the just education makes the world to make up your own mind made for mines the . this is the, the, the news coming to live from our lives. another political shakeup in south korea. talk to him president honda, so steps aside after lawmakers bowed to impeach him. the boot comes fairly 2 weeks after his predecessor you and so your was suspended for declaring martial law. also coming up as a by john airlines stop slides to 7 russian cities up to the crash if it's passenger judge and causing start on wednesday, a beach experts will edge russian air defense systems cause the disaster. prussia dismisses the claims as speculation. the

blowing terry martin, thanks for joining us. south korea's parliament has voted to impeach acting president handbook. so finance minister choice on mark is now to assume the acting presidency. there were dramatic scenes during the impeachment, boat, after opposition in peace, and hon had aided the short lived, martial law declared by suspended, present you and so your position empties. the lead time was not fully pursuing. unions and peach been processed to bring him to justice more and this we're joined now by fabi encouragement. he's a journalist who is based in sol, but currently in berlin. probably help us out with this self career suspended president was in peach just 2 weeks ago. now his fill in the acting present, it has also been and page how exactly did we get here or yeah,

it's really a mess, but let me give you a brief summary. it all started in the beginning of the month when i'm president june. so you all get martial law and really controversial this decision and he lost also public support. and also of course political support. and the parliamentarians voted to impeach him and that is a decision that now is finally check by the constitutional court. who will make the final decision. now, in the meantime, handbooks, who, who was the prime minister and, and then acted as in terra and parent for a president. he took over and basically the presidential duty. and now what happens is that the opposition accused him of impeding the impeachment trial against you. so if your how did you do that? well, the constitutional court normally has 9 judges, but right now they are only 6 judges, but to finalize and impeachment to need 6 votes. so right now under this

conservation that needs all 6 votes or 6 judges to support and impeachment only one a veto vote would mean that presidents. and so if you all would get back to office and handled through the acting president, basically refused to nominate the remaining 3 way can position with in the constitutional court. and that was basically the main reason why the opposition. yeah, voted to impeach them today in the parliament. it was the say probably have is a bit of a mess. what does this mean for the countries political and economic stability is south korea still able to function properly or what, at least the new acting president, who also is the a vice prime minister and the finance minister. i mean, that's really a new, i mean, it has never been the case in south korea at key at, at least from is that people make sure that the country is stable. he also already

has a meeting with a joint chief of staff with the military. so basically to make sure that also defends capabilities are on point and it keep to, to give you a key answer, especially the international community is quite all right. i mean for example, the in west or international companies, they are really, yeah, shocked by that, by this whole state crisis, apollo back you and then you have the geo political component, many countries of already to the, the diplomats. and so the also trying to reach out and try to understand the situation economically, we see a lot of impact right now the currency is really weak us the south korean one is that it's weakest in a 16. yes. and then the business sentiment is also down. so i mean, the real, the answer is that the south korea's political and economic achievements which read the country has fought very hot in the last decades. they are really now at stake. hobby. and thank you very much, that was journalist probably and crouched and

we've got some breaking news coming in german president file. i thought this timeline has dissolved the country's lower house of parliament and set a date for the election. we were looking at some live pictures of present, stine mile, delivering that announcements. so the election in germany general election coming up on february 23rd presence time. i assessed chancellor schultz last a vote of confidence on december 16th after the really cool relation broke up and courting german law and election must take place within 60 days of the confidence i . and so i don't align the bible a book and the endorsement, you know, it's us for state funds, how soon provide different kinds of so yeah, that was joe and president probably father's dying by announcing the election in germany that will take place in on february 23rd, now,

russian state media says an us about john airlines flight on its way to russia on friday was turned back after being told, aerospace over parts of southern russia had been closed. the tests, new service also reports the carrier, has now suspended slides to 7 russian cities. the decision follows the crash 2 days ago and also bush on airlines, passenger jet headed to the russian city of gross me, the traffic stop at noon on thursday. in tribute to the victims of the fated, azerbaijan airlines flight at the airport, people held a moment's silence. and outside the building, dozens cute to they flowers. in memory of the dead. the plain was supposed to fly northwest from us or by sons capital back to the city

of grove meet in chechnya, in southern russia. instead, it veered hundreds of miles, of course, across the caspian sea. before crashing on wednesday, near the city of octo, in context on initially authority set, a bird strike may have caused the crash, but an increasing number of international officials and aviation experts now say they believe plane was shot down by russian anti aircraft defense in the sales they say footage of the fuselage scene during the rescue efforts and images that have circulated on social media show clear signs of structural damage. it was also known that the area of southern russia, the plane diverted from, has repeatedly used air defense systems against ukrainian drone strikes. a very sources familiar with the investigation say the plains communications could have

been paralyzed by electronic warfare systems on the approach integral. disney x cream, yet most exception. now the kremlin has distance itself from the reports spokesman dmitri pest coughing urged people to await the outcome of the investigation. remarkably, almost half of those on board survived some even emerging from the wreckage, unaided. many others were severely injured. so that way when the plane crashed, my wife was sitting next to me. most of the i haven't seen husbands, the crash and i don't know that she is united. yeah. the planes blackbox recorders have been recovered intact. and there's hope they will shed more light on what really happened. so while ago i spoke about this with steven right cheese, head of aviation and transport at the technological university of dublin. i asked

him what he makes of allegations that the plane was struck by anti aircraft missiles. um, obviously we were told initially it was the 3rd strike that was the immediate information that we would give them. now the catholic all star taste of states, and this is being published by royces yesterday. and the, it was a, it was a missile strike. and that would also tally with the images that we had from the aircraft implants and also the bicycle stabilizer that stated that we could say in, in your video that you can see it was time a little box that's from appears to be strapped. no, so you have, i, michelle's not designed to hit the aircraft explodes and then foss moving metal project. so a project house quite it took me straight the crossed, and it's the damages caused by this foss, moving metallic substances that within cops, things like hydronic lines,

electronic wise communications and such like there was a vision expert, steven ride head of ation and transport uh, the testing logical university of dublin speaking to me a short while ago. now the siri where turkey has built up its military presence along the border and leading to fears that at my attack, kurdish forces inside syria. let's take a look at turkey's aims and what the kurds stand to lose turkey's flag goes up, but it's embassy in syria's capital, damascus for the 1st time in years. that flag has also been carried by h t. s. the rebel group that took over syria earlier this month. turkey is now looking to turn its years of support for h d. s. and to leverage against the curtis militia that has long been number one on turkeys enemies list the syrian democratic forces for s t f. turkey wants to expand a so called safe zone 30 kilometers wide on the syrian side of the border. it says

it needs to keep the s d f as far away as possible. the s t f is an outgrowth of the turkey based curtis workers party, which turkey as well as many other countries, considers a terrorist group. over decades, tens of thousands of people have been killed and it's fight for curtis independence . the sd of controls most of northeastern syria is backed by 900 us troops, meant to help contain the so called as logic state. but pockets are also controlled by another. melissa, the turkish backed syria national army. it has clashed in recent days with the kurds and forced them out of key towns that all makes for an explosive mix made even more volatile by the recent us election. president elect donald trump, already tried to pull us troops from northern syria and is expected to do so after taking office in january. that would leave the curbs at the mercy of turkish forces

. and that could easily mean the end of curtis autonomy in syria. and a game or turkey now seems to hold all the cards. earlier i spoke with our correspondent, doran jones and assemble. i asked him what turkeys role is in syria right now to test he believes that contain a very important role in sierra inbox because it has developed very close links with toria, hyatt alshaun i. it's a believe seats develop those low close relationships over many years because base t s was primarily based on turkey folder in the province, largely depended on tuck. he's cooperation to live of food and 8 as one of us talk these policies in italy that well, many ways for, for protecting the group from being overrun by a thoughtful system. the tech is farm and, and stuff hoc con feed on who was then they had of took his intelligence confirmed that they had developed very close ties with this group. even though they what is designated as

a terrorist organization internationally. and to on the line those closely. so within days of the software, seeing the house that you sold the present, the intelligence chief kentucky abraham colombo called them visiting the leadership team, damascus. and then we sold a very high profile visit to of hawk come feet on talk. he's foreign minister meeting with the leaders only a week or so ago. i'm just on the lines. what touchy belief is very important role . it can help in helping to transform and make the transition from the i saw the machine into a new syria, and we on the, on the, on the lining that impulse and show seeing that many of talk is weston allies, foreign ministers, happy and visiting to you to talk about sir, we have the us, the secretary of state to become a foreign minister, the head of the us to live on the line or being coming here on the, on the lines. what they see is talk you soon. potential role as being crucial in this transition in syria. now there's a large kurdish minority in syria. a turkey is quite hostile to the idea of kurdish self determination in northern syria. why is that dory?

well turkey says that the biggest concerns is that syria has to remain as one country and there is a concern because of the various ethnic religious diversity of the country. it could ultimately break help i to leave the tail. sometimes these boulders so they say that all the country should remain united to bolton flints, particularly concerning for turkey, is the co describe autonomy that exist on his pulled up because they thought he has a very large carriage population itself. and the fear is if, if they have this autonomy going forward, this could lead to similar amounts within its own country in the country is currently waking war against the p k. k intake for many decades on the p k. k touchy claims as closely linked to the group. curtis group that wrong syria just across his bold door. and thank you very much. that was our correspondent door in joe's there. in this symbol you are watching dw news from berlin up. next is berlin briefing,

looking at why germany's are right party is expected to make big games in the upcoming election. you can find more in the fall or stories on our website by the way, at the w dot com. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching the surrounded oak trees and they use by day, by nights and over the full season. natures, great adaptive and living fee to europe of trees, gulf jenny reset.