george chance to discover the world from different perspectives. join us and be an inspired by distinctive instagram or others that d.w. stories you talk to each week on instagram. this is d w news live from berlin china rolls out the pomp and pageantry for president trot the u.s. leader lavishes praise and turns up the pressure on china's president pointing to north korea's nuclear threat as a problem but they consult together the two leaders also signaled progress on trade

talks despite trump's past farms. also coming up another high profile british cabinet secretary resigns this time around authorized meetings in israel after this latest shock wave can prime minister to resign made maintain her shaky hold on power that will have the very latest from london and a traumatic night in german history nov ninth marks the anniversary of vicious attacks by nazi thugs against thousands of jews a dog a prelude to the genocide to go. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us u.s. president donald trump has called on china to pressure north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program he's meeting his chinese counterpart xi jinping in beijing part of a marathon. tour of asia trump received

a red carpet welcome arriving for talks on a range of thorny issues with trade and north korea at the top of the agenda president cheney pledged that china would persist with the goal of denuclearizing the korean peninsula trump urged him to act fast. as an end to what trump back to say the united states is committed to the complete and permanent denuclearization of north korea so important china can fix this problem easily and quickly and i am calling on china and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard i know one thing about your president if he works on it hard it will happen there's no doubt about it let's get more now on the statements from these two world leaders we are joined from beijing by did a very on the ts bowling there so many tell us the first press statements after

nearly two days of informal talks and formal talks we also have to mention from these two leaders what should we make of what they have to say. well what we have seen is that atmospheric to this visit has been extremely friendly both have been very cautious towards each other both have emphasized their common interests their common ground their personal sympathy. substantially we have not seen and the big progress in the topic neither in the north korea issue nor in the trade. and there's also a huge economic aspect to donald trump's visit in china monica jones has that part of the story covered huge two hundred fifty billion dollars to be precise there as xi jinping and donald trump have just announced by lateral business deals worth that amount two hundred fifty billion u.s. dollars including thirty seven billion dollars worth of planes from boeing now

a further sign off the relationship of trust that both men profess to have struck up since their first meeting at strom's mar a lago resort in florida in april things have not always been so rosy though the u.s. president has accused beijing in the past of unfair trading practices and has threatened china with tariffs and last year the u.s. export of goods with only one hundred sixteen billion u.s. dollars to china however because many u.s. companies now manufacture there the u.s. imported about four times that value of goods from china chinese foreign direct investment in the united states hit forty six billion dollars in twenty sixteen but so far on the donald trump it has dropped significantly now while donald trump is known to criticize u.s. chinese trade balance he doesn't blame china for it he is what he said in a speech to business leaders in beijing both the united states and china will have

a more prosperous future if we can achieve a level economic playing field right now unfortunately it is a very one sided and unfair one but but i don't blame china. after all who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens i give china great credit. now going by this jubilant mood there and the two hundred fifty billion dollar business deal just struck other days of a looming trade war between the u.s. and china over well that's what i wanted to know from my ts bellinger in beijing not at all these kind of trade deals these signatures of contracts in the presence of presidents this is part of the protocol of chinese state visits so what we can

see is just. there has been there's this this is a symbolic signature some of these are just memorandums of understanding we don't know whether this will ever have some of them are trade years that happen anyway but that have you spoken to signature has been postponed there was no whatsoever substantial agreement on the structural issues of the trade as. well i mean there is this the apec summit taking place in vietnam this week on a trunkful attended as well as give a speech there tomorrow and now he pulled the u.s. out of the transpacific partnership pacific rim nations however still interested in going ahead with it how does this let's call it new a better relationship between washington and beijing impact d.p.p. . well the idea is to to to conclude the agreement even

without the u.s. it was see how attractive this will be to smaller nations that of course. the u.s. was a major effect it's a major market would have convinced people to join this whether this was still be the case without the u.s. we would see we don't know at all i wouldn't see a substantial change just due to this visit. as as none of these these structural issues between the u.s. and china. all right mike sperling of the via skype from beijing thank you so much for this well here and your of the british government is losing yet another key player one could say sarah another big shake up interest of may's government there in the u.k. monica and that's because u.k. international development secretary pretty to tell as resigned it's the second high profile departure from prime minister teresa mayes cabinet in just a week to tell admitted to holding at least twelve on authorized meetings with

israeli politicians including prime minister benjamin netanyahu during what was supposed to be a vacation in israel tell has apologized for her actions but this is yet another major blow for teresa mayes government which is facing several crises including sexual harassment allegations and a stalled brags that. are there i asked our london correspondent there good mass how important pretty patel was to teresa mayes government. well it's in every cabinet it's like a balance so you're trying to balance men and women she was a woman she was also the only woman in the cabinet of ethnic minority also she was a bricks a tear she is a bricks a tear and pretty much on the right of the conservative party and as such of course it is feared and possibly also the reason why to reason may didn't force her to

resign straight away that there is the fear that she could cause trouble from the backbenches no she's somebody who is known to be extremely ambitious and political commentators here are sure that she is going to come back that she's not just going to all of a sudden vanish from political life but that she's still planning her career and she said to have leadership and visions even for the conservative party but the question is for two reason may issue going to do that in a constructive way or is she going to do that in a way that could cause further trouble for tourism may by just plotting at the back benches and maybe plotting. terrorism is demise who knows they're going to mass with the latest from london thank you let's get a quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world the u.n. says that yemen is facing the largest famine that the world has seen for many decades saudi led coalition has blocked all the country's ports and cut off the

flow of arms to the who the rebels this move also cut off all international aid the saudis are backing the sunni yemeni government against an uprising by shia who the rebels in the north of the country. colombia's police have seized twelve tons of cocaine president juan manuel santos on wednesday announced the hall which he said is the largest single drug seizure in the history of the country's forty years long fight against drug trafficking. former us president barack obama showed up for jury duty this week obama currently lives in washington d.c. but was required to check in in chicago where he and former first lady michelle still own a house obama gave his fellow chicagoans a good ole presidential handshake and signed a few autographs he was then swiftly dismissed from jury duty. well

a mega merger in the us media business is under threat from washington and for some reasons which could be questionable monica jones and story could have a future repercussions for the media landscape this eighty a tease him of them to take over all time warner has been held up by the u.s. justice department raising speculation of political payback from washington time warner had hoped to conclude the eighty five billion dollars deal by the end of the year but some lawmakers are concerned about concentrating too much power in the hands of the telecom giant so authorities have reportedly told the companies they must sell some assets before the deal goes through including the c n n news channel which is owned by time warner u.s. president on a trump is the fia's critic of c.n.n. and its coverage of his administration and the new owner might not be able to finance its reporting resources a t.n.t. says it remains confident the takeover will go through as planned. now then you

commission says member states can and will do much more to fight tax havens top priorities the creation of i black list to name and shame jurisdictions that cater to wealthy firms and individuals yet the e.u. has been working for two years on similar measures with limited success consensus remains a challenge especially among members with low tax rates of their own ahead of the european commission john claudie younker is himself accused of aiding tax avoidance as luxembourg's prime minister well earlier my colleague daniel didn't put it to mr b. c. that this is the commission's zero credibility in fighting tax dodging. so you force this commission has done more on fighting back through the tax evasion than all the commissions in the previous twenty years you know if you employ you don't think it had waited minutes it's not due to the fact that this or that person ids here due

to the fact that we are in the new wind in the new area new period which is a period of transparency i have proposed that i am the tax commissioner and i've got full trust of them could you or i act in these names i have proposed eleven proposals directives among them six have been adopted which is not that easy if you consider what is the rule of unanimity inside the e.u. we have the best treating ever for a commission who could chose to commission is my colleague not going to myself who are really i think a team which is dedicated to fighting that it take to of massive tax avoidance you know you can all say that in two thousand and three he encouraged amazon to put its tax base in knox and i'm talking about the president of the commission and president of the commission and this commission we are i can say that quietly but very confident keep the champions of fighting tax fraud and tax evasion we talked

about this is a commission proposal i will mention two other proposals the one is the first one is is that i think that the activity of those intermediaries legal advisers. or fiscal advisers banks it must be made transparent to the next administration and this third one is that we have already established a country by country reporting this is one of the six directives i mentioned but between tax administrations i would like it to become public i think there is no a position between investment which we want to protect the event you want to look at her and say yes because transparency if you want. burnsy is the only way to tackle with those phenomena if we can reach our goal but when you are addressing what you are looking for how will this affect the average person in europe who is watching this right now if you do manage to get what you want and close these tax

loopholes and blacklist these tax havens i think that what we are attending now is those paradise papers which is a scandal but probably those practices are mostly legal but they are not moral this cannot be possible why because it exists only because it is even and certainly it is revealed if it is transparent if it is public it is not possible anymore you know all those people all those structures all those companies all those states which today named and shamed after the products paper if their activity would be immediately made public then they would be much much more for that's why transparency is the massive destruction weapon against tax evasion against tax aggressive tax planning and that's why this commission is so so strong on friends about the you could commission right and you mentioned the threat the potential threat of sanctions what are we talking about here are we talking about fines

directly for a few who try and squirrel away their money in tax havens are we all it's ok because unless there's a significant legal threat they're going to continue to say tax avoidance is a misdemeanor we're not talking about firms we're talking about the states when you have a blacklist of tax even you're talking about the states or territories revanche and some of them getting to the ground on those states will be which will be used to denote that we will have a very. strong list strong by pleased the sanctions must be linked to our own capacity to their own linkage with the union i would mention for example a world trade deals or multilateral or bilateral agreements that we've got with them that can be suspended but the best thing should the strongest action is the name and shame ok relieve me nobody nobody would like to be there and in one word are we now finally going to see significant change and

cracking down on tax havens under your leadership in this case it's not up to me to decide that you know the commission as a prominent role because we have the monopoly of the initiative and we have taken so many engineers i mentioned three of them and believe me if they become decisions that would be different but but the ball is in the camp of the member states it's up to them to decide they have to decide they have to deliver and it will have the nation and everything they have to deliver bill hall the end of this year two thousand and seventeen is the year of easy thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us today well of the ways the ego commission speaking to my colleague daniel winter now european opel will not be firing any employees or closing any plants any time soon opel was zero in to buy g.m. for nearly one hundred years but has now been sold to francis p. as a group the jobs of the one nine hundred thousand opel employees

a guaranteed even after twenty eighteen opel wants to use p.s. as technology to bring itself into the profit so also plans on quickly developing electric versions of its vehicle line up but using new production lines and selling opel as part of the p s a line worldwide p.s.a. hopes that opel will move back into profitability for the first time in years. and we will go live to our correspondent there in the us a home where he will be at the opel factory in about an hour from now but first when used with sarah thanks so much monica we look forward to that we have now to some german political news now because the country could become the first european country to allow for a third gender on birth certificates the country's top court ruled that present laws discriminate against intersex people those who have a mixture of male and female sexual traits the court said that the official

documents should either recognize the third gender or remove gender entries altogether the change is expected to take effect next year. fine you can hardly believe it the years of fighting for a third gender have finally been rewarded as contestants for monsoons there are lots of places in society where there's a split between the sexes and so i have to ask myself again and again how do i define myself do i try to fit in or do i trust myself not to do so and how are people going to react and. it's an issue that directly affects about a year and around one hundred sixty thousand other intersex people in germany people who were born with male and female features and whose gender can't be identified and that's where the problem starts so far it's only been possible to enter a male or female on the birth register or leave it open family has complained for a third category a third gender like into and or diverse the court has opened the door to that

although they've left the exact description open. because i'm going to presume because basic personal rights also protect the sexual identity of those people who don't define themselves as male female. the current law and civil status involving jews on the prohibition of discrimination on select oh that's because it's not possible to answer anything other than male and female would invite but he used the call it has given lawmakers until the end of december twenty eighth seen to draft new rules. well today is a unique day here in germany one that marks a number of important anniversaries in the country's history it was on nov ninth one thousand eight hundred nine that the berlin wall fell which eventually led to germany's reunification so the should be a day to celebrate here in germany but november ninth is also the anniversary of darker events following germany's defeat in world war one on november ninth one nine hundred eighteen political leaders declared the country was now over public

but germany's first experiment with democracy came to be associated with economic hardship and street battles between the far left and the far right and we know how the story goes after hitler comes to power democracy is then abolished on this day november ninth one thousand nine hundred eight the nazi regime orchestrated a massive pogrom against the country's jewish population as synagogues and businesses were attacked police did nothing here's a closer look at what happened in history. on the evening of november ninth one thousand thirty eight synagogues in europe were set aflame they burned in germany austria and in czechoslovakia organized gangs of nazi and brownshirt thugs abused imprisoned or murdered thousands of jews amid the cheers of countless gone seven thousand jewish owned shops were destroyed and the mob then looted the shops

that night was the start of the biggest genocide in human history. well in other news climate talks are underway here in the western german city of bonn delegates from more than one hundred ninety countries are discussing how to implement the landmark paris agreement to curb global warming one country at the forefront of the fight against climate change is kenya the country already needs thirty percent of its energy needs from geothermal power which doesn't generate any carbon emissions kenyans are also adjusting their farming practices in response to changing weather patterns. and let's have a look at how exactly they are doing at. actually in the meantime close distances stretch out before us in the great rift valley in kenya and here in lies the hope for the country's energy supply. we take a ride to

a geothermal power plant in all caria two hours by car north west of the capital nairobi. steam rises through the over four hundred drill holes in pipes it's an ideal location for geothermal energy here the engineers tell us they only have to drill about two thousand meters to reach the crucial steam just to compare in germany drill holes can reach ten thousand meters the. resource in kenya is up to ten thousand megawatt but so far we've been able to to do. more than six hundred. expensive we need to be observing that we we are still learning we are we don't want to well use it almost thirty percent of the energy used in kenya is produced by geothermal plants and this number is set to rise without dangerous emissions. there's even a public swimming pool featuring sulfuric water plumbed from the depths but

geothermal energy is expensive and not every attempt at drilling is successful that's why germany has decided to invest over one hundred million euros in kenya's geothermal energy. and gets only noise fields have to be developed drilling is risky though and someone will have to take on at least a part of that risk can you can't do this on its own with us. we drive back to nairobi to visit the ministry the environment. while outside a traffic jam stretches across the city. inside pacifica gola tells us that her country is counting on renewable energy sources such as geothermal power and their hopes are high for the bond climate conference. we are the ones who are experiencing major impact on climate change when it comes to issues like drought and floods so we expect the while to actually make the bold move that steps and we expect to maintain the political momentum to make sure that we are able to retain

the momentum and to be able to deliver bankable projects with the low carbon intensity of beyond twenty fifty. at the foot of mount kenya for example climate change is becoming more and more apparent the farmers here have been taking part in an irrigation project for the past four years growing bananas they used to be able to count on rainwater but that is a thing of the past. we didn't know anything because the. big and the and. and it was leaving us nothing but it is. giving us money. despite the lack of rain there's still enough water here numerous rivers flow down mount kenya dams catch the water and channel to the fields the german development bank has invested about five million euros and this project. is that he invests kenya here in west kenya we are actually in a very fertile region the problem is that our rainfall is becoming more regular and

the farmers can't count on it anymore but now because of this project the farmers have water twenty four hours a day they can plant throughout the year and a no longer dependent on the effects the climate has on rainfall. climate change requires adjustment like the farmers planting bananas or the use of environmentally friendly power using geothermal energy kenya is bracing for the future. let's get a quick reminder now of the top stories that we have been following for you here at the u.s. president trump has furnished his chinese counterpart xi jinping to work hard to contain north korea's nuclear threat trump also criticized chinese trade practices but said that he did not blame china for taking cost advantage of the united states he is in china as part of his first asian tour of the u.k. the international development secretary has resigned pretty patel quit after

admitting to several unauthorized meetings because israeli politicians it is the second high profile departure from prime minister to recent days cabinet in just a week. and don't forget in the meantime you can always get to the news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store it will give you access to all of the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any three kingdoms you can also use the op to send us photos and videos and you can watch this program on much stream. you're up to date i'm sorry kelly and berlin thank you very much for watching we'll see you next. lol. lol. lol.

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have comparable we have the technology we can be a role model of father companies it's not only about today it is also of all deposits and obviously on the future global told. next chandigarh believe in the back. entered the conflict zone there are plenty of strong views about the muslim brotherhood several arab states have declared them a terrorist organization my guest here in amman jordan is a team of top who she's an m.p. for the islamic action from the political wing of the brotherhood was king abdullah right to accuse them of being like wolves in sheep's clothing. the for in sixty minutes d w. united against climate change. big challenges for the twenty third u.n. climate conference in bonn. our nations working to meet their paris agreement targets cop twenty three this weekend next on the doubling news.

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