the as. this is did over the news wires from german politics shaken over a scandal involving the far right conservative and liberal parties under huge pressure off to breaking a decades long to brew against working with the far right parties. we want also angela merkel keeps an eye on developments unfolding at home a she visits and go to fortune economic times. and also coming up there's growing outrage over the death of the doctor who 1st sounded the alarm over the coronavirus

and was frightened by the police chinese authorities launch an investigation. by helen on free glad you could join me a scandal over the role of the far right in a german regional election has plunged chancellor angela merkel's conservative party into crisis now some regional conservatives sided with the populist alternative the german age when still a liberal premier in the eastern state of through india the move shattered a post-war consensus among mainstream parties to shun extremist politics. it's rare that a regional head of chancellor merkel's conservative party comes under this kind of scrutiny but mike morgan was surrounded by news teams after the scandal in his home state of the ranger forced the question of how to deal with far right populist onto the national agenda the party chief had

a clear answer. that it is for the party in the ranger and across germany there will be no direct all in direct cooperation with the a.f.p. in the form of items when there is no voting for a candidate the relies on support from the a.f.p. . but that's just what happened in 3 state parliament this week a candidate from a party with a few seats the free democrats was elected premier and only with support from chancellor merkel's party and the far right this kind of collaboration sets a post-war president the outcry across the country was immediate. chancellor merkel on a state visit to southern africa weighed in to say the move was an unforgivable mistake she's calling for new elections and syringe. but merkel's been getting pushback so the party chief come under our headed straight to the eastern state

herself to deal with the rift between official party principles and syringes christian democrats the crisis talks went on until late into the night. and continued to party headquarters the next morning the party chief acknowledged that her counterparts in from india acted against her will. into things in another mistake and we made this very clear that the c.d.u. in the n.g.'s applauded its candidate against our clear recommendation although it should have been obvious to everyone that it was an opportunity to be a d. to play them in the putative games and to try it at least the party's top tier members are in full agreement with their boss no cooperation with the far right period. now the crisis came to a head while i'm going to michael was out of the country on a 3 day visit to southern africa correspondent. go to the 2nd stop of merkel

straight but he told us that the political situation in germany is very much on the transfers mind. developments and germany are following the german chancellor all the way here to angola we understand from her delegation that she is very much in contact with the leadership of her political party and she is trying to work on a solution as well but she did not want to talk about it she of the journalists tried to ask her questions during a press conference she refused to address the issues in germany and said this will be happening tomorrow instead she tried to divert attention to the real reasons why she came here she wants to attend ceasefire the cooperation between angola and germany especially because the current government of drug and serve it has been in power for 2 years now trying to push forward a course of reform going against the trend of massive corruption of the country as seen here trying to go after the very people who used to be in his own party and stole money from the country and so was asked at a press conference if you would like to have more international support and

freezing assets off people like isabel do santos the daughter of the from our former president that he said yes he would appreciate that but he would even appreciate it more if the international world would have. bring recess it's back to angola. are increased reporting that innuendo well the answer comes from the same political bossie as i go to previous leader corruption and of that administration devastated the economy so many and go to all skeptical about iran says. no wonder the capital of angola on display in the city center is evidence of the massive oil wealth that has poured into the southern african country in recent decades. but just a few kilometers away is another angola one of poverty and mass unemployment. that we ask locals as the new president changed anything. with him

i went on then there is a change but it's all happening much too slowly. nothing has changed yet because of this i mean we don't even have drinking water you know. but i am. the government should at least deal with waste removal when it rains here there are floods that sometimes drag away our children our houses are ruined too we have many problems here. but we want the new president. to think about us. things are very bad for us here our country is rich but we don't see any of it. people have a lot of money but we are suffering here. joe wilder and so took office 2 years ago his predecessor had been in power for 38 years lorenzo's ernest

attempts at confronting the rampant corruption have surprised many here he's even confronted former party allies. profile it's precisely because i have seen these high levels of corruption. and because i think it must be stopped. that we are fighting what we've witnessed for decades. i think or wish that it might be comfortable for us to leave things as they were before they force all. the shock of what that be correct. my. study of correct we have a chance to make a change. and this is the right time to do it a woman president. lawrence so is even going after the former president's children especially isabel dos santos. she's africa's richest woman and has been accused of illegally diverting hundreds of millions of dollars from state coffers to

a company's. so has the era of corrupt elites in angola past residents of the capital of london slums have their doubts they want to see concrete results so far this take a look now so many other stories making news around the world at this hour the french army says it has killed more than 30 islamist militants in mali where as you want twitter the army said that 3 separate operations targeted groups linked to al qaeda and the so-called islamic state now france has about 4 to haul thousands of soldiers in the sahara region and has announced plans to boost its military presence further that. the u.s. says it has killed the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula cassim and remey was reportedly targeted at you're in a town to terrorism offensive in yemen the terrorist network has not confirmed the killing recently claimed responsibility for last year's shooting at a naval base in pensacola florida that killed 3 american say this unity in

the. u.s. president was denied reports that he is planning to sack his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney but he said a decision had yet to be made on the fate of alexander vinland the white house aide who testified in trump's impeachment inquiry many expect the president to alst any wrong that he feels worked against him in to trial. french president to many one of michael's calling for a more coordinated and a european a defense strategy and a wide ranging speech michel set out his country's nuclear strategy and said that france should be in a position of leadership in a post for exit european defense system britain's exit from the e.u. leaves france as the blocks only nuclear power. now authorities in china have launched an investigation into the death of the doctor who 1st sounded the alone about the coronavirus he when yang warned fellow medics about the virus

and was then threatened by police and reprimanded for spreading rumors and then tragically he became infected himself. dr lee when liang is dead 5 weeks ago on the 30th of december he noticed a virus similar to sars a killer chinese virus from 2 decades ago he posted a warning on the we both group for fellow doctors 3 days later the 3rd of january he was reprimanded by officials and forced to sign an apology to hand shut down its food and wildlife market the origin of the virus on the same day but then officials delayed a citywide lockdown and the virus spread weeks later the city announced the virus and the official lockdown came but according to statistics that was too late the virus is now spreading rapidly in china although it's only caused a few 100 cases worldwide and it's killing people dr levy one of many.

in life he sparked a national conversation about freedom of speech in china and in death he's become a national hero. oh there she said to him that i deeply regret his death and feel very sad we need to see if his death can change anything and i hope he did not die in vain. i'm sure for me at all china says it's now effectively dealing with the spread of the virus. sympathy. for size that since the outbreak of the corona virus the chinese government and its people have been making great efforts in fighting the epidemic so you can but many people feel otherwise for them dr lee's story shows that chinese officials priorities are about control and political self-preservation. the south sudanese athletes hoping to make an impact of this summer's tokyo in bags already in japan training the city of my bash it has been

hosting an athletics training camp for the east african nation for nearly a year now without any training facilities in their own country one south sudanese athlete abraham a jock has made himself at home in japan and the jock hope success of the games could help unify his homeland. you'd have to look very hard to find training facilities like this in south sudan because they just don't exist long distance runner abraham a jock is among a handful of athletes who accepted the invitation to train for the summer games in my japan initially there were reservations about how he and other sudanese athletes would be treated but after living in training there for months he's grown fond of the japanese. since we came here we have seen a lot of love on the web discovered and the bunnies are not like other people because when we came here we didn't expect that much love me personally i was given

water what i know because sometimes you get when you know what will foreign countries you know sometimes you may have telling this so i was awarded a what challenges i would have been by going ok me i go to italy the lovely depends on how it's really more than the normal one. of course wants to bring in olympic medal back to south sudan but he has another goal that he hopes could have a positive impact on his homeland and when i get by the message i will reason the importance of peace and that's the biggest message of the same to my people sell sudan competed in the 2016 olympics but didn't win any medals success this time around would be a win win not only for south sudan but also for japan. now italian town over yet he has paid tribute to the late american basketball star kobe bryant who died 2 weeks ago that he was his childhood home in the mid 1980 s.

and when he played basketball when he was younger now fans filled a school in the central italian town and celebrated him ahead of a local championship game both teams will carry pride shirts bearing his jersey numbers to honor his legacy and the l.a. lakers so says. were hoisted to the rough as alongside other reality basketball pub legends the town's mayor also wants to name a streets off to bright. we are watching live from by then i'll leave you with sounds from this year's sun remote music festival a national institution in italy and actually the inspiration of the year vision song contest and this festival discovers new talents but also some of the greats all the tiny music takes the stage like a without a banner under me no power with that classic hits up i.

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