this is detailed videos coming to you live from berlin renewing their vows the leaders of france and germany signed a new pact a friendship it aims to reenergize the european project at a time of crisis the doesn't go far enough. also coming up the taliban launches one of its deadliest attacks in months insurgents densities a car bomb at a military base in central afghanistan killing scores of soldiers. and the trick of a lifetime off to the street or to battled this group of indian women get to the

top of a sacred mountain in the southern state of quetta but they face opposition from those who say it's not a place for women. costume leaders gather in davos for the annual world economic forum but they're on to as many of them as in previous years ah correspondent ben presumed it managed to track down a piece of one the poll was media. out of a warm welcome to you i'm of the. germany and france have signed a new treaty aimed at deepening cooperation between the two nations chancellor angela merkel and french president embodied mccraw what their names to the pact as a set of many in the western german city of and under the agreement the two nations will step up poor. recent in

a number of key areas including security and foreign policy matters said the accord was specially important at a time when populists were gaining strength in europe mostly it is also said they hoped the back would reinvigorate the e.u. at a time of crisis. we live in very special times for the first time a country is actually leaving the european union the united kingdom well it might have less or less and is under pressure be it in climate issues trade to be it in the acceptance of international institutions all the way to acceptance of the united nations seventy four years a human life after the end of the second world war what seemed to be a solich what seemed to be a matter of course is being called into question again unity solidarity cohesion these are the key will words of the treaty was signed. and europe would not survive

if we were no longer united if we don't work for the new french german responsibility for your business is to give it instruments for example when it comes to defense security case migration. and addressing environmental and digital transitions. joining me now from austin is his chief political editor. and our brussels bureau chief max welcome to both a few and there was a lot of symbolism at the event and the has started off and but both leaders had a very clear message as to why it was important for them to vs the french of the two countries didn't. yes i mean we heard the german chancellor say that these are very special times what she was talking about there of course is that multi-lateralism is under attack the way of doing politics internationally of course with the united states who weren't mentioned here by name trump wasn't

mentioned by name being very much at the core of these uncertain times and we also heard the german chancellor that say that it's now necessary to fill this agreement with life and also of course her call pointing towards what has already also been achieved between germany and france and. pointed out the special responsibility that germany and france have towards the european union actually and. specifically mentioned some threats from the outside a changing world bragg's nationalism in different countries also within the european union of course he also has to address the yellow back home that is extremely important for him as well and he's saying that united europe as a shield towards all those threats now both emphasize the importance of the german

franco relationship as a motor of the european union but as you were saying max it also talks about the way forward for the e.u. and what stood out for you that. first of all we have witnessed the signing of a german french treaty here but on top of it. you had three officials of the european union also speaking so everybody here very determined to make it clear that this was not. something that was supposed to be. forward and by the way the president of the european council made it very clear that he thought this was extremely important also mentioning countries of eastern europe german french and absolutely crucial to the batsman of the european union everybody here said it everybody knows it but as. we have the words sixteen pages but it will need to be filled with light. and michelle what can you add to that. well

absolutely i mean we saw the german chancellor say it has to be filled with concrete projects and i think that's also why we see such a mixture here this goes from special funding for cross border cooperation we're talking about schools we're talking about education learning languages become completely by lingual that's the region also where the german foreign minister actually incidentally comes from and then there's a lot of talk about taking european defense through this very agreement and that the two countries in terms of their military traditions and the way they view their military strategically. hot so rebif france and germany have to prove that they can master european integration also with a very very different. to lead the way for at least some more solidarity in europe because nobody here really has the illusion there's a completely into gates' europe that europe will actually find its feet in terms of

defining joint foreign policy joint defense and joint solidarity and migration anytime soon and next thing you mention the eastern european nations. how is this franco german or french or pretty going to go down with some of the smaller countries in the e.u. they often feel that their concerns on neglected by big countries like germany and france. absolutely and i mean it's always been the classic problem in france germany doesn't work everybody complains because they're not giving enough energy enough roadmaps towards the european union but if it works all the small countries complain because they feel like they're being left out that will not change that is structurally within the european union much more dangerous is that for eastern european perspective france and germany are perceived as a structurally different model especially when it comes to topics like migration and this will certainly not stop as long as we have those two leaders in modern

michael and i'm going to back the marks off on a brussels spirit chief. chief political editor thank you both very much for talking to us from. let me not bring you up to date but some other stories making news around the former ukrainian prime this a yulia tymoshenko has announced that she ran for president in the election in march tymoshenko was jailed for two and a half years over a ghastly were joshua in what was largely seen as a politically motivated conviction. a moscow court has ruled that a former u.s. marine detained on suspicion of spying would remain in custody pending trial. lawyer says his client was duped into taking possession of a flash drive containing russian state secrets. mexico has begun bearing victims of friday's explosion at an illegally tapped pipeline in the state. the death toll has risen to ninety one after seven more victims died in hospital

authorities have opened an investigation into the incident. turning now to afghanistan and this being. attack on a military base in the center of the country which just kill scores of people the taliban has claimed responsibility for this latest high casualty strike on the gun forces there conflicting reports about the death toll ranging from at least sixty five to well over one hundred the violence in my van shot in wadda province comes despite increased efforts by the united states to negotiate an end to the country's seventeen year old conflict. part flattened after a car loaded with explosives past three military checkpoint and dainton eat it inside the compound and officials say several gunmen then stormed the base opening fire at soldiers before being gunned dian themselves. it was around six o'clock

there was a very big explosion and i thought they had been. very strong. it's the latest and want to speak come near daily assaults by the taliban who have been stepping up their attacks on government facilities in recent months under tared by the harsh winter. best time of the taliban were able to breach the compound security barriers by using a vehicle they had captured from the afghan military some of the injured were taken to local hospitals for treatment more serious cases were sent some fifty kilometers away to the capital capital. the government is facing accusations that it's hiding the truth there too so as to avoid further worsening morale among afghanistan's already shattered security forces joining me now from kabul is gentleness ali and if you only what is the latest on this attack and why did the taliban dog this particular intelligence base. well the intelligence agency just put out

a statement at least. numbers of their forces were killed in this attack. and again that's going against all of the other numbers what we've been hearing so for instance last night when i was asking people i have heard from different sources to her numbers fifty i've heard aviate heard more than one hundred twenty i had heard all within a few hours span so we're still not entirely certain look exactly as tall as obviously we know what the government is saying but there are other sources saying that it's higher as to why the intelligence unit would be the most likely to be targeted it's because the intelligence agency has a very bad reputation amongst the top of on there have been numerous reports by rights organizations saying that you know in intelligence prisons people are. taken in imprisoned without proper evidence that they are that they are tortured that

there are many many issues with the way that the intelligence units operate and the way that they're jails and particularly treat people dead that they are exactly basically detaining. intelligence unit has always had a very sort of negative connotation to the top. and how do you want to implications does this attack have of the u.s. in the city of push on peace talks with the thought had been and taliban representatives have been meeting u.s. media it is in got that. so the u.s. is very adamant you know that they're very determined to get out of afghanistan it seems if you look at what trump has been saying i mean since two thousand and eleven he's made no secret that he has no interest in this war that he doesn't like this war that he wants out of this war you know the information about leaked about a month ago about you know to us wanting to withdraw at least half of its troops all of this shows that the u.s. is preparing to leave in one form or another so i think that the talks will

continue as long as the taliban are willing to talk to the u.s. i think the u.s. will continue to talk to them because of the fact that they just want out of this war and we've seen in the past with the exception of the three day each cease fire this has always been that the situation of the war where one side usually the government will say that they want peace but they continue you know to attack taliban targets and go after targets you know they continue with the war just as they have and the taleban when they briefly open their their office in doha in two thousand and thirteen did the same thing they said outright they said we would be willing to discuss peace but that doesn't mean that we're going to stop fighting and he and the thief a journalist in kabul thank you very much for that update. here watching the news coming up ahead outrage in china over the outrage in canada the chinese government lashes out as an open letter demanding the release of canadians arrested in china

that's on the arrest of a chinese businesswoman in canada we talk to one person who signed that letter. but first guess how does it all with business season or roads lead to davos today because it is the opening day of the world economic forum in this. this year it's dominated by zion t. trade disputes international relations brags it and fears the world economy could tip into recession all those are said to dominate the meeting a plethora of crises has also kept several world leaders away this year including u.s. president donald trump british prime minister tourism and french president. the founder and chairman of the world economic forum close she opened the gathering by urging delegates to focus on the future he hailed the number of young blowby leaders at the meeting and said it was time to quote listen to the young.

and that's what we do right now let's go straight over to davos where our correspondent is standing by to know brazil's new president. has just given a much anticipated speech what do you have to say. indeed a well basically he's been holding up the populist banner especially in the absence of donald trump the very fact of his dissimilarity from your usual world economic forum delegates our leaders have made him a bit of a draw so he's basically saying dr brazil is open for business and that he's highlighting a pivot away from interventionist economic policies the kind of which brazil had seen in the last two years he's opening up brazil for trade and investment but of course you can't really get around the fact that. also naro is a far right nationalists his world views are directly incompatible with a world view that davos seeks to represent and we can say that this is probably

going to be a battle of the forum organizers are going to have to grapple with in the next years as populism continues to grow in many parts of the world talk about populism nationalism that one of the big elephants in the room that must be breaks it is it on the official agenda. indeed it is and you know what talking about elephants in the room it's really getting hard for world leaders to associate with the glitterati and davos and the decadence of davos when they're fighting battles at home you talked about brags that there are two reason may of course not here as he continues to try and establish these brags that flames but you know who is here however a former british prime minister tony blair and earlier my colleague ben fuzzy will then talk to him in an interview about his views for bragg that this is what they had to say as i understand that the idea is to to change the withdrawal agreement obviously that's a matter of negotiation between the british government and europe but look myself

and others have been arguing in the u.k. that this process is is a mess and there's no agreement as to what the future trading relationship with europe should be one group of people want us to stay close to europe another group one has to break out of the european trading system altogether these are very different futures and our view is that it's got to go back to the people for decision because parliament i think will be blocked i doubt that she can get a deal through there's nobody already for any other form of break that and therefore the sensible thing in this situation is to go back and ask the people how would a second referendum change anything will change it because it would give us a conclusive result i mean people sometimes say well if you have another referendum isn't that a damage to democracy but look we're going back to the people we're not asking anyone else risking them we've had thirty months of negotiation there's a much clearer knowledge now of what breaks it really means is a much greater understanding of all the issues around it and i think it's not

unreasonable in these circumstances to ask people whether they want to think again whether or not we get another referendum what sort of break will we get in the end do you think well of the moment we just don't know and the trouble is that the two versions of bragg's it that make any sense if you like because obviously a no deal breaker. it would be catastrophic for everyone. the two versions are very different one version has us remaining in the single market for example of the customs union but the problem with that briggs is that it means you keep to europe's rules but you've lost your say over them which would be an odd thing to do given you know what the break that people want is to break out of the system secondly you could go for a third country standard free trade agreement like canada for example the problem with that is that it will disrupt british business that for four and a half decades has been doing business creating relationships trading investing on the basis that we're part of the european trading system the single market the customs union so you've got to break at this point listen one that's painful and

the choice is not a good one this is why parliament's blocked and the trouble with the deal mrs may's putting forward at the moment is that it is completely ambiguous take about the future and i think it's not wise either for europe or for britain to leave without knowing what the future is what would you have done in the position i think the only thing that you can do is to explain to people in a sense for the prime minister to become the nation's educator in a way and say look here are the different options this is what they mean parliaments now got to come to a choice of parliament can choose because m.p.'s can find to break the works for them then you know it's not i think it's not wrong or strange to go back and say on a decision of this magnitude it's important to us the people in all politeness there what did you do wrong in your term in office that possibly set the stage for this or led to this type of exacerbated feeling or anx from from brits that they're

not getting a good deal from the european union you know the thing is in my period in government obviously we had a lot of controversies in europe. but we were constantly one making the case as to why britain should be part of europe nonetheless despite all our criticisms of the european system jem's ago criticisms of your do by the way everyone has and secondly the failure was to deal with the underlying issues immigration number one communities and people feeling left behind by globalization now if i'd been in government my view is you've got to deal with these issues in other words even if you try and change breaks it you've got to understand what gave rise to breaks it and you have to deal with those underlying issues if you don't then you're going to have a major problem and the trouble is the break that itself is not really an answer to any of these issues so this is the. the dial among the britons in and we've got to find a way out of it so what's britain going to look like in the next ten years will it

be so great look the one thing i'd say is a bold to say this to any outside audience we're having a pretty profound and crisis ridden debate in britain right now but britain is a great country and the british people are great people will get on our feet again so you know whatever happens even if we can passionately opposed to break that even if we do breaks it you know we will sort ourselves out and we'll get back on our feet and we'll we'll move forward so this is not simply about britain either what i'd say to any audience in europe is this is about europe do you pull a logic on a me out of europe a major political play sensible letter. signed by you know the leaders of some of the main parties in germany this is this is what we need to do we need to realise both of us europeans british our future should be together. and that was my colleague ben fuzzy with and talking earlier to former british

prime minister tony blair about the ambiguity is a break that and it's back to you go hard. in the show but first the big thing one of the founding blocks of the entire world economic forum you might say is of course free trade and that's a thorny and very complex issue but understand how global trade really works our reporter cio one of the brightest sparks your t w business has come up with our own revolutionary series she calls it the chocolate model of free trade and i'm sure it will be taught in universities. swiss chocolate things something this innocent could be in the center of fierce debate over free trade switzerland is very famous for its chocolate but making it here is quite expensive swiss milk is twice as expensive in supermarkets as it is in germany to stop swiss chocolate makers from buying foreign cheaper milk and to protect domestic family the government

introduced. the chocolate taxes for an agricultural product and also processed ones making foreign just as expensive as. not only that but the swiss also subsidize chocolate exports making swiss chocolate more affordable abroad the world trade organization put a stop to that the law is being phased out from this year on the w.t. is objective more free trade and more competition and of course that's the mantra of this entire forum here in the fourth. there you have it all in a nutshell more business that later in the show but now it's back to the meat of the latest on growing tension between china and canada that's right on china has lashed out at a group of former diplomats of academics who've signed an open letter calling for the release of two canadians the detentions of thought to be in retaliation for the arrest in canada of a top executive from the chinese tech giant. the letter was found this to in

canada's globe and mail in space but the chinese foreign ministry courted a great disrespect for interfering with china's judicial process. now with me in the studio i have young curtis she's from the german marshall fund think tank in berlin and she is one of the people who signed that letter welcome it's not often that you have high ranking diplomats citing an open letter of this kind why do you think this case is attracting so much international attention well first of all we have two canadian citizens in jail for more than six weeks under dire conditions that in itself is a reason to be active internationally but one of them michael coverage is not only a diplomat a former diplomat but he's also a researcher that makes him basically one of us so that's where the story becomes more relevant and more directly related to what we're working on as research and the belief is that maybe this is

a retaliate by china are full of the the chinese executive who was held in canada but the things being as the will this lead to make a difference do you think will it impress the president and being what this letter does it shows unity it shows unity of more than one hundred forty people that usually don't agree on a whole lot when it comes to china this is a vital spectrum of china watchers that have agreed to sign this letter and i think that the main point also of the reaction of the chinese foreign ministry immediately shows that this was noted and it was nick not it didn't go down well so i think that's an important factor it is seen and it is putting them at a cost to these actions to those attentions have been growing between the two countries beijing and also canada to what extent is this incident going to cause the eliminates the western world from china i think first of all it's important to underline that the tensions have been growing between china and the u.s.

for a long time and not necessarily between china and canada which is more of a pawn in this entire game in a much larger spectrum so i think this is the message that it sends to countries like germany countries that are in between and that could be caught in the middle it could become very very. comfortable in the future so that is exactly the elephant in the room of course is that the united states that the tensions between china and the u.s. are. playing out in the neighboring china though what do the risks of these two can you does mean for other foreigners who are working in china as you look at the risks to people face when they're working in china working in china researching and china the space has been shrinking for quite some time already but what i think is important to underline in the specific instance is that no one wants to be fear mongering at this point in time but a clear assessment a reassessment of what is at stake and what could be the elements of opera terry detention needs to be made for everyone at this point in time ride to a young from the german marshall fund to think tank in berlin thank you very much

for your thoughts thank you. it was in need of news coming up ahead breaking new ground on a sacred mountain we go along with the indian women who fought to become the first females to scale this divided mountain and won. and they're finally out the nominations for this series academy awards do the obvious film experts will take us to the movies that are out there running and scott drugs but i will also tell us of which one is keep things since not going osca. although i have more coming up on the job you shortly and do man but there's lots more on our web site that's d w dot com of course you can follow us on twitter as well as on facebook i'll be back with you shortly so do stay with me as if you can .

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an emission i just want to join the trekkers who see the journey as a great step forward for gender equality. it's an unusually early start for this group of nine women they have set out on a trip to make history by embarking on a trek which has only been open to men so far it took them just two hours to make the trip from the city of two to one and put on to the base camp where the trek will start. but it took a trio court battle street protests and countless meetings but the got to walk around and to a group to be permitted to make the journey. and after finally getting their permits from officials be out through. the mountains of augusta is the second highest peak in the catalog and a trickle spattered. the nearly one thousand eight hundred metre tall mountain it's

also believed to be the final resting place of augusta a revered hindu siege. because he was thought to be celibate women have until now not been permitted to make the trek. in hinduism menstruating women are considered impure from the owners of the male dominated society things to a mainstream. church where you don't comes over me men as individuals having personality having mind having so or just sex objects that women are just sex objects menstruating sex sort of just i don't think that daughter would be changed . but last november the get along high court struck down the unofficial ban on women's entry into the smallest of these after the trick open for visitors the real started the journey she had fought to make but all these years. she did not fight alone for shiny. a biker and artist this trick is fulfilling a childhood dream. but there's

a belief that if you reach the peak of this mountain you can get a second life i was curious about why that is what that is i wanted to see it but five years ago i found out that the track was forbidden for women why is that why a man allowed everywhere but women aren't. the members of the mountains native conny tribe the answer is not at all this they have held meetings and taught us to keep women off the beak. they said it was their right to protect these traditions. or rule for equality for women and men but in hinduism every temple has its own tradition every community has its own tradition and a specific way of offering prayers. the believe that if a woman reaches the peak of. all the flowers and leaves would be. it would bring to the would. that notion couldn't be further from the truth but the b r and her

fellow checkers. reality excited the whole game because this is our way to reality really happy and become sort of the most important thing is that we could break the bad break the bad out of gender discrimination. but these verman getting to the top of this challenging dating is secondary step by step what they really want is a change in attitude. that report was by a correspondent nischelle just who now joins me live from delhi now michelle we love your report why the women wanted to make this trick but what obstacles did they face in trying to get there. well and of these women came from very diverse backgrounds there were lawyers teachers devise a teacher there was a sales manager they range from the ages of thirty to fifty six but what brought them together is their will to assert that women have as much of

a right to access as men do but it was definitely not an easy battle they came together three years ago just to pull together by their will to do the trick and in twenty seventeen actually they came very close much like they've already to the strike just a few days ago they actually came to the base camp and just the day before they were turned away because the country of succeeded in getting a stay it was only last september when the get off high court lifted this ban and told and the forest ministry the forest officials monitoring the forest to give the passes did they get did these women get the passes but even the day before the truck they asked me when i went to talk to the can you not to mention the track because they continue to be afraid that it might that they might be blocked despite getting parcels so a great sense of the cheese achievement for them the district comes also the shall be mine or temple case also the state of canada the priest there also said every temple has its own tradition which we should respect so the women respond to such

arguments. well i'm with all of them and simply assert that they have a right to equality the women in this case the of best have could have checked say that this is basically a bio reserve it's a very biodiverse tradition and that checking up the mountain is simply the right of everybody interested in this biodiversity and every check of the in the castle shall be my lot of course it's a more why it's a more volatile religious issue it's about a temple of the supreme court also pointed out the women have the right to equal access but of course there's been a massive pushback from the water use despite that ban the listed only three of them and were able to make it into that temple so far and devoted have actually gone to the supreme court and said reconsider your decision the supreme court is actually going to be hearing reviews off its challenges to its decision very soon next month and we should as we said with a trickle say in your report that this is this is a grid kind of a victory for gender rights how do you see it well under the others

getting this access getting the support from the courts is definitely an important aspect but it is not as simple as simply being given the sperm mission because women themselves many women themselves in catalogs do not support the women who are osteen for access country people told me that our own women do not go for the strict xabi model also has seen a lot of pushback from women in the state in fact one of the women who actually entered that temple has actually been thrown out of her house by her mother in law she was actually attacked violently physically by her mother in law reports were coming in over last week so it's not as simple as actually getting court support there's a need for a societal change of attitudes and this is actually what these women up wishing for they want support not just from the courts but from their friends and family from the people of catalan as well. as you as one of the you're trekkers said a change in mind set and we should just well in delhi thank you very much for your insights. and we see in india last year we saw

a series of mob lynchings largely blamed of the spread of inflammatory messages spread via the popular messaging service whatsapp but the problem extends far beyond india now the company has taken a drastic step to fight the spread of potentially feet news. has that story for us and joins me now to decode what exactly is what's doing so what's up is really stepping up its war on fake news and what they're doing now they're changing their tweaking the platform and they're limiting the number of times users can forward messages so from now on users will only be able to forward a message to five people that's down from twenty and this may not sound like a huge blow to fake news but actually the forwarding function has long been one of the fastest and most effective ways of spreading false information and if you think

about it before i was able to send a potentially fool's message to twenty people and they in turn were able to to send it to another twenty people in two steps that would have been only already four hundred people receiving that false information and now the damage is down to twenty five people so this may not solve the problem of fake news but it will definitely drastically slow down the speed at which the spread and how big of a problem is this well i mean what's up is a very powerful tool it can be it's one of the world's most popular messaging apps with one point five billion users it's also in some countries the platform that people go to to read news for example and if you take brazil for instance there we know that the platform was used to spread. information about political candidates and during last year's presidential election campaign and in fact the popularity as well as the then the victory of

a far right candidate to narrow the. partly attribute it to the spread to full hudes like this one fools who sorry this is trying to discredit both scenarios main opponent fernando had died by falsely claiming that he was trying to finance armed in cuba and in some cases rumors and was have has or have also put people's lives in danger and that was the case in india where we saw that there was a wave of lynchings that were linked to a full messages being spread and what's up like this video for example that was circulated there claiming to show many in russia stand kidnapping women and girls and raping them and those claims where absolutely false but they sparked dozens of mock killings across the country and against innocent people who were wrongly accused of kidnapping kids so following this incident the indian government has really asked demanded what's up for action and we saw that what's up even launched a series of ads in the country trying to you know this dissuade users from using

the after spread. rumors. and what impact do you think this tweak will have. well i mean what's up has been testing this five. tresh old in india since july and they said that it has helped reducing forwarding there by twenty five percent already and now they're taking this worldwide and we will see with volatile elections coming up in places like nigeria for example where what's up is also huge you know how this tweak will help things there if it will. you from a social media of this thank you very much. president the most among governor of zimbabwe has arrived back home to deal with the country's economic crisis and security crackdown. broke off a tour seeking a much needed foreign investment and scrapped plans to attend the davos summit of

world leaders this week has come under growing pressure to return after twelve people were reported dead and hundreds of arrested in a brutal security operation against a nationwide protest sparked by fear price rises did obvious correspond to a misfire on here recent us this report on how zimbabweans are coping with the country's worst economic crisis in a decade so. michigan took a ticket and his wife mavis sits down at the area to plan what they should buy it is a difficult task his monthly salary is a teacher barely covers the expenses for a week the father of seven is de benteke he is struggling to buy medication or nice salary or less than five hundred u.s. dollars a month for. my mom. because you can't budget

and you're just. you you are. she will seriously irish do they want to sell and raise their wages paid in us dollars to cushion them from the economic shocks regularly hitting zimbabwe early january doctors ended the strake that went on for more than a month. now teachers are threatening and nationwide walkout the government of president. sees the economy needs to act just in that they have not forgotten their weapons sort of government is putting in place their pocket. if food is post of living adjustment package.

is effective. in the context of the current budget that's a. live by unions a few negotiations are not being taken seriously the government offered and ten percent salary increase as of april but unions. we did not see a government that is moving in or even if there are guns didn't do it without the. ongoing economic crises is one of the biggest challenges facing the new administration after the departure of longtime president robert mugabe the prices of basic goods have more than tripled since october fuel is in short supply motorists are spending days q week end zimbabweans like me to could take asked starting to doubt whether the economic growth promised by the new government will

become a reality. the world economic forum is in full swing in da was let's go straight to our business correspondent dumas lown who has it seems a very interesting guest over to you. i do amrita in fact i am joined here by the prime minister of nepal prime minister k. p. all the thank you for joining us now my first question for you of course is it's your first time attending the world economic forum the first time a prime minister of nepal has attended what is your biggest goal here in davos of course this is for. the prime minister. to take part in. make forum and we hope. we can draw. or lead us and invest us to where we are creating

a very pivotal situation. for an investment and we have settled political issues and we have. had and such a citizen to speak to since and if out of concern to contradict the economic development show. i would like to use this opportunity to attract and invite. investment in different and yes and in coming at the end of march about. uniting international economic investment forum and. i want to. tell everybody about that. so you want to highlight economic potential in nepal now the paul of course is in a very specific position it sound which between china in and india though the region superpowers so what potential do you see for nepal in terms of economic sway

over the region. evidently speaking i don't want to. send these because of course we are between the two big neighbors but it is an opportunity for us that there are very huge markets for us and those matters increasing affording power we can understand there are developing that if i actually and they. are. neighbors and we have a. connectivity access to both sides and we are developing. a . good opportunity for us to be between the two big countries in the contest before it was maybe like i said it's but now. it is between. two great bigger neighbors and there's

a good opportunity for us i think and we can use this opportunity for our economy development thank you very much prime minister ali thank you very much. thank you very much and that was prime minister all the from nepal telling us about nepal making it all to the world stage and it's back to you amrita thank you very much as you do well and thank you also the primeness for talking to us on did we let you go now thanks very much for that. that is down from the footboard was a plane carrying a new cardiff city signing emiliano is missing according to media reports in britain and in france the twenty eight year old argentine became the premier league sides of record transfer last week when he left the french club known to police sources say that there is an ongoing search for

a private plane were disappear from the radar over the english channel last night or route from non to cardiff solid didn't show up for tuesday's training session at cardiff and the club fears he was on board. joining me now from the debbie sports desk is chris having to guess what can you tell us about this developing story any new details well just tracing his last known steps. he sayd is record contract with cardiff city in cardiff one saturday we know he definitely returned to france because around twenty four hours ago he posted a picture with his former teammates from not and we have the photo here and in the caption it says chow which translates to translates to the last goodbye which clearly is an unfortunate situation french authorities confirmed he indeed did board the plane he was also seen at the airport by journalists french journalists as well so everyone right now including his family and friends are involved in an

unbearable wait for news because he is feared dead unfortunately that's if he hadn't even attended his first training session with the new club you know that's right the red flags went off when he didn't show for training you know today tuesday and the chairman club chairman from cardiff city mehmet dominic came out and said we're very concerned by the latest news that a light plane went missing over the english channel they are awaiting confirmation to find out you know concretely what transpired a close friend of solid did come out and say he was fulfilling a dream of playing in the premier league and he couldn't wait to start playing for court of city because in a sporting sense they're battling with relegation you know but in a bigger sense this is a tragic story considering he was only twenty years old and. yet you have to hope for the best but unfortunately people are thinking the worst has happened chris hansen from phyllis's thank you they must have enough up to date on that developing

story ok. we stay with football and santa rinaldo has decided guilty to spanish tax fraud the u. ventus and portugal forward signed autographs after leaving the court in madrid the purty three year old agreed to settle the case by paying a nineteen million euro fine and accepting a suspended jail sentence for charge comes from his time playing for real madrid he's also been accused of rape in the united states a charge which he denies. now it's a big day for hollywood and for for the novice the nominations are out for this is academy awards indeed news experts scott trucks there is here to phyllis in a welcome scott you're the bad to talk at this moment so who got the most nominations yeah i mean maybe not too much of a surprise the two big front runners are and the favorite which

a lot of people expected would be going into these before the nominations this morning just just few minutes ago. the most interesting one maybe is roma this is a black and white film from mexico. might know he directed gravity which won a few oscars a number of years ago this is a completely different film it's black and white it's the story of his growing up in mexico in the one nine hundred seventy s. but interestingly and i think significantly he decided to tell the story not by focusing on his own point of view but on the point of view is the housemaid is his . housekeeper who raised him essentially in mexico so that got ten nominations including four for himself it's also the very first film this film is made by netflix the very first time that netflix has got a best picture nomination for the oscars a very very big deal in this whole battle between netflix and the traditional film

studios the other big nominee is the favorite this is a sort of period drama but a very very strange film from your post about the most also about ten nominations this including all three are just it's it's really three amazing arcs is led by olivia colman there's rachel weisz and emma stone is the third and it's set in it's a period drama in england but it's unlike any period drama you've ever seen not least because of the way it portrays women because the women here are not just the sex accessories to the man they are in full control and they are beautifully evil in this will be one of my absolute favorites of the year so those are the. top front runners but then they're made more i guess you could maybe put them in the sort of the art house film category alongside those you have a whole series of really big big movies competing for best leading the pack is a star is born bradley cooper film starring bradley cooper and lady gaga lady gaga

playing a unknown singer who who is plucked from obscurity and becomes a star a very old story it's a film it's been told many many times this is credibly well done a movie lady gaga herself is got an oscar nomination for best actress and she'll be a leading figure in their unfortunate bradley cooper who directed this film structurally if you didn't get a nomination for best director for the best there my opinion but that's one of those big big blocks off a box office blockbusters nominated this year alongside it though another music story which is a big surprise for me bohemian rhapsody which is the story of queen and freddie mercury banquet and freddie burkey. plays freddie mercury in this film it's got five nominations including best film and. as best actor this really surprised me because i wasn't that impressed by the movie but obviously audiences knew better and the academy thought different and this is again one of these really big

blockbuster styled movies in of the running this year the other one i should mention because it's also got eight nominations and is also a true story is vice this is one of the most political movie was not made this year it's about dick cheney the former vice president played all in almost unrecognizable four by christian bale and christabel has to be what are your favorites for best actor issue the case of a competitive year any trends you're seeing in this is nomination scott you know will be sought the idea that you see a lot of sort of big blockbuster films nominated this year going into the nominations there's a lot of talk about diversity and the lack of diversity in a lot of the previous oscar campaigns this year you see a little bit more of a crazy rich. asians which was one of my favorite films last year didn't get nominated unfortunately but black klansman spike lee's last last film did get a number of nominations including spike lee's first nomination as best director really hope he wins at this time it's gone. for last to talk about him not so look forward to thank you very much for coming and.

thank you very much for your company come back. good. good. good. good. good. good.

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