this is d.w. news live from berlin boeing suspends production of its ill fated 737 mocks airliner regulators grounded the plane after 2 fatal crashes in 5 months now the seattle based u.s. plane maker is holding the assembly line look at the fallout for workers and suppliers also on the program. remembering one of the decisive conflicts of the world war 2 the allies and the former enemy germany come together tomorrow for 75th anniversary in the past hold off the ball. and the cost sized satellite that will

explode planets beyond our solar system searching for a possible life in outer space. plane. i'm told me a lot before thanks for joining us. u.s. plane make up boeing is suspending production of its 737 max series from next month to fatal crashes in 5 months had forced the grounding of the previously successful at craft last sales of casa boeing more than $8000000000.00 in the company continued making the aircraft even though regulators ordered it to stop flying more than $400.00 planes are currently being kept in storage maybe $350.00 people were killed in crashes in indonesia and if you'll pia which led to the jets being

grounded in march. for more on this i'm joined by d.w. business reporter clifford cohen and. why is boeing doing this right now well basically the federal aviation authorities have said in the u.s. that they're not going to allow the 737 max to take off again. boeing had been hoping that they would get permission sooner than rather than later so they had a board meeting in seattle and they just decided that it was time for to say that it was. to stop production now which is the 1st time in 2 decades that this is what does this mean for supply is on for employees well it's caused quite a significant meaning for suppliers in particular because the 600 companies in the supply chain involved in supplying implement instruments and all other components for the 737 max so it will it will have some kind of trickle down effect boeing has played down the impact of it said it will be letting anyone go over this. there's

going to be a lot of concerns because boeing is such a huge company that it's actually been a drag on the u.s. economy all of this uncertainty about the 737 max because this was their most popular plane it was technologically their most advanced plane it was something that they were very very proud of and it was a big seller so it will be in some way in an effort for them to to make clarity and to bring clarity into the situation so what does. timeline now for recess if occasion looks like this is an open question and i think boeing had been hoping that it would happen in january there was some suggestion that it could happen in the early part of the year but it's still very open and there's still a lot of issues resolved with the with the software there are a lot of things that need to be sorted out and you get the sense that boeing is trying to draw a line under this and saying that we need to we need clarity and we need to have have a we're going to create the graces they say they're going to create the greatest aircraft ever to fly and you know that they're going to try and answer the

outstanding questions we're going to stop all these battles with regulators in different countries with airlines they've been fighting about a lot of fronts so i think what they're trying to do is draw a line under this. once they've resolved all those issues then they can start talking about certification again ok business reporter david cohen thanks for that now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world firefighters in australia battling to contain blazes in the blue mountains national park west of sydney hundreds of bushfires have been raging across australia for months and conditions are getting worse temperatures in new south wales set to top 40 degrees . in a 3rd night of clashes in lebanon protesters have thrown file works of police in the capital beirut a social media posting critical of the shiite community has inflamed sectarian text tensions the president has put back talks on naming a new prime minister. a tornado killed one person when it struck

a residential area in the us state of louisiana strong storms moving across the deep south of smashed buildings split trees and downed power lines in the week before christmas. india has been rocked by more violent protests over a controversial citizenship law the legislation fast tracks naturalisation for refugees from bangladesh pakistan and afghanistan but excludes muslims critics say that undermines the constitutional right of equality for all and opponents shia prime minister narendra modi wants to remold the world's biggest democracy as a hindu state. delhi riot police fire a volley of tear gas and their target student protesters holed up inside the capital's prestigious jimmy amulya islamic university. and they are demanding that

the government resend a contentious new citizenship war. critics say the law discriminates against muslims by only granting indian citizenship to non muslim refugees from neighboring countries. after trading rocks at the police. the student demonstrators finally surrender with their hands aloft. and are ushered on to buses for a destination unknown. party does dumb as it does cause damage to public property it does go to some i need to assert people. goes on parted. and we have what i would only interest is the number of tensions were running high across india buses were burned during protests in the capital disrupting public life in. the. hundreds marched in opposition to the new law. some here involving retribution should the government ostracize muslims. to be ready to support the government but

if they're going to harass muslims then it won't be tolerated muslim groups will launch a massive movement against muslims. back in delhi and hundreds were again gathering at the university campus. the crowd electrified by claims of police violence the night before. the police came at us with batons while they are protesting peacefully fancher the campus the police even attacked the students who were studying in the library they were not involved in the protests they threw tear gas shells in the library and does not respect our fundamental rights as a citizen of this sunday on this day this is sponsoring this has been shameful the police students brutally has broken that border authorities insist they responded appropriately to this youthful demonstration but with the situation on a knife's edge their next move will be closely watched. world war 2

allies and their former enemy germany have gathered in belgium to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the conflicts most decisive and count as the battle of the bulge was the last german offensive of the war and a major turning point in the conflict. marking the past with fanfare but it was a personal memory that produced real emotion merce marsh from alabama was on watch christmas 1904 during a snowstorm in the our dens a belgian lady came out and. head 2 mugs of hot chick and soup each of the. best me i have had i guess a. 75 years later a german president held an address here for the 1st time. we remain deeply indebted by this america which accompanied night and supported the

democratic rebirth of germany beast party of the war and visual. on the morning of the 16th of december the german army with a very marked push their forces back into belgium and a brutal surprise attack dog like he's in the center the americans were above us as the germans others their. lucky marine shows us where a shell hit it didn't explode and she survived after the stone was liberated all that remained was a wasteland but in the us it became a symbol for the good war americans fought. in world war 2 america was willing to commit everything we had to preserve freedom and protect our way of life but would the us do the same today moran doesn't think so it was incompetent knows they wouldn't. view of the americans has changed in the recent he is because underpaid. she's giving her scrapbook of war memories to her grandchildren to make

sure they never forget. the countdown is on for the launch of a european satellite on a mission to study earth like planets outside our solar system the spacecraft is set to blast off from french guiana in south america later on choose day and who knows it might even detect signs of life in outer space. the key ops mission is designed to advance the search for extraterrestrial life for the 1st time the satellite will study planets orbiting distant suns so-called exoplanets. chips will observe how these distant worlds pass in front of the stars they orbit to make this possible researchers 1st had to scour the sky with other telescopes to select the stars to be targeted by the satellite.

looking at one star at a time. so we need to know that star has a planet we need to know when this planet passes in front of the star and at that moment we point cope's there. the satellite is set to measure the tiny fluctuations in brightness that occur when a planet passes in front of its star a celestial body the size of our earth dims the light by just 100th of a percent. can measure this barely perceptible flickering more accurately than ever before. from the decrease of light you can infer how big the planet is compared to the stuff because it just hides a part of the surface and you can compute which fraction of the surface is being hidden by the passing planet and that gives you the size of the bat. all this

without going there or this without seeing the pilot to just see the shuttle. with his telescope astronomers can determine another property of the invisible planets their mass they then want to combine this information with the data they obtain from cheops and thus determine the density of distant worlds this shows them whether they are planets made of rock or gas. or whether the distant worlds have an ocean or consist of ice. the satellite should also find out whether they have an atmosphere this allows conclusions to be drawn as to how habitable these worlds are . super telescopes such as the extremely large telescope will then take a closer look at the earth like exoplanets in the coming decade they will look for traces of life in their atmospheres and find out for example whether there are

microbes and plants there. the draw for the opening knockout round of the champions league has taken place and things will be getting serious for the bundesliga clubs in the competition by and have been drawn at london club chelsea dortmund set to face paris and gemma leipzig world square off with last year's finalists tottenham. byard munich's to mulch you a season isn't going to get any easier in february the german giants have been drawn against reigning europa league winners chelsea in the champions league round of 16 it will be a rematch of the 2012 final which biron lost on penalties to the london club i after a slow start but have turned the corner in the fullness week and their strong form has given them a boost of confidence for the clash. is in the other 2 sets where fairly confident

. real good about the draw of course chelsea have players that can hurt us. dortmund have their eyes on an equally difficult task they'll be facing down french powerhouse police. the yellow one will welcome back former coach thomas to call for the 1st time since he left dortmund in 27 teeth i might say have fought their way to the top of the bonus league but coach ilia now goes man knows they have potential for even more. for the off as i would also look forward to improving further and that our football will be even better only our results will only get better to use i'm trying to push the boys a bit so they know we can be better and so they can be better players than ever before as the year comes to a close and the champions league is a good a place as any to show up their development but even if leipzig are at their best last season's finalists tottenham hotspur will be a stern testament knockout round. you're watching news coming up next

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