i am. uncertain political future here in germany as plans for. the should mean for them and the nation's future also coming up. as the organization. discloses a very grave threat. to the rest of bad.

syria will be a heavy price for any attack on turkish troops syrian forces have intensified their friends have against the rebel stronghold supported by turkey. hillenbrand in the future leadership of germany's dominant conservative party has been thrown into question with the resignation of chancellor angela merkel's chosen successor and a great clamp cut and bow as shock announcement that should step down as head of america's c.d.u. party throws the field of potential chancellor candidates wide open but finding a successor poses a major challenge because c.d.u.

the political crisis in germany comes as the rest of europe looks to berlin for stability through the tumultuous post drags it into. a chief political editor michelle knight joins me now michel are a new party leader is not going to be chosen anytime soon how will this will this uncertainty and delay and waiting weaken the c.d.o. party. but already has because the succession plan of going to didn't work out and it was the one who was supposed to unite the party the hound behind a clear vision of what being conservative that's the see in the c.d.u. party is all about in the years and decades to come and now she had to throw in the towel and she herself no other than her remains in charge for a couple of months to pick up those very pieces of what was broken there with this political storm last week where regional m.p.'s saw themselves in the same

political compass the far right if tea party crossing a red line and this has exposed that internal party rift over how to deal with the far right is dealing with a conservative group that would like to see itself as something like a tea party movement but it's nowhere near that large and that important seriously shaking up what conservatism means and how far to the right angle of michael's party could possibly go so that's a party crisis that and we should end this crisis doesn't come at a particularly good time for germany because germany is due to take over the e.u. presidency this summer so what are people in the european union making of these developments in germany correspondent barbara is in strasbourg she spoke to katerina bali a european member of parliament for the social democrats. the crisis within the

german christian democrats it strikes fear in the heart of many european countries because if it turns into a full book blown government crisis the next step is european crisis how big is the danger what you think well it is a crisis within the christian democrats there's no doubt about it but now our concern of course is that we keep going as a government and i mean we've seen rough times social democrats and we've proved that this is possible because we. we were a very stable partner in the coalition and in the government and this government worked extremely well during the last months so you think stability can prevail even though the christian democrats seem to tear themselves apart very similar to like you say what happened to in your own party is there a bit of shine for them no there's no shame for it at all because i mean germany will take over the presidency of the council in the 2nd half of this year so we are aware of the responsibility that we're having so. we actually ask our

partner now to show the same responsibility that we have shown because europe is looking at looking towards germany so that was got to leave the european member of parliament for the social democrats returning to you know. how much trouble is germany right now on the german government how do you think what does this mean for europe and the risk of the world they have get great expectations of the stable specially in a post regs it was. well i'm going to machall stands for political stability that's her political brand and from what i'm hearing as long as america will keep so coalition going nobody is truly concerned what what we have seen now i don't think we see coalition her government her last time in office in acute danger here but we have seen fresh sources of instability pop up from within her own party her succession plan hasn't worked out and her self declared finishing line which is to

bring germany staveley unproductively into and through this e.u. presidency is not an acute danger but she certainly has to watch out that she actually deliver on what she would like to see as her european legacy. debby's she political thank you very much for that assessment. there's been some other stories making news around the world the greek government says it will use emergency legal powers to build new closed reception centers for asylum seekers on its aegean islands the movie ends to speed up the process of identifying refugees and deporting those who are not granted permission to stay it follows an outcry from island residents and asylum seekers living in overcrowded camps. a suicide bombing as at the afghan capital kabul officials say at least 6

people were killed by the blast at the entrance to a military academy it ends recently in violence as the u.s. pursues talks with the taliban to finalize a ceasefire deal. swarms of death the. cross eastern africa threatening food security for millions of people already vulnerable the outbreak has devastated crops in several countries the u.n. is warning of an impending humanitarian crisis and is appealing for international aid military forces have been deployed to help with ground decide spring. the head of the wanted organization is one that the corona virus outbreak poses a very grave threat not thin china but also to the rest of the world he was speaking as research as meat in geneva to view a research project that might produce a cure or a vaccine to combat the virus we go to geneva in just a moment but 1st a look at how the new crew in a virus became such

a threat. people with an unknown illness began appearing at 200 central hospital an early december 29th teen late in the month when young a doctor there posted on social media that patients in the hospital were exhibiting symptoms of viral pneumonia chinese health authorities admitted they were investigating an outbreak among the 1st patients many had direct ties to the hunan seafood market where wild life was also sold by january 1st it had been shut down. as 2020 dawned chinese health authorities announced they'd identified the culprit a novel coronavirus a 61 year old became the outbreaks 1st casualty the number of people affected started to rise and before long thailand confirmed the 1st case outside china's

borders then japan reported another unsettling day neither had visited the market so person to person transmission looked increasingly likely and inside china and the virus spread to other cities people began wearing masks over 200 cases were confirmed experts predicted many more. medical workers and who han themselves grew sick after treating patients taiwan and the u.s. reported cases followed by a number of other countries including germany. the chinese government took a drastic step suspending all traffic out of one as well as public transport in the city researchers reported the corona virus hasn't incubate period and that carrier is not yet showing symptoms might be contagious right as the lunar new year started and millions of people began moving around the country there were nearly 2000

confirmed cases worldwide 50 had died. the w.h.o. declared the outbreak a global health emergency kicking in a more coordinated international response. as january turned to february remained and lockdown cases were confirmed in every province of mainland china the when young the doctor and whistleblower fell victim to the novel coronavirus one of many in just over 2 months it's reached at least 27 countries infected more than 42000 people and claimed over a 1000 victims. earlier i spoke to margaret terrorists who works for the world health organization in geneva given that china is doing a great deal to contain the virus i asked dr harris what direction the outbreak is

taking according to her organizations data everybody is working very very hard to deal with this new virus and doing a very good job what we all need to do is to continue to do a good job and what we also need to do is to panic list so at the moment we're dealing with 2 things we're dealing with a new virus and a new virus we need to learn more about and to work together to stop but we also dealing with the info to make where people are attending to overreact a bit it's good that people listen to the advice and pay a lot of attention but really listen to the right advice have excellent hand hygiene make sure that they look after their health make sure that they do all the things that will protect themselves appropriately but not panic that was dr margaret harris from the world handle an isolation engine eva. you're watching the news coming up ahead europe's. south causing at least 7 deaths as well as of

creative destruction in france for cancellations we have the details. the 1st president. of turkey has vowed that syria will be what he called a heavy price for any attack on turkish troops the turkish military has already claimed it's killed more than $100.00 syrian soldiers and province in retaliation for a syrian attack turkey supporting rebel groups in a city or tries to take their last remaining stronghold. turkey fight 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 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 armed 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 and he. you know what is the latest on the situation there after these deadly clashes between turkish forces. well syrian

regime forces backed by russia are pressing on with their offensive on rebel held it live there are reports that they have taken a strategic highway today which would allow them to secure even more targets now assad's rapid advancement in syria increases the risk of further direct lashes with nato member turkey the latest incidents have been among the most serious confrontations between the 2 countries in syria's nearly 9 year old conflict turkey in the past week has massively beefed up already existing military positions in it live it continues to do so it ones to stop his offensive to retreat and it has urged russia to rein in but so far no side is showing signs of backing down so the confrontation just adds more instability to an already toxic mix on the ground i really remind us why did you can be important blood sides with syria and

turkey are willing to risk faction escalation in fighting. well many refer to it live as the final battle in syria's war it is one of the last remaining areas outside of bashar assad's control the last major rebel held stronghold in syria with about the ssri 1000000 people now asad his wote to retake all of syria so he needs it lip turkish prison and one on the other hand has invested a lot of political capital in standing up to damascus during the war in the past 2 years and now he fears that his country is going to be the country that pays the humanitarian price if it live falls a large scale influx of refugees hundreds of thousands have headed to areas near the turkish border where refugee camps are overcrowded conditions dire temperature now in winter temperatures

a sub 0 and add one has repeatedly said that his country already hosts nearly 4000000 refugees and he just can't take in more people so you did given this rise in tensions and what is to reduce expect things to go from here. well it's difficult to predict but analysts say is likely to depend on russia's next moves as a satsu most powerful of bacca now present add on has given damascus a deadline until the end of the month to retreat and respect some cease fire lines agreed in 2018 with president putin and he urges putin to make assad respect this deal but so far it's unclear whether russia is able or willing to rein in as sides a russian delegation was here an encore of footworks on how to end the fighting in italy but the delegation has reportedly left without any agreement any visible

results so right now it's very difficult to say what comes next. it is time thank you very much. after battery northern europe a severe winter storm has moved south leaving a trail of foreign trees and blocked roads and rail lines in southern germany and austria a q 7 people have died and air and land travel have been severely disrupted. it's one of europe's most violent storms in years with intense winds of up to 150 kilometers per hour and tarantula rains leaving a trail of destruction across the continent. much of the initial damage and disruption was along europe's northern coastline this storm a 1st hit ireland before sweeping towards britain and causing widespread flooding across the aisles. at least 7 people died as a result of the storm which toppled trees and damaged buildings hundreds of

thousands of households in 6 countries were left without electricity. in the german city of frankfurt the winds knocked over a crane onto the roof of a cathedral causing extensive damage the storm also disrupted rail services across the country and grounded dozens of flights. a british airways jet was caught on video battling through the storm to land at london's heathrow airport but after 2 failed attempts the plane it was forced to abort its landing in london and fly on to frankfurt where it was able to land safely. kurt hears ago today nelson mandela walk free from prison a key moment in ending apartheid south africa's system of racial oppression mandela went on to become the 1st democratically elected president of south africa another

activists dennis goldberg stood trial with mandela and 964 and he's not the few people convicted at that trial who's still alive. met him in cape town. member him coming out of prison with his wife winnie by his side. courting her. he was her 1st. and he made a speech. which was typical of notes from anger over your. love for me. we visited sternness goldberg at his home in cape cod despite having cancer he wants to talk about the past his parents were british immigrants and opposed to apartheid when he was a student goldberg joins the resistance it was

a time when peaceful protests by the black population were violently suppressed time and again and there are many years though for nelson mandela the same he setting up a new legal on me and then if you go for picnic or trying you know how to build bridges can you. really join us if you use of course but mandela and goldberg were arrested soon after in the rivonia trial they were sentenced to life in prison mandela and the other black defendants were imprisoned on robben island as goldberg was white it was jails and pretoria segregation also applied to prisons. well thinking about prison. anxious.

but it. was released after 23 years in prison he then left south africa and campaigned for the release of nelson mandela abroad when mandela was finally freed and gave his famous speech rights you know on the balcony of the town hall and. watched it on t.v. he now lives in cape town again and despite all the social challenges of south africa gold remains an optimist also when it comes to the fight against racism which is far from over we mustn't forget to. happen again no internet any form but we. are. putting in. this move on. especially young people.

you know. that you put on each of these and increase hunan joins me from cape town where president bush has addressing the crowd exactly from the spot where nelson mandela on this ticket he had to go on and that was such a historic moment to south africa one that shaped the nation how. on it today. of course it's a very emotional moment right behind me you can see the balcony we have. addressed the crowd 30 years ago and there's a lot of people here who described that moment as one of the birth moments of the nation of course we also have to recall it was not only mandela who made this change possible the end of apartheid was tens of thousands of people around the world but. in south africa that once it was the end of apartheid and i talked to one all the men i would sights here was we have 30 years ago and he's here today again to see what is going on and he described mandela as such a person of integrity saying everybody else of us who would have walked out of jail

after 27 years after being suppressed by the government for years would have been so angry so full of revenge i mean i was pretty much the opposite he said we have to sit down and look things out together and then probably plays a major part in the fact that the whole transition here was more or less. young found africans in the so-called born free generation born after the end of apartheid a missing mundane as a legacy. of course he is an icon also for young people here but we also have to face the fact that things are after the a.n.c. took over in 1994 well started quite problematic and up until now south africa has massive problems that every 2nd young person here is unemployed and there's growing frustration i just talked to the young lady outside so angry and she said well all this pipe dreams that we are giving up their rainbow nation they have not come true look at this if you actually get we're still unemployed we still have racism in our society and the government must finally do something and not just promising things

so it's the new president. has a long way to go to make this society more equal here and also to bring more people into employment otherwise the crisis in south africa here will not. under increased in cape town thank you very much for that. one man's trash is another man's treasure or perhaps another man's art in london this is an artist who transforms discarded rock shewing gum from the city's streets into miniature works of art in doing so he encourages people not just ringback to consider the environment but perhaps also to look a little closely at the world around them. a stone's throw away from st paul's cathedral in london is the millennium bridge over the river thames this part of the british capital is no stranger to world famous galleries but practically on their doorsteps there's an unlikely artist in residence. but it's true.

ben wilson has been turning chewing gum into art for the last 15 years not just in london but all over europe. as a person. transforming. into a form. of resort for. trying to transform an art something positive he takes his time sculpting and reshaping the scraps of gum that have been aware to the steel bridge creating something of his own samy pearman an exhibition. seeks to create something which. locals and tourists alike are always interested in his latest creation an artist who by turning trash into art encourages people to consider where they throw their waste and look at little closer at the unexpected beauties around them. news delfin the world of football and your good clean fun has down the industry

about resigning as coach in he had only been in the job for 10 weeks the former germany and united states coach was a marquee appointment for hetta. who have a new big money backers and had hoped to turn the side into bundesliga challenges but the team have won just one of their last 5 games header only confirmed the news an hour after kinsman had posted his resignation on facebook. here's a recap of the top stories that we're following for you and the w. germany faces an uncertain political future after plans fell apart for the for the iraq after chancellor angela merkel and a great clamp cut and bell the woman ticks take over from merkel now says she does not want the job. you're watching t.v. news coming up next a close up documentary theaters that looks at venice and

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