To become the citizen. In so migrants your platform for reliable information. This is it every news live from berlin the end of an era as shows on women and girls last day as the chair of her party shes stepping down after eighteen years as the party leader but will the candidates vying to take over germanys governing Christian Democrats allow her to serve out her term as chancellor also coming up shock arrest a top Global Executive of chinese Telecoms Giant baby is it detained in canada
she now faces extradition to the u. S. For allegedly violating sanctions on iran the arrest of Brad Lingual Markets and after any video of a Soccer Crazy Op Conboy went viral his dream came true when he met his idol you know messi or two years later hes the face of afghans whove lost everything to the taleban. Thank you so much for your company everyone. An era is drawing to a close here in germany today a chance on america will step down as chair of her conservative c. D. U. Party should continue as chancellor for the time being but on friday delegates at a Party Conference in hamburg will elect merkels replacement as party. Share and
whoever wins will have a huge impact on the future of this country because that person taking over the reins could very well become the next chancellor lets take a step back now and take a look at merkels eighteen years at the helm of the Christian Democrats. Angela merkels announcement in october came as a surprise europes longest serving elected leader is aiming for something no modern day chancellor has managed before her controlled exit from politics. Acted so i wont run again as party leader at the next cd you Party Conference in hamburg. This is fourth term is my last as the chancellor of germany. Merkel became the first woman at the top of the c. D. U. In the year two thousand surprising nearly everyone the newcomer from the east led her partys break with its political idol helmut kohl over Party Funding scandal
even though it was her mentor the determination and power instinct the party saw there was also what it would get over the next eighteen years. Those who refused to accept that the c. D. U. Was no longer Gentlemens Club soon learned the hard way one by one her competitors had to go. After becoming chancellor Two Thousand And Five machall took a c. D. U. Party on a political journey many criticized as a shift to the left setting conservative benchmark policies like Military Conscription and performing a u. Turn on Nuclear Energy over the Fukushima Disaster in japan. By then her vall as party leader and her role as chancellor had long become inseparable merkels political brand as the one who guarantees stability was born. In the midst of the greek debt crisis she defended risking billions of german taxpayers money by claiming there was no alternative. There is no alternative to supporting greece to
secure the Financial Stability of the euro. Zone merkels no ill turn it to also you saw her keeping germanys borders open during what became known as the Migration Crisis in twenty fifteen the political challenge that still defines her leadership and yet if we were to net debt that we can do this considering our european responsibility our humanitarian Response Ability and our Response Ability for germany then we wouldnt be the Christian Democratic Union of germany but we are and thats why we can do this. Merkel herself was long seen as a Conservative Party Leader without an alternative to replace the fact that there are now several credible candidates is also fueling speculation over how much longer she can remain chancellor. Argue that these were killer kafin who filed that
report that you just saw is covering the city you congress for us and i asked her if this was a watershed moment for the party. Oh absolutely and we see Anger Matthew Self launching a process allowing for the party to separate something that shell always insisted shouldnt be separated which is the leadership of the party and the top job the top political job in the country is german chancellor so its definitely a historic moment at the same time it seems to also be something of a breath of fresh air for the c. D. U. Party she certainly said as much when she came here a short while ago making a statement after inspecting the hall behind me lets have a look at that. This will be a special Party Congress because this time a new leader of the c. D. U. Will be elected. Thats something we havent had in many years with country the party has been preparing intensively at all levels. And the one thousand two
hundred delegates will face an important task tomorrow. They will also be pointing the way for our future leaders in the future and thats why i am looking forward to tomorrow im excited just as everyone else is this is pure democracy this is a real choice to be made and the delegates will decide the rest. Thank you for mikhail of the race to replace america is on is there a clear favorite. Yes you know there are two potential favorites this is interesting also that she pointed out that this is a real contest because it was the first time that there is a real contest for the Party Leadership which during her days was more of a coronation style election here at these Party Conferences now and it did come. The woman and america herself launched into the position as Secretary General of the conservative c. D. U. Party she is a clear front runner at the same time a guy called free to teach math who left politics all together after a class with the german chancellor over a leadership role that was a decade ago hes seeing quite a big comeback right now and if you speak to delegates and particularly people grassroots members of the party they say if they vote with their heart they would go for it but if they vote with their heads they would potentially go for i think its come i would gather that the posse traditionally it does would go with its head we also see spawn the Current Health minister in the race but nobody really expects him to go very far on this all right thank you so much to their views chief Political Editor at the city you Party Congress in hamburg. Were to shift our attention now to a big story today a beijing is demanding that canada release. One of chinas top Global Executives
mangas the daughter of the founder of chinese Telecoms Giant and was detained last week and bank over she now faces extradition to the u. S. For alleged violations of american sanctions against iran. Shes the chief Financial Officer of one of the biggest Telecommunications Equipment companies in the world now its emerged that men wang jew has been in custody in canada for days u. S. Authorities are seeking her extradition on charges of Helping Huawei violate the u. S. Trade embargo on iran allegations that have prompted an angry response from beijing. Hugo. China has expressed its serious position on this case to both canada and the United States. We are demanding the reason for her arrest to be clarified immediately. Demanding megs release and for her rights she is drizzles dont to be safeguarded. Mengs detention comes as huawei faces increasing scrutiny from abroad. In the past u. S. Lawmakers have described the company as a threat to National Security saying its technology could be used for spying. Other countries like australia and new zealand share those concerns and to stand Trial Ways Equipment from being used in their high speed five g. Mobile networks. The latest allegations from the United States have emerged as an especially sensitive time in the chinese u. S. Relationship last weekend the countrys leaders agreed to a ninety day truce in their month long trade dispute. The u. S. Decision to target one of chinas most important tech giant is only likely to reignite tensions. Are at lets get some more background now with aaron telephone from d. W. Business this couldnt have come at a worse time for us the chinese the trade relations talk just more about these
allegations well basically the u. S. Government is accusing wall why of knowingly violating u. S. Sanctions specifically in delivering telecommunications tech a technology that was developed the United States to iran and most likely north korea as well now these are allegations that have cropped up several times the past against large on Technology Providers from china for example z t e was recently confronted with similar accusations actually the punitive measures that the u. S. Introduced again this year almost cost them their business in a way would require the intervention of donald trump to allow them to keep doing business on the International Stage so at least when it comes to these direct accusations is nothing new when it comes to accusing Chinese Companies but thats one side of the medallion on the other side we seem to be again bringing up this this kind of nebulous accusation that a lot of these Chinese Companies are engaging in espionage for the Chinese Government well lets talk about that because its not just camera in the u. S. Involved in this case now we also have other western governments saying well this
company is using its technology in a way that poses a National Security or risk talk to us about that well i mean we dont. Really have any definite evidence that they are actually engaging in as been it just seems to be one of those things that many governments are worried about i mean there was the recent case as we heard the report of new Zealand Australia saying the telecoms couldnt actually use technology from huawei because theyre worried about the data the data that would be transmitted on those networks being sent back to beijing now weve heard similar concerns in the us as well for years now you have to remember one of the founders of huawei was a very Senior Engineer in Chinas People Liberation Army so theres always been that connection between him and the and his company and the Intelligence Services and you know as a lot of this technology in the night from china is that the United States in the western world relies on it continually built in china theres a lot of concerns out there that they maybe use units to basically get Intellectual Property from the west and used that to build the Chinese Companies that are very
very close to State Entities as youre saying that the only thing im thinking about is that in the n. S. A. Do something similar just a couple years ago a spy on everybody using our american product in terms of your phones and all of that well i mean its not a bad comparison the n. S. A. Did in gage in massive spying we know that theyve built back doors into major Internet Backbones and use that to gather an incredible amount of data the difference is that the difference here in the worry is i think is that there is no evidence that the n. S. A. Ever engage in industrial espionage that means they didnt try to take the Company Secrets technology and give it to American Companies or they could be used in that way as purely an intelligence gathering operation you know the china has long had a very dubious dubious relationship to Intellectual Property from western companies theyve often made companies wanting to do business in china and sign deals where they basically have to give up their Intellectual Property if they wanted to work there and a lot of the fears now are that china is attempting to gain the next leg up in
technology using some of the technology embedded in this type of Internet Technology to have all that has been an ongoing concern there and tell them thank you so much for breaking it down for us definitely one of the big stories today. Now you may remember the images of a little afghan boy from a couple of years ago or more times a mahdi made the headlines after being pictured wearing in the real messy Football Shirt made out of a plastic bag now though Internet Fame has given way to the harsh realities of life in afghanistan his family have been forced to flee their home because of the taliban. It was a story which captured the hearts of millions. When pictures of Murtaza Ahmadi wearing a makeshift little missy shirt fashioned out of a carrier bag were uploaded to facebook it was quickly a viral sensation his dreams of meeting his idol then became reality when he was invited to lead barcelona for a Friendly Match in qatar
a magical moment for the football mad five year old but two years on those happy times were distant memory after taliban soldiers attack their afghan Village Moataz or his family were forced to flee their homes whats more than our seven year Old International fame has brought unwelcome attention back home. Jennifer brought some men were chasing us saying ever since our son became famous our family has become rich because messi gave us money. We didnt care but when the taliban got closer to our place then our lives were in danger when we turned a profit of this one now living in kabul with his mother but also dreams of being reunited with his hero a world away from war torn afghanistan. I like messi a lot i want to live close to him i want him to take me out of this place. One of more than Three Hundred Thousand afghans that fled their homes due to
violence since the beginning of Twenty Eighteen Alone Murtaza Story Isnt Unique but the boy dubbed mini missy by the media provides a recognizable face for their plight. Coming up we saw a lot more to tell you about including the price at the pump has been going down Opec Ministers Meeting today hope to change that. Humphry well have that and a whole lot more Coming Up Dont Go Anywhere shes up next. On the route and they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeeding taking the people off the streets because were tired of this dictatorship. Taking the