this is deja vu news line from berlin the tough battle to succeed on the american germany's conservative struggle to choose their candidates for chancellor in this year's election 2 very different men are vying for the job and after a week long standoff neither show any signs of backing down also coming up to. germany remembers the nearly 80000 lives lost took over at 19 in the country

leading a commemorative service the german president describes the pandemic as a dark time that has left. hundreds of students are forced to flee the flames as a wildfire rips through the keep telling university on the slopes of table mountain to. walk on the show the race to succeed machall as germany's chancellor is heating up and no party seems to be struggling more to find a candidate to send in to the competition than her own a self-imposed deadline by the governing c.d.u. c.s.u. alliance show announced a candidate expires tonight a stand off between the various premier mako surge and the president of the christian democratic union amin lash it is supported by party. the smaller sister

party c.s.u. is a lot more popular among voters being the biggest party in the conservative coalition and stranded only the c.d.u. who nominates the candidate to spearhead the joint campaign i mean america has not yet publicly endorsed either of them. let's bring in now our chief political editor good to see a self-imposed deadline ends tonight but no decision yet what's going to happen next. that's the big question we need one of these 2 men to declare who post together i say next sounds accounted for the supposed to be ordinarily one would think ok why don't they just have a well to dish and the cast is chosen by the upper echelons of the party was backing. you party is that now the smaller variances the party the c.s.u. is adamant that mark also doesn't because he is so much stronger in those opinion

polls both when you ask the general public but also c.d.u. conservative followers she's seen as the man who could deliver more votes at the ballot box and that's his key argument so we're hearing that individual groups in germany's federal states of the seed you have gathering this evening in berlin they've already come out in favor of muffles and that is to was what could be a potential so down on tuesday if the parliamentary group in the end gets to decide this very question something so. that the posse previously has been backed by and that all wants to avoid it this is question has been going on for weeks now what is taking so long. well neither wants to back down and critics are saying that it's really exposing a week there is that he did an adamant there before that yes he wants to be the man

on the ticket he said the man has the best chances of actually getting elected should be on that ticket opening up space for marcos. so we're seeing you know policy fighting bickering something that is bruising damaging not just for the candidates that's for the chances of will's c.d.u. c.s.u. conservative coalition remaining the strongest party year of these so what is the becoming increasingly more thinkable is that the green those who are benefiting from this may in the end come out stop this party if this proves is that some are predicting the greens themselves are declaring who the candidates is supposed to be tomorrow on monday so they make well over take the. heat but also in terms of having

a controlled process so very dangerous for them apples. and i could not thank you very much for the sense ames it's been a day of remembrance here in germany to pay tribute to the almost 80000 people who have died of covert 19 since the pen democrats the country a commemorative service was led by german president and. in berlin he called it a chance to say goodbye in dignity to those lost to cope with 19 many of whom died alone and without their families and times of unprecedented isolation. the 1st person in germany to test positive for the corona virus was in late january 2020. since then as in most of the rest of the world life has been put on hold in germany and tens of thousands of families left to mourn lost loved ones. the national requiem provided

a moment for germany to pause and reflect on those who would do their died because of the virus or had passed away separated from their families due to pandemic restrictions. as a sounding board to today we're focusing not on numbers and statistics but on the people that we've lost in the industry for all of their differences and the different ways in which they lived feeling they're all missed by their families and friends by their neighbors and their colleagues by our society ones like those none of them will come back but they remain in our memories. we will not forget them the fergusons in him. only a few people could attend the requiem due to social distancing rules the included chancellor angela merkel as well as relatives of people who had died during the

pandemic most of the ceremony was given over to them and their poignant stories. 8 days of worrying. waiting for the doctor to call me every day hoping for a miracle praying that my worst fears would not come true my worst fears came true on the 14th of april i was allowed to go to the i.c.u. to my husband when it was clear that medicine could do nothing more for him. germany's president frank voter steinmeyer spoke of hope during the ceremony germany was able to keep rates of infection in the initial phase of the pandemic due to lockdown measures and social distancing but numbers started to rise last autumn another country is battling the 3rd wave.

meyer said by remaining united and caring for each other the pun demick will pass by words of encouragement for a nation like so many others around the world that is grieving for all those lost to the coronavirus. south africa a massive wildfire broke out on sunday morning in cape town it started in the table mountain national park and quickly spread the bushfire began on the slopes of a landmark tourist attraction for students from the university of cape town to evacuated after numerous buildings on campus were claims a famous restaurant and south africa's oldest windmill built and $1796.00 were also burned to the ground helicopter crews dropped water bombs in an effort to quell the blaze as winds rapidly spread. it over your

correspondent is in cape town and has the latest on this developing story on land what's the situation as a fire been contained. no you can still see cape town parts of the table mountain is still on fire you can still see a lot of smoke on top of the city ball and parts of the southern suburbs so they still things happening the fire is still on which we initially imports insistence that behind the fire the reason where homeless people according to the park or 30 who were doing a fire up on the slopes of table mountain if that is true that would have not been the 1st time that this was happening especially because of the pandemic the number of homeless people in capetown significantly increased in the past months and some of them do live and sleep on the slopes of table mountain and obviously if they want to prepare food this is also where they would do it but it is not 100 percent confirm what is clear though we had a very hot sweet n.t.n. cape town it is still the dry season and because of the strong winds today the fire

managed to spread pretty fast and this is what's this is why we have such a large scale of the fire at the moment still table mountain is obviously came towns biggest landmark as part of a you ask a well heritage site and there are many estimates of how much of the national park might have been destroyed now at this point it's not clear at all we don't have any information on that and how many areas where fact it's obviously it's going to be a lot of pot but also properties way affected and i mean this is what people at the moment are still most worried about that the fire could still possibly spread further into residences and to places where people are living the wind forecast for tomorrow unfortunately does not look good it's going to be a windy day so this might lead to another problem if they won't be able to contain the fire by tonight and patient thank you very much. and the honestly guy byron munich have released

a statement criticizing their coach dunphy flick after he publicly stated he wants to leave the club in the summer like made the announcement after bahrain securing another crucial victory in the. area from one taking was among the scores as they beat a high flying boat on saturday sign are now 7 points clear of challengers lined with fine games remaining. max merrill's here for more on this bombshell announcement max it's been a short but extremely successful spell for flake and byron what's next for him well all signs point to the germany job which is going to be vacated by you or him live off to the euros in july and the flick i actually was his assistant for probably the most successful period in recent history the german national team and would live leaving it just makes sense he was linked to the job even before he announced his intention to leave the club and looking at it as a career move it makes total sense you go into the back of a trouble winning season where you then pick up 6 titles looking like you're going

to pick up your sevens title now and the only way really is down out of the cup in the champions league already this season and they've looked defensively quite fragile that times and this way will be fondly remembered as one of the most successful coaches in such a short space of time and the doors for the german national team job absolutely wide open however he still has a contract up by until 2023 so maybe a bit of a legal battle the 1st all right so a job opening at the going is like out tom club who do you think could be his successor well the name on everyone's lips is really an august man now he's currently in charge of i'll be light secure by my title rival and also looking to establish themselves as that 2nd big club in germany and i think now when there's also kind of still out to prove himself there it's it's you know it's a tough job for him there but not as much pressure as byan and i think he'll stay there. it will be a week move the lights if they just let him go will pave the way for him to go. by

preference is always been a german coach now and i was one doesn't have a release schools you know he was coming off the national team gig he doesn't seem to be interested in taking a job anytime soon also doesn't get along with a couple of the senior squad members that by and closer who's currently the assistant of flick it by and if you want to promote from within well he's actually come out today and criticized the communication here sizing a lack of respect in the response and i also believe a lot of clubs are going to look twice with sully how much is the sporting director having that much power and for me not a very impressive transfer record are you really willing to go into that situation i think the favorite is going to be eric 10 the hog from who coached by and reserve team a few years back speaks german is dutch so i put my money on him you can club would be maybe a bit more of a left field choice right not much time left but any dark horses besides the ones i mean write me perhaps you'll foka who just won promotion with nora sissy he could

be one to put your money on but flick came out of left field so it's going to be interesting right meryl thank you very much and boris i don't mind playing better bremen in sunday's only game to round off much say 29 so let's have a look at all the results this weekend don brash bremen assigned to win for one on saturday and they were close and hammered cologne thrashed france for an $50.00 ground in shaka when he got out well drew with data files and it was also scoreless between leipsic and hoffenheim on friday sunday's late match between mice and hatto was postponed due to several covert cases in the parlance squad. more sports are up next sports life takes a look at how switching nationality is becoming more and more common among athletes who want to make it to the olympic games i'll be back at the top of the hour in the meantime you can always get all the latest headlines on our web site at its d.w. dot com and make sure to also follow us on twitter and instagram you'll find us at

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and to me it's clear we missed. the solutions all. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation the main. point. he was one of the best judoka in germany but not quite good enough to make the national squad so she changed teams application for citizenship of a foreign country was fast tracked it isn't good for my became congolese to realize

my dream of making the olympics and fighting for a medal in tokyo in 2021. shot also changed her religion so born and raised in china it took years until she was able to become a german. proved to be a decisive reinforcement for germany's olympic table tennis team which with her in its ranks celebrated and unprecedented success. over at the rio olympics which came as a surprise. i'm so happy. it's not so unusual for people to change nationality but in the world of sports it's become common practice and also a business so who profits who are the winners the losers. who have 2 very different mission changing stories. is an expert in this field to decide for sports science degree was about athletes

in a new national jersey all wrote the international judo association is a supporter of rapid naturalization wherever they hail from judoka see themselves as a global family where everyone helps each other so much better. i applied to the cap verde islands and morocco to all i also had an offer from the rishis they all welcomed my application she ended up choosing the democratic republic of congo. angle. if you google democratic republic of congo and go to news 90 percent of the stories and really negative. and as i otherwise had no idea about the country that was an additional factor that had me worried. all you read about is the corruption all the mass graves being constantly discovered and child labor or.

the d.r. c. has huge deposits of rare minerals that make their way into the smartphones we use every day it has also been cursed by never ending conflict and civil war despite the introduction of un peacekeepers acclaimed going to college just denis mukwege summed up the situation when accepting the 2018 nobel peace prize. managed to muster to do pretty good to see me all very. intimate. that haunting history did not put off my breast self made the trip to what remains one of the poorest and most violent places in the world. sure i was scared i was going to a far away country where people live in completely different conditions a country i knew nothing about switching nationalities quite prevalent in sports especially in table tennis. show not spent 2 years on china's national team before

being dropped like other chinese players the sun shone now received lucrative offers from abroad she moved to a german club which encouraged her to also take up citizenship. in many of. the manager wanted to apply on my behalf but i said no i wanted to retain my chinese passport but i gave it a lot of thought the manager said that if i had a german possible so i could play another 10 years for the club and that's obviously an incentive for sham shown i have by this point already been living in europe for 7 years winning the champions league and 2 german singles titles she also became friends with kids the long run the multiple german and european champion was eager to help her budding maid of honor and i are going to i'm scared of what if i was asked a few times by senior officials what i made of shan as a player. i said that she could be a big asset for the german team of god that i would definitely welcome such

a move in front of the question of players nationality is subject to a confusing array of regulations championships wouldn't be eligible to compete for another 9 years but the olympics were open to her immediately then mainly. the manager if i fancied playing for germany. i never thought i'd get that kind of chance. i said ok let's try it and i really did make it. amazing. i'm so happy. that. shawn show now became german in 20124 years later the rio olympics the german scene with her in it's made it to the final with a sensationally claimed silver. the most of those who i'm so grateful to gemini i would otherwise never have been able to compete at the end in pics it was making the switch from china to germany that gave me the chance germany expressed its

gratitude to shine show now with the country's highest sporting distinction the silver laurel leaf german table tennis also won of course that's why i'm not with other i know not true lies germans and if it's the society we honestly would not have one i met in rio and of course this means the funding for the judo association and grounds being youth programs. for a lot of countries sports authority is changing nationality is evidently an investment in the future. while there are always 2 sides sure i have the option of living my dream and going to the olympics but there's no country in the world that would go to the trouble of issuing a passport in this case for a german if it did not stand to gain. some popular. guns i've got a new car sport after just a few months it was handed over to her in kinshasa by dominique the kobo not

a government official but the president of the congolese judo association since then she's been competing for the d.r. seem to me for school think i was touched because everyone was saying it's impossible she's white neither of her parents are from congo so i didn't know how i was supposed to make her congolese what i said was it's a sports nationality. which no one understood when it was done i felt very emotional. she gave me. has since gone on to win 2 world cup of gold at the africa championships for her new countries judo association fast tracking her citizenship application turned out to be very profitable. never been a gold medal for congo before and it was marie who gave it to us. that gold medal also meant money for the association is there any benefit from locally born. in fact the team for the tokyo comprised solely of athletes who. live abroad.

and in german table tennis the practice of recruiting chinese players goes back decades. to see coming on line generations we had 3 chinese women in the national team just arrived in germany. where they were competing for places in the european and world championship squads which wasn't good news for everyone and that is the eye of course it impedes our own news programs why should i bother to develop 10 equally good players feyerick government training program only to see those places taken by others that's of. germany is not the only country naturalizing table tennis players from china it's a global phenomenon or. table tennis at the olympics could arguably be called a chinese championship a quarter of male and female players at the rio games were born in china. they

competed for over a 3rd of all nations represented including the u.s. turkey canada qatar brazil and china itself of course. as the number one sport table tennis enjoys world class backing in china. look at the chinese women steyn 40 players in total but only 5 of them will go to the major tournament the other $35.00 players it just kind of training partners. and the fan number of them will switch to another country as a result table tennis is the world's leading sport when it comes to naturalized players in rio they comprise 31 percent of entrants while the figure for judo was 11 percent. qatar is one of the various countries using financial incentives to attract new recruits the success of foreign born

athletes suddenly representing turkey has also been controversial. the african athletics chief responded the present situation is wrong what we have is a wholesale market for african talent open to the highest bidder the world governing body has now amended the rules to prevent athletes switching in. legion's overnight. is an olympic winning javelin thrower and an official athlete representative. world athletics the old i really tighten things up creating new stipulations for both athletes and associations what i know as an athlete representative is that switching your country or your jersey is not always the same we have refugee stories where young athletes have arrived in a new country due to their personal plight. and once they're of course they can't wait to take their passion even up to the international level. and that's

completely understandable. then. fled ethiopia in 20156 years later she became german and is now considered a major medal contender. also left ethiopia as a refugee becoming a dutch citizen and a world beating the middle and long distance runner but some athletes and stateless . had to leave the war torn democratic republic of congo as a young orphan but later competed at the rio olympics in the refugee team. at the tokyo games. to represent the same country that other top judoka have been forced to flee from on the other hand the d.l.c. team has won some new fans. i think. that in an impish i'll be cheering on condo in the olympics. as so often sports is not a level playing field this athlete got

a new passport in no time while this one had to wait and overcome a series of hurdles. that he's also it's not fair i could have competed for longer if i had a german possible tele out. the high pitch as i had to wait 8 years to get it. and by then i've gotten older i've marked out. not to and in turkey it takes you just one or 2 years to get the passport in my opinion the rules are run fast. the international olympic committee could even things up but the world's biggest sports organization has refused to putting the ball in the court of the national associations switching nationalities in the sports world is a bit like table tennis for the seemingly endless back and forth and for the time being each country plays by the rules which it sets itself.

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