this is d.w. news live from london all change at the top in brazil hardliner generals or not it takes place as the new president takes election marks a radical shift to the right after decades of centrist rule greeting gay campaigners in particular worry about the in concert his policies. also on the program also as he's in germany say a man who rammed a car into a new movie a crowd intended to kill foreigners will get the latest from our reporter in the west in your book called. going when no probe has gone before now says

a spacecraft has flown past the most distant celestial body ever date. and revelers around the world ringing in twenty nine thousand. named see you back here there's been a new six don't thing out of course the series are spectacular fireworks displays. time having a home free glad you could join me brazil has just sworn in its new president. the former army captain was inaugurated at a ceremony in the capital brasilia he's brazil's first far right leader since a military dictatorship ended thirty years ago was sent out of supporters hope he can revive the economy and bring safety to the streets the critics can. he's

a threat to democracy i i share both scenarios soaking up his moment in the spotlight and the cheers from his supporters on the way to brazil's congress where he was sworn into office. do you not support that we want to get brazil on its feet we want to free yourself from corruption and crime from irresponsible economic policies and from ideological submissiveness. both scenarios supporters are hoping for an end to the country's economic crisis and high crime rates especially in the mega city of rio where he won a majority. i expect that will make brazil better and safer. to my subordinates some. will have to see when he actually starts doing things making promises isn't the same as keeping them. both scenario promised on twitter he would make it easier for people to buy guns. he's also made it clear he won't

protect the rain forest he plans to make way for more mining and farming. both scenarios cabinet is almost entirely made up of white men with just two female ministers john willis is a member of parliament an openly gay he sees the new president as a hate monger he says he's received multiple death threats from both supporters. both scenario isn't interested in humanitarian crises or refugees or poor people who are starving which is that men like paulson are or don't have solutions to those problems or this is all. brazil's other institutions will now be tested as the new president attempts to implement his agenda. both scenarios party still has a relatively small number of seats in congress meaning he won't be able to get legislation passed without cooperation with other parties the courts and his opponents on the streets could also put

a brake on his power. and journalist cowie has been following this story for us from brazil's biggest city south palo sam how shop departure will both sinatras president see likely be for brazil. well brazil will undoubtedly face a very hard line conservative shift and this is something that be brewing for a while now. you've had in the last four years essentially you've had man with corruption scandals that have tainted all of the big brazilian policies you've had rising violence you had a you know they had coming recession would haul at unemployment which you have to consider doing at the moment and so in this vacuum oh kind of you know hands here stablished. you know because of the corruption scandals

except you see mr colson all right he's basically he's risen in this vacuum has been left as the traditional policies in brazil on the left and on the right had become embroiled in these corruption scandals and he swept to victory you know promising corruption and tackle rising crime etc now reality stalls and whether he's going to be able to put things into practice with a very fractured congress remains to be seen sound u.s. president donald trump has congratulated both and are today prominent right we need is like congress i think to oban attended the inauguration was both sinatras foreign policy and the like. well that remains to be seen certainly in both sonora has talked about moving you know copying drum and moving the embassy the brazilian embassy to jerusalem. but the problem with that easy is that brazil is also a huge explore so how i mean this is one of the biggest in the world and the arab

league has said that they would be very displeased if you was to follow in transport steps moving the brazilian embassy we've also been visiting time warner in when he was in campaign mode you know choice did not look well on that was it was a huge so we explored china you know even brazil both scenarios our own allies have said to him look we back you on the indigenous stuff not giving any more indigenous land back you in the gun ownership we want we negotiated a brutal death but also please let's keep the violence relations with china so it's going to be a difficult. mixture you know even amongst his supporters and allies is going to be difficult to. to perhaps put into practice some of the more extreme form of her foreign policy aspects that he wants to do such as moving the embassy and you know decreasing trade with china journalist sam cali aim south

thank you very much thank you. or both or not it has pledged to kickstart brazil's a colony he's promising to emulate u.s. president donald trump by putting national interests first and writing the private sector and that is easier said than done as the country grapples with soaring debt and the finance minister they'll be plenty of challenges this is paolo gadget is the man in charge of turning brazil's economic fortunes around a u.s. trained economist he's pledged to introduce a host of free market reforms. here he is back in october telling the media about his plans to boost investment by lowering interest rates and reducing bureaucracy. he also wants to sell off state enterprises in order to reduce public debt which skyrocketed during the previous administration so just how big of

a challenge will that be let's take a look at the numbers. back in two thousand and fourteen brazil's government debt amounted to fifty eight percent of total economic i pushed by two thousand and eighteen it has surged to seventy six percent the world bank has warned that the figure could rise to one hundred and forty percent of g.d.p. in the next decade if no drastic measures are taken one measure that's being discussed is the privatization of state owned oil company petrobras it's brazil's biggest firm and by far its most valuable asset. parts of those have already been sold off that decision came in response to a major corruption scandal that broke in twenty fourteen. but the prospect of the entire company ending up in the hands of private investors is a step too far for many including apparently president paul so narrow himself

sealing the face of the oil giant is therefore one of many pressing issues on the agenda for the new finance minister. german authorities say they suspect a car attack shortly after midnight on new year's day was motivated by a zen a phobia a fifty year old man is suspected of driving a car into a group of pedestrians in the western german city of bottle up four people were injured and police say afghan and syrian nationals were among the victims the man's also suspected of trying to hit other people at several locations the state interior minister says the man clearly intended to kill foreigners. the case is one where a german deliberately drove into groups of people groups of people who were to a large extent at least foreigners that means this man had the clear intention to kill foreigners i don't believe that can be denied those are the facts just as a father that the state interior minister the habit oil d.w. correspondent honest to walsh is at the site of that vehicle attack he joins us now

alice to talk us through what happened. so last night new year's eve here in botch up a fifty year old man from. he attempted to drive his car into various groups of pedestrians so first nearby he attempted to drive his car into one pedestrian but was unsuccessful the center of in here to berlin a platts which is the center of town and is sort of being the center of new year's eve celebrations last night people letting off fireworks that sort of thing here he's driven into a group of people and he's injured four of them syrians at afghans one of those people was seriously injured. after that you don't drive to essen which is about twelve kilometers away and he's attempted to do the same thing there with less success nama seriously injured there in terms of a motive when he was arrested he barely made it xenophobic statements to police and

this was lighter backed up by the interior minister who said he had a clear intent to murder foreigners. but they're also working on the idea that he possibly has mental illness as well and i said how are people reacting where you are there in. everyone is relatively calm people i've spoken to is or don't know about it or they're there they're all quite calm there was going to be a. celebration today it's the one hundred year anniversary of the foundation of the city and so those are meant to be a celebration. here in the square where the attack happened you can possibly see behind me there's a stage set up it was meant to be a show however mayor came out and he's canceled these celebrations saying we don't want to celebrate people as people are suffering. and as the wall street any

correspondent in both hope for us thanks very much jonathan. and. take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world north korea's leader has used his annual new year address to warn that his country may change direction on its promise of denuclearization if the u.s. continues its sanctions kim jong un also said that he remains committed to working towards the last in peace on the korean peninsula. a group of revelers in france runyan twenty nineteen trapped safety metas up in the air off to a fairground ride malfunctioned it took firefighters in his then eight hours to free the passengers they were eventually lowered to safety cold but unhurt. a ten month old baby has been found alive thirty five an hour was also an explosion destroyed a russian apartment complex rescuers found the boy in freezing temperatures of the

hearing his cries authorities believe a gas leak cools the blast at least seven people were killed and dozens are still missing. well the nasa probe new horizons has successfully flown past a celestial bodies six point five kilometers from ultimate today is the most distant object ever explored applause broke out at mission control in the u.s. state of maryland as the craft confirmed it had survived the flight by. we have a healthy spacecraft we just finished just by even after billions of kilometers of data gathering a celebration was in order the nasa heard signals from their spacecraft that the dangerous fly by had been successful. their probe came within what must have seemed like touching distance to the frozen object called ultimate tooling this is a computer generated rendering of the thirty two kilometer long frozen rock that could reveal much about how the solar system's planets were formed

a lot of pictures are due in soon at the historic flyby almost six and a half billion kilometers from earth. now the image that i'm about to show you is the best image of ultimo that we got preflight by and it's ok to laugh but it's better than the one we had yesterday and there it is me i believe also i. the mission has been likened to an archaeological dig in space scientists hope to detect the terrain and couple composition of ultimate tooley to learn more about the ancient building blocks of planets. we have a series of science objectives one of the prime on fifth them up the geology of. the whatever crater is it might have on itself if whatever fractures the topography anything that would give us clues as to how it how it surfaces for the new horizons

probe launched some thirteen years ago on a mission to study pluto and its moons in two thousand and fifteen it passed the door of planet and found it to be larger than thought then flew another billion and a half kilometers to reach ultimate to leave. but we've never been anything not only so far from the sun but that's so well preserved in this ultimate freeze. new horizons will continue on well be. on the solar system no yielding more until it runs out of the needed juice to send back data. that's a a bit of all of us on that spacecraft that we're just to continue after are long gone here on earth. before that time new horizons and it's team will be leaving a massive load of information for generations to build on. and joining me now from reston virginia in the us is keith cowing a former rocket scientist and editor off the block nasa watch welcome to the

program keith break it down for us if you would why is a rock fall far away actually that important well the far far away part is what is important because most of our solar system was made materials at all for five billion years ago that it heated reforms and if you're trying to figure out what the original materials look like they're gone but if you go way out to the edge of the solar system and the as they have just done it's like going back in time and literally like being in a time machine they're now observing the primordial piece of our solar system the sort of stuff out of which all the planets in the sun and everything else were made at nasa we understand of course hopes to get actual images of all to a two and a what can we expect to see that. well you were just showing a blurry image it's either if i can use my props shaped like a potato or maybe two things like this circling around but again you saw the image it's kind of blurry but every day the pictures will get much better and if the

apparently have had the accuracy that they seem to hatch we'll be able to see features a couple hundred feet across so this will be pretty amazing and new horizons journey and into deep space doesn't finish with ultimate today so what else can we expect then. well it has a lot of fuel left in a lot of power left so it could be functioning the next fifteen or twenty years they are looking for another object like gold must to believe that they could visit and who knows perhaps once they're done with it it can turn back and look at the sun and look at all the planets and take another one of these dreams pale blue dot images but the spacecraft has only begun its journeys are orison a very excited to see the pictures find out more if it looks like one potato or two but for now keith cowing we thank you very much for your insights my pleasure. some sports news now in japanese ski jumper rio you kobayashi has won the second stage of the prestigious four hills tournament in germany off

a thrilling jewel with home favorite marcus aizen behala kobayashi edged out of the competition a patent to hint to make it two wins out of two with two hundred sixty six point six points the victory gives him a chance of becoming the first japanese athlete since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight to win the four hills tournament. russia faces the prospect of new sporting sanctions after it missed a deadline for the handing over of data from its anti doping lap while the walled anti doping agency said that it was basically disappointed that russia had missed the deadline on the thirty first of december which was set to pave the way for russia's return to international athletics it was barred from the twenty sixteen olympics and twenty eighteen winter olympics after a water report uncovered a state sponsored doping program. and as the clock nears around the time zones in the last parts of the world ring in twenty nineteen a new year is officially underway from east to west travis have been celebrating

with music dancing and some does lang firework displays that take a look now at some of the highlights. for millions of people around the globe the last moments of twenty eight thousand were spent holding their breath then as the clock struck midnight the show began. from kuala lumpur to sydney. to hong kong. hours later twenty one thousand came to pakistan. to dubai. home of the world's tallest skyscraper the borgia khalifa. and on to the lebanese capital beirut. one of the largest mean year's eve celebrations in europe is in berlin at the

brandenburg gate hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered for the show but. it was a similar scene in the city of lights. then across the atlantic to copacabana beach in rio de janeiro. the new york crowds gathered on times square for an annual ritual the dropping of a crystal ball at midnight even heavy rain could dampen the enthusiasm of this year's event had a serious note celebrate journalism and press freedom. i . i. i. i seems

a happy new year there but if you think question is would it be a happy new year if the brits of there probably had been history it's a very good question i don't think i will be able to put you out of your misery i don't think it's going to be a good twenty nineteen for the brits but hey that's my opinion i will see what ms made manages she reckons that britain can turn a corner if parliament just backs her breaks a deal here the key dates to look out for avoid this year the first coming up in mid january when m.p.'s vote on the controversial brakes a deal that will determine what kind of break that it will be on march twenty ninth the date britain leaves the e.u. the american bastard through the u.k. says a quick and massive trade deal with the u.s. would only be possible in the event of a no deal break that that's what would happen if parliament projects mase deal or no deal breakers it would be a nightmare for european businesses now if parliament accepts mase deal it would

mean an orderly break xit with a transition period starting after march twenty ninth to allow britain and the block to sort out their new trade relations the transition would end on december thirty first twenty twenty and breaks it would be complete plenty of time for more drama of course along the way perhaps even an exit from breaks it all some asian nations are looking forward to signing post breaks or trade deals with britain we asked our asia correspondent in singapore andrea haying if they're excited. there are already you can bet china and japan are targeted to be the biggest winners for brig's deals. this is of course following behind hong kong which was once colonized and run by and managed by the u.k. so they already have a very long standing strong investment process procedures from the

u.k. tourism is very strong in financial deals as well so in all these fields of between hong kong and the u.k. are just going to increase china and japan all falling closely behind but it will take years before we see any action of these implementations all play and all the real results and outcomes of these deals european union officials called the euro a symbol of unity sovereignty and stability but they stressed the need to strengthen its resilience against future crises a single currency turns twenty today it was originally the official currency of eleven nations now it's used by nineteen you member states. the euro was launched on january first one thousand nine hundred ninety nine with a huge party the european central bank that the exchange rates with the national currencies but europeans could only pay with the euro using checks credit or debit cards coins and notes were released into circulation three years later.

initially financial markets were skeptical. the euro fell to a record low of a c. five cents to the dollar on october twenty sixth two thousand. things improved two years later when the currency was launched as cash in paper and coins that confidence in the euro climbed reaching a record high of nearly one dollar sixty. but the two thousand and eight financial crisis shook the global banking system. the euro also took a hit within a couple of months it lost a fifth of its value. times remain turbulent for the common currency twenty ten greek debt exacerbated the situation and in danger of the euro the european central bank jumped in to support this and the currency lost significant

value in twenty fifteen amid another debt crisis in greece and the conflict in ukraine but it started rising steadily afterwards. the euro is now the world's second most important currency more than three hundred forty million people using euro but times have still remained stormy for the common currency. is an increasingly popular cropping cambodia which is a special variety that can. protect a geographical indication status much like from france or. its dramatically changing things for the paper industry bumper crop is expected this year. this could be the cash crop for one of asia's poorest countries. has grown on about four hundred fifty farms in cambodia said to be ideal for the spices because of its oil industry is the biggest employer in the impoverished provinces

of compote and camp. has allowed me to take care of my family and have a good living. i want. to grow here. during communist era the coming rouge cut down the production saying it was decadent the crop was revived in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. it's rebirth helped the local community and paid for year old medical clinics and schools the e.u. has given comfort to pepper protected does it nation that has pushed prices higher and opened up new markets. from next time they think you know function f.m.p. for expecting production to increase in twenty nineteen i definitely have accomplished pepper is already well known in some international markets but we also developing some new markets for the poor for developing the new markets giunta the quality and reputation of competent which is considered to be the best paper in the

world by after that the problem here live of the fact that you have the revival of farming here has transformed lives on the landscape and created an awareness of the region among peppa loving consumers across the world. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you are blind as those in ottawa has been sworn in as presumes new president is election months a radical shift to the right after decades of centrist rule. watching the daily news from berlin i've been fizzling helena humphrey will be back with more news next hour.

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