this is due to you news live from berlin clashes erupted in athens as greek nationalists protested a deal to change the name of their country's northern neighbor. changing macedonia whose name to the north macedonia would be an affront to greek identity greece is part of it is due to vote on ratifying the agreement in the coming days we'll get the latest from us and it's. also coming up a car bomb explodes in northern ireland prompting memories of

a traumatic past police arrested two men while politicians warn against a return to sectarian strife. and not one but two no shows for nigeria's historic presidential debate neither president rouhani. nor his main rival take part in the televised event this comes just weeks ahead of nigeria's closely watched election. i'm max foster thanks for joining us. and we begin in the greek capital athens where nationalist groups are protesting a deal to settle a nearly three decade old name dispute with macedonia under the agreement struck last june greece would approve of its northern neighbor renaming itself the republic of north macedonia in return athens would drop its objections to the

balkan country joining nato and the european union greece's parliament is set to vote on the deal this week. protesters charged at the entrance of greece's parliament. because police fired tear gas to deter them. right wing groups called for the demonstration against changing the name of greece's northern neighbor. and tens of thousands he did that call. last thing that guns were entitled to a referendum for the name of our neighboring country no matter what the prime minister says he said they'll probably put a wash in a busy market if it's damaging for our country it will be good to solve the name issue but on our terms and for the good of our own country i looked the other spotted us yet you might get on yet from macedonia blood was spilt emmys and he has not sat down eons do not concede even a letter from the sacred name many greeks agree the name us

a donia is part of their heritage it's also the name of a province and their country's north. creases naming dispute with its neighbor began in one thousand nine hundred one that's when macedonia emerged as an independent country from the disintegrating yugoslavia. greece objected to the name blocking macedonia from joining nato or holding e.u. accession talks. then last june the tide turned greek prime minister alexis tsipras reached an agreement with macedonia that the country would change its name to north macedonia now the greek parliament just needs to approve the deal . that's fueling protesters anger they fear greece's neighbor is robbing them of their cultural heritage who are might make territorial claims on greece's own province of macedonia. to northern ireland where a car bomb rocked the city center of the city of london derry also known as derry

on saturday night there were no reports of casualties police suspect however the. it was carried out by a dissident irish republican group known as the new ira two men have been arrested and leading politicians have condemned the bombing fears have been rising that the political turmoil surrounding breck's it could lead to a return to sectarian violence in northern ireland and nine hundred ninety eight he steel known as the good friday agreement largely brought an end to that violence now joining me here in the studio to break this story down for us is d.w. reporter foley ileus pablo tell us first what do we know about this blast well you've just seen the images there pretty shocking stuff what we do know is that the police have arrested two men in their twenty's in connection with this bombing in the center of derry what happened was a pizza delivery van was hijacked by two armed men a couple of hours before the bomb attack which took place outside the courthouse there in the city d.p.s.

and i guess the police service of northern ireland said it was a very significant attempt to kill people in the community and as you can imagine there's been widespread condemnation particular as we heard from the deputy irish prime minister. he's also the foreign minister he said he would be condemn the car bomb terrorist terrorist attack in derry this evening and he said there's no place or just a vacation possible for such acts of terror we also heard from a statement from the northern ireland office stuff of course from. they said that the voices across the political spectrum are united he said it's intolerable violence and they want to move forward and build a peaceful future for all in northern ireland so you know the there was a lot of condemnation from this and the police also added that they believe the attack may have been carried by dissident a dissident republican group known as the new ira the new aredo who are they now

the new iraq have actually been around since twenty twelve that's believed that was what they believe they were formed it was formed by a number of dissident republican. organizations they said they were unifying under one leadership now back in one thousand nine hundred eight of course the peace deal was signed in northern ireland. ending. more or less thirty years of conflict in northern ireland we saw many people die in those thirty years and since then. things have been relatively peaceful in northern ireland there have been certain. moments of violence we'll say but basically many people have been there were voices back in one thousand nine hundred who weren't pleased with this deal now because things move forward in northern ireland those voices remain fairly quiet but of course things with are beginning to change of course we've got brags that it's also opening up the possibility of a border once again between northern art and then the republic of ireland so there are many open questions remaining over what the intentions are of the new ira. got

a deadline and it's less than two months away we've got this violence that has been linked to the possibility of a hard new border casting our minds back to the troubles as they're called killed three thousand people in three decades is there a danger of that kind of violence starting again if it doesn't happen the right well this is the fear of course now that brags that you know since the one thousand nine hundred eight peace deal there has been this been a fluid border will stay between the republic and the north of ireland and that in many respects is a sort of a symbolic for maybe a bit symbolic if you have once again. an actual hard border with you know military or police on the border because at the moment people cross the border several times a day in many respects and that's help people in northern ireland on both sides of the political spectrum to move forward and you know we have seen relative peace so it is a big concern that perhaps it brags it isn't isn't there isn't a deal reached on the hard border returns that we could go down

a path that people really don't want to see and of course let's not forget that there's been no government in order for the past two years ok thank you pavlo foley ileus for that insight. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the capital to protest violence and terrorism it comes three days after a car bombing at a police academy killed twenty one people colombani colombia's president. has blamed the leftist rebel group for the attack. the democratic republic of congo's constitutional court has dismissed presidential candidate march and for challenge two recent elections has demanded a recount after opposition leader sick eighty one amidst allegations of electoral fraud dozens of people have been killed in unrest since provisional results were released. jihadists linked to al qaida have attacked

a un base in northern mali killing at least eight blue helmet peacekeepers the sunday morning attack occurred in the town of. the un says peacekeepers killed several of the attackers and are pursuing the rest to nigeria now where the country's much anticipated and first ever televised debate in a presidential vote was a flop audiences were surprised and disappointed when president bihari and his main rival both declined to take to the podium journalist friday getting ready for an historic moment. ever presidential debate with the most promising candidates broadcast live on all major channels across the country but minutes before the speculation is building the president himself show up. and. appear. to be.

for these debates. into. positive. politics. the event venue is filling up but no sign of. organizers say he promised to be here a presidential candidate for nigeria's biggest opposition party of the p.d.p. has already arrived but now refuses to go on stage next candidate has been the vice president of nigeria now he's a businessman are very interesting this is live t.v. show anything and happen on live t.v. of observer your. article later tweeted we came here for a presidential debates not

a candidacy debate and i cannot challenge or question an administration where the man at the helm of the affairs of the nation is not presence to defend himself or his policies so the podiums remain empty the p.d.p. and a.b.c. now the two biggest parties in nigeria they are also the only democratic parties to ever rule the country they have just simply announced the exit from the government was right always comes before a fall i am every time you believe that you have no need to tell the people what it is that you are going to do it means that you are not there to serve them in the first place what president mubarak is not known for being a talented speaker the seventy five year old has also suffered from health problems over the past few years many nigerians believe he dodged the debate after an embarrassing performance at his last live appearance at

a town hall meeting on wednesday there he appeared anxious and struggled to answer questions. at the end of the presidential debate. despite the limited the other candidates did a good job to journalists talking about the burning topics in education the struggling economy and security maybe. some of nigeria's political underdogs might have a real chance now. poor start to the season led to a coaching change during the winter break the new bosses. coach and he promised to bring in attacking style of football back to the club but against a third place. style of play unfortunately did not produce the needed goals. after a year away pets a boss is back in the. despite his debacle in dortmund he's tough with guiding

a talented leyva couzin side up the table his team wasted no time trying to impress the new coach twenty seconds in having fallen just failed to connect with the cross fall into one of three strikers in the starting line up and behind him were union brands and chi habits that pavel both involved in this chance with the crafty footwork have a still night by younes all my. dominated crowd back sat back waiting for their moment to strike when they did it was a sucker punch from allison fire i nail off the thirty seven minutes try a spring with crowd back first shots on goal. bush needed more potency from his side after the break the only goal was more frustration the hosts missing a string of chances have it here and then karren better robbie. just that little bit more. i played the cues and finished with twenty two shots on

goal the only step that counts is the final score ball shot through losing stout. maybe they had two chances in the whole game i think we had at least ten. but a fool in the end it's about scoring goals and we didn't so that's what it was just an unfortunate because i'm really happy i was in the right place a couple of times you know three good points a great start to the year. you can rely on zama is a clean sheet of the season right back keeping pace with the tie to contend with. sunday's early game is also done so let's take a look at all the results so far to berlin he came away with a commanding victory against nuremberg table toppers at dortmund beat leipsic there's that blood win against labor mines took down stuttgart frankfurt dominated tribe or distilled or snuck past out spurred and braman won against hannover byron

munich be hoffenheim on friday night and currently underway shall co vs waltz. and that brings us to an end to your news summary from all of us here in the broadcast join us in an hour for another update or follow us any time on facebook twitter or our web site www dot com thanks for watching. state by state. colorful. liveliest. the most traditional. minded all at any time. check in with a whip special. take a tour of germany state by state. dot com. do not.