please believe. me i am. i an. audience. this is you don't reduce life for a girl in a security scare at a major german transport hub police say they have massively boosted security it should guard airport that's after reports of suspicious behavior by individual spotters scoping out the premises also coming up another airport london's gatwick suspends flights and leaves best of travelers stranded as after two drones were spotted flying nearby also on the show the democratic republic of congo delays a much anticipated election authorities there say their first book winning sunday's

presidential poll after a fire destroyed thousands of voting machines the protesters don't want to wait for what should be congo's first democratic transfer of power plus if years later for societies collapsing going to be suffocating goes on all levels inside the antiwar bond demonstrations on the streets of britain pest we meet the protesters demanding an end to new labor regulations and our turn to the moon of law. and back to earth they see fit landing for the crew of the international space station but their six month long mission was marred by technical problems. the moment the band played. hockey supposed to have a year long everyone always begin right here indra. anywhere police say they have

massively rooster's security at stuttgart airport in the south of the country police have so far refused to confirm at reports that a group of people were seen acting suspiciously at the airport a police spokesman said other airports across germany have been informed about the situation all right let's get you the very latest on this on the folding a story yet right now where. hans hans is following this story hans what more have you learned well it concerns apparently two people who are known to the oath orators they are from germany and they were observed in fact last week in paris at the shoulder goal forward to acting suspiciously there taking photographs of the terminal building and these same people were again identified on video recordings stooped called airport a couple of days ago and they were it was possible to identify them according to

media reports and as i say they are known to the authorities one of them is on a watch list of the german security services he's someone known for his islamist sympathies in addition there has been some information coming apparently from the more rock'n secret service which has been monitoring internet chats internet conversations and they seem to indicate that somewhere around christmas time an attack may be planned somewhere in the region of the border between germany and france house as the world reportedly they know who they're looking for so is there a manhunt going on right now. we presume that this is the case especially since one of the people or two of the people that are being sought and there's a two others and of those a total of four people are being sold two of these people are known to the police so one presumes there must be a manhunt going on at least at their places of residence but that hasn't been confirmed by the police at the same time of course security has been raised at

german in airports and also at airports in france we will have to wait and see how things develop hans bronson reporting thank you so very much. it's all drones flying there are another airport london's gatwick have grounded flights and cost travel chaos a pair of the remote control devices were spotted near gatwick on wednesday night prompting the airport to cancel all flights police say they have ruled out terrorism at the states but the british army has now been called in to help deal with the situation while thousands of people are stuck as they try to reach their loved ones in time for christmas. the mystery drone attack could hardly have come at the worst time with hundreds of planes grounded or being rerouted tens of thousands of passengers are now facing major disruption at one of the u.k.'s busiest airports we're meeting family any way to set

a date. but overall maybe before you decide you don't even need to say don't say you're not the best not the best thoughts christmas any company leave this kid because this seems to be there any place we could possibly find any information and they can get several hours alone helplessness for people on the ground and increasing frustration for officials trying to catch those operating the drones in the air nine o'clock last night the drone was seen by two different members of staff and since then the drone is a. hole through the noise to the close now there is a drone on the field as we speak and the police twenty police units are looking to bring that picture to justice under british law it's illegal to fly a drone within one kilometer of an airport or airfield boundary or above an altitude of one hundred twenty metres which increases the risk of a collision with a manned aircraft sussex police say there's no indication of terrorist involvement

but they've called this a deliberate act to cause disruption at gatwick airport. is the train operators are acting illegally and there is a punishment of up to five years in prison for endangering an unlimited felons with so many people so. stranded at gatwick and many more are still arriving even once the drones are stopped it's expected to take days before things can return to normal. the democratic republic of congo has for spawn the much anticipated president presidential election planned for this sunday the electoral commission says the vote will now take place on december thirtieth there's a lay was put down to a warehouse fire last week that the store thousands of voting machines but news of the moment has student protests in kinshasa where tensions were already high after government crackdowns on opposition rallies. alright secure now to the d r c to our correspondent wendy bashi she was present at

the press conference when officials announced that the elections will be postponed wendy good to see you're joining us from can shasta when the announcement was made how did the population take the news. and evening everyone when. they're not was made everybody to streets was really really the hangry maids to interview young men was sad and one was wearing see that this city can order and then take country make take and she still day was there was very angry because there was expecting to have been lection on sunday so actually this isn't was not very well wait come out and i don't know what exactly i've been in the incoming days waiting around so a lot of disappointment there when did the previous election of course was delayed

by two years this is an hour delay of just ten days so is it really a setback. actually i don't know someone ask a question in that press conference and mr going in and out reassure everybody that they only need one week and they say that there will be we. are december so we are all waiting and we hope that it will be given only one cause but i made it means if you early today with someone from this it is a state he was very worried and maybe this is also is that the. power because they want to push for an end to keep their power and not organize the election this is also what people are saying in the streets and this is what. all the worries are about so let's see in the coming weeks and maybe this situation will be good and the election we are debating. but in all fairness as well when did the deer see of

course is also dealing with a new outbreak of the ebola virus spreading through the d r c that that play any role in the government's decision. i don't know exactly if we can say that well that was played a role in. all that was there before we had people without breaking it what. must we. keep looking and i don't really think that the problem is the fall of the problems today it's the. challenge because if you remember there was a fire in me and. this was one of the main reason because they don't have all the machine talking just and they say that they can't go to the election without the capital so i don't know if they do robots or meet the main problem to date you think they need to challenge you and i hope that in one day they will be. great there will be ready to made to play belichick because i don't think that the people

we more than one week all right when the bashing reporting from a tense kinshasa thank you. thank you. right now we shift our focus now to the u.s. where president trumps a surprise decision to claim victory over so-called islamic state and were drawn american forces from syria has been met with criticism from both parties in congress leading republicans are calling it a quote premature and costly mistake one that would benefit iran and russia while others question their whether the eye has militant group has in fact been defeated two of america's allies britain and france say i guess it isn't finished yet and the battle to clear them out should go on over and right. if president trump gets his way the american troops currently in syria will start leaving the country as soon as possible. trump posted

a video on twitter explaining his move i've been president for almost two years and we've really stepped it up and we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly we've taken back the lent and now it's time for our troops to come back home i get very saddened when i have to write letters or call parents or wives or husbands of soldiers who have been killed fighting for our country it's a great honor we cherish them but it's heartbreaking there's no question about it it's heartbreaking now we've won it's time to come back they're getting ready you're going to see him soon these are great american heroes about two thousand american soldiers are currently stationed in syria officially as instructors and advisers to rebel forces i think kurdish troops with the sitting democratic forces yes t.f. who have led the fight against the so-called islamic state the move has sparked surprise and outrage from republican lawmakers who called transactions rash and

dangerous. it's a terrible thing par nation it's a terrible thing for the. for the allies that we've been working with this terrible thing for the s.p.s. and it's just. it's hard to imagine that any president would wake up and make this kind of decision with this little communication with this little preparation i mean monder stanny as we're like beginning to move out right now time yes. entirely. the withdrawal of u.s. troops is also called the other nations involved in the coalition offguard britain for its part said it continued to view i-s. as a threat. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. two people are reported to have been killed during protests in eastern sudhakar demonstrators are opposing price hikes and corruption angered by worsening

economic conditions after a crisis more than triple this year a state of emergency and curfews have been called in the cities that if and us borrow. they initiatory say the killing of two scandinavian tourists in morocco could be linked to the so-called islamic state four men have been arrested in connection with the killing and moroccan police are looking into a possible terrorist motive the bodies of the danish and norwegian women were discovered near their tent in an isolated mountain region. hungary's president has signed into law unpopular new rules that allow employers to increase workers overtime on that despite a week of protests in the capital budapest targeting prime minister viktor orban and the so-called slave wall our correspondent finish our travel to budapest to find out exactly why demonstrators there have been braving freezing temperatures to

take their message to the streets protester simbu the past usually start at the hung parliament this afternoon i meet a couple of students preparing for an anti or bond demonstration. hungary is experienced away from protests in recent days and normally of course this young people like gossip are like a father who come here to the course with square to say ellie good voigt which means it's enough what exactly is enough well there are certain amount of things that we have experienced the the destruction of health care the destruction of education already slave law which is going to make people work overtime for and hours if you like the whole society is collapsing on us it's suffocating us on all levels unlike past antigovernment protests recent ones have not ended in the past they have shifted to the countryside we are in need in the north east one of the poorest regions of hungary and a stronghold of feet as the governing party. i want to ask people about the new

labor law that has triggered the protests it allows companies to ask their employees to work four hundred hours overtime every year but snow wants to talk on camera afraid they may lose their jobs i meet a girl who may not be afraid but he's angry his job is to drive five hundred kilometers to hungary every night for a shipping company. his wife start work every night at eight o'clock and have to sign that i finished at four thirty in the morning that they're making us committed for them. in fact he says he works twelve to fourteen hours every night for four hundred euros a month but needs to show that this new government says there are other options if that's not true there aren't many jobs and that's why you're forced to accept working overtime out on the sort of the till is concerned that employees will be exploited even more and he's taking his anger onto the streets hundreds of others

have come to the city center to protest at what they call a slave labor. it will be here where we can have the wall that represents the system of victor all bombers who are. organizing different opposition parties pool for a peaceful protest they don't want clashes with the police they're chanting orbán alex we don't want your slave lol this crowd here is very energized that all of a sudden the very much for granted all position the opposition parties are united against orbán and they want to keep this momentum alive. it's freezing way below zero the protesters here are determined to fight in the streets beyond christmas the big question is how many people will support this new way for a resistance. from the fish are reporting from budapest all right next up we shift our focus to russia are aware that countries of lab report has used an end of year

press conference to rail at western sanctions you also said that allegations about moscow's covert operations such as the poisoning of a father and daughter in the u.k. were made up it was a typically strident performance that event designed to showcase the russian leaders strongman image. it's build like a blockbuster a president holding court before a nation rounding up the i'm casting to the future with a live broadcast press conference in front of some two thousand china just. potus rothermere putin and marriage from the wings the ripple of applause belied any notion that this would be bruising the session began with something off roy greenslade. so here it is let's begin and we will give priority to the kremlin journalists. we should always begin with those who are close to us quips the

president. meeting with close to four hours of questions this is more a test of an jew and the mental agility despite nuclear threats and wars of home and abroad question after question dealt with the country's struggling economy even state broadcaster. the russian economy is in stagnation but it's going round in circles. and we can't provide strong economic growth unless we change the structure of the economy that's what we're doing with national projects we want to put it ahead of everything else we want to innovate her economy and see greater rates of economic growth and more opportunities for development. every temperately it's an annual shore piece meant to project strength and prosperity but with rising poverty in russia the ostentatious touches were fewer

this year and the economic strife is hard to put into his popularity among the people has plummeted. whatever the signs here may suggest. are less you know more on the economic situation russia. president putin may claim that real incomes in russia are rising but across the country the standard of living has been dropping consistently one politician decided to try and live off the money many retirees have to make do with his experiment sparked a national debate but will his campaign really help russians living in poverty. moscow correspondent emily sherman went to the city of sorrow tof to find out. the city. is on a political diet for a whole month now the parliamentarian from south of has based his food budget on a local pensioners living wage spending just three thousand five hundred roubles or

around forty six year olds to eat. the communist party politician only buys the bare basics and says he's been hungry all month. i want to prove that living on three thousand five hundred roubles a month is impossible without a negative effect on your health and shoot. some accuse the politician of populism others here at south of market thank him and that includes pushing to double the living wage in russia his campaign has gotten a huge amount of media attention along with us a russian federal t.v. crew is also filming him preparing his rations but this is more than just p.r. and bigger than his health. i don't think that a month on this diet is enough to seriously damage a normal person's health in the long run of course i have worried about my health but what i see across the country scares me much more. as documented the experiment on his video blog and also shows the debate that

kicked it all off set up of slavery minister and. insisted the living wage is enough to guarantee a balanced diet she was fired over the remarks in bonn during because argument has grown into a national debate even on state television. but the government including that's new interim minister for labor says the living wage will stay the same for now you can see a living wage to substantiate it's based on statistical calculations and on the law of course we are striving to improve our approach in order to work out new more effective methods for calculating the living wage that work has begun and should be finished in two thousand and twenty. experiment has struck a chord beyond south of across russia the standard of living has been dropping consistently the government has made having poverty a goal for the next six years currently every eighth person lives under the poverty line which means they are in less than the living wage but abducted writers are

going up prices for bread and milk are going up to the existence minimum is so tiny . i can hardly survive. and only buy the cheapest products on three thousand five hundred you can exist on the list. at his office at the do money. phone has hardly stopped ringing the communist politician is convinced his words about the living wage will be heard on a national level the only thing the government can't control is the solidarity that unites us the government would rather lose a finger than the whole hand. is now preparing to take a draft bill to the russian duma. he wants his voice to be heard beyond the hallways of the local parliament. well for more let's bring in our moscow correspondent just reported just saw and she also tend to vote in your putin's press conference earlier today emily the president says incomes are on the rise in

russia are they really well chris so if that actually took me by surprise as well. especially because i just saw media reports citing the russians to stick spiro dos thoughts which say that actually this month real wages have been falling and that that trend is likely to continue and they also say that this will be the it might be the fifth year that real wages for have been falling in a row in russia today vladimir putin very much painted a rosy picture of the russian economy he said he cited unemployment which he said was down he cited trade statistics but the economy here is stagnating food prices are rising and that is likely to get worse with the. rise which is coming in january which is also a very unpopular measure so things aren't quite as rosy as putin has been portraying them and speaking of statistics emily recent independent poll saw mr

putin's approval rating plummet does that have an impact on. well absolutely when we i think we saw that today his approval ratings are down specifically after the russian government brought in the pension of pension reform so they raise the russian pension age in the summer and ratings plummeted across the board and i think that was the reason why we saw such a focus today on the economy from vladimir putin he kind of kept citing various statistics he kept coming back to the theme of social justice and i think there is very good reason for that the people that i spoke to that i've been speaking to in recent months especially after the pension reform came in said look we feel that. russian politicians don't really understand what's going on in our lives they're living in a parallel real that reality so i think we saw that today and really sherman reporting from moscow emily thank you so much. speculation now in

a closely watched homecoming you can say that again three astronauts have returned safely to earth after spending more than six months on the international space station their mission proved to be problematic for technical reasons but german commander alexander garrus says the return trip at least smoothly. back from space after spending months in zero gravity alex on the guest had to be helped out of the tiny so used capsule they tarried him and his crew back to earth. so it feels like coming home although i am in kazakhstan in a place i haven't been to before but it still feels like i'm coming home to one of our goals is. to still astronauts russians procopio and american serena and chancellor exhausted but all are said to be doing well. the kashrut was docked into the international space station the i assess which has been home to the astronauts for the past six and

a half months the crew performed dozens of scientific experiments on board alex and i guess later became the first german to take over command of the s.s. . airbus antarctica not always an easy task the replacement teams failed launch meant that many experiments could be carried out and gassed had to extend his mission and russian astronauts also had to carry out a grueling repair on a mysterious hole in the so used capsule the craft that would ultimately bring them safely back to earth. during his mission alex and i guess stayed in touch with people on earth through social media he used his unique perspective from space to offer insight on scientific and very mental issues before he left the i s s he said a message to future generations. when looking down to earth i feel that i have to apologize. if it looks like my generation is not going to leave the planet in the best shape. i wish i could look into the future with your eyes. look

into your world and understand how you see it. this. fortunately i can do that all i can do is try to play my part in giving you a future and the best possible version of it. back on earth alex on the guest is ready to spend christmas with his family right there ok. all right we're going to take a short break we'll see you in just a moment the sixth. good .

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contention here. first of all i have to point out that the miss world pageant is a really big deal in many african countries so of course you've got a president yuri was seventy invited to the state house to congratulate her on her success but then take a look at what he tweeted about her visit there so he first the posted a picture of the two of them together her wearing her crown and then he said i've been actual is indeed a tall beautiful muslim guy girl some of that is her tribe my only concern is that she was wearing indian hair pointing out that the beauty queen the hair that we're seeing it's not her natural hair it is in fact we've i have encouraged her to keep her natural african hair we must show african beauty in its natural forum and of course the president commenting on her hair that ignited a huge discussion on the social media especially on twitter one user saying i

support the president on this issue a natural hair brings out the beauty of an african woman but other people didn't think that this was really something to be discussed the girl is fine and she can wear indian hair if she wants to it's her head it doesn't take away her beauty and i especially love this comment right now we're at it how about we did should these western clothes and wear skin or nothing at all as a way of embracing our african culture and i mean i have to admit has an african myself and as somebody who always wears fake hair i really enjoyed the discussion on twitter there it is quite funny but it's also quite curious that a leader of a country would want to weigh in on what is you know basically a minefield when it comes to topics that are so sensitive but from what i understand she wasn't the only african contestant to where we've. yeah that's very

right and in fact even when she was running for missy uganda she already had almost the same hairstyle so it's not like she has changed her look overnight and in fact if we can just take a look at what it looks like at the miss world that competition here these were some of the people who made it very far and as you see here on the right to that is i've been actually there everybody on the stage has very long hair this is the look that most women want to go for so it is natural for people to say ok if my hair doesn't grow very long then i'll just have to add a little bit to it and in general i mean for most african women in sub-saharan africa our hair doesn't grow very long that's why we say ok extensions will have to do or sometimes you just want to you know do a crazy hairstyle and that as well you need to go and buy some extra hair and sometimes it's even easier to maintain the fake hair than it is to maintain of the natural hair and then we're seeing sometimes some institutions trying to limit or

to regulate the hairstyle that women are allowed to have super example liberia a few months ago the ministry of finance said that any a female employee working there will not be allowed into the building if she has natural hair but i think our regardless of what discussion is going on on social media it is a very big industry the fake industry and it will continue growing in the years to come. to show thank you. we are going to hand you back over to christoph now in the scale of the challenge facing south africa's economy that's right lay low south africa is reeling from the mismanagement of former president jacob zuma current government estimates samus is a muslim led system of corruption and up to her see cost the country up to fifty billion euros money that could have been used to fuel and urgently needed modernization now it's up to the south african army to save crumbling water

infrastructure and the national energy company has in poll scheduled power outages to stave off a national blackout. is the factory manager at bottle printed a one hundred fifty person strong industrial plastics and blast printing company in johannesburg. already navigating a recession in africa's most industrialized economy he must now contend with low chitti mass blackouts that ever turn to south africa after an absence of several years. the second time it's happened to us this week because the major problem our production line basically our company comes to a grinding halt for four hours. state power company s come blames the current situation on a backlog of maintenance and repair work. they claim they must shut down parts of the grid or the country will face a complete power outage. i just which are not generates that there's no not going to happen running but the problem is that there's going to run off and off back to

. their capital outlay to have this to run out thank you just like you can on the call but it's not the only infrastructure challenge the country is facing members of the south african national defense force were called up to restore a crumbling sewage works in the vaal suffolk johannesburg. soldiers are working around the clock to get the fifty year old sewage system disposing of if you intend recycling drinking water for several millions of africans up and running after a decade of neglect and vandalism. this units are dysfunctional because it's a local. operation and maintenance if they were maintained from their first time they installed them their own been a situation they are now it's a poor governance basically you know. what governments if their leadership must see to it the people desk up alternate doing that supposed to do i think wouldn't be in a situation where we. know that they say if you started out that they had. many are

blaming south africa's woes on the scandal plagued tenure of former president jacob zuma you can think we must appreciate that binny of the problems i inherited from the structural problems of a party but these have been compounded by ten years of the breakdown of accountability and oversight under jacobs of us government but there's been stabilization over the last eight months and this is the turn of business confidence some degree of optimism but south africans can't wait for ever for things to improve. these challenges are adding pressure to an already dying economic situation analysts estimate at least two percent is shaved off the country's annual growth rate every year due to its failing infrastructure with elections in early twenty nineteen a new president. needs to turn things around fast. from south africa back to germany and for two hundred years coal was the main

source of energy and rest germany's industrial heartland the organ beat but now the country's last a deep shaft coal mine is shutting down and the closure of the possible underground coal mine near the western german city of basra is loaded with significance as mining power the post-war economic boom for the rest of the country now coal remains a critical part of germany's energy mix but supplies are not import while in the industrial river welly not only mines but also ways of life spanning generations are disappearing. one last photograph many coal miners remained true to traditions even as the decades dramatic changes in the industry and the miners' association event in november they said a final farewell to the community where the industry has always played a central role it was a moving moment. really hits you hard when you realize that it's all coming to an

end a lot of the guys have tears in their eyes right now you know. in the heyday of coal mining there were one hundred sixty three pits and germany pit manager you closed two of them. is this third and last. straw you know the other day when i was down the shaft i thought this is probably the last time you'll be down here with the crew the last time you'll come down to the coal face the world has moved on. miners will continue to descend to twelve hundred meters into the earth's bowels here until the end of next year but instead of coal they'll be bringing machines cables and old iron most of the equipment will end up in turkey or china many of the miners are bitter that their machines are being sold off to competitors who will end up supplying germany with cheap imported coal. and this is the only minor. in the german parliament the bundestag he worked in the bottom line

for decades and believes germany's move to end the industry is a big mistake. if you are going to miss german black coal one day the fact that we're no longer producing in germany doesn't mean a coal fired power generation will cease so we'll need blackall from other countries and their prices will clearly rise and the standards that we introduced here don't exist in those countries you know. the landscape is still marked by winding towers and coking plans but other companies also moved in here long ago but top is betting that by developing something new on the many areas once dominated by mining it'll be able to secure jobs for the future with one point i'm optimistic because we have good projects to further develop areas will clean up contaminated mining sites then we'll have a new company set up there it's a big project but i'm optimistic as a single. europe's largest chamber of horrors has set up shop in the old pits

historically listed laundromat the positive investment in the region in the post coal age. to india now and the city of my cyril has a population of just under a million people which can be considered as small by indian standards but it has the distinction of being one of the cleanest cities in the country no small feat and yes travelling with sixty two million tonnes of waste every year volunteers and city employees pull together to keep my sewers trash properly managed. the city of new sulu is in mission mode at the break of dawn every day an army of civic workers has been going all out to reclaim their city's status as the cleanest city in the country. messroom was given the cleanest city award by the government two years in a row and then we came in third in twenty seventeen and this year we're eighth the whole administration all these workers all of us are trying very hard to go back to

number one. produces around four hundred tons of waste every day fifty percent of this is treated at compost plants while a quarter of it is processed by recycling units. the national figures however aren't quite as impressive india produces about sixty two million tons of waste every year one of the largest generators in the world well eighty two percent of it is collected only a quarter gets treated most of the waste invariably ends up in landfills and open dumpsites two decades ago the local government here decided to set up a zero waste management plant in the northern part of me sue the cumber a couple plant was going to set the stage for the rest of the city you know raise money is windows like norway's go to the plant online for the integration so we had completely money to the reef even different watches because as you can see we have

twenty six davis collections. and we have also had this we gave out about mr the public. there were about forty civic workers employed at the cumber a couple plant they've all been given the title of knocking up on dues or friends of the city developing a detailed waste segregation module has also created an opportunity for forming employment for these workers most of whom were part of a large network of informal rag pickers the city corporation is now trying to bring more and more of them into the fold. messroom may or may not be awarded the cleanest city again next year but it's well on its way to achieving so much more and it's endeavor towards building a sustainable future and speculator now and a veteran sportsman finally taking it easy yeah deservedly so because at the age of sixty seven fungo dishes most celebrated swimmer is retiring for good by she

taught himself to swim at the age of eighteen and has captured the nation's hearts with his feats of insurance his secrets he sticks to breaststroke. often nearly half a century navigating the waterways of bangladesh the tournaments on dry land pickens. cush intra basie bangladesh's most celebrated swimmer won fame at home as a young man in the late seventy's when he swam seventy four kilometers of india's big euro t. river nothing however compares with his final great achievement before hanging up his trunk space here vowed to swim along three rivers in bangladesh's north uninterrupted after two failed attempts fatigue and polluted water to complete the slog earlier this year and it's on sixty one hours sixty six years and four months old i swam for one hundred eighty five kilometers straight according to my calculation and that is a record. the key to his success regular yoga sessions a healthy diet i'm plenty of practice more than i call to him for more than three

thousand hours if you actually far more than that is kind of my addiction to swim for three to four i was a very day going to have at it at the. base his attention has now turns of getting young bangladeshis into the water in a country which sees eighteen thousand inhabitants drown each year as an average of fifty a day that won't be easy but if anyone can convince them to take the plunge it's bangladesh's most unlikely swimming stuff. aren't staying with swimming and the sport is losing one of its most prominent figures due to a time and at the new ripe age of twenty three missy franklin won five olympic gold medals during a stellar career but the u.s. star has decided to quit because of a chronic shoulder problem so. are to them in the second hour by munich headed into their match with live six last night knowing they could cut the gap to the top two or six points leaders dortmund slipped up on tuesday and gave byron

a chance to pounce. coaches knew this was a chance for their teams to claw back some ground at the top of the table by and enjoyed the best of the opening exchanges and they were a whisker away from going from a place where the first half robot living just before a free biceps gnabry it tonight by the post pics of you lashing the light see goal with him for an important touch. up the other end right sick have their own encounter with the woodwork macondo headed against the crossbar to be match for most of the ball time fortunately for the visitors without rewards. the tight trust hoffa not much for these fans to discuss during the break yeah she's fingertips helping to keep things level and he was busy again in the second half thomas miller played the ball aine. eventually found its way to us to a chemist i last she see her reflexes catch

a mouse. the hosts were ramping up the pressure it was amy so much you actually could stop and he's out looking for announcers sanchez that know from pre-birth. i always touches by the french ring out once a control once you take it posses man and wants to finish with seven minutes to go joy unconfined in munich. a match and date an ugly scenes stefano sanker was given a straight match for this foul. time she has also given his marching orders to his role in the ensuing medway. to finish one male advice all three point struck by an. hour and here are all the results from the going to sleep as midweek games. biron that grab that late winner against life secure

as we just saw a leverkusen got an all important win in shelter in wednesday's other matches braman drew at home to hoffenheim five book and hand over also share the spoils of derby between mines and frankfurt and that all square after four first half goals on choose it just as are for with arguably the shock of the season against dortmund gladbach nor burke wellsburg soft step garth's and berlin drew with outskirt. the presidency is also the funded by president. we were to come to a. different understanding. from this scene from the movie vice which is in this it was christmas day it stars christian bale as vice president dick cheney and sam rockwell as george w.

bush problem now is here from our culture to talk about carlos possibly one of the most highly anticipated movie releases of the year at least we're almost out here twenty eighteen this is a story about a man who many have described as the most powerful vice president in history yeah in the u.s. in the u.s. of course i mean before that the vice presidency was considered a rather sort of. ceremonial job if you like at least not one of the top jobs likes a secretary of state or secretary of defense cheney changed that from the time he took on the job persuading george w. to give him more power as we've just seen in that short clip the movie i should say . excuse me very much also about his life and indeed his wife lynne played by the wonderful amy adams he is very much the tactician the man who knows the corridors of power in washington but she's the steel in the relationship we do see also in

the movie which in just a second when he dips out a yeah he gets all the booed and she sort of you know reads the riot act really services because they want married and that if you want to marry me you got a straight now and he does because he really loves and anyway here he is actually being offered the job of vice presidency by george w. . so. defense. i have been the chief of staff for the vice presidency is mostly a. symbolic job he was a phenomenally brilliant man being able to understand the machine of government christian bale plays dick cheney the former us vice president but here the nominal number two in charge is actually number one. maybe you can. oversee and bureaucracy national military. energy.

coming to be possibly the most powerful vice president that has ever existed. and somebody who has altered the global landscape forever. director adam mckay has assembled a spectacular cast for his film he's especially enthusiastic about his lead actor. i'll never forget the day where everything just lined up where the makeup matched his character research and what he had done and then he did the cheney walk in the makeup and i got like chills up and down my or a large company and as the saying goes behind every great man is a great woman and sometimes even greater when cheney is played by amy adams when you have power people always try to take it from you always here respect her

opinion and she respects his opinion and you know i think that. that's true of a lot of successful relationships and especially when you're in a town that deals in so much scrutiny and so much power you have to be kind of solid you have to form a solid front with with your partner that's a bit of an understatement in this case it was lynne cheney who gave her husband the motivation he needed to change his life you know live in a trailer you have tensions only then did he become the power hungry politician who wrapped the president around his little finger. so we're going to stay here. i believe. we can make sure. wow what a transformation that christian bale and for him it's almost nothing spooky i mean obviously there's a lot of my mean he is an intense guy he's

a method actor. plus plus plus he believes in possessing it seems every role we've got a few examples that will freak the few people out first of all i mean let's have a look at american psycho which she by playing a psychopath a very unpleasant person but a very good looking one in fact he's ready has to be said quite buffed up from the rubble then coming up a contrast right here this is the machinist we played someone who suffers from insomnia and paranoia they all took off sixty three pounds for the role evidently living mostly on an apple a day coffee and cigarettes and he deprived himself of sleep so you can understand what it was like to be an insomniac. then just five years ago look at this tell me this is a tough guy but i'm forty pounds to play a forger and learn shop in america us all i mean while it's admirable that he does

so much for his all i sort of wonder about his wife. i fear for his wife because i wonder if she was one who's coming home tonight from. you know i wonder about his health yeah that can't be helped say exactly because that's really drastic very drastic but he i think he must be a very healthy guy because i don't think i hope sorry adviser but i hope so i hope so now he has won an oscar before is he a contender for this one i think so i mean he's won best supports a supporting actor for the fight mean he deserves an oscar for the sheer devotion. to his craft incidentally the golden gloves nominations are out this film's got the most six including best aren't to best to the golden globes are a bit of a precaution a bit of an indication what's going to happen with the oscars so i think this is an all school winning film which ones are the win who knows but it wouldn't surprise me if he gets the oscar he should get one for effort oh my god are you so they show

you how you may think rather thank you so very much i'll catch up with you tomorrow all right before i let you go want to remind you of our top stories that we're tracking for you this hour german police have boosted checks at stuttgart airport after reports of a possible security breach germany yes a islamicist were spotted at the airport scoping out the building and facility. thousands of christmas travelers are stranded at another airport gatwick in london or have been grounded since wednesday evening because of two drones flying over the airfield. officials in the democratic republic of congo have to late sunday's much anticipated presidential election by a week thing for a lengthy decision on a fire that destroyed thousands of voting machines you know where it's meant to protest. thank you so much for spending this part of your day where there's a lot rocking and rolling around office up next we'll see you tomorrow.

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this is d. w. news wire from. u.s. president decision to pull the u.s. out of syria applauded by america's enemies denounced by its ally in washington republicans are condemning the withdrawal as a costly mistake and aid groups say the exit of u.s. troops could make humanitarian work impossible will hear from why.