this is v.w. news live from bergland south korea officially kicks off the twenty eighteen winter olympics fireworks that will light up the sky over city pianka chang as almost three thousand athletes get in on the party there in south korea for two weeks of intense competition. and this lympics brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north swilling dynasty kim jong un's sister what's behind her diplomatic trip across the border.

this is v.w. news live from berlin it's been a roller coaster ride but today south africa has a new president and thank you all for this great or fortunate to you. and i would try to work very hard not to disappoint the people who have sold off you go thank you very. much so what can south africa and the rest of the world expect from ciro ramaphosa also coming off. because layover noxious sludge marsh leaving for the international film festival begins with a more bang this evening with an animated feature set in the future we will bring you the latest from the berlin alah and their reaction to the need to campaign. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us his appointment has been welcomed with singing dancing and a standing ovation in parliament cyril rama poso was sworn in today south africa's new president his predecessor jacob zuma resigned barely twenty four hours earlier after being ordered to stand down by his party the a.n.c. ramaphosa will set out his plans for the country i

this is v.w. news live from berlin israel's prime minister under fire after a year long graft investigation israeli police say benjamin netanyahu took bribes and are recommending that he be charged with corruption we will get the latest from our correspondent in jerusalem. also coming up germany's oldest political party the s.p.d. looks set to decide on its first female leader but can andrea ballasts unify a deeply divided social democrats and sea levels are rising fast and threatening the coastlines on full flow line islands and larger nations that's according to a new u.s. study based on twenty five years of satellite data. i'm sorry kelly welcome and thanks for joining us we begin with reports that israeli police have enough evidence to recommend that prosecutors charge prime minister benjamin netanyahu with bribery following a fourteen month investigation the recommendation has been handed to the country's attorney general that yahoo denies wrongdoing in a live t.v. address he said that all recomme

this is v.w. news live from berlin the syrian government's onslaught i think rebel held damascus suburbs intensifies mortars and missiles rained down on eastern cute without mercy killing nearly three hundred people including at least fifty children according to monitors hospitals overwhelmed the struggle to cope with a big siege area home to some four hundred thousand people. also coming up calling for change students in the u.s. state of florida demand tougher gun control laws as they say in the wake of last week's deadly school shooting but can they problem makers to act. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program no words left the united nations children's agency describes the suffering of civilians in a rebel held suburb of damascus as beyond what words are capable of expressing with airstrikes pounding eastern go to again today independent monitors say that more than two hundred seventy people have been killed since sunday it's not the first time that gupta has come under attack back in two thousand a

this is v.w. news live from berlin the syrian government's onslaught i think rebel held damascus suburbs intensifies mortars and missiles rained down on eastern kyoto without mercy killing nearly three hundred people including at least fifty children according to monitors hospitals overwhelms the struggle to cope with a big scene area home to some four hundred thousand people. also coming up calling for change students in the u.s. state of.

consumer affairs consumer protection here in germany thanks so much for being with us this morning and v.w. news they should be here now germany's culture minister monica good she made a statement just yesterday saying that children in germany should learn how to navigate the internet more safely to distinguish between fact and fiction basically how do you think that the children's internet literacy can be improved. it to can be improved by. parents to discuss with the children what kind of services they should. they should be. and we need some improvement in our schools because to navigate in the internet to you'll social media or is very common very popular for long people and so it's the necessary tool to gather with. which information is true. whom i can trust in the net in the net and i should be careful now that the focus of this particular safer internet day is showing respect to others online this applies not just to children but to everyone how can governments encourage that showing more respect at a time when some of the world's most powerful leaders are involved in internet flame wars

this is v.w. news live from bergland south korea officially kicks off the twenty eighteen winter olympics fireworks that will light up the sky over city. as almost three thousand athletes get in on the party there in south korea for two weeks of intense competition. and this lympics brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north swilling dynasty kim jong un's sister what's behind her diplomatic trip across the border. plus unloved and unemployed germany social democrat leader martin schultz rejects a top ministerial post just days after he negotiated his party's return to government that's after the party's base signaled that they could refuse to ratify this coalition deal. and refusing to wave goodbye to europe at a new campaign convinced the u.k.'s brags it will republic to back a second referendum. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us in south korea the twenty third winter olympics has officially begun after an extravagant opening ceremony thirty five tho

this is v.w. news live from. sirius for truckers and war just got more chaotic those alliances shift kurdish militia in syria are teaming up with president assad's forces to push turkey out of the border enclave that it invaded last month. also coming up after the florida school massacre students stage a dyin outside the white house to demand more gun control at the same time the man accused of murdering seventeen students last week appeared in court and german chancellor angela merkel tells her party that she would like this woman to be elected secretary-general will it be her take it to the chancellorship. plus lothian bankers under investigation the governor of the baltic nations central bank faces allegations of bribery while the u.s. is accusing latvia lender of money laundering. and they call him the flying mustache norway's new social media sensation steals the show at the winter olympics and source to glory in south korea. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us human rights monitors

and v.w. is new hot hatch the up. money carlo is a sophisticated civic to show off a teeny tiny new car giving the g.t. i version of the v.w. up its first public appearance here was pretty brave not least because of the cars you usually see here. him not here monaco reports our car man klaus you see cars that easily cost a million euros or more for most people the thirty thousand euros that a v.w. golf g.t. i cost is already an id some b. up is a cheaper alternative starting at just under seventeen thousand but it looks like what's wagon is targeting a younger crowd or perhaps minimalist as well minimalist like klaus so let's see what this little guy can do. traditionally stands for power and speed. this up as a turbo charged eighty five kilowatt one liter engine so can it live up to the billing this mini hot hatch goes from zero to one hundred eight point eight seconds which is not all bad and to enhance the g.t. i feel there is a sound actuator to let the modestly sized engine roar at least inside the cockpit and as

this is v.w. news live from bar lab it's been a volatile coaster ride but today south africa has a new president and thank you all for this great opportunity that i've been given and i will try to work very hard notes to disappoint the people of south africa thank you barry.

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people still do not earn enough to afford a new car so kenya remains a market for used cars not new ones. so v.w. operations obviously small in africa but the company is looking for growth potential catherine i wonder has this analysis for us from nairobi volkswagen has just expanded its operations in their o.b. and the ones in capital kigali now the german car maker seems to think that africa has a lot of potential now the nairobi plant alone seeks to see the logic east and central africa now out of the four plants in south africa and nigeria and kenya it's kid godly that has the smallest plant but one day is looking more to see what volkswagen has to offer in terms of its economic growth so it's looking at skilled trades and local employment now folks like and is seeking to fight for the limelight with the likes of toyota persia oh isuzu and kenyan brand mobius which is also fighting for recognition. catherine and wonder that now this next story really brings a new meaning to doing your shopping on the fly and indianapolis hoping to cash in on passengers it get to skip an extra trip to the sup

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new show. when i was a kid living in suburban astride your back in the eighty's our neighbor had a hot pink v.w. beetle i thought it was the bees knees phosphor to twenty eighteen is it still cool to drive a fog fog or is it unconscionable. it was also back in the eighty's that the german green party was founded largely driven by mass and nuclear protests the demonstrations went on for decades and some of them were huge people feared for their lives and not without reason the sheer noble catastrophe shocked the world in one thousand nine hundred eighty six but that didn't prevent fukushima from happening twenty five years later but it did get the german government to finally act and herald a transition to renewables but what happened when the more recent admission scandal hit the government stood by the auto industry and no one's taken to the streets in protest despite all the dates attributed to the mighty comic it's the stats show evolution is a factor in the deaths of over four hundred thousand europeans every year why is no one protesting here you have the world's top or a manufacturer v.w.

new slight but with this. it's not looking very good now it is unix based from v.w. sports many thanks indeed for all of your insights for bringing us up to date on the winter olympics are almost. all right turning now to the bogus leigo werewolves hosted legal leaders' bar in munich on saturday and the walls put by on on the back foot in the first ten minutes of the match off of a corner kick down davi managed to head the ball in to make it one nil but in the second half biron even did up on a crossing pass sandro wagner connected to make it one one then arjuna robben pulled an oscar worthy performance for the referee and earned his club a penalty kick. proper live and scored the game winner and both work fell ever closer to relegation. a quick reminder of our top story speaking at the munich security conference israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu held up what he called part of an iranian drone shot down in israeli airspace a week ago he warned that israel could strike iran if it felt threatened iranian foreign minister zarif accused israel of using aggressio

v.w. announcing it will double production at its plant in kenya it's also expanding into rwanda and could launch a new model in the east african region soon now we're only talking a few hundred cars but these moves show folks flooding taking cautious further steps into the continental market. the folks back in factory on the outskirts of nairobi b.w. is already producing its polo viva model here it is assembled from pre-manufactured parts which are sourced in south africa. if all goes well kenya's government says the plan is to expand production here dramatically that would eventually include assembling another v.w. model the small off road vehicle well suited for the local driving conditions but there are risks involved for germany's faux bogen first japanese brands are already very popular in kenya and while it is true that the middle class is growing many of the country's forty five million people still do not earn enough to afford a new car so kenya remains a market for used cars not new ones. now this next story really gives a new meaning to shopping on the fly and indian airport hoping to cash i

the starting scandal obviously they want to have a new a new slight but with this being it's not looking very good no it isn't it's an expat from v.w. sports many thanks indeed for all of your insights for bringing us up to date on the winter olympics are almost. all right the movers and shakers of the silver screen are in the german capital for the berlin international film festival the berlin ali it opens on thursday with a hint of hollywood but this weekend the focus has been on the leading talents of european cinema. david levitz and melanie bahl are on the red carpet and joining us now for the latest hey there guys so what's serve been getting people talking down there today going to. well we've been practicing our curling skills actually on the red carpet but beyond that is really about female driven movies and we're outside of the world premiere of one of them it's called feed young daughter of mine and inspire a very promising italian director loud. exactly and the movie is really this conflict centered around a young girl who was adopted right off the bat and what makes the movie so what's down there is really strong leads

v.w. bus that i bought for two hundred dollars and i saw this contract on craigslist listing the company trying to create a new media of communication and i was like i'm all for democratizing the media all do this this is the picture. not a very good picture but that's that's the demo. of the original twitter and we videoed it in the video got lost and this is the original team that got split up to work on twitter so we divided up the teams internally who florian. and noah. it looks like the pictures taken in a club or something. the whole team said let's look at text messaging let's look at social networks let's look at building stuff. when we took texas up and looked at it we said well ok this is interesting but it doesn't have the social model that blogging has. and so the transition from twitter to text love is that that reading relationship in the p.r.i. and the openness of the web. over the summer it went on i actually personally after we launched twitter which. i didn't realize what i myself was doing by part of the team that i helped create and hire and partially that the way the technology worked and

v.w. di miller and b.m.w. along with parts supplier bosch financed the tests. books wagon is still struggling with its emissions cheating scandal from twenty fifteen the release this week of the emissions tests unleashed a new wave of the nick nation. it's absolutely understandable that people are outraged the tests on monkeys and even on humans cannot be justifiably. environmentalists groups however say the german government is part of the problem and that politicians have been in bed with the automotive lobby for years. chancellor merkel is really the first chancellor she even fights in brussels to make sure that emissions regulations are less strict and if possible not controlled until. this latest scandal delivers another blow to the german car industry is image especially revelations that monkeys were used in diesel emissions testing the automakers have apologized for their involvement while the university of often defended its research methods as ethically in line with the stablished testing protocols. siemens workers from the east and cycled hundreds of kilometers to the annual. shareholders meeting in munich to protest plans to dress to slash the company's workforce. we're continuing to fight for ou