Optimistic going into the negotiations merkels conservatives are holding the preliminary talks with the center left Social Democrats after previous talks with other parties failed sticking points this time around are expected to be germanys refugee all seized and his approach to european integration. Lets have a listen to what mark on the social democrat leader Martin Schultz had to say as talks got underway. Because the c. D. U. Is going into these talks with the aim of creating the conditions to form a stable government. Thats because we believe that the tasks ahead for which we have the voters mandate are enormous in terms of Foreign Policy challenges european challenges and also in domestic affairs. We all sensed that the challenges for a new federal government however at me luker be structured lie in that the new year and which we all live must also include a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here
constructively and with an open outcome. Of covering the talks for us as our Political Correspondent rupert who joins us now for more so rupert has americal does have a lot of work ahead of her as the as these preliminary talks get going why is it so hard for the parties to find common ground. Well there basically three parties sitting at the negotiating table. There is first of all the conservative flock of angloamerican ourself and within this block the smaller parts of the sea is used the more conservative and this is you party is trying to tries to. To be more tough on Refugee Policy is against more integration into europe and then on the other side theres the there are the Social Democrats and the Social Democrats have been very reluctant to go into this Grand Coalition again as this growing coalition in
all know the only window of these new Election Elections would be the far right of d. Party so this is very complicated in the end Angler Machall is doomed to success here but the other parties are rather reluctant. Reporting for us there many thanks indeed. You know what now three years ago a series of Terror Attacks shook paris it started on january seventh when gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical magazine charlie killing twelve people the magazine had already received threats from islamic extremists for their irreverent cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed the Editorial Team were in their Morning Meeting when two masked men armed with Assault Rifles burst into their office and opened fire among the dead the editor of charlie amdo Stefan Siobhan Yeah and his bodyguard and one of charlie a cartoonist. And six other members of the magazine staff. The
attackers Brothers Saeed And Cherie Of Quad she fled the scene and after a massive manhunt they were killed in a shootout with police well in paris the ceremonies taking place as we speak to commemorate the victims of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and for more lets cross over now to our correspondent lisa lewis whos in paris so he says its now been three years from the charlie ebb to attacks whats changed since then. Well this has changed france in the very thorough way i mean first of all this attack was an attack on the one of the very cool principle of democracy many trends here feld i mean there are redactions that the newsroom of china do is now being guarded twenty four sevenths they are working from an armored office and have to use armored cars are being
a guarded by bodyguards all the time and they have to spend more than one Million Euros per year for their protection and they are saying that theyre still receiving Death Threats over there and obviously that was a moment that changed their life forever but also for the rest of the country for other friends who are feeling that these people are actually saying well you cant say what you want to you cant express yourself freely and many people here feel that this attack was actually a watershed moment it brought war it was only in the very first of many attacks that france. Wasnt it. Yes absolutely there were other attacks that followed especially the ones in november twenty fifth teen where One Hundred Thirty people were killed in attacks across paris specially at that music hall the better and that took the whole thing to even higher lever really because the attack was at that point were not attacking the special people but there were attacking the
whole of French Society actually they were tacking the french when they were having fun when they began out and people felt that everybody could become a target and even today people are still afraid that there might be new attacks its very much a topic in the center of attention and more than nine out of ten of the french say that they think that a new Terror Attack in france is likely or very likely all right lisa lewis reporting for us from paris many thanks. Now to some of the other stories making news Around The World and saudi arabia has detained seven eleven of its princes for protesting against and to state payments of their utility bills Officials Say the men have been sent to a maximum security prison and are awaiting Trial Hundreds of as well as have stood in long lines outside supermarkets after the government ordered shops to slash
their prices authorities in caracas and force price cuts in response to spiraling hyperinflation the countrys in the grip of an economic crisis with food and medicine shortages affecting millions thirty two sailors are missing after an Iranian Oil Tanker and freight ship collided off the east coast of china the tanker caught fire after the crash rescuers are now looking for survivors crew members from the cargo ship have been rescued. Donald trump has been stepping up his attacks on claims in a scathing new book about his presidency trump said the book called fire and fury it was a work of fiction and that its also had never set foot inside the oval office speaking from the president ial Country Retreat Camp David after meetings with republican congressional leaders. The book that questions Donald Trumps fitness for office seems to be doubling in its impact. To the us president himself
triumphal out of his series of Early Morning tweets defending his mental capacities as just smart but genius and a very stable genius at dot. At this hastily called Press Conference At Camp David the republicans hope to talk Property Priorities instead came questions on those tweets and a bit everyone in washington is talking about i consider it a work of fiction and i think its a disgrace that somebody is able to have something do Something Like that the libel laws are very weak in this country if they were strong it would be very helpful you wouldnt have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head but just so you know i never interviewed with him in the white house at all he was never in the oval office we didnt have an interview the book is speaking on n. B. C. The books also Michael Wolff said he touched on reaching access inside the u. S. Center of power and white house reporters have supported his account interview
questions of a trans mental stability and nothing new theyve been mounting over the course of his first year in office now its emerged a professor of psychiatry at Yale University briefed some members of congress on the president S Mental Health late last year she told the w y. L what were saying that. In the office of the presidency theres a danger to national and International Security were trying to educate the public about the finding. In debility our doubts about. The need for the evaluation. As more copies of foreign fury sell trump is said to be frustrated that the issue of his Mental Fitness is gaining traction. Some sports news now and ski jumping is prestigious for hills tournaments has come
to a close in austria with one name on everybodys Lips Camile Star was on touchable over the first three stages and with the overall victory almost in the bag he had a record at his sides he was hoping to become just the second man after germanys then one of old to win all four events to do it lets find out. Head and shoulders above the competition reigning champion and olympic Gold Medalist kamlesh doc was king of the four hills again after winning the first three stages the pole was equally impressive in bischof so often he set the longest distance in the first round and held his nerve on his final jump to ensure victory again. That gave him the grand slam and kept one of the most dominant for hills performances in a year as. It was a really good competition for me the Chance Wasnt Perfect Today but i did my best and can i say thank you for one team Team Colleagues team coaches because they were
theyve been working so hard and im. After germanys best type is a Coward Fighter crashed out of the tournament in the third stage is countryman and that is bellinger stepped up with a Strong Performance to claim second place for the tournament. He was followed in third by norways and does fine and the. Former astronaut john young hailed as a pioneer by u. S. Space agency nasa has died at the age of eighty seven youngs trailblazing began in One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty s. And he was part of the first manned Gemini Mission by the time he commanded the first Space Shuttle flight in One Thousand Nine Hundred one it was his sixth travel into orbit in the meantime hed also joined an exclusive club. Oh my god look at. April nineteenth seventy two john
young and his fellow astronaut charles duke Collecting Rock Samples from the surface of the moon. It was an achievement that they shared with only ten others adding them to the exclusive fraternity of moon walkers forty nine years later young would break new ground again. Or we. Start we. Commanding the Maiden Voyage of nasas new Space ShuttleProgram Young took on a particularly risky assignment it was the first time that nasa launched people on a rocket ship that had not first been tested in space. When we launched reed really did know a lot of things and we learned a lot of things i think chris craft said it best they said when we got back he said we just got in fully smarter over his forty two year career at nasa young became the only astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini Apollo and Space Shuttle