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carpet for u.s. president all drop but tense talk still lie ahead the two powers are at odds over trade and cracking down on north korea. and at reclaiming venice a large cruise ships will be banned from the italian cities a historic center by twenty twenty one but not all the nations are happy for some if the visitors go so will their livelihoods. thanks very much for your company germany could become the first you country to allow people to register as a third gender a move that is a boost to intersex or rights the country's top court ruled that official documents must either recognize a third gender or remove gender entries altogether now that. session is designed to

find discrimination against intersex people born neither male nor female under current rules babies have to be registered as either male or female or parents have the option to leave the gender field blank the government has until the end of twenty eighteen to drop new regulation all right let's get you more details on this a development political correspondent simon young is standing by simon what is the legal definition here in germany of an intersex person. right into sex is a term that's applied to people whose bodies are neither evidently or exclusively either male or female and this can often be seen in a person's chromosomes for instance the person who brought this legal case has only an x. chromosome and not either a white chromosome or a second x. chromosome that would identify them as either a male or female but intersexuality can also be

a matter of an atomic features or hormones and estimates suggest that up to about eighty thousand people here in germany could be affected by this ruling all right so this is a this is a significant amount of people what will change as a result of this court ruling. right the court has said that the government must change the law or by the end of two thousand and eighteen to introduce a third option to allow a birth registers to record not only male or female gender but also a third gender of intersex or some other positive term as the court put it. and it's possible i think that the government depends how the government implements this but it could benefit other groups as well for instance trans people who also often want to have their officially recorded gender changed and one other thing i

think the government why after look at changing the law on passports and id documents as well because at the moment those can only record either male or female gender assignment of why is it important for people who identify as non-binary center neither male nor female to be legally recognized as such yes certainly many intersex people say that they don't feel properly represented in a world which only really recognises male and female and indeed sometimes it can be a matter of actual discrimination such as when public officials or for instance the school system doesn't properly recognise them so it is an important matter for many people and i think this is a matter of human rights and that's why the court said today it's it's a matter that gender is something that defines people's personality and how they

see themselves and how they're seen by others in a very essential way and that's why it's important to get this right now right simon young thank you. donald trump has arrived in china for what according to his aides is the most crucial part of this five country trip across asia chinese president xi jinping and his wife gave the u.s. president and first lady a lavish welcome starting with a private tour of the button city compound in the center of beijing trump will also be the very first foreign leader to ever dine in the forbidden city since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine while the two were presidents have a lot to talk about the u.s. hopes china well ramp up economic pressure on north korea in an attempt to stop john yang's nuclear ambitions. more than a night at the opera president trump's asia trip brings him to china where his key themes trade and north korea converge china is one of america's largest trading partners and north korea's major sponsor. competing for global commerce but also

partners in it part of trump's trip includes a signing ceremony for commercial deals between the two countries worth about nine billion dollars. trade is tricky business trade imbalance is a big issue for trump he even said it got him elected one year ago and it's really big with china. the u.s. a leader in services enjoys service trade surpluses with china and many other countries however trade in goods easily wipes out these gains in two thousand and sixteen that left the u.s. in a three hundred ten billion dollar hole with china which trump is keen to climb out of. two of the world's most powerful leaders haven't always seen eye to eye but there may be room for common ground trump as

a business person you know i mean. you know his president president you know status but china is a business a state. so a businessman and a business state they would understand oh let's do business together. while they have very different leadership and speaking styles trump and she appear to be forging a relationship based on mutual business interests that everybody. there is so much riding on this visit and that is here with me in the studio in asia specialist with the bertelsmann foundation a think tank here in germany good to have you with us topping the agenda of course is north korea and its nuclear program let's listen to what president alltime said before he headed to beijing and then we'll start our conversation the regime has interpreted america's past restraint as

weak in this. this would be a fatal miscalculation this is a very different administration than the united states has had in the past today i hope i speak not only for our countries. but for all civilized nations when i say to the north do not underestimate us and do not try. to save our sister very dire warning there that we heard a president a tramp issue what exactly does he want she to do. from one state to take the problem off his hands that from approach to north korea seems to be to let china solve it and then take credit for it and say i told china to do it and

they solved that problem as it's not going to work that way because does china have that type of leverage over pyongyang. it does not of course it has some of all big nations it has the most leverage most trade with north korea goes through china they have the closest contacts but the system in north korea is not only very suspicious of the us it's also very suspicious of china so they have no real reason to give in and it's not like china could be pushing around north korea and they would listen to them all right so if beijing basically can just walk into kim your morning office and say this is what you've got to do what can be aging off for the u.s. president they can make sure that the sanctions will be implemented more straightforwardly than in the past that's been a problem they have been the sanctions for a long time against north korea and they were not really followed up by the chinese

customs did they are most strict about that no but then there's a lot of discussion whether sanctions are really a way to change north korea this big doubts about it so i think the north korea problem is very far from being solved all right well or next to the other hot button issue trade us china trade is beijing prepared to make any concessions in that area where it does have leverage. it will not because it has no reason to do so the u.s. has no real instruments to force china to change its approach china has been very successful with this approach in the past and although there has been a lot of rhetoric in the u.s. the trump campaign was very much about china is stealing our jobs. nothing really has happened and as long as the u.s. doesn't have any real policies that would be really threatening to china's core

interests china has no intention to change its course and no reason really and how is china viewing this visit i mean they rolled out the red carpet he's going to be the. first foreign leaders since one nine hundred forty nine to dine in the historic forbidden city they clearly you think they're calling it the state visit plus is this just a charm offensive or is this all that they can really offer him in terms of concessions when it comes to bilateral relations the chinese are putting on a very good show for donald trump they know that he needs this he needs the pictures at home the chinese side needs good pictures too that is really what this trip is about they want to demonstrate harmony they want to demonstrate that they can work together in a way these two leaders she and trump the only leaders that they respect and vice versa they are the two most powerful men in the world they know they are

they know they they need to project back home that they're at the same time working together and they're not being totally bored by the other but the show for the first day has been working very well has been working very well talk to us a little bit about the people in china what do they make of us president dollar trump they're very much entertained by him and they knew donald trump long before he was president as billionaire they don't take him very seriously as a politician and donald trump is a great gift for chinese state propaganda because he is the example that they need to demonstrate that democracy western style is going to lead to disaster and it's nothing that china should copy and what better could they wish for than an example like donald trump that is very easy to communicate to chinese audience birches asia specialist with the british men foundation here in germany thank you

for you and i thank you. the italian city of venice says it will ban giant cruise ships from steaming past the lagoon city's historic center they will instead have. to reroute to a nearby industrial port the controversial decision comes after years of debate and it's an attempt to balance venice's delicate ecosystem with the income generated by tourism but not all the locals are happy with this decision. for tens of thousands of tourists a high point of a mediterranean cruise is going through the narrow canals of venice or lane anchor in view of the piazza san marco and the byzantine basilica the cruise industry has been expanding for years and the multi deck ships are bigger than ever the aim is to economize and pack more people on board at the same time. in this ancient city the trend has long been a source of anger and concern among locals especially conservationists they've been

lobbying against what they consider an invasive presence of giant cruise ships for years saying both the city status as a unesco world heritage site and the ecology of a goon are under threat. but now following a meeting between the transport ministry in rome and representatives from venice large cruise ships will be banned in venice its historic city center starting in twenty nineteen the ships will have to take a different route and dock elsewhere. checked all possible routes and have come up with a realistic alternative. so the nations can expect somewhat calmer days in two years' time but some of them actually dread this prominent voices in the tourism sector say those who depend on visitors fear for their livelihoods. let you go on to tell you of our main headline right now. germany could become the first country to allow people to be registered as

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