South Africa Jacob Zuma his party meets today in another bid to oust him from the presidency it could be the end of his political career the new leader post a sixteen and pushing him out. Knitting for the war effort most turks support the countrys offensive against kurds in syria those who dont are being targeted by the government. And in football vertebrae in rebounding will have the highlights from that point of the match. Almost comical to have you with us in her first interview since clinching a deal for a new government has a question for him or said she would step down early to make way for a new generation of leaders the german chancellor has faced growing dissent from within her own party as just to put together a new Coalition Government well talk about that in a moment but first this report. Angela merkel hits back critics she has vowed to stay on. The for years what a help promised and i am one of those people who keeps their promises matterless come under criticism from within her party for handing key ministerial positions to the social democrats and for disregarding the young c. D. U. Talent. The buses have there is frustration among the rank and file ive been hearing that every day for the past three days nonstop. Global we need a big team of younger people but also older ones a mix of new minds and experienced ones and if we can to manage to present ourselves as a team at this Party Conference then it will be a successful Party Conference it should be clear who the ministers will be by the cd use upcoming Party Conference on feb twenty sixth the chancellor has promised that they will include young up and coming politicians more of the story now with espana across a political scientist from university here in berlin and we also have our Political CorrespondentThomas Aspera with us welcome to you both thomas lets begin with you it is a pretty unusual move for america to do an interview like the one that she did sunday evening why do you think she decided to take on her critics so directly and did it work. Well merkel is a politician that doesnt give interviews all too often in fact she only tends to do that when political pressure is particularly high and this is certainly the case now after the deal was clinched last week there is a lot of pressure from her own party in particular after the deal made clear that the c. D. U. The conservatives would have to give key ministries to the social democrats in particular the finance minister and you may remember sumi that the finance ministry was for a long time in the hands of volved country a key conservative politician so that was one of the key reasons why im going to call decided to give that interview another question obviously if its if it worked if that interview managed to appease some of those criticisms thats something that we still have to to see in the next few hours in the next few days as more details come out about what the new posts will be so certainly it was an important step by anger to michael but the actual effect of that is still to be seen as something which would have been the first of all im glad that we have a Coalition Agreement that is very justifiable in terms of its content and we did indeed talk about the ministries for many many hours and the s. P. D. Had expectations as for the finance minister its painful but from my point of view its acceptable. After all the alternative have been on the turn to divs would have been that we would simply have had to tell the people we have agreed on a Coalition Agreement in terms of its substance but unfortunately we cannot agree upon the allocation of ministries and to me that was irresponsible. Its funny i want to come to you now because listening to that clip from the interview we also heard the chance or use the word in the course of this interview painful many times and she said there she had no alternative is that true i think so yes because merkel doesnt want to have a minority government so the coalition with the s. P. D. Is really the only option aside from the new election which i dont think any party really wants to have so. She already has also said i mean we have this Coalition Agreement where the policies are included in bear in the great detail so she sings and i also think so that the ministry of the finance finance ministry should not have that much weight additional weight for the s. P. D. Right a lot of questions also being asked at this point about americas authority her Political Capital and she was asked during this interview if she has lost authority within our party lets listen to what she had to say there. I didnt implement this no i do not feel this but i do feel that its natural for a party to begin having fun when someone like me is chancellor for twelve years its clear that im not going to be chancellor for the next twelve years on the other hand i talked about this very extensively with my party prior to the federal election whether it was right and desirable for me to stand again for four years that was approved at the time we have a situation where the c. D. U. And the c. S. U. Put up the chancellor jointly i am the candidate and i have given the electorate my commitment for another four years but of ok so tom i have to concrete elements here on the one hand obviously on that im a cause own power she promised there in that interview that she wanted to be the chancellor for the next four years but on the other hand it is obviously the case of the debate or who would follow on who the new leaders of the c. D. U. Would be has become an open political debate and thats something that im good im a obviously also stressed in that interview ok so much for the questions about im going miracles a future senator coming back to you we cant forget that both parties still have to approve this current Coalition Agreement and the social Democrats Party members will be voting on that its not a foregone conclusion what do you expect definitely it will be critical but i think india and we will see yes vote off the s. P. D. Members especially since most of the members of the s. P. D. Are rather old and rather conservative in comparison to the Youth Organisation they use source of the s. P. D. So i think it should be fine in the end but it will definitely be. A close call and direct spending across from the whole World University with us here in the studio and thomas sparer Political Correspondent thank you both for your analysis. Now moving on to some other news making headlines around the world egypts army says it has killed twelve islamist militants and detained some ninety others after gun battles in the northern sinai region the operation was part of a Government Campaign against insurgents blamed for a string of attacks in the Area Security forces said their latest airstrikes have destroyed dozens of militant targets. Liberias expresident Ellen Johnson sirleaf has won the most ybor him prize for African Leadership the five Million Dollar award is in recognition of her efforts to rebuild the country following two civil wars the continents first elected female leader left office last month after serving two terms. In the u. S. The state of new york has launched a lawsuit against hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his company and alleges that he and his Brother Robert broke the law by failing to protect employees from pervasive Sexual Harassment intimidation and discrimination Harvey Weinstein is facing accusations of Sexual Misconduct from dozens of women and London City Airport has now been closed as a safety precaution after the discovery of a World War Two bomb in the nearby river thames parts of east london have also been cordoned off as the navy and police still with the unexploded device officials have asked people to stay away from the area. Russian investigators are searching for clues as to what brought down an airliner on sunday outside of moscow killing all seventy one people on board the Saratov Airlines regional jet disappeared from radar screens about four minutes after takeoff russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered a special commission to lead the probe into the crash. There battling the biting cold to find answers to one of brushes worst ever plane crashes but with the culprit in six no its like looking for a needle in a haystack. Nearly one thousand people as well as drones and snowmobiles have been deployed to comb through the icy fields. We plan to continue the main stage of search and rescue operations fifty seven days. The wreckage is scattered across a very large area the snow is heavy and the terrain is difficult. Because believe it or the if youre from. The plane came down just outside moscow minutes after taking off for the southeastern city of. All sixty five passengers and six crew members were killed three children were among the dead. What exactly caused the crash about weather technical failure or human error c. C. T. V. Footage caught the fatal last moments. Something like a firework and then it fell and there was a big explosion. But Authorities Say they received no distress signals as the search operation continues investigators believe one of the black boxes found on the site could provide some answers. Now in south africa leaders of the Ruling African National congress are meeting to decide the future of the countrys embattled president jacob zuma the pressure on zuma has been growing ever since the Deputy President cyril ram opposed to replace him as a. N. C. Leader last december the seventy five year old president has been dogged by scandals ever since coming to power in two thousand and nine he is currently fighting the reinstatement of seven hundred eighty three charges of corruption now if zuma refuses to step down he could face a motion of no confidence in parliament or impeachment proceedings or we have a database christine meanwhile with us here in studio for more on the story about the future of Jacob Zuma Christine thank you very much for joining us now a decision is expected to be taken today take us through the possible scenarios of what could happen here ok so today were going to know if jacob zuma is going to jump or if hes going to be pushed out of office essentially. Has been negotiating with jacob zuma we understand that a lot of that negotiation has been about hes time after office for instance hes legal fees we understand that one of seumas demands has been that the stage continue to pay his legal fees after office there are other things about security detail et cetera that he has requested to keep the security detail off his time in office what you will know today is whether or not these two men have reached an agreement will have somehow come to to making a deal and that of course is what sort of would be presenting to any see today all sort of a poster is telling Party Members and theyve been locked in the meeting now for the two hours is telling members that i have been talking to jacob zuma and unfortunately we cannot get any further we now as a party have to take the next tip that state could either be the party required of him which i assume would be the first of the parties ses you jacob zuma would deploy ploy by the party to be president of the country we are now recording you but jacob zuma is the president of the country. So the a. N. C. As a party cannot recall a sitting president who was sworn in constitutionally so he doesnt have to heat the court to the recall so should say that would force the a. N. C. To take the matter of to parliament where they can either go by a motion of no confidence or they can take the impeachment route ok so theyve been working out all of these details is that whats taking so long for the a. N. C. To make a decision well whats taken so long i mean and this you know these negotiations pretty much started in december when it was clear that zuma was no longer the a. N. C. President it weve seen in the past that when a president a sitting president is no longer the president he hands of we saw that with those who must be just the same was expected internal Party Politics are at play here they are a lot of people within the party who are still supporters of jacob zuma and so the idea of just pushing him out of office does not sit well with them there are a number of reasons for that one of the key things is that there are a lot of ministers cabinet ministers who have been implicated with corruption allegations who are said to be close to zuma we talk about this president being you know associated with corruption hes of ministration a lot of those ministers sit on this cd and of course its in their best interest that president jacob zuma gets the best deal possible if he is facing the prospect of prison after his presidency so are they essentially so this is not a clear case of the party and ses of us a party is were recording the president but everybody has to agree some internal Party Politics are at play here tell us more about the Deputy President are people excited about the prospect of him leaving the country definitely i think after off to prison jacob zuma presidency people were ready for change with whichever form it took but it has a lot of benefits right now hes got a very good brand he is associated with the with the class of mandela so to say i mean sort of pulls a came from that breed of politician we can see him there in picture he is holding the. For finance and then ill tell you that he was actually meant to succeed and also made him he was meant to be president after mandela last minute politics change things but subtle been left politics and went into business and came back south africas one of south africas richest men stepping out of politics meant hes got a very clean record so to say hes not been implicated in political scandal because hes just not been paying him that seems so he has a politician who who people look at him and and they remember images like we just saw you know him holding the microphone for for mandela and so they see that in him and they see the fact that hes hes got this business acumen that he knows how to talk the language of the investors this is this is a lawyer that hes a good negotiator and that he will do that on the parts of africa and so people were excited when it was clear that this is the person that would be taking over from from prison jacob zuma so to say the markets welcome that sure yes it is facing a tall task of not only cleaning up his own party but also the economy as you said is he up to that challenge well i mean one of the most pressing things and i think South Africans i think for the first time you hear people not just talking about you know their own sort of bring us jobs or what have but corruption has become a big thing for South Africans i mean president jacob zuma in a time in office has been you know surrounded with corruption allegations graft looting right now theres a probe in the country going on that state kept an inquiry that people close to the president even members of his family the new thing the state office essentially so people right now once was the first thing to do is clean up the cabinet get rid of all the people that are associated with corruption and then of course go on to grow their economy we see the numbers split South Africans are getting even poorer and so job creation is a burden he needs to grow that economy and of course bring in investment the relationship between business and government in south africa had deteriorated under jacob zuma and people are saying cyril needs to also get that going again but we are awaiting a decision from the a. N. C. Today on jacko simmons future and christian man why thank you very much for joining us there. Youre watching d. W. News still to come you expect the Winter Olympics to be cold and maybe a bit windy but in qiang chang competitors are suffering high winds in the mountains where bitter cold have become treacherous for the latest on the two thousand and eighteen winter games. But first after such a turbulent week european equities are rallying but for how much longer very good questions serve me the Worlds LargestHedge Fund Says despite four trillion dollars in global losses that equities could be set for an even hostile shakeout bridgewater warns this wont be over in a matter of days it says theres been a lot of complacency building up in markets over a long time after a strong start one comes hang seng index finished the day down zero point two percent in japan markets were closed due to a Public Holiday but last week the countrys benchmark nikkei had its worst performance in two years in germany the dax shed ten percent of the last two weeks but observers here expect a recovery of sorts speaking at a conference in dubai on sunday i. M. F. Managing director Christine Lagarde told investors not to worry about the market fluctuations those market movements were clearly in our view necessary market corrections the markets have function well there is plenty of financing that is Still Available to finance the economy analysts will be keeping a close eye on u. S. Consumer price data on wednesday given that it was fears of faster inflation that triggere