this is the news live from berlin and uncertain political future here in germany as plans for the euro after chancellor merkel fall apart the woman tipped to take over from the chancellor now wish to says she does not want the job. what does on a grid. decision mean for the government and for the country's future also coming out. syrian government troops intensifying their offensive in a province the last stronghold of anti-government rebels supported by turkey which

says it will strike back if more of its soldiers are killed there plus. not enough for the lot of them. and the other person completely chopped off. what's behind the new wave of violence in cameroon and actions being held there make a difference. brian thomas great to have you with us today well plans for who should succeed. fall apart the woman considered next in line for the job of german chancellor says she will not run on a current powers stepping aside after members of her christian democrats ignored her and instead allied themselves with the far right to win a regional election now that move created

a political shock waves that show no sign of abating. 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 opposition is in the unison target that 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 despite to party conventions and apparently some people don't want to resolve this issue. believes to see the 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 barres plans to step down until monday morning. and tried on quieter i respect this decision picked. 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 the fineness former c.d.u. parliamentary party leader friedrich mouth's is being odd 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 are also in the running. the tumult in the c.d.u. also has their coalition partner the social democrats worried. it's if you want a few new cd you can't agree on its future direction and has been without a real leader for a long time lords. 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. so do germany's conservatives have months to resolve this sudden crisis to be a political correspondent kate brady joins us more on that good morning to you kate what does this all leave the german government and is the coalition at risk well we heard there in the report the social democrats of already being voicing their concerns about the future of the leadership of the coalition partner but at the moment the gro co of the grand coalition as it's known looks likely to continue but that will really depend on how the c.d.u. progress is in the next in the coming months over this issue of a new leader and most likely a candidate for the for next year federal elections but that's if we look at the bigger picture it's not so much the government but really germany's political

stance on the world stage particularly in the e.u. which is in a much more precarious position right now and there were a lot of voices coming out of brussels at least yesterday wondering what on earth is going on in germany right now and of course they'll be looking for wards those elections that are jews to take place here in 2021 and thinking who is likely to be the candidate because at the moment the c.d.u. itself is struggling to really have a strong candidate a strong successor if america and even in the other parties the s.p.d. and even the greens may come up against difficulties when it comes to putting a candidate forward so that idea of stability that comes from germany within europe is certainly on the line at the moment ok no stable germany anchored in the e.u. is certainly at the forefront of the policies for all of the 3 men we saw in our report there vying for the city used top job well one of them getting that position well we've got a long way to go yet and if you look at some of the polls even one of the favorites

free to push matts who expect if he was to take the reins of. the c.d.u. party leader that he would most likely move the posse to a much more conservative position away from the center ground that we've seen merkel move gemini's concept. towards over the last 16 years or so even in the polls he's only pulling out around 27 percent at the moment so i really no real strength the numbers from him so we do have a long way to go yet and of course there are 3 main names at the moment that are doing the rounds here in germany but we could still see some surprise contenders coming up over the next few weeks ok you know the far right alternative for germany sparked this crisis are they benefiting from it well they certainly could look to benefit mole in the coming months of we'll have to look to see as well how the cd you plans to realign itself and decide what kind of conservative party does it want to be what kind of conservative party does it want to stand for going into these elections because if it fails really to get it x.

again the we could see even more disillusioned voters disappointed c.d.u. voices going to the far right a.f.p. and at least looking at a poll that came out just this morning from you gov at least it wouldn't be a surprise for german votes is around 50 percent just under 50 percent of germans say they now expect the f.t. to be participating in either state or federal government by 2039 that doesn't mean that they are they support that 59 percent of fundamentally against it but they expect it nonetheless and so already it seems that germany's apparent immunity to fall right populism that bubble seems to be slowly busting their teeth thanks so much for coming in on this force today thanks very much. let's get your brief down some of the other stories making news around the world a suicide bombing has rocked the afghan capital kabul fishel saying at least 6 people were killed at the blast at the entrance to a military academy there now this ends a reason alone violence as the u.s.

pursues talks with the taliban to finalize a cease fire deal. officials in bangladesh say a boat carrying row hinge refugees has sunk off the country's southern coast at least 14 people drowned 70 were rescued many of the estimated 1000000 range of muslims who fled persecution in neighboring me and maher have tried to leave camps in baghlan deshawn boats headed for malaysia. a fierce storm sweeping across northern europe has left at least 7 people dead and knocked out power and hundreds of thousands of homes hurricane force winds and heavy rains disrupted travel number of countries the storms moving eastwards after 1st pummeling the u.k. and mainland europe. well the turkish military says it has killed more than 100 syrian ordinary personnel they died in shelling and says was

in retaliation for a syrian attack that left turkish soldiers dead now this past week is seen tensions between syria and turkey as the syrian armed forces are on the offensive right now and probably province and want to retake the country's last remaining antigovernment stronghold where turkish troops are aiding the rebels. to keep bites back against the asset regime ankara says it will repay its own casualties. in firing a live must be confirmed as soon as possible. for it to be permanent the assad regime's aggression must be stopped president has emphasized that turkey will take the necessary measures if the regime continues its aggression its. 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 by turkey

5 turkish casualties followed 8 others last week all at 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 a sad offensive showing that turkey means what it says about defending its own border. let's get more of the story now from turkey correspondent delia hawn in istanbul. how significant is this latest escalation between syria and turkey. well diary clashes between nato member turkey and syrian regime forces have been extremely rare in the nearly 9 year old

syrian conflict turkey has militarily intervened in 3 operations so far in syria against the so-called islamic state against kurdish led forces it considers a terrorist threat but it has so far avoided attacking. troops so what we have been seeing their latest incidents are some of the most serious confrontations between the 2 countries so far in the past week has tried to reinforce its military posts by sending in hundreds of military vehicles and reportedly thousands of troops all of this in an attempt to stem that deadly offensive on the lip and all of that as you can imagine as more instability too and already talks makes them you know why is it. important to both syria and turkey or willing to

escalate the deadly fighting there. well it is one of the last remaining areas out of bashar al assad's control the last rebel held a bastion there in syria home to about 3000000 people most of them internally displaced assad one still retake all of syria so he definitely needs a turkey's president edwin on the other hand wants to stop assad because if the ellipse holds turkey faces another large scale influx of refugees hundreds of thousands of people have already fled to areas near the turkish border some say up to a 1000000 are basically waiting there in search for security fleeing outside so russian backed offensive turks present and what has repeatedly said he already has for a 1000000 refugees that is something that has proven politically costly for him so

he says we caught on state anymore refugees and then of course look at the humanitarian situation there people are living in makeshift camps it's winter it's freezing cold and some organizations say that needy hoffa it lives free 1000000 civilians are children ok you know you you would so much as stake for both sides were can we expect things to go from there. well that's difficult to say much will probably depend on russia president bashar al assad's most important international a backer of president add on has given damascus until the end of the month to retreat to cease fire lines that he agreed on with president putin in 2018 but so far does not seem to be interested in that turkey is holding talks with russia since saturday but these talks of also not yielded any results yet so the question is is russia able willing to rein in assad so we're going to see the

tensions further increase on afraid but we'll have an eye on that and keep an eye on that and watch the situation for now thank you very much for that from istanbul . for the 1st time in 7 years cameron has held local and parliamentary elections the opening the polls have been delayed because of violence and political turmoil in the english speaking northwest and southwest of the country turnout was low armed separatists there warned people not to vote in 2017 the separatists unilaterally declared independence and the formation of a new country of zona their pursuit of self-determination though has often devastated the lives of civilians a warning some viewers may find the following report disturbing. clue do not call me is recovering in hospital holocaust chopped off but. she sees.

the men came to our home our night i q's in heart of defined a ban on education. that pretty trigger was dropped all make it a waterfall it was terror or. a look at this a dog through i saw it it was all a dream i was really hurt they kept hitting me with a machete. the man started by gradually chopping off my ankle who never could one of them was flogging my back with them i said he and the other person completely chopped off my leg i saw my legs separated into is no never got. the rebellion but under 4 militias is sticking a stool on the population. a few kilometers away 42000 hectares of banana. on pump land to should have been abundant. the state owned

farm is a 2nd biggest employer in the country but should parties want it close 1000 of his war because how fled do to increase our tops many how the new timid or the skewed. job was. what i meant desktop logic you want me. to move the separatists they would have loved to kill us. but they would rather cut off our fingers in order to send a message to our employer world who walk they think they told us they were fighting for us we were working in a government promise haitian which funds for government's crackdown against them with immediately they chopped off our fingers. we too late on this one well as i move in a short force which is often shot down the entire full ridges. all activities are halted and people of the streets shown time last 3

weeks. time are also just to have been accused of killing civilians i'm burning down villages this gritty situation is very dire you know we the people of this always on earth are cut off between the military and the separate forces so you are not even sure that you will see the next. and also because of that on certainty it affix businesses most people cannot invest those who have businesses cannot really make a lot of money because for those who are those who are restaurant people who don't go out a lot people don't stay out late you know this general and shown in the. clothing held in discharged from hospital. this single mother of one is taking our very 1st steps knowing her life will never be the same again. let's get more

now on this from its in the english speaking region of cameron by the reporter who put that piece together for us plays young good day to you boys can you tell us more about what's behind the cruelty and the violence which we saw in your report. yes this one is sort of the bottle between separatists fight and go put to death of these 2 warring factions want to have a piece of this of this region they want. we can hear you it's ok just keep talking boys it's all right. you can continue talking place. ok we were going to have to leave this here i'm afraid we're we having a problem with the connection we'll see if we get it back at some point we're going to move on to some other news now we're going to take

a look at some of the other headlines today swarms of desert locusts are sweeping up sweeping across eastern africa threatening food security for millions of already vulnerable people now this outbreak has devastated crops in a number of countries the u.n. is warning of an impending humanitarian crisis is killing for international aid the military is being deployed to help with pesticides spraying to bring the plague of insects under control. arlen's nationalist party shin fein wants a major role in the country's next government the party led by mary lou mcdonald scored its best ever election result in. its rival parties and previously refused to work with sinn fein but the center right you know fall is no longer ruling out a coalition. the number of chinstrap penguins and parts of western and arctica has fallen by some 80 percent that since the 1007 does

according to scientists studying climate change this comes as a research piece in an article recorded its warmest temperatures ever for that continent. well the 2 most senior health officials in who bay the province at the center of china's corona virus outbreak of been fired this news comes as the death toll from the virus tops 1000 and with more than 42000 cases now confirmed in china as extended lunar new year holiday comes to an end many chinese are choosing to stay at home but alters are getting back to work that despite fears about 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.

i think we can just act like nothing happened my companies prepared some protective gear for us like masks. and life goes on anyway how can we stop going outside stop working simply because of fear of disease we can't do that. you said that there's a 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 the 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. and 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. right haha. this was 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 at least the crisis is far from over. wells to mexico's deadly drug war now which has not slowed in the 1st year of president. over doors

term some 35000 people died in drug related violence last year in the southern state of guerrero has been hard hit by drug traffickers in some small mountain communities their local leaders have responded by forming militias which include children as young as 8 years old. guerrero ground 0 of mexico's drug war beauty poverty and violence makes it high altitude in this place. up here impoverished farmers grow poppies to survive that draws in the cartels they want the crop to produce opium and they've turned the highlands of the strike into killing fields know how to be used gunk says often trick indigenous communities when they buy the pump is and if i went so to them they just take their crops and kill with them. get more death in a place of the same so much of it today the villages morning people killed in an ambush it's estimated that tens of thousands of died in guerrero since the drug war

began and the cartels are notorious for the crew tea with which they punish those who defy them well we've got the bank mother has been to watch it. we have many of. them ripped to pieces. some headless think of. fear has taken over this entire village in the face of the menace of the cartels locals have taken up. they even trying the villages children to fight alongside the adults because some of the youngsters from this village have also reportedly disappeared. and. i'm not scared anymore if they want to show up they should show up we'll protect our families any

. human rights groups have criticized the use of children as young as ice in the self-defense militias here and in 15 other villages in guerrero. but the locals of this village said they won't be laying down their arms at least until they no longer have to fear the cocktails. are moving on to some sports news now a group of girls from a remote village in kyrgyzstan have come together to form that central asian country's 1st all female ice hockey team a shoppach with no other female teams to play against shoppach has been honing their skills against all male teams and their growth as earned them plenty of respect and support from abroad. this tiny brick house is where the girls change into their hockey equipment before they set foot on the ice. ice skating is a rare sight in the central asian country of kurdistan. but these girls are all

about defying stereotypes yet the 1st female an ice hockey 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 issues 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 a team started to grow through word of mouth. these are the only one i care about so 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 tune up supporting the cub scout. the team now has around 15 playoffs changing minds won't be easy but locus is slowly warming up to the country's 1st female ice

hockey team. this is the news up next kick off reviews match day 21 of the bundesliga i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks for joining us.

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