Brings a first ever visit to south korea by a member of the norths ruling dynasty kim jong il and sister what is behind her diplomatic trip across the border. And skiers are falling hard for these slopes the all time mountains in northwest china are off the beaten track but tourists are flocking here now to the land where some say skiing may have been. Time sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the leader of the germanys the social democrats martin chill says he will no longer seek the post of foreign minister in a future of grand Coalition Government or any other post in the new cabinet now on wednesday shows his party struck a deal with chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives shuls gave up at the Party Leadership and announced his intention to become foreign minister but that ambition drew a strong criticism from his partys members who must ratify the Coalition Deal in a vote chills said he had made this decision to ensure the success of the vote. And he said earlier i decla
Will get the latest from the spanish capital. Also coming up german chancellor Angela Merkel announces a starting date for Coalition Talks thats after her c. D. U. And its been there in just a party reach a compromise on refugee policy and issue that has divided her conservative blog plus imprisoned and tortured for being gay we will bring you the first installment of an exclusive series this week looking at what it means to be homosexuals in russia. Im sara kelley welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us spain is bracing for the possibility of catalonia declaring independence within the next twenty four hours but spanish Prime Minister marianna roy has vowed that his government will not allow the region to break away spain he says while up. Divided this comes as opponents of independent staged their biggest protest to date organizers say that nearly a million demonstrators packed into the center of Barcelona Local Police put the number at three hundred and fifty thousand the prote
Will have the very latest from the spanish capital. Also coming up german chancellor Angela Merkel announces a starting date for Coalition Talks thats after her c. D. U. And its been there in sister party reach a compromise on migration policy and issue that has divided her conservative block. And German National peter she not faces up to fifteen years in jail in turkey along with other human rights activists he is facing charges of supporting a terrorist group berlin calls the claim unacceptable. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us spain is bracing for the possibility of catalonia declaring independence within the next twenty four hours but spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has vowed that his government will not allow the region to breakaway spain he says will not be divided now this comes as opponents of independence stage their biggest protests to date organizers say that nearly a million demonstrators packed into the center of barcelona local police. With
Our correspondents are standing by in madrid and barcelona. Also coming up has the german chancellor changed her position on migration as part of Coalition Talks her conservative c. V. You has reached a compromise deal on limiting the number of migrants plus imprisoned and tortured for being gay we will bring you the first installment of an exclusive series this week looking at what it means to be homosexual in russia. Im sara kelly welcome to the program we begin with breaking news this afternoon coming out of stockholm where the winner of the nobel prize for economics has been announced Richard Taylor of the United States has been awarded the nobel prize for economics the prize of the Swedish Academy of sciences. Now hes from the university of chicago and was given the distinction for his work in the field of behavioral economics the prize is not part of the original series of awards set up by alfred nobel and originally only in one nine hundred sixty eight tylers distinction occurre
Election just the tip. Of the program thawing of relations between turkey and germany. Seeking strong cooperation between the two countries over the weekend turkish Prime Minister said he was hopeful of. Building. A deal potentially worth billions for office however the deal has already been done in exchange for last weeks release of german turkish journalist. Been held in turkey for a year without charge germanys foreign minister denies the claims but for the democrats. Says hes suspicious. Also it is the name of the foreign minister would never admitted it in my view its perfectly clear theres a connection there if you look at the whole story i assume is a direct link to little boxes among exist yet. Lets go from g. W. Political correspondent to Thomas Sparrow welcome the thomas the German Government is denying any link between dennis usuals release and a multi billion euro deal to build where has the speculation come from this is not a new fail this is not something that just starte