speaking the truth global news that matters g.w. made for minds to get out of the. plane. plane. landed. this is d w news live from girl a name turn optional concern is been growing over the fate of a saudi teenager trying to seek asylum in thailand the eighteen year old woman says that she is escaping physical and psychological abuse and will be killed if she is forced to return to her family but a court in bangkok has rejected an appeal to block her deportation. also coming up

the bonds government has said that it has arrested four military officers who made a coup attempt this morning another is on the run does this mean and endurance of the rebellion in the oil rich african nation plus and i'm surprised at the golden globes in los angeles a movie about rock band queen defied expectations and take the top awards for best drama and best actor and veteran actress glenn close boarded for a film that she says no one in hollywood wanted to make. and support as a peacemaker joins korean men's team prepares for the handball world championship in germany and denmark we hear from the coach and the players about what it means to compete in a united team. playing . i'm sara kelly welcome to the

program type police say that they will not deport a saudi teenager who says that she is fleeing abuse. muhammad outcome noone has barricaded herself in a hotel room in a bangkok airport in a bid to avoid being returned to her family all canoed says that she holds a visa for australia and plans to seek asylum there the eighteen year old claims that her passport was seized by a saudi official during a layover and bangkok now she began posting on twitter for help from her hotel room in an airport on sunday here's her latest video as a half and i'm still in the. i have no choice. they said to have to go tomorrow and. no one can have been a wife now and the ngo human rights watch is in contact with the team and told d.w. about her situation have a listen. she's very frightened she's very tired she has been awake

for four days and she is still determined to fight but she doesn't know what's going to happen next she has barricaded herself in a hotel room at the airport she is saying that she will only talk to you in eight c. ark and we continue to press you tight government to allow you in h.c.r. to have access to urgent and to offer her the kind of protection that she needs because if she sent back we have very very serious fears that she would suffer great harm and let's cross now to florian knows she was covering this story for us from bangkok so we just heard it there florian human rights watch saying that she is in danger if she is returned home why. well basically because saudi arabia does not like women to be independent to be

to lead a life as a modern woman to just go out by herself there is this principle of guardianship so a woman and woman in saudi arabia always has to have a male person either her brother or father with her before she basically can do anything even going to the hospital and this woman she has tweeted that in the past she had been locked up for six months and her room just because she decided to cut her hair short so that was basically enough for getting house arrest from her family and the most important thing is that she says we now know islam which is a major crime in saudi arabia it's basically met with the death penalty so she said she did not have any other choice but to flee her country now so far we only have her words for that but she is certainly not the only person the only saudi arabian

woman that tells us stories like that so it's probably very credible what she has to say and this case you know attracting attention publicity as you mentioned there from really from all around the world that just like to you know put in this into context we have some reaction from european governments in fact some tweets this one from the german ambassador to thailand. let's read it out for you he's treated we are very concerned about mohammad and are in contact with the thai authorities and the embassies of the countries that she has approached we also have another tweet from a dutch politician and member of the european parliament who writes the following we are watching indeed if. noone faces danger by being returned to saudi arabia she must be protected. so florian we also know that the thai police are now saying that they will not send her anywhere against her wishes is this somehow

a sign that the thai government is pushing back against pressure from saudi arabia given all of this attention that we have seen. i think it is most of all assigned to thailand is. to pressure from the international community and as you have just mentioned it's not only been the german ambassador and this dutch representative basically all the diplomatic missions here the western diplomatic missions one should say have come out and support and have basically urged thailand not to deport her so in the past highlands has had this record of not being very thoughtful about refugees that were coming to thailand maybe only passing through thailand if there was a request for these people to be deployed to even to author a tarion regimes thailand would be very quick to send them back in this instance

apparently the pressure from the international community like been through tweets like we've seen from the german ambassador house actually had a result have made the ta is to reverse course basically because just a few hours ago they said that they would send her back and now they're saying we're the land of smiles we will not send anyone back to their death so apparently thai authorities have finally recognized that this is a serious matter and that they cannot send this woman back a developing story here is florian with the very latest from bangkok thank you florian. on now to some other news and four of the five military officers who attempted to stage a coup in the central african nation of avan have been arrested in the capital according to government officials this after armed soldiers see. used the state radio station on monday morning and declared president ali bongo unfit for office sporadic gunfire was reported in the capital and tanks were patrolling the streets

the leader is currently in morocco where he is receiving medical treatment for a stroke. through them joining me now is ruth mclean a foreign correspondent for the guardian newspaper in dakar thank you so much for joining us ruth what can you tell us about what is happening in bonn at the moment . well as you say very early this morning in the cabin he's capital leiber of. men arrived at the state board cost and took over the radio and when announcing that they were basically station his coupe they said that the day had arrived when the army had decided to take the side of the people in order to what it said was saving gone from chaos and called on the galleys people to rise up and take to the streets and occupy public buildings and the athel

and the country is media organization that was at about four thirty local time in labor a bill that happened and there were reports of shots being fired also near the state broadcaster about same time. you know seven hours later now and it does look like the coup might be all over even before it started there are reports from the communications minister that some of the coupons just have been arrested although i've also heard reports that. the main person who went on the airwaves and read out statement is still on the run so it's a bit of a not clear picture. the government says that they'll have order restored in the next two to three hours but it's a question of really watching this space and. just briefly before we go why was there satisfaction with president goes what would you say. well the voters have

been in power for a very long time and gotten out of congress father. took power in one nine hundred sixty seven and it's been almost nothing but fungus since then so groups are going to people are quite cut up they also point to the twenty six thousand election which was extremely close between ninety and made up those that don't pay. that there was a lot of violence around that election and you know a lot of people thought that it was great at the moment and he goes out of the country and he doesn't seem to be very well he hasn't hardly had a stroke and that was one of the reasons that the losses cited in that old cause they said that he wasn't fit to run the country anymore with mcclane foreign correspondent for the guardian newspaper joining us from dakar with the very latest on the situation i got on thank you so much thanks. and i was going to quick check of some other stories making news around the world

in sudan police have used tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters on sunday thousands marched through the capital khartoum demanding the resignation of president omar al bashir demonstrations over food shortages and rising prices have plagued sudan in recent weeks. german media say that federal police have searched a flat in the southwestern town of heilbronn in connection with a massive data breach affecting politicians and public figures electronics belonging to a nineteen year old man were seized nearly one thousand high profile germans had their data stolen and published online a fireball streaking across the sky in new zealand has left experts scratching their heads the object was filmed on saturday over mt gandu moving at great speed initial reports suggested that it was a needier but satellite experts said that it may have just been space junk. actor kevin spacey is due in court on in the u.s.

on the island of nantucket today over accusations that he sexually assaulted a teenager in two thousand and sixteen spacey faces five years in prison if convicted the oscar winner is one of hollywood's highest profile stars to be criminally charged since the launch of the me to movement. well there have been a number of upsets at the golden globe awards in los angeles some of the films expected to sweep the board and enough failing to make the grade one of the big surprise winners was a movie about the british rock band queen another was the wife starring veteran actor glenn close look at the lowdown on the high points from hollywood in just a moment but first this report. romney mile at. the top price came as a true surprise. the jury chose bohemian rhapsody as best drama for romney mild expert trail of queen front man freddie mercury his performance also earned him the best actor in drama who feel belongs thank you to freddie mercury for giving me the

. time i love you to format this series for the first word. on the very night glenn close was named as best actress in a drama for her role in the wife. and they came. close appeared stunned when her name was called and her deeply personal except in speech marked the emotional high point of the night. you know women we were nurture is that that's what's expected of us we have our children we have our husbands or for lucky enough and our partners whoever but we have to find personal fulfillment we have to fill our. heart three. we have to say if i can do that i should be allowed to do that. the award for best foreign language film went to

roma filmmaker alfonso caught on ode to his childhood in one thousand nine hundred mexico he also picked up the price for best director. and lady gaga who everybody expected to climb to the stage as this year's best actress didn't have to leave empty handed together with her co-writers she received a golden globe for best original song. shy let's begin our very own scott rock's baro who has been following the awards and scott we have to say i mean bohemian rhapsody really the big surprise of the evening wasn't it. oh yeah definitely i didn't really have his i had remy malik on my list as a potential best actor winner of the golden globes love a great imitation and he really recreates freddie mercury in this film but not the film at all on my list as a potential best picture winner because really it's a very mainstream movie and often the globes like the oscars like to go for

something a bit more cutting edge of something a bit more ambitious artistically and that's why i thought a star is born would come away with the with the win last night i mean it's a similar sort of big mainstream movie but goes a bit further is a bit darker takes a few more artistic chances bohemian rhapsody did but i don't know maybe this is the year that people want more warm mainstream entertainment and maybe that's what's going to be picking up the awards but it definitely did surprise me i did not have it on my list also perhaps not surprising the fact that gender equality diversity really also on the agenda at the golden globes but it's likely to impact the contracts there and hollywood's got. well i think i think it will actually. hollywood does tend to fall the money but as we've seen this year from the box office diversity has been paying off i mean two of the biggest films of the year were black panther and crazy rich asians which featured diverse casts this is

the kind of thing that influences what hollywood does if you can show that there's a business behind it and there has been a large push since the me too movement to make for more not just more diversity but more equality in the industry and that is really taking real steps it is there are baby steps at the moment but i think what you saw on the stage last night the golden globes is a sign of things to come things that like what glenn close said about having more female stories on screen but also just this general idea that the inequality that has dominated the hollywood industry has to change if hollywood also as a business is to move forward scott what were your favorite moments of the golden globes that you say. well the quite a few i could go with christian bale thanking satan for his portrayal of dick

cheney former vice president dick cheney in vice but i have saved for my personal favorite moment was carol burnett the legendary comedian t.v. comedian who is a childhood hero of mine receiving her lifetime achievement award she's not as well known in europe she's very much a t.v. a comedian but her sort of a second speech for me summed up what the golden globes were this year it was inclusive she's a pioneer female pioneer a comedian but it was also warm accepting and also very sort of broad and mainstream which is for me the big surprise this year as well that the globes try to embrace everyone and not be too divisive and i think that's it for me will stay in my memory and how she closed the speech with her trademark pull of the year for me was magic scott rock's verilog would be as always thank you so much. you're watching the news there's more to come on the program including the

following a robot that can get a little brown think about doing household chores at long last a machine that can iron clothes automatically with a look at some of the highlights of the consumer electronics show in vegas. and the ham ball world championships starts on thursday in berlin and it opens with a unique match germany versus korea this will be korea's first ever unified appearance at a hand ball world championship with north korean players being integrated into the south korean team they've been training together in berlin for two weeks to make sure that their athletic impact is as big as their diplomatic one. the match between the korean handball world championship squad in german third division side pottstown may have just been a pretty tournament warm up but it was still somewhat historic. for the first time ever korea has a unified handball team with players from both countries in the tournament opener korea coach cho young shin squad will face co-hosts germany in the german capital.

the world championship is really meaningful for us especially since we'll be playing in berlin was a divided city have found a way to peace after the fall of the wall as a unified team we want to show that korea can also find this way to. show young shin will only have had three weeks to integrate four players from north korea into the team a massive challenge in modern handball but the north koreans don't stand out much in training except for maybe their shoes which are the blue red and white of their flag. we felt a bit distant from each other when we first met the north koreans. grown closer in the days we've spent together so i was and now we've become friends. and everything sounds rosy for the captain but his new teammate from north korea some has a more level take our first world championship we've got lots of expectations about what will experience and what we'll learn of course we also want to strong showing

you. north and south korea made history with a united women's hockey team at the winter olympics and young change the pre-selected north korean fans went by role in a p.r. coup for the regime but on the ice the first ever appearance of a combined team was a sporting disaster. coach show young shin is hoping to avoid a similar showing but the gap in quality between players from the north and south is significant. technically the north koreans aren't the strongest but they really want to integrate into the team and. they're in top shape because the soil incorporate that into my tactics to take advantage of their strengths. and. promise to play at least one north korean in every world championship match in the tune up against potsdam only riquelme son made an appearance his three countrymen to watch from the bench as korea fell to the german third division side i.

am now to a new chapter in the us china trade dispute with a stock over optimistic rhetoric. at least china says it's willing to work together with the u.s. to resolve the months long dispute between the two countries the foreign ministry expressed optimism a straight talks resume today in beijing a delegation of u.s. officials including deputy u.s. trade representative geoffrey garish holding the first bilateral negotiation since u.s. president on trump and his chinese counterpart being agreed to in ninety day truce in their trade war last month just a trumpet mission imposed in four tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of chinese goods to pressure beijing to change its practices on issues ranging from state subsidies to cyber attacks china retaliated with tariffs of its own. affairs a market reaction to these ongoing trade talks let's bring in our financial correspondent

only bardsley what do investors think are positions that both sides could soften in order to reach a compromise. well it'll be difficult to reach a compromise because the united states criticism has several issues which are close to the heart of central chinese policy on expanding industry there and expanding influence in the world but the united states would like to see the chinese open up their markets to investment and to stop stealing ideas if i may paraphrase the word for infringing on intellectual property rights that's very important to the americans plus the chinese being welcoming to imports of goods that are important to the americans like liquefied gas the stuff. that you get from this shale x. x. combination and also soybeans and other farm products and the chinese will want the united states to be more welcoming to their high technology stuff like kuwait

produces the united states have doubts about the security issues there but china will want some will want some progress on that i'm sure and only another major topic on the trading floor today the head of the u.s. federal reserve trying to reassure markets with some unusually outspoken rhetoric tell us more of the yes and that helped by the markets on friday and that's continuing to provide good cheer here because jerome powell who's basically the most powerful man in providing financial support to the world markets not just the u.s. said looking at the economy looking at the markets he's ready to be flexible and that was what people wanted to hear flexible on rates and also flexible on reducing the balance sheet of the fed that is easing up the tempo somewhat and withdrawing. things like cash from the market oligarchs reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange thank you so much. well twenty nineteen

still feels pretty fresh and that might be just the right attitude to check out the latest tech gadgets at the consumer electronics show in las vegas for example the big show is kicking off on tuesday and artificial intelligence is likely to once again attract a lot of attention the technology is included in ever more hardware from autonomy's cars to smart household help. this robot gets upset when it can't help with chores. like folding towels but there's another machine for that just one of the many highlights from the twenty eighteen consumer electronics show which also featured. an do backflips. audi fishel intelligence who remain a major focus of this year's c.d.'s in las vegas but his firm cambridge consultants is among the more than five thousand exhibitors it's developed deprave and based system for vision the technology is learning how to read blurry images. the

machine is essentially creating a new image from scratch purely based on its understanding of what is the real world look like so in a way it's doing something quite similar to our minds are where we look at a distorted image through you know kind of glass which might be a pipe but we can kind of construct an arm on what we think the image looks like on the other side the technology would be valuable for driverless cars if you could help the vehicles cameras deliver a clear image even when it's raining autonomous cars will also be in the spotlight at this year's c e s. and staying with the tech sector the love hate relationship between apple and samsung is looking a bit more loving after the rival tech giants agreed a deal that will see apple i tunes movies and t.v. shows made available on samsung's smarts t.v.'s comes after apple said it planned to offer more services to reduce its dependence on i phone sales revenue last week

its shares plummeted after it lowered its outlook due to weak demand for i phones in china to deal with the world's biggest t.v. maker could help apple expand its outreach. the united kingdom has lark's of the biggest fall in new car registrations since the two thousand and eight financial crisis the man for new vehicles last year dropped nearly seven percent to about two point four million sales of diesel. ours fell by a thirty percent after fox machine scandal that's not the only reason for the disappointing sales figures britain's impending exit from the european union is already hurting carmakers uncertainty regarding brics has led to a drop in consumer confidence experts warn it risks the future of the auto industry which loys more than eight hundred fifty thousand people in britain. and a reminder of the top stories we are following for you at this hour military officers

and. tests staged a coup they have seized the state radio station and declared their dissatisfaction with president ali bungle who's recovering from a stroke and the rocket also a teenager has barricaded herself in a hotel room at bangkok airport to avoid being deported eighteen year old mohammed says she will be killed by her family if she goes back to saudi arabia. and there have been a number of surprise winners at the golden globes in los angeles and rhapsody and british rock band queen took the top award for best drama and saw rami maalik win best actor for his portrayal of queen frontman freddie mercury. one best actress in a drama for her role in the life. you're watching news coming to a lot more coming up at the top of the hour.

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