this is the news live from berlin germany's ruling conservatives confront a crisis at the top of the party battle c.d.u. leader on the red cross collar of our culture critics blog and challenges them directly to back me or sack me we'll bring you an update from the party talks also on the program why preparing to go to the polls as a crime wave sweeps the capital city forcing neighbors and shop owners to take security into their own hands and as chinese authorities tight border controls between hong kong and the mainland we talked to

a pro-democracy protesters who was arrested at the border and caught and put it by chinese police. i'm calling asman to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome the leader of the ruling christian democrats here in germany has issued an ultimatum in a debate over her leadership as the c.d.u. began its annual party conference on aggressive trump told delegates that she was prepared to quit if they didn't back her from qanbar took over from chancellor merkel as the c.d.u. leader last year but the party's popularity has plunged under her leadership and it's taken a hit and recent regional elections. she went all the way and took on the challenge after several attacks in the weeks leading up to the cd use party conference and

a great. post the big question to her party colleagues and leipsic. many of them i know if you feel that the road i want to go down is not the road you want to follow then let us talk about that today and let does end it today here and now today. how did the 1000 delegates react with this 7 minute standing ovation continuing 190 minute speech the party that passionately our the policy measures she wants to pursue in the future. isn't enough to be the repair service of the republican we need to become the workshop of the future again that's our goal and that's what we want to do one time in my mind one of those in the audience was fleet ice melts the hottest revival that has attacked i k.k. several times in recent weeks this time he seemed surprisingly loyal and he would

come cardboard morgan a.k.k. gave a strong courageous and forward looking speech this morning. peter god on darfur oh very grateful to have felt that thank you via zend we are loyal to our chairwoman to our party leadership. and to the federal government chancellor angela merkel who has passed on the party leadership to come no longer takes part in these debates she used her opening speech to talk about more personal issues often make it so i thought if i move on today is also a very special day for me my own father because on november 22nd 2005 i was elected german chancellor for the 1st time and this remains something very special to me. is on the us for me and their coats political child. could it come. is giving it a disused conference and sofa she is one at least for now.

are joining me now in studio is our political correspondent lamely from how much time she's been reporting on the party conference for us. the phrase the day back me or sack me is anyone likely to take up a challenge well definitely not at this party conference and we saw it in the report just now and held a very courageous speech and she was rewarded for it by her delegates who gave her a 7 minute long standing ovation but at least for now this challenge is off the table. has bought yourself some time but now she really has to deliver she has to prove that she can lead the party going forward that she can half create a vision for the party to lead it into the next year where in 2020 the cd you like other political parties in germany will decide on who to put forward as candidate chancellor candidate for the 2021 elections and so this leadership battle within

the c.d.u. is over for now but will shortly be talking about it soon again still wants a time to go one name that could come up in the future free dismounts he tried he failed though last year to become party leader. what comes next for him we heard a bit of from him earlier today exactly and it was very striking how different his tone was today at the party conference than it was just a couple of weeks ago where he found very harsh words of criticism not only criticizing i'm going to come combo of but also in general the i'm going to american led coalition government and so he did say in his speech he did say it's a it was almost a peace offering that he gave to come combo of their own states but he also did stress that he wants to play a role. in the future of the party he didn't really specify what that role will look like

a lot of observers are saying that he is indeed still planning on running as a candidate for chance the next year but at the moment today he declared his loyalty to and become we've mentioned a lot of names in the c.d.u. and one of you haven't mentioned chancellor angela merkel although she cast such a huge shadow not only in the c.d.u. but in germany what will her role be in the next couple of years well judging from her speech today it will most likely not be a very important role at least when we are talking about domestic issues when we're talking about the direction the future direction off the party she made very clear in her speech today that she wants to leave that to her successor to undertake she doesn't want to be the one directing the posse in the future but she also in your speech today stressed again that's what the work of the governments was doing at the government was doing a fine job and she called as she has done in a couple a series of speeches over the past couple of months she's called urged the

delegates to believe in multilateralism to defend the values of multilateralism so i'm going to make a really has that role of the figure had that's sort of removed and that's already she's already preparing for a political retirement so the c.d.u. leadership issue perhaps subtle for now but looking ahead into the future i mean how important is it for this party to get things in order and get their leadership role subtle definitely really important and we've seen that today with both the speech from monica but also felix mance who underlined how important it is to show off that unity to show off to you with a clear profile going into the future they don't want to fall into the same trap the social democrats that coalition partner in the grand coalition has fallen into who've been into toll on themselves apart over this leadership question for months . snow and 2 are being punished for it by really bad polls so what we saw today

from the party conference is a clear sign they want to avoid that and they want to be the c.d.u. into food future with a clear profile political correspondent on how much time think of a much. i let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 3 iraqi protestors have been killed and 25 injured in clashes with security forces in the capital baghdad more than $340.00 people have died since protests against widespread corruption and unemployment broke out last month in baghdad and in southern iraq. anti-government protesters in lebannon of marked 76 years of the country's independence by organizing a parade in the capital beirut replacing the usual military show the country has been gripped by protests since mid october demanding the removal of politicians deemed inept and corrupt. colombia's defense minister has confirmed the death of 3

people during clashes in the west of the country they were killed during nationwide demonstrations as part of a general strike against the policies of president eban do gays right wing government. well in order why people will elects a president on sunday with polls suggesting the center right's national party is on course to end a decade and a half of left wing rule in yet another power shift in latin america national party candidate luis lock poll the son of a former president finished 2nd in the 1st round vote with around 29 percent but in the upcoming runoff you can probably count on the votes from 5 mostly conservative parties that's why pollsters see him winning ahead of the ruling party candidate danielle martinez is a former minister and mayor of whys capital montevideo for the left wing broad front he'd won the 1st round vote with 39 percent of. our

correspondents nicole foolish joins me now she is in or why is capital montevideo nicole the left wing broad front has been in power for 14 years now why is the party facing the real possibility that that one will be coming to an end. well it wasn't all bad in these 15 years the leftist government turned your ally into one of the most advanced nations and latin america and matters of rights of women's rights. but in them vo pushed for a crucial anti-tobacco law and that historic legalise ation of mario wanna but when bling economy a dwindling economy. a corruption scandal in the government that led to to the vice president leaving office growing inequality and caters and also. a worsening security situation in the country have left people longing for

a change 61 percent of your alliance say that the security situation in the country is their biggest concern and they don't feel protected by the authorities so much so that some of the people i spoke to are taking matters into their own hands let's have a listen surveillance cameras on every corner but it's not big brother who's watching it's desperate citizens trying to protect their businesses and property. to give idea area to cars are stolen every day break ins and armed robbery have become a part of daily life in this upper middle class neighborhood. fearing for the safety of his wife and daughter not about that i've ever said i didn't want to sit idly by and he wasn't the only one. there was some in the 100 families in the park neighborhood watch tonight we work with what's not groups and whistles that's how we learn. if we hear the whistle we immediately know one of our

neighbors is asking for help. you know. reasons to ask for help abound. this little dry cleaners has been attacked so many times that its owner will only ever unlock the door for people she knows. my business has been broken into 6 times and once i was held up at gunpoint. by the . i don't matter how much you give them never know if they're going to turn around and shoot you is they. say i'm getting therapy now to help me get over it because now i live in fear but i didn't used to be the case. fear has spread through like wildfire collective anxiety that borders paranoia says a former member of the neighborhood watch. well i was only signed up for

a couple of months because it turned out to be a collective psychosis a mass manipulation to go out and hunt suspects. even though i was always on edge wondering if i had had a whistle or not it's amazing how easy it is to be absorbed by this dynamic i felt ridiculous and i never felt protected. the here. but a lot of people do feel safer being a part of the neighborhood watch with authorities unable to control the rising crime rates they find solace in community. of those stops by to check on a shop owner who's been robbed 20 times already and. so often i don't want to say i'm getting used to it because having to live with it is awful . and then something happens one of the usual suspects steps into the store and leon immediately texts his neighbors something he has come to

find more helpful than calling the police. i probably called them 10 times that of other times i just clean up. what's going on i would go and get to work. and the attitude the neighbors of park give idea are hoping to see adopted by the new government for them to feel like they can let their guard down a lot needs to be cleaned up and fixed so wherever it takes the president on sunday will have to urgently get to work the local clearly crime is one of the biggest factors heading into this election if the center right prevails on sunday with the law and order platform it will be as part of a 5 party coalition is there though enough in common between those parties to make that alliance work. well that's one of the big uncertainties here in europe why at the moment because the one thing they have in common really the only thing is that they are not the fence they are. they are

a coalition of the willing so to say just to push the current government out and nobody really knows what they what they will bring to the table one potential trouble maker is the governing though of yet though the newest party in this formation it's led by a general and many fear the influence he might have on a new government whether or not he'll be able to destabilise it what his proposals will be he's a he's a far right candidate he ran for president in the 1st round and then aligned with with. the on a few another. but we have to bear in mind that this galvanization of opposition power is also how the french there came into being and that indicates that it might just work out the whole so many of were wise neighbors are going through these deep political changes seemingly brought on by similar issues you mention income

inequality mention corruption how to fit into the larger picture in the region. well you're a guy really like seeing itself as that shining city on the hill of sorts in this. latin american context and as we just saw they share a lot of the problems that other countries in the region also * go through but we do have to say that their own perception is not quite what the objective indicators tell us the country is still very well off and matters of human rights of access to goods and services and even security so even though there has been a decline in these in these aspects. europe why it is still quite well off now they do want to get back to the point of being an example to follow for other countries in the region and that is something that both candidates are

promising but it looks like your alliance don't trust the leftists to bring about that change and to deliver are the election coming up on sunday nicole through dish thank you very much. of the world world health organization is warning that 4 out of 5 of the world's teenagers are not getting enough exercise lack of physical activity has been linked to a range of debilitating health conditions like obesity depression and heart disease so experts are warning young people need to get up get out and get moving. and hour a day of a kickabout or any other physical activity that's the standard recommendation for adolescents it doesn't sound like much but the world health organization says most school age boys and girls do not reach this mark and it's affecting their physical and mental well being the finding is not unique to a particular region globally goals were found to be less active with 85 percent of them failing to meet the recommendation compared with 78 percent of boys

a lot of the physical activity promotion is more tailored towards boyce so. just to do maybe also provide a solution to that. it would be really important when countries or communities or schools plain for solutions to involve adolescent girls children are increasingly indoors mostly seated and staring at screens or even focussed on their studies but sometimes they're not physically active because of a lack of options. security also seems to be a bit of an issue that young people maybe take a safe enough to be outside running or walking in parks places where we'd like them to be more active. than designed hasn't really encouraged walking and cycling and that road traffic congestion is also forcing people off the people off the street

the researchers say that being active is good for the developing brain so they're urging policymakers and adolescents to pull up their socks and make exercise a priority. you're watching news still to come they were 2 of germany's most celebrated scholars and explorers of the enlightenment or was there a darker side to the brothers uncles the new exhibition in berlin takes a critical look at the pair and their legacy. but 1st hong kong's police chief is urging a handful of protesters still barricaded inside the city's polling tech thank university to surrender peacefully they've been holed up there since occupying the campus over the weekend it's the latest confrontation in hong kong 5 months of anti-government protests mainland china has issued a series of increasingly tough warnings against demonstrators and beijing has knots to rectally intervened in the territory authorities have been targeting individual

protesters correspondent met with one of them he says he was arrested and beaten by police at the hong kong china border to protect his identity d.w. has changed the voice of the activist in this next report it started like a routine business trip and indeed in china a secret detention system stanley was crossing the border to mainland china when he was stopped. police searched his phone and questioned him for several hours. then in the evening 2 police officers came they handcuffed me and put a black hood on my head. then they took me away. for fear of retribution we cannot show his face stanley wong is not his real name his accounts cannot be very fired independently but his story is in line with accounts from other detainees. at that time border police have begun systematically

searching the phones of hong kong is crossing the border between hong kong and the mainland. a photo of wong attending a peaceful march into court their attention he explained it was unauthorized march and it allowed him to participate but they wouldn't listen. they said this was about a matter of national security and that it wasn't up to me to decide what in danger in it means national security is above all other laws when national security is concerned they said we can catch you in hong kong or any other place in the world. one was held in a single cell that had been covered in soft material a glass door was translucent from the outside only lights left permanently on over and over they interrogated him asking about photos on this phone and contacts to foreign nationals i had to crouch like this for the whole generation of the

interrogation they placed me right under an air conditioner with the wind blowing at me constantly each interrogation lasted a few hours and whenever they thought i didn't sit well they would beat me like this. punch my back or kick me in the legs. the number of people who've been detained at the border remains and no one says he was able to catch glimpses into other cells to help people who need believes were fellow hong kong escorted the border after 36 hours he was released. my family tried to ask the public security where i was but they just wouldn't say anything the police even denied they knew me and that i had crossed the border i understood that i could easily be disappeared any time. he's dealt with the experience quite well he says and he won't let it stop him but now when crosses the border his heart starts

to beat a little faster. all the sports now in russia return to international track and field competitions and further down after the sport's governing body suspended the ubi admission process world athletics made the decision a day after several russian athletics officials including the federations president were themselves suspended for anti-doping violations russia's been banned from international competitions and 2015 for the systemic cheating of drugs tests the country could now be kicked out of athletics entirely. virgin racing's sam bird has won the opening race of the new formula the racing season in saudi arabia the brit started off in 5th place driving car number 2 with overtaking on the dusty circuit difficult birth made full use of his 2 hour bit was to move to the field he took a leave of 10 minutes to go and he held on meeting german manufacturers porsche

ever saints on their series davies. right this sport is a little bit more my style surfing makes its debut at the olympic games in tokyo next summer and it's even caught on in colder regions like raw. back here in berlin surfing enthusiasm in the german capital now bryant the waves without ever having to set foot on a beach 7 young entrepreneurs have opened the city's 1st indoor surfing center in a converted warehouse the waves can reach a height of 1.6 meters and the water is a balmy 26 degrees celsius so it's all the ideal escape from the frosty berlin winter. well 2 of germany's greatest historical figures were brothers alexander and vilhelm on they've been together been brought back together in an exhibit exhibition at the german historical museum here in

berlin both of them were in different ways important figures in the age of the enlightenment but the exhibition looks at some of the contradictions of the time it like minutes foreshore but at the same time colonialism and slavery. the humblest brothers alexander was an adventurer and global citizen the last of the universal scholars their home was a diplomat and educational reformer who created the grammar school and university systems impression berlin that's the common knowledge about them but the exhibition at berlin's german historical museum takes a closer look at the celebrated shining lights. didn't we're not at all interested in working against something but toward something namely an improved historical anchoring of 2 figures who are worth learning about but who we felt had become nothing more than labels in this city in berlin. that they are. coping

since they were the sons of rich nobility educated by the best private tutors according to the ideals of the enlightenment. as young men they were admitted to the elite salon of henley had to have a jewish writer they were amorous escapades revolutionary liberties and open relationship. it was for them that was the birth of their feelings and maybe the activation of their neurons into very fast competitive behavior because these women were very quick very smart and they had to keep up with them. with his wife carlina you vilhelm led an open marriage for 40 years he initially supported the emancipation of jews but later made anti-semitic comments about a former female friend who was marrying an up and coming prussian diplomat. alexander was a natural scientist environmentalist and advocate for indigenous people but on his journey to south america he became a grave robber. a madman this shows how the scholarship of the time around 1800 and

after had an obsession with collecting everything in order to study get and how the study of race which developed into racism has its roots in this time and he was one of the many who participated. in. the humboldt were progressive important minds but they were also products of their time which was shaped by nationalism racism and anti-semitism so were they really shining lights certainly but where there is light there is also shadow. watching news i'll be back shortly to walk you through the day.

nothing compared to the dead well i guess sometimes i am but i stand up and wave to them and we should have been think even to examine a culture of looking at the stereotype question but if you think the future of the country that i now know i. am new to seem to take this drama day out.

it's all about who they know i might show join me for meet the gem from the w post sometimes and now to look at me affectionately which was affectionately as you can. slam your putin in the middle of his election campaign in the year 2000 a documentary was filmed for russian television but director vitali months asian culture and much more that would determine a better chance of the move of course you are going to see the film secretly chronicled a power grab actually everything was resizing planned and structured. featuring top supporting roles. to go it was to present position to the freedom of russia. and featuring a lead role like you've never seen before let me be clear with you i have to act in

ways that i feel necessary and people who just simply understand that. you can follow me or that image to me ends justify the means. to terms with mrs starts december 13th on t w. on this day in 2005 uncle americal became germany's 1st female chancellor and over the next 14 years she survived a global economic collapse of refugee crisis in europe and managed to outlast at least 30 of her counterparts in the g 20 but now germany's government is stagnating and calls for medical to step down are growing louder so who's next will it be this woman on a great trump coward hour is miracles handpicked successor but she's also one of the country's least pop.