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and you try not to for french but doesn't he's a very good place to raise a family to. the novis much of. this is d. w. news live from berlin china rolls out the pomp and pageantry for president trump the u.s. leader lashes praise and turns up the pressure on china's president pointing to north korea's nuclear threat as a problem that they can solve together the two leaders also signaled progress on trade talks despite trump's past bars. also coming up another high profile british
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cabinet secretary resigns this time over unauthorized beatings in israel after this latest shock wave and prime minister to resign may maintain her shaky hold on power we have the latest from london. plus facing down peer pressure to speak out against hate a german student is taking a stand against nazi inspired togs her story reveals the persistence of anti-semitism into. 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 cheese and paying in beijing part of a marathon tour of asia trump received a red carpet welcome arriving for talks on
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a range of thorny issues with trade and north korea top of the agenda president xi pledged to china would persist with the goal of denuclearizing the korean peninsula trump urged him to act fast let's listen in to what tom had 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 and for more let's bring indeed obvious that he is pulling guard who is in beijing he has been monitoring those statements from both of these world leaders and mathias i just want to begin first with your perspective on what we just heard u.s. president donald trump say urging she to work hard to resolve the north korea
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conflict did it get any results well that's the idea that the trump administration has china just needs to increase pressure cut off the life minds of the north korean regime and then the north korean regime will give up its. its nuclear program the chinese government sees it differently the chinese government does not want to risk any instability in north korea so cutting off would be too risky strategy and that's why there has been very little progress in the past time and these talks also have not brought any. specific results with this issue. i want to talk a little bit more about you know results oriented discussions because we we've seen these two leaders complement each other quite a lot during the strife in fact this trip that was called a state visit plus because of just how lavish it was pictures of harmony there but
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you know when we get down below that was there tension between these two do you think over these issues i think at the core of the top acts there has not been made much progress nevertheless of course a good working relationship unusual sympathy can help advancing things but the core interest is very different on the north korea issue and also on trade issues these were the main factors but there are a few others like the south china sea other strategic. region so i don't see really that visit has brought some some some visible results it has improved the atmosphere between the two moments we know that donald trump that he for example that he wanted action on north korea he wants china to be more aggressive there and pressuring that country we also know that they had some some goals in terms of
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trade that they're not happy with the balance of trade with china how about from the side of china what were they looking to get from trump in this visit. i think. the chinese strategy is probably to contain try to make him not be more outspoken towards china to give the world pression that the two countries are in harmony that every problem can be solved to be not be troubled by trump and they have succeeded in this very well trump was very soft spoken in this visit. very much in contrary to what he has had before so they would just want to step allies the relationship and to be. to have a more predictable american policy and even less sort of american. and
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different a more cooperative tone that we have witnessed here between these two world leaders we will see if it continues to mathias pulling guard joining us from beijing thank you. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world the catalan parliament speaker and five lawmakers have appeared before spain's supreme court and we tread they are facing charges of rebellion and sedition for their phones and staging and for from random on catalonia independence last month they could face jail as a preventative measure while the investigation continues 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. it was a bumpy start for a driverless shuttle bus in las vegas a bus collided with a truck less than two hours after making its debut on city streets police said that this was a human error on the part of the truck driver sensors on the bus meant to automatically
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stop it. they stopped trying to avoid car accident but were happy that there were no injuries we turn now to a crisis around interest in me as government which has deepened with the second resignation of a high profile minister and a weak international development minister twenty protel was forced quit after she admitted to holding unauthorized meetings with israeli politicians during what was supposed to be a vacation in israel this is yet another major blow for theresa may who is facing several crises and struggling to formulate a clear position on budget. in london we are now joined by do mass to put all of the moving and the shaking into perspective for us so bear get how important was patel to the government and to the prime minister to resign. well the cabinet is always a fine balance of people and for pretty patel was
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a woman she's also from ethnic minority the only woman from an ethnic minority on the cabinet so far and also very important she is a brick city a a very somebody very very committed to bricks it on that she's on the right of the party so it's sort of shakes up the balance of the cabinet went to reason may has to. the new the new foreign development secretary to the success of pretty patel to a very complicated situation also pretty good tell somebody who is said to have leadership ambitions for the conservative party very ambitious and the question is will she now do this in a constructive way cooperate or would she cause further trouble for trees or may from the back benches of course very unwelcome that would be another thing that is unwelcome i mean this is only this is rather the second minister to resign in
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a week defense minister michael fallon stepped down following allegations of sexual harassment how much trouble is theresa may's government and. well the sexual harassment allegations have really and gulf the cabinet there's also another minister under investigation somebody who's very closer to rezone may so this is a big shake up of the cabinet bell and also boris johnson the foreign secretary has been under a lot of criticism in the last days for his actions regarding a british woman who is currently in jail in iran and he has used some very callous words that are very negative for her fate so he's been under a lot of pressure as well so all this presents basically a picture of a cabinet and a government that's not in control somebody use the word. and having this in the
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middle of the negotiations where we have another round just today and tomorrow in brussels is very very unfortunate for tourism a indeed mass in london thank you. 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 nine hundred nine that the berlin wall fell which eventually led to germany's reunification so this should be a day to celebrate here in germany nov ninth is also the anniversary of other landmark of vents following germany's defeat in world war one on november ninth one thousand eight hundred political leaders declared the country was now a republic 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 all know how the history goes because after hitler comes to power democracy is abolished in germany on this day november ninth one thousand thirty eight the nazi
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regime orchestrated a massive program against the country's jewish population as synagogues and businesses were attacked police did nothing here's a closer look at what happened. 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 funks 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. and despite efforts to confront its nazi past anti semitic and a racist attitudes still persist in germany and the gains made by the far right in september's election have many germans worried could nationalist and anti immigrant
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rhetoric become normalized once again one high school student has chosen to take a stand facing down peer pressure to speak out against bigotry due to threats of harassment we have only used her first name in this report. fifteen year old is visiting the memorial to the murder jews of europe in central berlin with her mother at school she has seen how hate speech and anti-semitism are on the rise again she says it started slowly. this is when people would come into the classroom others would raise their right arm in a deliberate nazi salute sometimes there shouted heil hitler you are cool if you did that. at first she didn't speak up then she saw an online chat group with upsetting images. there was one picture of
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a cloud of smoke and the caption said jewish family portrait. and that wasn't the only one in the class chat group so i wrote that this guy should stop behaving like he's a nazi and he wrote back saying i should emigrate to poland if i don't like it he asked if i didn't have too many dead jews. and milia reported her classmate for incitement to hatred which is a crime in germany she had to contend with a lot of other classmates giving her strange looks but now the civil courage she demonstrated has been recognized with this award from the friends of the whole the cost memorial and berlin's jewish community and lee says she didn't get much support from her teachers and classmates but she did have backing from her friends and family and she says in the future she'll act much sooner against racism and anti-semitism in sports the group stage of the world cup may be over but there are still open slots for next summer's big event in russia tonight croatia host grace
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in the first match of a two like playoff or one of the european places still up for grabs likewise switzerland travel to northern ireland incredibly the swiss failed to qualify automatically for russia despite a run of nine straight wins in the group stage they were pips to the post portugal . it's not that belfast isn't a nice place to land but this is not where the swiss want to be after a strong qualifying round their points total most years would easily qualify for the finals not this year former byron munich winger gerrard on chick yuri finds it almost comical. this is the flu it's a strange feeling to have twenty seven points from our ten games and find ourselves in the playoffs of course we were disappointed but that's football. meanwhile northern ireland are relishing this match up if you are giving them a chance against the swiss but this group of overachievers has
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a shot at getting northern ireland to their first world cup finals in thirty two years. you know over the years we always sort of hopping on the dogs when this come in the into the big moments and. the senate sits us but you know it's a position that we're comfortable with and there's also been situations you know up within the group or with other issues from home in the dogs the under dog you're up to date now on news i'm sarah kelly in berlin don't forget you can follow us on facebook and twitter at t w news my handle. thanks for watching. healthy. and here it's too long. solidarity. they fall by the wayside when the gap between rich and poor grows. life in an equal societies. the divide starting november fifteenth on d w.

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