the big. and uncertain future plans for the. party. said she would step down the spot. scrambling to deal with the for not just good decision mean for the government and the nation's future. now. the world health organization. discloses a very grave threat not just to china but also to the rest of the lads. and.

vows to pay a heavy price for any attack on turkish troops syrian forces have been. supported by taking. good to have your company. here in berlin the future leadership of germany's dominant conservative party has been thrown into question with the resignation of chancellor angela merkel's chosen successor on a great cut and shock announcement that she stepped down as head of macas c.d.u. party throws the field of potential chancellor candidates why do upand but finding a successor poses a major challenge for the c.d.u. the political crisis in germany comes as the rest of europe looks to berlin for

stability through the tumultuous postbag that era. now a chief political editor michelle knight joins me now michelle a new party leader is not going to be chosen anytime soon how will this will this uncertainty and delay in waiting weaken the c.d.o. party. but already has because the succession plan of going to didn't work out and it did come callandar was the one who was supposed to unite the party 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 an internal party rift over how to deal with the far right if 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 not important seriously shaking up what conservatism means and how far to the right angle america's party could possibly go so that's a party crisis that and we should end this crisis does it all come at a particularly good time for germany because germany's due to take over the e.u. presidency this summer so what are people in the european union making of these developments in germany our correspondent barbara is in strasbourg she spoke to catalina 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 blown government crisis the next step is the 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 you know there's no shot in front 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 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. in how much trouble is germany right now on the german government how do you think what does this mean for europe and the rest of the world they have get great expectations of the new 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 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. do you have these people who've been thank you very much for that assessment. that's been having some other stories making news around the world the greek government says it will use emergency powers to build a new reception center for phantom seekers on it and. the move to speed up the process of identifying refugees and deporting those who are not given permission to stay it follows an outcry from residents and asylum seekers living in overcrowded camps. a suicide bombing has hit the afghan capital kabul officials say at least 63 were killed by the blast at the entrance to a military academy it ends recently violence as the u.s. pursues talks with the taliban to finalize

a ceasefire deal. islands left wing nationalist party then a once a major role in the country's next government the party led by marilu in the tunnel scored its best ever result in last weekend's election and she's now hoping to find a coalition partner. the number of people who've died from the crew in a virus has now exceeded one tonnes and another 43000 have been infected in a bid to help slow the spread of the virus leading scientists have gathered in geneva to fast track promising drug tests and vaccines hundreds more up a disappointing the 2 day meeting from a far they are at present newly licensed drugs or back seems to find the pipe virus scientists are scrambling to come up with their rapid response test here's to get at it let's take a look at how this crisis unfolded. people

with an unknown illness began appearing at 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. had 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 ruhani 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 us 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 coronavirus 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 maine and lockdown cases were confirmed in every province of mainland china the when young 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. the chinas been taken lot of measures to deal with the corona virus but what more needs to be done i put that question to dr margaret harris of the world health organization in geneva 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 the health make sure that they do all the things that will protect themselves appropriately but not panic that was dr margaret hanna's from the wanted though and i think engine eva 2 other news officials in bangor there's say a boat carrying the refugees has sunk of the country's southern coast at least 14 people were drowned 70 were rescued an estimated 1000000 rohingya muslims have fled persecution in neighboring man maya many of those living in camps in bangladesh are trying to board boats headed for malaysia.

africa threatening food security for millions of people already in regions the outbreak has devastated crops in several countries the u.n. is warning off an impending humanitarian crisis and is appealing for international aid military forces have been deployed to head with ground based pesticide spraying . the number of chinstrap penguins in parts of western antarctica has fallen by 80 percent since the 1970 s. that's according to scientists studying climate change it comes as a research base in antarctica recorded its warmest temperature ever for the continent 16 sorry 18 degrees celsius. you're watching the news coming up ahead europe's severe winter strong. creative destruction and transport disruption we have the details. and close to

the tate modern art gallery in london one man is creating his own modest collection of paintings by discarded chewing gum. but 1st president john of techies vowed that syria will pay what he called a heavy price for any attack on techie's troops the turkish military has already claimed it killed more than $100.00 syrian soldiers in a province into tally for a sit in attack turkey supporting rebel groups in syria tries to retake their last remaining stronghold and. turkey points back against the assad regime ankara says it will repay its own casualties are. 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. airlifted to hospital some of the turkish troops injured in a sad latest assault on it lived a saddest trying to recapture the province from rebel forces rebels often by turkey 5 turkish casualties followed 8 others last week all of the hands of a sense 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 this is villian 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. well syrian regime forces backed by russia are pressing on with their

offensive on rebel held it 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 even if it continues to do so it once 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. that was. obvious correspondent in istanbul.

after battling northern europe a severe winter storm has moved south leaving a trail of fallen leaves as well as blocked roads and really lines in southern germany and austria a few 7 people have died and air and overland 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 destruction was along europe's northern coastline the storm 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 was forced to abort its landing in london and fly on to frankfurt where it was able to land safely. 30 years ago today nelson mandela walked 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 activist dennis good bag through trial with mandela in 1964 and he saw the few people convicted that stay on the trial who still is alive and he. met him in cape

town. on a member him coming out of prison with his wife winnie by his side. is courting her. he was her 1st. and he made a speech. which was typical of you know some anger over your. wife. we visited dennis 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 many years later for nelson mandela

was he saving up a new legal on me and then as he was prepared to make or trying me you know how to build bridges can you apply. to join now save yours 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 he was jailed in pretoria segregation also applied to prisons there are times when i work up in the middle not. thinking about prison was. anxious. dennis goldberg 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. gold states 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. any form. we. put in. there's this move on. especially young people. you know. we spoke with him as president saddam was about to just exxon exactly then one day left and on this day

. we asked what people this think on this momentous anniversary for south africa of course it's a very emotional moment right behind me you can see the balcony we have. addressed across 30 years ago and there's a lot of people here who describe 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 it was tens of thousands of people around the world but in particular in south africa that once it was the end of apartheid and i talked to one all the men i would sykes here was he a 32 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 peaceful. young found africans in the so-called beyond me 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 it 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 here was so angry and she said well all these pipe dreams that we're hearing on the rainbow nation they have not come true look at the city actually get we're still on the point we still have racism of our society and the government must finally do something not just promising things so it's the new president. as 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. andrew increase

in capetown thank you very much for that. you from the world of football and you man has stunned. by resigning as coach of head just 10 weeks after he took the job the former german the united states coach was a top appointment for hetta who have new big money backers they were hoping to turn decided to challenges but the team have won just one of their last 5 league games ahead tell only confound the news this hour after king's one posted his resignation on facebook and. mark knight has joined us from a small circle welcome a lot of klinsmann is a big name in germany and this comes as a huge surprise yes indeed i mean it tells the story that he put out his statement 1st and then her didn't actually confirm it for an hour we were ringing her and couldn't get through and it seems maybe they didn't know i mean maybe he didn't even want the job in the 1st place i mean originally he was basically an advisor to

the board then they fired their coach and to chill bit in november they looked around hoover got oh you're going klinsmann he's famous come on be coach and he said ok i'll do it till the end of the season maybe longer actually he's only lasted 10 weeks so what are the both sides thing because it doesn't sound quite right for what is clean for months and what is hetta thing was quite a long facebook post that klinsmann put out and it takes a long time to get to the nub of it but i can read it to you here unity cohesion and focus are the most important things especially in a relegation battle if they are not guaranteed i can exploit my potential as a coach so that infers there were some problems there with hierarchy had to respond and said they were totally surprised by this there was no signs of it coming he did a facebook live on earth as system the day before it's all very very strange it's just come out of the blue and they said look we've been working with him for out the general transfer window to br. players in and all of a sudden now

a new coach is enough to come in with many plays that he didn't want that klinsmann bought very strange these strange is the end of clean phones korea yes as a trainer definitely he was fired by by and he was fired by the united states even back in 2006 when germany had that wonderful world cup run it was actually your kim serve in the background doing the real dirty work so i don't think you'll be a coach ever again right mark medicine did every sports death thank you. one man's trash is another man's treasure or perhaps another man's art in london this is an artist who transforms discarded racan tshwane go from the city's streets into miniature artwork. a stone's throw away from st paul's cathedral in london as the millennium bridge over the record 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. the famous studio i am indeed

ben wilson has been turning chewing gum into art for the last 15 years not just in london but all over europe the person as a person cried for. transforming the rubbish into a form. trying to transform it into something positive he takes his time sculpting and reshaping the scraps of gum that have been waged to the steel bridge creating something of his own samy pearman an exhibition. seeks to create something which evolves from. being imposed on the. 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 a little closer at the unexpected beauties around them. coming up next on news. why don't he go refugees are risking dead you see journeys to

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