united states, the vision works for him. he wants to increase. polarization. have to wait for trump's rise to power. the usa ultra rides starts january 18th on d w. this is the w news line from berlin. a passenger plane crash rates in south korea. kipling, a 179 people on board. only 2 flight crew survived the ball of flames. the south korean government declares a week of more than yes, investigator search for the cause of the disaster. also on the program, georgia squares in a far right, anti western president. despite allegations that his election was legit, you know, duration deepens a month long political prices the

and welcome to you, viewers around the world. i'm michael ok. world leaders have been sending condolences to south korea after the countries deadliest aviation disaster on home soil, a 179 passengers and crew aboard the j through air fly were killed when the boeing 737, $800.00, skidded off the runway at one international airport and burst into flames. only 2 crew members survived. investigators have recovered both flight recorders as they try to piece together what happened. this is the moment the shows you at playing scapes down the grin way. that's a new one. as halting south korea default, crushing into a wall and bursting into flames of the emergency services a working into the night, searching the wreckage,

the fire department say the plane was almost completely destroyed in the blaze. and identifying the deceased is proving difficult. jesuit quickly issued an apology, saying they are doing all they come to respond to the incident. when y'all, i bowed my head and apologize to all those who cherry street. you told me that my somebody above all, i would like to express my deepest condolences and apologies to the families of those passengers who lost their lives in this accident. to the south, korea's acting president charlie's son mark arrived him one on sunday afternoon. he pledged at all necessary government results as would be available for the families of those on board. it's an anxious wait for the worst possible news. earlier journalist jen moon spoke to dw from the crash site and described how the

victims families are being assisted in at the airport. i be speaking to the bery families of the passengers. um, who are the on board? the crashed airplane and heartbreaking scenes continued to unfold here as one international airport. they're more than 100 family members and gathered in a meeting room here to receive a page about their loved ones. all day long, the room teacher wrapped in wales of grief as families learned of the depth of their loved points of the bodies of the recovered a currently being housed in a temporary mortuary close to the crash site. i can speaking to one elderly couple who lost their son, daughter in law, in grandchild all. and the crash another um, another lady passed hour after learning that her 2 children on board the, the aircraft had passed away in this crash. so all

a very difficult seed government authorities have said that the will give them all our efforts to assist these uh, 3 families there. the will support them in their zeroes procedures. uh those uh uh, families who would like to travel down here to the south western side of the country . i will be given that railway services by 3 a rail and uh, the president, the acting president has the courtesy to special disaster zone, which we all administrative fiscal and budgetary measures. will be given as a priority here to the refills and this region of one. as we should mention, a bird strike remains in the most likely cause of the accident. i asked aviation expert steven ride how, how much small birds can bring down big plants. the problem with birds is that they can be ingested. this is a safe side to apple,

so it stretches out towards the se. and that means that you have problems with wildlife, with birds and such like so. it's possible. yeah, across coming into land and the, the, it's known that flux a birds are in the area. now this was given as a warning to the flight credit from what we understand from the transcripts, recorded from air traffic control on the ground. the birds getting jesting typically just into one engine, and that thing causes catastrophic damage on the engine itself. and although you lose the thrust, you also lose all the services by many hydraulics electronics. you might take a, this is a particular problem. tell us why in your opinion, the airplane did not have its landing gear lowered. i can't give you a definitive answer in simple terms. we, as looking at the video, there are some things that don't quite fit very well with my. namely, it's

a power in the flight controls and the hydraulic systems on the flight controls, hydraulically assisted. they weren't extended, so things like the spoilers. but the landing gear, although it's normally expanded, i'm retracted using hydraulic services. there is a emergency fruitful, so you can pull a handling the floor on the aircraft. unlocks all the landing gear. i'm not blocks, it makes the landing gear naturally for open up on the pilot then performs a couple of movers. left them right a few times and that forces the landing gate down and that's part of the design of the cross to mike showed us that the wheel was coming down before landing why the plane came down without its landing gear expanded. i call and give you the on so, right, however, they've got the blank boxes and they will be interrogated to, to answer that question. ition expert, steven, right. the far right. anti western politician mchale

a couple. i should be lee has been sworn in as george's new president, the former football there was inaugurated despite allegations from outgoing president solomon zoo. additionally, that his election was illegitimate. the new president is supported by the ruling georgia dream party, whose decision to suspend moves to join the who has sparked months of protests. the outgoing leader is refusing to step down, but says she will vacate the presidential palace. that's welcomed, natalie, southern not so. she is the former george and investigator to the you and a senior research fellow at chatham house. nice to have you with us. i'd like to start by asking you if outgoing president selma zuba, she really is right in refusing to concede could this in fact cause further instability and division. so thank you for having me.

um, well decry system, georgia has been going on for a very long time. it's more than a month. the month is probably the biggest protests that we have seen, but in fact, the crisis started already in spring when the adoption of the, for an agents law by the ruling party. then georgia dream, then the elections, which president sort obviously the, the off position and quite a large segment of the population rejected. i'm considered to be rate the. 5 this allegations have been largely backed by for an observation of missions including the or c or the are and i arrive and judge the elections to be deeply flawed, raising concerns that they did not really represent the will office that people so so rubbish for this claim is that this parliament is illegitimate. it does not

represent the will of the people as soon as the parliament was supposed to be the new president. these action of mr. spear they, as you write the known to the far right, the stream is for the taishan who has very limited to put into code career and also limited credentials also not having a higher education degree, for example, and so on. so she considers this procedure entirely to be there just to me. however, this morning she address their population, the public out of the palace and she left the palace. she says that she was not going to stay there and create a show off to visit because the presidency is an institution not to building and she intends to continue to obtain the role of the president. however, the, her term is up and now basically will have a situation of 2 people, claiming presidency is a further deepening present component,

you call and constitutional crisis, and potentially deepening economic crisis because the country has been on the standstill for almost a month. you have said that the last october selections in georgia were not only about georgia in democracy, but also about rescuing it's u a p. in perspective. do you think that perspective might have shifted now that the new president has been sworn in the perspective is there, however, the major below to george's european aspirations have been delivered on 28th of november when the mister co buffy, who considers himself as the prime minister of georgia basics, then i was that the government was hosting and the accession talks until 2028. the candidate that has been installed today, it has georgias president is known for b for his, you're

a skeptical anti western position. so this current configuration, the georgia dream with the nominated president, are not going to put georgia back on the track with your, again, it's gratian. so the cross has actually have been largely triggered by this announcement on 28th of november that were purchased. as i said after the elections, but the scale and the d printing of the crisis, really for those, these kind of official, the rejection of european accession by the georgia dream. you've criticized the use response to recent events. not only the crack down, for example, but the electron as well. does it really come down to the use of lack of consensus, or why do you think they were so unprepared as well? there are some objects to reason. simon consensus is one, but the new does find itself in a very unusual situation is this is

a candidate concrete. and for the 1st time problem isn't the candidate country decides to withdraw the from the process to the, the there's of the country. a basically equate to conditionality, which is the tried and tested process for the you enlargement with the black menu and said that they basically had enough and they want to deprive the you of this leverage. but at the same time, the for the new, they feel that needs to engage whoever is in the effective control because this is immediate neighborhood. as i said, it's a candidate country. and the solution out of those crisis needs to be home. there is no consensus. so strong signals are not being said, but the you did adopt as large, the symbolic, but still important decision to suspend visit liberalization for the holders of diplomatic and service passports. now this is not going to prevent georgian

officials from traveling to europe, but it is a signal. however, reactions from the us have been much stronger and they have been escalating in proportion to the deep cutting of the crisis. so the most recent decision has been made by the us treasury to put the se, had basically dfcs to a ruler of georgia and the founder and funder of the georgia dream party. who happens to be also the richest man in georgia on the list of financial sanctions individuals. and it was quite important that the uh, the, the, the justification of this was that he is, stands accused of dismantling towards us democracy and a didn't by doing so. anything rushes interest in the soon as the minister of interior and other officials have been sanctioned under might need security is for

the violence against protest. so the pressure from the u. s. has intensified considerably our thanks to a natalie southern nazi, a former, a georgian and bachelor to the you and a senior research fellow at chatham hatch. thank you. let's look at some of the other stories making headlines. at least 3 migrants have died trying to reach britain in a small boat. rescuers in northern france, assisted dozens of people on the beach, with many suffering from hypothermia. this year has been one of the deadliest ears on record for a channel process. with 76 recorded dest, at least 2 people died after multiple tornadoes ripped through the us states of texas, louisiana, and mississippi. many homes and schools were badly damaged, or destroyed. thousands of people were affected by power advocates, or you're watching dw news up next. how artificial intelligence is changing

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