costume. between the two of. you can view linux. trying to turn up the president. to do. this is d w news live from bird led us president donald trump grips into his former chief strategist steve banned it is in the firing line for explosive comments on a trump tower meeting with russian donald trump says that ban in has quote lost his

mind i will ask an expert what the fallout medians for the two former allies. also coming up around declares an and to deadly anti-government unrest it's islamic rulers mobilize support with tens of thousands rallying and show of force for the government. and russia's election town town i will ask an opposition lawmaker if anything can stop flattery akutan winning another term in the kremlin. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. u.s. president donald trump has launched a scathing attack on his former chief strategist steve bannon ahead of the release of a new bombshell book the president said steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my

presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind the president writes now bannan meantime was after he was quoted in a new book that describes a meeting between mr trump's son and a group of russians as treasonous u.s. media says that trump's lawyers have not sent a cease and desist letter to ban and accusing him two of violating a non disclosure agreement. an epic falling out between the two former allies as we can see what could it mean to the tom presidency and the russian investigation we will have more on that in just a moment but first a look at how the ban and trump relationship collapsed with friends like these who needs enemies it may feel like ages ago but it hasn't been that long since president donald trump and his former chief strategist steve benen were thick as thieves. toward the end of the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign bannon left his post as executive chairman of the right wing web site breitbart

news to join the trump campaign he was the embodiment of all the issues that energized the trump base nationalism and hammock ration and economic deregulation despite accusations of racism and xenophobia benon helped build the wave of populism but trump it unleashed trump became president and bannon became a kingmaker bana took on the role as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president he was seen as a primary architect of trump's nationalist agenda the president was not shy about celebrating their closeness is very committed friend of mine it is very committed to getting things but we'll have a very good relationship as you know with the been steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot. bannan also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations their corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed adamantly opposed. to an economic nationalist agenda like donald trump.

but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassments trump brought an instant in the white house to an end after a mere seven months now following the publication of an incendiary book ben and then trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and for more on whether or not that is indeed the case i am joined by having reka head of the program of u.s. and transatlantic relations at the german council on foreign relations here in berlin thanks so much for being with us you know strong language as we've heard from both these two no surprise i mean they're really known for that aren't they but at the end of the day this book is said to describe the president as an on disciplined man child who doesn't understand the weight of the presidency does it

leave him in trouble i think if this is seen as an inside look into the presidency and many will do this especially on the more liberal side of the spectrum of course this will damage him or will underline the views that people have of him i think. one has to wait i mean if you could present himself as a nonpolitician as somebody who's doing things differently as a deal maker as a businessman this might actually help him help him along why ben did this i assume he understands that we he will have more attention in the white a spectrum of the political interest if he's going against the president and i think there might be some vanity in that in the end i think. trump might be able to to use that for his own benefit because he can distance himself from the far right and win back the voters in the republican center so that's the view on on how this book might and impact public perception but how about when we talk about legally

speaking because of course we know that there is an investigation that is underway in onto the trunk campaign's ties with russia bannon describing a meeting that the trump campaign had with a russian lawyer as quote treasonous what does that do for the investigation and potentially for the trump presidency in legal terms. in legal terms it will not change a lot because it's only an assessment from an outsider one might say but politically of course it strengthens muller's position it will strengthen the view that there must be an investigation like this it will make it harder for trump to to fire him and to go against him so this of course increases the credibility of mahler and the findings that he might get in the end i would assume there will be. things to do to be dragged into the open that will make the trump family or the compay look bad but it might be that trump himself didn't really. is not really

a culprit in the narrow sense so that might be the come out and he might even use these assessments for that but how much does it undermine for example republican efforts to undermine the investigation because we know for example actually just yesterday perhaps quincy densely perhaps not perhaps you can weigh in on that president tom's former campaign advisor paul metaphor and he actually sued the special counsel robert muller in order to get him to narrow the scope of the investigation of course not a fart he has been indicted for for money laundering it within the scope of the investigation where do you think that that all of this leaves the pro. i think that there are many republicans who are basically conservative they are not russia friendly they want to have the state run in an efficient way so they they might might see all these like intermingling the financial interests that come into play there the backdoor politics they might see this. as disgusting and

so actually this might also strengthen support on the republican side metaphor does of course he's trying to clean his own sheet with it and it's about his own career and his own role in that so i would assume when a ford is not through the core republican that is that is represented here and just briefly before we go you're an expert on transatlantic relations leaders here in europe how are they dealing with all the traumatic the united states it's of course impossible for them because the all this is dragging away attention and energy from the from the white house and it would be much more needed to fill the open posed to have an idea of what the white house and and the ministries do together so they all hope for a more stable. running of the of the government and we don't see this is only day four of the of the new year. in fact it is heading rico head of the program on u.s.

transatlantic relations at the german council on foreign relations in berlin thank you well the u.s. east coast is bracing for heavy snow as a winter storm intensifies into a bomb site clone for the first time in almost thirty years snow fell in the florida capital to. tallahassee elsewhere in the sunshine state freezing temperatures turned one man's pool into an ice rink drivers up the eastern seaboard battled high winds and blizzard conditions a state of emergency has been declared four states hundreds of schools have been closed in expectation of record breaking low temperatures. and extreme winter storms are sweeping across europe as well they have left four people dead and caused wide scale damage and destruction violent winds of up to one hundred forty kilometers per hour caused scaffolding to clocks in paris two hundred

thousand homes in the french capital were also left without electricity the storm has also caused chaos here in germany with colorful winds downing trees and power lines firefighters in the city of cologne worked to clear debris from the roads. to iran now where the head of the country's elite revolutionary guard has announced what he called the end of sedition this after he deployed forces to put down anti-government protests in several provinces twenty one people were killed during the weeklong protests and authorities arrested hundreds in show of might iranian state t.v. broadcast these images of pro-government rallies across the country there are unconfirmed reports of continued anti-government protests iran has imposed a blackout on social media but this footage from is fond province shows and building allegedly of long into the revolutionary guard going up in flames.

and for more let's bring in a.f.p. correspondent eric ran off we're standing by with the latest from tehran welcome to you eric we know that the head of the revolutionary guard has said that the anti-government protests have essentially been defeated or or wiped out so to speak what are you hearing. it's been pretty fired several. very. protests last night a very heavy police presence including many of the revolutionary guards on the streets very hard for us to verify the information we're getting from the problems . imposed on social media suggests that they have indeed died down considerably. more broadly speaking what do you think that the protests over the last week reveal about iran's leadership are we for example seeing cracks between hardliners and moderates in the regime. does these kind of just talk to the budget announced by the president passed. in which he made some

pretty unpopular austerity measures cuts to welfare raising fuel prices not hard line is it's a really been attacking him on those issues funding does the best way to undermine his leadership. and try to rally the coal particular against it. and there are suggestions that we're actually behind the protests broke out into this much wider arrest so ron it could actually be a good opportunity to get him to say that we need to close ranks if you carry over attacking me this way you see the kind of our price that you can trigger at the same time he's going to have a lot of work to do to try to placate people who are deeply angry about the economic situation and what does that mean would you say for the prospects of of economic reform in the country because they you know as you mentioned a lot of people they seem sympathetic to the protesters craven says. yeah i mean

there are a lot of people on the streets of tehran who understand the frustration of young people in a country where the unemployment rate is thirty two percent for the young and there was stuff i get a case of iran has a very good education system so a lot of people are underemployed as was dealing with that there are times over that that iran faces a lot of structural problems still under pretty heavy sanctions from the americans that make it very tough to to get trade go there are no simple solutions for up for president rouhani but i think we are going to see him try to do so he's off on some of the you started to notice that he had announced trying to make life a little bit easier while still trying to move ahead of some of the liberalizing reforms trying to put the economy back on an attack over time across it first to try to spur business interest but no no no easy solutions there eric randolph with the latest from tehran thank you thank you kate. chris october is here for us

now with more on those economic woes that iranians have been facing the try to stare as international sanctions on iran were lifted two and a half years ago many people there hope to their economic situation would improve that trade would flourish fearne investment flow in and create jobs and that consequently living standards would improve twenty fifteen foreign companies invested some two billion dollars in iran you can see it right there once sanctions were lifted foreign direct investment increased to almost three point four billion dollars french and a giant total was quick to arrange a deal worth billions with terror on to pump natural gas carmakers peugeot and dental build plants there and german companies are also vying for business in the country with a population of eighty million now that all adds up to sixty five percent increase in foreign investment but the economic upswing left may be behind the current waves

of protests come in no small part because of the hopes of many have been dashed others fear that the ties they were able to establish with the west may now come under pressure. so dot is general manager of roll and charge of a primarily female team the tehran based company imports medical devices to supply hospitals and clinics that specializes of high quality products and sources them from european partners known for innovation and reliability. they're not looking to just sell a product and then just as you place that you choose and not falling over the customer the follow the customers make sure that they get trained because the believe if my customers happy with my for their act and it's a happy customer it's going to bring more customers. that would like to contribute towards making a run into a medical tourism destination its plan availability of state of the art technology

to attract well off patients from foreign countries. it's part of iran's economic renewal following the lifting of international sanctions in two thousand and sixteen iranian businesses and erstwhile western partners reached out to each other hungry to pursue investment and trade opportunities but the economy is still struggling unemployment and corruption are rife inflation is running at near ten percent and the current unrest could scare off potential investors. now for more let's bring in thomas gave our he's a german entrepreneur who is medical equipment company has built a joint venture with the company we just saw in that report he's been doing business in around for years tom is welcome to the program that many of the protesters say they don't feel any economic improvement what's the major problem hampering the development they had hoped for. hello good morning the major problems that we will face is like you said it's corrupt see it's a lot of also

a bird crossly and slow procedures now the sanctions against iran were lifted two and a half years ago how realistic was it to expect conditions to improve in such a relatively short period of time. i guess the expectations are a little bit too high the population in iran is relatively young so the people who want to join and so i guess it takes some time and it takes in west and the trends for all know how from the from the west to to iran to this region that we will have bigger progress in the future is that your point of view what the iranian economy needs at this point more smart brains from outside. yes absolutely and what's also necessary is did we will find big german banks for the transactions right now we will face the problem that we cannot make business

because we just have smaller regional banks who accept transactions from iran because the bigger german banks in figure two to get sued if they got us business so does is also a reason why business is not so not so easy if you cannot make financial transactions now how important are business ties with germany and europe for iran. it's very important made in germany has a very good reputation and especially we as germans i'm always treated very valid very polite and so we we should not lose the rest becht if we have to contract compliance and stop now discussions about the atomic deal and stuff like maybe from the u.s. side not us somebody that has been doing business with iran for years what do you

make of these weeklong protests we've been seeing. i guess the protests because after the price ever was rising for some nutritions and i'm pretty sure if we will have a stable economy and economy there then the protests will be we will be gone real soon and thomas finally do you think those protests will change anything in the long run. i don't think so. it's a little bit complicated to go deeper inside their. power structures but i'm pretty sure that their arrangements are smart enough to know what's what's best for them in the future thomas gave our head of project coordination a blue ocean a german company with close business ties to iran thank you so much for your analysis security experts have discovered

a major design flaw in the chips made by u.s. tech giant intel a bug fix that could significantly slow down the performance of p.c.'s with an intel microprocessor the tech giant is yet to release more details about the flaw which experts say could affect millions of computers around the world operating systems running on intel chips like those by apple and microsoft must install the fixed void security issues but then the system could could run up to thirty five percent slower interest shares in new york lost more than three percent on the news . and it's the russian our country that goes to the polls this year to elect a new president sarah and no surprises here i mean it's largely expected that lattimer putin is going to easily win this reelection despite growing opposition our moscow correspondent said oh has this report on the major issues facing the country in twenty eighteen. twenty eighteen it will be

a special year. first is his predictable victory in the presidential election then the food bowl world cup in russia. but it also involves risks especially in foreign affairs. the middle east and syria in particular. prominent example of russia attempt to reposition itself on the build stage just a few weeks ago putin announced russia's withdrawal from syria but even if the military mission was successful achieving a political solution with partners whose individual goals are often the radical a different might prove to be a more difficult task the so-called syria peace congress planned for the end of january in such is the best example of this syrian opposition groups have canceled their butt dissipation because of a cold russian aggressor committed war crimes in syria. and here how do people in

russia see putin syria policy it was a great victory for russia and one of the war lasted too long it was time to pull down now we don't have to pay as much in tax. most of those who we asked to were in favor of withdrawing russian troops over they called of the withdrawal the most important foreign policy event of the past year russians are tired and say pomp and brands are well and good but it wouldn't be bad for the government to turn it down russia's economic problems coast in part by western sanctions will remain largely unresolved even in twenty eighteen. nevertheless is and to will remain as the country's most popular politician in to buy in to eighteen and he expects a victory in march why because of the kremlin promises stability and muscles anyone who questions is their promises the only serious challenge off saying of ali was not allowed to run for president he has. already announced his plans to appeal the

decision. politically russia is already starting to heat up and it probably won't cool down after the election if the kremlin can only hope that this is duration in the country will remain stable until june so that russia can finally score some positive press as that the host of the don't stop. and for more let's bring in now lattimer me law former deputy energy minister in the one nine hundred ninety s. and a well known russian opposition politician he has strongly supported the anti corruption activist election of only who has as we heard been barred from running in the presidential election thanks so much for joining us hello good morning. now with polls showing that putin is on course to comfortably win another six year term do you feel as if the opposition has failed.

i don't think comfortably is the right war in the current situation because it's pretty clear that the situation is changing last year we so arguably the biggest protests in why the cross the comes rescinds nine hundred ninety one the movement incorporated over one hundred of cities across russia. obviously a lot of lot of people are growing dissatisfied with the current economic policies we have economic stagnation with no prospects of improving of living standards which i'm focused on geopolitics that not many folks are really interested in so many people really want at least a competitive debates a contested election. this idea of another stage drawn that will do formally give another six year term to put him i think it is pretty much anticipated even by his supporters but how can they have that debate if they can't even vote for the leading opposition candidate when it comes to the polls when it comes to weighing in on the presidential election because i mean alexina volley we know that he is

he's been barred from from running for president did you backed the wrong horse. look we shouldn't speak about rule right horse here but we should focus on following the constitution constitutional explicitly says that people like the wyly can and must be allowed to participate in the elections and this is actually the main question of the russian politics now it's clear that the country's pretty ready for a real competitive contested election which we haven't seen in many many years. which is trying to skip that which diminishes that idea that enjoys so much support . of the media and the bulls has been telling us for the past three years so you say that the constitution according to the constitution that valise and be allowed to participate are you prepared to take any measures to make that happen. oh

yes really we will take the matter to the constitutional court will take the merits of the european court of human rights which already overturned no wiley's federal case and sentence before and we will demand a rerun we will demand a real action so time is a law or side we have plenty of time for there. anything stage that will happen will need scenes of march does not really matter that much a given the scale of the opposition movement is supporting alexi lalas contests really really briefly before we go any chance you're going to throw your name in the ring arm firmly back in the oil am an important part of his team are working on he's a comic programme so we are very much united behind his candidacy which is very popular lot of miami last former deputy energy minister in the one nine hundred ninety s. and a well known russian opposition politician we thank you so much for joining us here ended up in news. let's get

a quick reminder now of the top stories that we're following for you at this hour u.s. president donald trump has launched a blistering attack on his former chief strategist he was reacting to comments that steve bannan reported they made about a meeting in trump tower attended by a russian lawyer trump said that bennett had quote lost his mind and iranian state television has broadcast pictures of the government rallies in the country that is after authorities held a deadly crackdown on protests against the country's leaders. and don't forget you can always get his on the go just download our apps from google player from the apple store that give you access to all of the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send us photos and videos. you're up to date i'm sorry kelly in berlin we'll see you again.

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