news line from berlin another victim. dies as a french makes a subdued return to normality. comes to injuries suffered injuries days attack that's up to police gunning down the suspected culprits last night also coming up. british prime minister to resign a defense of france it's a humbling summit in brussels european officials they had demands were unclear she sticks concessions to be overall ponens of a break the deal back home. also was parliament to make the decision to create the

country's first standing on me of the movie looks to inflame tensions in the balkans with neighboring serbia think it could in its formative retreat. shocking allegations in south sudan the united nations investigates reports of sex attacks on women in front of you the general the country over one hundred women and girls say they were sexually assaulted in recent weeks often as a collective humanitarian aid. and imagine finding yourself up against this theocratic talent of germany's mixed martial arts yulia dorney and if you can keep up with her and none can be tapped in the featherweight division will be live about fleet on the show.

i need a q money welcome to the program another victim of the strong attack has died french police rather french prosecutors say the victim had been in critical condition since the shooting earlier this week it's a tragic coda to a frantic forty eight hours in the city police search straws book for two days before tip off from the public brought them on hunt to a deadly conclusion a neighbor films a scene through their window. last moments as an extensive two day manhunt comes to an end leaving the chief suspect in the attack dead at the age of twenty nine. but as the community breathes a sign of relief questions are emerging what wasn't a known radical with a long list of criminal convictions what's more closely how was he able to pass through security checkpoints even after police discovered weapons at his house

residence. was able to evade police for days after the deadly attack did he have accomplices that are still on the loose. after two days of a city in lockdown the christmas market has reopened. with the army providing security. market is our history it is a coming good that belongs to all french people this morning with their four just wanted to stroll a bit and show that we will always keep our heads up. for the senate. as friends grapples with how to prevent radicalization and such attacks locals and tourists alike showing their support for the city of strasbourg and its long tradition of celebrating the holidays at its christmas market. for more let's bring in malta rachet ski he is a security consultant and a managing director of planned forest in. some all to thank you for joining us seven hundred police officers deployed to find one man and somehow he was able to

evade capture how did that happen well that's a very very good question the things that he was apprehended in a place that he actually grew up in and a place that he he belonged to and where his friends and family are so he has had the advantage of terrain he has got he had the intimate knowledge of this area plus you could maybe draw on the support of the networks that are being investigated now and in fact some people have been arrested already and on and on the questioning but that doesn't explain you know his knowledge of the area how he was able to go through the cracks it's understood that he was on a french list of possible security risks so how did this happen well he was listed as a possible threat to national security and he was amongst the more than twenty five thousand. other people who were on the rise in the same category. he

was one of about ten thousand potential jihad is that france tries to keep track of the thing is that no state has the capacity of the. the policeman that can actually follow a person's life as the whole time and he was primarily a criminal though not necessary is necessary jihad so it was difficult to kind of single him out as a potential target so given what you're saying ah the police then fighting a losing battle when it comes to suspected terrorists not necessarily a losing battle of course there are mechanisms and place to collect data on these suspects and in many cases there are arrests and there are plots that are being disrupted so the police work is generally successful but there will always be the cases that slip through the through cracks. of potential attacks that cannot be

averted because there are so difficult to detect beforehand right now sheriff should katz former lawyer claimed yesterday that he actually wasn't aware of his client's background when he represented him because she can't had somehow managed to cross country lyons with his crimes what does that tell us about how europe. about europe's information sharing when it comes to suspected terrorists that has indeed been an ongoing issue the security cooperation cooperation between different states between even within states the security actors the security or storage fees and that is a massive challenge because obviously in europe the different states in within the different nations states run on different software systems for example the legal definitions of who is a potential jihad is for example differ from country to country so there are no common standards across the u. therefore it is very very difficult to exchange the information about such people

and that hampers the collaboration between the states all to your at the head of planned for risk and as the name suggests you. you know teaching people how to prepare for such situations but how can one of such a crisis as we saw in friends well in general it is difficult for states as we just discussed to. prevent every single crime of course every single crime like this from a personal perspective if one is in a situation like in strasburg where you hear gunshots there was an attack obviously active an active shooter if you write this it is necessary to really run first to see distance. and then try to hide and if that's not possible this is what you can do on an individual level and of course tell the authorities as the

taxi driver has done who was caught up in all those what you've seen and where the attacker has gone because that actually helps to track these suspects down security consultant thank you thank you to brussels now and day two of the last european union summit of the year migration and eurozone reform our on the agenda but britain's departure from the bloc you're still dominating conversation on thursday you need as rebuffed u.k. prime minister to resign may's pleas for changes to how big the deal they were united in saying the existing deal could not be renegotiated. now to resume a give a statement a short while ago let's have a listen i know it has been reporting that the e.u. is not willing to consider any further clarification the e.u. is clear as i am that if we are going to leave with the deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification discussion

following the council's conclusions is in fact possible. there is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that the u.k. parliament needs in order to be able to approve that as bring in our correspondents max hoffman who is at the european council in brussels and. on its way in london welcome to you both at maks us begin to he would just head to me as i may then she still believes of there's room for clarification or reassurance is a view shared in brussels. exactly she's not saying the go she ation it it's the same clarification and that's a big difference because had she said negotiation that would have meant opening up the withdrawal agreement again the divorce agreement something. i'm going to the german chancellor and call the french president completely excluded in their closing press conference is here the european summit and that means that withdrawal

agreement will contain the backstop the now infamous backs up meaning the insurance that there won't be a hard border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and ireland which is part of the european union it also means that this backstop could possibly be permanent if they cannot negotiate their future relations so what can they give or what can they give or if they're not going to open up the withdrawal agreement well they can give or clarification's meaning that they really don't see the backstop as a trap that they want to keep it as short as possible if possible not trigger it at all meaning that they will negotiate future relations in earnest as quickly as possible so to sum it up it is they're not talking about the christmas present here anymore that has been bought it's not exchangeable they're talking about the wrapping to make it shiny or in pretty year for the people back in london so shalen here in london if tourism a comes back with this shiny new package is it going to

get the momentum is it going to give that rather the momentum that you. needs to move forward with a current address and deal. to put it bluntly to critics or to reason may's deal at this summit in brussels has been an absolute disaster they wanted some concrete concessions from the union particularly on the irish border issue and as you just heard from max that doesn't look like they're going to get it series in may essentially is going to be coming back to the u.k. as far as that concerned empty handed what that means of course then that nothing has really changed since monday and that is when to reason may thought she might put this breaks a deal to parliament that the ones who need to approve it in order for it to go ahead but cooled it off simply because she knew it just wasn't popular enough now nothing has changed as far as the critics are concerned and she really faces and almost impossible task of selling not very same deal going forward but there are some minor changes that do need to be taken into account first of all there has

been the vote of confidence in the prime minister this week what that means is that the euro skeptics within her in party cannot challenge to reason may for at least a year or so she will be out to turn around to them and say look this is my deal you either accept it or you don't and then going forward it looks like the vote in parliament is going to be put forward in january what that means is that it's just roughly two weeks before the u.k. is meant to be leaving the european union on march twenty ninth there will be some nerves here in the u.k. and in the about the u.k. crashing out of the e.u. without a deal if there is a maze deal isn't passed whether that's enough to convince parliaments that they have to accept to reason may's deal well we'll have to see in january. in london and max hoffman in brussels thank you both. cos of was parliament has voted to create a standing army for the first time the move comes twenty years after kosovo from

serbia and for to bloody war against belgrade. forces now neighboring serbia says the decision to create an army is quote the most direct threat to peace and stability in the region serbia does not recognize kosovo and says it could even intervene militarily a threat which failed to deter a cost of one lawmaker's. it was a unanimous vote all the lawmakers present in the kosovo parliament were in favor of converting the four thousand strong security force into a fully fledged. jubilation but lawmakers from the ethnic serb community had boycotted the vote. kosovo was born out of conflict twenty years ago the nato alliance intervened to protect the ethnic albanians of kosovo in their quest for independence from serbia nato has been there ever since keeping the peace between the still bitterly opposed sides in two thousand and eight kosovo formally declared independence from serbia

a move belgrade and its all i russia still refused to recognize. many kosovan see the creation of an army as a necessary step towards full nationhood. this is a historic agreement for us and a deserved one. has its own army and a state that is being further consolidated and strengthened every day secular court and of course. it's a big step because of all will secure our own state that it is but there was this is an enormously emotional one we're happy that we're finally becoming a nation you know it's especially emotional for people who lost family members during the war but for the rest of us to you. but ethnic serbs who are concentrated mainly in the north of kosovo see nothing to celebrate very most. you see today cost of a jeopardize security and peace in these parts of the country by forming

a so-called cause of a ami peace and security in these areas have been disregarded in the crudest manner . while the majority of course of the united states for its support for the move to create an army nato and the european union expressed regret and appeals to both sides to remain calm kosovo may be a step closer to full nationhood but the ethnic divide between albanians and serbs still runs deep. i have is here with the business and it's good news for global trade at least that's what it appears to be the trade dispute between the u.s. and china seems to be cooling off a little bit beijing is suspending punitive tariffs on american made cars at the same time it announced a first big purchase of u.s. soybeans and what sounds like a conciliatory tone the chinese finance ministry says it hopes china and the u.s. will progress quickly and its negotiations to lift all additional tariffs on each

other. chinese consumers will soon be able to afford cars from the u.s. again. beijing is reducing current import duties on u.s. vehicles from forty to fifteen percent tariffs will also disappear for a number of other u.s. products the regulations apply to the first three months of twenty nine nine hundred nine times agricultural products energy automobiles except for a are among the items that china in the u.s. have reached consensus on. the new regulations are music to the ears for u.s. soybean farmers storage facilities for the soybeans are bursting at the seams china's been one of the us his most important agricultural customers but during the recent trade dispute china stopped importing u.s. soil farmers held on to their crops now trade is blossoming again since china resumed importing soybeans chinese businesses as well as chinese consumers welcome the move that. soybeans are one of the most important products china

imports from the u.s. . there's a big domestic demand for oil. the trade dispute has weighed on china's growth as the latest figures show in november retail and industrial production fell well short of expectations the new economic ceasefire between the world's two largest economies gives both sides the opportunity to find additional win win solutions. as south africa decriminalize us cannabis for personal use industry players are standing by to capitalize on the move this weekend guns are printed or so from around south africa are converging on the inaugural cannabis expo in pretoria a four day trade and consumer exhibition it focuses on the industry its related health agriculture growing and innovative products but even if some economists project the industry could lead to a much needed boost for the south african economy legal experts warn there is still a long way to go story tomatoes tomatoes have exactly the same requirements as ken

and andy cohen all started greenplum harder. in two thousand and eight specializing in hydroponics providing solutions from propagation to harvest for not only vegetables but also cannabis and we planning to open branches in cape town and then also we have outgrown this shop as you can see and we are going to move into premises he times the size of the car in shop so yes that is tremendous growth. since the south african constitutional court decriminalized cannabis for personal use in september there is great excitement that the fledgling industry could explode i'm sure there will be challenges in the legal isolation off cannabis let the parliament sort that issue within the next two years and i'm sure all kind of this will be legalized in the near future just like it is in canada.

is an exhibitor at the first episode african kind of this expert growing industrialist manufacturers and every day enthusiastic around seven africa to perturb. it's just about time south africa has had an extra like this as you can see from the interest that we've got here the amount of people coming through this age about and the amount of that exhibit is a diverse exhibitors that we have there is a huge industry here to showcase and next week it's not every commercial aspect of cannabis is on display here leading analysts to predict a desperately needed boost in a south african economy emerging from recession it might sound like a lot of people from colorado in europe need the linz i actually come into africa and they want to invest in this there's a lot of it investors been set up to invest in that space so of course i think i'd be moving but as you know politics said that the legal wranglings are all there we took a bit of time to do. this of african parliament has just twenty one months in which

to revise the legislative framework for candidates and all of those that are involved in this probation are quite a. they've been around for quite some time they're quite deeply ingrained into the legal system so it's not as easy as just promulgating one new act that'll be the end of it you know believes this is the beginning of a sustainable and diverse industry even if the road ahead is uncertain i did expect it to be this busy on the first day but i'm happy that it is and i'm sure it's going to be even busier on the weekends which is you are good for everybody exhibiting here and your great success small to medium cannabis enterprises who have to compete with a large international corporates who have already expressed interest in this about african markets that's all for business for now it's back to eat it and the struggle in the fight against climate change you think you have and that's absolutely right united nations talks aimed at stopping it reversible climate change are due to end in poland today and negotiators remain deadlocked on key

issues delegates from one hundred and ninety six countries are trying to agree on a rulebook for the twenty fifteen paris time it accords which vowed to keep global warming below two degrees celsius but a handful of countries including the u.s. and russia want to commit to the agreement developing nations also want financing to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. and as those delegates in poland try to thrash out a deal the younger generation is getting impatient let's hear from one remarkable fifteen year old who says the adults who are responsible for climate change must do more to fight it. that was a fair. and impassioned plea to save our planet made by unlikely activists the students have quit the classroom to go on strike at the cop twenty four climate summit. their inspiration teenage activist created too

bad. that we would have to. live with the miss that the older generations have created we would have to clear the floor that that is enough to. turn the regularly takes time off school to call for action on climate change. the swedish fifteen year old is a symbol of a generation too young to vote system but hungry for change. this is the second few years we do need hope of course we do the wrong thing we need more than hope is action. that's why turn back isn't pearland for the climate summit us senior director and i think we should and should get angry and we should make our voices heard because it makes you believe older generations accountable for what they have a case. that is palpable less clear is whether the

grown ups are listening. you know. they know where you were last night during the day and basically every hour in between we're talking about geolocation track as they hide in the apps of your smartphone and you've likely already agreed to the terms and conditions that have a social media editor and joins me now with more on this this is a rigid scaring me off the bat i just have to let you know but how much do these apps really know about us well they know a lot it turns out of we also. specs of course that our phones are tracking us right we know that facebook is gathering information so it can target us with ads but we're talking about our physical locations almost twenty four hours per day according to the new york times they did an investigation this week hundreds of apps are following our every move and it's really being updated as often as every two seconds and the level of detail that they're collecting as well is honestly as

you said kind of scary and kind of shocking really what these do is track our daily movements for example by the time you get up to when you drink coffee on your way to the office they know whether you go to the gym or maybe like me you instead go to the bar and drink a beer with your friends it's basically following your daily life that information edith is then sold often without our knowledge to third party companies we're talking about hedge funds retail outlets advertisers they're the ones buying this information and in fact is worth a lot of money according to the new york times per year it's around twenty billion dollars wow so two things here does this mean to check in you even when you have your location notification often how widespread is this practice we'll get to the first one later is actually very widespread there are thousands of apps many of them are for android that are tracking you and we're talking about a very broad range of apps as well this could be nearly anything so here's just a few examples of some of the apps that are doing this we have apps like this one

so fitness trackers an app to compare prices while you're shopping an app even for finding the cheapest gas station is following your location and this weather app called know what weather radar they all contain location sharing codes they send information directly back to some seventy five different companies and there are so many apps out there that it really is difficult for the average consumer to avoid using one of these apps so i'm going from upset i mean from scant to upset because i'm thinking can these companies really collect my data without me agreeing to. let's say you don't want to be tracked right it may already be too late to many of us give these apps the permission to track our location as soon as we open the app so it might already be too late and many of us have seen something like this so for example with this sports app is called the score it will ask you if you can you can use your location here it simply says to recommend leagues local teams players and

events but it does not mention that the app will also be selling your information if you say allow it will be selling it to third parties and said that fact of course buried in the terms and conditions those along no one reads those well. we really should but how worried should we be about then that's a question i think you can be a little bit worried on the one hand this information is anonymous it's not links directly with your name on the other hand it could be fairly easy for someone to take this information say hey there's a phone that spends eight hours a night at this address it's clearly edith's phone right so if this information is hacked or if it's leaked there could be someone out there that owns all of your data about your daily movements so it could be dangerous if this gets in the wrong hands the time to get rid of us not phones it could be times very be very careful with this and maybe not allow these permissions to every app just pick a few well thank you for that very scary and enlightening report. you're watching the news still to come the u.n.

investigates allegations of widespread sexual assault in south sudan over one hundred women say they've been attacked in recent weeks often as they connected humanitarian aid. and germany's mixed martial arts well championed you hear tony joins me in studio to talk about how amazing is yet and what's next in head korea. so we'll have all those stories and morning in just a moment to stay with the. good news. of the.

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a room similar it was hard. i even got white hair. learning the language you know a lot this gets me neatly to instructor would say if you want to do their story in. irvine and reliable information for margaret. you're watching the news coming up in the next fifteen minutes meet an entrepreneur inspiring ghana's next generation of innovators we have a story as a country host europe's largest conference on digital issues. but first to south sudan where the un has called for an investigation into allegations that armed men raped a keys to a hundred and twenty. five women and girls in the last month the attacks reportedly

ocurred over ten days in the north of the country now the women were on an hour's long walk on a road through bushland when they were ambushed between the town of niala do you and a food distribution point in bantu humanitarian groups one such incidents are likely to increase with more women travelling long distances to get aid destroyed infrastructure had made has made food distribution in their communities nearly impossible the head of the un peacekeeping mission in south sudan now says that they are working to prevent any further incidents these attacks are absolutely despicable and the perpetrators must be held to account how to respond to the media by sending additional patrols to the affected areas were also cutting down some of the far leads on the side of the road the. perpetrators can't conceal or hide themselves in the grass and our human rights team. has lots of investigation is

up there as we speak gathering victim and witness testimony working to identify those responsible for the tech when i joined by jeremy taylor from the norwegian refugee council in nairobi jamie glad you could make time for us so let's begin with this is women walking over thirty kilometers to food distribution points why is this still happening. this is still happening because the just tickle conditions in which we deliver aid in south sudan are incredibly challenging it's a big country we're talking about almost seven million people require some kind of humanitarian assistance and there is just no way to structure in a country so this means that our resources are stretched incredibly lonely and and for people to reach the sites where it where it is distributed there are long distances and the nature of the conflict in south sudan is that we are finding that people are putting themselves at risk in reaching. now jamie we're talking about

nearly two hundred women being sexually allegedly sexually violated any indication who might be behind those attacks we don't have any information on the specific attack. well what we do know is that these sorts of attacks are unfortunately very common in the conflict in south sudan the conflict has been characterized over the past five years by extremely high levels of gender based violence and sexual assault has become part of the conflict and so this is this incident is it's horrific and it's shining light on something which is actually in damage to the conflict as i did we've seen happening in a number of instances in different parts of the country so for us that the missing show is really about this that the practice of the conflict in south sudan it has to change you know people are really those people on the frontlines of facing not only that the impact on their livelihoods on on their families and communities but

these sorts of brutal sexual violence as a weapon of war just cannot continue now jeremy i just want to throw a few numbers actually when remind our viewers there's been five years of war in south sudan four hundred thousand lives lost and more than four million people feeling bad homes and this violence keeps flaring up but in september of course warring parties agreed to a new peace deal do you think it will be successful will it hold. it is a very challenging question and as we see the peace agreement at the moment. we have reasons to be hopeful. conflict has reduced but we have to be mindful of the fact that as with all peace agreements the devil is in the details and as to the extent to which the deal will be implemented correctly and on time these will be the sorts of questions that will be able to to to to allow us to see whether to be hold whether it can hold together as we stand right now there are

a number of factors down the road which are worrying but for now we have to be hopeful we are seeing a slight reduction in violence especially violence associated with the main protagonists of the conflict but i should remind you that there are also a number of smaller groups small on groups who are not signatories to the current due to the peace agreement and there are still instances there's still pockets of violence associated associated with the main conflict associated with intercommunal conflict associated with the tension between different groups calibrating there's a number of reasons to see violence occurring insults but when we look at the at the conflict as a whole yes. quantity is in is reducing in many parts of the country and the main protagonists are appearing to be holding to the deal for now and so we call on them to to implemented and and to start to put the people of south sudan first because certainly the civilians of training the victims were too late and that for us that

you message jeremy taylor from the norwegian messenger council in nairobi thank you you thank. now for the first time europe's largest conference on digital and social issues is taking place in africa republic opened in the good man capital accra today and the event brought together young innovators from across africa they discussed strengthening their voice on the continent overcoming the digital gap and dismantling clichés to exploring the largest digital disruptions that shake the continent. of correspondents florists was at the conference today we'll be talking to her in a second but first let's hear from some of those who attended the conference i love this event if we could have more events like this across the continent i feel like we'd start the process of being gaging even like all the leaders for change because it's not only a creative event it's also an engagement for ideas which is over the hours of the

jump people who are. that new to. what's our city. well flora's chukwurah who is joining me now from ghana has been following that event today so flourish what is the focus of republicans this year. well the focus this year is the next level and the idea behind the next level is how do africans take these new technologies that they're all of a sudden it seems almost overnight exposed to how do they take out the africans take this new technologies and translate them into real life solutions so how do they outplay them to challenges that are only unique to africa i said that's the focus of republic of republic i cry at the cia republic is always about technology and do tell lies they shine on the internet and this one is not any different however the focus of this is seeing how can

a free car use this new digital tools to solve how own problems and flourish in the past republican has hosted a name such as edward snowden chelsea manning who is a headline a if we can call about this here. well the main the keynote speaker for this year's event is fire read that now poor emma i might be saying you're wrong but she's a tall goalies a civil rights activist and she's pushing the far a must go campaign and what that campaign basically is about is they're trying to put an end to the current region in togo which is the longest autocratic governments in africa that family has been in power for the past fifty one years so that's the focus of how work and she spoke about how internet and digital tools even things like bluetooth i've helped to make our work easier she's working with all the activists on the ground in togo and we don't we don't only have activists

here we have the cuts across different fields we have journalists we have there there are journalists and medical. dr oz even here just looking at how can we make the internet and digital tools our technology how do we make it relevant beyond being just excited about these tools to see how do we solve practical problems again like i said before correspondent joining us from accra ghana thank you. it's no coincidence that republican is being held in ghana the country happens to have a thriving startup scene in our next report we meet a young creators of a product designed to spark children's interest into phonology and science. commands start up text make science kits for schools for the components are made here in ghana second largest city. sets

a design to inspire the next generation of engineers and programmers. here at the science sets and. as we package and its last new friend. mr winter's home town with a bunch of. and for processing resistors and then we just taught the children how to build very simple safe kids and teach them the very simple laws of physics and it was exciting what the students came up with at the university they came back showing us interesting sections that we had to build useful things that they had built for their rooms and their houses and we figured hey why not. make this something that can be accessed by all. this private school began working with the science kids two years ago at the equivalent of about eleven year i see the sets are affordable for many of the students here. every student should have a sunset in the box this is an issue playground assuming it's

a classroom if you play with it in the houses it's what you know one of the reasons why i'm. interested in this product is because when i was young i. wanted some of these things the first time i ever got called the one and one transistor one resistor and then from bucky's right through and that really excited me a lot i can trace back my my problem to the best. text kits of a hands on learning encouraging kids to get creative with science. that information gets you really a spirit is from a book yet has you know like a picture. this is part. and see how it works. i think at this time. each small books could be the beginning of

a big idea. the startup hopes that by boosting kids' understanding of and enthusiasm for science the sets could help inspire the technological innovations of the future this is positive. to watch more on digital africa you can check out our website www dot com ford slash doc film i'm joined now in studio by a very special guest yulia dorney is from our sports department here a d w but we're here to talk about something rather different mixed martial marts you see yulia is an expert and to say that is a gross understatement you have a medal there you're a world champion what does that feel like it's created it's just great that's been my childhood dream since i was very little and to finally get it got it and have it in my hands is like amazing well we'll talk a little bit more about that but i want our viewers to see what an incredible year you've had leading up to this. it was everybody knows now yulia is

a world champion. this is yulia dorney a few weeks ago she became the featherweight world champion in mixed martial arts here she is back at the spitfire gym in berlin for the first time since her victory usually she trains here every day boxing wrestling jujitsu judo they're all part of an m.m.a. fight a skill set. because of all the time dalmiya was the reigning european champion when she travelled to the world championships in bahrain. in the final she was the dominant fighter forcing her opponent to tap out in the second round crowning dormy as the world champion. it was a long journey from her beginnings as a judo fighter in germany's youth national team. was. this title means everything to me and i finally got it

and that's been working for the so hard thanks to my team has been high gentoo the edinburgh's everybody on the way to both who supported me thanks guys i love you yeah here it is this is what you train so hard for. the gold medal has brought you a dawney fame and glory but as an amateur she doesn't receive any money for her success. i like her enthusiasm for the sport she's a great ambassador for m.m.a. . unfortunately as a female fighter she's still a rare breed. i hope she can inspire other girls to take up m.m.a. the martial arts. she's not the only woman who trains at the spitfire gym but she's a class above the rest the head coach says she has a bright future. i thought i was always achieved everything there is to

achieve as an amateur. we're looking ahead we're steadily preparing her for professional fights and i think there is still a lot to come from yulia. she already trains like a professional six times a week with up to four gym sessions on top of that it's what it takes to be a champion. so you know it's not every day that we have a guest coming with a gold medal so why don't you tell us how you got into mixed martial arts well everything started with judo as you heard and the club and i was twenty two years ago almost and i don't know in two thousand and fifteen i just decided i would like to try m.m.a. and so i've heard a lot of the world championships and from there on the journey began when you began did you dream that this would be you here right now i didn't do you with your medal here knowing that there may have been well what was your vision at the moment when you got into the sport what was your biggest dream point yeah so become world champion since it's not

a limb big cannot be olympic champion but the goal of those like yeah if you want an amateur sport so the next step is to turn pro i guess yeah and we had in the report that this is obviously a very male dominated field what's it like to be a woman in enemy. unique. it's great i don't know it's just part of the male group obviously and we're trying to gather and we're friends and we help each other and i mean there's also females but they still try to get better and better so we like big family and have beach other doesn't matter if male female how did your family react when you told them the love that went over there for a living they loved it and this still supporting you yeah actually they do so during the day as we mentioned earlier you hear working a daughter bella and you somehow still find time to train for so many hours and become a world champion how do you do it well you have to have you have to have a good time schedule so get up in the morning train to work then go train again and

then also have days off obviously and like just enjoy yourself can you give me what you know give me an example of what your shadow would look like on a normal day of work and training so i get up at seven then i go train for an hour and a half or two sometimes and i come here then i work for like eight hours and then i go back to the gym and you still doing bad you've just told me that you're recovering from a surgery so thank you so much for making it to the studio it sounds like you're superwoman would you feel you don't tell anyone. i wish i was but i'm not unfortunately well i'm just a hard work i guess a hard worker whose work is paying off clearly you're not a mature european and world champion the obvious question is what's next do you have you know i set on maybe the u.f.c. well we have a number of options we'll still checking that out but i'll have. a great two

thousand one hundred that's for sure. is that a promise agreed to two thousand and nineteen i feel like you're trying to say that this something we should be waiting for is this an exclusive you're trying to give me oh maybe this is. actually not true yet what's going to happen what there's something happening for sure something big and my coach the other than the story. can be waiting for something well please be sure to come back to d.w. when you do have that special something in twenty one thousand. and one thank you and now to a story that proves you're never too old to discover you're in a adrenaline junkie and australian woman has become the oldest skydiver in the world at the ripe old age of one hundred two irene o'shea straps to a sky diving instructor jumped from a height of four thousand three hundred metres near the city of adelaide this is the record breaking bad jump a yearly tradition she started on how hundredth birthday to reason money for

charity. still thinking about that one hundred year old woman who makes me feel. that god gives a lot of play in this side of the atlantic though it marks the start of the awards season the european film awards widely known as the european equivalent of the oscars and it will take place this saturday and severe in south and spain by all reports it's an impressive lineup and carrying house that from because she is here to bring us up to speed so tell us a bit more about these awards and which films to look out for ok severe pain film awards been around since one thousand so they're much younger than the oscars but they were conceived to reflect basically the cultural and linguistic diversity of european cinema so they're really the celebration. on a year in the european sense for the industry although it doesn't often really get

its do in the media i feel twenty three categories in all one of them is best comedy but the real time category of course is the best films of which there are five nominated this year and it's a very. heavy lineup at have to say films that have absolutely wowed the critics let's have a quick look at who's in the running. cold war begins in one thousand fifties poland and relates the tragic love story of an ambitious musical director and a young singer. look up on the sky to paris for a while but they fail to find happiness. the film is loosely inspired by the lives of director pawel pawlikowski parents italian writer director. socially critical third to feature happy as. tells the tale of the young peasant.

and the noble man. they form a bond when tancredo. to help him fake his own kidnapping. compact. dog man is the latest movie from tayo car roni who caused a stir with the modern day film in two thousand and eight. this movie takes place in a similar. group and small time crook marcelo gets mixed up with a violent boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood marcelo funday plays marcelo and won best actor at the cannes film festival. in early about sees a strange swedish fantasy film border is a customs officer who can smell fear she falls for

a similar looking traveller while investigating a child pornography ring and makes disturbing discoveries about her own past. the movie already won the prestigious on certain awards in cannes. right so carrying some very visually diversity. with some pretty cool and quirky storylines but interesting you you said five films only counted for good count that's right there is a fifth and i want to talk about it separately because girl i can see the picture on the back here is a belgian drama about a fifteen year old transgender girl named lara a she dreams of becoming a professional ballerina perhaps we can pull the pictures up here but she's also planning to have a gender realignment surgery which along with the double burden of this incredibly

harsh training and of course puberty takes a physical and emotional toll so it's a very gutsy first feature for director of flemish director lucas don't you got an incredible performance from the sixteen year old sister gender actor and dancer victor so he identifies it as male. and he's also nominated for a best actor award he's currently a student at the royal ballet school in antwerp which is one of i believe belgium's best and he's already got the best actor award in the companion competition section that kind of time he got an unbelievable performance both physically and from the acting point yeah i mean looking at that image that was behind us it's impossible to tell that he is a man but where is believable and well studied absolutely so which one of these films you tipping off i wish it would be that one but i'm not sure it will be i think cold war by the polish director probably cost is probably going to be the favorite it's also the movie that's done the best in the theaters i have to say

that this is not blockhouse blockbuster material what we're looking at here a lot of these films have a very difficult time translating their critical acclaim into box office success but this is a really really strong field. and all of these films all five of them have really cleaned up at festivals and national awards over the years so hopefully these european film awards are a good platform to give them a bit more visibility outside their own countries as well right but looking at that list in germany not in the running any other categories where we have. give a mention though to german actress boy she's the big hope she's one of six nominated for best european actress and she's already received numerous awards let's have a look here at her performance as a whole nation night oh the french german actress who died so tragically this is emily film three days in a hole and she also took home a german film prize for that role so we can cross our fingers for her and i can

also tell you that three of the five nominated documentary films at the european film awards are also in german coproduction so it might be a nod there who knows so there's a little bit of a presence but it's definitely time to sort of take some time out recognize all the great talent and other parts of your well thank you for watching list over christmas and lots to go see. marion how much that. desk thank you. and to remind all the top stories we're following for you french prosecutors say a fourth person has died after the gun attack on christmas talking to earlier this week when he shot dead the main suspect in the attack last night after a two day month on. british prime minister to resign may has failed to persuade you need to make changes to the banks the deal the british prime minister was hoping to secure reassurances about plans opposed by skeptics in the u.k. to prevent a hardcore there on the island of iron and. say they're unwilling to renegotiate

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