this is the news live from berlin the u.s. government begins a federal shutdown on the day the president tries marks of one year in office the u.s. senate fails to agree on a new spending plan and both parties move quickly to blame the other good ask how the shutdown will impact the truck the presidency and the american people also coming up. turkish artillery shell the syrian town of ankara in a move to oust a u.s. backless militia despite appeals from washington and corvallis suppressed song of the full scale operation against them. and then sports at the bottom of the

bundesliga the cologne looks to build on its win last weekend in the basement clash against regulation rivals hamburg. i'm michel henery thanks for joining us shut down the u.s. senate has failed to reach an agreement to keep the federal government running halting all but the most essential operations in the late night session u.s. senators debated a short term budget bill that had already passed the house of representatives a handful of republicans joined most democrats to block the bill it's the first ever shutdown to happen while the same party the republicans control both congress and the white house the shutdown coincides with the one year anniversary of trump's time in office. let's take

a closer look at the internet national impact a u.s. government shutdown could have joining us now in the studio is heading reka head of the transatlantic program for the german council on foreign relations having welcome to. the midnight deadline passed without enough votes in the u.s. senate to keep the federal government running why should we care here outside the u.s. i mean it's our strongest ally it's an important vibrant economy so headless government in washington would be a catastrophe for many specs of the policies of a of a corporation of course this will first focus the attention of the president towards washington even more and sometimes you need an outlook in president if a crisis comes and then of course the shutdown means the government can't really run you remember. president obama couldn't attend a very important summit in asia in two thousand and thirteen because of the

shutdown and we can't afford the president trumps trump is planning to come to the devils economic summit to europe and these are important venues he has to attend there so we'd be happy if this could be avoided despite republicans controlling both the white house and congress the u.s. government as as you know has shut down what does this need for president trump i mean. imagine this is his first interview anniversary in office and. i think the democrats knew that this might happen then of course it taints the day that he should take balance and look at his achievements and this is why they are so friendly trying to put the blame on the democrats the democrats have of like loaded the bill with nonfinancial issues especially the very important agreements legislation and this is exactly what the republicans did earlier so to blame them as being irresponsible is hypocrisy but it means for him that he cannot prove that

he is. do you make it that he cannot actually reach out to congress and make these kinds of compromises that would be necessary for this. thank you thing so the u.s. government technically ran out of money of midnight on friday the moment trump began marking one year in office so let's take a moment to look back on that here one of the defining features of his presidency is his propensity for governing by twitter earlier we spoke to former cia director and then secretary of defense leon panetta we asked him what implications trump's use of social media house i cannot imagine i was i was chief of staff to the present united states to bill clinton i could not imagine being a chief of staff and trying to determine what the strategy is for a particular day and then go to work and find out the president at five am

started tweeting thinks that that totally undermine the ability to have some kind of strategy for that particular day you're going to have to spend your time basically repairing the damage that the president did from his tweets it is it is very unstable it's very erratic there's no reason that the president has to suddenly get up in the morning and tweet without developing some kind of stable policy approach to deciding what is the strategy for this administration it cannot just be a tweet you can't do foreign policy by tweeting. so later on panetta says trump's tweeting is a damaging and ineffective has the international community been able to come up with an effective strategy for interpret his tweets first one has to understand that his twittering is effective to reach out to his electorate and this is very

important these are not done these are of course government documents but they're not treated like this in his mind he wants to reach out to his listeners first we have to understand that the policy is made not by twitter but by the actions of the people around him by the agencies by the white house and i think there is a lot of good cooperation going on so the strategy is to reach out to the reasonably reasonable people around him and and press that they have sort of credible long term policy that we can actually rely on having rageh thank you for joining us. the u.s. military has put countering china and russia at the center of a new national defense strategy the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis called the two powers growing threats and lamented an erosion of military readiness capability to confront them it's the latest sign of shifting american priorities after more than a decade and a half of focusing on the fight against islamic militants the twenty eighteen

national defense strategy calls for an increase in the size and budget of u.s. armed forces which is supported by the president. turkey has intensified shelling of the northern syrian town of afrin in a move to oust a u.s. backed kurdish militia on chrissy's the tens of thousands of kurdish fighters massed there as terrorists and is valid to press on with a full scale operation against them but syria has warned against an incursion and has threatened to shoot down turkish jets. their target is a differing syria that's where turkey believes the kurdish y p g militia has its bases artillery rounds are intended to wear down wipe the g. forces before air and ground forces go in and is refusing to back down in this operation will take place we will cleanse the region of all terror groups the specifics are dependent on developments in the fighting as is the time frame it can

start any time tomorrow or even tonight actually it's already begun. michel. for turkey the wife of g.-d. or peoples protection units is the syrian army of the kurdistan workers party and enemy of the turkish state for the us the white peachy has been useful against the so-called islamic state and washington arm the kurdish group to defeat i.a.s. now the us is calling for a border security force in syria that would include the y.p. g. militia turkey is dead set against that plan. turkey has run out of patience. no one should think will sit idly by to watch events unfold. turkey's government wants to prevent a kurdish zone of influence at any cost from northern iraq to the turkish syrian border which it believes kurdish militias would use to attack turkey turkey's attack on why the g. forces and affray in looks to achieve that goal. the campaign is turkey's next

round in a long conflict against kurdish armed factions they are often supported by the us turkey's nato ally as part of a larger regional conflict involving ever shifting alliances. now some of the other stories making news around the world egypt's president adel fatah sisi says he will run for a second term in march a lections he's been challenged by some me and on the country's former armchair forces chief anon has called upon state institutions to remain neutral in the campaign when. pope francis has warned that the native peoples of the amazon have quote never been so threatened thousands of indigenous people travel to meet the pontiff during his visit to the peruvian city of porto mother nada one spokeswoman warned if they take away our land we will disappear. chancellor merkel has been in paris to meet french president and the whole they discussed

a series of euro zone reforms mccrone is keen to see change he wants a separate budget and a single finance minister for the zone marcus is cautiously in favor but her first priority is forming a government at home over the last weeks and months in manuel mccollum has been left waiting he's eager to push on with grand plans for europe but his key partner the german chancellor has been busy with other things she's been struggling to form a new government tome. inevitably those struggles were a major issue when the two leaders faced the press. marichal said she was optimistic she would soon reach a coalition with germany social democrats and i can see substantial areas of agreement notably regarding our european ambitions and i'm convinced that for that we need a stable government you will not be. cannot be realized alone and

i've already said that several times they need to be accompanied by german ambitions. and those ambitions are high that's an e.u. summit last month medical in my cong pledged to draw up proposals for reforming the euro zone mccall has floated radical ideas a single budget a single finance minister for all member states merkel is more hesitant but on the wider vision for europe the two say they are agreed. it is a europe that must have a common foreign policy on strategic questions a europe that must create its own common development policy it's a europe of defense and it is a europe that has to be economically strong was i know what i thought of the starts and was clearly for me the priority is to know where do we want to go i think we share this vision of defending a greater sovereignty greater unity and a europe of a more democratic character and if we agree on the end goals we can construct the

tools to get. you on the. for the french president a more integrated europe goes hand in hand with the pro-business policies he hopes will invigorate the economy at home. so big plans for the european union but with germany one of the key players of the e.u. not having a new government it's going to be hard for the french president to remarkable to put any of these plans into action. in friday nights but as the game her to berlin and dortmund each come away from the german capitals olympic stadium with a point davies got the horse on the scoreboard less than a minute into the second half valentino's are out with a beautiful cross to set up an easy finish one nil to her child but dortmund soon she got a head at home in the seventy first minute to level the score english teenager

jayden sancia this one not because i want to put away one is how it ended. one of the top bundles the big games on saturday sees a bottom of the table showdown second to last hamburg versus last place cologne this encounter could be an indicator of what to expect from each of these old traditional clubs as they battle to say up in the top flight next season. humber coach michaels gives dollars attempting to remain cool and calm no easy feat as his team are sitting in the dreaded drop zone last time i lost weight to outskirts they desperately need a victory this weekend against bottom of the table cologne. it's right to say that this match is particularly important to us to beat it's a home game and against a team that's struggling to avoid relegation but recently they've had a bit of a boost play at some percent over clay pot the first half of the season proved

disastrous for cologne with relegation practically a short but the club are feeling hopeful again after their last minute victory against bloodbath last weekend i put their success in the run darby be a sign of what's to come above is a long movie and if it weren't so long as we remain in the relegation zone winning is the only thing that matters of. playing for a victory from the very first second to the last. sort of. a victory for cologne would push them within three points of second from bottom hamburg which would serve as a welcome boost for the billy goats and worrying for michael's good old site. we don't like the situation where we don't have enough to point but we need to be realistic before the current season even got underway we knew this season was going to be incredibly difficult again. something has changed in cologne i

believe that miracles can sometimes happen with hard work and dedication. it should be a good match more news coming up here at the top of the hour you can always get the latest on our website dot com i'm still here in berlin thanks for watching and see you soon. the. freedom of expression. the value that always has to be defended and new. all over the world. of freedom freedom of art. a multimedia project about artists and their right to express their views freely.