on the nichols joins us from berlin. -- hans nichols joins us from berlin great what qualities do youhink credit suisse sees in thiam? >> that is best for the shareholders and the board to decide. what we do know is that take an insurer to be a banker and a frenchman to run a swiss bank. that is after an american, brady dougan, was the first american to run switzerland's second-largest bank. it's take a look at his bio. he cut his teeth at mckenzie. he spent about 10 years at the acid management-consulting firm. then he took a little break and worked where he was born, in the ivory coast. he spent about four or five years at the technical studies and development in the ivory coast and then he was appointed minister for planning development before leaving in 1999 following a military coup. in 2009, he went to prudential, ultimately becoming the head of prudential in the u.k. one thing we do know is he is close to the white house. treasury secretary jack lew tried to persuade him to join the world bank as the lead investment banker at the world bank. that did not work out, but it gives

we can get the latest on that with jessica who joins us from berlin. what does this mean? jessica: lufthansa published a statement saying they were aware he had been suffering from depression as far back as 2009 when he informs the fight school -- the flight school. this raises questions about why they had not been monitoring this pilot who had depressive tendencies. he said in an e-mail that he had suffered from a severe depressive episode and this goes against what the head of lufthansa said that he believed lubitz had been fit to fly. so many questions lufthansa will have to answer. we know that he had been trying to hide his illness from his employers. there was medication for mental illness in his apartment. this has sparked a debate about loosening the laws on medical confidentiality. lufthansa has said it is up to the employees to inform them when they are unwell. of course in this case, lubitz was hiding it. people are calling for changes to this law that would allow a doctor to inform the pilots when they feel a pilot could be to unwell to fly. this has become quit

. >>> all right let's get more from dominic kane who joins us from berlin. dominic, the picture painted of andreas lubitz is one of a very disturbed man. tell us a little bit more about this latest revelation that he had been treated for suicidal tendencies. >> barbara, this is the first time state prosecutors have acknowledged the fact that at one point andreas lubitz exhibited suicidal tendencies. he received treatment for it. the narrative until now is that he has suffered a severe bout of depression which he received treatment for and appeared to recover from. certainly his company germanwings and their company lufthansa said he passed all the safety practice methods that sort of thing and so from their point of view he was fit to be behind the controls of that aircraft, which of course he decided to crash into the mountain side in the alps killing 149 innocent people. certainly this represents the first moment where actually yes indeed a doctor at some point has examined mr. lubitz and decided this was someone who was suffering depression who was experi

. >> john, there are some pictures coming to us from berlin, live out of the german capital. we have been expecting staples stims alexisalexistsipras to be coming before the microphone. just warn you we may be coting away. you referred to this as a game of chicken. how does he spin this to the people on the basis that he would come back with something? >> greece is facing this old dilemma that it faced in 2012. either it's not going to pay its creditors or not pay its suppliers, tough up the pension scheme and pay the public servants their salary, that is what is called the internal default. in other words defaulting on your obligations to your internal creditors. in which case, the civil servers, suppliers to the state or pensioners will be asked to bankroll their own government as indeed bank depositors will be asked that as well, if we go that route, if the european hard-line holds. if however the greeks get something of their way then what we would expect to see would be the european central bank to allow them to sell a little bit of debt on international markets. there's

brendan: hans nichols joins us from berlin.very time tsipras sends one of these letters, hans reads it. we have a lot of deadlines for greece. what is the significance of tuesday? hans: it would start the process to unlock some of the 7.2 billion left in the bailout fund so greece could make its payment. they have a big payment coming up. we have not seen the letter. we just heard from the german government that they have not submitted a reform list. if you heard it from the german government that is the final word. the report is that they sent a draft over e-mail and it was getting mocked in the german press that he greece yet again looked like they were close to busting a deadline. they still have until tonight. tsipras addresses his parliament at 8:00. brendan: hans, i have someone more important than you who is about to speak. ed miliband is speaking. we are going to start listening to the speech. >> most of all, i want to thank you, representatives of british business for being with us today. i want to thank you for the wo

hans nichols joins us from berlin. atest, i want to give us the latest -- before you give us the latest, i want to bring up a tweet from president francois hollande. this is a mourning, a tragedy. he does not excite any survivors from the 148 people on board that german airbus a320 plane that crashed in the southeastern outs of france. with that said hans, what is the latest? hans: the latest is out of the spanish airport authority saying there are spanish and german nationals on that plane. they have not released to the identities of the spanish nationals. they do not say they do not know the authorities will stop it was flight 9525. moments ago, we had the ceo of leptons a, -- of lufthansa, the parent company of german wings, pledging to work with authorities to find out more. it seems like the most best mystic line is coming out of president francois hollande, all but assuming that 148 people have lost their lives. where he has dispatched his interior minister down to the region as you mentioned, it is in a southeast

hans nichols joins us from berlin. what is the latest? hans: the latest as we have two leaders trying to sweep any differences under the table. if you think about three issues they are talking about, one is the overall bailout package will stop the greek from esters making all the right signs telegraphing he is willing to make reforms and even to agreements that he said the previous government supported. that is something -- on the immediate liquidity crisis neither side says they're going to get much out of the meeting to advance the issue. he says he's not looking to pay for salaries or pensions at the end of this month and angela merkel says i'm just one of 18 or 19 eurogroup companies. i don't have any say to open the liquidity gates on my own. perhaps the third issue as to whether there should be any german reparations both sides are dancing around it. mrs. merkel's sticking with the government line. this is a historical matter that has been litigated in the case is closed. take those three issues and it's really the question about n

guy: hans nichols joins us from berlin. it is an interesting choice. why do you think him? hans: you probably have to go with share price. credit suisse is down 18% on the year. in terms of strategy, they may want an entirely new look, a fresh take on what is happening at credit suisse. brady dougan had a reform process, but it was implemented fairly slowly. he was the last man standing but it was not yielding results. there were questions about how much litigation costs there would be. he did settle the claim about tax evasion. but there are other claims out there. how are you going to settle them? the new ceo has a close relationship with jack lew. having a good relationship with washington may be something the shareholders wanted. they may have just looked at the share price of their respective companies and thought, we need a change, here is a strong leader. we have had an american lead the bank now for a frenchman. francine: [laughter] i'm sure that's exactly what they were thinking. guy: time for a frenchman. [laughter] hans: you look at how long brady dougan stayed t

hans nichols joining us from berlin. we're still waiting -- talking to francesca. bondholders will want their money back. a 72% chance that greece reneges on its debt, how does this end up? guest: it is a hard question. i wouldn't be able to say how exactly. i think any restructuring within the euro makes the euro stronger. we have seen that happen once before. we had a huge amount of spillover effects and a response from policymakers. this could be a template going forward. there could be a hard one agreement to push more cash into greece, within the framework covering subsequent years and eventually some restructuring of the stock of liabilities on the official side. anna: so any sign of a deal in done any kind of agreement could be seen as positive? guest: i think so. the deal is now focused on the lows are you the flows and have cover the greek funding needs. we know there is a hot in redemptions -- hump in redemptions this year but as the cash flow that greece owes to collectors fizzles out quickly. it is really a matter of finding an agreement now covering th

. >> let's go to jenny hill who joins us from berlin. reporting on the tweets from the ceo of lufthansa. are you hearing anymore there? >> reporter: yeah you are right. the tweets are coming in. if our fears are confirmed, they say this is a dark day for lufthansa. the tweet continues, we hope to find survivors, although as suggested, that won't be the case. he's warned there are a significant number of likely to be a significant number of german victims. there's a great deal of shock here. as you can imagine, the german press headlining that particular fact, the significant number of german victims staying in a popular destination. germanwings, a very famous -- it's a subsidiary of lufthansa, the national company. well known, well loved and well used here. the plane was flying from barcelona to dusseldorf. they are based out of cologne but flying into a major, national hub. we have known about the aircraft itself. it's said to be 24 years old. it's been with them since 1991. we haven't heard anything yet, from chancellor merkel. preside

let's get out to phil who joins us from berlin where the volkswagen annual meeting is taking place. give us your headlines. what do you think? >> the first one being we have numbers including profits from china, theoretical profits from volkswagen in china, that 5.2 billion euros. add those in with the already announced $12.7 billion profit from last year and you have a theoretical profit that volkswagen is announcing of 17.9 billion euros. they're making a billion and a half dollars every month. they announced for the first two months of the year the sales globally topped 1.5 million vehicles. that's a new record. within the last half hour we had a chance to sit down with the chairman and ceo of volkswagen and talk to him about the record profitability that volkswagen has just posted. >> that is a new figure. your calculation is right. this is the aggregate profit of the group. add the $5.2 billion of profits from china that we account and it is an operating profit which is contributed. 40% is our joint venture, 50% on the joint venture in shanghai. >> you heard him talk about the t

from berlin. we continue to get details from the german capitol. bring usup to date with what more you've been hearing there about the crash. most of the information so far has been coming from the french authorities, what more are they saying in germany? >> a couple of things to update you with. germanwings will be holding a press conference in the next few hours and that the german transport minister is going to travel to the crash site to see for himself what has happened to this airline that's come down in barcelonnette. so far germanwings and lufthansa have retrained from going into detail about the nationalities of the people onboard and one tweet said they hope to find survivors still. clearly as you said, president hollande and then the french transport minister have confirmed there are no survivors. we can expect a very grim news conference with germanwings when that happens in the next few hours. it's worth making the point that germanwings has an excellent safety record up to this point and the make the airline the airbus 320 has a very robust sa

olivia: hans nichols, thank you so much, joining us from berlin. coming up, more than just a branding change. california pizza kitchen is going upscale. we will talk to the ceo. olivia: plus, who will be europe's strongmen in the next 10 years? it might not be germany anymore. ♪ olivia: welcome back to "market makers," and we start with the top stories of the morning. the rebels in yemen have seized the third-largest city. have accuse the leader of being in the with united states. 125 special operations advisers have been removed from yemen. it has been considered blow to the counterterrorism campaign. and prime minister alexis tsipras in greece is meeting with angela merkel and other leaders for the next two days. he wants them to come through with money promised in a bailout package, but it's not likely to happen unless alexis tsipras can spell out the reforms his government will take. they could run out of cash in just a few weeks. " francis says all he would like to do is go to a pizzeria without being recognized. since that's not going to happ

annetta joins us live from berlin. we saw the leaders exchange smiles. the question is when does greece get down to business and present a list of reforms. >> yeah i'm totally with you. it's high time for them to actually get down to business and do something about their reforms and implemented them. yesterday's meeting between angela merkel and alexis was more like a charm offensive from both governments. that was like the top priority on the list to actually convince everybody that they can work together and that's not the spat between both nations which essentially will drive greece out of the euro zone because of course when we listen to his counter parts who are telling each other over the recent weeks that really sounded very badly. so yesterday we had those actually playing a little bit of harmony. but it comes down to the facts, actually. both parties actually insisted on what they have been saying before. saying that he wants of course reforms but also social spending and angela merkel insisting on that he has to bide by the contracts the previo

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contributed to the eu's gdp -- hans nichols and spoke with the ceo earlier this morning and joins us now from berlin beginning of a potentially nasty fight between the u.s. carriers sang the gulf state carriers get an unfair advantage. they watched this report with the department of transportation . have a listen to what tim clark had to say about that report. >> the fact that they should have published it in certain stakeholder areas, not the least of which is the u.s. government come in january, making allegations which are very serious without asking us or allowing us to respond to that i have never known anything like that happening in my career. >> these are fighting words from the ceo of a successful airline. we clearly are going to have some lobbying. they will be talking, delta, american -- this is the beginning of a fight. >> dubai chicago, o'hara, this has been a huge success for emirates. 82 miles away, they have abreu dobby who has the real money. are we going to have to chicago o'hare's best two chicago o'hare's in the persian gulf? >> qatar is also getting into the mix. they need acces

hans nichols joins us now from berlin. what will we likely see in this letter from greece? >> we do not quite know. we need specifics. it is clear there will be about 3 million in new revenue that greece will claim they will raise. some of that will come through this drop pretty tax. the property tax is significant because mr. tsipras campaigned against it. they also want to increase the tax for the islands. some things will be probably be -- probably satisfactory to creditors. there is nothing on labor market reform or pension reform care to reform the labor markets and reform the pension system, it is not likely they will have any movement from creditors during if you fundamentally change the order in the structure of the bailout package, you will need another vote in parliament and that would be no, sure thing. betty: what about economic assumptions building to greece passes plan? hans: greece is talking about have a 1.4% growth this year. that gets them to 1.5%. they have already brought that down a little bit. it will be interesting to see with so much political uncert

let's bring in dominic kane live from us from the german capitol of berlin.n that press conference we had a lot of at perhaps attempts to shift responsibility but not a lot of answer to why and how this happened. >> reporter: no not a lot of answers, but certainly a sense of shock on the part of the captain, the ceo of lufthansa, speaking at this news conference in cologne. we heard more about the training measures and the psychological assessments that lufthansa performs on all of his pilots and co-pilots, and he said both the pilot and co-pilot had gone through those sorts of assessments, so there was no obvious reason to suspect a problem with either man. lufthansa prides itself on having this psychological assessment, which he said means that they have the best aircraft and team in the world. and he was trying to convey how it is impossible to understand how one of their employees could have performed the actions that suggest he deliberately chose to fly the plane into the mountainside. >> we are hearing in the press conference some attention on the proce

and hans nichols brings us the german angle from berlin. marcus, what are we expecting out of the tsipras trip today? is the bar high, low? >> there's nothing particularly concrete. we aren't expecting announcements of any breakthrough. but juncker has been seen as an interlocutory between greece and the hardline elements in the eurogroup. it comes after a trip to paris yesterday at the oecd where tsipras has tried to bring on board the oecb's assistance to gain more credibility to the reform proposals that greece is making in the hopes that this review can close by the end of april. jonathan: stay with us. hans, talk to me about the standoff between varoufakis and schaeuble. they seem to have heated up once again. hans: heated up would be one way to put it. the issue is what mr. schaeuble said in a press conference on tuesday. what he was saying was, he was commenting on mr. varoufakis' communication energy. here's what he said. let me read the quote to you. "that he should suddenly be naive in terms of communication. i told him it is quit

already has an olympic stadium from the 1936 games -- berlin already has an olympic stadium from the 1936 games. they will be forever linked with the nazi regime that use the games of propaganda. although hamburg did well in the survey, berlin is seen as the favorite. it regularly host sports events. that could give it the edge when the german olympic committee announces its recommendation monday. >> that would deftly be a big story here in berlin. we are joined by one of our sports gurus. there is considerable skepticism about people in berlin about this, will berlin get it? >> well, breadth, what berlin has going for it, it has that sexy relate -- reputation. berlin is one of the hippest places in the world. that is in berlin's favor and of course the city has hosted really big events in the past. there is a long history of track and field events, and there is the olympic stadium from 1936 already there. those are all points in berlin's favor. on the other hand, 55% support is not particularly great. this was not a scientific poll, but it was not carried out by the city of berlin, so they could not even boost the numbers up. so i think that has cut a

from hamburg for us. >> you are welcome. sarah: in berlin, the german government was quick to respond to the disaster.dispatched several high-ranking officials to the crash site, and the german foreign office has set up a special team to deal with the disaster. ben: they are working closely with spanish and french officials, and offering information and support for families of the victims. reporter: shortly after news of the crash broke the foreign office's emergency action team began coordinating the german response. a hotline was set up for friends and family of the passengers of the downed flight. frank-walter steinmeier led the delegation that left tuesday afternoon for the french alps. >> we are in close contact with french authorities. i have already spoken to my french counterpart laurent fabius. we will continue to work together closely. we have already dispatched aviation experts to the crash site. reporter: speaking to the media german chancellor angela merkel said she would travel to the crash site on wednesday. she also said that what victims' families needed most of all now was support. c

that was a scene from amc's "mad man" on the significance of israel. joining us now from berlin "the atlantic," jeffrey gold with berg, latest piece is the cover story for the magazine asking the question is it time for jews to leave europe? in it he describes the attack on the jewish deli in paris in january and talking with a friend and philosopher who lives there. jeffrey writes i asked him a very old jewish question. do you have a bag packed? we should not leave, he said but maybe for our children or grandchildren, there will be no choice. >> jeffrey, thank you so much for being with us. this is an extraordinarily important story that you've win. the timing could not be more important. >> thank you, joe. >> you of course were reporting from france during the heinous "charlie hebdo" attacks. you write that france's 475,000 jews represent less than 1% of the country's population and yet in 2014 51% of all racist attacks targeted less than 1% of the population. and that was, of course jews in france. we've talked about it for some time but this has become more virulent. what is

collects live from berlin, this is your world news. welcome. >> good to have you with us. our top stories. prosecutors in germany say the copilot of the downed german wings flight 9525 suffered from suicidal tendencies. >> and it is make or break time, talked on iran's nuclear program entry decisive phase in switzerland. >> and another material setback for the german army and technical defects are found in standard issue combat rifle. it has emerged at the copilot of german wing flight 9525 had a history of suicidal tendencies. that is, according to german investigators who have reviewed his medical records. >> but they say they cannot speculate on the copilot motives. for allegedly clashing the for allegedly crashing a plane in the french alps last week. the search for answers continues. >> relatives of the two australians died in the crash are in france to say a final farewell. the investigation continues to focus on the health and mental state of copilot andrea lubin -- andreas lubitz >> he was diagnosed with suicidal tendencies and underwent psychotherapy treatment for

the "wall street journal" reporter william boston is joining us on the phone right now from berlin. you are learning some new information about the pilot, andreas lubitz. tell us what you are hearing. >> reporter: hi wolf. thanks for having me on the program. what i have been hearing from sources i spoke to today is that the documents that the police and investigators found in mr. lubitz's apartment draw a picture that show that he has been in medical treatment for some time that he has been treated for psychological problems and that he has not informed his employer germanwings or lufthansa, about this situation. >> what kind of psychological problems are you learning? >> reporter: well this is where it gets a little murky because it's not legal for most of these people to be disclosing this kind of confidential information about his medical treatments. you know people have spoken about depression and psychological issues but have not been very specific about exactly what he was being treated for. >> that hospital in dusseldorf that clinic he was treated there recently they are spec

government, declaring that, " our country's everyday reality does not give us the luxury for delay." joining me now from berlin, via phone, jeffrey goldberg. he is a national correspondent for "the atlantic magazine." from jerusalem, ari shavit, a columnist and author of "my promised land." yossi halevi is a fellow and author of "like dreamers." from tel aviv, ronen bergman, a senior military correspondent. in washington, yousef manayyer a palestinian american author and executive director of the u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation. here with me in new york, lisa goldman. she is the israel palestine fellow at the new america foundation. i begin first, ronen, with you. tell me, because we only have 10 minutes on the satellite with you, and i want to get you an early, tell me what happened in this election. ronen: i think that this was not a vote for netanyahu. he is not a magician. i think people dislike him in israel. hishe lost much of the trust. the final result just proved that this is a right wing nation. most of the people belong to the far right or central right, and people believe after 20 years

us for more is dominic cain in berlin. bring us up to date an what you have been hearing in berlin. much of the information has been coming fromfrench authorities because the crash happened in france. what more have they be saying in germany. >> a few updates to give you we expect the c.e.o. of germanwings to give a news conference within the hour. that will be from colon in western germany. we understand the chancellor angela merkel is going to speak about this incident within the next 25 minutes but her foreign minister has already spoken. i'll read a translation of what he says, where he he says effectively that the terrible news has just reached us that a plane from a german airline crashed in southern france. we have immediately established a crisis response team that is investigating the details of that catastrophe. we are in close contact with the french authorities. obviously this is something which has provoked a response from the german government and angela merkel is going to be speaking about this in the next 25 minutes or so. it's worth making clear that germanwings has an excellent safety record. this is the firs

berlin. the us tear it he is not coming from frankfurt, it is coming from berlin.ld be pointed out that these are german germans. you do see a bmw that gets its tires lit on fire every once in a while and frankfurt, but this is unprecedented. look at that area i have never seen riot police in frankfurt. brendan: there is some solidarity of the hard german left with greece. it is fascinating to watch. the hard german left has never really disappeared the way it did in the u.s.. there is a very active anti-nuclear power movement which was very successful in getting angela merkel to change her policies two years ago. there is a very active anti-nato movement in germany, as well. olivia: they are protesting austerity in germany. as far as i'm aware, there was not much austerity in germany. brendan: they are protesting german policies. i'm confused whether you're are protesting the ecb. the problem is not in frankfurt. olivia: it looks like a wto building. tom: i just thought it was bizarre yesterday. it should have been in berlin. to your point. there is nothing there

>> life, from berlin, this is your world news. good to have you with us. monica: hank you for joining us. >> winning the right to bid for the olympics, they are officially in the right to host the 2024 games. monica: vladimir putin returns after a rare absence and dismisses rumors about why he vanished for 10 days. >> indian christians rally for an elderly none, sexually assaulted in an attack that has shocked the nation. in the last hour germany has made its decision as to which city will be the candidate to host the 2024 olympic games. the president of the olympic federation made the much-anticipated announcement. >> hamburg beat challenge from berlin but it will now need to stage a local referendum to shore up support. the new german candidate will now face stiff international competition to host the games. the winner will be announced by the international olympic committee in 2017. >> are sports correspondent jefferson chase, has been following this decision. hamburg has finally beat berlin to at least be a candidate to host the olympic games in 2024.

>> live from berlin this is your world newses. i'm terry&good to have you with us. >> i'm matt and here come our headlines. failing syria. humanitarian groups say the international community has abandoned millions of refugees. >> our correspondent in eastern ukraine exphrorz the devastated airport. >> and the widow of a murdered russian agent tells us she's still searching for the truth. >> a damming report by 20 human rights groups says that the international community has failed syria. the situation for people there has not gotten better and numerous u.n. security counsel resolutions have not been implemented. >> more than 20,000 people and more than 11 million displaced the worst refugee crisis in the world. >> for this family home is now a refugee camp in jordan. they thought they would be here for just a few weeks but four years on they have no idea if they'll ever go home. it's attacks such as this one a few days ago that forced them to flee. civilians are being killed every day in syria and the war has already claimed more than 200 200,000 lives and destroye

>> live from dw in berlin, this is your world news. >> good to have you with us. our headlines at this hour -- lyrical backers, friends and family members turn out for the funeral of morrison advises investigation continues. >> in a controversial speech benjamin netanyahu calls on american lawmakers to block a nuclear deal with iran being worked on by the obama administration. >> african leaders meet in brussels to push a plan to help rebuild their economies following the latest ebola crisis. >> thanks for being with us. in russia, thousands of people have been paying respects to a man who dared to defy the kremlin. the funeral of leading opposition figure, boris nemtsov took place earlier today. >> he was gunned down on friday night and as of yet, no arrests have been made. russian president vladimir putin has condemned the men vowed to find the culprit but the political opposition believes it was his politics played a role in why he died. >> is also controversy surrounding the funeral as well. high-level officials from poland and latvia who wanted to attend say

. >> talking to us live from singapore, thank you very much indeed. let's go to our correspondent dominic cain in berlino find out if anymore detail is emerging there. we've been getting the most of the information we've got so far has been coming from france and from the french president himself. what's happening in germany? >> let me read to you a tweet that lufthansa has on it's site. >> we he do not know what happened to flight knife fine 25. if our fears are confirmed, it is a dark day for lufthansa. we've spoken physically there's a degree of ambiguity about the situation, but the tweet would give credence to the idea that some tragedy has occurred which president hollande has gone into great detail about spoken about how this is a tragedy, would take time to find out what caused this crash and his expression of three. there is a sense from lufthansa on their social media site that they are still hoping to find survivors. >> what about germanwings itself? we know that it's a budget airline. it's a low cost carrier but it is a subsidiary, isn't it, of lufthansa. >> yes indeed it is. this would be t

>> live from berlin, this is your world news on dw. the two have you with us. >> welcome. the headlines for you at this hour -- >> germany's bundestag approves a mandatory quota of women on corporate executive boards. >> gone forever -- islamic state wipes out history by obliterating the capital of one of the world's powerful empires. the ancient assyrian city. >> and a shock for pop fans -- germany's choice for the eurovision song contest says no. the german parliament today has approved a law that aims to boost the number of women in top executive positions. the legislation will require large, publicly traded companies to have at least 30% of women on their supervisory boards. >> it's a welcome first step, a bold move that will crack the glass ceiling keeping women from pursuing high-powered positions in big firms, but for some high achievers, the bill does not go far enough. they want a seat at the table not just supervise. >> this is a first and europe's biggest economy and the start of what some say change. the countries leader may be a woman, but in the upper echelon

>> live from the dw studios in berlin, this is your world news. >> right to have you with us. our headlines for you at this hour -- the iraqi military launches a large scale attack on islamic state, hoping to take back strategic and symbolic -- the symbolic and strategic city of tikrit. could it be a game changer? ukrainian woman who is with the kremlin critic when he was murdered talks to the media for the first time. >> and namibia's outgoing president seen here on the right is awarded a $5 million prize or outstanding african leadership. >> welcome to the show. iraq has launched a major offensive against islamic state aimed at recapturing the city of tikrit and territory north of the capital, baghdad. >> the operation has united shiite, sunni and tribal fighters and it's a test of the governments unity. the iraqi prime minister has last chance to prevail against islamic state. >> three previous offensive -- offenses have failed to clear the jihad ease from tikrit. >> this is the start of the government's biggest attempt yet to take back parts of northern iraq controlled by

hans nichols joins us from the heart of greece's biggest paymaster, berlin. joint news conference later this morning. what do we know about the details and what tsipras put four. hans: $3.7 billion in new revenue, most of that is going after tax evasion. when you look at any way you are going to have to have any of the money unlocked everyone has been clear that greece needs to follow through on the bailout program. we do not have anything specific so far so it looks like no money. brendan: an interesting detail this morning saying that european officials accused the document of lacking technocratic details. do you think this is something tsipras would have gotten right by now? hans: there are challenges on making sure the documents are proved in english. the creditors want to get more specific and the debtors want to talk in philosophic terms. that is the tension when technocrat to visit athens. according to mario draghi they are not given the access to the books they would like so everyone can agree on a common set of numbers. then you can argue about solvi

>> live from berlin, this is your world news on dw. i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. >> welcome. the top stories at this hour -- managing expectations. china scales back it economic growth targets and pledges to open more to foreign investors. >> the u.s. ambassador to south korea is attacked by a knife-wielding assailant. >> and is this a buddhist statue or a coffin? the mummified monk on display at a budapest museum. >> is china's economic model in efficient? the country's premier says it is predicting that growth will slow to 7% this year, which is low why chinese standards. >> any other country would love to forect that rate of growth, but for the world's number two economy, it's the slowest expansion in a quarter of a century and a sign that this global economic powerhouse better get used to saying goodbye to double digit growth. >> trying to manage expectations the premier said slower growth would become the new normal for china, noting that downward pressure on china's onomy is intensive dying. >> the chinese flag is raised in front of the great hall of the pe

>> live from the dw studios here in berlin, this is your world news. >> good to have you with us. headlines at this hour -- >> some 30 workers are missing and near dead after a coal mine explosion in eastern ukraine. we'll go live to our reporter on the ground. >> who is winning the battle or the iraqi city of tikrit? we will get a status update from baghdad about the government offensive against islamic state. >> in german soccer, it too end second division team was knocked out of the cup. at least one minor has been killed in a further ready feared dead after an explosion in ukraine. >> the explosion took place on the edge of donetsk and territory held by pro-russian rebels. local officials say over 70 people were working in the mine at the time of the blast. >> we go now to our correspondent on the ground in mariupol, ukraine, new the site of the mine. what more do we know about the minors the number of casualties, the number who are maybe still trapped, and what more do we know about the calls? >> at this point, we know that there is one casualty. 16 have been taken to hospita

berlin with the german story. what are we expecting from vw later? give us a break down on hugo boss as well.nk the key with volkswagen is, what is their profitability? there is an investment that they could get -- an estimate that they could get to 3% for profitability. when you compare that the audi, their margin is 8% to 10%. vw's goal is to come in around 6%. sales were basically flat last month. folks like an wants to take it to toyota -- volkswagen wants to take it to toyota. we will see what they have to say about currency. they have big operations in brazil and russia. lufthansa they did a little better than expected. they are giving forward guidance for 2015. when you look back at 2014, they announced that they weren't going to be doing a dividend use year and there isn't a lot of long-term optimism. they have some strength in their catering business. hugo boss, your favorite, their guidance is for 5% to 7% growth in 2015. that is disappointing analysts. that's why we are seeing hugo boss trade down a little bit. my advice go out and buy yourself a hugo boss or by your producer one.

from? we desperately need it. this war of words is having a real impact. and insurgents. terry: there appears to be pockets of support and berlin for that. tell us more about them. >> it is certainly a departure because government thought terrible atrocities. this difficult matter to history 's chapter is closed. terry: political correspondent. thank you very much. monika: markets changed their tune on tuesday. it ended an amazingly strong rally. >> it went up by more than 2% yesterday. and so, many investors thought that it was time for a break. nevertheless, the general mood remains very good. monika: down by more than 1.5%. terry: and it is the holiday st. patrick's day. monika: it was the combination of saint patrick who is said to have brought christianity to ireland in a different injury. very nice. terry: thanks for watching. ok?ó???????o= gcgc elcome to "euromaxx highlights." let's have a look at the headlines. rock on. the german band scorpions celebrates 50 years on stage. cover up. the ballo del doge is one of venice's most exclusive masquerade balls. and, the art of hundertwasser continues to impress. we have lots of viewers aroun

berlin. wherever you're watching from around the world. thanks very much for joining us.first, the breaking news, the german plane crash mystery becomes an international tragedy as we get more details emerging about the passengers. we've learned two americans were among those on board. the crash victims were from at least 15 countries, most were from germany and spain. but there were others there from great britain, the netherlands, belgium, denmark, israel, japan, iran, australia, colombia and here in the united states. a french official says investigators are begun the process of identifying the remains of the victims and says that will take days and dna comparisons could take weeks. the french president, francois hollande, the german chance lore, angela merkel, and the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy were met at the staging area. investigators now working

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berlin later today for more talks. hong kong is hosting the might and money conference, bringing together the leading players and top investors from across the region. china continuing to slow. joining uscue metals representative. how would you describe the mood at this conference compared to previous ones? >> the conference has been a little at the start. all of us recognize it is cyclical business. when prices are down it's an opportunity to make sure we are ready for the upturns. rishaad: iron ore's collapse has worsened. it has been one of the biggest stories. why are some of the players flooding the market? are they cutting their noses to spite their faces? nev: it certainly would seem so. i think the dynamics of all the commodity industries are the same. if we see overinvestment resulting in overproduction that's not in the best interest of anyone in the industry. we have completed all are capital, and we are just spending maintenance capital now. i think that's the prudent thing to do in the market we see going into oversupply. i think the other point to make is the market has been in supply deficit over the last couple months, but it's the apprehension of oversupply in the futu

phil lebeau joins us now from the vw annual meeting and that is in berlin germany, with more.f news coming out of the meeting this morning and from our interview with dr. martin vinterkorn. let's start off with the primary driver of growth for this country. it remains china. that's part of the focus. when they factor in their equity holdings with their joint ventures, their annual profit last year was a record 17.9 billion euros. that was the record annual profit for volkswagen last year and in china they continue to invest. their current production of 3.7 million vehicles remember volkswagen is number one in china. thap that is expected to grow to 5 million in annual production by 2019. here's part of our interview earlier this morning. >> translator: if we had 1/3 in western europe 1/3 in china, and 1/3 in the u.s. we would be well balanced. which is why our growth plans go to the u.s. >> and the u.s. remains the one area where volkswagen continues to struggle because they have not made enough of an investment in suvs. that's going to change next year and in the future they

from berlin. it also flies to north africa turkey and main european cities such as london, paris, amsterdam amsterdam, and barcelona. carrier usesnly airbus a31 s and larger a320s. the single aisle workhouse planes favored for shorter routes. and are on the whole considered safe and reliable aircraft. the pilots of lufthanza and germanwings have staged strikes in recent years as the company has attempted to revise pay and conditions to compete with europe's bigger budget airlines. unlike other budget airlines germanwings is a member of an airline alliance. in this case star alliance through the parent lufthanza. it also has higher priced business class tickets that allow passengers to use lounges and also has its own frequent flyer program. jim bowelen, cnn -- jim boulden, cnn, london. >>> wee much more coverage of the crash of flight 9525 on our website. you can log on to cnn.com for the latest developments on the investigation and the information on how you can help. >>> still to come for you this hour decision day for amanda knox. while the accused waits in the united states an italian court is just hours away from what could

us. i'll have more news for you in a couple of minutes. see you then. bye bye. >>> hello again. this is al jazeera live from london. coming up a hand shake in berlin increasing pressure on athens to implement structural reform. >>> a former presidential candidate in the sudan is jailed for corruption. >> i am announcing that i'm running fo

berlin. >>> also in the car business, formula e continuing its inaugural season with its first u.s. race set to take place in miami on saturday. joining us this morning fromrmula e ceo. alejandro good to have you back, had you on last april and here we are, can you believe we're finally here? >> yes, i know. thank you very much. happy to be here. it's incredible. times goes so fast. already we had four races. started in beijing and then malaysia, argentina and here we are finally in miami and it's going to be a great event. >> you said this is like going back to the '50s where it was so much more unpredictable the way the race would develop. what did you mean and how is the equipment going to hold up? >> we are back to the '50s because we've had four races and four winners. our races are totally unpredictable and we are the ath the beginning of this kind of racing. racing electric is new. we are pioneering going into completely new territory. the race, every race, the drivers are learning what's going on. every race is different. we're expecting another one in miami this is what's happening in the beginning of combustion motor sport in the 50s. it makes i

berlin. what can you tell us at this point from what you're hearing in your reporting?nd very little information coming from the german authorities, as you just mentioned the transport minister is headed to the scene, but there have been only condolences and expressions of grief from german authorities and not much more. i u think they are waiting for more precise information. but what's clear is this is going to be quite a shock for german aviation generally because it has such a strong safety record of going back decades. the last time lufthansa had had had a crash was 1993. germanwings has never had a major air disaster. >> germanwings has a very good safety record as you point out, has never had a disaster at all like this. i'm just hearing from spain's deputy prime minister that 45 of the passengers on board the crash germanwings plane are believed to be spanish. that is one thing that several countries right now are trying to sort out in terms of the nationalities of the passengers on board and quite frankly we don't even have a clear number of how many people wer

everything from cappuccinos in rome to beer in berlin will be cheaper and that's because the dollar is much thonger against the euro. >> cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger joins usew york for st. patrick's day. good news for tourists but for american businesses maybe not so much i guess. >> reporter: yeah i mean there are definitely winners and outlawsers from -- losers from this currency jump. and what we should really emphasize is u.s. consumers are definitely the winners. so you know, this is going to mean that we'll see lower costs for imported clothing, electronics and some automobiles. and of course if you are planning that european vacation your dollar is going to buy you more. but u.s. exporters, manufacturers, companies that derive profits from overseas markets like big multinationals, boeing or coca- cola, these firms have to adapt their businesses which probably means cutting prices or they're going to risk losing market share. remember if they get hit hard enough, they could pull back on spending and hiring here in the u.s.. >> so jill, why has the dollar appreciated so much? >> reporter: you know, think about it this way. a currency is basically a r

berlin madrid. so they would have been involved and most of the countries where passengers came from so they would immediately be involved in this. france germany and spain would immediately be using interpol channels as well to send communications to other police agencies around the world. that would be something that was already going on. in terms of the pilot or copilot in this particular case they would have already been scouring personal social media, if he has facebook or twitter, e-mails, phone calls, friends, neighbors, relatives for some sign of whether the individual had mental problems whether the individual had financial or marital troubles or girlfriend problems something along those lines or joined a group. that extremist group can be among many different groups that operate all over the world and particularly in europe. so that they don't know but that's what they've been looking at and will continue to look at very closely. under the european system the magistrate the prosecutor runs the investigation, unlike in the u.s. where the sfib would be running the investigation. >> and it bears repeating from both press conferences we've had today from the french prosecuto