A friendly against sweden and this was their first match before the Winter Olympics next week so was it a friendly or cross street style well find out. Im Helena Humphrey good to have you with us on dribs of thousands of people have protested in athens against a potential deal with macedonia was the longstanding dispute over its name settled greece has opposed its neighbors you saw the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety one athens says it suggests a territorial claim on its own Northern Province of macedonia the two sides have pledged to find a solution this year. Well for more on this we can bring in our correspondent in athens and the kara salva and say what is it that the demonstrators are looking to achieve what are they calling for. Well for starters that turnout has been absolutely phenomenal authorities are also trying to pay it down they put out an initial statement saying that about one 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 is just why greeks do not want to relinquish the name macedonia greek name to it is their northern name. In light of this name dispute that eased negotiate between happens to governments in athens and so here they believe the name is wreaked 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 symbolic oh how emotional and what an emotive issue this is with thirty 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. It in a bind because it has grown trying to reach to proceed with negotiations that would include the name only in some sort of a composite name and the carousel reporting from athens for us thank you to cyprus where conservative incumbent Nicos Anastasiades looks set to win the countrys president ial election now hes being challenged by left wing severus majlis exit polls put anasazi out as far ahead of his rival the left wing backed us has now conceded defeat the economy and a read of occasion talks where the main focus of the election blamed an associate us for a breakdown in last years peace talks between the greek majority south of the island and the turkish occupied nor at the island has been divided since a turkish invasion in one nine hundred seventy four. Now some of the other stories making news around the world a polish Opposition Group has demonstrated outside of the president s residence in warsaw urging him not to sign into law a controversial bill on holocaust no knowledge now the bill would impose jail terms for suggesting that poland was complicit in nazi crimes israel the u. S. And International Organizations have strongly condemns the proposed bill. A train collision in the u. S. Has left at least two people dead and some seventy more injured the amtrak passenger train reportedly struck a Freight Train and derailed in a Columbia South carolina Authorities Say all passengers have been evacuated in the now trying to determine the cause of the crash. In moscow one person has been killed and several injured off the heavy snowfall downed trees and power lines the city got more than hoff its average monthly snow in just twenty four hour was thousands of government workers have been mobilized to clear the streets and people have been told to avoid driving. Now germanys biggest Political Parties are meeting in berlin for what theyve called a decisive round of talks over forming a new government now the two sides had set a deadline for today although they have agreed on two extra days for overtime negotiations an agreement would move germany a step closer to the continuation of the grand coalition between chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives and the social democrats but theyre all still sticking points including financial and Health Policy. 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 set a deadline for today they 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. When our Political Correspondent kate brady is at the social democrat headquarters in berlin where the three parties on it goes here to 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 continuing indepth negotiations that clearly are still obstacles to be overcome here Martin Schulz the leader of the social democrats said himself today that 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 ok 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. Well here in germany the Domestic Intelligence agency says north korea has regularly acquired technology and equipment for its Nuclear Weapons programs through its embassy in berlin and the United Nations report accuses European Countries including germany of not doing enough to stop pyongyang building up its Nuclear Weapons and know how now we bring you this report from the journalist has one covered the story klaus sheva from the german public will cost a a audi 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 to get stressed 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. Over to you from you know former soviet union. China u. S. South korea so all countries which have rejected export control regulations were defeated the former investigator also says germany did not respond to inquiries about a possible sanctions breach the. Government for information about more what technology seeking for but we never got any reply from German Government german opposition politicians say thats troubling if its true the stuff that cant be true and i hope it didnt happen but accusations like that must be thoroughly investigated. Germanys Intelligence Service says it takes text sanctions extremely seriously Officials Say theyve investigated cases of suspected abuse as recently as a few months ago. Saying with korean hospitals news in the first of a pick womens hockey team consisting of players from both north and south korea has ramped up their preparations for the chang when to get the side to the ring together for the first time this weekend in a friendly match against sweden the twenty two player squad featured four north koreans. Its the most talked about team at this years Winter Olympics the combined north and south korean womens Ice Hockey Team don this kates 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. Be they box it was its not sweden comfortably prevailing is three one victors. While the combined team is seen by many as a step towards storing relations between north and south korea not everyone has welcomed the news. Rallies were held outside the range protesters tearing up posters of the north korean flag. And the countrys leader kim yong on. From. One way to convince the skeptics could be a link to glory korea kicks out there kyung chan campaign against switzerland on february tenth. To the windows leader now and our spec have continued their on precedented run of four with a three nil win against frankfurt on sunday goal strong. Record and marker kept all three points an hour specing now move up to seventh and are one step closer to the european places where bloodbath hosted leipsic on saturday with both teams in the race for a top four spot spot and with it Champions League qualification leipsic have picked up just one win from their last seven Wonders League games but an unbeaten record against bloodbath bode well for a change in forty. 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 pass defense bruma testing the foals 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 but with a better side is the second half began and they created their best chance of the day the pats they cam on and last 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. Simple was the only man on the pitch that could keep the bulls at bay. But hospital wasnt best pleased and brought on new firepower in the form of on loan signing look man the debutante needed just eleven minutes to find the back of the net one mill for live sage in the eighty nine minutes of my life seek extend their own peace and streak to four games against club and look a man well it was a start to life in germany. And by munich continued to crush everyone and their powerful no relentless pursuit of a six straight win disney the title starring struggling minds where the latest side to be on the receiving end of some fabulous buy in strikes because when the Home Committee expertly found the net from the edge it was the funds into his second mean go all this season then come on this and as the other two guys had to nail another easy away win for the fairies. I. Youre watching the w. News from berlin im humphrey more coming up at the top of the hour. My colleague sarah harman thanks for your company and see you again soon. Climate change so. 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