you cannot build it. i think this is something that scientists should develop. should. be treated. should. this is the news live from roland the book the white house wants to ban gets an early release later today lawyers for president trump are trying to stop the publication of the controversy only right up which includes explosive remarks from

former chief strategist steve bannon but how accurate is the portrayal of the trumpet ministration also coming up. wall street celebrates a very happy new year that as the dow jones hits and record high of twenty five thousand just four days into the new year. and south korea says it will be holding talks with the north next week the first high level negotiations between the neighbors for more than two years. also on the show once germany getting another government. tries her and again a coalition building this weekend a new poll shows most germans do not want another government conservatives and her old social democrat party says. i'm brian thomas

a very warm welcome to the show lawyers for us president donald trump are continuing their push to halt the release of an explosive new book that scrutinises the inner workings of his administration the president has ripped into the work of journalist michael wolff which is set for release later today it portrays a white house steeped in intrigue and the trail. it's all but certain to be a bestseller just days into the new year the spool cpu trang the us president as a net unprepared for office has thrown the white house into a frenzy some of the harshest commentary in the book has come from steve bannon a right wing firebrand and donald trump's form a strategy chief ban and has attacked a donald trump jr for twenty sixteen 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 run patriotic or bad and i happen to

think it's all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately to which the president hit back steve benen has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind. it's a spectacular fall out between the two former allies bana was the one who helped carve out trump's nationalist agenda that helped him win the i've alofa despite the furor over his quotes ben and called the president a great man on his right to go. in the present state is a great man you know i supporting day to day out. the patrol has in rights trump. anywhere he has steve and i don't really know me a great man to last night's sleep changes pretty quick thank you all very much. thank you i don't talk i don't go. to. the white house is trying to cost down on the books accuracy again this book is mistake after mistake after mistake as for

the bombshell book the publishes have brought forward its release to friday despite cease and desist threats from donald trump's lawyers. so how accurate is this book for more let's bring in ethan behrman who's a radio talk show host and a political commentator in los angeles good morning isn't. president trying to says that author michael wolff had no white house access and you know we're even seeing some top journalists and a former obama administration official slamming wolf as quote a sleazeball and a writer of fiction you know how credible is he and this book. well i mean we're we've yet to find out where i don't have my hands on the book yet we're going to find out a few hours how do how accurate it really is but here's what we do know is that this administration has had the highest turnover in its upper ranks in any administration in recent history thirty three percent turnover in the highest ranks

sixty people of the senior staff in the first year in office so we know there's been chaos we know there's been challenges between personalities writes priebus the chief of staff was out very quickly and read almost record time we had michael slinn with so many scandals happening with this administration whether or not mr wolfe is entirely accurate it fits the narrative of what we the american people have seen this first year of the trump administration ok now a new element here and somebody really outside the narrative completely is trump and bannan in a political my fight right now are we going to see a civil war and a split inside the make america great again movement i don't think it's going to be a full on civil war i think steve bannon automatically loses the president is the person in power he's in charge of the republican party we've seen the republican establishment line up behind president trump with the recent tax reform bill steve

bannon is the guy that's on the outs i don't know that's going to be a full on civil war i think bannon is just going to be the big loser in all of this ok now what about the democrats is this a late christmas gift for the democrats and their chances in the midterm elections . yeah i think that the twenty eighteen in the midterm elections the democrats if they get their act together have a strong chance of both taking back the senate and the house of representatives putting a real big crimp into donald trump's plans for his presidency this is something that they're going to add in to their plans and their political attacks on the republicans no question about it eason behrman thanks very much ethan for being with us this morning from los angeles well in the meantime the president has been celebrating and a storage high on wall street just off that's right brian it's been a very happy new year for wall street the dow jones industrial average has surged

past twenty five thousand points for the first time ever thursday's new milestone comes of the back of a rapid rise for the blue chip index boosted in part by an overhaul of u.s. taxes which substantially cuts the corporate tax rate u.s. president on trump was quickly to claim responsibility for the new dollar record and already has his sights set on yet another. we did in fact break twenty five thousand for a substantially break it very easily. so i guess our new numbers thirty thousand but what they what it means is every time you see that number go up on wall street it means jobs i mean success. so is the president right saying it were his policies that brought about this historic rally let's have a look at the dow jones over the last decade now after the financial crisis u.s. markets hit a low of about six thousand six hundred points in march two thousand and nine just after barack obama had been elected to the white house since then the market has

seen quite a steady rise as you can see there the longest bull market in wall street history in fact now the dow had almost tripled in value by the end of trying to sixteen when donald trump won the election it has continues to rise since then and a wall street correspondent sees several factors playing a role here. it's really breathtaking it just took twenty three trading days for the dow of to go from twenty four to twenty five thousand points the fastest pace that we've seen in the history across in such a thousand point the reasons are all the same there is the techs reform meaning there is the look for lower taxes for corporations higher profits for corporate america then there is growth not just in the u.s. but also worldwide and what we shouldn't forget is that central banks around the globe are real still rather hesitant to really start increasing interest rates and

heavy so the cheap money is one of the main drivers for this rally and not necessarily so much of the policies of the current u.s. administration. in the quarter porting from new york there are more business for you later in the show including further developments on the major flaw on intel chips that may leave millions or billions rather computer chips vulnerable around the world but first back to brian and a possible breakthrough in the korea crisis a lot of positive movement disappointing christophe north and south korea have agreed to hold their first formal talks in more than two years next tuesday and how the dialogue will pave the way for north korean athletes to attend the upcoming winter olympics in the south now this announcement came hours after the united states agreed to delay joint military exercises with south korea until after the olympic games the meetings expected to be held january the night at panmunjom in

the demilitarized zone between the two sides which was the site of past talks with very latest let's go straight to seoul and reuters senior correspondent josh meth josh what can we expect from the meeting coming up on tuesday. well officials from both sides are expected to talk about at the minimum the north turkish participation in the upcoming olympic games which up until now had not been clear that they were going to attend but both sides have also said that they are willing to talk about reducing overall tensions here on cream. the question is whether that will also consider addressing the north's nuclear weapons program which is obviously drawing a lot of international pressure and which has increased sanctions on the north ok now is it fair to talk of a breakthrough here with the north korean olympic team apparently on its way now to

the olympic games in the south you know and is that going to defuse tensions. i think a lot of people here in south korea and a lot around the world are approaching this fairly skeptically but also hopefully by itself the participation of north korean athletes at the olympics is not expected to be any kind of breakthrough but i think many people are hoping that you know just to a cause in weapons testing by the north and as you mentioned the delay in these. drills by south korea and the united states that it could provide a little bit of breathing room for some reduction in tensions and possibly talks about her resolution down the road you know the u.s. announcing that this delaying these joint military exercises that that is unusual isn't it can you characterize that for us. south

korean president mugabe said that he requested this of the united states specifically to send a signal that he was interested in reducing tensions here around the olympic games the pentagon meanwhile has said that it's more a matter of practicality around the games but the reality is no matter what it does potentially lower tensions here again. having these very public displays of force by the united states and south korea at a time when these talks could be crucial ok josh thanks so much for that josh miss for us in seoul now for a look at some of the other stories making the news this hour the former proven president alberto fujimori has been discharged from hospital a little over a week after receiving a pardon from current president pedro kaczynski the pardon for the seventy nine year old has led to nationwide protests he was convicted of human rights abuse. a massive winter storm has roared across the east coast of the u.s.

or cast indicate it will dump up to forty six centimeters of snow in a number of areas and then send a blast of cold air that's likely to break records you're all just for calling the storm a quote bomb cycling now it's time for a monthly look at the mood among german voters we have the latest survey results by pollsters in for test team after germany's public broadcasters a or d. and they make for some grim reading for chancellor only machall as she attempts to assemble a new coalition government. the players gather the stage is set and it could be curtains for on the america more than one hundred days after the federal elections she still has no government the last coalition talks fell apart polls show a new election would not change anything and that germans have no stomach for another so-called grand coalition. only five percent view a grand coalition as a very good and forty percent as good thirty four percent you

a new grand coalition as less good and eighteen percent view it as bad further entangling merkel's predicament it seems support for her staying in office has slipped in the mean time. the longer the coalition talks take the worse it gets only fifty three percent of those polled support america staying in office in october it was sixty one percent forty five percent are against her staying in office germans have the following attitudes about angle america merkel stands for political stability seventy percent agree america's best is a chance alone are over sixty seven percent agree and merkel's c.d.u. neglects concerns over refugees according to fifty nine percent of those polled. the german government's most important task by far is still the refugee issue even though it's less politically charged and it was a year ago. when asked if families of war refugees should be allowed to join them

here in germany forty one percent said yes and forty eight percent said no if new elections were held this sunday germans would not vote much differently than a month ago the c.d.u. c.s.u. would receive thirty three percent of the vote the s.p.d. twenty one percent the would get thirteen percent and the f.d.p. nine percent the left party would also get nine percent and the green party eleven percent subtle variations only with the conservatives and the left party. ok let's break down these numbers now with our political correspondent kate brady here in the suv studio good morning carrie looking at these numbers what do they mean for the upcoming coalition talks this week and it's quite clear that both the social democrats and the conservatives know that they're going into these exploratory talks on sunday to discuss something which fifty two percent of germans quite clearly aren't all that keen on and so they know that if this is going to

work or if these exploratory talks are going to move on to coalition and r.c.a. sions for a grand coalition and the deal has to be a very very good forty five percent of germans are in favor of this grand coalition which seems like quite a large number first qualms but when you compare that to four years a guy when the last of the current coalition was being formed sixty six percent of germans were in favor of that's a huge difference over fareed of four years that is a massive falloff and there's a lot of drama and tension and in the background to these talks you know when you when you think that the last one's failed the former talks failed just couple months ago now if these break down on sunday ok they're exploratory talks but if they don't amount to anything what are all americans options that well she's got two main options if these exploratory talks don't succeed she has a minority government which she has repeatedly said that she does not want and so

that would be quite a grueling process from moscow she'd have to get a new majority for every piece of legislation to pass through parliament and the other option of course would be a snap elections and those would have to be cold by the german president from. now by calling those is the fear among both of the two main parliamentary groups that they would lose seats in parliament and also the concern that the far right a.f.p. would also gain more seats and of course for all parties involved it's very very expensive to suddenly launch another campaign just a lot of people so you might not. already government is the most likely possibility if these talks break down you know michael still does have considerable support but looking at these numbers her trajectory is definitely to the downside could she see as a result a mutiny in her christian democrats and possibly a move to replace or well at this stage it's very unlikely that we're going to suddenly see a rebellion of course directly after the election that there was

a lot of unrest particularly from the bavarian sis the posse the c s here but they were the c.s.u. in c.t. you have really patched up that relationship since the election to try and push forward to create a stable government that i so desperately seeking at the moment but of course there's also the main point that it within the c.d.u. there's no real success to mco and regardless of what happens that is going to be a real focus for the cd even the conservatives in the community as as right now there is no alternative to matter so there will be a push to develop new leadership in the future keep brave thanks very much for breaking down the numbers for us this friday morning. on to some european politics now in twenty tina's confronting the european union with plenty of challenges but a number of opportunities as well if germany can get a stable government in place it could along with france lead an effort to reshape the bloc deeply shaken by bracks in our d w series this week of what twenty

eighteen hasn't store our brussels correspondent max often looks at what's at stake for the. these three have big plans for two thousand and eighteen especially regarding migration. the reform of the euro zone and of course correct. thing to see if they can and they feel that whatever. the e.u. institutions see a window of opportunity to resolve many of your ups most pressing problems but the window of opportunity you might not be as large as many people are hoping for and that's mainly due to that woman that you can see behind the flags the german chancellor. in many ways she's still the queen of europe of course but as long as she doesn't have a governing coalition in berlin her hands are pretty much tied to. the man who's

blowing wind into the sails of a reformed european union is french president michel unification and he's given many speeches and express many ideas and grand visions for two thousand and eighteen and beyond the critically one of them establishing a real european monetary fund to support countries that need help to avoid bankruptcy like greece in two thousand and ten. another one given the eurozone its own budget to invest and absorb economic shocks overall mccall is calling for much deeper european integration. but not everybody. is on board with that at all there is resistance in germany among others for example and it seems like some of the old fault lines are becoming visible again. for the fault lines between spending and austerity but also between the west. and east

especially on migration the e.u. institutions want a comprehensive deal on asylum and relocation until june but hungary's viktor orbán is still unwilling to accept refugee quotas and he has allies that. we should concentrate on issues where we feel that they be a ready to reach an agreement it would be a big mistake to continue into open issues the red we feel that these issues. divide was again european union as we could see in the past on the basis of what i think i mean frankly. poland undermining the rule of law and its ongoing quarrels with brussels could increase this east west divide even further in two thousand and eighteen. but of course there is one thing unifying the european union at least twenty seven of its member states and that's well this woman that's walking towards us right there theresa may of course it's not about the person herself but it's

about what she's trying to do leading her country the united kingdom out of the european union brags that. so far the e.u. twenty seven have shown remarkable unity on bragg's it but it will get tougher in two thousand and eighteen because with the second phase of the negotiations starting soon future trade relations between the twenty seven remaining member states and the u.k. are on the menu including sectors like the german car industry that's when national interests in the e.u. might collide. the clock is ticking. migration. euro zone reform and brags that the e.u. needs to agree on all these topics in two thousand and eighteen to take advantage of this window of opportunity to. them and. while the disturbing

news now about intel is disclosure that many of its chips have been vulnerable to hackers kristoff that's right brian we're talking about serious loss that could affect billions of computers and smartphones equipped with intel processors now the scramble is on to find a fix but there is more disturbing news in town knew about the flaws well before they became public and the behavior of the company's chief executive officer right before the revelation raises questions as well. intel c.e.o. brian crossan it sold thirty nine million dollars in company stocks and options in november months after learning about the flaw and well before the problem was reported publicly intel says the stock sale was unrelated to the chip problem it said it planned on going public with the flaw soon and it was working in the meantime to find a fix the bug is a nightmare for the u.s. tech giant but also for consumers millions of computers and devices are affected

and one basic fix for the issue the so-called kaiser patch comes with the caveat as one of its developers explains. it might have economic impact. for cloud providers because now they with the kaiser patches they might have higher energy costs. also. for regular customers and they will also have higher energy costs because of these patches daniel groups was among those who informed intel of the design flaw in its chips he thinks intel was right not to disclose the problem immediately. i think it's a good idea to not publicly disclose this from the start because these are very c.v. attacks and non sophisticated attacker could immediately use this attack to leak sensitive data from you know mary now the whole world knows but because the kaiser patch uses more energy it slows down devices hardly an incentive to get the fix

that's why some researchers would rather change how computer chips are designed but that won't happen overnight twenty seventeen was the costly years here and history for the insurance industry claims from natural disasters last year are expected to cost insurers one hundred thirty five billion dollars according to the world's biggest reinsurer munich re yet less than half of last year's losses were insured meaning total losses are much higher. there were fires and floods and an earthquake in mexico but the hurricanes were the gut punch at least for insurers harvey irma and maria three hurricanes to hit the atlantic coast of the americas last year combined for a quarter of a trillion dollars in insured and uninsured losses three insurance giant munich re says last year's storms are resulting in the highest insurance payout in the history of the three hurricanes it was harvey that cost the most the massive floods

that inundated the city of houston accounted for much of its eighty five billion dollars damage toll the devastating wildfires in california resulted in high claims because so many of the suburban houses destroyed were insured to the hilt. yet the majority of losses from global disasters last year were to insured in asia pacific for example fewer than one out of ten losses were covered and those figures don't include lost lives more than twenty seven hundred people died in floods in south asia but that is aster was less destructive to infrastructure in the u.s. hurricanes. climate change is being blamed for the increasing number of severe storms first up this year the massive snowstorm currently blanketing the u.s. northeast then another active hurricane season is on the horizon insurers are gearing themselves up for more massive payouts. and it's back to brian

just off we have time for a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you today the white house has dismissed a new book about the presidency as long as it's also moving to prevent its publication that book includes explosive remarks from former chief strategist steve bennett. and in the new survey german voters have expressed their dismay at the drawn out negotiations to form a new government less than half support a new coalition between a limb ackles conservatives and the social democrats and only fifty three percent want to continue as jess. this is news live from berlin don't forget you can always get the latest news and information around the clock at our website that's dot com for now though from the entire news staff thanks so much for being with us.

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