WATCHING TODAY:

1. South Korean nukes? Threats from China and North Korea have led 71 percent of South Koreans to say they support Seoul developing a nuclear weapon, per a new Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll released Tuesday.

2. Electric flying cars are just dirty old helicopters, rebranded: David Fickling writes the promises sound too good to be true — and they are. These new vehicles will do little more than ferry the elite, burning carbon and causing noise pollution as they do.

3. Francis Ford Coppola’s $100 million bet: GQ reports fifty years after he gave us The Godfather, the iconic director is chasing his grandest project yet—and putting up over $100 million of his own money to prove his best work is still ahead of him.

4. Are the Olympics becoming irrelevant? What's worse than frustration or anger at a major sporting event? Indifference and resignation. But these are exactly what DW's Jens Krepela feels when he looks at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

5. US women’s soccer players, US Soccer Federation reach $24 million equal pay settlement: WSJ reports the deal, reached by the federation and the players who sued it for discrimination, is contingent on a new team collective-bargaining agreement.