money was going to drop and i will give you a. business g.w. news live from the land a court in myanmar rejects an appeal by two boarders journalists sentenced to seven years in jail myanmar accuses the reporters of trying to undermine national security they say they are innocent and were framed by police but the judge says their punishment is suitable. also coming up snowed under people in alpine regions

in germany and austria struggles of their record amounts of snow some villages are cut off and emergency workers more of a danger from our land. and angela merkel says she is aware of how much suffering nazi germany and puts it on greece during the war her comments come as athens makes another demand for reparations. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program will begin in myanmar where a court has rejected an appeal by two journalists serving seven year prison terms while lone and quasi were arrested in december of twenty seventeen after investigating the massacre of ten broking the boys and men during the army's brutal crackdown on the muslim community the two reuters journalists were later sentence for breaking the official secrets act by possessing. classified documents their

lawyers argue that they were entrapped in a police state. on the line now from is journalist dave group thank you so much for joining us dave the reuters correspondents they were arrested while reporting on the ethnic cleansing in myanmar you have been covering the story how difficult is it today to work in myanmar and get an accurate account of the situation for the right into. so the area where this counterinsurgency campaign has been going on by the military which is a northern arc state that's basically closed off you only get to go in there. if you're on a government supervised trip so when you're only seeing what they like to see and have access to that they give you access to the eggs they've made that a very highly restricted area. as far as reporting here certainly from the local press and you talk about the local media that's based here or of the myanmar press i mean they will tell you that it made this case has just put

a chill over all of that because what these reporters did was to journalist it was an incredible groundbreaking investigation that had documented proof of the murder of and the road user men by the security forces were joined by some civilians even the military admitted that this is what happened it was an incredible investigation and now they were essentially entrapped they were entrapped and set up and then placed in jail and sentenced to seven years so this is basically a warning from the military to the journalists here that if you cross certain lines you could be next so that has put a chilling effect on the local press the stars the international press with your media. certainly everyone is going trying to do their best there is some very aggressive reporting going on by the foreign press and they brought out a lot of great stories but still not having complete access makes it tighter to get

to all that i mean so how does all this make you feel because we understand that you have been working there as a journalist in myanmar for many years now what's your reaction to this verdict are are you worried for your own safety. i mean i don't sit here worrying at night that i'm going to get arrested. i think it's you know you can't rule anything out but i think it's different you know i have a u.s. passport and it's certainly different than say for me m.r. citizen who although there are many international diplomats and ambassadors here that are lobbying on their behalf the fact is they do not directly represent these myanmar nationals and i think for me i'm our national it's a different story than for a foreign reporter i can tell you someone who's been here for the better part of of five almost six years during that time this is the worst case for press freedom that i've seen and we know that in this case in particular that that the sentencing has been condemned by organizations by governments around the world so you're not

alone in sharing those thoughts day going to bomb journalist working there in myanmar we thank you so much for joining us this afternoon to share your reaction. and look at a quick check now some other stories making news around the world the u.s. led coalition against the so-called islamic state has started the process of withdrawing from syria a spokesman for the u.s. military confirms the move but would not discuss specific timelines locations or troop movements out of concern for operational security president trump announced the planned withdrawal last month. china has released the first panoramic images ever taken of the far side of the moon the pictures were captured by its probe which landed there on january third the panorama was created by stitching together eighty photographs taken by a camera on the probe scientists are now analyzing the terrain in the images. and president trump's former lawyer michael cohen will testify publicly before a congressional committee next month cohen is expected to face questions about his

ties to russia and hush money payments that he arranged on trump's behalf to keep extramarital affair allegations out of the news during the twenty sixteen presidential election. austria and germany are struggling to cope with the heaviest snowfall in two decades at least seven people have died in alpine regions in the past week authorities are warning the risk of avalanches in the mountains is extremely high some communities in bavaria have declared a state of emergency and forecasters warn more snow is on the way. it will go even though it's become a military operation german soldiers called in to help back to where a state of emergency has been declared the bavarian town hasn't seen snow like this for years and the danger is old to rio. we don't feel i'm going to dock or we have many requests to help clear the roofs of buildings in the tunnels by the thirteen

years ago fifteen people died many of them children when a roof collapsed it's important to keep a close eye on the roofs and secure any that pose a danger. heavy snow fall has completely cut off the southern german town of yacking now it may look like a perfect picture postcard but there are increasing concerns that food supplies are running low. in switzerland guess we're lucky to survive an avalanche that came crashing through their hotel photos on social media show the devastation as the three hundred meter avalanche swept into the building at this fucked up mountain pass injuring three people. in the mountains around innsbruck in austria they too are on avalanche standby there are concerns that if the weather improves people may take unnecessary risks yourself people fluted us from

philadelphia is that people will say well there is a lot of snow the weather is better for me and our experience from the last thirty years has shown that the first even prove weather is really dangerous it's when most avalanche accidents happen as you know most of you know for. more than four metres of snow has already fallen in this region for those living here the hard work looks set to last some time yet. and you wus on as if it is covering this story for us from al to say austria which is struggling with this extreme snowfall well it's not again last night and i wouldn't be exaggerating if i said that this city this town is completely buried when you go through the streets they give the impression of walking through a tunnel i mean the walls of snow are literally twice as tall as i am the headline this morning in the local newspaper was hope and trepidation hope would

probably describe this side of the village i mean i'll say which has had some of the heaviest snowfall but the villagers are really dealing with it the bakeries open the hotels open people are walking through the streets there's not snow plows they don't have snow plows here actually they have they have shovels steam shovels going through the streets literally carrying the snow because there's nowhere to put it they have to put it in giant piles down the street now trepidation would describe the other side of this village about a kilometer down the street there they have been evacuated it's completely closed off no one's allowed to go there and that's because of the danger of avalanches austrian authorities have history highest avalanche warning for that area even the mayor had to evacuate his house i don't know if you can hear but there's a helicopter flying overhead and all those helicopters are doing are checking the situation to see if an avalanche is about to to go down and so people had to get out of that area and that is on that essay for reporting from austria there german

chancellor angela merkel has said that germany recognizes its historical responsibility for crimes committed by nazi is an increase now made the comments during a meeting with the great president on the second day of her trip to athens. greece has said that it has grounds to pursue a legal claim for billions of euros in reparations for the nazi occupation of the country in world war two. following the visit is the chief political editor mr who is joining us from athens so let's pick up on this mahela because the world war two reparations they've been a contentious issue for some time remind us of the sticking points and how far apart both sides are right now is a very closely watched moment really because the greek president probably this was expected to raise that very issue and his point was that there were as far as greece is concerned legal questions open and he was basically the expectation that

this would be resolved also to the legal expectations here in greece now as far as germany's position is concerned that has been all along that this issue was resolved in the two plus four basically which was the foundation that allowed for german reunification which was basically a contract between all parties involved in the second world war and so that's the legality of it under the machall responded to that although there was some delay because she went into other issues before that saying that the lesson from this was that he would work hard on german and greek relations so whereas the greek debate here focuses on the outcome of an expert group that has come up with a figure of two hundred eighty nine billion euros germany's position remains the same that that is essentially as far as the legality is concerned settled what the

public debate say is of course something very different and just briefly mikhail you mentioned that relationship between the two countries how is it today. well it's a lot better than it used to be greece has come out of the depths of its own crisis can now raise money on financial markets once again this was a visit here destined to celebrate that at the same time i'm going to point out that this was a road over for the head very cautious appearing to make any kind of policy recommendations here in greece because of that history of the greek financial crisis michelle chief political editor in athens thank you. let's head to norway now where police say that the missing wife of a billionaire has been kidnapped in an unusual twist the alleged abductors are insisting on a ransom being paid in crypto currency similar to bitcoin now investigators admit

that they have no idea what may have happened to the victim or where she is. sixty eight year old elizabeth haagen has not been seen since last october but police have only now revealed that she is missing the search for home and surrounding woodland in a wealthy suburb outside the capital oslo has failed to turn up any useful evidence police say the kidnappers have used only digital technology to get in touch with them. their order but there's not been any verbal contact she adds there's not been any sign that she's in life but neither is there any sign that she's dead for all. the victim is married to tom haagen a property and energy tycoon and one of norway's richest men. detectives won't talk to a pedestrian and the cyclist filmed outside the businessman's office on the day his

wife disappeared the suspects have not yet been identified. wood fired i'm surprised in horrified that something like this could happen here i also feel great despair for the family it's a terrible situation. is the. local media say the kidnappers are demanding a ransom equivalent to nine million euros to be paid in the crypt currency more narrow similar to bitcoin police are advising the family not to pay any ransom they're working on the theory that mrs holl gun was at home when she was abducted but officers admit the investigation is making little progress. since sports news now in tennis star any murray has announced that he will retire this year saying that he may even quit after the upcoming australian open mary along with roger federer found a doll novak djokovic all these men they have dominated the men's game in recent years winning the lion's share of major titles and earning the name the big four

but the quartet could now become a trio in just a couple of weeks. ahead of this year's grand slam opener andy murray currently ranked two hundred thirty it addressed his lack of performance and dealing with chronic hit pay. i can still play it's it's a level lower level that i'm happy playing. but also. you know it's not just the pain as it is. you know it is just too much really. interesting thirteen murray became the first brit since one nine hundred thirty six to win wimbledon bringing the title and tennis fever back to the u.k. but it was in twenty sixteen murray really took charge we need the a.t.p. world tour finals gold at the rio olympics a masters one thousand title and a grand slam all the missing calendar was

a historic achievement in the sport murray ascended to world number one it nears becoming the first brit to do so since one nine hundred seventy three sadly in twenty seventeen murray injured his right hip and was forced to cut his season short opting to have surgery rarely making tournaments over the last two seasons murray withdrew from last year's australian open french open and wimbledon he had initially planned to quit after this year's wimbledon but now feels melbourne might be his final of it. yeah i think i think it is because there's a chance for sure. yeah there's a chance of that for sure they can it is. yeah like i said i'm not i'm not sure. i'm not sure i may have. to play through the you know for another.

for five months with murray set to leave the court tennis will have to do without one of its cornerstones making way for the next generation of talent so break through. when are we going to head to the united states where authorities have requested a d.n.a. sample from football star christian over naldo as part of an ongoing rape investigation involving the superstar bernardo is being sued for allegedly raping catherine maior guy in las vegas back in two thousand and nine she has filed a lawsuit seeking to void a nondisclosure agreement that she says she was pressured into signing were naldo has always maintained that they encounter was consensual. well byron munich's thomas moore has been suspended by you a few for both legs of the club's champions league knockout tie against liverpool the twenty nine year old striker is serving punishment for a red card that he received versus i.x. now he was sent off after unintentionally kicking in i x.

player in the head while challenging for the ball. it's the first time that miller has been shown in a straight red card in his career byron said that they have a plan to appeal the decision. with the tokyo olympics coming up next year french prosecutors have indicted the president of japan's a limbic committee soon a kazu takeda on corruption charges now the allegations relate to a system to a says suspect payment of some two a million euros made before tokyo was chosen as the host of twenty thirteen the international olympic committee's ethics commission has also opened a file on to qaeda who spearheaded the campaign to host the games. now when you think about the sport of outlet extatic and city probably does not come to mind but the tiny state has just launched its own international track and field team so will it be god's speed for the vatican in route to the olympics and

find out. a rare sight in st peter's square. this is part of the vatican city's new athletics team and they are ready to take on the world the vatican may be the smallest state on earth but the team has lofty ambitions. so they live. with regards to the olympics the dream we have is to be carrying the vatican flag during the opening ceremony of the games. a marathon running priest and a half marathon loving none are among the team members. for me when i began running it gave me the chance to rediscover inner peace to find a balance of a given week we need we would have time for silence. the

vatican competing at the olympics may still be a way off but a leap of faith is all they need. all those more bad news for a former giant in the global auto industry stephen bentley has that story and more insights there of course with our mike carlos ghosn as we have frequently for the past few months japanese prosecutors now filing two charges two more charges i should say against former needs of the former nissan chairman now accusing him of aggravated breach of trust the new filing comes days after go and made his first appearance in a tokyo court on the original charges of financial misconduct and going to the architects of reno's alliance with nissan and many see him as the glue keeping it together the french carmaker says it has no evidence of fraud on the part of go on and go and has denied the charges linked to nissan his lawyers say that they will seek bail following the latest allegations. now as the u.s. and china try to overcome their trade dispute europe can hope the resolution might lead to easier access to the lucrative chinese consumer market something that has

remained frustratingly out of reach for many businesses and germany's influential beady eye industry association has now called on the european union to adopt a tougher policy towards china on just this issue chinese market has long been a gold mine for many german companies with high end carmakers like audi and mercedes making an ever larger share of their profits here but the b.t.i. federation for german industry claims the chinese market is far from a level playing field. the business lobby accuses beijing of using a combination of protectionism price dumping and state subsidies to bolster china's economy and cement the central government's control divide that the development of a free market isn't on beijing's agenda these are just what the central government is trying to expand the communist party control of the economy and civil society. and that's become more apparent in the last three years because. there is also growing concern that china shopping tour of buying controlling shares of german

high tech companies like robotics manufacturing kuka could soon lead to a strategic disadvantage for europe in the report the b.t.r. is calling on berlin to take action to make the economies of germany and europe more resilient among the demands increased scrutiny of china's state support for firms that compete with european companies and more oversight of chinese acquisitions the b.t.i. also says western countries must do more to defend their lead in technology as. of course we need to do our own homework first and increase our own competitiveness by investing more in infrastructure and education including research by expand the research budget. of the but often for. the reading i also believe you members must close ranks to ensure china does not eventually gain a competitive edge in technology. and staying with china beijing says it's disturbed by news of the latest arrest of a senior executive at tech giant huawei and spying charges this time in poland

authorities there raided the telecommunications giant's offices they also took a polish cyber security expert and former domestic intelligence officer into custody what was founded by a former chinese army officer western intelligence agencies warn the chinese government could use its products to collect data several countries have banned while way from supplying equipment for their five g. wireless networks. and let's bring in our frankfurt correspondent annette's fuck here for more on this and that we're still learning details of course about these charges keith tell us why this could be so explosive at this moment. in vera but also elsewhere because everywhere we're trying to create from forty to five key and that's when how while a while how way and the security concerns are kicking in because damn many

countries currently are any fame they don't want to have supply from the chinese because they do have security concerns that the chinese state could actually spy through the infrastructure provided even though of course for now the companies fang there are no links between the chinese state and them ok and if i spot their force in frankfurt thank you very much and. meanwhile president trump has canceled his trip to the world economic forum in davos this comes amid the standoff with the democratic led house of representatives and the partial government shutdown that has left more than eight hundred thousand federal government workers unpaid for nearly three weeks trump is refusing to sign a congressional spending bill because it does not include funding for a wall along the border with mexico it's unclear how much longer government agencies will remain closed but the costs are adding up. ah.

several hundred government employees spray freezing temperatures and protest against the ongoing trump government shutdown for them this is not politics it's personal. i'm already on a pretty tight budget living in d.c. is very expensive affording an apartment in c.c. is pretty expensive and you know not knowing how long this is going to last i've really had to budget as much as i can and just say ok all right not spend anything for weeks at a time because every day i don't know when the shutdown is going to hand i've talked to someone and i've asked them if i can get a loan for a mortgage if this doesn't mean my mortgage payment if this doesn't end at the end of january so and if it continues longer i'll have to go into my retirement money to pay the bills the bills keep coming they don't stop. with employees across the country facing financial distress the economic costs of the shutdown is adding up to the gross domestic product growth rate from three to two point four percent

this time around analysts put the cost of a full government shutdown at six point five billion dollars a week however the current situation affects only about a quarter of government spending and just under half of all federal employees only a small fraction of those employees live in and around washington d.c. the rest of the country is affected too particularly communities with large government offices and those located near national parks. hoople can still come and hike in death valley national park however there are a lot of visitor services that are closed down and some areas of the park that are closed. with some operations closed tourists are spending their money elsewhere local businesses are missing out meaning the government shutdown is affecting not only federal employees but the private sector as well they're preparing for more

losses because the resolution of the current crisis is not in sight. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you according me and maher has dismissed an appeal by two reuters journalists jailed for seven years and two were convicted in connection with an investigation into atrocities committed by the military against who wrote it excuse me ten rohingya muslims reporters say their innocence and they were framed by police. you're watching the news we'll have more for you the next hour you can also find out more about these stories and others online at www dot com and dot com slash business i'm stephen birds in for len as always thanks for joining us it's. a.

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