MacHall as her former coalition partners agree to enter talks with her party to Chai and form a government the mood at the moment in the grassroots of the s.p.d. Is very much against the ground coalitions so they really are going to have to come up with a very good deal to convince the rank and file members of the s.p.d. That this is worth doing we get the latest from ballin Meanwhile Liberia has to welcome a new president with hopes to move away from decades of food and mismanagement We ll gauge the mood in the capital Monrovia and all that shines anklet is on a gathering on a ski slope in Switzerland the annual World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos the u.s. President amongst his attendees as aloft the latest well. This is the b.b.c. News Hello I m Jonathan Izod Turkey s representative to NATO Ahmed Bennett trying cash has called on Alliance members to back his government over its new ground offensive against the Kurdish y p g militia in Syria he said Washington s backing for the y
Generations to push ahead with their national aspirations for an independent Kurdistan some which they believe been brutally quashed in the past but this vote is deeply controversial it is being met with condemnation from the international community and also from Baghdad now the concern is that this could in fact really precipitate the breakup of Iraq and create not just regional tensions but more ethnic tensions in this part of the world that has seen so much about over recent years neighboring Iran and Turkey both of which have Kurdish minorities have protested Turkey says it will view the referendum zone come as no and void the far right which is just emerged as the 3rd biggest party in the German parliament says it will uses strong mandate to restore the borders dog as an effective debating chamber for the key issues facing Germany at least vital is one of the F.T. s leading candidates to especially the 15th politic up to this day the refugee policy of the German Federal Governmen
Her nearest rival but it was still a serious decline in her support much of it lost to the far right Alternative for Germany punky in all a 1000000 votes has deserted Mrs miracles party for the far right a.f.d. Many because they believe that during the refugee crisis she lost control over Germany s borders the White House has said the North Korean foreign ministers contention that the United States has declared war on Pyongyang is absurd speaking in New York earlier North Korea s foreign minister. Said Pyongyang has the right to shoot down u.s. Bombers even if they were outside North Korean aspace the White House spokeswoman Sara Huckaby Saunders told reporters that would violate international law it s never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country s aircraft when it s over international waters our goal is still the same we continue to seek the peaceful the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that s our focus doing now through both the most maximum economic and diplo
And Order sessions is pointing to the new f.b.i. Data and says the nation quote must confront and turn back the rising tide of violent crime while the violent crime rate did rise last year it still remains at historically low levels the $26000.00 rate is 18 percent below the 2007 level and roughly half of what it was at its peak in the early 1990 s. Ryan Lucas n.p.r. News Washington. Ok the committee is in recess the Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch calling for order at a Capitol Hill hearing today were protesters in wheelchairs interrupted the proceedings screaming no cuts to Medicaid save our liberty protest interrupting the hearing on the gram Cassady health care proposal some of the disabled protesters were forcibly removed from the hearing room by Capitol Police Senate Republicans are pursuing what s lie widely viewed as a last ditch effort to pass legislation to repeal and replace President Obama s signature health care law Target has become the latest major retailer t
Coming up after the news on the b.b.c. World Service it s hard talk with me Stephen Sackur in this age of the Internet we ve come to expect instant access to knowledge but real deep understanding takes longer to acquire and to share my guest today is one of the world s most acclaimed novelists Nobel Prize winner or Han he s lived almost all of his life in Istanbul writing stories about Turkey which have over decades painted a vivid picture of a country and society pulled between east and west past and future what is the key to understanding or one pound looks Turkey we have a lot of preparation a lot of suppression people says censor but people self censor into views in political comments you go fast to jail if you criticize the government too much if you attack or go on too much you may end up in a jail that s all one problem on hold talk after the news. Hello I m Gerri Smith with the b.b.c. News the people of Iraq a Kurdistan are voting in a referendum on independence organized by t