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a bit. but just how great has it been why someone who's been tracking the president's every move also coming up. rescuers in iran hold their efforts to find any more survivors of sunday's earthquake tehran declares a day of national mourning for the some four hundred people who died in the disaster. and football powerhouse italy will not be at the next year's world cup after the fourth time winners failed to beat sweden in their qualifying playoff . i'm brian thomas welcome to the show u.s. president donald trump is returning to washington after a twelve day tour of asia it has been a packed visit that took in japan south korea china vietnam and the philippines in

a moment i'll be asking an analyst what he made of the tour but first here's a look at the hits and the misses of the president's asian charm offensive. donald trump may have written the art of the deal but the art of diplomacy hasn't always come easy so this was going to be an ambitious two by any measure he was there to rally u.s. troops put it all on. one front pyongyang's provocations. north korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action and do some deals. trouble to bed to shore up the pacific alliance began in japan where traits of subtlety and nuance were in short supply. not his host prime minister shinzo abi minded very much. the reception was always going to be frosty here in south korea trump has accused all of weakness in the face of the north. yet trump speech to

parliament eons confounded his critics. if you want peace you must stand strong at all times the world. at a big banquet the commander in chief had a diplomatic trick up his sleeve. videos of his drowned daughter singing in mandarin a surefire way to please his hosts trump had cause to celebrate as he later claimed president xi would up the sanctions against north korea. ok for more let's bring in rowan tall you're from the j.f.k. institute of berlin's for university good morning erwin as ever i want to write you know talking about the president there in the philippines not bringing up the extradition all killings under the government did america in the former president

fail to address some of its core values human rights in the philippines in a way that it could have. you're absolutely right that this was an opportunity to repeat what is always clear just as the united states will send in military you know the ship the naval ships to guarantee the rights of navigation here taking the stand on the side of basic human rights is something that is part of the great achievements of western civilization and to let such an opportunity pass is not in our long run interest i think ok the president's political goal though was shoring up relationships with a longtime u.s. allies like south korea and japan did he succeed there well i can't say that what we were observing now is a coherent consistent coalition to deal with the north

korean nuclear problem feeble have talked people are talking he managed to get off a wild tweet about height and. breadth of kim jong un but the actual hard tacks of what is the coordinated strategy for dealing with this certainly wasn't visible ok but he did meet with the chinese leader xi jinping in not only in beijing but in vietnam as well they had some old apparently some lengthy talks who got the most out of those meetings. i think. china is showing that it's now it's really standing in fact with a benevolent i almost looking down at the united states that is slowly disengaging by avoiding the multilateral you know team building coalition building

foreign policies of his predecessors and going on this by lateral one on one sort of negotiation i think trump has shown that he is weaker then clearly a regional power china can project very much power and it's important for. putting together all of the other countries in the region to have a counterweight ok but the president said look i've signed off on a lot of deals here three hundred billion is the number that he quoted i mean there were some economic deals that were that were hammered down perhaps the most interesting of all of these things was the ability of investment banks now to take a majority ownership position in china a lot of this stuff is you know it's frosting on the cake things have happened. what we're seeing are things are being revealed part of the celebration of being

together that's what we're seeing this is not ok now irwin when the president arrives home something else we're going to talk about in just a bit o. be confronted with the latest developments in investigations of the alleged russian influence in the u.s. election campaign president trump's eldest son has now revealed a series of messages exchanged with wiki leaks during and after his father's campaign from junior released the messages on twitter in the exchange wiki leaks asked him to push a story about former democratic presidential. slamming the site's founder julian assange now wiki leaks also tried to convince him apparently to release his father's tax returns to the site material is. being looked at by congressional investigators irwin what do you make of this what would these allegations mean for the investigation into the campaign's alleged russia connection i think something is going to be really important to figure out wiki leaks that's not a person who there's

a specific person or persons who are sending messages to the president's son this is going to be really interesting that such messages were actively sent. is very curious indeed. i think there's more background there's a level beyond wiki leaks directly contacting. junior that we still haven't seen but clearly this is the voluntary horsetrading of information the suggestion of certain things this is not your your uncle trying to get more likes on facebook or asking people to for a retreat something this is a news organization or public organization trying to get retreats from presidential candidate this is weird it is this a new way that politics is going to be done the young politics journalism n.g.o.s

enter cooperating cooperating with each other to create a completely new playing field for the political world in washington d.c. . absolutely and what we're seeing is you know information is being weaponized it's smoke and mirrors has just gone to new dimension making it a lot harder for people like yourself and deutsch about it how do you report when the information is you know linked to people parties governments that have their own agendas it's getting awad harder to sort truth out from spin and smoke and mirrors is a good way of putting it irwin colors thanks so much for being with us today. now for a quick look at some of the other stories making in the news at this hour u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has held talks with me in mars' leader aung san suu kyi on the sidelines of the summit teller's and flies to me in march tomorrow

to discuss the range refugee crisis she is under pressure right now to take action more than six hundred thousand range of muslims of flood a military crackdown to neighboring bangladesh. thousands of women have protested in brazil over moves in parliament to criminalize abortions without exceptions terminations are currently allowed in limited cases including rape and life threatening pregnancies a total ban would mean a majority in both houses to become long. saudi arabia's ambassador to the united nations says riyadh will lift its blockade on ports in yemen within the next twenty four hours but the move will not apply to ports controlled by the rebel who's these tens of thousands of protesters are taking to the streets of the capital sana to protest the blockade and there are reports that a series of airstrikes on a town in northern syria killed more than fifty people a london based syrian observatory for human rights as the air strikes hit

a town in the rebel held area of ata red that's near a lot it is not yet clear who was behind that. still to come on the show italy do not qualify for the world cup after they failed to beat sweden in their qualifying playoff we ask what went wrong with the tao in football. first it's over to helena with the latest twists and twists in the story of the bronx and saga well there's been a few of them haven't there over the past few months probably plenty more to come in the u.k. parliament is set to get the final say on the brig's it deal in a binding vote but what deal will they be voting on talks in brussels appear to be at a standstill which means prime minister to resign may's meeting with european business leaders on monday was likely a tough one businesses in and outside of the u.k. are becoming increasingly agitated not knowing what relations between the u.k.

and the e.u. will look like in the future and that i'm on the nonces. the only life was as easy as these demonstrators in the center of london was saying on monday. the other day oh it's never too late. prime minister to resign may agrees but the country is still hurtling towards bragg's it on the twenty ninth of march twenty ninth with no deal. nervous european business groups who came to see mrs may in downing street are now only concerned with one thing damage limitation they want the british government to back down so the country doesn't fly over the end of a cliff on the day. we've made it clear towards the e.u. commission and the british government that it is in our interest to avoid one thing . the end of relations between great britain and the european union you can avoid

that if you want to avoid it and we hope we bolster their will to do so today in britain. but the clock is ticking and there's little more than hope right now what will happen to the many cross border companies how many jobs will be lost to reason may can't say in the automobile industry parts are delivered from one country assembled in another and then exported on to foreign markets many of these cross border transactions could be subject to british import tariffs in the event of a hard break that they could come to over two billion euros for german products so far britain and the e.u. have not found much common ground but if that doesn't change soon the u.k. could lose a lot of investment some of the big banks have already begun moving their stuff from london to other financial hubs like frankfurt. and we can talk more about this now with and they are. he's the director of the british chamber of commerce in germany thank you very much for being with us good morning now german

industry groups have sounded the alarm over the possibility of no deal hard brags that we even had one warning coming yesterday how real a possibility is that do you think it's quite a possibility as you can see the sixth round is over and it ended up with an escalation in the negotiations by new demanding in within fourteen days a move by the british which is quite considerable step and i don't see anything happening on this matter at the moment all right let's say nothing happens let's say high tariffs a slap on goods moving between the u.k. and germany how damaging with that be it would be very damaging you have to consider that we have employed in germany about four hundred thousand people by british companies and vice versa in britain about three hundred thousand people by german companies and of course if the supply chains are interrupted and trade is interrupted these working places would be negatively affected i mean these are

quite alarming numbers and it's just one example germany is working on a new coalition government at the moment and we know that german industry groups and likely to put pressure on politicians to while a potentially allow britain access to the free market do you think that pressure would work do you think this succeed we hope so we certainly hope so and also the british chamber is doing the same thing in germany we are trying to support the negotiators and tell them please be reasonable in your demands don't put any negative p.r. in front of you and make britain look bad and try to look at the positive and try to do a look at what is at stake and there's quite a bit at stake i mean use that phrase negative p.r. and i have to think about it when we talk about the talks that have a. really stalled in brussels that certainly negative p.r. has that already hurt business interest would you say i would say yes and some

companies have already put up contingency plans they are moving partially some workers over to the other side of the channel and businesses such as the japanese automotive industry which is producing most of its european exports from britain is looking into other sites and that's quite a negative thing for britain i would say. let's just say a year ago let's think back to then some industry leaders were in favor of britain leaving the european union let's imagine it's probably unlikely to happen that there was a second referendum do you think that make the same choice some would not and i think many of the voters and the electorate would vote against breaks it and if the parties put up a program saying with us she would stay in the european union i think this would be quite a run up against the conservatives who are currently. ruling the country do you feel let down by politicians in somewhat yes i think business and trade and

especially jobs have not been looked at in the deps there was a lot of negative p.r. before the brics that complain things for publicised in the way that were really more motivated by self interest rather than interest of the general public right and they may shake about director of the british chamber of commerce in germany thank you for sharing your perspective with us thank you for having me. as to iran now where the government has declared today a national day of mourning for the victims of sunday's deadly earthquake the tremor had a remote mountainous region on the border with iraq rain in media reporting that rescue efforts came to an end during the night more than four hundred people have been reported killed and several thousand injured.

amid the rubble the noice of dickerson's broken by house of sadness. as rescue workers retreat the dead the bereaved are left to grapple with homes and lives ruined. in remote support also has been the worst hit area buildings have been destroyed with much of the town late waste. the frantic search for the living is now turning into a recovery effort. for the injured survivors the town's only hospital is not an option. with only makeshift aid facilities and a shortage of vital supplies hundreds happen ferried halfway across the country to the capital to run there was nothing where we came from no electricity no water. i'm in a bad way i was in a hospital for eighteen hours. across the border in iraq people are trying to return to normal darbhanga khan bore the brunt of the damage here. the building was

flattened by the earthquake the rubble collapsed on a family of seven we only managed to rescue five of them the other two were killed . the disaster has left an estimated seventy thousand people homeless. neighboring countries have been answering the call for help turkey has sent humanitarian assistance along with three thousand tents and ten thousand beds. and joining us now is dr helen shod she heads the u.k. based rand's children charity dr john thanks so much for being with us this morning your charity is working in the worst affected town of in western iran can you tell us what's the situation on the ground as far as you know. yes we have at the moment three off our colleagues. working on the ground supporting our there. and jews

and organization helping people for lack of food providing bankets trying to assist which organizing various activities that the government are not and us are carrying out unfortunately the decision is to be getting off the quake so the search and rescue has been stopped at a moments but there is a lot to do because there are still many people who sleeping out so it's. really it's very bad situation at the moment they're sleeping outside in difficult winter conditions aren't they and there has been some criticism of the government in tehran that there hasn't been enough support what are you hearing has there been adequate help and support from the iranian government. well look what we have heard is that you are doing their best i mean these circumstances it's always difficult to make sure everything's ready and dispatched immediately after from what we hear

and they are making efforts and there are on the ground at the moment but there are a lot of n.g.o.s as well that are supporting what they're doing of course the amount of blankets and tents and food is needed still and the beginning of the rest of us for so those are still going to be needed which are a lot of it really did the government if they can't achieve what you know their needs are the local people are helping a lot as well and from tehran and there are. i know my colleagues we had a few lorries leaving yesterday from more tinned food and i'm concerned that there are a lot of people also helping but you know do government obviously can't do everything on the certain so and any of their international organizations help would be appreciated and that's where you come in as well you had a children's charity what the children need right now most in the affected areas.

yes of course is the immediate needs are shelter food but also we are looking ahead for the issues to do with post-traumatic stress disorder in that a lot of them are going to have emotional stress long after this. has been issued and people have have received immediate help so now you're looking to see if you can provide workshops for ok to organize a local organizations we have to leave it there doesn't your god dr elders are of the iran's children charity thanks so much for being with us thank you very much for having me. also football now in italy have failed to qualify for next year's world cup after losing a playoff to sweden four time world cup winners italy dominated the game but simply

could not find a way past a very solid swedish defense the game ended nil nil sweden goes through after winning the first leg one nil it is the first time italy have not qualified for a world's top and check this sixty years. wow what a catastrophic night for more on italy's defeat against sweden we have dress harrington and in the studio with us kress this is a national catastrophe for italy what happened they really had poor finishing and i have to agree with the sentiment there is not an italian football fan on the planet that satisfied you can look at the fans they were so dejected after the match and you have to feel bad for gigi before long you know the ageless wonder he just missed out on his sixth world cup final italy has always been a side strong at the back but you have to question the coach ventura he had a questionable line up in the first leg and then the second leg and for the home

crowd they failed to execute a sad day for italian football ok what about sweden they were the underdogs in all of this sweden gets a lot of credit if they've been scoring a lot of goals that helped them get to this point in their group they were tied on goal they had an advantage over the netherlands based on goal difference and this weave in team has no superstars only four players in their starting line up play in europe's top leagues so you have to credit to the teamwork and this is a team that missed out on the european championship they were booted out so it's nice to see them resurrect and in terms of italy sweden match up the last time italy missed out in the world cup it was in sweden so something about sweden italy don't mix well together it wasn't all about their defense you know that line that was just unbreakable for you know how many shots they did did italy nearly thirty shots in one go. lol so any time you're firing that many blanks back to the drawing board you must go ok while world champions germany face a tough task when they host heavyweights france in a friendly that's coming up tonight france are many people's tips for world cup

glory and russia next year germany coach or home love can see some similarities with his own side. germany are and will mode despite the kick off and russia still being seven months away goalkeeper kevin trapp based in france fifth. will start the friendly. hopes to make a comeback from injury having not played for germany for a year you're gay lives he's parallels between the development of the german team during his long reign and the progression of the current french crop if you describe just the judicial i think it's good friends coach didier deschamps been there a while in two thousand and fourteen his team was already strong but in two thousand and sixteen they had improved now they have made another step forward. before making my. masterminded a win over jim in the euro two thousand and sixteen semifinal but he is still very wary of the world champions. because he did. i believe germany are

a level above us they have got a lot of experience in recent years even if you're not rejuvenating his group quite a bit. and then the huge yorkie moore. learns hopes he won't have to do an about turn after the big clash in cologne. germany versus france a true heavyweight spectacle for us who has the edge i think france has the i'll tell you why they have more speed more depth than they're not dealing with as many injuries as the german side is dealing with but in this particular match up all the german side mario goods is expected to make his return you know mario good was the reason that germany prevailed in the last world cup head to head match up goes france's way in the last five times these two teams faced off against one another the only time germany one was on the way to winning the world cup in twenty fourteen you know so i think speed effectiveness the way to finish up front killing

them. griezmann the weapons go on and on for france all the german side of things good so there midfield tony cross is expected to come back but. strength is in their defense and i'm waiting for the return of manuel neuer to have a complete german side kevin trap is expected to get the nod from coach love tonight so we have to see how that plays out but all the all it's only a friendly ok it is only a friendly in the french coach a very worried about the german experience in that team that that they're an experienced line up their quest thanks so much for that we'll see how that works out all right and next year get your mind of our top stories at this hour u.s. president donald trump has wrapped up his twelve day tour of asia after talks with regional leaders in manila despite protests on some lights of the tour the president reaffirmed america's commitment to its key asian alex rescuers and ron and other news of the end of their search for survivors of sunday's quake to run as announced a national day of mourning for the more than four hundred people who died. that's

all we have time for i'm brian thomas from the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. three stones from three continents. three thrilling story.

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