Decades also on the program. Chinese president xi jinping increases his influence over his country and his party as delegates the communist Party Congress back his vision for chinas future. Blaster russians are forbidden love the new film matilda tells the story of son nicholas the seconds affair with a ballerina and its already sparking a violent reaction. I feel gail welcome to the program. Germanys newly elected parliament has convened for the First Time Since last months elections and with more parliamentary factions on the right wing f d party in the assembly for the first time it will not be business as usual one of the just talks first tasks was to elect a new parliamentary president. It now falls to parliaments longest serving member to keep things under control with the elected president of the understudy the politician from chancellor merkels party called for calm proceedings amid debate and to play by the rules the obvious way we speak to one another can set an example for discourse throughout society. We are not here to beat each other up the new parliament has more members than ever and forty percent of them are newcomers the business friendly f. T. P. Is back and the far right a. F. D. Is in for the first time under old rules a member of the a. F. P. Would have opened the first session as the oldest m. P. But this time that role went to a veteran f. T. P. Lawmaker the rules on the matter were recently changed which the a. F. D. C. As an affront. This rule student changed in one hundred fifty years of parliamentary history theres only one exception in one thousand nine hundred eighty three it was broken by him and gurgling because as a nazi he wanted to ostracize his political enemies. The first exchanges already proved fiery. If you are seriously comparing yourselves to victims of Hermann Goering then youve already done your own crudity. Both the s. P. D. And the left party are rallying for more open confrontation with the chancellor. The Parliament Must resume its role as the main stage of Political Exchange and not t. V. Talk shows or one on one interviews from reporters madam chancellor. I think that means that the parties especially the opposition parties can suggest topics here that the chancellor might find very unpleasant. But the partys forming chancellor merkels new governing coalition shot down those suggestions that the right to question must remain an instrument of parliamentary control and not a weapon for the opposition. You want to make a show of us with a History Lesson today and we wont allow it. Parliament is still voting on its six Vice President s although each party has a right to the post the far right a. F. D. Candidate has already been rejected after stating islam is a political ideology and not a religion the first scandal of the new bundestag. Lets get more from the deadly politics correspondent kate brady who is at the bundestag welcome back kate lets start with this is a vote for Vice President which is already causing such an upset at the bundestag has voted against the f. D. A. Is that candidate that three times tell us more about why hes so controversial. Well this is all of the back of a comment that ill brush plaza made back in april when he says that islam that muslims should not have the fundamental right to the freedom of religion which of course is in the german constitution and all of the other m. P. s belonging to the other Parliamentary Groups in the parliament set out right before todays parliamentary system that they were to not be voting for our pledge to glass a to become one of the six Vice President s of course thats also important to remember that there are in fact six Vice President s in this Parliament One from each Parliamentary Group and the other five were already voted through today in the first round obviously now after three rounds today. There was still unsuccessful and now the f. D. A. Will be back to the drawing board for them before the next parliamentary sitting which will be in about four weeks from now so well have to see whether theyll put him forward as a nomination again or whether theyll bring a new candidate to the table so between they were compelled to say that over fifty Vice President s and we saw and the report that the problems over being the first person to speak what wine says so much concern in parliament about the f. T. Which is a julie elected and constituted political party. Of course one of the bain issues at the moment is that there is this concern that were going to see a shift to the right im in discussion and debates in the German Parliament but at the same time many m. P. s are also concerned about what the f. D. A. M. P. s going to say and how theyre going to use their time that they could use that time that theyre allowed to speak in parliament to spread any ideas of hate or any of the comments that weve heard before of course im just four weeks ago on this day when when we heard the election result. Alexander galland one of the coleaders of the party said himself that the f. D. A. Would hound the m. P. s and hound the government and so well have to see how that turns out in the coming weeks and of course some of the concerned that there will be more time spent dealing with the f. D. A. And then actually getting down to business in parliament train issue brief word about parliament new president both ganga showing blood what does he bring to this post which is essentially a speaker. Well one of the main things of course his experience hes one of but he has decades of experience in german politics and hes currently the longest serving german m. P. And if we think back to the euro crisis i mean he was the now former german finance minister and he did make many enemies back then and took a very strong stance but at the same time hes also managed to always retain respect and so thats something and i think youll continue to push through with now that he is the bundestag president. The born to start thank you. Chinas Ruling Communist Party has confirmed president disease and pain i say its most powerful leader for decades by adding his name and ideology to the constitution at the end of the partys five year the Congress Delegates voted unanimously to include thought as a guiding principle this case presently the same level of prominence as party found a dog and could mark the start of a new era for the country. Pulling ahead of the pack the chinese team leads the fleet at the worlds most challenging ocean sailing event the volvo ocean race thats also where chinese leader xi jinping wants to see his country as a Global Leader its among the goals outlined in president xi cian pings a broad vision now enshrined in the countrys constitution to get there she has pledged to navigate china into a new era of global power and influence. And now please submit your vote from those who agree raise your hand more than twenty three hundred delegates voted unanimously to add shes name and ideology to the partys charter cementing his grip on power since the peoples republic of china was founded in one thousand nine hundred forty nine only one leader founder mao zedong himself has been honored in such a way while still alive Deng Xiaoping the architect of chinas economic opening is the only other leader to be included in the Party Charter but that was only after his death in one thousand nine hundred seven she sees himself as the countrys third transformational leader and by attaining the same rank is mellon doing any active opposing she becomes tantamount to an attack on the party itself. After consolidating his own power she is now seeking to reinforce the authority of the communist party hes pledged to pull all aspects of the countrys politics economy and society under the Ruling Communist Partys control. We must lay a Solid Foundation for Party Building at the Grassroots Level as the saying goes without a Solid Foundation the earth will tremble and the mountains will sway. Outside of the party she enjoys wine support from ordinary Chinese People in particular for his vast Anti Corruption campaign and for pushing a nationalist agenda braund but she is also known for his unprecedented crackdown on dissent targeting human rights activists the courts and restricting the free flow of information. Of people in this room and i can book from the mackay to institute for china studies so welcome to d w heres the thing president she was already he was chairman of the communist Party President of china so he was already the most powerful man in the country so what difference will it change to the constitution make to his position i think its first and foremost meant to be a powerful symbolic statement that the party is behind paying as a strong leader of the country and that further solidifies his position here so i think first and foremost what the party is trying to do here is send the signal that were all behind him playing right now hes a major party which we heard in their report that a major part of his presidency has been stumping out corruption now you know for a very in regimes this is often code for getting rid of the political opposition how successfully has he been either or both of these right i do believe that it has a dual function and i do think that the c. C. P. Is very serious that actually stamping out corruption that its identified this as one of the main mistakes that the soviet union made which actually brought it down on the other hand its very its a very useful tool to get rid of any opponents and to make sure that right now anybody who still is in the party is on board with paying i think weve seen we have seen some progress in terms of stamping out corruption but i dont know if its sustainable we can definitely tell that it has been very successful at getting rid of any opposing voices and as you can see from the very. Enthusiastic response to see dimpling at the Party Congress itself theres nobody right now would stand up and say no. Hes not the man ok now hes declared the start of a new era but hes already been president for four years so what do you mean by that thats actually that actually puts the communists of the communist party of china what theyre doing here is what communist leaders have been doing since lenin stalin and mao is they what they do is they prefer to define a principle contradiction which is the main problem that the communist party has to solve in a certain era and that changes and what you depend did here is he redefined the principle contradiction and thats why hes referring to a new era of what is the principle contradiction of previously it was basically set up so that the primary target was Economic Growth between backward backward Productive Forces and the needs of the people and now hes redefined it to make the primary responsibility of the party more equal development but its no longer about just merely generating g. D. P. But about making sure that all chinese can actually profit from chinas Economic Growth and this is whats behind this new era this new era of putting a focus on more egalitarian more equal development instead of just g. D. P. Growth as you say put the commonest in companies but also. Very very briefly then one wonders why its taken them so long to do that. I mean you can you could see the signs that this was going to have theyve been shifting their priorities for a number of years like in the past ten years youve seen some moves towards more equal development in the wind it isnt but its very its very rarely that they actually do refit redefine the principle contradiction and previous leaders might not have the clout to do that he said he has it now but i can only book from the Cato Institute john studies thank you. Lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world austrias newly elected conservative later sebastian of course has announced that he will try to form a Coalition Government with the countrys right wing Freedom Party but this isnt that was widely expected was a cook said the Freedom Party had shown what he. I will to bring about change in austria to go. Frances president emanuel macro has declined to publicly criticize the human rights record of his egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Sisi mr present macro set as a joint press conference with president sisi that he does not want to a give lessons without taking context into account human Rights Groups made an appeal to the french president to address alleged Human Rights Violations by egypts security forces. Now after much anticipation and protest a controversial film about the last the russian tsar is due for release this week the movie tells the true story of son nicholas the second and his affair with a polish ballerina called matilda but it is anger at hardline nationalists and Russian Orthodox christians who view this art as a saint as a love story it makes its debut in a series of violent incidents targeting the filmmakers as russia on edge. The roman of family secret a story of forbidden passion nicholas the second fell in love with a ballerina a film premiere thats made Many Russians nervous. Good news is the premiere of matilda was held peacefully here at the very famous. Petersburg and these despite the fact that this film a lot of controversy in the russian. Tension was high on Opening Night one hundred Police Officers guarded a select audience security measures more typical of an airport where a place many feared an attack director alexy would tell had received multiple threats but he remained defiant. Yeah im not afraid i hope good sense triumphs and the uproar subsides. The uproar mainly has to do with a few sex scenes the depict a week. Whos about to lose his throne. The matilda a simple dancer. That was too much for russias powerful Orthodox Church which canonized nicholas the second after his murder a nine hundred seventeen betraying him this way is an offense to the religious sensibilities of the faithful thats according to russias parliament the duma. Natalya parklands skier a duma lawmaker started the campaign against matilda. What do you have against this film that is insult saints who embody a Healthy Family a proper family relationship our family values. News in the order not to cause offense one must be able to strike a balance between artistic freedom and the rights of our citizens to their religious feelings. Some of these offended citizens seem to take inspiration from his campaign they torched movie theaters like here in the city of you Catherine Berg a car belonging to the directors lawyer was set on fire in moscow. Initially the church didnt comment on the violence. German actor. Who plays nicholas the second avoided the premiere after a hate campaign by religious extremists. He sent this video message instead. Of. Brutal. So youll allow. The films success remains to be seen but its already gained plenty of notoriety from politicians and the Church Critics of the mighty Russian Orthodox church say the church is trying to act as a moral sense and is further infringing on social life in russia a life in a beach bland theater productions some. Times disappear from the program and entire exhibitions are closed as they say its almost impossible to states cultural events without cries from people claiming to be insulted and enraged. This is day w is live from berlin still to come the olympic torch for the eighteenth the winter games has been lets take a look at the traditional ceremony in limpia in greece the birthplace of the of a fix. First though it was all in hows your Business Update and its good news if you work in germany definitely if you work for an s. M. B. A small medium sized enterprise thats a definite if your job ends up getting digitized maybe not ill get to that in a moment but first of all germanys economy and its economic backbone its always relied on highly specialized small and Medium Sized Enterprises as i mentioned the famed german metals stand now a study is confirm the role they play in the countrys Economic Health is more vital than ever a new study from the German Development bank has shown that sales from german s. A m. E. Companies like this manufacturer of specialized pumps rose steeply yet again in twenty sixteen theyre up by nearly four percent to four and a half trillion euros thats the strongest growth for five years unlike in the past however much of that growth is being powered by domestic demand rather than exports and in a kind of feedback loop domestic demand is in turn being driven by excellent employment figures as the middle aged and Companies Hire more staff to cope with rising orders at the end of august germanys federal Employment Agency announced that only