they have to learn a new meaning for life and new things to do that's a social revolution and hopefully we can move too slowly. this is t w news live from berlin china rolls out the red carpet president trump u.s. data and president xi jinping host of a new found fund but does this show of friendship not the lack of progress on trade on north korea also on the program. another high profile resignation from britain's

government this time of an authorized meetings in israel kept on minister threesome at one type a shaky hold on this latest show will bring you the latest from one. german comic ople survival plan stuff along to the general motors de sac did it last year. kenya powers forward in the search for clean up the east african states is one of more than one hundred ninety countries here in germany for the u.n. climate summit and it's picking up speed on its path to a green and. i'm still getting a welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has called on china to increase economic pressure on north korea when its nuclear weapons program is meeting is chinese counterpart in beijing

as part of his tour of asia china's grandis prior friendship appears to have softened mr trump's a stance on the country's tried practices and other contentious issues rather than a problem president trump now appears to view china as well of world's great problem solvers. 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 defiance north korea i think you really help us a lot with the menace of north korea and. we've had so many discussions in there today and i think things will happen i believe things will happen. the positive tone

taken by tramp 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 street 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. so you close look with

melissa chalmers she's a journalist and fellow robert to bush to shift oh she's also worked in china as a correspondent for al-jazeera welcome to the doubly 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 shell 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 relationships 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's a big two hundred fifty billion dollar trade deal that or 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 korea north. nothing 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 turned 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 whose 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 eighty's 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 as a child from the rubber bush foundation. of the government of britain's prime minister theresa may is sinking deeper into crisis with the second resignation of a high profile minister in a weak international development secretary pretty fertile stepped out that meeting

she held an authorised meetings with israeli politicians here in what was supposed to be a holiday and israel's prime minister's defense secretary resigned last week following allegations of sexual misconduct on top of this mrs may's also struggling with her country's divorce talks with the european union let's get more from t.w. correspondent bigoted nasr joins us from london welcome back 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 over 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 breakfast negotiations beginning that day and think 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 in the u.k. is really the complete opposite however i do 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 enthusiast 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 another full term parliamentary to get mass in london thank you just some of the other stories making news around the world syrian troops and allied forces have retaken control. kamau to hold islamic states last major stronghold in the country this footage released

by the syrian military said to show soldiers are close to the town near the border with iraq syria's army says it's now fighting the last remaining pockets of i asked fighters in the country's eastern desert. united nations says yemen is facing the largest famine the world has seen for many decades a saudi like coalition has blockaded all the country's ports and cut off the flow of arms to boost the rebels but it's also cut off international aid the saudis are backing the saudi yemen yemeni government against an uprising by shia who's the rebels in the north of the country. the catalan parliament speaker and five lawmakers have appeared before spain's supreme court in madrid they're facing charges of rebellion and sedition for their roles in staging a band referendum possible in the independence last month they could face jail as a preventative measure while the investigation continues police in colombia have seized twelve tons of cocaine president juan manuel santos announced the hole on

wednesday describing it as the largest single drug seizure in the country's forty year long fights against drug trafficking. this is t w news the life from delhi and still to come taking a stand against hate the online harassment of this high school student reveals the anti semitism and racism threatening to kate take hold of angst young germans. had about what a judge with news of a big day for german comic ople that's right fail for nearly a century german comic ople belonged to us conjoined general motors but in recent years g.m.'s european subsidiary went into steep decline and now opel is looking to a new future on the french own ip as a group and since today we have an idea how the ailing cars make a wants to return to the road to success. ople c.e.o. . presented opals new strategy for the future the good news is that no more workers are being fired at least not yet very important and i want to address this at the

very beginning. to achieve our goals without plant closures and without force redundancy in europe thanks to strong improvement of competitiveness opel vauxhall has been making losses for nearly two decades and now aims to breakeven by twenty nineteen and then show profits the year later in its eighty eight year ownership of opel u.s. giant g.m. restricted the last play outside europe barring it from entering the lucrative chinese market that's about to change opel will be available in china and the us opals new profitability plan is called pace it calls for renegotiating salaries labor costs will be cut through flexible working time arrangements buyouts and early retirement furthermore opel plans on scrapping the existing g.m. technology and replacing it with p.s.a. technology by twenty twenty new production methods should lower production costs by

seven hundred euros per car last but not least opel will build electric versions of all opel models the european commission proposed on wednesday that thirty percent of new vehicles on the continent should be electric powered by twenty thirty by implementing these measures opel will end up saving one point one billion euros annually nice that's the hope of the mother company in fronts. let's bring in our correspondent daniel corporate standing by for us at the opel factory in higher than a lot 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 what's the mood like there then i mean we can see people behind you enjoying a hearty a dinar just that sort of reflects how opal stuff feels right now. well 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 employees 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 danielle colp in the list as haim at opel thank you so much. e.u. ministers failed in the latest bid to agree on a new five year license for the controversial wheat kilo good life for sate this comes just weeks before the current license expires on december the fifteenth glyphosate 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 the substance could pose a risk to health. for more on this decision or rather non-decision i'm joined by

katz one matson's in brussels catlin what went wrong this time well basically we have two troublemakers here with regard to the member states first of all germany germany has no opinion at ten there is no consensus in britain whether there is progress lies a fair position or against life as i've said it didn't take part in the vote second troublemaker is france all member states here in brussels very closely watched the french varied because with a pro french vote it would tough been possible to reach this needed qualified majority but asked we know this didn't happen today and this is why we still have this deadlock in this crisis at story so i read somewhere today that france didn't like the idea of extending the license for five years and would rather like to see an extension of three years i mean what's going on why just france opposed the vote . well you're absolutely right so france where is it was not a total no it was

a compromise inside there was room for compromise france said ok we don't like the five years of the european commission but what is about three years and the european commission to be honest was not willing to take this compromise on the table and another really important element is we don't have to forget france is not didn't move really hundred percent green one hundred percent green but they have had an ex and oh activist in the government as minister and his under high pressure so this was also a political choice to say we have to stick to at least of the three years of compromise if we want to be credible at home so it was necessary for france to stick to the three years are to say no to a lot of present and this is what happened today all right and cattle and just briefly if you would i mean what does this mean now for the use of life for sage in the farming sector in europe wildlife said will be on group in fields until mid

december this year this is clear but beyond that date the license would expire of life as this would mean for for the one side monsanto would lose the big important european market but on the other side this would be the versed case scenario for the european farmers they say then we don't have an intransigent time to find another pesticide and this could even be dangerous for consumers well that sounds quite dramatic there catherine martin is there for almost two years in brussels thank you so much. all right and there's more drama phil let's talk about the climate's so that's a monica thank you climate talks are underway here and they west and jim city of delegates from over one hundred ninety countries is discussing how to implement the landmark paris agreement global warming one country at the forefront of the fight against climate change is kenya they already have the country already meets thirty percent of its energy needs geothermal power which doesn't do any emissions cadence

there also are adjusting their farming practices in response to changing by the patterns. and list 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 right 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 our tune of ten thousand matter what but so far we've been able to. to do. more than six hundred. expensive yeah there was all we need to be observing that we are still learning we we don't want to well use it almost thirty percent of the

energy used in kenya is produced by geothermal plants and his number is said to rise without dangerous emissions. there is even a public swimming pool featuring sulfurous 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. fields have to be developed drilling is risky though and someone will have to take on at least part of that risk. can you can't do this on its own. we drive back to nairobi to visit the ministry of the environment while outside a traffic jam stretches across the city. inside pacifica tells us that her country is counting on renewable energy sources such as geothermal power and their hopes are high for the ban climate conference. we are the ones who are experiencing mega

impact on climate change when it comes to issues like drought and floods so we expect the well to actually make the board 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 one 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 leading 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 in this project. is it invest 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 because of this project the farmers have water twenty four hours a day they can plant throughout the year and are 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.