this is d. w. news live from berlin the result of congo's presidential election called into question the opposition candidate felix to kitschy to katie has been declared the winner but the influential catholic church in congo is disputing the official results as protests turned violent also coming up southern germany and austria are experiencing the heaviest snowfall in two decades we report on the communities cut off in the worst hit areas plus empty shelves at the supermarket

a bag of economy we will take you to venezuela as president nicolas maduro begins a second term in office that will keep him at the helm for another six years and there was a robbery worth a hollywood heist movie thieves in germany used basic appointment to steal a giant gold coin from a museum for a land and today the suspects are appearing in court. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the international community is urging restraint that is in the democratic republic of congo as the results of its presidential election are being called into question authorities have declared opposition candidate felix just a k.t. the winner but congo's powerful catholic church says that its results do not tally . those of the election commission the opposition candidate martin for you luke who

was leading in the polls also says that he thinks that the outcome was raped now police are reporting that two civilians and two policemen have been killed in protests. was supporters of felix just a k.t. euphoric as their man is declared the winner. was the opposition leader wasn't expected to win the presidential vote in the democratic republic of congo but he had to doubt his main rival putting the country on course for its first democratic transfer of power in almost sixty years since independence. you. know i know many of you find it hard to accept but i see it with sincerity i pay homage to president joseph kabila president of the republic. today we

must no longer consider each other as adversaries but rather as partners in democratic change in our country. was some believe just a katie one by cutting a deal with president joseph kabila whose clung to power for and their teen years although could be less preferred candidate only came in third the man expected to win martin for you lou is among many contesting the results. susan. the end of these results do not reflect the truth of the ballots so. this is obviously on acceptable electoral fraud of a nature that will provoke general chaos across the country. it will be up to the country's constitutional court to validate the vote for now which is a cave the supporters across the country are celebrating even as initial reports come

in of violent protests in which more people may have died. oh and for some analysis now we're joined by stephanie walter a senior research fellow at the institute for security studies thank you so much for joining us we have here basically a winner announced the result disputed by the influential catholic church among others where does all of this leave the country. i think that as you say in your introduction it was a surprise that it and she became one of the selection there had been an assumption that the ruling party would make a plan to allow its own candidate to win and that hasn't happened i think this still leaves the country in a difficult situation obviously many people are relieved that he can be lead has not pushed through their own incumbent candidate that was only shut down and of course you can just think it is supporters are also very happy to see that he has been announced as the new president but the fact that the catholic church has cast

doubt on the actual credibility of that result is a big concern and of course matt have to tell you that was also saying that he doesn't believe it reflects the will of the people and i think it's essential that we do have some kind of investigation into what the real results are here because this is elect this election is really about returning the country to to political stability after many years of instability as a result of this electoral crisis and there are reports mentioned a violent protest in the western part of the country how how do you see this possibly play now. i think that we're seeing violence on a much lower scale than we had anticipated it from as any had been announced as the winner in other words can be chosen successor i think we would have been seeing much larger levels of violence throughout the country where the places where we've seen centrally outbreaks of violence are areas that are considered to be pro fight you lou and it's for you lou supporters who are essentially unhappy you boys in their frustration with this of course the fact that the catholic church has cast

doubt on the outcome is significant i think that in the d.n.c. we see in the population very committed to pushing for this election taking place and pushing for can be led to leave office now will they will they decide that the that the proclamation of an opposition candidate is where they want to stop pushing or will they push for further investigations into what really happened at the electoral at the polls seventy walters senior research fellow at the institute for security studies many thanks. and let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world yemen the rebels have carried out a drone attack that killed several people in the south of the country who theon saudi reports say that the attack had a military base near out on that tension in yemen has been rising again over how to implementing a u.n. sponsored peace deal. the human rights group amnesty international has called for an international investigation into the murder of the saudi journalist jamal

khashoggi amnesty international's turkey office made that appeal on the one hundredth day since khashoggi staff saudi agents killed the journalist inside the saudi consulate in istanbul his body has not been recovered. australia's foreign minister says that there is no time frame for when australia will decide on an asylum request by a saudi woman. is in thailand after she fled her home country out of fear that her family might kill her the u.n. says that she qualifies as a refugee. all across europe the heaviest snowfall in two decades is bringing daily life in alpine regions grinding to a halt a total of sixteen people have reportedly died across europe from weather related causes in the past week austria has been especially hard hit more on that in just a moment but first this report from across the border in southern germany. it has been snowing for thirty six hours in the province of bavaria seventy

centimeters of fresh snow has fallen and more than eight hundred inhabitants here have been trapped because the access roads are closed. the risk of an avalanche is simply too high a day to day life is at a standstill an ambulance is on standby to ensure medical care the state of emergency could last for days. in the district of me this is the fourth day in a row of disruption to your thoughts he's can hardly keep up with the task of clearing the snow schools a shot. in the southeast of bavaria an emergency alarm was declared but very isn't alone other parts of germany have also been affected by the snow on the motorway near. bourke traffic came to a complete standstill of to trucks got stuck on the snow bound road emergency services supply drivers with blankets and warm during this in the thirty five kilometer long traffic jam that has been at least one fatality

a fifty four year old woman died alone in her car according to police the cause of death is still unknown. and in neighboring austria the consequences of the snow fall have been eva. in more dramatic some areas have announced the highest avalanche warning level and fast moving masses of snow have already proven deadly a group of teenage skiers from germany was rescued after they were suddenly hit by one avalanche another teenage skier in a different location was not so lucky and was killed while skiing with his family. i'm joined now by watching good at from the austrian mountain rescue team he is based in vienna martin thank you so much for joining us this afternoon describe the situation for us what are the challenges for your teams out there right now about the first order is you're just here if there's a lot of snow over the last year into do to cross this that there is more to come

this makes it also difficult for also for us as a rescue team and rescue services in order to provide oversteer is once there are roads blocked and we can love exists so there is it's order for us not easy to go there or israel is into the slopes or in the mountains. there is the danger of evolutions at the moment we have at the heart hardest it's the highest level of evolution warning issued in logic there is of almost year in case that there is an emergency in this area or it's or is it again difficult for us to go to so there is a strong advice to order mountaineers remote access these. warnings about wanting rated areas into rather the stay at home with remote or found another much much more because you have heard a slope going on in texas and other than you know just simply avoiding the areas as if you've highlighted there what else are you doing to keep people safe and prevent dangers such as the avalanches that we've seen you know one of which was which was

deathly. that is the number of the educated and have it already and it's the first address just not to be in the danger zone it already this is the ultimate prize and the safest thing to do in case you are that are there is divergence in number one for ciro this year austin are fine no risk your number you can call this and retry all of this through hell and bring it to systems and save lives what do you see as the biggest obstacles for for your rescue teams as they are out there as you guys are working amid these these you know very very challenging conditions in these affected areas it's a case of you're really trying to be really that's not the issue but the physics of in a village they are all humans it's all rivers in the world mountain here they're in danger if we want to go there is a mountain rescue team rhea they're in danger is very serious i keep repeating the

dr has moved to go in this group sones that makes leave life easier safer for those who want to go there and especially those of other rescue teams. thank you so much for joining us to share that message we've heard it over and over and over again if you're in an area which could be potentially affected by an avalanche get out martin good at sharing that message with us we know that you guys are working very hard on the ground there with the austrian mountain rescue team we very much appreciate you taking the time to speak with us this afternoon and. when i mean time here in germany prosecutors are questioning the details of a violent attack on a far right member of the parliament the alternative for germany party insists that three men who assaulted frank magnets beat him with a plaint of what the story has sparked a heated debate on political violence but prosecutors now say that they have a new version of what happened that differs from the initial account of an

eyewitness. frank magnate's left hospital on wednesday he says he doesn't remember the attack only what someone told him who helped him at the scene. firstly there was blood everywhere i asked 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. 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. if he co-leader 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 it any time the video we have

to is not show 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 after the attack. and. prosecutors are treating the attack as grievous bodily harm for his part frank magnate still believes it was politically motivated. well now to a court case that hopes to expand operations liability for its supply chain stuff kober has more on what the actual result was the president didn't come to pass a german court has rejected compensation claims aimed at retail or kick survivors of a blaze at a textile factory in pakistan in two thousand and twelve the court ruled that according to pakistani law the claim was no longer valid because the main

contractor at the factory survivors accused germany's biggest clothing. discounter of been partially responsible for the fire two hundred fifty people lost their lives many more were injured if the lawsuit had succeeded it could have set a precedent for claims against other german companies operating in low wage countries. a short while ago i spoke to. the european center for constitutional and human rights and represented one of the plaintiffs and i asked her about her reaction to the verdict well the verdict obviously is very disappointing it was forseeable that the court would decide this way after the expert to opinion that it received still it's it's a big disappointment especially for the claimants and other victims of this fire. but we also need to see that with that case we have actually also achieved already a lot meaning that on one hand a kid has been paying compensation out of court on

a voluntary basis up to six million u.s. dollars and also the whole case has been highlighting the problems of the whole industry and the need for better regulation i want to get to the impact of this court case in just a moment but first of all let me ask you the question of liability wasn't even addressed what do you make of that. yeah that is very disappointing and it's only due because the court case has been dismissed due to the statute of limitation which has been raised by keke although kate previously had been saying that they are also really interested in the merits of the case and clarifying the standards of liability the court did not decide on that at all so that means to the whole question of at which extend do european based companies. have responsibility of towards their suppliers is completely up in the air so the president that you were hoping for could not be said do you think this trial

nevertheless an impact on a different scale. yes so the merits have not been decided which still means that the whole industry needs to be on their toes because when ever there's a new ticket factory disaster the next claim will be brought and we will again ask the courts to make a decision on liability questions also the case has been putting so much pressure on kik that they were willing to pay in total six million u.s. dollars in an out of court negotiation. and i think at least for the german debate this case has also highlighted that we are desperately in need of better laws and that make us need to be thinking about supply chain liability rules and other fashion labels have put pressure on their suppliers to up their game when it comes to safety what do you make of the situation in the pakistani government sector

today. well brands have put pressure on their suppliers but mainly in bangladesh and that is because supply the brands have been on the pressure themselves by civil society and media so that's why they have been putting into place a bangladesh accord and pakistan their pressure was much less and therefore not very much has really changed for workers in their everyday life in when it comes to fire safety. the european center for constitutional and human rights thank you for your thoughts thank you the french tobacco or tobacco shop has been an institution for generations now alongside their cigarettes and live to go newspaper customers can purchase cryptocurrency in their neighborhoods. it seems like there's one on every corner in french cities or tobacco shop now the small store was selling big vouchers can be bought at the counter and later redeemed for the cryptocurrency new

restriction the buy must be at least eighteen years old. those two malicious websites. the new business is a joint effort by french financial start up to play out on the association of tobacco retail is around four thousand stores are already on board and many more are expected to take part kopeck hopes to help recover from its collapse in the last year a lot of people now know and for a wide are interested in becoming don't know how to buy it even online it's quite complicated even if even the bitcoin concept and blog chain is quite complicated and then buying or or purchasing free to point is if it's another step off of complication store owners are also banking on the new business they hope can help

make up the diminishing tobacco sales. people we already sell a lot of other things apart from tobacco we do money transfers we sell a lot of telephone related stuff we sell credit to buy things on amazon or other shopping websites and i think because goes well with the products we already off. of course making big koreans more accessible does not automatically mean they'll be more acceptable to skeptics of digital currencies. fox we're going forward our forging is surprising that story for you later for now back to sara thank you so much press stuff we're heading to belgium now where the trial is due to begin of a french national accused of shooting dead four people at a jewish museum in brussels and twenty four team the defendants is alleged to be a jihadist who fought in syria is the first time that a suspected terrorist who was returned to europe from syria has been put on trial.

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 in my home oh my father just called me and he said where are you. with my family and he told me that the shooting took place in the threat of 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 this is. this and i'm an exception here 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 but not on the jewish community the whole population of parcels. 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 frank sartor there in syria who were alerts or involved in the attacks in paris and brussels new moves also faces charges in france for the hostage taking but now just a few hundred meters 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 matter not only symbolically but also to

the. better understands what he's trying to rewards what his motives were and also to bring some light on this phenomenon that was rather new at least in this extent. but who are the rest of europe the jewish community will be closely watching to next three will be very difficult and painful for everyone here of course but then we think about all the work we've done. and all the new projects that we have for the coming weeks and months skull follicle who def says the museum has thousands more visitors now than before most are non jewish and many are muslim as part of a deliberate post-attack outreach by both communities and we know that we are on the good way and not just that. it's bringing correspondent teri schultz who filed that report for us she joins us from brussels where she is actually at

the crown court where that trial has just begun terry what's happening there. hi sara well this morning what is expected to get underway is that the prosecution will lay out its argument and that's almost two hundred pages and that. is defense will then begin on tuesday was actually happening is that there been some procedural snags that have delayed things a bit but we do expect this afternoon that the prosecution will begin describing its arguments begin getting more details more evidence of why they believe that many of them we should be sentenced to life in prison for these murders at the jewish museum in two thousand and fourteen and moon we talk about him specifically i mean prosecutors say that he came back from syria where he joined us what more do we know in terms of those details. the background of metal is very typical of the european mostly men that we saw run off to join the islamic state in iraq and syria he had an unhappy childhood he committed

petty crimes he went to prison where he was reportedly further radicalized and in fact met the man who is his codefendant here accused of providing him weapons so that was really not atypical of the islamic state converts that we saw leaving in droves and he was one of the early ones to do that what people are very interested in is what happened after that what kind of connections did he have before he left what did he receive instructions while on the ground from i guess and therefore what plans did he have when he came back here and we really don't know much about that and those are going to be some very interesting details we hope will be coming out in the prosecution's case and this is really a big first because i'm biswas the first trial of an alleged islamic state where tourney here in europe just walk us through why that is so important. well yes he was the first known attacker. as an islamic state returning so this is

really key and from speaking with terrorism experts they really want to know more details because this seemed to have been a fairly uncomplicated attack he had the weapons it's not known whether he had a larger network here whether he got funding from islamic state there is a very interesting detail that we know about him and that is that some french journalists who were taken hostage in syria identified. as one of their jailers a particularly sadistic one in fact and they also identified as another jailer a man who later went on allegedly to commit the brussels attack. so in fact we do know that he had connections to this brussel cell and those are going to be things that terrorism experts are very much going to want to unravel as this trial goes on so yes everyone i've spoken with says this is a very significant trial teri schultz for us in brussels where the trial of this french national accused of shooting dead four people at a jewish museum in brussels back in two thousand and fourteen begins today terry

thank you very much. you're watching news still to come on the program an empty shelves at the supermarket a battered economy we will take you to venezuela west president nicolas maduro begins a second term in office and to listen up hollywood executives a new study finds that films with strong female leads out to perform at male lead movies at the box office we will find out more from our culture editor. and don't forget you can always get you know beginners on the go you can download our app from google player from the apple store which will give you access to all of the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send us photos and videos. i'm sorry kelly in berlin we're back in a few minutes say that. the

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listen to the book as a journey back to the roots get my mug shots family from somalia move around the place. i did urgent assistance. the family starts general twenty third on t.w. . welcome back you're with your news i'm sarah kelly in berlin our top stories electoral commission in the democratic republic of congo has declared opposition leader felix just a katie the surprise winner of last month's presidential election but the influential catholic church in congo is disputing the official results and protests have turned violent. parts of southern germany and austria are experiencing the heaviest snowfall in two tech aids at least a dozen people have been killed and several communities are completely cut off

authorities warned the risk of avalanches is extremely high at that more snow is expected over the next few days. but as well as president nicolas maduro is beginning a second term of office today shrugging off international criticism that his reelection last year was illegitimate and as he takes the helm for another six years the country is better to qana me is showing no signs of recovery meaning more misery for venezuela citizens. cattle trucks that serve as public transport. supermarket shelves empty of all basic goods. this is what venezuela under president maduro has come to look like. when nicolas maduro took office after chavez died in two thousand and thirteen he inherited his pretty decisive socialist revolution meant to champion social justice

and people power over his way loans. yet before long duros so too tightly his own grip on power. he cracked down on dissenting voices prominent opposition leaders were arrested or put under house arrest. i when the opposition gained control of venezuela's parliament maturer set of a new constituent assembly that could bypass parliament the move sparked mass protests many violently crushed by police. in may last year was confirmed in office in elections that were widely seen as a sham many western and latin american countries have refused to recognize the result you think you know they said that you were obliged to vote.

they said the people were coerced. it's a lack of respect. although parliament is now largely toothless its leader one goh ido has vowed to fight back. and we reaffirm the illegitimacy of nicolas maduro as a result this national assembly as the only legitimate power elected by the venezuelan people should assume the representation of the people where i. and it's the people of venezuela who continue to suffer under. a recession exacerbated by economic mismanagement has brought the country to its knees. it was once a wealthy oil nation and one of latin america's most prosperous societies today more than half of venezuelans struggle to feed themselves and their families. hyperinflation a new shortage of basic goods have caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that

has driven three million venezuelans to flee the country. let's get more now from our correspondent ophelia harmes who is standing by in the region for us so ophelia we have nicolas maduro starting his second term as president in venezuela today how is this being perceived in the region well at least sixteen latin america american countries as well as the u.s. and canada have warned that they do not recognize last year's elections and therefore see this new mandate as illegitimate so-called lima group a group that has been created to discuss the venezuelan problem in the region have also warned that they will not lead any venezuelan diplomats into their countries any more they will withdraw their diplomats as well and all of also frees some of the venezuelan diplomats assets in their countries this group has also called the

national assembly the venezuelan parliament to take over power until new elections can take place in that country but as we saw in the report the national assembly powers have been seized by maduro's regime it has been replaced by a constituent assembly and he has also been holding power of the supreme court that will be swearing him in today different to what the constitution in venezuela actually establishes given that what do you see as the main challenges for his administration in the coming six years and is he likely to prioritize the economy. well he would say that he has been prioritizing the economy all along and of this chaos it's been created by this sanctions from the outside but the truth is that as we saw the inflation is about to reach two million per cent and that has forced the three million voters once to flee the country due to the shortages the malnutrition

and disease is spread all over the country he will also face more international pressure from the community he has also been starting to be investigated by the international. courts so because they think that he has been committing crimes against humanity and this will be another challenge during the next term of figure harms with the very latest from bogota thank you. christopher back now with a surprise alliance in the auto sector and we are talking about two heavyweights. ford will join forces as they develop new technologies the two companies are set to unveil details of a deeper alliance at the detroit motor show next week sources close to management say the carmakers are hoping to fend off libels and electric and autonomous driving

among them software companies like google another reason for working together the continuing trade frictions between the united states the european union and china might afford have said in the past that any alliance would not involve a march. for more on the story let's bring in only bards our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange only what are they getting out of this. well they're getting out of this the ability to pool their resources and make a go of it with more research and development capacity firing power if you will with more production capacity possibly offering even more flexibility in the future moving between factories in order to accord for regional differences or for model differences and of course the financing working together on these projects would be a huge benefit because putting self driving cars and electric cars on the road now

the germans and i think ford to have some some back to back a little ways in the development that's going to take huge resources and this is what they hope to profit for of course they're treading a fine line they still remain competitors elsewhere and partnering at the same time now for it is in the spotlight for another story today it wants to cut thousands of jobs in europe tell us more. as it has fifty thousand jobs in europe in total and it's losing money like anything in the third quarter alone in just three months it was a quarter billion dollars and so it wants to cut jobs how many it is not said but it's going to present a plan. sometime soon soon a program for twenty one thousand and twenty twenty and one of the elements is supposed to be. getting people to quit voluntarily to resign early and it's going to talk to workers council and union representatives about that ford wants to

axe thousands of jobs in europe only bards reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange only thank you. if you ever fix your washing machine can you fix your washing machine but as whole appliances become more complex and digitally networked consumer advocates fear that the users are losing the ability to make basic repairs they've pushed for a so-called right to repair and then you regulatory committee is taking up the issue this month. the household appliance industry seems to have developed a love affair with new technology promising smart homes full of network refrigerators washing machines and other electronic devices but many consumers are actually pining for a return to the good old days when appliances lasted much longer and were easier to fix when they broke evidence is mounting that home appliances are breaking down earlier and becoming too complex to fix. in many cities activists are setting up

volunteer repair shops to help people overcome what many see as planned obsolescence. produce like with. the cents more and more known. three create tricks so i buy it with more stuff that's why the european commission is in the final stages of approving regulations to build repairability into the very manufacturing process. the new rules would make it easier for people to disassemble appliances ensure that spare parts are readily available and that repair instructions are provided. the european appliance manufacturers association says that is basically behind the new regulations as long as they are applied to all competitors and that amateur safety and liability issues are addressed. as back to sarah now and

a giant gold coin still missing big you know the search for answers really continues here first off it was one of the most spectacular robberies in living memory in march of two thousand and seventeen in the middle of the night thieves in berlin they somehow managed to steal a one hundred kilogram gold coin from one of the city's most prestigious. now today four suspects are going on trial in connection with that that prosecutors say that three of them broke into. museum through an upstairs window and used a ladder a wheelbarrow and of rope to extract the coins from its bullet proof glass case the fourth suspect is a museum guard accused of helping the rebels there's still no trace of the coin which is worth nearly four million euros but there has been plenty of speculation as to where it might have ended up. it was one of the most spectacular heists ever seen in berlin the golden coin weighing one hundred kilos

half a metre across and worth four million euros but what happened to the piece called the big maple leaf we asked goldsmith marks corn what you could do with a huge gold coin but this is the first you'd have to cut it up to melt it i would use a circular saw you'd also be left with a pile of gold dust which you somehow have to melt down to be very time consuming. melting the gold would mean it could then be cost into bars or brings but only by using specialised equipment that's a sure thing as an expensive process it can be done sure but a furnace that can reach the right temperature to melt gold is not like you have an in your kitchen. the temperature of eight or nine hundred degrees celsius would be needed and the leverage affair like the heist itself the thieves walked across the train track running alongside the museum then used a lever to climb in through

a window. they smashed open the display case with an ax and threw the heavy coin on to nearby parkland police were quickly on the case three members of a well known criminal gang were arrested along with a museum supervisor traces of gold were found on their clothing and tools but there was no sign of the loot the big maple leaf. on the goldsmith has got his own idea about what happened to it. as an. incredible i think it was melted down into small balls and taken out of the country and. they would have been used in some other business probably illegal. so you can't sell gold without leaving a trail of evidence. mr. when the dust. the boda museum is still hoping the precious original will resurface one day but for the time being there's only this cardboard replica. sports is now in abundance to give

returns to action in just over a week and ahead of the restart byron munich are flying back to germany following their mid-season training camp with can talk are with controversy injuries and a new signing the winter break has been eventful for the reigning champions. by an munich's last training session in qatar is done and dusted winger are you and robin is struggling for fitness for friday's been as they can return against hoffenheim but there was a glimmer of hope after a solid day of work. today was good. a good into the camp of the week didn't go as i hoped but today was good. bye and timing guitar has been equally mixed many fans were happy to see them but back home overs were upset with the club spending the mid-season break in a country accused of human rights abuses. controversy then erupted with from river

e posting a video of him eating a three hundred euro gold coated stake in dubai ahead of his arrival in qatar his expletive laced backlash against critics led to a big club fine he then ended up getting injured and the cats are training match there was some good news for by and during the week with the announcement france will cup winner. will join in july. by and head back to munich with a lot of baggage. now they have to focus on the big job at hand trying to over hold bruce you don't sleep at the top of the bundesliga. on the mountain a story you don't hear every day a robotic sex toy was selected to receive an award at this year's consumer electronics show in las vegas until it was deemed obscene and the award was taken away now people as you might imagine are talking about it on social media they're using the twitter hashtag c.s. gender bias and e.w.

social media editor for the week about jail here in the studio with me to tell us what happened here with this sex story well so the consumers electronics show it's the biggest industries the tech industries biggest annual conference it's where new gadgets new ideas get tested and ahead of this year's show a panel of experts judges had chosen had selected the sex toy for women it's a robotic vibrator vibrator called. as one of the winners of the prestigious innovation award but then a bit later the organizers said they decided to disqualify the device and ban it from the exhibition and they said that they had included it by mistake and that they reserve the rights to withdraw any object that they deemed being immoral or obscene and this definition immoral or obscene of course is what has gotten a lot of women how they're angry and we're seeing that you know because there's an implication seems to there to be an implication that women's sexual awareness

products are somehow immoral and i can show you a couple of examples here this is an employee at laura de carlo which is the u.s. company behind the vibrator and she writes we are revolutionizing robotics and sex act and c.s. is proving yet again that they want to keep the white male status quo here's another woman who's writing this seriously gets my goat sex roberts virtual reality porn and booth babes are fine but an innovative and tastefully does. product engineers for female pleasure was no less than eight pending patents is deemed immoral and seen so the debate there is that there is a double standard when it comes to sexual products targeting men as opposed to women i mean how is it though usually at c s is it normal for a product like this for example to be on display i mean actually yes like in the sense that there have there has been a long history of sex toys being displayed at this convention and we actually in

twenty eighteenth the last year there was for example a sex doll rabbits named harmony and that was disputed at the convention in twenty seventeen there was a whole room that was devoted showcasing virtual reality porn which was also very popular with visitors put away and sex toys for women also have been displayed and they have even won prizes in the past so there's a lot of confusion as to why this particular sex toy was banned it's a business trade fair and ultimately i mean products like this they are big business so what does the company behind it have to say i mean they say they claim that there is an issue of gender bias at c.b.s. more generally also in the past many speakers that were there was for a couple of years in a row only only male speakers for example on the panel so there's this issue according to them of gender bias at this convention and actually did business business was there at this year's conference and they spoke to the c.e.o. of the company laura had took and this is what she had to say on the matter take

a listen this is a space where where people can innovate i mean is the question that we keep asking ourselves is is women sexual health and wellness not innovative it's not worthy of innovation and that's the conversation that we're trying to have today what we're really trying to do is legitimize the conversation about women and sex marriage and women in period and and just people that aren't in town. so a strong message there from. laura had to there needs to be more dinner quote the old saying tech more generally like beyond this specific product has a story that initially might make you chuckle nervously but actually there are some very serious issues being discussed as a result of what has happened here fredricka about you from our social media team thank you so much for telling us and.

thank you for all of that. and that if god does not dodging bullets in wonder woman one of the biggest box office movies of last year a recent study from the creative artists agency in hollywood has found that films with strong women roles out perform male lead movies at the box office here to discuss this with us let's get some more on these themes now we have robin merrill joining us here in the studio so does this surprise you it doesn't surprise me i think it surprised a few hollywood moguls and i think they will take note because in hollywood it's money that talks to be honest this being pressured recent times for gender equality in hollywood of course and now the dollar signs a showing that it works they'll get on with it. you know with the i mean the interesting thing is apart from a few exceptions still much says don't get the money that their male counterparts

going to get their films are making more money so the moguls are making more money this is unfair i think is going to it's going to shape up in that region anyway let's have a look at three of the top female lead films in the last few years. can't say that every one of those you. know we came here to. form and this is my own performance transformed the d.c. extended universe blockbuster wonder woman into a feminist manifesto. it was the first superhero movie to have a female director and it took seven hundred twenty million euro at the box office topping cinema charts for weeks on end.

but it was us actress scarlett johansson who paved the female superhero way playing on somebody rose as the black widow in several of the avengers films. in twenty fifteen avengers age of ultron past the best of feminist tasks by including engaging female characters who don't just talk about the man and ghost more than one point two billion euros. but it's not just female superheroes that score at the box office in twenty

seventeen emma watson played in beauty and the beast it may have only gone to oscar nominations but worldwide it took more than one billion euros at the box office and was globally the most successful movie of twenty seventy gal gadot scarlett johansson and emma watson just three of hollywood's leading women currently rocking that global box office. and incidentally scar johansen is going to make a stand alone black widow movie she's going to go allegedly fifteen million dollars and that's the fee that chris evans chris hemsworth caught for the avengers movie so there is a level coming up there ok i guess that we have some see incremental progress so you know. all the problems are not solved but you know this is just one week when we talk about in front of the camera behind the scenes how about everyone who works and yeah it's very simple robert well there's a huge mountain to climb there has to be said i mean basically the industry is she

usually male dominated does and the there's another example is. a survey looking at the numbers behind the scenes let's just take film directors and they did a survey of them they just took a thousand random films over the last ten years four percent were directed pie women just four percent i mean we wonder woman was directed by one passage jenkins well and she was the first woman to direct a superhero movie but let's have a look at the protests from last year you may remember this protest that is definitely not a protest unfortunately when it's got a wrong right. but the process at the cannes film festival where eighty two women went before on the red carpet they were to represent the eighty two women who'd been in the competition in seventy one that year history right. now

that let's do the math that's averaging just over one woman yeah you know doing that and only one woman has ever won the palme d'or that's jane campion that's cate blanchett actually who was head of the jury last year but jane campion is the only woman who's ever won the palme d'or and it's seventy one year history and i want to quote because she said she does believe she's optimistic she thinks things are changing and she said recently right now we're in a special moment i'm so excited about it it's like the burden will coming down she said. and others are saying that as well i think it's still a lot of work to be done recent remakes like ghostbusters with a female cast or ocean's eight with a female calls to produce directed by men you know so i think there's a long way to. go behind the scenes but you know they're working on it he says a work in progress and i think it will change more on the website robin lots more on the website actually about the w.

dot com slash culture is robin merrill filling us in thank you so much for. it's and with that now you're up to date on deja vu news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you so much for joining us after a short break. takes you to the headlines have a great day. from

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