have been the team of the season in the last two games they beat two of their closest rivals and leipsic they were close games just one goal separating them though it meant they want more and that's unfortunate news for hanover who hosts who they hosted on saturday the reds have kept just one clean sheet all season and are windless in their last seven games and have a defeat and coach and they will be on the even more pressure. no doubt about it and great britain writer was under the microscope in dortmund the bad news for him his opponents welcome to talisman marco roy's back to the starting line up. and the forward was keen to not his first goal since the winter break first he lifted this chance just over the bar. and then in the twenty third minute he went even closer i made the post tonight him and dortmund the opening goal. but just a minute later the hosts did take the lead ashraf to kimi played a one two with rafael guerrero before powering an effort into the far corner. of the left bank was given far too much time to pick his spots and leave keeper miquel as a grasping at finesse

ten dogs and their blazing young guns hit the pitch in leipsic without captain mark leaving the league leaders leader lists all the pitch rb and company were looking to take advantage of don't mean missy a major piece but dog has many pieces that could hurt a defense. like saying we're hoping their young gun t.-mo vanno would be able to break his dortmund curse he never scored against them in eight this league clashes . meanwhile dortmund coach didn't have his two top scores in the starting line up with marco toys out injured for the first time this season and might be a good segue getting the nod instead of pocket. and it was good so who had the first chance for the visitors body by him just managed to clear the ball away. then with almost twenty minutes gone dortmund did hit that target midfielder oxo of it so hammering home for the one nil lead the belgian second goal of the season having scored the other the first time these two teams met after that the game hit a bit of a dry spell leipzig black for station in their attack like here with the ball landing out of the reach of use of

hunters who also put don't make as the hunt to meet table leaders have a target on their backs and leipsic was looking for the bulls i could live to call the black of yellows and hand them their second defeat this campaign also in the show glimmer couzin has a new boss in charge picked up bosch who had the red hot coals of glove box as his first test not easy one at all despite having a home field advantage. welcome to the bundesliga here on d w m chris harrington dog men and their blazing young guns hit the pitch in leipsic without captain marco royce leaving the league leaders leader. or less on the pitch or being a company we're looking to take advantage of don't mean missy a major piece but dog has many pieces that could hurt a defense. like saying we're hoping their young gun t.-mo vanno would be able to break his dortmund curse he'd never scored against them and eight just league clashes. meanwhile dortmund coach didn't have his two top scorers in the starting line up with marco toys out injured for the first time this season and might be a good segue getting the nod instead of pocke

now biron moved within three points of league leaders dortmund but that club is up against leipsic today after an impressive first half of the season dortmund reckons it can finally end next run of six consecutive honestly good titles. there's plenty of anticipation in dortmund for the second half of the season. sitting atop the league where their biggest rival may be complacency and it's a disease it's a good situation to be in but we know there are seventeen more games and that it's still a long season ahead pressure to perform dortmund dominated the opening half of the season with fast paced entertaining play they'll have to hit the ground running though against their first opponents of the second half of the season fourth placed leipsic. dampening the mood somewhat is the recent illness through captain marco reuters and passer is only just coming back from injury together they scored twenty three goals in the first half of the season more than half of dortmund's total to the team looked a bit shaky in recent friendly match at the mouth of the final you've got the christmas season the

a perfect start after the winter break with an away win in leipsic next up is a home game against drug lang hanover on paper it looks easy but they know hanover will be no pushovers. i mean should be down there with kwan we played them earlier this season they caused us a lot of problems i can only warn against believing that we already have three points in the bank on good bank lee he does act there. pioneering also want to way from home last weekend against hoffenheim their goal now is to close the gap on dortmund. we did what we wanted to do we got three points we're still in the mix. third place mentioned are also still in the mix they've won eleven home games in a row over this season and last they want to extend that run against alcs book. that had a fortunate win and leave a couzin last weekend. coach d. to head king has called on his players to show more initiative against struggling. into his mind being as i want the team to play better with the ball down and

they have at leipsic thump just the phone will quite a change of fortunes for the two teams that in the fourth and they stay that absolutely deaf so much talent in their team but they also play like a rollercoaster at this year there for a couple good games and then de trop easy points so in the conflict at this still a young team. but observe be able to do that and on the first place you mention. roller coaster only this team as a squad is so much better on paper than they have been and it has been a roller coaster ride for them what has been life seems problem yeah especially that the time to look at the count of the players that they have an attack like say the likes of polson you know forsberg last season was just banging in the goals this season has not been quite the same do you want to kind of what's going on there. if they can find a bit of consistency in their time i mean that they scored fewer goals than every other team in the top six which tells its own story you would not expect that if they scored if they can find some consistently consistency in their attacking end i thin

up inside snap life six unbeaten run at home surprised at leipsic were able to pull one back at least well they had their chances but it was booking who kept. the win four for dalton basically and you mentioned michael royce . you know how many games you missed this is this season so far usually seems like five or ten or so it was the very first game that they didn't have rice in the lineup so they just want to protect them a little bit and that's why. the cautionary measure exactly that's why he didn't put it in the starting line and he had a little question and practice on friday so that's just because the merits i'm i'm sure ok now somewhat stay with dorman over to you j.c. no matchday take it off with byron looking very hungry leon gorecki a bag of brace levon dos he got his now buyers nickel koba just let it be known they are hunting dogs and thoughts yet hunting dormant he said i don't care when we overtake them the crucial thing is we finish on top so he's really strained down the gauntlet to dortmund and they did respond they had to respond because we've been talking about a c

ground running though against their first opponents of the second half of the season fourth placed leipsic dampening the mood somewhat is the recent illness through captain marco royce and passer is only just coming back from injury together they scored twenty three goals in the first half of the season more than half of dortmund's total to the team looked a bit shaky in recent friendly matches the mouth of the fine if you've got the christmas season then new year's eve then you spend time at a sunny beach in dubai or somewhere and you look at the table and everyone is passing you on the back of your model so perfectly normal for the tension to lessen them but we can't let that affect us. statistics point toward a successful second half of the season for dortmund a club that has led the league three times at the halfway mark and each time won the title. australian open tennis now and germany's alexander's fair is looking like a title contender he moved into the round of sixteen that with an easy win today tara is building on his biggest ever tour victory at november's a.t.p. tour finals wh

you in leipsic until the end of twenty nineteen. if you walk up a mountain in snowshoes you can be sure it is not an exhausting to climb up to the top it's also a challenge to come down again so many people just want to glide down after a long hike one solution is to use cross plates we had a test run in switzerland. skeen down a mountain on snow shoes well almost these winter sports enthusiasts are wearing cross plates a cross between snowshoes and many skis right now the coolest thing in the milton's in switzerland. i'm a little surprised how well you can go downhill there is for me it would be an alternative to simple snow shoeing but i don't see that the swiss town of coure from here winter sports lovers can take the cable car up to brown brewery. awaiting them or kilometers of ski slopes hiking and cross-country trails as well as plenty of routes to go snowshoeing. burnished awful runs an outdoor sports school here for a year now he's been offering cross plating courses cross plates lets sports enthusiasts climb up a hill and t

we'll see if the open leipsic will be as remarkable a match as they face off against biron was in the first half. really put the hurt on by and when they met in november. it was the best match of the first top of the season victors and frank wish to like knew they had delivered a classic. music a chat everything was ok this was the german game at its best in the focus has. been toppled by and three to throwing munich deeper into crisis just like the sea of black and yellow were hoping for a job and finally talk their rivals from munich and they were finally looking like favorites to win the league. of course hopes high for games of this magnitude munich's record champions facing off against first place dominant. sometimes these match ups fold for under the weight of expectations. not this time around this match up more than lived up to the billing i am also pushed off by in a very strong link dominated the early play yet he felt he was better on the ball and the movement and the hands can depressing. winning in the second both sides of the. couldn't hold on to it and kind of been a ho

and you in leipsic until the end of twenty nineteen. it's said that in every joke there is a bit of truth and that seems to be the case with our resident a cartoonist who is taking to making fun of germans and some of their idiosyncrasies you can find out war on our facebook page. so. one two week cartoonist may go for them this pokes fun at. typically germany idiosyncracies. so we go we keep the german humor. i don't know but to the v.w. duramax facebook page. well who doesn't dream of winning the lottery or striking gold now every time i visit a flea market i'm always hoping to stumble across a priceless painting that will secure my finances for decades to come in today's high five we look at five treasures that will change your life forever so here are . five legendary european treasures that would make you fabulous new wealthy if you manage to find that. many legends around the murder of russians on nicholas the second and his family in one thousand nine hundred eighteen as well as the fate of their fortune hidden away in fifth plac

has been seven years at leipsic really means a lot to me. like to get his club and also his hometown eric my attack is a true local hero at the lights a good cademy is football hero he's a star near and yet so far. it's possible what could be better than turning pro feel local club she has won every young player wants. to have the chance to make it happen although. he's already made the squad for a few league games on the site he's also studying sport management. was hoping you never know how things will turn out in football and the universities are very close to the training ground. so it's easy to combine the two. the academy already has one star graduate. you'll still show him the way he's a good example for all of us he's. also falls for the law. school with use of pull certain who's now a regular in rough right next ward and the danish national side but the saxony region had a similar kind of player to me your problem similar to here. you had a presence out on the pitch in the style of play and it was all really am oppressive. setup at

carlsen in leipsic is soak up a critical way of proving that one step closer to a top four finish. what you think forthcoming make it to the champions league the ship you know in spite of that admittedly brilliant performance that we just saw the highlights from i don't actually think that the favorites to make it to the champions league next season now i think the coaching situation they've got there this year is just very strange is affecting the players you know where he's there for this season but only this season as the coach and someone else comes in if you're a player you know even if you play well for this coach maybe the next one comes in and doesn't like your once a different player in your position and then you're on the scrap heap suddenly so i think that is affecting the players they've scored fewer goals than any other team in the top six i think it's like frank they've got a great attacking line there i think they've got a better chance of taking over than fifth at the moment just dumping leipzig off of four place and not be up for a woody did a beautiful thank you.

volves berg and on friday drew with shellac a suit to underway right now we have dusseldorf against leipsic. watching the news more the top talent. the music so long it's an update live. an extravagant venue. and two hosts who really know their stuff. grooves. which figo to pull and still punish. party and share with stations from around the world. makers starts february second on. what about the. post. this week on world stories. india where women feared chytrid. great britain what's next for brics it. but first to turkey where it's estimated that some seven hundred children are forced to spend their nights in prison because their mothers have been placed behind bars. saturday is the day the fathers pick up their children at the gates of the gibs a prison that is a once can spend a day or two in freedom. takes his two year old son mira's home every weekend the total is already gotten used to leaving his mother behind. the ad for a kurds mira's his mother has been active for an opposition party with links to the kurds that was enough to get her a four year sentence. if. we can just be glad

entertaining play will have to hit the ground running straight away with their first opponents fourth placed leipsic coach lucien five expects a tough away trip. this in dangerous in possession but also on the counter-attack they can also play a long talk at my house and. transition really really quickly so there's not much else to say about life they're a very good team is in the. dampening the mood somewhat is the recent illness of captain marco royce. cossar is also only just coming back from injury together they've scored twenty three goals over half of the total the team also looked shaky in recent friendly matches. enough to the final you've got the christmas season then new year's eve then you spend time at a sunny beach in dubai or somewhere and you look at the table and everyone is passing you on the back of your model so perfectly normal for the tension to lessen but we can't let that affect us if we do if we must maintain our form with the same approach we had my first half of the season enough to get on an ng and that's. statistics point towards a successful second half of the season dor

ground running though against their first opponents of the second half of the season fourth placed leipsic. this is dangerous in possession but also on the counter-attack they can also play a. transition really really quickly because there's not much else to say about life they're very good team. dampening the mood somewhat is the recent illness to captain marco royce and passer is only just coming back from injury together they scored twenty three goals in the first half of the season more than half of dortmund's total to the team looked a bit shaky in recent friendly matches. the christmas season then new year's eve then you spend time at a sunny beach. and you look at the table and everyone is passing you on the back. perfectly normal for the tension to lessen but not affect us. must maintain. the same approach we had of the season. ending. statistics point toward a successful second half of the season for dortmund a club that has led the league three times at the halfway mark and each time won the title. you're watching news coming to you from berlin and i'll be back at the top of the

to just get past their fierce rivals leipsic to maintain their perch atop the german league. on exposure welcome to the program and we start in the greek capital athens where nationalist groups are protesting a deal to settle a nearly three decades old. name dispute with macedonia under the agreement struck last june greece would approve of its northern neighbor neighbor remaining itself the republic of north macedonia in return things would drop its objections to the balkan country joining nato and the european union but the deal has been hotly contested in greece prime minister alexis narrowly won a confidence vote in parliament on wednesday after his right wing partner left the coalition to protest the agreement. for more on this i'm now joined by george george lakoff last freelance reporter in athens georgia what are the protesters demanding. the protesters demanding that the government does not approve very international beer signed last summer. going to be to fundamentally vote on thursday on friday next week they insist on. greece's northern neighbor not using the name

place byron munich winning on friday night to the pressure it was on dortmund to win last night at leipsic and even without the presence of team captain marco boyce the league leaders got the job done. leipzig were hoping their young gun t.-mo vanno would be able to break his dortmund curse he never scored against them in eight this league clashes. meanwhile dortmund coach didn't have his two top scorers in the starting line up with marco toys out injured for the first time this season and mario good said getting the nod instead of pocket while kutha and it was good so who had the first chance for the visitors but he by he must take just managed to clear the ball away. then with almost twenty minutes gone dortmund did hit the target midfielder axel vit sol hammering home for the one nil lead the belgian second goal of the season having scored the other the first time these two teams met after that the game hit a bit of a dry spell late sick lack of precision in their attack like here with the ball landing out of the reach of use of paulson. in the second half maximillian philip charged tow

this transfer window and the biggest move into the bundesliga was amadou haidar as transfer to rb leipsic he cost the club nineteen million euros and treads a familiar path he's the fifteenth player to move from red bull salisbury to red bull owned leipzig youth has been a trend among bundesliga signings league leaders dortmund brought in twenty year old argentinian out of the to be as they look to stay ahead in the title race stuttgart new center back on cabot is even younger and another teenager to arrive in the bundesliga is byron's out fun so davies the canadian joins the reigning champions for ten million euros as their only major newcomer but overall it was a quiet transfer window for the bavarians who were unable to make a star signing this january. you're watching e.w. news coming up next in d w business in parts of asia it's the run up to celebrations for the start of the year of the pig so why is everyone at a popular hong kong restaurant ordered dog steaming portions of the honorable animal. to find out. you don't think the five. bursts. home is of species. a home worth saving.

second place by our new nick winning on friday night the pressure was on dortmund to win last night at leipsic even without the presence of team captain marco royce the league leaders got the job done. a corner kick twenty minutes in made its way to dortmund midfielder axel vits he hammered the ball home for a one nil lead the belgian second goal of the season his first was back when these two teams first met earlier this season. in the second half a chance to double the lead as maximillian phillip charge but life saved goalkeeper peter goulash he got his foot on the ball to keep his side close dortmund though were pressing for an insurance goal passer came on as a sub and had the best chance of all shortly before the end but the ball didn't fully cross the line as confirmed by goal line technology. in injury time leipzig launched a last gasp it's hacked but much has coolio headed into the side netting. one nil the final score. needed for gas and the start to get red bull might seek hadn't lost a single much at home all season so we have very satisfied it is as it's a free to. dortmund are sti

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