. >> richard, thank you, three times the chancellor and merkle sworn in for a third time and leadingiggest economy. plus, a new political force punching its weight in india, the party promises to transcend social boundaries and cleanup local government. we have this. >> we get the ashes back and he is special because of the work we got over a long period of time. >> reporter: and we will hear from the captain after his team regains the ashes and details coming up, with joe in sport in about 15. ♪ night with the combatants in their training base. ♪ this is the news hour with me david foster and these are the top stories, heavy gunfire continued overnight in the sudan capital toll after they stopped a coup and they are in compounds after fleeing from their homes. thousands of north koreans have marked the second anniversary of the death of the leader kim jong-il and there was a service in the capitol a few days after the country's new leader kim jong-un ordered the execution of his uncle. thousands of tunesians are out on the streets in what they call a day of rage exactly three years

it is two months since it talked about listening on merkle's phone and president obama said the u.s.ould stop tapping her calls the fall out from the scandal strains relations and german officials want the spying to stop altogether across all levels of the country but american leaders refused to extend the no spying guaranty beyond the chancellor and don't want to set a precedent with other countries. and merkle was sworn in this morning for a third term as the chancellor and had the top job since 2005 and went to kim jong-il's death and he died unexpectedly two years ago passing power to his son and political and military leaders say they are pledging the loyalty to kim jong-un and last week he had his uncle killed for plotting to over throw the government. they are asking for $6 billion to deal with the syrian refugee cities and the larnled amount of money the u.n. asked for to deal with a single crisis and it's getting worse as a harsh winter falls on the region and they are living in tents and fears of starvation and illness. and al jazeera's james reports from the u.n. . >> with