this is news coming to you live from but a deadly winter. storm in a decade strikes britain the netherlands and germany many trains were cancelled overnight meeting bathroom just stranded we get the latest from our correspondent also coming up tomorrow someone in the office of donald trump some analysis on the highs and lows of his twelve months in the white house. and. good questions over the future but also your daughter can strike up. a young she has

been left. in but. hello and welcome i'm. well the full cost is a describing it as the was told to get germany in a decade eleven people have been killed eight of them in germany as guinea force winds and rain swept across parts of europe the storm named fredricka came from the west and hit the netherlands and belgium before sweeping across germany damaging infrastructure and causing major disruptions to read and road travel wind speeds of over two hundred kilometers per hour recorded on the central brocken mountain. the winds were just too strong for these buildings in the netherlands. top heavy

lorries stood little chance either. and tragic consequences for ling trees killed several people. in scotland drivers were advised to stay off the roads. plains to were affected buffeted by fierce gusts at amsterdam ship while at port authorities that later granted all flights. that were similar scenes at train stations across the netherlands and germany. thousands of passengers were stranded as rail traffic was suspended. it took some by surprise. when. i was on my way to university i had a deadline for handing in some work fifteen minutes ago but if you met my professor and i think she'll forgive me for. standing in my local train station when i saw

a huge branch falling off a tree so i knew or didn't. have to just as it moved. and i blow dried my hair that was a waste of time. a long wait for many but on the dutch coast. embrace the wild weather. more frustration. hard work is only just beginning for those involved in the cleanup it's set to be a mammoth task. to mean real company. some long distance routes but those days consolations meant an unexpected night away from home for many travelers mullens a central station a leader on a sleeper train with a difference it wasn't going anywhere instead the carriages doubled up as the temporary hotel for passengers stranded in the capital. joining me now from but in

central station of the hop bahnhof is a correspondent charlotte's chaz and bill schulte what is the situation there like right down how passengers coping with these immense delays and cancellations. hi rita they have been massive queues here at butlins central station since the early hours of the morning people waiting to find out whether they are some of the lucky few who are able to leave the city some people of course have been stranded since yesterday afternoon after all when old long distance trains were canceled some now have resume but there are still major disruption here at central station people waiting in queues for it up to an hour to try and find out whether or not they'd be able to board the trains this is a scene that's being played out across train stations across germany we're hearing that the north and the west germany a particularly badly affected with

a lot of train counts lation is that the south though trains are meant to be now running more normally but this is a very disappointing situation for people who have had a very long wait to find out whether they can leave the city some people in fact as we just heard had to spend the night on a sleeper train they were calling it a hotel train here not far from where i'm standing right now and as i'm sure you can imagine that wasn't a very comfortable stay for them in this very very cold in evening no no beds for them just having to sit on the train and waited down to see if they were able to leave this morning many though were disappointed that the worst of the storm appears to be over so on long distance really service is getting back to normal. some trains have resumed across the country but this was a devastating storm that that barreled through germany had winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour so there has been

a lot of damage done to rail tracks in fact i spoke to a space purse from from deutsche bahn jemmy's rail service not too long ago he told me that they have to take stock of exactly what's happened before they can decide that it's safe for people to travel let's have a quick listen to what he had to say. if you have a problem or two. there are a hundred and fifty different sections of track where there's been severe damage. that could mean the overhead wire has come down or trees have fallen and are blocking the tracks all that has to be repaired and even when the tracks have been cleared we still have to ensure that there are no trees that may have been damaged and could fall on them later that's going to happen as well that's why we will have to reduce the speed of our trains in some areas that's absolutely vital to avoid accidents. now that there is one space and told me that he hoped that more and more rail services would be seen throughout the day he said he hopes for needs

a normal service tomorrow and that of course there isn't going to be much comfort that the hundreds of people stranded here many of them for a second day in central station so much as simple and but in central station thank you very much for that update. jim nor me because the voted in favor of for your death camps down an anti semitism the new legislation would create the post of anti semitism commissioner in the german government for the first time a legislator say the group of rightwing populism and events at a recent palestinian demonstration in germany prompted the move. a demonstration against donald trump's decision to recognize to root for them is israel's capital. and some are of protesters chanting dine with israel. or those burn a replica of the israeli flag the december protests and on time berlin sparked concern over a growing on the semitism in germany and. lawmakers have

acted establishing a new post of commissioner for anti semitism it's one of a number of measures recommended in a report by a panel of experts. believe still one spews out this report tells us that most anti-semitic activities crimes and attacks come from right wing extremism. but also that a growing number of anti-semitic. are a result of immigration and. hundred million by people who come from a region where hatred of israel and anti-semitism are widely cultivated using. nazi germany murdered six million european jews modern germany special responsibility to protect jewish life is

political consensus lawmakers from the social democrats the left party and the greens said the semitism is not limited to a few extremists when the next person comes down is there the committee was very clear in its statement that anti semitism is widespread and leads right to the middle of society to unions to church congregations even to the political parties. and this in part time tonight. the far right alternative for germany party the f.t. has questioned germany's culture of holocaust remembrance they say islam is the elephant in the room when it comes to defining the real threat to jewish life. busying in on it but still we can all see it you call it immigration mr common or people from other cultures and north africa and the middle east lawmakers from other parties pointed out that the f.d.a. itself has an anti semitism problem and that some if the members are even holocaust deniers the bundestag adopted the anti semitism legislation with

a large majority including f.t. votes. that now bring you up to date that some other stories making news. apologies in cape town of impose new water restrictions on how to combat an ongoing drought from favorite residents use no more than fifty liters a day a reduction of one with half the south african cities had three years of rain for. a californian couple who held their thirteen children captive for years in their home have pleaded not guilty to charges of torture and child abuse prosecutors say the children with starved and shackled even when they had to go to the bathroom face life in prison if convicted of or charges. new zealand prime minister just under our dern has announced she's expecting our first child and will take fix weeks of maternity leave when the baby's born adams comments are on a woman's right to privacy concerning baby plans went viral last year after she was

elected leader of new zealand's labor party. you're watching the news coming up ahead we take a look at what donald trump's put in place is done away with and changed since his first eventful here and the us president. but first monica joins me now and trouble brewing between the u.s. and china as you remember you just mentioned donald trump he's been critical of china especially its economy for a long time and now some chinese steel and polyester products will face punitive tariffs as high as one hundred and seventy four percent when imported to the united states washing he says chinese government subsidies give these products an unfair edge making it hard for american producers to compete only a small range of chinese products are affected but experts say the trade dispute between the u.s. and china could also affect other countries. that should give stock markets around

the world yet more to ponder on over to our man at the frankfurt stock exchange danny or cork down you know it's been an interesting week for investors from bitcoin slumps to the airbus a three eighty revival what were the biggest market movers. monica you really mentioned the highlights already cryptocurrency is where cory the number one topic here at the stock market with the big coin dropping below the mark of ten thousand dollars many investors are saying that this was kind of like the first crash that we have really seen in the crypto currency market this is really have been giving investors quite some headache and now when you look at the market today it seems that it has recovered at least a little bit yes the a three eighty the problem child of us was was announcing in the past that if there would be no new deal regarding the three eighty they would be shutting down the airbus a three eighty production yesterday breaking news from

emirates the carrier already holding more than one hundred planes of the a three eighty the announced they would be buying thirty six more even with the option of buying another sixteen it seems that this has rescued and saved the program for at least ten years now and g.d.p. numbers also from china three times higher than we are seeing them in germany some investors have doubts how accurate those numbers are but in general good business in many cases in china also means good business for german companies as well the week here at the blue chip index that's rather slow up and downs the euro has been giving investors quite some had a headache and next week all the eyes will be on davos and you will have full coverage from there as well her i don't think is too much of a summing up of the market action in frankfurt. meanwhile i.b.m. has announced its first sales growth in almost six years the struggling tech giant had posted

a loss for twenty three concerts. successive courses going back to two thousand and twelve results were boy by growth in its cloud computing operations total revenue in the last quarter increased three point six percent to twenty two billion dollars a significant tax related charge linked to the recent us tax reform however meant that the company still posted a one billion dollar loss shares in i.b.m. fell more than three percent following the news. to asia now and the capital of baghdad dhaka the capital of bangladesh dhaka is one of the most densely populated cities in the world and getting around the city is quite a feat the most popular means of transportation is of course the rickshaw the city reportedly has the highest the number of them in the world but the government has been imposing restrictions on they use. this is the easiest way to get around the bangladeshi capital dhaka. chop brick shadows are readily available

everywhere but we feel they are useful because they can move around in our old. executive he didn't know and they are less of an environmental burden than cars for several hundred thousand locals the vehicles represent more than just a means of transportation they are a source of income. i came from a village he felt i'd been working in this area for six or seven years i make about nine dollars that's what my family lives on. what i did what i would rather much. but his days in the job could be numbered critics say rickshaws are slowing down traffic in dhaka so the police are cracking down on them. the idea that he's rich so that i legally plying through the v.i.p. rolls and creating traffic jams now will send these to be trashed less than ten percent of doctors rickshaws are legally registered now hundreds of thousands of

drivers face the prospect of losing their livelihood. well the last twelve months anything but boring and that rita is flashy sang to one man i think you're thinking of donald trump. tomorrow saturday mocks the fuss and i received darn triumphalist i was president of the united states a summit said he wouldn't last until christmas but with the economy booming and his health reportedly good trump is holding steady his unpredictable nature has had his supporters sharing and his opponents cringing here's a look back at trump's fust year in office. it was an audacious first week in office. migration had been a central tenet of candidate trump's campaign within days of his inauguration president trump issued the first report became known as muslim bans his supporters

welcomed the move but thousands of people turned out at airports across the country to protest the executive order legal challenges against the travel ban came almost immediately even after trump signed a second and then a third ban later in the year courts prevented them from going fully into effect the supreme court will ultimately decide their fate this year. shortly after the election the number of illegal crossings at the u.s. mexican border hit an all time low according to u.s. border officials throughout the year the government stepped up raids and arrests of suspected undocumented persons in the u.s. . the wall on the u.s. mexican border that trump promised is now part of some key immigration negotiations in washington. one clear triumph for trump was the ascension of neil course to the supreme court for many conservatives this was an affirmation of why they voted for

trump course it is an arch conservative jurist at just forty nine years old and with a lifetime appointment he is likely to shape a good portion of american law moving forward. in terms only legislative success so far has been his tax bill with an estimated one point five trillion dollars in tax cuts it advances several conservative republican objectives like slashing corporate taxes and in particular lowering the rate for the richest americans he signed the bill into law even though the american public largely disapproved. the president also fulfilled a key campaign promise when he announced he'd withdraw the u.s. from the paris climate agreement over the objections of many of his advisors the u.s. is now the only country in the world. that is not signed the accord. building on strategies the obama administration put in place trumped up the numbers of u.s. troops in iraq and syria ultimately helping to defeat the so-called islamic state

the prime minister of iraq declared victory over i asked last month. and the u.s. economy has remained strong under trump u.s. stock markets have reached record highs and unemployment is at a seventeen year low although the president's behavior has been a daily flash point and many people still feel left behind in the economy mainstream conservatives have a lot to be happy about. within the studio. is a political analyst at the university of berlin and welcome nicholas so donald trump is set to box his first year in office on saturday it's been an eventful twelve months what are your thoughts ofa oh yes it has been eventful lots of stuff has happened in terms of policy not so much i mean we all remember that we were promised the huge legislative agenda what we were left with is tax cuts tax cuts that will implode the deficit that befits the richest americans that do not change

that unemployment might be very low but those benefiting from it are not those with tool three jobs so the situation essentially hasn't changed what we see is a president benefiting from eight years of a democratic administration that dealt with the financial crisis dealt quite successfully with the financial crisis and is now. boosted by worldwide worldwide but worldwide growth in china and europe so in terms of successes there is little to talk about really and yet he remains very popular amongst his supporters even so many scandals and a big storm about what he said and why. he's done how does the political machinery work how do people within his administration get him out of all these scrapes i think what happened is that the democratic the republican party the g.o.p.

and the president are no. have found their own sort of balance don't from does the telling of ala out of the white house all the scandals all the political movement as we call it while the republican party does exactly what the republican party has done all these years they make trickle down they conduct trickle down economics in the hope that it will ever come to pass which it probably won't because experts have found that only a quarter of those. of the money trickling down actually benefits the society at large and so what we see is. a real television personality running the white house more or less the republican party conducting business as usual how much of the backlash against donald trump is a considerable back backlash when you look at social media. is based on his personality rather than his on the seas this is only and this is why the machinery works this is only about donald trump personally whether you like him or not the

you know those people liking trump sticking with him they like that he's edgy they like that he does not you know it here to political correctness those people who despise him have the very same do make this very same argument so this is not about content or substance whatsoever this is only about donald trump the personality and what gets lost over the whole issue of trump trump ism is that policy is shaped by those remaining you know in the legislative dark the g.o.p. how important is public opinion when you're talking about the most powerful man in the was because as you've seen the united states in the boston area has been deeply polarized his supporters. i think he's the greatest gift to the united states and will make the country great again and his critics think just the opposite well because. you know in those one hundred forty characters or two hundred eighty. and

today you can't explain policy the way policy needs to be explained take for example apple repatriating it's it's money to the united states we're talking thirty eight billion years dollars a promising new campus twenty thousand jobs that's it so thirty eight billion dollars and you the american public gets twenty thousand jobs that close to nothing so successes and successes are the very same thing in a society in a public discourse that doesn't simply doesn't have the time to get into depth about what is happening right nicholas kessel's thank you very much for your analysis on donald trump his first year in office thank you. turning now to asia and pro-democracy activists in hong kong have seen in court have been in court of a protest that happened nearly four years ago on wednesday joshua was one of the leading figures in the so-called movement was sentenced to three months in jail one

was found guilty of obstructing a protest camp clearance during the two thousand and fourteen valleys that paralyzed parts of the city it's the second time he's been in prison and supporters gathered outside the courthouse promising to continue their civil disobedience and more than a dozen other activists were given suspended prison terms one of them was neat in law he spoke to us from hong kong earlier we asked him whether there's been any change in the political situation since those true democracy protests three years ago. well to be honest the situation gets worse the interventional the beijing government getting much more coffee than before and why for example there was this qualification of democratically elected legislators and i am the one who was elected by more than fifty thousand voters but the government this qualified me by. explaining the loan from beijing sight

so that definitely that i think situation are on call and i think most of the democratic supporters they are still having all. this if you look forward to a brighter future we are now in the. last side of the battle between the government between the beijing and the democratic process you know. so that was hong kong democracy activists need to nor talking to us and in the am telling out of some sport in the bundesliga does match the nine hundred kicks off tonight but had to balance in today dortmund the build up of being dominated by the future of don't want star strike appear emenike album eon he is not playing tonight with a transfer possibly on the horizon but coach pete is target is trying to concentrate on the positives. i picture show a guy has one thing on his mind maintaining dortmund's unbeaten streak and

essential task is to stay in the race for this season's been this you get title. since he took over at the helm back in december the black and yellows have bounced back after several months in freefall. so it's no surprise it's feeling upbeat to head of their away clash to have. i think it's all positive. there's a good mood in the team is to they're having fun doing their work and feeling really motivated. this. guy had a lot of thinking to do when putting together his starting eleven. striker pierre emerick album a young has been left out of the squad i made rumors he'll soon move to premier league club arsenal there was some good news with nineteen year old sensation christian six set to make a return from injury. is ready to play again he took part in the

last two training sessions and we're going to see how he is so he's a possibility for the game. than america to show his notes on a. sure way it's dortmund fans are brilliant unbeaten in their last three home games against the visitors. has a recap of the top story that their funding field thought is in generally have been scrambling to play on the devastation left behind by the one storm to hit in a decade strong gales left a dozen people dead in germany and neighboring countries and brought to train travel. many fast and just the stranded overnight. and avoiding is free enough not to forward to seeing you then the day.

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