this is the w.'s lie from the german public shaken by the quake of the far right the woman tipped to take over from chancellor is to stand down and i got calm about insists the decision not affect the stability of the country's coalition also on the program the death toll in china's coronavirus outbreak approaches a 1000 with more than 40000 cases reported across the country we hear from a couple quarantine aboard a cruise ship in japan. paris. history

of the known english language film twins past picture for the 1st time will bring you the latest from hollywood. i'm phil gal welcome to the program he woman widely tipped to succeed and a makeover has another she will not seek the position as chancellor in next year's elections on the ballot is also stepping down as leader of medicals conservative party when a replacement has been found the move follows a scandal of the involvement of the far right alternatif in germany in a regional election in which mr crump. and control of the party have been threatened and weakened she announced her decision as a news conference here in berlin and for sizing that it would not affect the country's coalition government. but then something as far as i'm concerned this has

no impact on the stability of the grand coalition government i was the party leader and i am the party leader and i will remain in this position for the forseeable future of what i have said is that i will not run for chancellor but other than that the situation has not changed let's get more mission d.w. political correspondent simon young welcome simon what's behind this decision well there were too many problems for him a great current bar too much pressure on her and i think she never really ultimately put her stamp of all thora t. on the party even angela merkel's decision to appoint her as german defense minister was enough to secure her the backing in particular of the right wing of the c.d.u. and she faced too many detractors within the party years she produced a number of gaffes as well last october in fact for instance she came up with a plan for a security zone under u.n.

auspices in northern syria but the plan sort of died when it turned out that you know she wasn't even sure if german armed forces would be available for such a mission and then the events of last week into range year where see the c.d.u. politicians there effectively defied the parties ban on cooperation with the far right a.f.p. and she seemed unable to do anything about it that was the final straw for her i think i will talk more in just a 2nd simon the 1st let's hear from a chance of responding to this announcement. i respect his decision was correct but i must also say i regret that it's come to this that the well. is coming 1st i can imagine that this was not an easy decision for any that can come back. i'm grateful that she's ready to continue in her role as party leader in order to oversee the process for choosing the next cd you candidate for

chancellor. back to simon young simon what do you make of what we've heard from the chancellor. was clear that anglo-american regrets of this decision and indeed the events of the last few days and a great current was merkel's preferred successor as leader of the c.d.u. well that happened and also then to be the candidate for chancellor will out of course hasn't happened so that in that sense of the link between the 2 of them and sometimes known as many medical you know this these events this debacle is a blow to anglo-american as well it leaves the chancellor i think at the moment seeming if not irrelevant then somehow decoupled from the fate of the christian democrats going forward so the christian democrats are in turmoil in crisis is there to be a crisis for the country's ruling coalition. well certainly there's

a lot of pressure there k.k. said there wouldn't be a problem in the national government coalition and the s.p.d. sort of sounding a bit conciliatory did a saying they they respect her decision to step back but they still trying to put the pressure on saying they've got questions that they need the c.d.u. to answer they need merkel's party to show how it's going to draw a clear red line between itself and the far right and so they've been been as i say piling on a bit of pressure but they themselves are elect electorally somewhat weak so i think it's unlikely that they would want to bring down the government and perhaps force fresh elections at this stage anyway. who benefits from a k.-k. stepping down. yeah i mean you could say pretty much everybody else the social democrats as i say looking to draw some sort of benefit out of this by

presenting themselves as the the sort of guardians of german democracy the ones making sure the christian tema gratz don't jump into bed with the far right day. then you of course you've got the rivals of a.k.k. within her own party several of them have been waiting in the wings circling seeing what an opportunity might come up for them there are several who would like to be the candidate for chancellor and other parties as well of course will be seeking to draw some capital from this not least the a.f.d. itself it had a victory in that eastern state of theory where it says sort of got its way at least for a short time and it's been portraying that is a big success among its own supporters so a brief word ben-simon about the potential successors and whether a new party leader is going to mean a very different direction for the city. i think there are several people as i

mentioned the health minister spawn is a big critic of the mayor cole open door immigration policy then you've got frederick manses a veteran with a lot of support from the business community. at the state premier of north rhine-westphalia and there are others so there's plenty of people possibly the sort of white male in the typical leaders of the christian democrat party number less these people are waiting waiting for their charts now that i k k . is seemingly part of the history books p.w. political correspondent simon young thank you alice take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world syrian government forces have killed 5 turkish soldiers in the province of idlib that's according to turkey's defense ministry the area around it was the last rebel held region in syria turkey has sent thousands of troops at

a hole to government offensive efforts by damascus to retake the region have displaced nearly 700000 sits civilians. caught in russia has sentenced 7 young activists to between 6 and 8 years in prison some skew that should be 6 and 18 years the defendants were accused of plotting to carry out bomb attacks during the 2018 world cup hosted by russia a human rights activist strongly criticized the case saying the men were tortured into signing confessions. powerful storms killed at least 5 people across europe 2 died at the ski resorts in poland when a roof was ripped off a building germany's entire long distance rail network was shut down as a precaution parts of britain have same flooding and tens of thousands of people across the continent have been left without power. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak in china is approaching a 1000 more than $40000.00 cases have been reported across the country the world

health organization is warning about the virus spreading beyond china and said the focus should remain on containing the outbreak china's extended new year holiday break is coming to an end many chinese are choosing to stay at home rather than return their work places. involve more than $130.00 passengers have tested positive for the corona virus on board a cruise ship docked off the coast of japan and they've been in quarantine on the diamond princess since a vessel arrived in yokohama last week passengers are confined to their captains for at least another week among so still on board or chair or paula moleski they told us about life on the ship well we're all feeling fine so far the situation is we have to stay in our cabin and not go out in the ship at all but luckily we have a balcony so we can get some fresh air and some sunshine and that's really made a big difference in our daily life here where we're definitely it's hard not to be

by we're trying to keep a positive outlook because there's nothing we can do about it and you think about us 810225000 people die of the flu every 3 or 4 months and that's a pretty big number so we're just hoping that we stay steady healthy and that we do ok i feel we've been taking care very well you know we've got mayors grab a mom a cruise mode since that my wife meets. i think we've done unbelievably well. we are confined to our champions and you can go out if you like for an hour every couple days sorry every maybe 3 or 4 days actually but we have chosen to stay and because we have a. balcony we really don't want to expose ourselves anymore but our daily life right now is pretty busy actually because we're texting our family and friends and

we've been doing some you tube videos just kind of different for us but doing so of videos to kind of catch people up on what we're doing and we've gotten a lot of good feedback about yeah i think we're very fortunate you know just we've picked the right room so we can get out of it most times get our meals together we pool table out whether we need a room or only on the balcony of the sun you know i had my bathing suit for a while try. captain comes on like 3 or 4 times a day he doesn't always have information right away like we heard about 65 people chases today before that yeah it was able to infer that but he waits until 8 years from the. future now you have got women you know the health ministry so when he confirmed that he came on and told us right away. they've been good at

communicating about about things. as chattel and paula moleskin both the diamond princess in yokohama and the 92nd academy awards have made cinema history as the south korean film parasite became the 1st non english language film to win the oscar for best picture it was a night of triumph for the man behind it. there's no doubting parasite director boehm to know how he's now a national hero in south korea the celebrations in hollywood where felt all the way to the top in soho president spoke of his pride to parasite success is kicking off his cabinet meeting with a round of applause. few in the country were expecting one or sky less alone 4 students and on site university without no matter watched enraptured with the ceremony unfold this is

the moment when the best picture award was announced. by its hopes the successful south korea's film industry. i've always liked korean movies korean film history is being written at this moment it's very meaningful i think there will be more improvements in the future it's very i'm lost for words it's such an honor. parasite shows the often painful divide between rich and poor in south korea. which he acts as a largely unknown outside the country for one young cast member who didn't make it to l.a. it was still a night to remember. i thought it would be awesome to get the award. and we actually won it.

so i'm wondering if i am in heaven. i think i was born to receive the oscars award . the dream already achieved at the age of 10 the sky over this cost increase is now the limits. of the sake of fans of coverage often because it isn't covered show in just a 15 minutes a new space probe built by nasa and the european space agency has set off on an unprecedented mission to capture the 1st pictures of the sun's poles $1500000000.00 so blasted off from cape canaveral in florida it's 10 year mission will see venture perilously close to the sun and join that nasa spock probe which was launched 18 months ago. as a reminder of our top story the woman tips take over from the german chancellor angela merkel has announced that she will stand down conservatively that i got caught about insistence from the it will not affect the stability of the country's

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