but i am. this is the dog news live from berlin an uncertain future here in germany as plans for the air after angela merkel have suddenly fallen apart the woman took to take over from the chancellor angela merkel says she is no longer in the running of a shocking announcement but an anagram from current boss insists her decision will not affect the stability of the present government also coming up. syria's assad regime steps up its offensive in italy province the last stronghold of atty government rebels backed by turkey. and chinese president xi jinping calls for more

decisive measures to combat the coronavirus this as the death toll in china from the outbreak losses of 1000. i'm told me a lot before welcome to the program until recently it was considered a done deal but now the german chancellor succession plan has fallen apart the woman widely seen as next in line to chancellor angela merkel says she has changed her mind and will not run for the top job in next year's elections and a great crime karen bought known as a k k is stepping aside following events last week there broke a political to boom in germany a conservative c.d.u. party for the 1st time teamed up with the far right alternative for germany party to win a regional election a taboo to father put a case 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. as hatzius ricin the instant target that the leadership question is still unresolved to this very day specifically the issue of who will be the party's candidate for chancellor. we haven't been able to find a solution despite 2 party conventions and apparently some people don't want to resolve this issue. 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 comic-con bars plans to step down until monday morning. shocked and tried on quieter i respect this decision picked but i must also say i regret that it's come to this with all the documentation 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 feels like math 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. c.d.u. can't agree on its future direction and has been without a real leader for a long time. 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. now this is a crisis for the c.d.u. party but is it a crisis for germany's ruling coalition earlier we put that question to political correspondent simon young and a great crime karen bauer herself said today that she doesn't see any threat to the stability of the government but other senior figures like peter out my of 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 angle america's

national government have been applying the pressure a little bit demanding that the c.d.u. show what's the line between it and the far right so they are tempted to make a little bit of political capital with this having said that there are likely 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. i was political correspondent simon young speaking earlier though the turkish military says it has killed more than 100 syrian military personnel the shelling was in retaliation for a syrian government strike which left 5 turkish soldiers dead the past week has seen tensions between syria and turkey escalate the assad regime is on the offensive in italy attempting to retake the last stronghold of anti-government forces in syria. turkey fights back against the asset regime ankara says it will

repay its own casualties. must be confirmed as soon as possible. to be permanent the assad regime's aggression. president has emphasized that turkey will take the necessary measures if the continues its aggression. airlifted to hospital some of the turkish troops injured in a sad latest assault on it lived a sad is trying to recapture the province from rebel forces rebels often on by turkey 5 turkish casualties followed 8 others last week all of the hands of sads forces. this is the latest in a series of escalations between turkey and syria turkey wants to defend its border with syria and the said regime wants to regain influence within its own borders the civilian cost of all this has been high in recent weeks nearly 700000 civilians have been displaced. adorn

a turkish military convoy enters northern syria joining the effort to halt assad's offensive showing that turkey means what it says about defending its own border. the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in china has passed 1000 with another 40000 cases reported nationwide as the lunar new year holiday comes to an end many chinese are choosing to stay at home rather than return to their work places but others are getting back to work despite fears of the virus spreading. back to work in beijing. with temperature scans and breathing masks despite the heightened precautions beijing residents say life must go on. a little so i think we can just act like nothing happened my companies prepared some protective gear for us like masks. life goes on anyway how can we stop

going outside or stop working simply because of fear of disease we can't do that with the way you said that those chinese president xi jinping has largely kept a low profile but on monday he visited a treatment and prevention research center and toured a residential neighborhood. let's not shake hands in this special period you should always remain confident we will be able to contain this epidemic eventually. international experts including a team from the world health organization have arrived to observe and offer help. we welcome experts from countries including the united states to participate in the joint export inspection group we believe that sufficient communication between all sides will produce suitable arrangements for the work of the inspection group in china. in will hog the city where the outbreak started officials have mobilized

tens of thousands of workers to aid in prevention koren teens are still in effect across much of the city. ha how. this will how the hospital is home to 3 babies born to mothers who had the virus. the mother's condition had worsened 2 days before being admitted to the hospital and an emergency says erin section was done. outside workers and trucks rode the city spraying disinfectant it's clear that in on it least the crisis is far from over. the russian billionaire manav has donated the original 9892 olympic manifesto to the olympic museum in los on in switzerland was one of was the mystery by of the 14 page document at an auction last december it sold for 8000000 euros making it the most

expensive sports memorabilia ever sold at an auction riginal manifesto was penned by international olympic committee found appeared. to outline his vision of the modern games from on this v.w. reports a 1000000 new hall joins me in studio melanie about this manuscript so this money script is the only known copy of the speech which keep us on gate and paris in 892 and in the speech he outlined his vision which was really really wrecked ing the the ancient greek olympic games there by launching the modern olympics games that we know today 2 years later the international olympic committee was founded and then the 1st modern olympic games was held in 8096 in athens a little bit more about the person who bought this manuscript. i know he's a russian billionaire he made his money in the 1990 s. in mining and metals industry and he said to have close links to russian president

vladimir putin and also he has been accused of corruption now. when when he bought this manuscript at auction back in december his identity was kept under wraps but as you said since then he's done they don't donated it to the museum and this will not be the 1st time that the public can see it ok so now that manuscript is coming home how has the i.o.c. the international olympic committee responded or reacted to this well the international olympic committee president thomas bach did call it a historic moment let's hear what he had to say about this area. it's a day of great emotion because we have today received. the founding document off of the year olympic movement and off the games. we started with the restart richmond off of the olympic games and therefore

you cannot overestimate the significance and importance of the speech of. so melanie what vision did dick about all the founder of the international olympic committee have for modern olympic games so he saw our sport as being a way to contribute to world peace a way for nations to compete against each other but peacefully if we look at his text which he wrote for the speech he said it is clear that the telegraph railways the telephone the passionate research in science congresses and exhibitions have done more for peace and any treaty or diplomatic convention he continued i hope that letter x. will do even more actually against been cancelled 3 times because of war the 1st time was in 1916 when it was canceled because of the 1st world war it happened take place in berlin it was then also cancelled in 1940 in 1944 because of the 2nd world war it was then again held in 1988 in england but i was only after

a lot of debate about whether given that the world's many countries were still struggling to recover from from 2nd world war whether people whether there was a need for sports like this but it turned out that the 948 olympics were very popular and was seen as providing much needed relief from the destruction of war almost ardent as years later we have the olympics in tokyo and it's all thanks to this manuscript all right thank you molly hall we have to leave it there. if you're looking for inspiration you'll have to see this next story a group of girls from a remote village in kurdistan have come together to form the country's 1st female ice hockey team and they're not afraid to challenge stereotypes. this tiny brick house is where the girls change into their hockey equipment before they set foot on the ice. ice skating as

a rest site in the central asian country of kurdistan. but these girls are all about defying stereotypes yet the 1st female i saw key team in their country and they train on a plot of farmland. i cultivate the land here it's my plot of land i plant potatoes some flows you can grow anything here and some of it's use for agriculture in winter i create an ice rink. the coach converted his garage to a changing room and the country's diaspora community in switzerland donated the equipment the team started to grow through word of mouth. giving an idea that sound it never even occurred to me that i would ever play hockey for some of. the also my classmate the coaches daughter she suggested i come and try to play hockey to cut securing the cuts. the team now has around 15 players

changing minds won't be easy but locals are slowly warming up to the country's 1st female ice hockey team. you're watching news kate ferguson has all the business stories up next i'm told me a lot of thanks for watching there's more news at the top of the hour. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see her as the kids find strength growing up her. objective is to work with. the books on you to. reduce crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series continues this season the store.