this is a doubly newsline from but i live in a powerful storm hits parts of europe causing fatalities and transported chaos all of germany's long distance rail service is a console that hundreds of flights in the netherlands grounded also on the program . the european union under fire for its human rights record human rights watch criticizes the e.u.'s efforts to keep refugees out but there's also

a price for countries taking a stand against populism. and g.w. goes to ohio one of the battleground states of hundred donald trump used the u.s. presidency as he approaches office they still believe they put the right not into the white house. will bring an estimated two hundred forty five million dollars fact to the united states after sustained criticism for its tax avoidance policies that said john says it will pay thirty eight billion tax on that money and create some twenty thousand jobs in the u.s. . and fill gail welcome to the program. a storm that hit parts of europe has killed at least a four people and caused transport delays for thousands of commuters germany's national railway company has halted all long distance train services and flight cancellations left thousands of people stranded at ship all airports in the

netherlands one of the country's worst affected by the still. the dutch weather service issued a red alert and this is why. high winds are battering the netherlands making transport difficult on river. and ruled out like. flying debris and falling trees of course fatalities well planes took up buffeting in time saddam schiphol airport causing it to close temporarily. in snow covered eastern germany the locals were bracing themselves for the onslaught of the storm so on yet it's already minus five and very windy it's not a good combination. but some like the owner of this local hotel we're confident that they've made the right preparations to withstand the battering nothing can fly

away here everything's nailed down it's been standing for two hundred years i don't think much will be flying around here. some though did up to leave making a break for it as best they could and their cars. but for others it was already too late. when germany's worst hit cities is the city of cologne kathleen she joins us by phone we were supposed to do this live on television but the weather means that we have to do it on the phone welcome what is the situation there. well what would normally be a busy rush hour on a thursday has been replaced by many people stranded in cologne the central train station which is the hub for local. local trains as well as international trains people have no idea when they're going to be able to get home their earliest we've heard is that to morrow morning people will be able to board trains dutch of elephants so. excuse me are trying to get people onto buses to get them home

meanwhile people are standing around keeping warm with free coffee and just hoping that they can get out of here soon so that's a chance for the situation more widely how badly have people been affected. well reports are coming in it's unclear how many people have been injured by falling trees that seems to be the biggest devastation so far when the storm swept over is another lens that belgium and western germany this morning and it's really there were it least five deaths reported but that number could go up right now officials are advising people to stay inside some schools have been closed flights grounded as well eastern germany is now preparing for a high wind and more snow as is poland and the czech republic but we're still waiting for more records to come in as to the extent of the devastation to see just collect thank you. saturday marks donald trump's first year first full gear as president of the united states all this week looking back at the last

twelve months in the white house ohio was one of the battleground states that handed the president his victory in a moment we'll examine why his style is so popular with his core supporters first washington bureau chief nominee sent us this from. valley in ohio a longtime democratic stronghold that was once a hub of the american steel industry but these times are long gone president trump one ohio in twenty sixteen by promising to bring jobs back to the region. tracey winbush believes in trump she hosts a talk show on local radio and after she gets off the air she relaxes and the cigar down. he is earned respect because of what he wants to do and how he wants to get it done so he's not republican he's not democrat he's just an american who use the system for his advantage to the

presidency. you have to respect that. i mean but we have to admit that he lies he doesn't tell the truth you have to admit he has a he has his own thought process. but the question is. do we all also. tracy takes me along to a party fundraiser in youngstown. killing. three five. delayed his polls show that presidents trump's approval rating is at a record low whether people here support him despite the fact that he hasn't made much progress on his legislative agenda. finally for the first time the live your life times there's somebody in washington who is determined to change washington that's why people are excited they want to they want someone to their washington

who can grab that place and shake it because it's become so overloaded and so out of control it's been a slow process they're frightened every step of the way but i believe in eventually people are going to realize how important this is like christian mckernan is a businessman in youngstown his grandfather started his heating and cooling company in one nine hundred thirty seven here sure christian says he trusts trump because he's all thoughts and entrepreneur so i don't have to agree with. certain things that a sitting president may feel i don't have to do but i really should just look back and respect the position that's there. and allow him to try to do his job. this is the show online trading for is not will get out and then walk out it's very thin frontier on the way economic growth is for tax cuts for health care that's what counts for tracey winbush she says she doesn't like f.

with think trump tweeds or sas but she'll support him as long as he is here to break the system. problem professor fritz a bright hope studies cognitive science that's indiana university in bloomington is author of the dark sides of empathy he joins us from the university welcome professor for a noble politician the number one tool is empathy donald trump seems to be a completely polarizing figure how do you explain that if well he absolutely polarizes people because the obvious place that one against everyone caught he is the west and here old yvonne single man the underdog who fights the bureaucracy fights against following us and so on and that's attractive so he's a master of drawing empathy to himself people can identify with this course they

are this underdog and they suddenly feel like they are the victim of conspiracies to sow the american why left out people in the southern states they can suddenly feel like someone is fighting for us and trump is exploiting exactly that that strategy. and even when it is as we saw in the report where he's demonstrated to have lied he produces policies that see a counter to what america used to stand for. he does that how does that affect his popularity. well he's deeply divisive to people right now his approval rate is below forty percent or around forty percent which means like one thought that the country is solidly behind him people can feel empathy for him can identify with this cause unlike how you fight speck how he kind of is aggressive and as these emotional outbursts while

true thoughts of the country all roughly sixty percent of very critical they don't like his emotional outbursts his uncontrolled behavior is irrational decisions his general madness as they would describe it but the base of the republican party is very solidly behind him. and it's i don't think it's so much the policies prissie that he has to step politically even though there's a lot of republican agendas that the as accomplished tax reform of course the regulation or oil drilling in alaska. that suits people but i think it's small the mind that they can relate to the one who gains against the balrog prosy against washington d.c. against everyone else they see himself as the meat a lot of his voters see him so themselves as this left out victim and now finally

someone speaks their language who communicates in a very plain way so for those people who were once kind of sided with them he continues to be the model of behavior the anchor of right rightness ok so when i'm in the senate you know different result is what i'm trying to be seems to deliver diminishing returns so could he win again briefly if you would my. sorry i could you could you repeat that question that some of didn't come through here properly the way he goes about we talked about the fact that he has now a very low approval ratings his policies the way he's lack of empathy seems to deliver diminishing returns could he win again. i think i mean the policies that he has

a stepless so far are just the basic republican agendas on that level he's not very distinct from presidents before him on the republican side so i don't think the f. much of a surprise. the question of course this will be the international arena if he continues to play this this is typical cot of one against everyone there will be may see something that falls us into a ball state that goes into some very radical kind of extremes. but on the basics here on the policies not much has changed it is rather his personality cult these new communication style his tweets his use of false information of emotional outbursts that he is the the last one sonia for people on the ground in america. we had a very different president befall president obama who was very eloquent who was

a role model of proper distinctions and then you have someone like trump who's kind of the elephant in a china shop who breaks the china the paul salonen who is a villain to say very unpopular things at first think that unconventional and that suits some people. is the thought of the population who suddenly feels like they get a voice where they didn't have a voice be fall who fell blick shut by someone like obama by his righteousness and . bright enough to indiana university thank you so much for joining. now the e.u. has been heavily criticized for its treatment of migrants and asylum seekers a new human rights watch report highlights europe's efforts to prevent fresh rivals in twenty seventeen and it criticizes the union for its reliance on non e.u. countries to stem the flow of people reaching the continent the number of migrants

arrivals by sea was down in twenty seventeen around fifty percent on the previous year but the report says the mediterranean remained badly he three thousand people died or went missing towards the end of last year our human rights watch says the member states who took in the largest number of arrivals have been shot by the remainder of the union asylum seekers were returned to italy and greece under the dublin regulation which states that the first e.u. country of entry was take over all responsibility for arrivals in the summer of twenty seventeen germany officially suspended such returns the number of other e.u. states followed suit. human rights watch is executive director is kind of the rough launching of this year so world report in paris he blamed the rise of populism for many human rights violations. the rise of the populace was very much a response to genuine grievances that people had they felt left behind economically

they were complaining about economic inequality and many people dislike the cultural shifts associated with migration some people fear terrorism and with the authoritarian copy of the stay it is take things which are in the grievances and skilled goat won't be able minorities to say you know it's the migrants who are at fault it's the asylum seekers it's the refugees and that effort to sort of bully a vulnerable minority for the problems of the jury hasn't been amazed at the rise of the populists. when sonia callus kay is director of human rights watch here in germany welcome to g.w. we'll get to populism shortly first let's start with a report six hundred pages to tell us that refugees need to be treated better now what what's the point of this. the point is that we see a rise in refugees rising migration the mobility in the globalized world is much

bigger and that causes a populist backlash in a lot of countries the same time we see the e.u. cooperate ing with countries like libya where there's no rule of law and where refugees are being treated terribly so that is the reason why this report awful not only but also focuses on refugees. you told us you told us there what we already knew didn't need a six hundred page report to tell us that things are not going well let's pick through some of this essential issue as human rights watch is concerned is this shifting of responsibility for asylum seekers and refugees to their countries of origin you criticize the e.u. for this what should the block do. let me tell you first the six hundred pages are not only on refugees refugees of course a very important topic but we have six hundred forty eight pages that deal with

almost every country and their human rights abuses in the world and so what the e.u. should do with refugees they have to change the policy the distribution of refugees within the e.u. has to be much more equalized at the countries that are now blocking the excess of refugees have to change the policies and the e.u. should not cooperate with countries that are clearly. disrespecting the human rights of refugees and moderating them and. though those countries being for example libya but also turkey in some extent by not letting syrian refugees for example crossing the border so let's talk about libya. you've criticized it's they and the e.u. for providing training and support to the libyan coast guards because of the

physical abuse that has has been documented again if the e.u. is looking to limit the number of. refugees and people seeking asylum under which shows what else can it do if not work with other countries in order to stem this for. it has to work much more with african countries to improve the situation in those countries by a meaningful development eight that should not what you're doing. to some extent but not really. it could be much more smarter too much development aid as it's reaching the hands of corrupt authoritarian regimes not reaching to certain people or where we see development aid and maybe an improvement in the infrastructure or education we still have the oppression of the people no freedom of expression oppositional even the egyptians you have to see is that they come to

be thrown in europe you are talking about what you're effectively saying is the world is not perfect and the e.u. is not a perfect institution and is dealing with imperfect institutions the e.u. is an institution trying to do its best within its own rules nothing that you have said i'm sure will come as any surprise to anyone from federica margaret mead or mr young downwards so again it's it's interesting to see that you say will you do this wrong you do this wrong you do this wrong yes they know that i did it can't see how you're helping do they know that i think maybe we and other organisations have told them the last couple of yes this again and again again but we have the feeling that they're not really listening who they're listening to are the populists too many politicians are trying to ape populist positions which of fear mongering scam mongering positions and not really doing what they should do

too many politicians saying we have to take of the root causes but where does it happen i can't see that too many countries are cooperating with human rights abuses abusing regimes who are refugee producing countries and so healthy very interesting thanks for joining us. my business and cloud nine. emirates airlines has announced it will buy twenty a three eighty super jumbos from a bus with an option to purchase sixteen more the deal is worth sixteen billion dollars and comes as a big relief for the european aircraft maker earlier this week. the a three eighty program would have to be discontinued if a deal with dubai based emirates didn't happen soon largest passenger plane in the world has proved to be too big for many carriers turning his proudest project into a nightmare for the company. apple's been stashing cash abroad for years to avoid

higher corporate tax rates at home but us president donald trump's cuts have changed that now the tech giants bringing back that money to invest in the united states and save big time on taxes it could be one of the biggest money transfers in the world take giant apple is moving two hundred fifty two billion dollars from abroad to the u.s. the company is set to face a tax bill of a whopping thirty eight billion dollars sounds like a lot but apple is actually saving money on the transaction a year ago it would have had to pay more than double that amount. apple c.e.o. tim cook says the company is proud to build on its long history of support for the u.s. economy. now the i phone makers planning investments worth billions in the u.s. it will build a new campus and hopes to create twenty thousand jobs. most of the money apple is

moving comes from ireland where corporate tax rates are even lower but efforts by the e.u. to harmonize corporate taxes across the bloc have made the situation uncertain so a recent reduction of u.s. corporate taxes from thirty five to twenty one percent as more attractive. new figures show the chinese economy gained steam last year the first annual increase in seven years to mystic perhaps grew by six point nine percent that exceeded economists forecasts and the governments. the chinese economy is coming back around thanks in part to robust exports above all to europe and the u.s. investment is also bolstering growth beijing has been spending a lot on infrastructure from roadways and railway networks to housing projects. the head of china's national statistics office said last year's expansion amounted to stable development. don't look out generally speaking in the twenty seven

thousand economy maintain the stable and solid development of the past exceeding expectations this means more progress toward building a moderately prosperous society we should of course be aware that difficulties and challenges remain and that the improvement of quality and efficiency in production remains a daunting task the chinese government has been working for years on broader structural changes to investment practices the state led expansion policies of the past decades are to give way to a more resilient consumer driven investment model buoyant consumer spending is already spring grove a sign that the government is on the right track. are they on track do you cope that's a question to you and frank what what the traders think about the stellar numbers they often do question their accuracy. well very well then who would ever question what the chinese government is saying but yes you're right investors always have some doubts about what they are saying because you have to keep in mind

that china is such a bigger country for someone you know compared to germany but at the same time the chinese government is always providing those numbers much faster and what the chinese government is always doing us well they're always saying well we're estimating that our g.d.p. figures are going to be between let's say six point three and six point nine percent and the result at the end is they're never below their either exactly the same or even higher and that's also what's sometimes making investors really questioning if those numbers are accurate because all that aside can you game from all of this if if china's successfully transitioning as it wants to from cheap exports through high tech. well that's exactly what china ones they don't want anymore that this image of made in china is still you know being compared with cheap products but china has a problem there pretty much two economies to production inside of the company one

that is really a growing very fast they are producing very good products they want to be number one when it comes for example to produce chips for cell phones or computers on the other hand there is still a booming business when it comes to those duplications that china has been accused for for many years and that the and then again hurting and harming the image of made in china again is the two sides to the story two sides to those results from twenty seventy what about twenty eighteen how do people where you were see the year ahead for china. well they're estimating pretty much also what the chinese government is saying that they're also thinking that six point five percent could be the g.d.p. now for two thousand and eighteen and they're actually happy with those numbers because a growing economy in china also means in many cases good business also for german companies vox fighting for example just announcing yesterday record numbers they

are also benefiting from this very much of growing china with a new record sales in china for the company as well that you cope with all that analysis for us franco thank you. and just briefly the c.e.o. of france's page carlos. says the carmaker plans to reenter the u.s. market p s a group subsidiary would take advantage of could take advantage of resources the german car maker opel which it acquired from general motors last year that acquisition gave it access to engineers who designed vehicles for g.m. that were later sold in the u.s. as were left the american market two decades ago and certainly would be a big comeback. ok to my part of the world now yes indeed to australia to melbourne thank you ben the fourth day of the australian open tennis championships in melbourne has seen players sweltering in extreme temperatures former champion novak

djokovic came from behind to defeat frenchman face defending champion roger federer one threw in the cool the night session but for the win at stanford frank i crashed out maria sharapova has progressed with a victory over latvian honest as yes about soda the russians back in the tournament for the first time since testing positive for a banned substance two years ago but was also in melbourne things didn't go quite so well for third say dag. she was beat in straight sets by time when he's a veteran a shoe is so why at the plane the scorching weather just time to remind you of our top story this hour europe's dealing with the effects of a powerful storm a long distance rail transport brought to a standstill in germany and high winds of course several at the talented and casualties as well european union has been heavily criticized for its treatment of migrants in a new report from human rights watch the organization sharply criticized the e.u. for light some countries outside its borders to take in i guess. that's it you know

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