chanceless hoping to connect austria sebastian cortes meeting with germany's angela merkel in a bid to find common ground on an issue that's divided them so far migration did they succeed we'll get more from our political correspondent in just a second. also on this program. two nations one flag north and south korea agreed to march under one banner at next month's winter olympics they also want to send a joint ice hockey team. but not everyone in south korea thinks it's a good idea. and it might be a big day for fake news president trump has promised to present awards to war he says all the most corrupt and biased organizations in the mainstream media will

take a look at trump's false relations with journalists. hello and welcome my name's christopher spring a good to have you with us austria's new chancellor sebastian cortes is in berlin for talks with the german chancellor angela merkel the meeting is under close scrutiny for any signs of discord between the two leaders kurtz is the head of a controversial new coalition with austria's far right and he's been a vocal critic of knuckles migration policies but the true leaders say they want to find common ground on improving the protection of the european union supporters. the youngest government leader in europe meets the longest serving one and it's not just age that divides these two it's austrian foreign minister. sebastien courts

sharply criticized refugee policy now however even the german chancellor favors setting a limit on migration court says that he sees other e.u. countries moving in austria's direction adopting positions he was criticized for two years ago your home in. austria we made a disproportionate contribution that we have the second highest number of asylum seekers relative to our population after sweden so i believe no one can accuse us of not showing solidarity on the contrary but if we want to solve the migration issue that it won't succeed via distribution but instead with aid on location and that still inadequately functioning external border protection that we urgently need. machall stressed that it's not human traffickers who should decide who comes to europe. it's welcome cloud us it's totally clear that we want to reduce illegal migration and strengthen europe's external borders. but also strengthen the

partnership with the countries of origin that in turn means that we must find new ways of working together with those countries settlement when it comes to questions of resettlement on board offers of cooperation. but then the. differences remain vienna feels there's been excessive focus on the use of quotas for purposes of distributing refugees entitled to remain in the e.u. austria in the past is sympathised with eastern european countries that refused to abide by such quotas. merkel feels that's wrong. you know evil john ch the new austrian government has on its actions and that's what i've told the chancellor only if that's what counts c eight the tone of the two leaders debate may have been less harsh than in the past but relations between the two neighbors remain complicated.

well our chief political correspondent lyndal crane has been taking a close look at that press conference belinda what sort of atmosphere did we see between macklin calls has this first meeting between the two helped to smooth things over. both were certainly at pains to downplay their differences but the words that you just heard from the chancellor certainly were measured and implied it kind of they failed warnings that germany would be watching. actions on the other hand both did say that they see a good basis for working together before he traveled to germany the chancellor of austria said that germany is a very valued partner for austria that he views until americal as a very experienced politician and he said you know neighbors will always have differences and the fact is we see other e.u. move countries moving in austria's direction and the chancellor for her part said

that she saw very few divisions between the two but there were a couple that were evident in relation to both policy toward the european union their courts would definitely like to see a lot more frugality while the chancellor said that she can imagine a need to invest more in indebted southern members of the eurozone and certainly there were a few disparity that is discrepancies on asylum and immigration. melinda or immigration on refugee policy all the divisions between bolin and vienna as strong as they have been in the past. both leaders were trying to indicate that they're not for example both stressed to their agreement on the need for stronger protection of e.u. borders on the need for clear measures in the area of development policy to try to encourage people to stay in their own countries and not travel to europe and also

on the need for resettlement of those who come to europe and perhaps don't have a right to stay to stay but where there was a clear disagreement was again on the issue of quotas that european union member countries should fulfill in terms of how many refugees they do take in of those who are entitled to stay there mr court said that he still thinks the issue is very much over emphasized whereas the chancellor said that she expects e.u. member countries to abide by their obligations so i think that is one point where germany will be watching austria's actions as she said. but again there were. clear indications that the chancellor of austria is right when he says that other european countries are moving in austria's direction as you know germany's two biggest parties signed up last week to a paper that could provide the basis for negotiations on forming a grand coalition between them and there they agreed to an aspirational upper limit

on the number of refugees that germany might be willing to accept that is exactly what austria did last year so in that respect the chancellor of austria is right when he said there is an evolution in german policy toward perhaps a more stricter look at immigration ok melinda always good to talk to you linda crane that our chief political correspondent. turning now to the us where president on trump as promised later today to present what he calls the fake news awards he says they'll be going to the most corrupt and biased organizations in the mainstream media ever since coming to office just under a year ago trump has tirelessly attacked so-called fake news he's tweeted about the issue nearly two hundred times this is all made life quite challenging for journalists in washington is our bureau chief there alex underfund um and found out . you are fake dues the state media is trying to silence us they are the enemy of the free and i am. only against the fake news media or press fake

fake. for the last year i have been reporting from the white house on the president who says he's at war with the media who craves positive coverage and yet who calls us fake names. i think that's the most dishonest discussed thing to speckle thing the president has ever said. after new mistrust accusations heated exchanges doing white house briefings relations with the media are tense candor to say that it's an honest mistake when you are purposely putting out information that you know to be false. but not everyone is concerned unexpired for works for the daily caller a conservative website he says he doesn't take trump's attacks on the media seriously. isn't an insecure guy you know he's the supermodel why this be so

unhappy so the fake news flash gosh he's just angry at a show i don't he's not like there's a want to people i think will unfairly compare a to an autocrat but he wants the room press freedoms or the president is calling up reporters on the phone. to the president's campaign to discredit the press goes down well with the space men and women who feel that they've been ignored by america's youth connecting with like you know the. i really insane child smee so we as a journalist i don't want to be attacked this way our tweets out to tell the story like this you have to worry about yeah yeah well i'm telling this story and then you know i see it and i think maybe some of it was to prove that. trying to speak news attacks helped him to draw the. tension away from the chaos it's a strange well from the investigation into question in the last election she now the world is watching look at all the fake news back there. they're all what.

no one enjoys being boot but we should not back down says brian carr and he's made a name for himself by asking tough questions at the press briefings and then look at her grave but he says that after that confrontation she received death threats. i'm not worried about me and worry about some twenty four year old reporter first time doing his job working in montana or south dakota right now and another twenty four year old who sees the president goes gail let's go get him they're going to go and get a reporter and they're going to be dumb or string him up or something or kill him that's the guy you worry about. some media however seem to be profiting from the conflict the new york times says that subscriptions have risen recently and it's higher it's new reporters. despite all these attacks on the press seems to me right now in my world stronger than ever i do think that there is

a challenge overseas and you see here and the fact that a lot of foreign leaders particularly authoritarian ones have begun seizing on the phrase fake news to basically suppress information in their own society. in the us however journalists hope they'll come out of this experience with a new sense of mission. and longer have to donald trump has left the white house correspondents will still be here reporting on the president's sexy team. ok let's get some analysis on this aspect of the trump presidency from yes a little professor of law cornell university in the study york professor thanks for joining us trump has promised to award the fake news awards today what you're

trying to achieve exactly. i think he's trying to construct an alternate reality he's really trying to sort of convince the public that what the mainstream media is telling them doesn't really matter and i think one of the ways he can accomplish this is by giving out these awards and consistently calling you know sort of major news outlets fake news he calls c.n.n. fake news all the time new york times or sometimes he calls them the failing new york times or washington post the other thing that i think that makes this possible is the splintering of the media landscape i don't i'm not sure someone could have accomplished this fifty years ago when there were just a few broadcast networks and a few major national newspapers but in today's world where you know our consumers get their media from you know tens of thousands of different websites and different internet outlets there are alternate sources that he can push people to and he does

that at the same time that he denigrates the mainstream outlets as fake news and you know how is this all affecting american political culture you know trump some would say his blood the lines between what's true and what's not hello how is that affecting the quality of political debate. well usually political debate precedes from a baseline of common facts common assumptions and common knowledge and then from there you can have a political debate about what the country should do where to go from from here but usually that requires this kind of common baseline of of you know sort of received wisdom of information that everyone shares in this case though you know that there's just there isn't that shared base of knowledge because it's not just trump but a large percentage of his supporters the so-called base in the republican party who

support trump are looking at alternative sources and they are basically discounting everything that they see on c.n.n. or read in the new york times or in the washington post and it's kind of impossible to have a sort of coherent political discussion about where we go from here when not everyone agrees what the what the facts are and i think it's really posing a huge problem for democracy and one of the places we saw that was earlier today in senator jeff flake speech where he talked about the necessity of truth for a functioning democracy. and just briefly professor. this is all happening against the backdrop of the muller investigation special counsel wrote looking into russia's alleged interference in twenty sixteen election what are you expecting from the testimony for instance of steve benen formally trumps closest adviser and could that threaten the presidency. it could and i think the big

question to ask right now is what's bannon's attitude about revealing information either to congress or. to muller before a grand jury i think a lot of people have been assuming that bannon is resisting efforts to be interviewed and that's why he claimed executive privilege before the congress and that's also why he had to be subpoenaed by muller because he wasn't cooperating with the miller investigations and their request for for an interview from him but you know the other possibility is that bannon really is willing to cooperate is willing to provide testimony but he doesn't want to appear to be disloyal to trump because over the last couple of weeks the one thing that bannon learned is that appearing to be disloyal to trump will really get him in trouble with the viewer the readership of breitbart news and the other members of the republican base that bannon really cares about and so he might be willing to cooperate but he's going to

first go through the motions of sort of adopting a very antagonistic stance and then he can say later will i was forced to reveal the information ok you insolent many thanks for that. so from trump and the media to trump and the american economy all the details from ben for them and it's all going so well christopher amazing stuff with fast approaching the one year anniversary of the trump administration in the business world is actually mixed in its reaction so how has the president's america first campaign and other policies impacted the u.s. economy let's crunch the numbers starting with wall street and the dow jones the world's most important stock index it's made up of thirty equities representing the most influential american companies of the past year the dow has risen by nearly thirty percent the unemployment rate on the other hand has declined from about five to three percent in that time and puts the economy of what's defined as full

employment a jobless rate of four percent or less but economists say donald trump had little to do with it with a strong economy the unemployment rate has been sinking for years the dollar has also fallen against the euro a year ago the exchange rate was ninety four euro cents to the dollar now it's just a shade over eighty is that because the euro is strong or is the dollar fading after all the u.s. economy is doing just fine i asked economics professor lawrence cole to cough if there is long term value to trump's policies well i'll give you is actually warm and like a. really wasn't what economists were they were but it will help investment in the u.s. will probably get our out when we go up about five percent our wages go up five percent wages over time will go up by about five percent but it's not going up by twenty percent we have swung about. an absolute sea change in the economic

performance of. so you know i think it was a decent reform but better than most many times were saying so i think they were motivated by want well who views on both sides are arms on the left. cryptocurrency are also dividing the financial world and the big point freefall continues analysts call it a bloodbath the virtual currency is sliding back below ten thousand dollars regulators are speaking investors a south korean financial policymaker has said banning trading in digital currencies is an option and china is preparing a new crackdown state media says beijing is planning to stamp out any remaining trading there are also reports the e.u. is discussing a ban on virtual currency owners remaining anonymous when they convert crypto coins to europe's. many finance pros believe because it is in

a speculative bubble that burst any time its pull in daniel corp our financial correspondent in frankfurt daniel what's behind europe's plans first of all. well if there are plans there really have to be at a very early stage we had a statement little bit earlier from one of the executive board members here of bank in frankfurt saving gas there that they are wishing that there would be some sort of regulation but that regulation would only work with a worldwide corporation we are also hearing that france is talking about this also the u.s. senate will have a meeting next month where they will be talking about the risk of crypto currencies and here we're just talking about bitcoin there are about one thousand cryptocurrency is in the world and two quantrill all of them would be very very difficult why is there so much resistance coming from asia. every interesting well there are pretty much three reasons behind this the official

reason that's what they are saying that the trading with bitcoin is really demanding lots of energy of servers and also from computers south korea and china both countries where sometimes problems regarding to the stability of the electricity system then north korea is also an issue of south korea has been accusing north korea in the past kind of voiding international sanction with using the crypto currency and an investor was telling you well those are countries they are not used to have things in the business world that are not regulated and they are simply not liking that as well then you just say yes or no is this the crash everyone was predicting. what i would say yes cryptocurrency girls saying that kalash crash would be even much bigger ok don't you call for us in frankfurt thank you. in spelling fashion week and if i were ahead of vogue and had to pick out the next big color axes and i'd have to say

green but expect everyone to be walking around in these green pants but the trend is definitely towards environmentally friendly fashion and sustainability even if some of it looks a little like. you won't see many catwalk shows like this one by designer and by the tomaszewski at this year's berlin fashion week. instead groups of designers are joining together to present collections that focus on a specific theme like the stain ability. this vision exist thoughts actually reducing waste is key the waste created by the fashion industry shouldn't be wasted . it's a resource and you just have to be clever about how to use it with care for them at all but. so is wearing our waste going to be the next big thing. maybe if these handbags needed believes are anything to go by. i hope wrote that it's about

getting a waist and getting in this way so it's not going to be another way so it's biodegradable these may look like traditional chinese dresses but they're made out of recycled plastic. by the wanted so it's trying to come by for the better technique of settlements here and combine a transition out technique to look at there. the young designers here are relatively unknown but they hope to spark a trend. here one for me it's an off work so if we want to get the new generation on board we want them to absorb all these trends at school at university in their first start up. so when they make the move to a big company they can take these ideas with them or introduce new production methods and make their ideas a reality they don't often carving. wearable waste this big at the berlin fashion week and the organizers here hope will one day. part of the global fashion movement . for north and south korea have agreed to march under one flag at next month's

winter olympics that's pretty amazing that's right it won't be the first time by the way that the two koreas have much an opening ceremony at the two thousand and three wood university games for instance they entered the stadium under the so-called korean unification flag and since two thousand they felt so much together at three so the limping games. now in the talks are the demilitarized that separate the two koreas they also agreed to send a joint women's ice hockey team to the tournament if that is the international olympic committee approves of the idea but despite the apparent warming of relations reactions in south korea have been mixed. delegations from north and south korea met for the third time in ten days a sign of progress but on tuesday their plans for a joint women's ice hockey team got a somewhat frosty reception from south korea's coach sara mari adding somebody in

north korean or south korea having somebody inside the all picks it's a little bit dangerous on just rich history because the girls have been together for so long it's not just the sporting deila the political implications split opinion among south koreans. really a product you would have i am worried about how the international community will react if we were to set the north korean proposal for the olympics get there so i personally hope that we will not agree to it but i'm not going to go get that i think. i'm going to go so it would be better if can improve our image as the international community has been worried by the tensions that have been meeting then to talk about sports first provides a good platform for talks on politics and other issues. that sentiment is echoed by experts who feel the olympic cooperation may pave the way for

comprehensive peace talks now. building trust between the two koreas can make for six party talks possible. i believe this might also have a positive influence on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and says a foundation for peaceful talks which are beneficial for south korea. whether or not they join forces on the ice the talks have already provided a tentative thaw in the strained relations between the two koreas i ok time now to catch up with some of the other stories making news around the world in chile pope francis has denounced the use of violence in the country's struggle over the rights of its indigenous people is common string open air mass referred to recent violence including the burning. churches in the country south that's where indigenous groups have been pushing for the return of their lands. officials in california have described the thirteen siblings freed from prison like conditions in the home was

friendly and co-operative they're receiving medical care and counseling police found the family off to being alerted by a seventeen year old girl who had escaped from the house the parents face charges of torture and child endangerment. and palestinian president mahmoud abbas has lashed out at the united states in an emotional speech in cairo he described donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel as quote sinful he also said washington had disqualified itself from the role of peace broker. we're going to catch up now with some of the results from round two of the australian open in melbourne men's number one seed rafael nadal is through to the next round following a straight sets win but the day's biggest story came in the women's singles fifteen year old martha koscheck winning her second round match in straight sets that makes her the youngest player to reach the third round of

a play grand slam tournament in over twenty years it was a bad day however for german number one. she is out of the tournament after losing two of these court on a in straight sets. a quick reminder of one of our top stories for you diplomacy may be about to help end the standoff between the two koreas negotiators all between the two countries agreeing to field a joint women's ice hockey team at the winter olympics next month and also be marching under one flag at the opening ceremony. in berlin at the top of the hour to stay with us if you can. claim.

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