this is. from berlin tonight two leaders one message france and germany make the case for globalization france's president manuel macron tells crowds at the world economic forum that free trade has to work for everyone if it is to ensure prosperity and protect democracy. and warning against protectionism and calling for a renewed european single market also coming up turkish troops keep up the pressure in their fight to clear kurdish militias away from the country's border with syria

now president who's threatening to extend the offensive further east plus we'll look at the cost of waging. this daughter left home to join islamic state this four years later her mother in chechnya fears that she will never return. it's good to have you with us it was a packed house today when europe take center stage in the swiss alps with speeches from the continent's political heavyweights germany spoke first in the day but it was france's emanuel macron who had the headliner slot he told the world economic forum globalization has to ensure prosperity for everyone for all classes in.

let us not be native to declare that is a nation in general is going through a major crisis and this global challenge requires for sure collectively fought from international organizations states companies civil society in order to find and implement so if. i go america she made the case for closer european ties as well as for more free trade on her warning against rising economic nationalism it comes a day before u.s. president donald trump is due to arrive in davos it was a welcome break for the chancellor amid political gridlock right here in berlin. the german chancellor speech marked her return to the world stage after months of political limbo at home in germany her address focused on europe and its future one of her key messages the world's problems will not be solved by isolation and

protectionism instead she said nations must work together to face global challenges both economic and political. obviously in the us is not we know that there are international egotism we see nationalism on the rise and many states there's a polarizing atmosphere perhaps in many places people worry whether multilateralism can really solve people's problems. ellie's you remember them isn't. make you also stressed that europe must overcome challenges to better implement digital technologies risk being left behind she said germany lags behind some less developed nations despite its reputation for technical innovation. that says that means the task for the next four years will be to bring digital technology into our education system yes the government has to be organized that

usually. and a better environment for startups has to be created so that we can make further progress that we can remain a cradle of innovation the chancellor then turned her attention to defense she said europe should be more responsive to the problems of its immediate neighbors she called on european countries to cooperate more closely forging common security and foreign policies. this. even if you look at europe's immediate neighborhood how many global conflicts are playing out on our doorstep we experienced this in twenty fifteen when globalization came to europe in the form of people refugees home and when we hadn't done enough to counter the civil war in syria when we hadn't done enough to deal with so-called islamic state in iraq. the chancellor did not openly

criticize u.s. president donald trump he will speak at the conference on friday but has strong warning against protectionism seem tailor made for washington's most recent global policy. and what did the world hear those beast speeches well it's of a break it down i have political correspondent sabra young here at the big table with me and our brussels correspondent. is in brussels tonight gentlemen welcome back let me start with you what did you make of president of his is call for action. pretty typical macross speech because it really wide arching from extreme details which he has a pretty impressive grasp on to his visions not only for france but for europe and yes also the world and his speech was probably strongest when he talked about those vision saying that the framework for a new world order had to be multi lateral listen and also cooperation and that

already the europeans had the tools in hand the solutions for the most pressing questions and that they just have to decide to make use of them and that they had to decide that not in the near future but now inside when you're at the top of the show i made reference to both of these leaders as europe's power couple a lot of people saying that today merkel and mccrone were they singing from the same hymn sheet it very much so not necessarily in the same language of course president mccall speaking english for a lot of his speeches as well as french and merkel sticks to german on these occasions but the broad lines of what they're saying of course about re-energizing the european project about cooperation and multilateralism absolutely together merkel's a little less detailed than the french account of thought perhaps that's explicit well given that she's got to be a bit careful she doesn't say anything that puts off the social democrats as she continues was that those tricky attempts to form a new coalition government here but medical really drawing together the lines about

security policy foreign policy the importance of multilateralism as i said doing something to improve things in africa to combat migration which in turn will come back populism and populist ten diseases because it's not just about economic isolationism also you know she's talking about the rise of the far right in a europe so quite a wide ranging speech from the chance that the i could speak of economics i spoke a lot about the need to boost the french economy let's take a listen part of what he said. i'm my first missy he said france is back france is back at the cool for europe. because we will never have any friends since this is without europe instances. france is back everyone's talking about that quote max he said france is back at

the core of europe was there with of france first in that message you know he draws on patriotism of course because the french like to be still but the gong still they are patriotic but just know what simon just mentioned he spoke in english i don't recall any french president really doing that with at an important speech in the past so that shows you he is not in the spirit of america first that's probably gated by the trumpet ministration that represents a closed model that presents bilateral relationships he represents an open model of globalisation if it's done right multilateralism i just mentioned it so i would say the two could probably not be much farther apart. simon did you miss anything the americal zz speech what did she not say we have brant who talks about free trade and about combating of protectionism and nationalist thinking but what

about germany's huge trade surplus you know there are many people around the world who are not happy with that it's not just don't know trump we think there are too many miss a b.m.w. on fifth avenue you if you ask a lot of people here in europe as well people in italy for instance they will say that you know germany's approach of boosting its own trite while you know encouraging its european partners to be very tough of fiscal discipline and monetary discipline in fact even the french are not that keen on it of course a president macro didn't address it head on today in that speech but you know was the answer to this big trade imbalance that germany has with the rest of the world he didn't hear the officer from angola methyl today but of course as i say he has got other things to worry about at the moment i don't think we've heard the word all stare at any one time today during those speeches either i want to ask both of you simon and max do you see an irony here you've got merkel a conservative you've got mccrone a former investment banker and they were both praising the european social market

model the social welfare state as a model for the world is there an irony that well you know that both centrists both people who believe that you've got to find the common ground and do the right thing for middle class people working class people you know and that's what they went trough well absolutely i don't know if it's ironic i mean it's the it's the shape of the new politics it's not new of course in this at this low in in in in the european consensus has been there for a while what would you say max. if you look at the history i mean there's a conservative she's not in the a liberal and it's a long been a long tradition with the c.d.u. which is a christian democratic union to have their social values and looking at michael just as a former investment banker doesn't do his whole story just as he also was a very important part of the socialists in france so i would agree with simon what we're witnessing at the moment are intelligent politicians in europe realizing that

the way globalization has been conducted in the past and that the challenges of the future for example with digitalisation are such that you need to do something to make sure you have most people on board in the european union otherwise what you're going to do is just feed populism our brussels bureau chief max often tonight in brussels and simon young here in berlin to both of you you thank. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a brazilian court has unanimously upheld the conviction of former president who was not sealed to so known as luma on corruption charges the three judges confirmed the verdict and increased his sentence from nine to twelve years lula raul as his supporters ahead of the incision which could see him barred from running for office again the disgraced former u.s. gymnastics team doctor larry now sir has been sentenced to up to one hundred seventy five years in prison more than one hundred women and girls including a limp gold medalist described decades of sexual abuse by nasser he's already

serving a sixty year sentence on child pornography charges. into groups in india have stepped up their protests against a controversial film due to open this week album makers. but it's denying accusations that it distorts history by train a muslim or as the lover of a hindu queen police opened fire to disperse protests after the supreme court gave the go ahead for the film's release. these so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in afghanistan gunman stormed an office of the save the children aid agency in the afghan city of jalalabad two people were killed twenty other injured when the militants battled that their way in to get security forces who had surrounded the bill the british based charity have suspended its operation in

afghanistan. well tonight turkey's incursion into northern syria is in danger of escalating now that's as rockets fired from within syria landed in turkey killing two people and wounding several others turkey's president ed awad has also valid to expand his army's offensive eastwards where they risk approaching u.s. forces who are stationed in syria u.s. president donald trump has warned turkey against the move but the fighting intensifies. the shots a ton of yielded as evidence of the force that turkey has brought to be enough took his government is determined to press on with a petition all of brunch which to them has been a success so far in. the operation will continue until the threat is removed. or protests from suitors rick let us but the kurdish y p g wants the world to know that they would surrender the enclave with it's a fight. we will resist and will not allow the enemy to invade our land to the last

drop of blood we have we will never retreat from here on just. those appear to be no idle words missiles fired from white p.g. controlled tended to be crashed into this mosque in the turkish border tode of kilis causing fatalities and panic as worshippers tried to free the wounded from the rubble. the death toll rises on both sides but turkish president rich ip type edwin says he will expand the offensive eastwards. u.s. troops stationed in northern syria might soon find themselves caught between kurds and turks each ally determined to banish the other from the region at all costs. are for the latest now i'm joined by journalist vladimir village inboard he joins us from in iraqi kurdistan it's good to see you what are you hearing tonight from your contacts in a free. fighting is going on especially in

a village this close to that there is a border that we have a classic there. as usual so there were killed but the life we did have evacuated from that it is so that civilians don't get hurt and that there is that that now we understand that there has been a controversy surrounding the weapons that the turks are using specifically the turks reportedly using german built tanks in this offensive what are you hearing there is i mean is that being discussed there. are people enough in there also a watching closely to use what is that a broad. answer that. phone at three nine he was complaining that german tanks are used by turkey to kill cats and athletes so anything what happens abroad it's all salt an athlete because they're still in it that connection. and we know of course

we've got the turkish forces coming across the border there's the russian component in this and then there's also the u.s. component the u.s. has backed kurdish forces in the past we know that the u.s. considered the kurdish militia militia to be the best ground troops in the battle against islamic state in syria now america appears to be doing little to stop turkey's offensive do the kurds do the kurdish fighters do they feel that the us has abandoned them. well the kurdish fighters are not happy with. the statements in riyadh before because it seems somehow that they are allowing the turks to attack. today and call between donald trump and president add on he called on turkey to. to not ask the lady and to show restraint and that fact because america knows that the syrians could be hit by these turkish attacks but in general that occurred they want president trump to basically conquer killed at least that's

act and of course we haven't heard that the u.s. president is planning to do that the turkish president mr edible and he has announced that his country's military will expand this offensive and move even closer to u.s. forces that are stationed in syria so vladimir are we going to see a confrontation between two nato allies. well actually i've just got news a few minutes ago i from kurdish officials they said that there could have carried out air strikes in mombasa who are also u.s. troops so definitely that's going to ask a lady too that there he still wants to attack the city of monday to where u.s. troops are present. u.s. the goal nothing basically to stop the service attacks then the kurds will not be so happy with the situation of course i mean a double and certainly be a new development there i mean can you confirm that vladimir that we are seeing this offensive moving into monday where u.s. forces are stationed i mean is that happening. i think it's not

like a sense of yet but it's confirmed now by several sources that there except carried out air strikes there. but this also shows that even that has been already turkey strikes and other kurdish cities where also use troops are based so it's basically a sign from turkey to the u.s. like we are serious about our plans also attack areas where u.s. forces are based because nothing that there's no u.s. troops there are only russians and they are with the wrong. journalist vladimir von borg in erbil tonight on the latest in that situation along the syrian turkish border thank you welcome thank you you're watching news live from berlin still to come the long wait for the return of a child we need the chechen mother whose daughter left four years ago to fight for islamic state and she still hasn't come home.

so that story there are obvious here hopefully with some have your business news the ongoing earnings season on wall street that should make some people happy yes and yet i'm sorry to disappoint you but there are some bad news for some at least on wall street more troubles at general electric are headed posted a whopping ten billion dollar loss and a five percent decline in revenue last quarter the poor performance was driven by a fifteen billion dollars charge g.e. took to cover miscalculations made by an insurance unit announced last week the u.s. securities and exchange commission is investigating the error that leaves shareholders to fret even more about the massive corporation already facing severe challenges in its power capital and transportation divisions. and u.s. chip making giant qualcomm will have to pay close to a billion euros an anti-trust penalties to the european union they use competition commissioner my got into fest said qualcomm paid apple to use its chips exclusively

in its i phones and i pads that means the company illegally excluded rivals from the market for l.t.e. baseband chipsets for at least five years ensuring its own market dominance. you know the old problem with big infrastructure projects like roads or train stations they're almost never finished on time here in berlin we've been waiting for an airport for twelve years well that doesn't happen in china apparently where a rail track was built overnight take a look at this. at six thirty pm construction began. fifteen hundred twelve because with twenty three dick is what nonstop throughout the night laying tracks and installing signals. clearly divided the workers into units in all seven groups what's on different tossed single tiniest until a section was complete in just less than nine hours it's part of it to women

shouldn't fifty comics or greet that will connect the south east of the country with central china it should be in operation by the end of the good. we'll just call that teamwork and speaking of team i have a teammate here out here brant that's right i get that you very much we want to turn now to chechnya in recent months the so-called islamic state has been driven from much of the territory that it once held in syria and iraq now as defeat looms the families of young people who joined us are wondering what has become of the hundreds left from chechnya alone were w.'s moscow bureau chief you're a shadow has been on their trail in the second part of his series circle of fear he spoke to the family of a young woman who took her children to syria to be with her husband who joined islamic stick.

in grozny a typical tighten up people know each other and help each other too despite the high fences there is one thing the neighbors don't discuss of though the missing children. is one of those who has kept her silence for a long time for years but now she's breaking her silence to talk to us about. her beloved daughter hasn't been to her parents' house for four years. her husband who went to syria to fight with the so-called islamic state. he took celina together with their three children i know he will never come back because he was killed last march. since then she says she hasn't heard from her daughter salinas one of hundreds of chechens who have

left their homeland since the beginning of the syrian war to join us. and the women mostly followed their husbands as is customary for chechen women to do. official figures of the number of chechens fighting for the terrorist militia at seven hundred almost all are listed as missing some of the mothers give us these photos desperate and hoping to get some sign of life from their children. it's pretty much house her son answered and grant looked at photos of celina we want to know if answer would allow himself to be recruited by terrorists and would go to syria as his sister did you. know i will not go. recruited. after all i have my own mind and i do not listen to the others.

isn't giving up hope of seeing her daughter again she even shows us children's things she has bought for her three grandchildren who i'd syria now and then she shows us that they speak to her. i took the picture myself in syria. when we accompany her again on a trip from moscow to chechnya she reveals that she did once manage to see her daughter in the last fourteen years. middle men in turkey helped her to establish contact with selena in december twenty fourth. it took her several weeks of travelling to reach members in northern syria she sasso the journey was fraught with uncertainty and she didn't know if she would ever arrive. islamic state members allowed her to stay with her daughter for four days she wanted to take her back to chechnya but wasn't allowed to leave internet her children.

now together with other mothers she has found that a support group it already has over eight hundred members. is the mother awful slan who took a daughter to syria is also a member of the group. where. my daughter was always obedient she really trusted her husband and he ordered her to go with him to syria. he's. also to blame for your daughter's disappearance. no i swear because to be honest it all happened according to the higher will the will of allah what must be must be that's what i think. as we hear again and again while filming in chechnya strong religious belief. one of the reasons why young people are being recruited by ass is the mother of missing children keep coming back to the airport in grozny in the

hope that their loved ones for one day return. it seems that i'm here very often. at least i'm hardly at home why should i be at home when you know i have to look for my daughter. know that russia has declared to military victory over the so-called islamic state dozens of being transported back from syria and iraq every few weeks that gives. you hope that she told her daughter. if she is still alive. originating in russia in tomorrow's episode. a former returned to russia after serving. in syria he talks through his motivations

his wife. and. now to elton john he says that he will retire from performing internationally after doing one last tour the british singer and pianist said that he wanted to spend more time with his family john made the announcement at a gala in new york he said that he planned to go out with a bang with a three year global tour he said that he had a good run after a career lasting nearly five decades. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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