexico. this is jani he's from honduras and sought asylum in mexico just days ago next monday yoni will pick up

a certificate to prove he's begun the process. i went to the office for refugees and saw that it's fairly straightforward i've even heard that some people already have their i.d.'s after five days. without official id they can work in mexico while their application is being reviewed some companies even tried to employ workers at the office for refugees while their yani had two job offers. one of the jobs was in maintenance international airport. and the other was working for a restaurant chain here in tijuana. yoni doesn't have enough money to pay a smuggler to get him into the u.s. but he also doesn't want to risk seeking asylum there after sunday's clashes some like bessie have decided to stay in mexico she sort of difficulty in getting across the border. and doesn't want to put her two daughters at risk. their

reality that we're staying here because of the current situation and because of all the obstacles they're putting in no way we know mexico is a dangerous country but i've left one duress and i have nothing there why would i go back to where it is that i mean by it but is appears only a small percentage actually want to stay in mexico just seven percent of the carven migrants have sought asylum in the country this despite the large number of jobs the regional government has offered or the straightforward asylum process getting into the united states remains to migrants ultimate goal. five hundred people have requested a visa on humanitarian grounds considering there are seven or eight thousand people in the caravan that's not very many we believe they might warm up to the idea in the coming days if they really are escaping their home countries because they're in danger there. by. around one thousand seven hundred

other central american migrants have voluntarily sought repotted relation to their homelands and that number has tripled this week to thirty people per day. some migrants felt intimidated by the u.s. police's stance against them. the americans aren't going to batten down they're not going to open the gate on what are we going to do here nothing expect we get back to our home countries and work there even if you can't get much work it's better than being here. forget. the american dream for some at least just got a dream too far fetched to realize. rogers being stuck in at port for more than eight months that's what happened to seven refugee. he's been stuck in the port of the malaysian capital since february with social media his only link to the outside world now looks like he'll finally be able to move on. from d.w.

social media to discuss a story. that so has on a kentucky who is thirty seven and he's from syria which he fled a few years back he got trapped in the arrival corridor of airport after he was denied the permission to board a flight to ecuador he was denied entry by cambodia and entered by a malaysian where he had previously been staying on a three month tourist visa which had expired and so he got stuck in the airport in this movie like situation and he had begun keeping he began document ing his life there through a video diary which he then shared on social media which got him a lot of attention worldwide and we're seeing some images now he was forced to sleep under a stairwell stairwell when he was at the airport he had to wash and south in public bathrooms showering a disabled toilet he had to depend on the generosity of airline staff for food they

were donating his meals because he happened to be stuck in a part of the airport that had no restaurant or shop so it really was a tough period of time for him. but now it looks like he's found a way out yeah he's reportedly now been granted asylum in canada also sang to the help of a canadian woman a p.r. manager who managed to gather money to sponsor his resettlement in canada and he announced the news on twitter on monday saying he was at taiwan international airport on his way to bunker take a listen for the last eight years it was. the last month it was ready. i could not do it with all the prayers from all of you i could not do it without the help of. my comedy my comedian friend family. my lawyer. thank you all. i love you all. so that message

actually came after two months where he had been completely silent on social media apparently he spent time in a malaysian detention center so it was a big relief for him but also for his supporters worldwide to know that he was safe and on his way to canada so presumably he's going to be safe there it seems like it i mean canadian media reported that he has arrived safely on monday night and he also as i mentioned he has a sponsor there who will be hosting him at first he apparently has also been offered a job there and in general more than fourteen thousand syrian refugees have been able to resettle in canada with the help of private sponsors since twenty fifteen so that's why people are generally quite confident about his case and as for him like he has been lucky and he hopes that other people who are in similar situations will have the same luck wish them all well i think it's about just thank you for

bringing about said it's my attention which. nasa says insight spacecraft just touched down like any self respecting tourist one of the first things it did was send a selfie and. part of inside some mission is to drill deep into the martian surface to collect data on how the promise was formed for the scientists involved there's been a thrilling and heart stopping journey sixty meters fifty meters constant ferocity suspense that's almost impossible to bear touched our country. followed by an outpouring of jubilation and relief this is the moment nasa scientists received confirmation that the inside spacecraft had landed safely on mars. the news was relayed by a pair of tiny satellites that had been trailing in sight throughout its four hundred eighty two million kilometer journey because of the distance between earth

and mars it took several tens minutes for confirmation to arrive. to think about working for seven years as many of the people here in the room have done to get to the point where you have seven more minutes to survive to literally survive. in credibly hard to describe my heart was basically i think this stopped beating for seven minutes i don't know if that's healthy or not the two satellites not only transmitted the good news they also sent back inside its first snapshot of mars with dark specks of debris still visible from the landing the inside will now spend the next two years studying mars core to learn more about the planet's origins but scientists say this will be a slow motion mission this entire process just getting the answers to the ground takes approximately two to three months so it's going to take a little bit of time to get to that point and then another couple months for them all to penetrate through the ground and to do the fine tuning of the seismometer

and at that point we'll be sitting back and listening for those mars quakes and measuring the vital signs on mars getting all that great science return we're really looking forward to that. after transmitting the inside spacecraft dramatic landing sequence the twin satellites then took this final image roughly seven and a half thousand kilometers from mars and farewell to insight as it embarks on its mission. here with news of a not to mention a controversy over his latest generation of mobile phone tech stars all the more interesting for the fact that doesn't even exist yet not yet we're talking five g. phil the german government is planning to roll out the new ultra fast five g. service across large parts of the country but here's the catch ten percent of germany will remain uncovered critics say that is unacceptable demanding high penalties to force providers to do better mobile phone companies argue covering

every nook and cranny of the country would be too expensive. five g. wireless testing is even taking place on the harbor. every day his launch sails back and forth through the port of tampa a perfect opportunity to test how well five g. data transfer works in motion three senses a providing initial test data on at pollution and that's just the beginning. the indigent want to be inside alongside the environmental senses that we're installing on the ship we can imagine putting vibration monitoring senses in bridges cameras sensors on the port railway and senses in the movable you know to improve maintenance and make the whole operation more failsafe and more efficient but also that you go to the end of them on. the porch of hamburg office special challenges like the container ships made of steel that partially blocked the signals that's why the port authority and company nokia

a constantly checking jaring the test phase how fast the five g. signals are and how reliable and the experts also have to keep an eye. on how secure the network is. that has gone down from by a few seasons that starts with physical security devices have to be integrated in such a way that no one can say go up to a traffic light with a flash drive and hack it that can't be allowed to happen and five g. has solutions for that and then says security for passwords to fire walls all of that's critical and five. for now this is just a large scale field test that many here hope that five g. intelligent traffic lights will make for less congestion in the ports and apart from such lighthouse projects experts are calling for a well functioning nationwide wireless network she does and there are serious differences in some areas we can apply very sophisticated solutions in other areas

we can't even say the network is slower it's hardly available so basically there's no access to wireless networks. the port of hamburg is determined not to fall behind in the digital race there's stiff competition with the ports of rotterdam and antwerp and digital solutions a key. there are. what that means for the poor it is a way to further increase competitive yes we have more technologies that will be implemented to make the poll more efficient this network will enable companies at the ports to further optimize their processes in the future. to. hamburg has already gathered a wealth of experience with five g. before it comes on the market here in twenty twenty. and the car manufacturer world germany has just lost its first place position to japan when it comes to sales volume and profits in the third quarter was japanese carmaker toyota the group sold

almost three million cars between july and september but no one. as much in the future as the germans are currently doing fox wagon recently slated thirty four billion euros for the development and manufacturing of tata motors and the cars the ranks could soon be shaking up again though as many in the automotive industry are bracing for tougher times. japanese messaging app provider line is teaming up with one of the largest financial services companies in japan the whole financial group with assets over one point eight trillion dollars together they are launching a special bank for smartphone users the new bank it won't have any physical outlets all transactions that will be made to purchase marked phone line has more than seventy million users and should have it wants to improve its ability to process payments via smart for you soon hopes to acquire

a large base of young smart for users both companies offering financial loan services. jack mom founder of chinese tech giant alibaba is among the world's richest people but he has now emerged as a member of another club chinese eighty nine million strong communist party is not the first nor likely to be the last chinese super rich capitalist to join the party which counts tropically titans among its billionaire members but mas membership has been a secret until now he's always said he preferred to stay out of politics now the party's official paper the people's daily has praised him openly for being an outstanding builder of socialism in the state for ali baba has its headquarters. that's it for from me for now it will be back to phil and will stay in china right indeed christophe yes as scientists around the world have condemned the chinese doctor who claims to have created the world's first genetically edited edited

babies he says he felt that the d.n.a. of twin girls bone early this month to try to make them resistant to an. action from hiv but his claims have prompted a backlash from the scientific community including in china with many casting doubt on the supposed breakthrough and questioning its ethics. his study is not yet been published but academics around the world say quaid has crossed the line the geneticist is said to have changed the d.n.a. of two babies born earlier this month through regular in vitro fertilization. claims the father of the two babies is positive and that he edited the genes while there were just embryos to make them resistant to the edge of the virus. i feel a strong response be to. that it's not a test and make a first but also make good. example there we have some well

history in this if it's not of someone else questions and no being asked about the credibility of his urine quiz claims along with his motivations did he simply want to further scientific research on the topic even though scientists worldwide have so far agreed not to test gene editing on embryos. that i made he wanted to play god i don't know i think doing these kinds of tests on humans is absolutely inexcusable we have no idea about what side effects there might be what might happen to these children in the next fifteen to twenty years doing these kinds of experiments on humans is beyond reason and ethically completely unacceptable the gene editing technology used in the experiment was initially developed to treat inherited diseases it involves changing the genetic make up of plant life animals and humans. it's a special protein that can be precisely programmed to take out entire snippets of d.n.a. . mutated genes which can cause diseases for example can be

completely switched off. genes can not only because out but they can also be repaired or even replaced. the for. using the technology on human embryos however has so far been taboo not all researchers feel bound by these ethical traditions for some it may be more important to prove they are at the forefront of gene therapy technology. i mix on and hundred to see in my opinion this represents a reckless human experiment. neither the risks nor the benefits of being properly established society hasn't been consulted it's medically not necessary the whole thing was announced a day before a major international summit on the topic and it's a provocation and if that's. the case has also caused an uproar in china more than

one hundred scientists have signed an open letter denouncing it as risky and unjustified adding that it hummed the reputation and development of the by medical community in china. more or less from fitow and all of those from the innovate event genomics institute in california welcome to the first if there's been no independent confirmation no paper published what did you think when you first heard this claim. i was sat gene editing is a very powerful tool with great potential to treat human genetic disease cancer and infectious disease but of course when applied to adults or children with existing disease not to it embryos and somebody who worked in the early days of genetic thing i feel frankly a strong corrent all responsibility that this technology has the most positive possible footprint on the planet and this frankly reckless experiment on human

embryos that produced what i hope to healthy girls is just an unfortunate way to present this technology to the public and was had no medical reason whatsoever but he says that this work this research protects phase babies from inheriting hiv if it works then why not well. there are other ways to create prevent the transmission of the virus from the parents to the child and they're safe and effective if mom is hiv positive she can be given medicine that works. you know there are twenty million babies born in china every year i don't really understand what the plan is if this is the approach to help reduce the public health burden of a charity in china or anywhere else in the world are we seriously talking about embryo editing twenty million human beings and here we're never going to get to that point instead what the focus needs to be on approaches that are scalable to the planet specifically in the case for each of each and this of course involves

medication which can be used both to treat the disease and also to prevent the transmission of the virus or people from getting infected and on that gene editing side there are in fact ongoing efforts to take human beings adults who have consensus to this in contrast of course the newborn twins and change their d.n.a. by gene editing to protect them from the virus she should have done that first at the very least to convince himself that his crisper is are safe he didn't do that he just went straight for the numbers i think that's really unfortunate ok so it's not your position that this technology should never under any circumstances be used to it to humans you just think it did needs to be controlled very much so let me give you an example there is a gene the loss of which protects humans from heart disease. do i see a future where after an extended set of rigorous studies beginning in adults first of course we start a serious conversation about potentially protecting newborn children from their

risk of cardiovascular disease by removing the gene if we can convince ourselves that our say sure but i am there similarly a gene like this which causes all timers you know somebody who has the gene has an eighty percent chance of getting a full timers do i see a future where we do this kind of things at the embryo stage yes but now let's together think about what that would look like a person gets old pirate all timers at seventy or eighty now we take an embryo we get rid of the old timers gene which is called for when the embryo is born healthy a child and then we wait seventy years and see how it went so you see where i'm going with this these are theory difficult things to do ethically so i'm not fundamentally blanket point blank against embryo editing to produce a child but i am deeply against the way this was done there was no reason to do this recurrently none whatsoever and he absolutely if even if you were trying to do

this he should have tested this on adults for us i think it's very transparent and . thank you so much perfect joining us there explaining that to us a fair go on from many innovative atomics instance your tin box we thank you. the watching i did that when you saw it live from but i live in a much ball all the way. china is conquering the tomato market now the global business. huge companies selling crunching spalling among. the missiles usually samus tomato industry suffering. while consumers continue to enjoy the fruits regardless of the pot on strains killed in forty five minutes on the w. . nico consider germany to learn german. published in the book why

not learn with him online on the mobile and free to south of the w.c. learning course nicko speak. anxious leeway. waiting for lifeline to syria good morning where are you a quiet and humanitarian to. every call brings them closer together. but it hurts because they feel powerless to help. doesn't cut feel like i'm letting people down with and for what. they worry about the morals they've left behind. but. right now trying to be strong but deep down i'm broken. the war

continues to haunt popes who fled from syria. i'm trying to reach. the war on my phone. her documentary starts december eighth on t w. this is. coming up in the next fifteen minutes keeping tanzania's wildlife safe from poachers often under difficult circumstances protecting pristine forests in madagascar from two men protecting the environment. and not be all of. this in northern nigeria have killed dozens of soldiers and civilians in attacks over the past week this laser show of force comes three months ahead of

presidential elections president mamadou bihari seeking reelection in february and he's under fire for his failure to defeat the insurgents soldiers in the region have added to the criticism saying that weapons dated. the remains of a village in northeast nigeria just a few kilometers away from the regional capital maiduguri jihadists came on motorbikes in broad daylight kidnapping twelve farmers and killing nine who refused to come with them. into. the slum to me first and shot my husband in front of. you know this you know this is he i think they took my from my money and my shoes you know and then they started beating me and told me to go home immediately. you know in the u.s. and i feel like the day before that attack struck this nigerian military base close to the border with chance this video allegedly filmed by a soldier triggered huge discussions on social media eyewitnesses say about one

hundred soldiers were killed and several abducted some soldiers themselves feel abandoned by their government enlarging actually knows every day. no end. the nigerian army confirmed that the military base was attacked but has refused to comment on the casualties for security expert and retired colonel. the attack is a huge embarrassment for the armed forces for. a soldier to come on and starts you know making such a league ation. i think something is really wrong something is not right somewhere i think it's high time that the military authority themselves could be transparent and accountable system in place such that

when the things that i meant for the troops i sent out the chalet sure but those two. really get there and i divided in the front line especially to the front line. nigeria's president mohammad with already won the two thousand and fifteen elections on the promise of ending the fight against our own pride for successes diary doesn't see a quick end to the crisis. get an insurgency to it through and it's a tall order. it is a tall order let's nobody be deceived unfortunately people want to play. politics with everything i don't think this is the politicians to come i start talking because. this is. a

war. and we should not talk. more than twenty thousand people have been killed since the book around insurgency started almost a decade ago with presidential elections scheduled for early next year nigerians living in the area still terrorized by boko haram my asking will finally be able to stop these killings. straight to nigeria's commercial capital where we joined. creech welcome address the nigerian military did look like it was making headway against boko haram and now we have these attacks what has changed but this question matter of fact is that the armed forces started a major counter-insurgency offensive in two thousand and fifteen with the targets two and spoke once and for all and the college attacks that we're seeing are clearly a sign that this target was not reached to very active factions both are loyal to the islamic state and both are still capable to carry out suicide bombings at the

actions even attacks on military convoys or if we're seeing on a military base also they're quite well funded remember they are said to have received millions in ransom for the release of. part of the chibok girls in two thousand and sixteen and two thousand and seventeen so we can say the book are misleading not as strong as in two thousand and sixteen anymore where they were the most deadly jihadist group in the world but they are also not technically defeated because this is the narrative the government insists on ok so now we have soldiers accusing military commanders of siphoning off money leaving them without proper equipment of the five insurgents and this is not a new complaint. right it was you and i we've talked about that so many times over the past years and it is very unfortunate we still have to talk about it right now remembering the time of president goodluck jonathan the former president this was a major issue a lot of soldiers were complaining that they were under equipped send current

governments try to address these issues according to a mom i do but the question is where they really successful few years ago there was a report by transparency international of ways how the military senior military members are trying to siphon off money through different ways for example there were a couple of soldiers discovered soldiers who were basically on the payroll but they did not exist they were kickbacks and also their way inflated contracts given to senior military commanders or to their companies so the new president claims that he addressed these issues but we're still hearing these topics we still hear that those things are still a big issue in nigeria and this is what irritates a lot of nigerians i dream creation like us thank you. and now to two men who have dedicated their lives to protecting the environment of their home countries clovis russia from madagascar and the gerald. from tons and tons of near the progress appearance of this year's prestigious

german africa award i'm actually happy and very proud to be have been hacked. the many who is contribution was responsible for this safe status. in tanzania. i did w. a company the award winners on that day the ranch from getting bogged down in a thompson in the game park while chasing elephant poachers fighting illegal loggers in madagascar as last remaining in the rain forests the german africa award on a second trip to nature conservation. gerald to group has dedicated forty four years or two thirds of his life to this course for sixteen of those years he headed up the tanzania national parks authority today he protects flora and fauna in the game which has unesco world heritage status as

the human population has risen dramatically in tanzania people and wildlife had to compete in food in the explosion in ivory trade has encouraged paging and elephants are particularly under threat. ravaged by touching and we could see. that had been mowed down by rifle fire almost everywhere so it was a very challenging period and my response was to work with everybody i could get to that puts him. around. there has been some progress but rangers have to contend with all infrastructure a lack of equipment and insufficient government funding. we have. this vision where every. one. of our.

general to go through the pipes that tanzania's youth will carry on what he started . he's convinced that environmental protection can only work in conjunction with social and political stability. that's also the case two thousand kilometers away in madagascar. what is elana to support protecting nature is protecting life to continue to your life on earth. you want to much to do that. if nature suffers it's obvious that things will get more difficult for the future of your money to. the minute. forty six year old clovis resurvey muller is fighting to protect the last remaining rain forests in madagascar from illegal deforestation and find wood smuggling. today he is in marin cetra

a bay in the northeast of the country his destination the most solid peninsula madagascar's largest national park and a unesco world heritage site. the park is home to countless plant and animal species including the world's biggest lima population and precious jacaranda tree must. be cut this patch of paradise is under threat. since the fall of the government in two thousand and nine the country has gone from crisis to crisis. corruption deforestation and smuggling have shot up. one ton of jacaranda of what can sell for up to forty thousand euros the so-called rosewood is particularly in demand in china thanks to its reddish hue and this despite its official protection under the washington convention and mostly lateral treaty protecting endangered plants and animals meant enough. so it's now almost impossible to find trees whose trunks have a damaged of more than fifty centimeters in the middle of the park or here on the

fringes in the park in them down. ninety percent of the island's original forest is thought to have been obliterated masel is practically the last century left. clovis reza fema is the leader of a local conservation group in two thousand and sixteen he was arrested for allegedly calling for violence and looting during protests against the wood lobby according to witnesses he wasn't even present at the protests in question. shortly before he had discovered plans from businesses and local authorities to authorize the illegal export of race with china only once amnesty international intervened was he released from prison after ten months inside made the issue for itself with trade miss is not only the fact that he goes to prison but even when he is released he was found guilty which means that for

five he is he has this democrats who are in above his head meaning whatever if anything happens or if people do want him to go back to jail it will be extremely easy and so the consequence of this on environment defenders as you can imagine means that you know they're not at as at ease as before to speak out to denounce clovis reza female or knows all too well that he has powerful enemies if you. have received threats of imprisonment and. it began around may two thousand and nine when smugglers tried to ban down my house. his wife and two children have moved to another city for safety and yet giving up is not an option for. as far as he's concerned saving the last corner of madagascan rainforest is more than worth it. the u.n. says the humanity is falling further behind in the race against climate change

christopher coke has will fill in the united nations is sounding the alarm here saying that the gap between greenhouse gas emissions and levels needed to achieve the paris climate treaty trumpeter goals is widening after three years of progress in lowering c o two emissions twenty eighteen has seen a jump stemming from the energy sector according to the international energy agency the atmospheric concentration of c o two has increased dramatically now national carbon cutting pledges from the twenty fifteen pairs agreement have to be tripled in the coming years according to the you and environment program. china has been called the worst polluter in the world but the government is trying desperately to disturb label even if it means curbing economic growth this week the government in beijing promised to step up its war on climate change and china's northern call heartland dozens of chemical plants have already closed the people

there have been breathing a little easier but the region has paid a high price for the city of gin chang has a poor reputation in china it's one of the most polluted cities in the country it's skyline peppered with mines coal processing facilities and heavy industry plants according to data from the ministry of ecology and environment last winter in chiang failed to meet government targets cutting damaging pollution as a result dozens of mines and factories were forced to shut down. local shephard mistake gauss says the measures have improved and quality you want to show for it all used to burn and stink everything was polluted really burned then stank. closing the mines and factories however has sent shock waves through the local economy unemployment is high here the problem is common. asked china's coal heartland cities struggle to strike

a balance between environmental concerns and keeping their economies afloat many here are critical of last winter's smog crackdown factories were forced to close whether they'd implemented pollution controls or not this year beijing has promised to be more business friendly gin chang however is unlikely to enjoy any leniency because of its past failures. shuns you know on many cities here in the region rank the lowest in the country when it comes to environmental law enforcement and information disclosure this means there are billeted to implement lawsuits regulate these industries is very weak true father to me. now the local economy is placing its hopes in gas rather than cull the area is rich in me saying which can be used for heating and it will provide jobs to china is determined to reduce its dependence on coal by twenty twenty coal should make up fifty eight percent of

total energy use that's down more than ten percentage points in a decade. and is back to phil and he's got your latest sports news thank you first yes the second leg of south america's top club football final has been deemed too dangerous to play in argentina and will not take place elsewhere on the december the eighth or ninth the coper limited daughters match between what are sarah's rivals river plate and boca juniors was first postponed on saturday after river fans pelted the boca team bus with missiles breaking windows and injuring players then police used tear gas to disperse the crowd but the gas got onto the bus and made other boko players sick the game was rescheduled for sunday evening and then postponed the game after requests from boca. champions league football is back tonight as they put ultimate match of the group stage see sides from all over europe scrambling to seal their ticket to the knockout stages but.

coach nicko coverts there's more than just qualification to stake his job is on the line. or coach on thin ice on saturday by an were held to a home draw against the league's second worst team will doff by an president only heard a spread of the performance slapstick refusing to comment on the coco but his future beyond tuesday's champions league game on monday a prickly insisted he has the backing of his players. for example i've had conversations with several players and the ones i spoke to told me what i'm about to tell you this our relationship is exceptionally good not just with the players that i spoke to by the way they also amongst themselves. for the beleaguered by inside opponents been faecal may look an easy target having lost two of their last three league games in portugal but by and missing five key players

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and work keeps pushing the boundaries of what oc can be rocks for from the cult. desk is here to talk about we have been wonderful this is. welcome scott thank you so this is a big may not get a big deal but why isn't she more widely known yeah i don't know it's interesting because if you talk to museums if you talk to our collectors or our historians they put a right up there i mean many people say he's against because the the most important female artist of the last forty years and she's also got connections to one of the most successful commercial artists she was married to get out of the show for twelve years and she influences are he influenced her but i don't know i think looking at i think what sets her apart and maybe what makes her less well known is she doesn't have a signature style like most modern artists they have a certain look a certain style that they perfect and you know who they are they come a brand you know like you do you see that working you think exactly like i like i

like a banksy yeah you know you see the graffiti type of graffiti you know about the banksy or jeff koons as the big balloon animals you know when you think ok that's they have she's not like that ever she's been changing our regularly throughout her career so what she's doing now looks completely different what she had ten years ago that was completely different what she did thirty years ago but for me that makes her more interesting as an artist can't really pigeonhole her and the stuff that she's doing now at seventy which turns seventy today is i think just as exciting and interesting as what she was doing forty years ago what we think a lot. easier. decades make yourself pretty was a major retrospective of how it works which was first shown in the netherlands in twenty six. has always been. this because she doesn't allow herself to box and. there was. a lot. of. recognizable. as those to form

i mean seconds and as as long. recognised by. has all. this. famously elusive he's against avoids giving interviews that reserve isn't reflected in her work own life features prominently in her it's. what is often described as and it matic but it's also humorous. he's against design the german provision at the venice biennale in two thousand and seven costing a construction net over its nazi architecture. it introduced her to a wide audience relatively light in her korea.

innovation has been a constant in her woke even when dealing with a common theme. she's against at seventy still holding up a mirror to the viewer and creating oh it's that transforms. and i know you're a you're a fan tell us about your first encounter with i would have to meet i didn't know know about her until just a few years ago four years ago i have to be in new york and i went to the moment of the museum of modern art and they were doing huge retrospective of her work and i'd just looked at the name to know she was walked in and i have to say i was just blown away it was art that covered her entire forty years of work and it's difficult to describe because she's changes so often but i know if i could get capsulated it's basically she has all that's good about modern art and none of it's

crap of. her stuff. always really clear and distinct but it's also it's also funny and playful i mean she did after nine eleven she did a series of pieces which were the alternative constructions for the world trade center the new world trade center that was being built and so she had these suggestions and they were quite sort of touching and moving i think we have some of the images from the from that installation and maybe not well but describe that they're they're sort of are architectural constructions sort of like alice's as you'd see in an architecture sculpture you sitting here and she combined sort of plastic style chairs with some photographs from nine eleven and. rolls of film it was quite touching and emotional but but also also quite fun and

playful and i mean she's very very closely connected to new york she's been going there since she was a teenager she was there on nine eleven and a lot of her work was inspired by the city so given that she doesn't have a signature style is there anything that unites these very different. works i guess i don't think really nice some is is the artist itself herself and and her vision i mean it's. she's got this very clear clear look at the world and everything she does things exactly right i mean if you look back at like the first some the first what she did in the seventy's these ellipsoids which of these sort of huge structures that look like also a mass of toothpicks. which are made out of sort of plastic. that she designed one of the very first artist ever designed sculptures on a computer on the curve to be perfectly right and then these is the thing which were large images of ears which they then blew up till they were the size of of

a whole building buildings and this is actually one of my favorite sculptures which are her. she called the world receivers and it was concrete radios made of concrete with antennas on them and for me that's sort of representative of who she is because she's sort of like a world receiver herself she takes in all these things from outside concentrates some and almost like switching on a radio she switches different styles of the styles of the style of the style i think it's phenomenal and as they should keep moving forward she's seventy and she never seems to be peter self and she never seems to copy anyone else she always seems to show one further one further way along fascinating the work of ease that gets good by yes this is going to be a great thank you very much thank you. reminder of our top story this hour here on day w. russia has paraded ukrainian sailors captured off of crimea on state television i have three off the side of assad green with russian claims that they have violated the country's borders as the standoff between

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