this is. from tonight here in germany plans for the air after on the america have suddenly fall apart a woman tipped to take over from. says she will stand down from her insisting her decision will not affect the stability of the country's coalition government also fighting intensifies between turkish and syria forces in the border

region of the syrian assad regime steps up its offensive in its look probably the last stronghold of government rebels back. and the death toll from the chawner coronavirus approaches one fouls the report tonight from paris frozen in the french capitals trying to say that the virus is also fueling. racial discrimination plus. parasite was history has made. a non english language film wins best picture for the 1st song we'll bring you the latest on this history making moment from hollywood.

i'm born golf it's good to have you with us it is not the future that the german chancellor had planned tonight the woman widely tipped to succeed chancellor angela merkel says she has changed her mind she will not seek to become the german chancellor in next year's elections on a great crom current power the woman known as a k k is stepping aside following events last week that broke a political taboo here in germany her conservative c.d.u. party for the 1st time ever worked together with the far right alternative for germany party to win a regional election a taboo too far that put a k. kane's credibility as party leader into question on the compound gave little notice before informing party leaders of her decision she was long chancellor angela merkel's hand-picked successor now she won't be her party's candidate for chancellor and plans to step down as party chief she says to see to use decision 2 years ago to separate the role of chancellor candidate and party leader was

a mistake on its axis ricin the instant target the leadership question is still unresolved to this very day the civic a the issue of who will be the party's candidate for chancellor. these we haven't been able to find a solution despite 2 conti conventions and apparently some people don't want to resolve this issue 52 quoth he still. believes the cd you could pick a new party leader at its convention in december she's planning to stay on as defense minister her decision was apparently one she took alone. even chancellor merkel didn't find out about comcast in bars plans to step down until monday morning. shocked is a and shite i'm quite there i respect this decision think that's ok but i must also say i regret that it's come to this although i can imagine that this was not an

easy decision for an incorrect crap are imbalanced in fact you can find this former c.d.u. parliamentary party leader for egypt mouth is being honored as a potential successor to comp. in 2018 he narrowly lost the party leadership vote to her both amin lush at the state premier of north rhine-westphalia and german health minister jens spawn are also in the running the tumult in the c.d.u. also has their coalition partner the social democrats worried. its if you will defeat it so you see to you can't agree on its future direction and has been without a real leader for a long time rules. one seen as the future of the c.d.u. . announcing she's stepping back after only one year as party chief her decision means the c.d.u. will likely be busy for months deciding on a new leader ever more now i'm joined tonight from strong by david mcallister he is a member of the c.d.u.

and a member of the european parliament and chair of the foreign affairs committee mr mcallister it's good to have you on the show let me let me ask you who is in charge of your cd you party at the moment. good evening from strasburg and a great come is our party chairwoman and she will remain a party chairwoman until the next conference will take place and she is in charge together with the members of the presidency of our party. and would you agree that she has been permanently damaged by the events that happened last week in the range i mean she is a lame duck if you will of a party leader tonight. i regret and a great karen bowers move however her decision deserves respect she has argued about the chance though or in this case the chance the candidate of the c.d.u.

and the party leader belong together so consequently she has announced that she will not run again as party leader because she is not available as chancellor candidate so this is a consequent position and what we have to do now is a sea of you is organize the next conference we need a good format we need clarity about the candid churches and then the 1000 delegates of the party conference will once again take a decision a very important decision for germany just like we took a decision 14 months ago when i become paolo was elected after a very interesting internal competition against matts and you had spawn you say friedrich merits mr mcallister do you think he will be the next head of the c.d.u. and the next german chancellor. well in the moment and all these developments are still very fresh in berlin we don't have. personalities who

are ready to run i believe thought in the next few days and weeks we will know more when candidate shows are announced a minutes up to the party to take a decision as long as we don't have any official candidates i can't speculate in public who. might be the right one or not who would you would you like to see would you like to see be that candidate. as i just said it's up to the candidates now to make up their mind i think there will be a lot of internal discussions of the next 244872 hours the german c.d.u. traditionally has a strong federal structure the so-called blunders 5 and very influential so we will have meetings of the president sees on the political committees often on the survey and then of the of associations of a sea view and then step by step we will have clarity i want a strong leader as

a c.d.u. and i won the next chancellor once again to be a christian democrat mr mcallister this this entire situation has as much to do with german chancellor angela merkel as it has to do with a k.k. i'm sure you will agree with that she groomed. to be her successor and that all these plans have now fallen apart would you say that today marks the official end of the era of america in german politics. bangalow muckle has announced that she will see the holt chancellor of the federal public of germany so her era will end on the last day as chancellor of great country yes indeed anglo muckle had chosen how preferred and a great come. have 14 months ago that was an impressive election at the

seed you conference and how book but since then and a great comfort. i noticed that she office it didn't have the full support of her party about she wasn't able to bring through an important message to receive you group in the parliament of. and so consequently so consequently she took this decision today by the way a surprise not only for me but i guess for anyone in the leadership of the german city you the position of a kink a is that her position is a direct result of the german chancellor grooming her positioning her to be the next german chancellor that has now forward apart would you agree that germany has i'm going to medical is responsible for the fact that as you say tonight there are no clear candidates for the next party leader the next german chancellor.

overcome the candidates a few hours off to under great come kind of announce this very surprising move so give us a few days give us a few weeks i'm very sure about we will have one or 2 a free very attractive candidate and that the city will once again take a wise decision we are all responsible for this development the c.d.u. is one party and the you know united we are the more successful we are what is important now is that we concentrate on content but we concentrate on our you know on no work in the ground. coalition government in berlin and what we shouldn't do is have months of internal squabbling this would put off voters we know that this is not an easy phase for our party certainly not i did i deeply regret the developments of the last few days but now we have to make the best out of it and now we have to move forward and once again it does does and

a great company does deserve respect that she is ready to chair the party until we have found and decided a chance the candidate and he or she will then also be the new leader of the c.d.u. it obviously doesn't make sense about party leadership and chance the candidate lies in one hand but they are brought together it was probably not such a wise idea to separate this and that's a very good point that was also an idea supported by the german chancellor angela merkel as you may remember the c.d.u. politician david mcallister a member of the european parliament in the culture we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world ireland's general election has delivered the surprising results left wing republican. the largest share of the vote beating the 2 established centrist parties and both of those had ruled out a coalition with shin fein before the election because of the party's ties to the.

paramilitary group a russian court has sentenced to 7 young activists to prison terms of up to 18 years the defendants were used to planning to carry out bomb attacks during the 28000 world cup human rights activists criticize the case saying the men were tortured into signing confessions the turkish military has struck and quote neutralized more than 100 military personnel in the syrian province of. the shelling was in retaliation for a syrian strike earlier in the day in which 5 turkish troops die the assad regime is now on the offensive province the last stronghold of anti-government forces in syria the past week has seen a significant escalation in tensions between syria and turkey and syrian forces last week killed a number of turkish troops as part of its campaign to retake the province.

and for more on this now we want to bring in our correspondent dorian jones he's standing by in istanbul good evening to you dorian turkish armed forces are being hit directly by 0 an army is this kind of a benchmark in this escalation. well it certainly is a very serious escalation as you said this is the latest attack fatal attack on turkish soldiers and again hunkers forces were very swift to retaliate bombarding dozens of sites it remains unclear whether that will be an awful will turkey carry on its offensive targeting syrian regime forces but what it is clear is such so turkey is can continuing to reinforce its military presence in italy following last week's attack it deployed over 2 $150.00 armored vehicles and tanks along with reportedly thousands of turkish soldiers those reinforcements are now continuing

with seeing pictures of train loads of. rail down to the syrian border we're also getting reports that possibly another brigade of turkish forces will be sent into it later and with this continuing escalation of clashes with the syrian regime and is continuing reinforcing of turkish presence in syria this brings the the possibility of a all out confrontation between damascus regime forces. and the right now a delegation from russia. for talks on the situation in. what do you expect from those talks. turkish foreign minister speaking today he said that the talks on saturday yielded no results we under are unclear was has happened in the latest round of talks today but we do understand from reports that while those talks were going on the syrian regime did target turkish forces now that will not go down well and they will see this is further

evidence of capable of reining in the masks which it is backing with its military have power. to be very concerned at the possibility to get engaged in a full scale conflict with the syrian regime at the moment russian air force are keeping the turkish forces planes out of syrian airspace you had local media reports saying that up one point today a turkish fighter jet was escorted away from the syrian airspace will turkey continue to accept the dominance of russian and full storm anything serious of space while its forces on the ground becoming increasingly vulnerable to attack that brings the prospect of a clash between turkish and russian forces after a full way back in 2015 turkish jets did down a russian fighter differing in a new period of approach month between the 2 countries working to resolve the syrian conflict a live without reproach montanists continued in the present situation is very unclear our correspondent for the latest tonight from istanbul thank you.

well you're watching the news live from berlin still to come a groundbreaking night at the oscars as a foreign language film wins best picture for the 1st time in hollywood history books show you all the glitz because. of the death toll from the corona virus outbreak in china is approaching 1000 more than 40000 cases have been reported across the country the world health organization is concerned about the virus spreading beyond that china and says 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 to their work places. france as recorded just 6 coronavirus cases but chinese people and others in the country's east asian community say they are becoming targets for discrimination many have taken to social media to share their stories of the w.

correspondent sonya from the car has been to paris his main chinatown district to find out more. a basement in paris is chinatown. these elaborate costumes were meant for the annual chinese new year parade the draws thousands of spectators but for the 1st time the event was called off the seer suddenly turned was a regular participant blames the coronavirus and the stigma it's fueled certainly. was cancelled not out of fear of the coronavirus but the fear of children being stigmatized with being told that asian children are coming back from school crying because they were singled out and made fun of they were insulted and called names so we didn't feel like celebrating but it's been very tough. suddenly turn grew up in this neighborhood a melting pot known for its 960 s. high rise apartment blocks and dozens of east asian stores and restaurants the

frenchman is of chinese and cambodian descent and says he'd never really experienced racism openly in paris until a week ago. it was a. mess took the metro and as i sat down the person next to me got up and moved away and then he covered his mouth and nose with a scuff i realized it was a form of xenophobia and fear i was sad and shocked because it's far from being an isolated case accounts of prejudice avoidance and slurs a piling up in france stalking the needs. here in southeastern paris the city's main chinatown which is home to large numbers of france's ition community the usually bustling neighborhood seems a bit subdued many residents are wary of speaking on camera but some are clearly rattled by incidents off with this abuse amid fears of the. enemy and what a friend of mine who's asian was taunted and called a virus in a metro that's not very nice but. our customers wanted to know if our waiters had

chinese nationality even though ours is a vietnamese restaurant seeing asian faces didn't reassure them that the mic has really given free reign to racism against asians something which in france was not really talked about and not taken seriously the issue was revoked aerated across the french media on the banks of the river same. journalist lynn lundahl has been following accounts by french issuance of being targeted using the now popular hash tag i am not to buy it was. like it's the french train. she has long campaigned against and says i'm in france but nothing prepared her for these responses to an article on the coronavirus in china she translates into english you shouldn't have weird beast this is normal they would do anything in that country to countries over crowded to nature is doing its work this is horrible like people they have no

empathy we're just talking about sick people and then they will say say racist things like a virus is just a pretext to be hateful it will be a clear session was treated with little and has been speaking out against the heat on talk shows and on social media she's also hit out at sections of own profession for example for this headline in the local newspaper warning of a yellow alert so far france has recorded only a few cases of the corona bite was if the numbers go up the fear is the prejudice could spread just the smallest. the talk about that now i'm joined here at the big table by leah you she is a german chinese writer she has a ph d. in neuro politics and racism and dehumanization those are the topics that go right to the core of what we're seeing with this virus i mean there's an irony here isn't there that we've got a virus which obviously does not discriminate. that infects and it's fueling

discriminatory behavior it's fueling racist behaviors how do we how do you explain that well you know i study the social brain and human beings find it very hard to make sense of something impersonal so it makes a lot of sense to attach the virus to a whole group of people and indeed to be fair this fire was started in china so it is i think understandable that people that people social brains have a fear reaction when they see somebody chinese do they do they feel inside china since it did originate in china do they feel like that it's one of us is is part of the problem is there are an element of self hate there or fear of of oneself. what i think rather when we are under threats we make snap decisions so both in china we know that discrimination is happening to what's people who are from who pay from other chinese people from ohio on we know that there's been

some volk sort of citizen justice being carried out that's concerning in china but we also know that towards not just chinese but people who just look up and and and and in canada and in the u.s. there has been a lot of discrimination and snap judgment and i think that is concerning what do you say about the walk down policy in china i mean there you're basically you're isolating huge populations and are they getting the information that they need because i would assume that information would help to stop this discrimination. i think you know china right now is in a very different position and during the sauce time in order to get information chinese do have their mobile phones they have access to internet at least they can converse with each other i think there's not that sense of total isolation but i

think there is a sense that people can decide over their own lives right now and i don't just mean you know government policies but we know that people can't ride on beijing we know people confident of renter's country turn to their homes because. they have the lockdown yes what would you know about 30 seconds what would you say would need to have been right now other than the virus going away what needs to happen reduce this xenophobe it fear and behavior i think the wild need to understand that this is a battle that we share together the chinese economy is interdependent with europe's economy with germany's economy german metson. made in china not so this is not just us against them this is a problem that we all share we need to better together we need to overcome fear and dehumanization to what chinese in our brains and we need to act more rationally together yeah i agree see people as people and not as carriers of the virus we

appreciate your insights tonight thank you for the 92nd academy awards have made movie history with the self korean film parasite becoming the 1st non english language film to win best picture award and the film's director you would hope you didn't stop there he went on to pick up the others take a look. it was the big surprise of the night and they are scared goes to paris. the 1st ever moon english language movie to win best picture. so his car will be loons cook south korean director bond june ho's dark last satire about the gap between the rich and poor in modern day soul was the big winner of the night. and

a total of 4 awards including best director for bomb junho who paid tribute to one of cinema's all time great directors and fellow nominees. are novel comes out on the. thank you so much as i said when i was young and studying cinema there was a saying that i cough deep into my heart which is the most personal is the most creative let's hear that quote to us from our great martin scorsese so we were thank you i will drink until next morning thank you i really never know sydney other big categories where the awards went to the hotly tipped favorites. and a comeback for wren is now where she took the best actress award for happy trial of to take on and in the film judy you take anything for depression for that is that

it was. this you walk in phoenix winning best actor for his mesmerizing performance as the joker in the dark origin story of one of the world's best known comic book the lens is a joke to you. supporting actor awards went to laura dern for her role as a divorce lawyer and marriage story thank you were missing and brad pitt won his 1st acting oscar for his supporting role as an laidback stunt man in clinton tearing tino's once upon a time in hollywood. and the oscars wouldn't be the oscars without some political john having been told me only have 45 seconds appear which is 45 seconds more than said it gave john bolton this week. they were i'm thinking maybe when does a movie about it in the end they don't do the right thing. of that there was

also some good old fashioned fun. and plenty of entertainment. music legend elton john performing his. winning original song from the bio pic rocket man. getting hollywood in the mood for the infamous pascoe's off to parties. you're watching the w. news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news followed by the day that this new day.

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