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despite the american cousins previous criticisms also on the program. not a high profile resignation from britain's government this time over an authorized meetings in israel caught prime minister it's reason why i'm typing a shaky hold on power after this latest shock we'll bring you the latest from the. jump student that this german student speaks out against her classmates nazi inspired tolstoy so what does her story reveal about germany's persistent anti semitism probably. must be wind the clock back on look at the russian revolution which we got a hundred years ago but it played a key role during that tumultuous period becoming home to a mass exodus of russian exiles who fled the chaos of. i'm german comic ople survival class after a long time out a general notice deserted it last year. war.

i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has called on china to ramp up economic pressure on north korea to coerce it to end its nuclear weapons program is meeting his chinese counterpart xi jinping in beijing as part of his first asian tour grand displays of friendship appear to have first softened trumps us stance towards china's trade practices another contentious issues rather than a problem with the trumpet now appears the view of china as the world's great problems. the second day of u.s. president donald trump's visit in china began with pomp and ceremony. chinese president xi jinping once again pulled out all the stops. but behind closed doors the two leaders were faced with thorny issues among them the increasing threat from north korea

a strong young closest ally beijing is seen as a best bet to rein in an increasingly defiant north korea. with the menace of north korea and. we've had two committees discussions in there today and i think things will happen i believe things will happen. the positive tone taken by trump marks a departure from his previous criticism of china. in september north korea launched its latest ballistic missile and president trump threatened to cut off ties with all countries that do business with north korea over ninety percent of pyongyang's trade is with beijing. but president xi made no new commitments saying his country would continue to improve u.s. china relations. though. china is willing to work with the united states to enhance cooperation and properly manage differences the spirit of

mutual respect and mutual benefit. the visit has so far been a friendly one between two of the world's most powerful leaders but it isn't clear if they'll make real progress on the most pressing issues. let's take a closer look with melissa chan she's a journalist and fellow at the robert to bush says shift oh she's also worked in china as a correspondent for al-jazeera welcome to d w so donald trump appears to have dialed down he's anti china rhetoric why well so you'll recall that he even on the campaign shelled said that china was raping the united states this is a huge to change and shift in terms of his tone now one thing is that before he became president he probably didn't realize that he needed china so much on the north korea issue so that explains part of the dialing down the other thing is this is a president i really values his one on one with lation ships with other world leaders

and he's clearly taken to president xi jinping so i think that might have something to do with it so given that has there been any real progress on key issues well you know they say that there is a big two hundred fifty billion dollar trade deal that they are not or rather a business deal with business leaders from the u.s. and the chinese that's been something that they've announced right but substantively a lot of these agreements that amount to two hundred fifty billion dollars of their nonbinding so we actually have to see in a few years' time whether any of these things matter now we have the boeing contract that was signed as well. on the north korea thing nothing that's really come out other than to say that they're both working on the issue again a change in terms of the tone from president trump is that he's talking about collective action he's talking about the need for china to pressure north korea these are things that are very different from his previous rhetoric where he really

felt and expressed that the united states could go and out and do things alone in the world so as you say trade north korea were president trumps priority his president has said that talking warm is the most important issue in relations between the two countries why this is really interesting that this is actually come to certain extent to the chinese have been observing u.s. foreign policy the fact of the matter is that the state department hasn't filled a lot of spots frankly rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state had gone to china earlier this year and there was a view that he had conceded on some diplomatic points probably because he didn't do his homework so to a certain mind i wonder whether president xi is raising the taiwan issue to see if he could get the u.s. to change its long time position on the one china policy because it's important to remember as you say that lots of positions within the state department remain unfilled and if this was apparently part of president trump strategy that we need

a smaller government these are two very different men leading the world's biggest economies talk turns to day do do we have any sense of how the they are getting on personally well president trump appears to believe that he has a great relationship with president xi jinping i say appear because she jean king has been a lifelong politician this is a guy who's father was you know involved in the revolution in china and he has been really in many ways training himself to fill this role his entire life this is a very very political savvy individual and we have president trump who has expressed a desire to be president of the united states since the eight. yes but we really hasn't had that kind of training so i think in many ways you get these two in a room and it's a bit of an uneven playing field i think that you're seeing that president trump is really taken with the pomp and circumstance the chinese have rolled out to him and he he really is influenced by that easily

a whether president xi feels the same way we really don't know what he personally thinks he is just playing his role just this meeting between the two men to see how many domestic political significance for president xi well it's interesting the chinese domestic media has been talking about trump in a rather positive light and in fact they've really clung on to this fake news thing saying that well this president is nothing like you read in the u.s. media that distorts things so they're using this opportunity to frankly attack the media a both at home and overseas and this is i find that super interesting but in terms of what ordinary chinese think it's really hard to gauge i mean they read the papers it's state media controlled in china and they see that the two leaders have had a meeting and they just go on about their business i don't get a sense that people have an opinion one way or the other very interesting what's the chance of the robert bush foundation thanks for a second look at some of the other stories making news around the world the united

nations says yemen is facing the largest a famine the world has seen for many decades a saudi led coalition has blockaded all of the country's ports and cut off the flow of arms to the rebels but it's also cut off international aid the saudis are backing the sunni yemeni government against an uprising by shia who see rebels in the north of the country. police in colombia have seized twelve tons of cocaine present one man while santos announced a hold on wednesday describing it as the largest single drug seizure in the country's forty year long fight against drug craft trafficking. the kassam on parliament's speaker and five lawmakers here before spain's supreme court to trade they are facing charges of rebellion and sedition for their roles in staging a band referendum on the capital of independence last month they could face jail as a preventative measure while the investigation continues. that was a bumpy start for this driverless shuttle bus in las vegas it collided with

a truck less than two hours after making its debut on the city streets but police say the truck driver was to blame sensors of the bus tried to bring the vehicle to a halt before the collision. britain's prime minister to resign my government there sinking deeper into crisis with the second resignation of a high profile minister in a weak international development secretary pretty to tell the step down after admitting she held all authorised meetings with israeli politicians during what was supposed to be a holiday in israel it's another major blow for treason he was facing has several crises and struggling with that country's divorce talks of the european union. let's get more from g.w. correspondent bigot to mass who joins us from london welcome that big it's a pretty patel's resignation follows the departure of defense secretary michael fallon last week how much trouble is teresa mayes government in.

well treason may has been under a lot of pressure since the elections earlier in the year when she came back and only had a minority in the parliament so that was the first blow and now we've seen two resignations we've seen strong criticism for boris johnson the foreign secretary after a series of gaffes and pretty patel the international development secretary effectively doing some sort of freelance policy on her own without really intended telling anyone and that presents a picture of reason may really not being in charge and of the british government being anything but stable and in the words of one commentator somehow on mood even so we have the latest round of bracks negotiations beginning that today and tomorrow how will they be affected by teresa mayes domestic political problems. well obviously from a brussels perspective it would be much preferable to negotiate with

a strong government where they know that they have a real mandate that they have the country behind on the party behind them and the situation in reality here in the u.k. is really the complete opposite however i don't think that these especially this round of negotiations will not be affected because the development secretary doesn't really have anything to do with these negotiations and brussels it's going to be interesting who's going to be her replacement driesum is under a lot of pressure and has been for quite some time from the years and all parties those people who advocate hard and strong and clean brett said and pretty patel the development secretary had to resign was one of them now the pressure is there to replace her with somebody else who's really and stick about brecht said so this pressure from those people who say no deal with brussels is better than a bad deal let's get out as quick as we can and as clean as we can this is not

going to subside this doesn't mean the trees and may is going to resign immediately but i think there are very few people here in the u.k. you think that she's going to stay for another term for i had my full term parliamentary term mass in london thank you. this is a w. news live from berlin still to come as anti-semitism and racism threatens to take hold amongst young children we highlight one student's attempts to take a stand against hate on the online harassment that she suffered as a result. of a special report on the intro to the russian revolution which we are one hundred years ago this. big decisions are facing germany's loss making comics that i want to jones a story on this particular it's doswell talking about opal of course fail g.m.'s former european division was given a deadline of today to come up with a roadmap for the future by its you all know that is france's p. as a group now the plan and show us jobs for the companies nine hundred thousand to employ

yes that's the good news opel wants to use p.s. as technology to bring itself back into the profit so opel also plans on quickly developing electric versions of its vehicle lineup and all those steps aimed at ensuring opals return to success without plant closures or forced job cuts new owner french auto giant p.s.a. hopes that opel moved back into profitability for the first time that would be envious. let's bring in our correspondent daniel corpo standing by for us at the opel factory in says hi emma daniel and although there was a press conference taking place what more did you hear there. well certainly opel has a very ambitious plans monica already until twenty twenty they want to be profitable again something they didn't need to when they were still under the ownership of general motors pretty much since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine they also

announce that they want to reduce the cost per car for at least eight hundred euro's and their mobility is going to be a very big topic for them so for the moment this is going to mean that opel employees won't have to worry about their jobs but of course we don't know what's going to happen until twenty twenty because as i said those are very ambitious plans and so it's just for the moment it's good news for the opel employees all right so what's the mood like there then i mean we can see people behind you enjoying a hot day not just that sort of reflects how opal stuff feels right now. when i guess there are mixed people make mixed feelings among the employees i have talked to quite some of them this morning most of them are actually telling me that they have a good feeling with his new french ownership of p.s.a. they told me that they always had this feeling with general motors in the past that general motors didn't really understand the european market very well and that this

is something completely different different now with a p.s.a. of course there is some uncertainty what all those new structures are going to mean for the individual employee so some of them are telling me that they don't really know in which department they might work in the future but in general i do have the feeling that they are looking optimistic into the future all right so lots of changes ahead but not necessarily for the worse not for everyone down here called in the list as haim at opel thank you so much. german industrial giantess siemens has reported an eleven percent rise in annual net profits to six billion euros but it could have been much better seaman says its power division weighs on the company's results this year quarterly profits at its power gas unit the company's second biggest after health care plunged to forty percent dragging down the group's overall results in mid november siemens will decide on potential job

cuts within its energy division and the controversial herbicide to life for site is once again opt for debate in brussels today even ministers will vote on whether to renew the wheat kilis license for a further five years but five years is too long for some countries life to say it is vital to the industrial farming methods that put everything from sugar to bread on the dining table and although supporters say it's both cheap and easy to use there are indications it could be carcinogenic should the twenty eight member states fail to agree life is a european license will expire from mit december. but first it is the ninth of november today and here in germany phil this is a very special day it's a very significant day and want to thank you so much that it marks a number of important out a verse or is in germany's history it was on november the nine thirty nine hundred eighty nine the berlin wall fell eventually leading to the reunification of east

and west germany nearly a century ago after being defeated in world war one political leaders declared the country a republic i was on this day in one nine hundred eighty eight the years that followed were scarred by i cannot make hardship in street battles between the far left and far right hitler came to power democracy was abolished and living with the ninety nine hundred thirty eight the nazi regime conducted a massive program against germany's jewish population synagogues and businesses were attacked police stood by and did nothing. 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 garters 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 . despite efforts to confront its not see past anti semitic racist attitudes still persist in germany and the gains made by the far right in september's election have worried many germans could nationalist and anti immigrant rhetoric become normalized to get all high school students is taking a stand facing down pressure from her peers to speak out against this sort of bigotry such as been the threats and harassment aimed at her we've only used to 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 their 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 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 held 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 at least as 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. this week has been looking at revolutionary events in russia one hundred years ago when the communists seized power well it also played a role in the spring of one nine hundred seventeen bolshevik revolution we've lived in lenin was living in exile in your ex with someone who was given permission to travel by train across treatment for three years by her vast country wavier but he reached in petersburg he was welcomed by jubilant crowds on roofs and let him pass through the german capital it's just one of the many ways but all that has been touched by the russian revolution is that reports of. one hundred years ago the magnificent not so much train station stood on the spot a carriage was like you know living on board stopped here in the spring of one thousand seventeen and then you wanted to return to russia you want to travel. it

was the imperial authorities who allowed plane in strands it through germany during world war one. the original documents that put this fateful alliance of convenience in the fact on display in the instrument historical museum a german diplomat sent a telegram to the in that red line you know not safe in russia he's doing just what you want. good oct it says here ten million german marks for political propaganda in russia and someone corrected it to say fifteen million it found a lot of documents. there were huge sums involved. as many as two million russians fled their homeland after the nine hundred seventeen revolution they escaped a few of civil war taro and starvation it was mainly the intellectual elite who were squandered by the bush weeks doctors and write us office us and our restock rats their lives in exile were shaped by few of an unknown future.

was born to a russian noble family her father who was a cadet in the marin academy of st petersburg who fled to russia a few months after the revolution at the age of sixteen. if you ask me where my home is i have no. i have no because i feel at home nearly everywhere i mean i've been to many places and. i can adjust. after many detours through serbia slovenia and germany from north because family settled in the us as did many other russians who fled after the revolution you had. the highest the record i restore christian who was working in factories and doing work which brought in pay and the pay was your could live on something else and it was very

very difficult. for many exiled russian sperling was the first stop here they couldn't buy a new car from the carol spec home and getting visas to enter germany was a relatively simple process of the border many russian refugees were granted political asylum charlottenburg at a district where most of the three hundred thousand russian settled was nicknamed shall not rot. but he was a magnet to the russian and the intensity of their reasons might sound from a. tolerant and the best sense and different. deployed underbelly praise berlin's easygoing atmosphere with passages such as night cocaine that. it was here that led him in the book of lords he's most famous novelist and russian and the celebrated author boyce pasternak lived in the same area. it was a city within

a city in a corner gives guided tours about the russian exiles in berlin in the twenty's. and through the fear. i had people who came here enjoyed a lot of freedom. there were eighty seven russian language publishing houses. there were plenty of russian restaurant. russian orthodox churches and workers associations so for the people who fled hungary there was plenty to eat it wasn't just about waiting to see what would happen in russia people have a good life here. but many russian state only issue a time here before heading to paris or new york. most of the exiled russians like money from life because father never saw their homelands again he left his diary to you and with it a law for his native language and russian culture. of the group stage of the world

cup may be over but there are still open slots for next summer's big events in brussels tonight croatia host greece in the first match of the two like playoffs for one of the vacant european places likewise switzerland travelled to northern ireland incredibly as face failed to qualify automatically for russia despite nine straight wins in the group stage they were pipped at the post by 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 shit here 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

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 their toes when it's coming into the big moments and. well you know it's a it's a position that we're comfortable with but there's also been situations you know within the group where we've had. the underdogs aren't short of confidence northern ireland have lost only once in the last ten competitive home matches that the world champions germany. this is g.w. has reminded the top story at this hour u.s. president trump has his chinese a counterpart to xi jinping to work ha so you can tell you north korea's nuclear threat is the trump also criticized china's trade practices and went on to say he didn't like china for taking advantage of the u.s. is that possible his first page. up today i'll have both you at the top of the aisle in the meantime of course there's always the website that's the w.

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