i'm phil gale welcome to the program after spending a year and a turkish prison without being charged his german journalist and his usual has not been charged and released is due to return to face trial and like to date mr usuals continued detention kosta freezing relations between fallon and ankara is german foreign minister stigma gabriele who helped negotiate that his usual release. i think yes it's a good day dennis you cell is free and he's on his way to istanbul airport. and we talked extensively to our turkish partners that started with my asking former chancellor. to open doors for us in istanbul to one of them up and. i went there twice for us i also talked repeatedly with my turkish counterpart may have a clue of whom i'm particularly grateful that. you took it was always of particular importance for the turkish government not to politically influence a court decision not to infringe on the independence of the courts but they did agree to help speed up the process in turkey made good on that promise and i'm particularly grateful to turkey's foreign minister for that. but. th

i'm phil gale welcome to the program it's a decision that threatens to cause huge disruption one of germany's top courts has ruled that cities are allowed to ban diesel cars from mistreats to cut pollution environmentalists have been calling for a ban for years because of the harm diesel emissions do to human health today they're claiming victory but the move could prove costly for the country's car industry it could also mean that millions of diesel owners and own longer allowed to drive their cars. at the moment most vehicles may be driven in germany cities regardless of what engine they have but following today's ruling cities with high levels of air pollution could up to all but the most modern diesel engines a clear. victory for the environmental group that initiated the legal action. today is a great day for clean air in germany we have fought for clean air for people in cities. for years the legal thresholds for air pollution have been surpassed in many german cities the nitrogen oxides emitted mainly by diesel cars are highly damaging to people's health the german government says the

i'm phil gale welcome to the program south africa's ruling party has formally asked the country's scandal hit president to resign but despite the party's decision to recall him jacob zuma is still in power and says he will present his response tomorrow is the a.n.c. secretary general. this is the. space. to respond. to to respond when we call or what do we expect to do with the they're expected to do two or more. let's leave it there is their groups of. five as here most of the doubly correspondent christine. christine so the a.n.c. tells jacob zuma to go he says what i'm good and ready now what now we wait for some are because he is expected to release a statement a way he will one acknowledge that he has been recalled by the and we're hoping that he'll indication as to when he sees fit to resign it doesn't have to go does it he doesn't have to go this is a party structure cannot remove a sitting president it would eventually essentially have to force the a.n.c. to take the matter to parliament where they would have to use a motion of no confidence or launch impeachment proceedings this