His autocratic rule at home the postcoup crackdown orchestrated by turkeys president under scrutiny today as the European Parliament examines that countrys human rights. To me so much going to thank you for joining us the feud over north Koreas NuclearProgram Moves to center stage on the eve of the Olympic Games in south korea u. S. Vice president mike pence has arrived in seoul and thats promising new more aggressive sanctions against pyongyang that message comes as north and south korea are preparing to open the Olympic Games with an unusual show unity a joint team as has met with president in the war in the south against allowing john young to quote hide behind the olympics. Lets bring in journalist Jason Strother who is standing by in seoul hi jason mike pence is promising new aggressive sanctions as we heard against the north what could they entail a ride well theres no word from washington what on what new sanctions could be but we could expect that the u. S. Would go after more Foreign Companies that are doing business with north korea now of course here in south korea seoul has been bending the rules in regard of sanctions allowing some north korean officials to arrive here as well as a north korean boat to transport its orchestra here however if new sanctions are imposed against the regime following or even during the olympics it would certainly be a blow to south korean president moon j. N. Who has really tried to bridge the gap here and bring north korea into the fold could this announcement from pence then throw this entire process the stall that were seeing into doubt. I dont think so right now there is good momentum built here of course on friday north and south korean athletes will walk together into the Opening Ceremony under a unified korean flag there fielding a joint womens Ice Hockey Team and other north korean athletes will be competing in and several events at the peeling chong olympics so even if the u. S. Were to impose new sanctions or tighten existing sanctions i dont think it would derail some of the goodwill that is being generated right now here jason that being said as we saw in north korea has held a military parade on the eve of the games what do you make of that is an act of defiance. I was certainly could be provocative but at the same time it appears to have been scaled down from what we were all expecting it didnt even broadcast this footage live it came out many hours after it took place in pyongyang south korea has been watching it i think they made it around thirteen thousand soldiers took part in it as you mentioned the before i started speaking to you the parade had been moved from a date in april to now so certainly it is taking some of the spotlight away from pyongyang which is where south korea would much rather have the world worlds attention on right now journalist Jason Strother reporting from seoul thank you jason thank you not to some other stories making news around the world rescuers in taiwan are combing through the rubble pile them to stay strong earthquake around fifty people are still unaccounted for however aftershocks combined with rain and low temperatures are hampering rescue efforts at least nine were killed and hundreds more injured in the six point four magnitude earthquake. 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Turkeys human rights record is in the spotlight today as the European Parliament in strasbourg votes on a resolution over measures introduced by encore in the aftermath of an attempted coup in two thousand and sixteen this includes the sacking of Civil Servants the closure of media organizations and the arrest of journalists turkey has also been heavily criticized for its ongoing military assault on a kurdish enclave in Northern Syria meanwhile turkish president at a time ferry to one has been invited to talks with the u. Ministers in bulgaria in march lets get more on that now us from the European Parliament in strasbourg we have the Green Party Member of Parliament Rebecca herms with us were back i thank you for joining us on the Program First of all president everyone has been invited to these a round table talks that we mentioned vogue area in march why is the summit being held. So i think its not wrong to meet to talk with president other one but this meeting makes sense if and therefore the resolution is a preparation for this if the heads of states and also the presidency of the European Union is ready to talk on all of the negative points of the development internal development in turkey so in our resolution with the huge majority of the European Parliament we will just all of the violations of human rights and what we call the disappearance of rule of law and respect to fundamental rights like freedom of expression in turkey and European Union leaders have to be much more involved in the debate with turkish government and also the turkish president but rebecca what you call the disappearance of the rule of law you mentioned sacking of Civil Servants closing video in his ations arresting journalists. This is crucial to National Security there was an attempted coup it is facing threats of terrorism at home what right does the e. U. Actually have to interfere with Congress Home affairs. I can tell you that i follow the situation closely i have even many friends across the political spectrum of turkey who are now were days imprisoned for being terrorists and i can tell you all those cases names and that i would swear they are not what turkish prosecutors call them but so besides my personal experience i would like to say that my reading of the situation is that the necessary investigation of the coup based on rule of law so far does not really take take place but instead this investigation and the fight against terrorism is used as a pretext to put thousands and thousands of people into prison they are in pretrial detention some of them many of them more than a year i mean why they have no chance to a fair trial so the public in europe they know this about some journalists they are famous journalists and we all follow the cases of famous journalists what is good but behind this is a moment of cases nobody is following the greater green member of Parliament Rebecca harms with us thank you so much for joining us on our program today germanys two biggest Political Parties have agreed on a deal to form a Coalition Government they made that announcement in berlin after another grueling game of give and take more than four months after the countrys elections chancellor merkel from the conservatives and martin shows from the social democrats and outs that it meets merkel would keep the chancers post but the social democrats would have control of some of the most important ministries including Foreign Affairs and finance the deal does still have to be approved by that partys rank and file. More that story now with our Political Correspondent hans front with us here in our studio and also max hoffman a standing by in a bra its good to have you both with us lets start with you as we said germans finally have a blueprint for a new government if the s. P. D. Rank and file approve it that is the next hurdle what did you make of this Coalition Agreement what is the vision here what stands out while the vote by the social democratic rank and file still has or dictate those as you say but i think in the end theyre likely to approve of the deal simply because the alternatives are too costly to call to contemplate as it were for new elections in which the social democrats would likely lose even more support if you look at vision in this in this Coalition Agreement vision is in short supply in politics at the moment but i think the strongest point is european policy they make a point of emphasizing that this agreement starts with a chapter on europe and that they want to continue integration and europe that they want to support european policy initiatives that this government is in fact going to very strongly engage on the european scene especially with martin shows with as many years in european politics that to be the foreign minister thats right the special democratic leader is giving up that leadership of his party in order to become foreign minister and obviously he was president of the European Parliament for some years he was very involved in european politics and he has said that his role as foreign minister primarily will be a european role next that brings us to you know there in brussels a lot of sighs of relief i imagine over there from germanys european partners. There are some sighs of relief and by the way the International Press for example this belgian the sua wrote just that they said germany restarts and europe breathed a sigh of relief we talked to a lot of people about that including European Parliamentarians and like hans just said theyre all pretty excited about the chapter about europe and we shouldnt forget that mot insurance wasnt only the head of the European Parliament but hes also a close friend of another very important player in european politics and thats the president of the European Commission and his influence can be felt in that Coalition Treaty we caught up with younger yesterday evening and this is what he had to say about this it helped inclusions that i wasnt able to study the finer points of the Coalition Deal but ive been told that europe is mentioned three hundred twelve times what other country has made such a commitment to european topics right from the beginning. I welcome this and i especially like the chapter on europe. So no huge surprise there are very happy European Commission president in there but still there still some conflict also on the european side even if its mentioned three hundred twelve times and that is because this Coalition Treaty this Coalition Deal is closer to a gentle include your crew in visions its a little bit farther from what the french president emmanuel and i call in this sense for the future of europe max well have to say that a social democrat here in germany is expected to now take over the finance ministry of very you know powerful position what are the implications them for the rest of europe in particular for the euro zone. And thats something that especially of course the parties on the left were very happy about we talked to some European Parliamentarians about it including for example from Greece Greece that thinks they suffered a lot from one of the former finance ministers of both going sharply he traumatized that country in a way although his insistence on austerity was weakened in his last years but hes still a symbol for that and so the hope in greece and with other social democrats all across the continent is that this spells the end of the german insistence on austerity and thats something apparently that martin showed was very adamant about he said that also during his time as president of the European Parliament will have to see of these hopes are dashed or not because all of shows the new finance minister in germany might be a little closer to show blood than some people on the left some politicians on the left would like him to be right could be some changes in the way for europe will have to see our correspondent max hoffman for us in brussels and our Political Correspondent with us here in studio thank you both know as martin chill standing down as chairman of germanys social democrats hell hand over to a Parliamentary Party leader on tran alice if the s. P. D. Confirms her as its leader shell become the first woman to head germanys Oldest Political Party lets take a look at her career shes aiming to be the first female party leader of the s. P. D. The first in one hundred fifty three years she has a reputation for being outspoken some say it was her speech at the social Democrats Party conference that secured the votes needed for starting Coalition Talks we can gain americas conservative. People we will not evolve our s. P. D. Party beliefs if we decide to govern in a coalition. And side meat and im not so they again. Andrea analysis started out more than twenty years ago within the s. P. D. Youth organisation a young socialists she became their leader in one thousand nine hundred five back then she was a student of Political Science and told george a velour in one of her first interviews that she didnt plan a political career. Sharpened it for you its me finish the i dont want to strain politics for the rest of my life so after being chairwoman i want to look for a real job and for that i needed a good degree of truth. Nonis finished her studies four years later and has stayed within the ranks of the s. P. D. Ever since as m. P. Party official and later as labor minister one of her in chief minces germanys new minimum wage law she also fought successfully for better pensions despite this shes not very popular with the german public. Martin shields short tenure at the head of the s. P. D. Is over now its time to see if until they are not as can lead the party back to its former strength if she can unite the party behind her this might give her the necessary boost to become the next s. P. D. Chancellor candidate. Youre watching t w news still to come the olympic torch is edging ever closer to young chang making its way to the winter games in spectacular fashion week well have our own take a round up a little bit later in the show. But first take your heart with some a good news on the World Economy indeed to have good news on the World Economy and here it is well the company is doing just fine and heres some proof if you need it to fresh sets of figures out today number one comes from Germanys NationalStatistics Office german exports hit an all time high in twenty seventeen home country of diamonds are the dozen becks beer shipped close to one point three billion euros worth of goods to the rest of the world an increase of more than six percent compared to the previous years figures which already. Was a record at the same time imports increased as well but last year to just over a trillion year us its trillion with a t. That had a welcome side effect that narrowed germanys notorious trade to two hundred forty five billion euros slightly. Lower than twenty six teams all time high germany has been drawing fire is live from the u. S. And other trading partners over its high traits. And heres a second piece of the good news china another economic heavyweight on the world stage is reporting similar figures for january chinas trade picked up after stumbling that previous months whats new is a surgeon imports put it with chinas economy onto a new footing imports surged almost forty percent year on year exports jumped to by eleven percent chinas trade surplus narrowed to thats being closely watched by the us as well as the two countries tussle over trade the Trump Administration for his duties on chinese washing machines and solar modules recently in beijing retaliated by starting an anti dumping investigation of u. S. Sorghum exports. Bank sees a steady slide in its share price last weeks release of Fourth Quarter results showing the worst revenue in seven years prompted a spate of analysts downgrades from lowered price targets to sell to sell recommendations yesterday dodger bank stock held the dubious honor of being the worst performer among european banks year to date. Now thats very bad news for georgia banker lets cross over to cope by in frankfurt the stock exchange. Banks john cryan was hired as the new broom to clear out the place but he still is struggling to set a new course for germanys heavy heaviest financial battleship. Yes still lots of homework certainly for the c. E. O. Of a bank and he is very under pressure when i saw him last week at the annual press conference of the german lender you could really feel that he is under pressure he is promising now in two thousand and eighteen too big to bring back doors of bank into the winning zone and he is probably very certain that if this is not going to be the case most likely he will be losing his job as lets look at the share price just during the last week minus eleven percent in one here minus eighteen per cent and over the last three years minus forty five percent so those numbers are not oppressive at all thats why many Financial Institution at this moment are actually advising shareholders to sell their shares because they are thinking that even those numbers could get worse. Rival command bunkers come out with first numbers today are investors happy about what. Will the share price of Commerce Bank is up right now but in general the chip index is a little bit struggling today they were after this morning with four percent now just with a quarter percent at the moment. Is in the winning zone at the moment they have a profit of about one hundred fifty years six Million Euros for last year still investors are expecting a little bit more but for the moment they are happy because it seems that in two thousand and eighteen they will receive at least a dividend on the cold air in frankfurt thank you very much. Well after you fire the red tesla come vertical into space on board his brand new use falcon heavy rocket on tuesday elon musk is facing a rob a bumpy reentry into the atmosphere of the real world of business because tesla revenue is no and they have taken off instead the economic opposed to the biggest ever quarterly loss of six hundred fifty seven Million Dollars made warnings of increased spending in these Car Companies said to see has yet to see a real revenue from its mass market models three after production delays of the delivery only about fifteen hundred vehicles made into buyers last quarter thats far below expectations. U. S. Government investigators say theyve struck a major blow against an International CyberCrime Syndicate the Us Justice Department says thirty six members of an International Crime ring have been charged with offenses linked to credit card and personal identity for thirteen members of the Organization Called in fraud have been arrested in the us australia britain france kosovo and serbia investigators say the crime ring was a key hub for credit card fraud is believed to have caused more than five hundred Million Dollars in damages for one of the few things sure and life is taxes thats true for sports tossed one of those stars or how it is meant to united forward Alexis Sanchez he has pleaded guilty to two counts of tax fraud and hes been handed a sixteen month suspended jail sentence sencha he about to see here training with chili was accused of defrauding the Spanish State of some nine hundred eighty three thousand euros dating back to when he was playing for barcelona the chilean must pay those taxes plus fines of five hundred ninety thousand euros sentences of less than two years for first time offenders are often suspended. To the olympics now and thirteen russian athletes have sailed in their bid in front of a court of arbitration for sport to take part in the games look out that decision and more of what is underway in john chang. The olympic torch is journey is almost over with the Opening Ceremony just around the corner the olympic flame took a spectacular ride elizabeth while on its way to pyong chang. This stop is one of the more daring stages of its two thousand eight hundred kilometer journey around south korea not a feat for the faint hearted. At least the next leg was far easier for those watching to stomach. At the Olympic Village there were some unexpected visit is russian athletes whove been banned from the games by the i. O. C. Who are presenting their case to the courts of arbitration for sport in the hope of having the decision overturned at the last minute the hearing concluded we presented the arguments and the fifteen athletes were here last week voted to cast ballots and thirty two hundred have kids were not invited by you see a final decision for all the athletes expected on friday with only hours left to spare before the games open but the i. O. C. Are the only ones with a close eye on the courts decision the world and you tube and huge n cs president craig reedie made his go with respect to russias doping scandal very clear. What you might want to be much better since what. But each entirely. He to crochets that she agreed and not just to try to obtain the compliance and improvement of the russian not you dont think agency on a lighter note one spore was already underway ahead of the games pin collecting the pins specially made for each games offer a great opportunity to meet and trade the most sought after those. By the National Teams this year the most coveted pin will be one for the north korean delegation if there is one game. Now as World Class Athletes vie for sports top prizes at the olympics in south korea there is another fierce competition going on across the nation the official olympics coach has become such a status symbol that stores cant keep them on the shelves. Its become a fashion must have just in time for the games the official Winter Olympics jacket has caused a frenzy especially among students and soles trendy gung naam district. I dont think its really comfy no matter what you wear underneath. It keeps your whole body warm from head to toe. The koreans generally wait patiently but many here are at their wits and. The thirty thousand limited edition codes sold out within hours making national headlines. They were desperate to get one people camped out in Department Stores for some though its gone too far. Or not im here i go a coat like this was special now nearly everyone has one its almost embarrassing. Business student gear has no less than three of the prized pieces in her tiny wardrobe. She thinks she can explain the sudden hysteria among her compatriots. Koreans are very aware of current fashion trends. Europeans a much more individual but here if someone sets a trend everyone follow remember youre on. The trendsetters in this case are young pop stars. Cute singers who send many girls hard of water. Thats one on one called the very popular boy band in south korea are they all wearing the coats. Will definitely one of them. Its possible that the Olympic Games kicking off will boost the hype even further athletes are wearing the jackets too and since athletes are stars many koreans will likely fashion themselves and their image to. Ok we just have time for a minder of our top stories at this hour north korea has put on a showcase of its military might just one day before south korea opens a Winter Olympics the parade marks the seventieth anniversary of its armed forces meanwhile americas Vice President has arrived in the south promising to impose tougher sanctions on the down game. And germanys biggest Political Parties have reached an agreement for a governing coalition on hold our phone or social democratic counterpart martin chills have said the deal provides germany with a stable government but falls leaders have been heavily criticized for concessions made to finalize the negotiations. And dont forget you can always get t. V. 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