Ice is the joint north and south Korean Ice Hockey Team take to the rink in a friendly against sweden expose their first match before the Winter Olympics next week so it was a friendly all first the start well find out. If. Im going to home for good to have you with us a massive protest is underway in a stands to oppose a potential deal with macedonia that would see a longstanding dispute over its name settled now greece has opposed its neighbors use of the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia or nine hundred ninety one athens says it suggests a territorial claim on its own Northern Province of macedonia and the two sides had pledged to find a solution this year. Well for more on this we can bring in our correspondent in athens and carol salva and say what is it that the demonstrators are looking to achieve what are they calling for. Well for starters the turnout has been absolutely phenomenal authorities are also trying to pay down and they put out an initial statement saying that a hundred forty thousand just showed up organizers are putting that number up to one point five million. Difference between the two but weve clearly seen hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people out there in the demand this is just why the greeks do not want to relinquish the name macedonia greek name to it is their northern name. In light of these disputes that eased negotiate between athens the government in athens and so here they believe the name is three they do not want to hand it over and they believe that this tiny balkan state which is just north of greece has territorial aspirations and wants to claim united which is simply not there what about within greece itself how big is the opposition to the use of the country in a macedonia. The opposition is huge and this this protest in fact is a symbolic of how emotional it happened what an emotive issue this is with the years after this if this name dispute kind of erupted and yet it stokes a lot of passions here to be bringing out so many people and the latest poll over the weekend show that seven in ten greeks oppose any use of the name macedonia in a solution thats being figured out between these two countries and that puts the government here. In a bind because it has in fact to really to proceed with negotiations that would include the name danny in some sort of a composite name briefly and say i mean all police expecting any turmoil. Oh well the exotically been a peaceful protest but its not over yet and authorities are bracing for some violence to happen some street on the on the fringes. Theyre staying put in there hoping to keep militant extremists from both sides hot headed nationalists and hard headed. Extremists from that from coming together in clashing and the cast of a reporting from athens for us thank you. And now some of the other stories making news around the world. To cyprus where exit polls put conservative incumbent Nicos Anastasiades yacht is ahead in the countrys president ial Runoff Election though his challenger left wing a stab ross majlis has conceded defeat now he blamed honest as for a breakdown in last years peace talks between the greek majority south of the island in the turkish occupied north side purse has been divided since dec invaded in one thousand nine hundred seventy four. A train collision in the us has left at least two people dead and some seventy more injured the amtrak passenger train reportedly struck a Freight Train and derailed near columbus South Carolina all forward you say all passengers have been evacuated and theyre now trying to determine the cause of the crash. African migrants have been brought to safety after a ship wreck claimed the lives of at least sixteen others near the spanish enclave of minea on moroccan coast now spanish American Security forces are looking for other possible survive this. Well germanys biggest Political Parties are meeting in berlin for what theyve called a decisive round of talks over forming a new government the two sides has set a deadline for today to have agreed on two extra days for overtime negotiations an agreement would move germany a step closer to a continuation of the grand coalition between chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives in the social democrats but there are still sticking points including financial and Health Policy policy. Well blue School Correspondent kate brady is at the social democrat headquarters in berlin where the three parties are negotiating kate could we see a Coalition Agreement coming today. Well the chances of a seeing a deal on the table by tonight are looking less and less likely as the evening goes on and the latest that weve heard here from Party Sources is that the three parties will indeed be continuing these negotiations into monday and that wont be just a matter of hammering out the final details but actually continue in. Negotiations that clearly are still obstacles to be overcome here Martin Schultz the leader of the social democrats said himself today that theyre going into these talks that despite the progress that was made last week there are so many issues particularly when it comes to social policy for example with working contracts and also with reform in Germanys Health insurance system so i doubt that we are going to in fact see a deal tonight kate what happens if they dont solve those issues what happens if these talks for a grand coalition fail but of course thats a situation that chancellor Angela Merkel definitely doesnt want to see herself in and the only other options really would be either a minority government which would be quite a grueling process for the chancellor and thats something that shes ruled out on several occasions which would then leave the only other option of new fresh snap elections and of course thats also something that most of the parties dont want to and least of all the social democrats who have seen their figures plummet even further down the polls since september election so theres still a long way to go and following it all for us is our Political Correspondent kate brady in berlin kate thank you. And staying here in germany the Domestic Intelligence agency says north korea has regularly acquired equipment and technology for its Nuclear Weapons programs for its embassy in libya and United Nations report accuses European Countries including germany of not doing enough to stop yang pyongyang building up its Nuclear Weapons know how now were bringing they support now from the journalist who uncovered the story klaus sheva from the german public will cost a audie these north korean agents wanted Ukrainian Rocket designs instead they walked into a trap set by ukraines Intelligence Service that was in two thousand and eleven but german officials confirm that spies in north Koreas Embassy in berlin still try to obtain high tech the media i think its just when we learn about Something Like that we stop at all but we cannot guarantee that we always detect and prevent every operation north koreas missile capability has made rapid strides in recent years despite u. N. Efforts to enforce sanctions on technology when south korea recovered a north Korean Missile from the sea they made startling discoveries most items. From you know former soviet union. China u. S. South korea so all countries which have rejected export control regulation was defeated tend un investigators say germany has not done enough to help enforce sanctions the. Government for information about more what technology in the schools or seeking for but we never got any reply from German Government german opposition politicians say thats an outrage if its true the us thought that cant be true and i hope it didnt happen but accusations like that must be thoroughly investigated. Germanys Intelligence Service says it takes tech sanctions extremely seriously Officials Say theyve investigated cases of suspected abuse as recently as a few months ago. Well saying with korea and the first ever limpid womens hockey team consisting of players from both north and south korea has ramped up their preparations will be pure china winter games aside took to the rink together for the first time this weekend in a friendly match against sweden the twenty two players squad featured for north koreans. Its the most talked about team at this years Winter Olympics the combined north and south korean womens Ice Hockey Team donned their skates for the first time in front of three thousand fans in incheon former olympic silver medalist sweden lined up against them for the historic fixture. Korea showed a lot of fights. And the crowd went wild when they started home i. Be but it was its not swayed uncomfortably prevailing history one victors. While the combined team is seen by many as a step towards shoring relations between north and south korea not everyone has welcomed the news. Rallies were held outside the rink protesters tearing up posters of the north korean flag. And the countrys leader kim yong on. One way to convince the skeptics could be a limpy glory korea kicks out that young shan campaign against switzerland on february tenth. Two the brand is me going our and our spec have continued their own president to run a four with a three mail win against frankfurt on sunday goals from jack. Gore itch and mark. Kept all three points. Who now move up to seventh and are one step closer to the european places. Well bloodbath hosted leipsic on saturday with both teams in the race for a top four sport and with it Champions League qualification leipsic had picked up just one win from their last seven one does make it games but an unbeaten record against god back but it well for a change and for change. The bulls headed into the game thinking that their rights had to come to an end and from the get go they charged a glove past offense bruma testing the phones reserve keeper to be a simple early on. Both sides game plan was to slowly break down the opposition but neither team showed much creativity as the injured rafael looked on from the stands. Up with a better side is the second half began and they created their best chance of the day but putting cameron and lost into couldnt convert. Checking fired his team on from the sideline but it was leipzig you grabbed the game by its horns creating chances and putting the hosts on the pressure. Sickle was the only man on the pitch that could keep the bulls at bay. Hospital wasnt best pleased and brought on new firepower in the form of a loan signing look man the debutante needed just eleven minutes to find the back of the net one milf alive siege in the eighty ninth minutes. Leipsic extend their arm piece and streak to four games against club and look man well whats a start to life in germany. And i mean it continues to crush everyone in their path will never let a specific to the six straight win does make a title starting might sway the latest side rather to be on the receiving end of some fabulous byan strikes first when hash function betty expertly found the net from the edge or the area. It was the france internationals second leading goal of the season then colombias other egos made it to know another easy away with the barbarians. Where youre watching news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour you can always get the latest news on our web site d. W. Dot com well leave you with some stunning footage now from the lantern shows at the Chinese Spring festival do enjoy. And. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t. V. 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