the world from different perspectives. join us and be inspired by distinctive instagram murders. d.w. story topics each week on instagram. this is the news live from berlin germany remembers a night of terror one year ago a failed asylum seeker drove a truck into a crowded christmas market killing twelve people and injuring dozens it was the first major to hit the country as enough been done since then to help those

devastated by that attack also coming up with every decision and every action we are now putting american first u.s. president laying out his vision for national security it's one where competition compromise when it comes to america's interests. and a turkish german journalist released from prison in turkey but she's still unable to leave the contrary other jailed colleagues also be free we'll go live to istanbul. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show. one year ago today terror struck in the very heart of berlin a failed to nation asylum seeker and its armory drove a stolen truck into a crowded christmas market here in berlin twelve people died dozens were wounded in

the first major is a must attack in germany we'll talk about the criticism authorities here have been facing in the aftermath first we have this report. christmas in central berlin and this truck races towards the market full of people but doesn't stop the driver deliberately steals into the crowd. people had been eating sausages and drinking mulled wine now dead an injured lie among the wreckage of wooden stalls. he heard breaking we saw people shouting and screaming. and crying and there were large people in there he's. obviously injured. some people are sitting on the ground floor he is. the man who'd been behind the wheel escaped to italy police found him nearly a week later and shot him dead german politicians initially seemed reluctant to

label it a terror attack but the so-called islamic state soon claimed responsibility even then late is urged people to stick together. the perpetrators hatred will not tempt us to hate. it will not divide out togetherness. this year people have been determined to carry on as normal but precautions have been made concrete barriers set up around christmas markets now in germany show an underlying concern. and here a bright child plants there's more a makeshift memorial to the dead today it makes way for a more permanent reminder. our political correspondent joins me in the studio to talk more about this now good morning one year on is germany better prepared i guess you have to say yes there have been a lot of measures taken to try and prevent this kind of thing from happening again

police measures measures to try and coordinate between the various police and security institutions in the sense i think you have to say yes but obviously no country can assure with one hundred percent certainty of a something like this cannot happen again ok now the victims' families have had their very first meeting with on the machall since the attack and they have been extremely vocal in their criticism of security services especially the chancellor let's let's look at how that may be what. survivors of the christmas market attack attended the meeting and so are two to the others whose words a psychological like victims' families anglo-american are invited to eighty of them in total it was an uncomfortable encounter victims are angry at her government. for months we've already here last may at a memorial service but she wasn't. mentioned why

did twelve people have to die in vain and why were so many scarred because the german government filed attack and this armory was known to police but he was able to carry out his plans before meeting with the victims on monday america promised to do better. so i know that some might have wished this meeting to have happened earlier but i think it's important to stress how much we feel for the injured and victims' loved ones and how much we want to improve things the. market is in favor of performing the security services and increasing psychological and financial kaffir victims the government special representative came up with the ideas they have to follow the compensation for victims' loved ones isn't enough only ten thousand euros for parents who've lost children or children who've lost parents that's low by international standards. but the opposition says the government's plans don't go far enough this poll there needs to be an inquiry into

the armory attack german should know exactly who he was and who was behind him and stick to a year after the bell and shark attack the weapons that left remain open. why did the chelsea take so very long to reach out to the survivors and to the families of the victims frankly difficult to say and i don't really have an answer to that i think in the end you have to say that this kind of emotional. situation is something that. only finds very difficult to handle and she has some sort of reticence to get involved in these kind of emotional exchanges i think that this party behind it formally she is saying well you know the state president in other words the representative of the state not of the government spoke to the victims everything was done by the book as it were but in fact you have to say that in these situations you can't do things by the book you have to do things that people need and that's really where the failure of america personally i think and of her

government has been most the most crucial ok you know as we saw in that report as we've been reporting it now turns out that the attacker and his armory was being used by authorities as an intelligence asset still eluded the police have there been any representations for this complete breakdown in security repercussions in terms of anybody being fired the personal consequences for some of the police people involved and so on none at all in fact yesterday the government spokesman said that the government's trust in in the main in the lead of the internal security of the internal intelligence agency remains intact and you have to say that the various security agencies in the federal states in the central states and so on there coordination their cooperation was disastrous in the situation didn't know this person they followed him he was being observed and still

he was able to commit this attack it's really quite inconceivable that it could have happened like that have been two inquiries already on the parliamentary level at the state level and i think it's very likely that in the central parliament there will also be some sort of inquiry on this brought thanks for that. u.s. president donald trump has laid out his foreign policy strategy in a speech that outlined a shift from past administrations his focus on protecting american interests first mirrors washington's changing role in the world the plan focuses on containing china and russia as well as dealing with threats from iran and north korea. in a wide ranging speech donald trump unveiled his new national security strategy let me begin once more he used the blunt language that his supporters love and his detractors love. with every decision and every action we're now putting america

first with the strategy i am announcing today we are declaring that america is in the game and america is going to win this dropping previous mentions of climate change trump instead focused on four main pillars. boosting homeland protection including building his wall on the mexican border promoting american prosperity by rebuilding infrastructure demonstrating military strength he said he would end mandatory defense spending limits and advance u.s. influence in the world. trim call china and russia great rivals he also said washington had no choice but to deal with the challenge posed by north korea's nuclear and missile programs. our campaign of maximum pressure on the north korean regime has resulted in the toughest ever sanctions we have

united our allies in an unprecedented effort to isolate north korea however there is much more work to do america and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve a d. nuclear ization and ensure that this regime cannot threaten the world. but on monday it was the united states that was isolated at the u.n. security council when the us ambassador nikki haley vetoed a resolution rejecting trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital after all fourteen other security council members back the measure. what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult it won't be forgotten today for acknowledging a basic truth about the capital city of israel we are ques departing peace the record will reflect that we reject that outrageous claim. the veto highlighted

washington's isolation over trump's declaration that the us embassy will be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem station the let's bring in the w.'s carson for nominees standing by for us in washington karsten the president launched a blistering attack in that speech on previous president's policies what did you make of that. officially it was a speech on national security but the effect of this was an election campaign speech catering to donard strums base he was hocking back to his inaugural address in january basically and defending his record the end of his first year in office back then in january he had already talked about the forgotten men and women who had been neglected by america's elites and by the governments who had failed them by. agreeing to bad deals and he did this again in

a speech on monday once again blasting previous governments and presenting himself as a kind of protector of america against the evil world outside he said he would protect america against bad trade against terrorists criminals illegal immigrants and so on and pretty much was a summary of donald trump world view where he doesn't really have a positive view of vision of how to minister lobel is ation it is all about surviving in a competitive world ok now in a speech the president also described china and russia as america's biggest rivals right now he said he would also seek partnerships with them how can he square that with his american first policy. well once again he thinks about partnerships on a case to case basis for instance when fighting terrorists or when dealing with

countries like north korea then he wants to cooperate with these countries it was actually quite interesting that he singled out those two countries because it is was known that donald trump is actually quite impressed by authoritarian leaders such as bloody putin or ping it shows that a lot of advisors who are quite critical of these two countries in particular have made their influence clear in writing this strategy and of course donald trump also wants to show that he protects america against any foe including china and russia ok now the strategy has also reversed era warnings on climate changes that mean that climate change as a threat to national security is now off the table yet it's no longer in this strategy as such the only time he mentions climate change

was when he defended his decision to leave the paris climate a court basically saying it's expensive and unfair towards the united states but there's nothing like in obama's national security papers where he actually said that climate change is one of the biggest threats to u.s. national security donald trump will have nothing of that carson phenomenon for us in washington this morning thanks very much carson. along with foreign policy the president's also been making some changes to the nation's tax code monitor that has investors excited brian global stocks surged on monday on expectations that the united states will pass its massive tax overhaul later this week the dow jones industrial average closed at a record high in new york while the take heavy nasdaq composite index briefly broke the seven thousand mark for the very first time in its history markets in asia and europe also ended the day in mostly positive territory president trump is expected

to sign the tax bill before christmas the bill would permanently slash corporate tax rates and is widely seen as a boon for businesses and wealthy americans. u.s. president donald trump seems to want to play santa claus this year. we have a tremendous spirit for the tax reform this is going to be one of the great christmas gifts stability before but trump's tax reform gift will mostly benefit large corporations it shrinks that tax burden from thirty five to twenty percent for mid-sized companies the tax cut is slightly less generous their rate is capped at twenty five percent meanwhile tax rates for ordinary employees will hardly change tool in fact allowances for low earners weren't even be as high as was originally planned but perhaps the greatest threat of the tax reform is its cost two point two trillion dollars over the next ten years money the government doesn't

have but trump has an idea of where the money can come from. we think four trillion dollars will come flowing back this is a country that money goes overseas that's stuck there for years and years trump is hoping the said new one time repatriation tax will incentivize u.s. companies to bring their profits back home where they can be reinvested or and to the economy through stock buybacks at the moment u.s. companies have to pay thirty five percent tax to bring their foreign profits back home. let's talk a bit more about this tax reform with my u.s. savvy colleague last last let's start off with the end the report said that trump wants to offset the cost of his tax bill by given amnesty to companies for bringing back profits booked abroad four trillion dollars a mention to you in the piece what you make of that well let's look at the amount of money here first it's more like two point five two point six trillion dollars

that's what most analysts actually have that number but still obviously that's a lot of money that's our profits american companies have made abroad basically money that is sitting there and cannot be taxed in the u.s. . yes now if companies bring that back and they might at a lower tax rate of course that is a good amount of money but that obviously would be a one time items so as such it would be i think pretty much unfit to pay for tax cuts that would be recurring items then that would effect the budget on a year to year basis of course what trump is betting on is what we all know as the famous trickle down economy is that companies keeping more profit will also invest more maybe also hand out higher wages those that work no it doesn't work at all we've heard that story over and over again from always republican administrations they've started under reagan and the fact of the matters and every economist agrees

with that companies do not pay higher wages company do not hire or invest just because they have more money sitting around companies higher and company invests when the demand is up for their product or for their services for that matter alone it would actually be good to strengthen the middle class because they are customers and they might actually make demand for certain goods go up and that leads to more hiring and you know all of a by the way who should know that now as of late gary cohn trumps advisor financial advisor he was at a meeting in front of c.e.o.'s just recently about last month and they asked c.e.o.'s who if you would immediately invest if you had more money sitting around who would hire two hands went up and he was asking why aren't the other hands up obviously the other hands and. up because people would not the companies would not hire just because they have money said those hands firmly stuck in the company's pockets now with lower corporate taxes of course the united states could become

attractive to not just u.s. companies but other companies shifting headquarters wakes up the european multinationals do you see a chance or a risk of that i don't think anyone would move their headquarters over to the united states. but i do certainly think that a lot of multinationals will put their investments were into the u.s. let's look as an example maybe the german automakers they have huge plants in the united states now if you want all those companies and you would launch a new model obviously becomes very attractive to build that model in the u.s. instead of elsewhere so that might have been some analysts thing as for germany that might make up about forty billion dollars of investments that could go into the u.s. instead of staying in the home markets all right last how to there as ever extremely u.s. savvy here filling us in thank you so much welcome. now there are predictions that india's population is set to overtake china in only

a decade economists say that who would give it a middle class that in size outstrips the number of middle class people in the united states and europe but the rise of india's consuming class is already in full swing with so many people eating out in chennai for example that restaurant owners they're trying out new gimmicks such as service robots to stay competitive. they're reliable and never complain and don't expect generous tips a team of robots rooms this eatery serving food and drinks to customers and once the guests have finished their meal the robots gather the dirty dishes the founding partners think it's the right time to combine technology with gourmet food and unsurprisingly they've decided to call their establishment robot will be the search what of it follows one year and they are different the next on designs and all that some of it when they finally decided that people do something different with the knowledge deadening the i didn't because i don't live overlooking the stone and then being robots to actually live in the food i have seen these and not all of

a book on these so that even if you decided to get it done in one of then it doing the tablets at every table make it easy and fast for customers to submit orders from a menu of time and chinese dishes and they're giving the new service a thumbs up. they didn't expect us that we needed any airline that if this is great if we. have any interest in buying we have and trying and. of course not everybody is fond of the machines but like them or not you'll have to get used to them the demand for service robots is expected to accelerate in the coming years. right over to brian now and turkey has released a german journalist that after a months in prison it's important to point out monica that she will not though be allowed to leave the country a court in turkey has released a turkish german journalist pending trial for terrorism. case as test of the

already strained relations between berlin and ankara she was arrested earlier this year and what human rights organizations are calling a targeted crackdown on free speech in turkey among those also arrested is another turkish german journalist and he's you tell who remains behind bars. free at last. after being held in a turkish prison for seven months michelle a total can finally embrace her family members again back in april she was arrested in her istanbul apartment and taken to a women's prison her three year old son also spent time with her behind bars we follow her to her lawyers office michelle a total wants to see a few words to the media. i am very happy but also very exhausted this is been a huge circus that i still have to process i believe in the coming days i will get a clearer idea of what actually happened and be able to say more.

but going to germany is not an option for michele if she still faces charges in turkey and was only released on the condition that she doesn't leave the country german researcher shadow god is in a similar situation in general two thousand and sixteen he signed a petition together with more than a thousand other academics urging the turkish government to end violence in kurdish areas now the eric used of engaging in terrorist propaganda for the bad kurdish workers party. he lost his job as a university professor and cannot leave the country. if asked i'm stranded here. it's my life has been taken from me. and it's leaving skivvies and i live here without work a place to stay money and my family he be here shadow god he pulps that

after his trial his travel ban will be lifted he wants to leave turkey as soon as possible. michel atolls trial is set to continue in april she is charged with being a member of the marxist leninist communist party a group classified as a terrorist organization she believes she's being tried for another reason isn't. all in all this is saying we are journalists and we're a thorn in the side of the government i am free today but i'm waiting for dennis you just to be free i really can't see a difference between the two of us i hope you'll be able to enjoy his freedom soon i hope he does isn't like. dennis you jill has been detained without charge since february michelle the totals release could be a sign of hope well is it for the very latest let's bring in dorian jones our correspondent in istanbul dorian just told those early mean we could soon

see other imprisoned journalists released as well. certainly the hope is released all full of the release of peta showing. similar serious charges but story that was allowed to leave the country while total hasn't been able to be given how possible she still in the country and there's a great deal of i think frustration being voiced in berlin over that fact the german foreign minister oh the german chancellor is concerned about this given the fact that she's still facing very serious charges that trial will resume in april and she can still ultimately face fifteen years in jail but still overall that is a relief that she's out of jail given the fact she has a three year old child ok let's focus in on mistletoes case there was some confusion last night first it looked like she was going to be sent back to germany what happened exactly. well indeed she was made to be released from prison but

then she was taken into police custody again no one knew where she was being taken to one why there was even some reports that she could face automatic deportation that was a rumor that was put around by one of the opposition members of parliament but ultimately she was released after many hours of wait and anxious wait for supporters and family ok briefly if you could dorian does told his release indicate an easing up in the tensions between germany and turkey well i think that is that is certainly the huntley's being described as a first step but we have to have to realize that there are eight of the german nationals in prison many of and burning considered as political hostages until that situation is result i don't think any hope of any normal i think should or even improvement in relations door and thanks very much for that. now how far would you go for your country in siberia a group of hearty souls have braved the cold to protest russia's ban from next

year's winter olympics wearing nothing but christmas themed swimwear the flashmob skated on the frozen surface of the famous lake by call as if that was not enough they decided to go in for a dip. from the. earlier this month or state. although clean russian athletes compete individually under a neutral flak. on a crowded. twelve people dead and dozens. criticized for its response to the country's first major. we have more on these and other stories on our website don't forget our facebook and twitter feeds as well. thanks so much for being with us.

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