have fun. starts feb 28th. this is g w news. uncertain future here in germany plans for after transfer. have suddenly fallen apart the woman tipped to take from chancellor merkel says she is no longer in the running a shocking announcement but. insists her decisions are not in the

present government stability also coming to the syrian assad regime stepping up its offensive. stronghold of government rebels. turkey and the death toll from the china. report tonight from paris residents there in china say the virus has led to a. racial discrimination and. parasite. history is made at the also on the english language film wins best picture for the 1st time all bring you the latest the mystery making it from hollywood. viewers on p.b.s. in the. states and all around the world welcome 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 the great. you're right there the politician known as a big is stepping aside following events last week that broke a political taboo here in germany her conservative c.d.u. party for the very 1st time worked with the far right alternative for germany party to win a regional elections and a taboo to for that put credibility as party leader into question on the quiet calm 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. it's not says ricin the instant target the leadership question is still unresolved to this very day specific a the issue of who will be the party's candidate for chancellor. these we haven't been able to find a solution a time despite to party conventions and apparently some people don't want to resolve this issue 52 posts so it will. come 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 plans to step down until monday morning. inside i'm quite certain i respect this decision think 2nd but i must also say i regret that it's come to this but i can imagine that this was not an easy decision

for an incorrect crap are unbalanced in fact you can find this former c.d.u. parliamentary party leader feels like mouth is being honored as a potential successor to come. 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. consider c.d.u. 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 stepped in 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 art let's take this now to our political correspondent simon young he is here in berlin on the story for us tonight good evening to you so i mean so this

is a crisis for the c.d.u. party without question is it also a crisis for germany's ruling coalition government. well it certainly has the potential to be that brands obviously have a great crime karrenbauer herself said today that she doesn't see any threat to the stability of the government but other senior figures like peter out mild the christian democrat economy minister he says this is a very serious situation. and you know a lot of people are saying well. it's necessary for everyone now within the christian democrat family to come together and try and assert some stability and indeed the social democrats those of the coalition partners in anglo america's national government have been applying the pressure a little bit of non-doing that the c.d.u. show what's the law in between on the far right so they are tempted to make a little bit of political capital with this having said that they're on lightly to

want to bring down the government i think and abandon the coalition because they themselves are electorally very weak so at the moment i think the government will limp all the far right if the party you know it appears to be profiting by having the withdrawal of a k.-k. as party leader but who else simon benefits from stepping down. well as i say the social democrats will seek to pull themselves out they're presenting themselves as the party now thats needed to sort of watch out the conservatives don't move too far to the right well don't flirt with the far right party the a.f.d. then of course the other people who can regard themselves as somehow beneficiaries of today's events all of those christian democrats who are rivals of a k.k.k.

she wanted to succeed angle americal and possibly go on to run for chancellor next year in the elections well you know there are several people as we saw in that report who are waiting in the wings for their chance to step up so they of course will see her demise as a win for them and simon this question of who will run to become the next chancellor it's all this uncertainty into the political equation here in germany and we know that germans don't like that will the question of who will run for chance or will it weaken the c.d.u. party well i think it will you know the c.s.u. leader the bavarian conservative leader said you know they can't have months of uncertainty well as a search for a new leader and decision about he's going to be the chancellor candidate rumbles

on that would be very damaging he said and i think you know there's a battle for the soul of the conservative party there are those on the right wing you say miccolis taking the party too far to the left and the fear is all that that battle that's been latent for for a long time made now break out into the open our political correspondent simon young. aminta stage in german politics sunday thank you. the turkish military has struck and to neutralize more than a 100 military personnel in the syrian province of it live the shelling in retaliation for a syrian strike earlier in the day in which 5 turkish troops die the assad regime is now on the offensive it live province which is 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 the turkish armed forces are being hit directly by 0 an army is this kind of a benchmark in this escalation. chris certainly is a very serious escalation as you said this is the latest attack fatal attack on turkish soldiers and again 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 a turkey is can continuing to reinforce its military presence in following last week's attack it deployed over 250 armored vehicles and tanks along with reportedly

files of turkey 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 italy and with this continuing escalation of clashes with the syrian regime and its 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 libya what do you expect from those talks. the turkish foreign minister speaking today he said that the talks on saturday yielded no results the un do are unclear what has happened in the latest round of talks today but we do understand reports that while those talks were going on the syrian

regime did talk at turkish forces now that will not go down well and they will see this is further evidence of capable of reigning in damascus which it is backing with its military have power and. will to be very concerned at the possibility that we'll get engaged in a full scale conflict with the syrian regime at the moment russian air force hakim the turkish forces planes out of syrian airspace you had local media reports saying that up today a turkish fighter jet was escorted away from the syrian airspace will turkey continue to accept the dominance of russian and full storm of the thing syria's its baseball its forces on the ground becoming increasingly vulnerable to attack not bring suppose fate of a clash between turkish and russian forces there to recall way back in 2015 turkish jets did down a russian fight to bring in a new period of approach month between the 2 countries working to resolve the syrian conflict to live without reproach montanists continued in the present

situation is very unclear our correspondent during jones for the latest tonight from in stamboul dorian thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world left wing nationalist party shin fein says it wants a major role in the country's next government after a record election showing the party led by barry lynn mcdonnell won the popular vote beating both centrist party they previously refused to work with fein but the center right if you're on a foil is no longer ruling out a coalition. has sentenced in 7 young activists to prison terms of up to 18 years the defendants work used to planning to carry out bomb attacks during the 2018 human rights activists criticize the case saying the men were tortured into signing confessions. a powerful storm has killed at least 5 people across europe 2 died at a ski resort in poland when a roof was ripped off of

a building germany's entire long distance realm network was shut down most of monday parts of britain have seen flooding and tens of thousands of people across the continent have been left without power. you're watching news still to come a groundbreaking night at the oscars as a foreign language film wins best picture for the 1st time in hollywood history. but 1st 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 china and says that 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 returning to their work places. france has 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 correspondent sonia phone the car has been to paris his main china town 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 sea or suddenly 10 was a regular participant blames the coronavirus and the stigma it's fueled certainly. was cancelled not out of fear of the corona virus but the fear of children being stigmatized with being told that action 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 it has been very tough it only turned 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 many companies mouth and nose with a scar i realized it was a form of xenophobia and fear i was saddened shocked because it's far from being an isolated case accounts of prejudice avoidance and slows 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 the hood 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 coronavirus

a medium what a friend of mine who's asian was taunted and called a virus in the 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 mc has really given free rein 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 sent. journalist lynn london has been following accounts by french asians have been targeted using the now popular hash tag i am not to buy it was. the french training. she has long campaign that gets them 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 the country is overcrowded nature is doing its work this is horrible like people they have no empathy we're just talking about sick people them and then they will sit saying racist things like that word a virus is just a pretext to be hateful only i clearly said she was trying to do 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 its 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 coronavirus if the numbers go up the fear is the prejudice could spread just. 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. it 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 almost self hate there or fear of of oneself. what i think rather when we are under threats we make snap decisions both

in china we know that discrimination is happening to what's people who are from who pay from other by other chinese people. on we know that there's been some volk sort of citizen just as 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 canada and in the us there has been a lot of discrimination and snap judgment and i think that is concerning what do you say about the 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 during the saas 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. of 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 have been reduced zina phobic 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 and also this is not just us against them this. it's a problem that we all share we need to better together we need to overcome fear and

dehumanization to us chinese an olive brains and we need to act more rationally together yeah i grieve see people as people and not as carriers of the virus liu we appreciate your insights tonight thank you of the 92nd academy awards have made cinema history a south korean movie parasite became the 1st non english language film to win the oscar for best picture it was a night of triumph for parasites director. it was the big surprise of the night and they are scarred goes to parasite. the 1st ever moon english language movie to win best picture. since. moon's south korean director of bond junho news dot com a satire about the gap between the rich and poor in modern day so was the big

winner of the night. and a total of 4 awards including best director of football. who paid tribute to one of cinema's all time great directors and sen nominees. and all comes home to. thank you so much as i said when i was young and studying cinema there was a saying that i carved deep into my heart which is the most past no is the most creative that quote to us from our great martin scorsese so be were thank you i will think until next morning thank you i really there were no sin the other big categories but the awards went to the hotly tipped favorites. and a comeback for rent. she took the best actress award for her put trial of to take on and in the film judy. take anything for depression for that is that it

was. i did you walk in phoenix winning best actor for his mesmerizing performance as the joker in the dock origin story of one of the world's best known comic book villains is a joke to you. supporting actor awards went to laura dern for her role as a divorce lawyer and marriage story thank you i beat this in and brad pitt won his 1st acting oscar for his supporting both as an laidback stunt man and clinton tyrant tino's once upon a time in hollywood. and the oscars wouldn't be the oscars without some political jiving it told me only have 45 seconds appear which is 45 seconds more than the senate gave john bolton this week. they were thinking maybe

when does a movie about it in the end they don't do the right thing. i think there was also some good old fashioned fun. and plenty of entertainment. music legend elton john performing his. oscar winning original song from the bio pic rocket man. getting horny would in the mood for the infamous because after parties. we were not invited unfortunately korea has been celebrating these excess of parasites at the oscars the film scooped up for academy awards and south korea has a sizeable film industry but this is the 1st time that the country has hit the jackpot at the oscars was there's no doubting parasite directs a bone 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 seoul president spoke of his pride at parasite success is kicking off

his cabinet meeting with a round of applause. few in the country were expecting one or sky less alone for students and on site university bone without matzoh watched enraptured as the ceremony unfold is this the moment when the best picture award was announced. by pitt's hopes the successful south korea's film industry. is a little 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 this was a. parasite shows the often painful divide between rich and poor in south korea.

he acts as a largely unknown outside the country for one young cost member who didn't make it to l.a. it was still at night to remember. him but you know i thought it would be awesome to get the award. fairly and we actually want to. end their lives 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 for all this cost increase is now the limit. well 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 the $1500000000.00 solar orbiter blasted off from cape canaveral in florida this morning its 10 year mission will see adventure it will sleep close to the sun and

then join nasa is parker approach which was launched 18 months ago. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you the woman tipped to take over from the german chancellor angela merkel has announced that she is no longer in the running conservative leader on a great from the current dollar insist that her movie is not a danger for germany's coalition government and fighting intensifying between turkish and syrian forces the syrian assad regime has stepped up its offensive in the province the last stronghold of anti government rebels which are backed by turkey. you're watching the w. news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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