and language i can just come out of. so i'm ok i'm good show. d.w. dot com the germans. this is a w. news live from berlin the struggle for the middle east to dominance heats up conflicts across the region saudi arabia six to be in force its prominence there and in the wider world by rolling back iran's influence in yemen and lebanon as to how much

more dangerous could this rivalry become also on the program america's president delivers a scolding speech at the asia pacific form in vietnam telling the victims business the lease of the united states would not tolerate be on the fat trade practices he's previously accused china of. on to the american city cleans up its act climate negotiators can now look to pittsburgh as a model for green jobs on renewable energy. i'm phil gale welcome to the program. tensions between sunni a saudi arabia and shiite iran have spilled over into culverts across the middle east as it seeks to dominate the region not involved in direct conflict the two are presently gauged in a proxy war in yemen and a growing crisis in the lab and all observers are increasingly worried that these rivalries could lead to the outbreak of

a new conflict. in one corner iran still prickly despite its landmark nuclear deal with the international community and the western forces remain strong in the shiite republic and it continues to support radical islamic movements across the region. in the other corner an increasingly our society of saudi arabia encouraged by president trumps visit last may to expand its regional influence it's always. on his first trip to the middle east donald trump essentially gave the saudi leadership complete freedom to do whatever it wants as long as that serves u.s. interests that has fueled tensions in the confrontation between saudi arabia and iran. it's. one battleground in this regional rivalry is yemen with iran supporting who three rebels fighting the country's sunni government which is backed by saudi arabia. a pro rebel t.v. station showed images of

a missile it said who the rebels launched against saudi arabia the government in riyadh reacted by closing off all access to yemen. and when giants tassel it's often the most vulnerable who suffer the united nations says the saudi blockade of yemen could unleash a massive famine with millions of victims. now lebanon is also on the front line of this regional power struggle speaking from saudi arabia at the weekend lebanese prime minister saad hariri resigned saying he feared being assassinated by iran backed forces in his country. many lebanese however believe saudi arabia is using him as a tool in its conflict with iran yeah that's just. this resignation wasn't normal it's an insult to the lebanese people and to the government and to society as a whole. idea. behind it. there's

a volcano about to erupt in this region we don't know what the consequences are going to be. international diplomacy is now stepping up its efforts with french president emanuel mark or making an unscheduled visit to saudi arabia earlier today in a bid to help defuse the situation. ok all of this drama all reek of fright argues director of the center for modern oriental studies in balad welcome to d w. what's going on here what's really behind this apparent conflict between iran and saudi arabia well the various power struggles there's a power struggle in the region there's a power struggle over the tootling if you like of the islamic world and there's of course the international alignment and the struggle for example for alliance with the us which the saudis felt was breaking away with the iran nuclear deal and so it's often we see this characterized as. soon is versus shiites is it that simple

it's not that simple that obviously plays into the whole thing obviously the lebanon crisis for example or the yemen crisis or both linked to shia i had a groups within those countries but i think it's much more a power struggle a struggle over leadership a struggle over economic resources and. dominance ok so we see this going on in saudi arabia as a player in what's going on in in yemen and now in lebanon how dangerous is this likely to be is this likely to sort of escalate beyond a regional conflict well i think it can escalate very easily for a number of reasons i mean one is it's not just those two come two countries it's also syria there are there's talk about attempts by the saudis to destabilize iran using factions in pakistan notably in baluchistan so there's a lot going on far beyond the more narrow region and i think each of these various

areas has of course their very own internal dynamics levanon is quite different from yemen etc so each of these internal dynamics can also spiral into beyond control of either of the big players in the latest news from lebanon the prime minister has resigned. this is the statement from saudi arabia there is talk of the probably structure being held hostage well it wouldn't be the first time the yemeni president has also denied return to yemen at the moment so this is one of the various tactics and apparently there's talk of the saudis trying to get a brother of the current prime minister to potentially take over in lebanon so. this is not entirely plausible and it's made more complicated because the hariri is also very active as saudi business as businessmen in saudi arabia and therefore the saudis also have leverage over the in economic terms of of them so this is this is

a complicated situation that a closer look at the more complicated it gets because again taking the simplistic view saudi arabia as has been fighting on the side of the yemeni government so why would they take. their allies leader hostage well that's a very puzzling question it seems that this might be a concession to the to the emirates interest because apparently the emirates have now denounced the and are more backing and independence movement in the southern part of yemen but that's to some extent speculation so is this a new phenomenon or is this we just now seeing what has been simmering away for for decades bursting out into public view well a lot of this has been simmering but. in a sense at the moment it's exacerbated because the u.s.

seem to be to some extent changing their positions to some extent don't seem to take a very decisive stance anywhere in the region and therefore new powers including the regional powers are setting themselves in a much stronger way of freitag i think we i think will scratch the surface over an extremely large and complicated situation i thank you for guiding us through it thank you you thank. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world afghan officials say one policeman has been killed and two burdett in a suicide car bombing targeted a police car as a single bomb of course the blast and they started helmand province the group has claimed responsibility but helmand is in town about heartland. of the five hundred asylum seekers remain stranded in a decommissioned australian migrant camp in papua new guinea he has officially closed on the thirty first of october power food and water cut off however most of the camps residents have refused to relocate because of concerns for the safety of threats they say they've received from local residents. this is d.w.

worldviews life from violence still to come the race for places that next year's world cup in russia is heating up oh for australia it must feel like a marathon we preview that playoff in honduras with more than eighteen thousand kilometers from. investors around the world have been listening avidly to president trump's a speech in vietnam and monica jumps are small well if you want to feel he didn't fail them the u.s. president found rather harsh words when speaking to delegates of the apec summit in vietnam donald trump's been stressing his america first message when it comes to trade saying that the u.s. would not tolerate what he called chronic trade abuses. during the apec forum in done u.s. president donald trump stressed america's economic success under his leadership. a new optimism has swept all across our country. economic growth has

reached three point two percent. and going higher. unemployment. is at its lowest level in seventeen years. but directly after that trump expressed his displeasure with the supposedly unfair business practices and games the us they ignored the rules to gain advantage over those who followed the rules causing enormous to store shims in commerce and threatening the foundations of international trade it's. china's president xi jinping couldn't let that lie and challenge trumps comments albeit indirectly by expressing his support for free trade. over the last few decades economic globalization has contributed significantly to global growth

indeed it's become an irreversible historical trend. at the beginning of the year trumps administration decided not to take part in the planned transpacific partnership. but according to the countries that remain d.p.p. is on the way regardless of the u.s. decision. i believe that's the best way for us to generate wealth. for everybody concerned. now that america has taken the position to withdraw we respect that decision but it had been countries. by japan were trying to come up with a new version. just how much the t p p negotiations will progress is still unclear japan says there's a deal in place while canada denies it the apec summit in vietnam would certainly provide a worthy framework for its. a more on that whole story i'm joined now by nicholas

kessel's from the j.f.k. institute on north american studies so good to have you here with us so it's quite an interesting set up we're seeing here on the one hand a not very diplomatic u.s. president on the other a chinese president hu is seeming open up to two markets and embracing them how much of all that rhetoric rings true to you. well donald trump is that's just rhetoric that is having made two hundred fifty billion dollars in trade deals with china just you know the day before yesterday. he's now refusing to actually attack the one power that's responsible for the mess of north american asia trip deficit so he's talking basically to the world crowd and he knows that but he needs to talk to them because his electorate at home needs to hear him fight for what he calls fair trade at the same time at the same time

he is very much under fire at home because of the f.b.i. investigations into a legit russian interference yeah like that's not going away that quickly that's not. in a way any time soon so he needed to bring something juicy back home that's china he needs to stay true to his rhetoric that's now the summit in london so that is where we are so trump is playing to his home base his holdings are out and he is returning with a two hundred fifty billion dollars business deal with china what's china getting out of this that's very interesting because two years ago china unpacked its currency the renminbi from from the u.s. dollars so now when the dollar goes up there and the doesn't doesn't react as strongly and because the resulting devaluation particularly chinese holders of us on went on a spending spree china consequentially impose some restrictions on these

investments because many of them were going awry and now china actually has some solid investment opportunities especially in alaskan oil where the c.e.o.'s investment fund and the bank of china. round about forty billion dollars china has outsmarted a president who lost stretch strategic focus in the region well china also a lot of people saying that is strengthened because president bush a while ago decided to pull the united states out of the trans-pacific partnership t p p which as we just heard in this report the remaining nations they're still struggling to somehow get this deal off the ground what are they struggling with they don't have a leader the u.s. is the biggest economy china second. not even a close second and the idea back in the day when the obama administration pushed for to p.p. was to outweigh china in the pacific on both fronts in security policy as well as

trade because you know they follow both routes at the same time that's why it's called a strategy with the u.s. having pulled out the remaining nations lek this leader and like the vision of saying what do you actually want from t p p t p p u. the purpose doesn't know ok and it's unlikely that tomorrow the summit in manila trump will be able to actually . gain the trust of leaders there to come up with them you know it's difficult for them to find direction because as you mentioned the leader there is missing right now nicholas castles there from the j.f.k. institute a north american studies thank you so much. and the latest news on t.v. p.p. is reaching us just now a planned meeting also the editors of the eleven t.p. nations has been postponed apparently because canadian prime minister justin trudeau didn't show up for the meeting so no consensus could be reached now the british prime minister theresa may has unveiled legislation specifying the date and

time the country leaves the e.u. it says breaks it will take place at eleven p.m. local time on march twenty ninth two thousand and nineteen may says the motion shows the government's determination to see the bricks and process through germany's largest industry association the p.d.i. however said a comprehensive deal will take years to complete its warned the german companies or want to german companies to prepare for the scenario of britain leaving the e.u. with out a deal. and that is more and more likely michelle by a needy use chiva break sick negotiator just said that there needs to be substantial progress on the brakes a bill over the next two weeks if not future talks could not address the future relationship between britain and the e.u. and that would mean a hard breaks it is almost inevitable and that is something i would like to discuss with danielle corp our man in frankfurt. so we now know that britain will

officially happen at eleven pm one hour before midnight on friday the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen. first of all what exactly will change when the bell rings eleven. well i think this really all depends about those future talks where you know you just mentioned. that britain really needs to come with a plan also how they want to finance the bill because so much uncertainty is happening at the moment we are getting also worse there was a research paper actually released today that germany could be in the position of having to pay a much more money after that is really in place where you remember that every country in the european union pays a certain amount of the european union every year and the u.k. has been so far the third biggest payer with about ten point two billion euros

paying every year so now of course there's the question who is going to pay this money in the future and there are those speculation that germany might have to pay an additional three point eight billion and friends also another one point two billion euros arrives adelia how investors then preparing for a no deal breaks it just briefly please. well there are certainly preparing are for hard breaks at the moment and they really want to have those clarifications of bricks of bill the rights of european citizens so as so much still on the table and for the moment there really is say a thinking that it's not going to be possible in this time frame to have everything pretty much a great or identical in frankford thank you so much for this. and from directed to climate change we need to tackle that too don't we it's all in the how do we cram it all in half an hour and we do it all did well this week d.w. has been reporting from the united nations climate summit in bonn the big topic is

how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions united states has long been one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases but an american city once known for its muggy skies is showing that it is possible to cut pollution pittsburgh pennsylvania is undergoing a transformation as t.w. correspondent caso phenomena reports. this is the old image of pittsburgh a city of steel and coal where the chimney stacks never stop birching smoke and west read lights had to be left on twenty four hours a day because of the smog blocked out the sun but today's reality is a different one the city has cleaned up its act and instead of heavy industry banks and high tech companies are now providing jobs for a growing population more than thirteen thousand pittsburghers are employed in the clean energy sector alone in companies such as ever power which operates wind farms in pennsylvania new york and is developing projects in other states too for

co-founder and recall of best ski pittsburgh is the perfect place for innovative businesses i think it's the people you know it's great town pool here young people from some of the best universities in the country. also from the cultural standpoint you know there's a lot to offer we have three professional teams at the l.a. we have symphony we have the opera so many things that can draw great talent. pittsburgh's transformation as the result of a concerted effort by the city government to attract startups and other businesses while at the same time keeping an eye on environmental and social issues one of the people working on pittsburgh's turnaround is development analyst sarah yeager. to take a holistic approach as how can we improve pittsburgh. well this is creating more jobs more low income housing access to public transportation fossil fuel free vehicles so electrifying our fleet access to more bike lanes i really how can we

improve the quality of life for everybody and pittsburgh. another key factor in the city's formula for success is pittsburgh's colleges like carnegie mellon university many who started here at cmu have established themselves in the new economy founding startups in the vicinity of the campus and turning them into vibrant enterprises professor jean yang a specialist for programming languages is full of praise for the almost symbiotic relationship between scientists and tech companies here for instance do a lingo was started by lease on and he had this actual office for a long time before he left for doing go all together and so a lot of the tooling of people involved with cmu they come back here to listen to talks to speak. and everything is quite close so the people are companies they'll show up to talks here people here they'll spend some time at the company's jean

yang grew up in pittsburgh when it was still a byword for the american rust belt as soon as she finished school she moved away like so many other talents and young people at the time and expected never to return now she's back in her hometown and enjoys not only great working conditions but also a new quality of life in her old neighborhood these are places where it was pretty sketchy to walk outside there after dark and i was just way inside for my parents to pick me up i wouldn't go outside on my own and when i came back i realize that wow there are all these bars there now there are restaurants the buildings are outside they still look pretty much the same but what's going on inside really it's like night and day so pittsburgh clearly is on the way up again with young people flocking to the city and the prospect. even better times ahead for the next generation. or carbon emissions or may well be the main topic of the cup twenty three summit here in germany it's not have the only one or of the resources most

threatened by climate change water resource essential to human life climate change means water supplies have already been disrupted threatening ecosystems people's livelihoods and health. i look professional is president of the world at water council and joins us from the u.n. climate conference in bob welcome to the w. your organization has said that investment in water water infrastructure can reduce the impact of climate change how. good afternoon first and thanks to the german people to host to these the scope. we are trying to place today were trained to place water in the center of the climate debate water is very necessary for life and this is syria on the one hand for development but necessary on the other hand for nature conservation and the problem

is two of the well balanced between the two priorities that's the. main fight also we need to have a a very strong link between water and energy same fight water and energy to help poor people these cope is that mainly devoted to adaptation more than mediation and we are trying to push this solution is to have most of the poke around trees to be able to receive the ferns which are now on the table but they are not sometimes able to present their projects because they are poor in capacities and in human then financial capacity ok so give us an example that of how investment in water infrastructure can mitigate the effects of climate change. a few

examples for example the one in sydney galley in africa. very moment. you know or populations in africa are growing increasingly very fast. they. need. a water resource infrastructure which could be hable to bring poppy bring water to the book relation but also for agriculture and they could profit they could get profit from the difference turns blue for green fern adaptation fern which had been created during the last pope but the question for hearst the world what a council is to help them to behave or to receive these ferns which is a reason i'm and a very complex and complicated bureaucracy a process bureaucratic process i don't like i shall president of the world water

council i thank you thank you for now last night is that of football same as for halfway across the world to honduras for the first leg of their world cup laffin friday on friday two nations that had to sydney for the second leg in less than five days later the overall winner will secure their place in russia. after three flights thirty hours and more than eighteen thousand kilometers a straight they have finally a climatized leading into their match in san pedro sula the asian champions face a tricky test against on jurors in what will be a hostile atmosphere come friday night. security is on high alert in a city known for its high crime right but the socceroos will make no excuses only have one thing on their mind. i'm so going to keep ok. we are tame that has big goals with those and there is no bigger goal than reaching

a world cup before good post because it was part of the. fun jurist will i'm to make use of the local conditions including an expected forty thousand sellout crowd going into the second leg in a struggle with a late could prove priceless. we knew that we had a chance to make it to the world cup and now we have this big possibility we're only one small step away from breaching our dream but. that's. a small step on the pitch but a joint late to get their teams have to kick off again in sydney a mere one hundred seven hours after the final whistle blows in san pedro sula. i set you up tonight i'll have more for you at the top of the hour in the meantime of course but always such as the website that's t w dot com.

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