this is deja vu news live from berlin the u.s. government begins a federal shutdown on the day of president trump marks 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 will not count on the shutdown and the truck presidency and the american people also coming up. turkish artillery shell the syrian town of operating in a move to oust a u.s. backed kurdish militia washington is appealing for them to stop it and go about suppress all of the operation against them. and in sports at the bottom

of the bundesliga cologne looks to build on it when last weekend in the basement clash against the delegates rivals hamburg. i'm michel henery thanks for joining us the u.s. government has begun a federal shutdown that's after the senate failed to reach a spending deal needed to keep the government running halting all but the most essential operations in a late night vote the government budget bill did not receive the sixty votes that needed to pass more republicans joined most democrats to block the bill it's the first ever shutdown to happen while the same party the republicans controlled both congress and the white house the senate defeat coincides with the one year anniversary of trump's time in office. our washing correspondent karen you should

more explains why the government shutdown came about and how you watched lawmakers inability to reach a deal will affect government services well it has happened congress has not passed a spending measure until midnight and the government of the united states is now in a shutdown each party is blaming the other one causing this crisis of truth is it has never been about policy it has been the whole time only of of politics each party with their respective political strategy republicans say democrats are making a reasonable demands trying to include a deal to protect and documented immigrants as part of the deal to fund the government on the other side democrats are confident that voters will now hold republicans responsible for the shutdown since they control the white house and the congress so both sides are now looking for an opportunity to blame the other party it's a partial shutdown that means the essential services of the government will remain

the justice department will keep working although with less workers social security checks will continue the military operations will continue and of course the congress will be working specially to end a shutdown some federal agencies that will be closed our department of education and the environmental protection agency also the funding for the children's health insurance will be put on hold until it can be extended all this happening on the one year in a very sorry i'll see you know gratian of donald trump as president of the united states of america. 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 rekha head of the transatlantic program for the german council on foreign relations heading welcome to w one of 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 aspects of the policies of a of a corporation of course this bill first focus the attention of the president towards washington even more and sometimes you need an odd looking president if a crisis comes and then of course the shutdown means the government can 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 a universe

a real 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 to proceed 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 so the u.s. government technically ran out of money at midnight on friday the moment trump began marking one year in office so let's take a moment to look back on that year 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 the united states to bill clinton i cannot 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 or 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 panetta says trance tweeting is a damaging and ineffective has the international community been able to come up with an effective strategy for interpret in 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 the 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 rica 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 and capability to confront them is the latest sign of shifting american priorities after more than a decade and a half focusing on the fight against islamist militants the twenty eight hundred 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 or seized the tens of thousands of kurdish fighters massed there as terrorists and to press on with a full scale operation against them but syria has warned against an incursion and as threaten to shoot down turkish jets. their target is

a referee in 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 this operation will take place we will cleanse the region of all terror groups at 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 on such a ritual for turkey the wife and she or peoples protection units is the syrian army of the kurdistan workers party and enemy of the turkish state for the us the white b.g. 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 he. 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 white 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. not some of the other stories making news around the world egypt's president abdel fatah assisi says he will run for a second term in march elections he's being challenged by saudi and on the country's former armed forces chief anon has called upon state institutions to

remain neutral in the campaign. the operator of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant says it has captured images of what's likely to be melted fuel inside one of the damaged reactors the images would provide crucial information for its cleanup a massive earthquake and tsunami in two thousand and eleven cost three reactors at the fukushima plant to melt it. 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 puerto montt in auto one spokeswoman warned if they take away our land we will disappear. at the australian open germany's best hope in the men's draw alexander spare of crashed out vive sets against his own chunk of south korea fourth seeds there of

was ahead after three sets but his opponent roared back to take the final to chung who also knocked out various brother michel in the first round is the first set way from the german capitals olympic stadium with a point davies elka got the hosts on the scoreboard less than a minute into the second half valentino's are over the beautiful cross to set up an easy finish one nil for her time but dortmund shinji kagawa headed home in the seventy first minute to level the score english teenager jaivin sancia teeth this one up for kagawa to put away one is how it ended. one of the top one is the 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 to each of these old traditional clubs as they battle to stay up in the top flight next season. number 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 night they lost a way to out for it so 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 it's clear putt the first half of the season proved disastrous for cologne with relegation practically assured but the club are feeling hopeful again after their last minute victory against gladbach last weekend could their success in the run darby be a sign of what's to come i. live via 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. 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. some cities we don't like the situation where we don't have enough to points but we need to be realistic before the current season even got underway we knew this season was going to be incredibly difficult to get. something has changed in cologne believes that miracles can sometimes happen with hard work and dedication. get ready for some breathtaking scenery day nine of the paragliding world cup super final in colombia was won by me he'll see go on friday the swiss pilot soared to fifty three with a six minute lead over his closest challenger the competitors clouds and missed throughout the race after the day started with a tropical rainstorm siegel's when also season claim top spot in the overall world cup rankings. more news coming up

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