if this is our opportunity to live here or. this is it we do is live from berlin firing back u.s. president donald trump prepares to assume his former chief strategist for a libel and slander suit bannon's explosive accusations in a controversial tell all book on the trump white house call a meeting with a russian warrior treasonous the president blasting back and saying quote he lost

his mind also coming up the chips are down tech firms bramble to fix major security flaws that are bad news for everyone the flaws could compromise data worldwide and allow hackers to steal sensitive information. on little rock it's great to have you along always start the broadcast with that very public falling out in the u.s. where the lawyer of u.s. president donald trump is threatening legal action against former white house strategist steve benen over what he calls disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements made in a new book a seize and desist letter has also been sent to its author and publisher trying to halt the release of president launched a scathing attack on. bannon saying steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my

presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job you lost his mind well it's emerged that bannon attacked donald trump jr for a twenty six to meeting with a group of russians in the book by michael wolff bannon is quoted as saying even if you thought that this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or a bad blank and i happen to think it's all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately well traps a lawyer has sent a cease and desist letter to ban and accusing him of violating a non-disclosure agreement by speaking to wolf in the first place so a spectacular falling out between two former allies more on that in just a moment but first a look at how the ban on wrist unfolded 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 energize the trump base nationalism and immigration and economic deregulation despite accusations of racism and xenophobia bennett helped build the wave of populism but trump it unleashed trump became president and bannon became a kingmaker. bannon 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 he's a friend of mine and he's very committed to getting things passed 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 man and also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations there 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 embarrassment trump brought an instant in the white house to an end after a mere seven months is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan 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. all excerpts of this book have everyone talking here to discuss the fall out with me on the set is to how he is a senior fellow and director of the europe program at the german marshall fund we're great we're very happy that you're here where to begin i mean is this rift a permanent rift yeah i mean this is pretty prominent i mean you never know with

trump trump has an unbelievable healing power and his rifts that he's creating and that his you know former friends create with him so you know he's ever flexible but at the same time the nature of this fallout is so substantial is this somebody from the inner circle somebody who was a key strategist also in this kind of revolutionary agenda that trump was running on that going back from this will be very very difficult especially given the legal escalation that followed very quickly from those from those statements that we've heard as you've mentioned their relationship was so tight there was there were stick as thieves what's it been is the gender here well this is the big question i mean bannon has always had a social revolutionary agenda this is an agenda that wants to destroy the political system wants to create something new things that the establishment is basically rotten and we have already seen over the last couple of months that you know he has turned against. you know on on side issues on issues like you know candidates and states we've seen as an arizona and also in alabama where we get the feeling that

benon now things that trump is already again to establishment and not revolutionary enough so what turned out to you know what was in the beginning an alliance of like minded revolutionaries you know it has now turned into something where the one things that the other is not revolutionary enough again so ben has a strong agenda still and things maybe that come to live or what he really wants and so he's turned into an enemy on this book of course promises a lot of salacious detail. but the most glaring accusation especially for the trump white house is your suggestions of collusion with russia what impact will it have on the ongoing muller investigation do they have to take this on board now well they were certainly take this on board you know from a technical legal standpoint nothing nothing much will change the mandate and the procedures that's all established in that conscientiously but the dynamic changes as somebody from the inner circle of the trump campaign at the time speaks about these things says these things uses words like treason and that can't be ignored

that changes the political dynamic and it will give mueller and his investigation a boost now bannan is not necessarily the kind of guy you want to call your ally but this kind of unexpected favor from mr bannon is certainly appreciated in the mueller camp what i also find very interesting is of course the book's author michael wolff this fly on the wall account it's amazing that he got this much access from a white house a famous now for according the term fake news how do you think he arranged that well i think you know in the beginning we had a very inexperienced. ministration there was a lot of chaos there and they thought that you know bringing on. the author who could you know give a tale that was you know promoting their goals you know was a great idea we've often seen as we've seen this new u.s. military we've seen this elsewhere this is something that is not particularly problematic trump issue but we've seen this many many times and now all of a sudden this guy turns out that he found

a source benon who will say things that can gravely damage demonstration that is unexpected and so you know i think the journalist who wrote the book mr wolf you know got access because the pain thought it was a great and wise idea and that often backfires because journalists in the end have often you know their own agenda they want to sell the book and in the end that's more important you know than what the trumpet ministration had them for and it has us all talking about it in the process down to how far the german marshall fund thank you for spending time with us. next to the race to find a fix for serious security flaws in computer chips around the world experts have discovered defects in chips made by intel a.m.d. and a r m they say the flaws could affect millions of computers around the world the tech giant intel is yet to release details but its chips are in systems made by apple and microsoft a fix is being designed to patch up security issues but it could make computers and other devices run up to thirty five percent slower i'll have more coverage of what

this all means for you the consumers later in the show in our business block but first i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. the death toll in a south africa train crash has risen to eighteen according to the head of the state owned rail service fire engulfed several of the express passenger trains carriages after it smashed into a truck about two hundred kilometers south of johannesburg the country's transport minister says more than two hundred sixty people were injured. when former carolina vice president oriole the us has appeared in madrid supreme court of appeal against his own arrest he's in custody waiting for the start of his trial is charged with rebellion and to dition for his part in catalonia has banned attempts to break away from spain. south korean president mungy in has paid a hospital visit to one of the victims of japan's

a war time sexual slavery last week government said in twenty five twenty fifteen agreement with tokyo failed to adequately address the needs of the so-called comfort women whose plight again cast a shadow over bilateral relations. mourners in the west bank gathered for the funeral of a palestinian teenager killed yesterday in clashes with the israeli army a hospital official said the seventeen year old was shot in the neck israel says its soldiers opened fire on a protester where a gun. in iran the country's elite revolutionary guard is trying to stop anti-government protests in several provinces on our new amateur video purports to show security forces aligned with the guard parading down the streets of the city of saleh about one hundred twenty kilometers southwest of the capital tehran there they're trying to put down the protests label sedition by the head of

the revolutionary guard iran also blocked access to several social media platforms after more than a week of anti government demonstrations. heavy winter storms have swept across europe from the atlantic wreaking havoc on transportation services and killing at least one person countries from ireland to germany and the netherlands have been hit by winds of up to one hundred twenty kilometers an hour the storms have also interrupted power supplies to hundreds of thousands of homes. bickley now begins after a winter storm that left tens of thousands in the dark it grounded hundreds of flights. no trains off their tracks and did major damage to homes and sea walls. across europe high winds and heavy rain brought kielce carnage and even day. after flood defenses were breached in ireland beer bottles floated among the

day three. in western germany done trees can't fire services phasey throughout the night. luckily no one was hurt when the scaffolding gave way during the intense weather that it fronts. twenty one you don't skeer died after a tree fell on this resort and all those like it tough no close to slopes after reporting winds of more than one hundred fifty kilometers per hour. but the spike the devastation here seen along the coast whipped up sea foam was simply too much for some to resist. right now here in germany a far right member of parliament has sparked outrage over a racial slur aimed at the mixed race son of tennis superstar boris becker is meyer of the n.t. immigration alternative for germany years twitter to describe know about her as a quote little half negro on tuesday germany's leading tabloid built reported on

the inflammatory tweet which has since been deleted from the social media platform now a backer who is of african american and german descent now plans to press charges against him. and to sports now where world football spotlight will be on the gun made in the capital tonight as the twenty seven african player of the year award gets handed out three attacking superstars are in the running for the prize let's look at their chances. will this man be celebrating again thursday night emerick obama young is among the contenders to be named african player of the year even as dortmund have struggled to keep pace at the top of the table the gabba nice hitman has struck thirteen but as they get goals to confirm his status as one of africa's best players now he's hoping to win the award for the second time in his career. yes. i'm off.

but obama young faces stiff competition for the prize egyptian forward mohamed salah has taken the premier league by storm since joining liverpool in the summer he was also part of the egypt squad that finished runners up at the africa cup of nations in february and his liverpool team mate satya monday is also in the running he scored twice for senegal at the cup of nations and he was also listed among the top candidates last year finishing in third place. for obama young and co the wait is almost over soon they'll know walking away with the prize. now to some tennis where andy murray has a pulled out of the twenty eighteen australian open due to an ongoing hip injury the three time grand slam champion has not played a competitor has not played a competitive match since wimbledon and july of last year murray had tried to

compete at the u.s. open in august but we drew two days before the start of the tournament the recurring injury has seen him slip to sixteen in the. games. all right thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us. ben faisal and is up next. in store for us which topics will shape the next twelve months or.