this is. live from berlin tonight two nations and a moment under one flag a step towards deescalation as north and south korea agree to march under the same banner at next month's winter olympics they'll also be sending a joint women's ice hockey team if the international olympic committee approves also coming up. a blistering attack on the floor of the u.s. senate u.s. president senator jeff flake every public information calls trump's attacks on the

media shameful and repulsive as the president's first anniversary in office approaches we look at the man and the media. plus it's fashion week here in berlin where we find more and more designers have been doing the runway in a bid to gain credibility in a world that has grown more and more critical of the catwalk culture. it's good to have you with us tonight the two koreas are taking a step that many hope will lead down the path of reconciliation in the demilitarized zone that separates north and south korea were presented it was met today and agreed to march under one flag of the opening ceremony of next month's winter olympics they also agreed to send a joint women's ice hockey team if the i.o.c. approves. as

a small step towards lessening tensions but it won't be the first time that the two koreas have marched together at the two thousand and three world university games they entered the stadium under the so-called korean unification flags you see right there since two thousand they've also marched together at three olympic games. i'm joined here to my far right by honda's most laurie occur ria expert from bruins for university and right next door here to me to my right our sports correspondent alina i talking to both of you welcome i want to start with you and we've been talking about this now ever since the news came out but i'll ask you again why is north korea's leader using the winter olympics as an opportunity to reduce tensions or to at least have it appear that way well the most important reason for that is that north korea recently was very much isolated future the sanctions and other provocations and even north korea needs the direct communication channel for

implementing its foreign policy and talking to south korea as the first step and talking to the u.s. which is the ultimate aim that's the ultimate aim and they were talk though about the sports part of it this is the first time that we've seen the two koreas use sports to bridged divisions right yes and what makes this so unique in particular is the fact that this is the first time we'll be seeing a unified korean olympic team and i've been stressing this day entire day the emphasis here is on and then takes because in the past these two the two koreas have joined forces when it comes to international sporting events beside for example in one thousand nine hundred one in japan at the at the world table tennis championships and the women actually ended up winning that tournaments and that same year they also joined send a joint soccer team to the future youth championships in portugal and you guys want to guess how far they went they went i had no idea i think you have. as far as the

quarterfinals so it just shows you that if these two unite the talent pool is even bigger and quite the sporting all right so there's more there is sports here and it's not just symbolism honestly ask you what's been the reaction in south korea to this is a big all positive well similar to the international community basically the people are very positive about the recent developments but except the conservative opposition who tries increasingly to criticize the negotiations and the participation of the north korean half if you go they are saying there's only promotes the propaganda of the north and for example carrying the unification flag you just mentioned would rather be trade the south korean people because they're not carrying the south korean flag which is of course dickless but it shows that the how they try to undermine this reproach and what well i mean and in terms of the symbolism and in terms of what it looks like to the outside world it looks like a win for the north doesn't assuredly you know but the opportunity the the

opposition things differently they are a little bit angry about the lost of presidential elections and this all plays a role in this and the let me ask you about this joint women's ice hockey team i mean do you think the r.u.c. will approve this i mean it has to be proved right if the i.o.c. if they follow their own and then picks their own values their own ideas you would think that they would approve it because they're the very same people that encourage peace that encourage creating a better would understanding despite our differences are they really big on bringing people together but let's be clear about one thing that by this is the first family that we do see a joint korean lympics team this is not the first time that we see the two koreas that they'll be marching site by site and an opening ceremony that has happened before it happened in sydney for the first time in two thousand and four years later in athens and at the winter games and inter and ok. we know. that kim jong un

wants to use this the olympics to isolate the united states and he would like for the united states to be the ultimate loser in this if you're thinking of him as a rational actor is he going to get what he wants out rather say it's not about isolating the u.s. but engaging the u.s. and as i said earlier it's about going via south korea to the u.s. because talking to the u.s. directly was and still is very difficult without losing face but now north korea can say we went to the olympics we are for peace and that now without losing face they can and you think it is thinking that this is a way this is a channel to communicate with the u.s. without it appearing that we're picking up the phone yes that's exactly the strategy ok well we'll see we've got another month we'll see how this pans out but interesting analysis from both of you how does one as a firm berlin's for university and lima talk even our sports desk to both of you you thank. well tonight reuters is reporting that u.s.

president donald trump has now said that he's not sure that talks with the north korean leader kim jong un would lead to anything meaningful now that would be yet another opinion u. turn that trump has taken in his first year in office or the u.s. president today came under fire from the arizona republican senator jeff flake he did know the president for his attacks on the news media saying that they are shameful and repulsive as part of our week marking trump's first anniversary in the white house our washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon has been looking at the challenging life of white house correspondents you are fake dues the fake media is trying to silence us they are the enemy of the people and i. are 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 means. i think that's the most just honest disgusting to speckle thing the president has ever said. 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're 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. he's an insecure guy you know he's the supermodel why this but he still i'm happy so the fake news flash that's just he's just angry at

a show i don't he's not lie. there's a want to people i think i'm fairly comparable to an autocrat but he wants the room press freedoms or the president is calling up reporters on the phone. to 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 connection with like you know the. i rarely insane charts me so we as a journalist i don't want to be attacked this way our tweets out tell the story like this do you worry about yeah yeah i'm telling the story and then oh you know i see it and i think maybe something was going to prove that. trump speak news attacks help him to draw the attention away from the cameras and he's a strange will from the investigation into question meddling in the last election she's now the world is watching look at all the fake news back there was there are why. no one enjoys being boot but we should not back down says brian carr him

he's made a name for himself by asking tough questions at the press briefings and i look at her face but he says that after that confrontation she received death threats various true isn't true. 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 in school you know they're going to go and get a reporter and they're going to be dumber 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 in new york times says that subscriptions have risen recently and it's high it's new reporters. it's a spite all these attacks 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 it. 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 i. 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. and the story continues into analyze what we have seen this past year i'm joined now by james to predator he is in washington he's with the american enterprise institute mr praed of worked at the white house's office of management and budget under president george w. bush mr good to have you on the show talk to be able to beat about the impact of

the speech that we heard today from senator flake the impact of that speech on the office of the u.s. president. well i'm not sure we'll have much of impact on the white house they may will well largely ignore it i think the audience for the speech was probably more of the american people and i give senator flake a good deal of credit i think you know we're in an unusual situation with someone who is quite unusual for a president of the united states operating in ways that have not been seen before and that there is concern which i share that the usual norms of democratic practice of how you go about conducting yourselves in public life some of that is being eroded and that could be problematic you know including. unfounded and sort of gratuitous attacks on the media all the time it probably does have detrimental effects down the road a lot of it should be taken seriously i agree with some of the comments previously

about that but on the other hand i don't think it's healthy and so i give senator flake a lot of credit do you share what you know the sentiments that we heard in that report there that all of the all of these attacks on the media could one day actually lead to a journalist's wife being lost. well i so hope not i mean i don't know i'm not sure i could predict what would happen from it but they're certainly not not much good i don't think they can go from the person holding the highest office in the land continually attacking the media i do think there are risks associated with that that's certainly a major one there are other risks though to or people just don't believe any information even things that are actually true and so you know just in terms of conducting public life trying to have civil debate about what course the nation should take on various questions that are contentious you do need to be able to have a civil understanding of what's going on and the media serves a purpose in that regard you know we here in the media we've been forced to jump

through a lot of linguistic loops recently due to the president's use of profanity i would like you to take a listen to what people in belgium told our correspondent when asked about donald trump's negative remarks about brussels take a listen during his election campaign u.s. prison trump said living in brussels is like living in the hello although you referred to the terrorist attacks people here in brussels of course disagree for them living in the european capital is anything else but hello it's nonsense brussels a hellhole he just doesn't know brussels says this is wonderful i did not seem to come and visit the city for longer his last visit for a nato meeting was too short and badly organized he come to brussels brussels is great and we said we say it as a rat i like my house. just seen this in my opinion he's a thug he's always mouthing off this. oh no i don't want to talk about trump

and i think you can go to his head the whole. himself. so you see there is a good credit we've got some of the trump linguistic exercises being you know used here in europe as well before we run out of time i want to ask you do you expect to see a government shutdown by this weekend and what will that do to president. i don't think there will be i think they will pass they listen legislation through the congress that will have enough votes to pass it will keep the government open for another month so negotiations can continue on a number of different contentious issues including funding the government for the full year defense spending immigration questions and many others and so i do think something will pass i do think the government will stay open and so i think it'll probably be a crisis averted james good credit joining us tonight from washington mr praed of we appreciate your time and your insights thank you. here are some of the other

stories now that are making headlines around the world in one of the house of commons has passed a key breaks it built it repeals one nine hundred seventy two law that made britain a member of the u. and it turns european waltz into british ones the bill has now been sent to the upper house the house of lords for further scrutiny and shelly pope francis has denounced the use of violence in the country struggle over the rights of its indigenous people his comments during an open air mass referred to recent violence including the burning of churches in the country south of that's where indigenous groups have been pushing for the return of their lamps. to nigeria now where at least twelve people have been killed dozens injured by suicide bombers in an attack on a crowded market in the northeastern city of my degree now police say two bombers carried out the attack but emergency services official says that four women were responsible no group has yet claimed the attack but it bears the hallmarks of the

islamist terror group boko herat. for more on that story now we want to go to our correspondent a.g. increase he joins us from magos good evening to you adrian what more can you tell us about this bombing. all right as you said the emergency officials put the number as twelve people who apparently died more than sixty five injured but it's very difficult to verify those numbers right now because even in maiduguri our colleagues they are not able to go out because there's a curfew overnight no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet but it is very likely that book is behind it they have text this area before the area where it happened in the outskirts off the state's capital maiduguri it's actually the area where a lot of internally displaced people live where those who come from the rule areas to seek safer place come first and basically the security forces they have taken quite

a long time to check everybody before they allow them to enter the town so it's a kind of a buffer zone which makes it of course rather easy to attack for terrorists and the information we have so far is that at least one of the suicide attackers was a woman and once again that is also another sign that might be behind it because they have been increasingly using women and young girls forcing them to carry out those suicide attacks and there's been a separate incident in nigeria's northwestern. have kidnapped an american and a canadian and killed two police officers what do we know about they're not related to what we've seen earlier. brant a very unlikely that is related to a book incident we have seen these kind of kidnappings for ransom happening in doing very often do not state is rather in the center off nigeria and those incidents as i said have been occurring there many times over the past year about

a year ago two germans web later on released probably a ransom was paid so most likely those are criminals who try to go for money in the current incident from what we know at the moment is that the american and the canadian well actually installing solar systems in villages this is what the police said and on their way back from kut do not state to the capital they where it's so no information is out yet where they are what is happening of this negotiations ongoing or not. the embassies of canada and the u.s. of course they do not make another noise about it they want to negotiate in the background but i believe it's a criminal act and it is quite likely that after negotiations they will be released are you dream krishna with the latest there from law goes thank you. here in europe german chancellor angela merkel has held talks with austria's new chancellor courts here in berlin their meeting was closely scrutinized for any

signs of discord heads up a controversial coalition with austria's far right he's been a vocal critic of miracles refugee policy but at their joint press conference which you see here the two glossed over any differences on like grecian focusing instead on the need to protect europe's external borders merkel added that germany would judge austria's new government by and sections going forward. and we're going to go forward now into the world to visit this funny chars here and talk about the biggest risk factors for the world this year there must be a lot of exacting brown there you go because the big question arises what could endanger economies and tire nations or even the world the world economic forum is a look at potential risks and that could be anything from a financial crisis politics unemployment to climate and health here are the biggest risk factors for twenty. what happens if harvests fail

say due to the effects of climate change like too much rain or drought or due to diseases that can destroy today's low diversity crops that could trigger conflicts over food and mass migration says the world economic forum's latest global risks report the experts call it stream weather events and natural disasters the biggest risk factors for twenty eighteen in terms of likelihood and impact the next most probable risk for cyber attacks and data fraud and the failure to mitigate or adapt to climate change. the report identifies a number of cyber security risks for the first time in human history a mouse click could disrupt global infrastructure the greater our dependence on technology the more the internet of things expands the more vulnerable we are to cyber attacks and twenty seventeen cyber breaches recorded by businesses average

one hundred thirty per company the cost of cybercrime to businesses is expected to amount to eight trillion dollars over the next five years. cyber attacks don't only cost money they also target and paralyze critical infrastructure like health systems companies can lose innovative ideas of customer information through data theft. twenty sixteen alone saw the release of three hundred fifty seven million new malware variants banking dragoons designed to steal account logon details could be bought for as little as five hundred dollars while the w e f's risk report highlights the problems of the world's increasing interconnectedness it also warns about the risks of isolation and protectionism the risk experts want to convince this year's gathering in davos that withdrawing from free trade agreements is a bad idea the analysts say that global corporation is the key to

a world that is stable and livable french dairy products company like thomas is under pressure rights took place at five of its locations french investigators are looking into how milk was tainted and how it got into stores and even into baby food. investigators came in the early morning hours to check out headquarters their goal to help answer some of many remaining questions how did someone there like get into the milk powder and how did the tainted powder get into stores after their kids have fallen ill parents accuse the company of reacting too slowly they threaten to sue. we discovered that there was a proposition to compensate families that is before any traditional work has been done this would mean the end of traditional proceedings once again we won't give up on our complaint because we want to know what happened we want those responsible to be identified in this case. it seems the luck is recall was handled poorly for days

it was unclear which shipments of milk powder had been tainted and which ones were clean also some product made it into stores even after the recall. it's barely in fashion week and if i ever had a focus and to pick out the next big color for the next season i would have to say green and don't expect everyone to be walking around like this these days but the trend is definitely toward environmentally friendly fashion and saw stain ability even in some even if some of it looks like well garbage for. you won't see many catwalk shows like this one by decider. 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. so is wearing our waste going to be the next big thing. maybe if these handbags needed leads are anything to go by. my 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 combine the current technique of settlements here and combine the traditional technique to gather. the young designers here are relatively unknown but they hope to spark a trend. that we want to get the new generation on board because 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 you don't often carve it. wearable ways. it's big at the printing fashion week and the organizers here hope it will one day be part of the global fashion it meant. you can't discuss taste can you tell me that it was going to be green you've got your green leave me out of the catwalk this year thank you funny how right now let's. talk about a real. biker max stoical has conquered the legendary han income downhill ski course in his native austria take a look at this the forty three year old rode over three spying chillingly steep kilometers on a regular mountain bike had the view that the only end of the equipment was metal spikes on the tires for added grip he hit top speeds of one hundred six kilometers

per hour he said that he wanted to do something that nobody had ever done before and i think he achieved that i'm sure his mother was a very happy. here's a reminder of the top story that we're following for you hockey diplomacy maybe of to help in the standoff between the two koreas negotiators have said that they want to field a joint a women's ice hockey team at the winter olympics next month they'll also march under one flag at the opening ceremony. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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