this is deja vu news live from berlin a surprise election result in the democratic republic of congo opposition leader felix acadian is declared the winner of the presidential poll if confirmed this will be the country's first democratic transfer of power in nearly sixty years but some of the candidates are crying foul also coming up on the show. parts of southern germany and austria are experiencing the heaviest snow fall into decades we report on how our grid group of german teens had a close shave with death on

a ski slope in the alps. and it was an attack that shocked europe five years ago a man said to be a foreign fighter in syria who gunned down four people at the jewish museum in brussels his trial starts today in that city. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us supporters of the opposition in democratic republic of congo have been celebrating after their candidate feel it should katie was declared the winner of the presidential election. katie was not expected to win but the electoral commission says he received thirty eight percent of the vote now if the result is confirmed this will be the country's first democratic transfer of power since independence in one thousand sixty bought the runner up martin for you lou. has denounced the outcome as an ally for too and

france is also questioning the result. for let's go to our correspondent libby auckland who joins us from the capital kinshasa livia there's been some disagreement over who won this vote what's the perception where you are. as you said it was surprising when such is the case it's very exciting for many people here that the opposition won a lot of people expect this could be this kind of should arrieta win. but before the election there was a lot of. a lot of information going around for you but one there's a group of catholic that represents catholic bishops which they deployed forty thousand of the track the country on current day and they just aren't how do you they came to the conclusion they declared that they had a clear when us they didn't say exactly what it was but they tipped off a few people that the clear winner was loved by you do they spoke to various.

diplomats. and to have an extremely surprised certificate you would think that when i'm ok along with the surprise is there any idea as to why she should katie won this election. well. suspicion people have to special that. mystical bit of wouldn't want to win because. it will be more difficult to control they think the post a picture to katie could have entered into some kind of agreement this is a this is this is a theory that. it could have been arranged the opposition a crying foul and saying it wasn't free and fair and it was the kind with fiddled that. the ruling party wanted to katie to win because he would be more easy to control and your protect their interests more than for you they would have some yourself so be contesting this result so what happens next. should you have

because it's not this is a preliminary results as they have they have some time to contest or to the constitutional court he can contest it and it could possibly be invalidated by. the freedom industries is about by are likely to happen the constitutional court this unlikely event out of that an excellent i think a lot of people are just excited that an opposition candidate has got inside there i don't think the foreign powers and other governors it will react much i think people will probably just accept educated women and carry on with the libby auckland forestay thanks very much. thanks very much. a group of teenage skiers from germany have been pulled alive from an avalanche in the alps the school group was on a beginner's slope in austria when they were suddenly hit by masses of snow and other teams in neighboring austria though was not so lucky he was killed after

being hit by an avalanche the news comes as parts of southern germany in the alps face the biggest snow fall in two decades. in austria the me have been put to work to battle the elements carefully clearing the especially damp and heavy snow fall to prevent house roofs from collapsing some of austria's mountain regions have the highest avalanche warning level people are being evacuated from mountain huts many roads are closed. experts are particularly concerned that sooner or later the loose snow could fall in so-called dust avalanches. the thing about dust avalanches as not so much that they bring in extreme amount of snow mass but more that they produce an extreme pressure wave reaches as far as the valley itself and this significant impact can have disastrous consequences at the school for mainly here. ski operators have shut down the lifts as

a precautionary measure insane tant on a sixteen year old skier was caught and killed in an avalanche in another part of the alps a group of schoolchildren was caught up to that managed to escape it was a traumatic experience and did something good and six for a total of six young people were dragged along you four were buried two were able to free themselves immediately and then helped rescue the others what they were she didn't. in bavaria to the or thora ts have taken precautionary measures roads have been closed and there is also the threat of falling trees a number of schools in the snowbound areas are closed for the time being. the for child safety is a priority i heard earlier that there were probably two bus accidents with school buses in bavaria and we definitely wanted to avoid that that snow could cause such accidents for the safety of the children is our priority and that's why we have made these decisions. some villages are almost completely cut off some can only be

reached by special vehicles in the small variant area of canal roads have been blocked by foreign trees after days of snow fall a forest road became the last rouge available the fire brigade used this emergency route to bring food to the village but have snow continues to fall forecasters expect about a metre in the coming days then the people there will have no way out. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making the news at this hour president trump has called talks to end the government shutdown a total waste of time after democratic leaders refused to provide money for a mexican border wall the democrats left the white house saying from had walked out of the meeting the shutdown is now nineteen days old with no end in sight. chinese t.v. has released images of president xi jinping meeting with the north korean ruler kim

jong un in beijing observers believe the two leaders discussed preparations for a possible second summit between the u.s. and north korea kim returned to north korea late yesterday. some fifty migrants who were stranded on two rescue ships in the mediterranean last long time arrived in malta the island state and the rest of the new had earlier agreed that the migrants would be transferred to locations in eight e.u. countries along with some two hundred fifty other rescued migrants. and. several thousand people raised through a shinto shrine and. in japan for the title of luckiest man of the year yeah newell event stems from fishing that dates back to the fourteenth century the winner takes home a barrel of snake rice wine. although trial opens in belgium today of a french national accused of shooting dead four people at

a jewish museum in brussels in two thousand and fourteen the defendant is alleged to be a jihad as fighter who carried out the shooting after returning from syria. many people in brussels know exactly where they were that horrific moment more precisely after those eighty two seconds and i remember i was at my mom and i don't know my father just called me and he said i've got to where are you. with my family and he told me that the shooting took place and three that the museum initial reports of gunfire in the street turned out to be this a gunman suspected of being french nationals met in a movie entering the museum and shooting in his really couple and two museum employees. and in this play is he killed. his parents and then in the family. then the gunman put his weapons in a duffel bag and disappeared all in less than a minute and a half the world kind of challenge for us not only jewish community the whole

population of parcels knew she was picked up a few days later on a bus in france still carrying what are thought to be the rotor weapons lots of ammunition and a videotaped confession pledging more bloodshed on behalf of the terrorist group islamic state he's believed to have been in syria with the group in two thousand and thirteen french journalist taken hostage by us identified him as one of their jailers english then allegedly came back to europe. and he was in that context connected also to some of these other french and belgian francs. there in syria who were later involved in the attacks in paris and brussels also faces charges in france for the hostage taking but now just a few hundred metres from the brussels jewish museum he's going on trial for the four murders there thomas renard says this first european trial of a returned foreign fighter is extremely important but it's the first bar someone

who came back from iraq and so it doesn't know on this. symbolically but also to to better understand what he's trying to reward what his motives were and also to bring some light on this phenomenon that was rather new at least in this extent. but for the rest of europe the jewish community will be closely watching to food next week will be very difficult and painful for everyone here of course but then we think about what we've done. and all the new projects that we have for the coming weeks and months scuffling all had jeff says the museum has thousands more visitors now than before most are non jewish and many are muslim it's part of a deliberate post-attack outreach by both communities and we know that we are on the good way and not just this. ok let's bring in now terry

in brussels who sent us that report good morning terry you're joining us from outside the crown court where the trial is about to begin or is just started what's going to be happening in the courtroom today our producer inside the courthouse to see if children says that it hasn't quite gotten under way yet there's a lot of bustling around and presumably the mean figures here have a right but today is just the opening and the co-defendants are not expected to face cross-examination today they'll be reading out the the statements and there are going to be many witnesses i'm sorry many people in the audience already today in fact the woman that you just saw in my piece the director of the jewish museum has just passed us on her way in to watch the proceedings so this is really the formal opening and just the laying out of the arguments today ok terry what can you

tell us about the zero zero alleged attacker what do we know about the bat. we don't know a lot yes because he has not spoken yet he did appear here earlier at the selection of the jury what we do know is that he allegedly went to join the law makes islamic state from his hometown in france in two thousand and thirteen and a lot of the reason we know that is because of these french journalists who said that he was not only their captor but a torturer of them he returned through a circuitous route to europe allegedly and became the first foreign fighter returning to launch an attack and now the first one to be put on trial he does have a codefendant who was picked up some time after the attack who is alleged to have supplied the weapons used in the jewish museum shooting in two thousand and fourteen turtles following this trial for us they will have more from terry of

course is the progressives thanks for now. well here in germany the attack on a politician from the far right alternative for germany continues to be at the center of a hefty debate on political violence in the country after viewing surveillance tapes german prosecutors say they have a new version of what happened that differs from the initial account of an eyewitness. frank magnets left hospital on wednesday he says he doesn't remember the attack only what someone told him who helped him at the scene firstly booth windows and there was blood everywhere i also what happened and he said it looked like it wouldn't plank or something was used he didn't know either but that's where the information about the plank comes from towards this was the version of events from the f.t. via facebook it reads they knocked him unconscious with a wooden plank then continued kicking his head as he lay on the ground. hey if

alexander galland even spoke of attempted murder the party now admits the initial report was wrong video has since come to light captured by c.c.t.v. prosecutors say it shows the entire incident. we can't see any of the suspects wielding an object should any time the video we have to is not show that is that it also does not show any kind of kicking or blows delivered by the suspects to the victim's body. what we do see is the suspects fleeing a mediately off to the attack on the forty fifth taken from the. prosecutor's a treating the attack as grievous bodily harm for his part frank magnet still believes it was politically motivated. a court in istanbul has sentenced a reporter who works for d.w.

news to thirteen months in prison or was convicted for insulting and slandering a public official now those charges come from her reporting on the paradise papers and a former turkish prime minister's top two offshore tax havens the international consortium of investigative journalists has condemned the sentence as quote yet another disgraceful attack on free speech in turkey. usually pale and writes about other people and their stories now she's making headlines herself after being sentenced to jail for defamation an insult and slandering a public official. in the big three addiction exactly this verdict because here in turkey as a journalist i always have one foot in jail i'm not the only one many reporters are in the same position so we try not to let it get us down and we just carry on doing our job. she was the up my child. has been reporting for turkish service since last year. before that she was part of the international network of

investigative journalists who analyzed and published the so-called paradise papers . leaks confidential documents revealing the offshore accounts of politicians business people and multinational companies who are avoiding taxes and sometimes evading them. during her research found an alleged connection to the family of the former turkish prime minister yielded them and wrote articles about it for the turkish daily newspaper john kerry it yielded them sued her. ass in the big yanking the this is an attempt to intimidate not me personally or my articles but the whole journalism profession the sun and i get up when the message is if you report freely you will be punished. that's the situation for journalists here in turkey decision said. she may have been sentenced but not in prison yet she wants to appeal and while her case continues she hopes

she will be able to focus on reading stories again instead of being the center of attention herself. we have some sports news now and international football's governing body thief has asked thailand to release a bahraini player facing extradition to his home country talking all arrived he was arrested in bangkok two months ago on an interpol warrant issued bahrain's request all right he has been convicted in bahrain of vandalizing a police station a crime he denies having committed. he's been given refugees that us in australia where he plays for a second division team. in football's asia cup edged out oman with a late goal to seal a two one victory and four time champions japan battled back from a goal down to be turkmenistan three two that thanks to two goals from brain

striker your osaka and qatar pace post a day to no win against lebanon on that after a scoreless first half. oh india's national football team of had a great start at the asia cup the blue tigers as they're known recorded a win in the tournament for the first time since one thousand nine hundred sixty four in their opener in x. face the hosts united arab emirates on thursday indian football players are thrilled at the sport is getting the kind of attention usually reserved for cricket in india you know it's a secret they die hard indian football fans might have been keeping to themselves their team is a force to be reckoned with if the asian cup. although cricket remains the nation's main attraction young footballers are slowly gravitating towards football india has always had a massive pool of people to pick from to field a successful football team but that hasn't happened at the major tournaments since

the sixty's back in the ninety's the team gained a bit of momentum in terms of success breaking into feet one hundred one two different occasions but things were different back then. all right now the indian national team is getting more professional flame pet to the time i play there was just one doctor for the entire team now there are at least two physio therapists. and a fitness trainer accompanying the team if it can be seen in how they are playing now. despite india getting the nation's first win in the asian cup in over fifty years the recent success is not getting to their heads india's four one win over thailand in their cup opener could be a sign everything is coming to fruition. we just try to to to to win if again you play and you want to compete and be competitive. i

think we've done very well the last two three is. think it's a continual process. we're not getting carried away. if you like many nations have long been in need of success and a major tournaments to enter themselves into the conversation when it comes to football. the blue tigers believe camaraderie of the pitch is their most valuable asset unity of the squad in the national. as it is second to none it's unbelievable and i believe this is our biggest strength that's why when people come watch as they do realize that you know when you play if you all speak the football language of football together and you all die for each other on the field then it's going to be like to be part of this war. with over a billion people for the blue tigers india's band of brothers will be tested is the asian cup rolls on will twenty nine t.

be the new beginning for india has been waiting for. let's get our business now with stephen and there's some transatlantic cooperation in the works in the car industry that's right brian we're talking about volkswagen and ford they're going to join forces as they develop new technology new technologies rather than two companies are set to unveil details of a deeper alliance at the detroit auto show next week sources close to management said the carmakers are planning closer cooperation to fight off rivals electric and autonomous driving among them software companies like google and other reason for working together the continuing trade frictions between the u.s. and china and ford have said in the past that any alliance would not involve a merger. now let's dig a little deeper into the story with bars he's our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange two different car companies very big ones europe america what are

they getting out of this alliance partnership whatever you want to call it. they're big but considering the challenges ahead with the cars and self driving cars you just can't be big enough and pulling the resources seems to be the road that they're barking on in order to get success and this future technology and basically all the car companies are striving for importance and for advances in these fields and by pooling resources with factories with people but the research and development with finances they hope that they can get ahead here this things apparently started over actually a different topic cooperating in the area of light trucks and that's still on the agenda one hears as well and that's an important area to. so some things that they'll both. pooling resources and gains for both of them what are their particular motivations volkswagen and ford. i think for volkswagen number one for

the still relatively new chief executive officer how about these is to bring costs down he sees that is the major problem of the whole volkswagen group because of the notorious lack of profit profitability at the volkswagen brand it's way below the goals that have been set for years but we're never met and he sees probably this is one way to get ahead on that and for ford catch up game to general motors or one of the motivations and looking for an investor for itself driving you know argo and v.w. apparently considering entering into that so there are plenty of motivations on both sides so potential benefits there for both companies wait to see what happens there for us in frankfurt thank you really. a court in germany will decide today whether clothing retailer keke can face a lawsuit for damages from a massive fire that occurred seven years ago at a factory in pakistan that factory was one of the company's key suppliers hundreds

of people were killed in the blaze which was followed months later by the deadly collapse of another garment factory in bangladesh now kick argues that it is too late to take legal action but the four victims behind the suit hope that they can set a precedent. more than two hundred fifty people lost their lives in this fire had to textile factory in the pakistani city of karachi back in two thousand and twelve it was reportedly an act of arson but the plaintiffs accuse germany's biggest close discounter of being partly responsible for the lack of sufficient fire protection at the site keke was one of the factories main clients the case also raises a more fundamental question related to globalization what responsibility to companies have for the condition of workers in low wage countries who supply them with cheap products keke has paid more than six million dollars for those affected by the fire that despite its call for the case to be thrown out due to the statute of

limitations but whatever the outcome calls are growing for the law to provide more clarity on corporate liability. earlier i asked chavez chavez from dusk and dawn if anything had changed since the two thousand and twelve fire the safety standards to improve i think what is important is that it should be more important for the rest of the people here in the rest the they need to put more pressure on the companies that they must do something about what is happening in these countries where. is there and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. if you look toward commission in the democratic republic of congo has declared opposition leader felix just a k.t. surprise winner of last month's presidential election. margin five ulu the lead polls by more than twenty points calling the result an electoral coupe. and parts

of southern germany and austria are experiencing the heaviest snowfall in two decades several people have been killed and a number of communities are cut off authorities warn the risk of avalanches is extremely high and that more snow is expected over the next few days. you're watching t.v. news that's it for us with the business team will have more for you in the next hour and you can always find more online at t w dot com and dot com slash business i'm seeing there's a berlin thanks for watching. coming .

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