let me. play. players or amul. this is the w.'s line for girl and america first doesn't mean america alone that's what u.s. president donald trump tells the crowd in davos in his closing remarks of the world economic forum he took credit for the booming u.s. economy and attacked unfair global trade practices did abuse help him or her come free will bring us and now says from davos. the

u.s. president makes a sales pitch to the world in a davos calling on companies to invest in america i'm heading home free at the world economic forum and i'll have more coming up. plus the flying warnings from washington turkey vows to expand its controversial offensive against kurds in northern syria present and alonso as the operation will extend eastward to where u.s. forces are currently stationed. also ahead trying to tame corruption in africa the fight against corruption tops the agenda at the african union's main annual summit in ethiopia will ask our correspondent whether the plans under discussion can succeed. and the race for the european place isn't germany's but mostly they are as tight as ever france britain gladbach battle it out tonight as they try to get ahead of the pack. mule.

i. cound well our thanks for your company everyone u.s. president donald trump passed delivered his much anticipated closing remarks to the world economic forum in davos switzerland trump said that america is open for business and that america first doesn't mean america alone the president says that he supports free trade but it needs to be fair and reciprocal trump said america's immigration system is quote stuck in the past but he announced a change on his immigration position saying republicans will accept a path to citizenship for almost two million so-called dreamers those are young immigrants abroad illegally into the u.s. as children. and there we're going to discuss present time speech in greater detail and bring you analysis of it in just a mobile first let's take a listen to one of the sound bites that stood out i believe in

america as president of the united states i will always put america first just like the leaders of other countries should put their country first also but america for us does not mean america alone when the united states grows so does the world. u.s. president addressing davos there a little earlier on now i'm joined by professor erwin collier he's a professor at of economics at berlin's at john f. kennedy institute we're so glad to have you here with us to discuss in greater detail what we just heard the president say america first does not mean america alone as long as it's in america's interest as long as america remains number one this is fairly clear he's talking about trading rules he wants fair trade everybody

wants fair trade but the devil's in the detail what are the rules how do you enforce the rules who enforces the rules and how do you leave something and it's fairly clear he is not a multilateral davos ma'am so he really does appear to believe that america can determine the rules of trade thank you enforce the rules of trade rather than trust its fate in the hands of multilateral is a negotiated agreement which is a system that america actually before him has put in place absolutely you know that was much of the legacy of bretton woods institutions and. experience from the great depression that we need each other badly right but he seems up and that let's talk about his presence at davos i mean he was this star of the show what do you make of the fact that he's the first u.s. president in almost two decades to make an appearance at the world economic forum i think what's also important is you know the last time when bill clinton came it was

kind of a last last tour of a great rock star here it's the beginning of his minutes administration it's also for him it's very important to be accepted by the elites one of the grudges donald trump has carried with him is that he was not accepted by the manhattan elite by the great financial elite and here he is now center stage which is a place that he certainly likes to be he loves the limelight indeed. what's interesting is that he did not very off script it wasn't you know according if you go by some of his past features a very subdued speech a lot of people expected him to be combative why do you think it was so subdued i think part of it here when he speaks freely to his people his crowds he is fed by the energy in the room and i think here he was quite aware that he was not exactly going to be getting a lot of echo from the people he's talking to and so i think that helped him stay

on script and i think this was also he had been briefed and there are times when what else is he going to do when he reads the speech and perhaps someone also convinced him that any deviation could get him into complications that he doesn't want down the road perhaps he's learning speaking about complications while he's meeting world leaders in davos switzerland domestic politics are hanging like a dark cloud over him talk to slip it about that well you know it's one of those things that this miller investigation to find out you know from the new york times right before the president is about to speak that in fact he tried to fire robert mueller the special counsel investigating the russian affair so that's continuing the we've just come out of the united states voting

a shutdown. very few short fuse to the next crisis i think that's also why we heard any words about immigration at all that that's a topic he wanted to signal to the democrats there's a possible concession our lots going on when he's already had every turning home as we speak thank you so much professor irvin john f. kennedy institute pleasure talking to you. all right let's get the business angle now with the i get us because the president or his salesman had a davos that's right and he has claimed many times that he's really good at sales now don't trump face as we just heard what has already been called a globalist elite at davos and we know that not everyone shares his views here is the president leaving the mountain resort of davos after delivering a highly anticipated speech as expected he presented the u.s. as the best place in the world for business and investment he also took the opportunity to praise the achievements of his economic policies so far especially

his massive tax cut the record performance of the stock markets and low unemployment. he told us helen humphrey has been covering the events in davos for us hi helen it's good to see you again all term speeches over it was as we just said highly anticipated but we really didn't hear anything new so is there disappointment there or rather relief. and the excessive both have yeah there was nothing much new in that speech but it wasn't inflammatory it certainly was overhyped and the davos elite decided it didn't contain much of use for them he instead he used it to talk about domestic policy he vaunted what he sees as his successes for one year in office in terms of that corporate tax reform going from thirty five percent down to twenty one percent the falling unemployment rate as well as stock market record off the store stock market

record now he called for fair trade as well as free trade and he said that he wanted the end of intellectual property theft as well in industrial subsidies so although he didn't criticize china using the name of the country he certainly looked it squarely in the i think the reality of this world economic forum is that president on the trump certainly had the spotlight here but whilst he was in the spotlight he just proved the fact that he stands for everything that the global elite here sounds very sensitive against it firmly in terms of his protectionist sentiments his tendency to you know use populist rhetoric and he's great yeah still as he leaves us now he's left with the global elite. oh now you already mentioned that trump was in the spotlight but it was only one point on the agenda there was a lot more in the form has actually ended for this year what are the take a worse. a stronger europe.

came out very strongly making the case for a stronger europe the french president emmanuel michel really a merge the davos dolling here it was also a lot of talk about growth whether it's sustainable whether it could last the i.m.f. raise the growth for cost upwards for this year and the next to three point eight percent but is growth a valuable way of really measuring the world economy oxfam pointed out that there are more billion as last year than ever before that eighty two percent of wealth grown last year remains in the hands of the one percent that inequality in closing that gap really should be a priority and those are just some of the main takeaways from a packed meeting here in switzerland helen humphrey thank you very much for freezing for us and for the excellent coverage from davos. back to the trump speech we know we're talking about one of the most polarizing voices in the international stage so of course there were mixed opinions about what

trump had to say today is the u.s. truly doing better than ever before world economic forum participants mostly disagreed and not only for political reasons. i walked out of his speech because i do not believe that this is a forum for people who use the kind of language that he is we're talking about creating unity in a fractured world here and his statements over the last month about haiti where i live and work and many other countries in the world only deepen those fractures i mean i came in with very low expectations and i have to say he met them. you know it was a speech really about america first and i think to understand these issues in the context of a global internationalist community it just rang very odd you know i think the audience sat there and listened there were no claps it fell flat it was really selling a story of america donald trump has given a speech today in which has been reaching all due to

a little bit of multilateral trade on. t.v. people are saying he's out walls something which was you statistics are all wrong in his favor of course they are not accurate as an african-american myself living in america i do know the impact of what his presidency has done to the african-american community in terms of the division of the country i don't know what it has in terms of the division i'm sorry and just to be where where is the community and you know weapons so supportive of our work a social enterprise i think there was a huge disconnect with the information that the president of the united states of america delivered. a lot of the attention focused on the world economic forum but of course there's many other issues including geopolitical conflicts of want to talk about that too right thank you so much javier because turkey's a president wretch of tyburn want has revealed plans to expand operation all of branch that's despite widespread international criticism today you know also that

turkish forces will head east from the enclave in syria to the iraqi border ancora wants to drive kurdish fighters out of the region but there is the risk of confrontation with u.s. troops stationed in the town of members who are allied with the turks now the united states has raised concern over the operation saying they have asked turkey to limit their military actions but turkey's president appeared to brush aside the objections from washington and take a listen to what he said. you know we will continue operation olive branch which is in its seventh day today until all our goals are achieved. we will then rid money beach of terrorists. no one should take issue with this because the real owners of these terrorists they're our arab brothers their. order to keep afterwards we will continue to fight up to the iraqi border until no

terrorist is left. to the us so could nato allies turkey and the united states and the facing off in syria teri schultz in brussels put that very question to nato as number two that the secretary general rose gottemoeller. madam deputy secretary general you've just returned from turkey where tensions are rising in northwestern syria between two allies of nato are you concerned that this could move from a pill the political clash to a military clash i am not worried i've been watching very closely what has been said both in washington and then on crow the two countries seem to be closely communicating with each other they seem to be paying attention to deconstruction they seem to be paying attention to making sure that the other is informed so i'm not worried of course in general nato is always worried when lives are being lost

and that goes for syria turkey that goes for afghanistan iraq anywhere in the world so in that sense we are worried about the conflict the german foreign minister is calling for nato to take a stronger role to sort of facilitate more dialogue between turkey and the u.s. so clearly allies are worried what more can nato do first of all nato is already active on the ground in turkey we are not operating in syria but were active on the ground in turkey providing for air defense for airborne morning and control for surveillance we are doing what we can as a nato ally to help turkey in their fight against terrorism which has been going on for a long time but in addition to that we have been hearing from the turks here at nato headquarters we've been getting briefings there's a lot of information flow and allies have the opportunity to ask the questions they need to ask so i do think that that will continue and there will be great interest in this matter in the coming days but it's one thing if the opponent is bashar al

assad or terrorist the p.k. k. it's another thing if the united states is on the other end of this operation well i think we need to continue to bear in mind that the two countries have been operating closely together in the fight against in syria and iraq for now many many months and so they are accustomed to paying attention to deconstruction on their custom to to really staying in close communication so that there are actions are transparent to the other and i i only see that continuing thank you very much thank you. rose gottemoeller nato's deputy secretary general speaking there to do teri schultz in brussels want to tell you about some of the some of the other stories making news around the world. in south korea at least thirty seven people have died in a fire in a hospital in the city of near young fire broke out in the emergency room of the hospital which also operates as a home for the elderly it's not yet known what calls the blaze voters in the czech

republic have begun casting ballots in the country's two day presidential runoff pro russia anti immigrant incumbents me last salmon had been favored to win a second term but the latest opinion polls who it was point to a neck and neck race with challenge or jury draw as was me. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservatives have begun a formal coalition talks with this social democrats the two sides stressed the need for speeding negotiations and set a deadline of february the fourth for wrapping up talks to form a government while any coalition deal will still have to be voted on by s.p.d. party members. and we're going to stick with that theme german politics but when a move away from the ongoing coalition talks to another issue many young politicians in germany claim they're facing discrimination because of their age while now hundreds of them are taking to social media to share their stories and forget about your former social media does is more to tell us what is going on

explain to us why are they so upset so this started with kevin can you not that's him just behind us he's twenty eight and he is the leader of the social democrats youth wing here in germany he's all over german media at the moment because he's heading a fierce campaign against a new grand coalition between he spotted the s.p.d. and. the c.d.u. potty but he says he's been given a hard time by both journalists and colleagues because of his age he gave some examples he said recently a reporter during an interview asked him whether he lives in a shared flat and then during a talk show a very famous moderator asked him whether he calls his parents sometimes for advice so you know he gets asked questions that older colleagues would never be asked and that they're not they're not just demeaning but they're also most of the times completely off topic right so they're undermining him basically he's twenty eight

years old so he's speaking up right now he's speaking up and he's not alone because there's a complaint online now launched by a german magazine there's a hash tag does a you're going to lie to which means these a young people and young politicians in germany have been urged to come forward with their stories and a lot of them are doing that now you'll be surprised some young green politicians for example they shared their stories we have their voice here take a listen. so. don't you want to get a real job before entering politics but i ask myself isn't being politically engaged important it's the stick of. it's coming to you you'd better wait before you hit puberty before applying for the management of the young greens of yours as the repeal you're twenty four which you even know what you're talking about you can't have any life experience. and twitter is really

inundated with similar stories coming from all over germany and all kinds of parties who you think i mean they'd welcome such young generations. in politics and this whole problem reach the reach out to these particular demographic but the problem is not just only in politics though no and it's not just only in germany it's something that we all experience when we're at the beginning of our professional careers i experience this as a young journalist it's hard to get the trust in the beginning which is understandable but the point that these young politicians are trying to make is that of course younger often also means less experience but it doesn't mean not competent and also you need younger and older in the team and they are eager to participate to contribute as you said to politics and they don't want to be discarded and now we'll have to see how this and you complain will be received by the majority of all their politicians out there we have a comment from one of them

a forty nine year old member of the left party and she says reading these posts is making me sad our future is being demasi abated the people who will be affected by this policy is the most aren't being allowed to help shape them so this is in clear support of higher station youngblood that's what politics needs everywhere thank you so much for that it provides have a great weekend. we're going to turn now to syria and its civil war that killed more than three hundred thousand people in this place millions after nearly seventy years of fighting countless other victims are living and with trauma going to the conflict we'll meet one of them in our next report seven year old well lost her hearing and with the fighting at home she's now a refugee with her family in lebanon where she's been given a chance to hear again. israel has trouble talking but she can still smile as a small child in aleppo she clung to her siblings whenever she heard bombs exploding. at one point she got

a high fever and began to lose her hearing. that's why she's had difficulty learning to speak. nice mix it up so well. because of the war i couldn't get a hearing aid for her we couldn't take her to a hospital to see a specialist either. obviously in the beginning she was completely normal. and there were no problems or but then she got sick we quickly noticed that she could barely hear us the smog. i had that was a big difference between israel and her siblings they're all getting older and will someday leave home and get married israel will not be able to do that you know how sick in the mostly how i it's what is seven years old now. in two thousand and thirteen her family fled aleppo and now lives in lebanon. her father works as

a day laborer and sometimes can't afford the monthly rent of three hundred fifty dollars. but israel's been fortunate should be attending a school for the hearing impaired on this day she's off to be a route where she'll be fitted with a hearing aid. it's what normally communicates with signals and gestures that's worked fairly well with her family members until now but her mother says she's been withdrawn lately playing less with children she doesn't know so she's been growing up without friends. about eighty syrian refugee children have come to beirut from all over lebanon to receive high quality hearing aids donated by a large manufacturer. the children are tested to determine the severity of their hearing loss and yet you. know many aren't completely deaf. but it turns out it's reckoned still here

a little when the sound is loud enough. to know basically she caught his speech at normal spoken level because the here and overseas is too severe for that yet so she's missing out on a lot of sounds so that's where the hearing aid comes in yeah yeah so to get her back hearing so she kind of. police here environment to sounds and speech again yet . we haven't had that she's really looking forward to hearing aids is real one so much to talk in here like her siblings oh. then the moment of truth is on the can is right here again. she can hear her mother's voice and others to hear it's confusing a new for her. and a great joy. but is was luck is

a very rare case yeah many other syrian children have lost their hearing for good as a result of the wars loud explosions. if the children get infections amid poor hygenic conditions at camps like this one their conditions worsen. not all know that you're an aid worker describes the situation for about two million syrians living in lebanon it was bad but then what i mean what are you doing that will some of the ideas become go back to syria. and they cannot continue living and live on them because they don't see i have been here. twenty five years old is a single mother of six children she's not getting any help from aid organizations the u.n. says it has too little money for so many refugees yeah. she

says i get nothing at all other than. when children fall badly ill in the winter months their parents can't afford treatment in a hospital it costs the equivalent of about eighty euros a month to stay in the shack you want it to some as months behind on the rent. the father of her children has married someone else. donations to help only a little. when the money is used up the struggle to survive goes on. the worst part is there is no improvement in sight. and as long as the war in syria continues refugees can't return home. lebanon is overwhelmed with refugees and would rather not have to shelter them anymore. that little israel has her hearing back is a small ray of light in a dark desperate time and that better when. it's because of flak

the number should be less but the need to still be good so i think that she is really lucky while other children who are muslims will knock. on her first day of school with her hearing aid is for runs to class with her pink satchel she's eager to learn and reacquaint herself with the world around her. israel forms the name mohammed with her lips not how not now that she can hear again she'll likely learn to speak. but she's only allowed to visit the special school for one year right now unicef is footing the bill it's not clear whether she'll be able to stay that. i felt but for now in the midst of so much despair it seems like a victory that

a seven year old girl from aleppo who'd gone deaf from the sound of war can now enjoy a quieter more joyful surrounding. brave little girl there watching the governor still to come cooking up a feast we'll meet a syrian star chef who fled home and is now set to make food for the a listers at this year's berlin film festival. we'll have a story for you and a whole lot more coming right out. european stores deliver rousing performances. month would be so full of music straight from the ha ha to sarah connor one germany's most successful singers blows.

it with its own w. . hijacking the news. where i come from the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a script do a reality show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china churchy people are told is that and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond that you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're heading as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just about being clear and balance or being neutral it's about being truthful. chinese for golf and i work in the.

ball. dropping bombs on civilians. more troops the situation escalates there's no longer for schools it's ruthless contemplation of military leaders more kopi extent of the classroom technological progress isn't a conflagration so mr curse should come in. long story everywhere we turn on t w. great to see you again you're watching the w. news on loran campbell and this is our main headline right now u.s. president donald trump has delivered closing remarks to the world economic forum in switzerland he told the audience that america first doesn't mean america alone he said he supported free trade but added that it must be fair and reciprocal.

fighting corruption is topping the agenda at the african union's annual summit underway now in ethiopia's capital addis ababa over the weekend african heads of state and government are due to join the discussions on what's seen as one of the key challenges facing societies across this continent our correspondent in nairobi brings us this report about how corruption affects people's daily lives. police checkpoints in nigeria have been part of everyday life for years. but here they're not about maintaining security they're little more than payout stations of corruption. although the chief of police outlaw long ago his colleagues continue to stop cars and money. we are on the road from lagos the economic capital of nigeria to the neighboring

country. traders and travelers go through here every day although we're still more than one hour away from the border we've been passing several checkpoints of the police immigration and customs in many cases drivers for bribes. more than ten checkpoints on an eighty kilometers stretch of road is how unusual. anyone who refuses to play along and fork over cash will need hours to proceed and . many people here say that nothing has changed since he was elected president of nigeria. the big issue is. it's. like the us. is

a right well we are as but. very. drastic changes. during pain he promised to combat corruption. by the recent after a barometer study shows that more than ninety percent of nigerians still believe officials are corrupt. on the other hand fifty nine percent of nigerians think the government is making a serious efforts to fight corruption three years ago that figure was just twenty one percent experts have praised the government's initial measures and people began to fear getting caught steam mining bribes but there's been no sign of change at the institutional level and little evidence of a shift in behavior in other words business as usual we have the example of a president who is said to be you know. somebody who is detached

and doesn't seek a lot of base know well. but it person who is really disciplined and understands his mission will make sure that everybody around him is clean. and most of us don't feel when rightly or wrongly the most ground he i mean that's been. despite indictments and arrests of several high ranking politicians no final convictions have been delivered. the government says it has to abide by the rule of law. it is i'm in the judicial process which he started with that with a lot of technicalities to slow the pace but not the war the war is still a good thing with this flag this new space judicial process we will consider. the snail's pace is what people traveling the roads to be need know all too well

it's one of the most important trade routes in nigeria where the rubber hits the road is still a far cry from the end to corruption with oracle in the halls of power. are and i'm going to send you back now to javier with more from the world economic forum and a playful approach to education that's right it's time to play above all the serious issues of the world economic forum you know they always discuss ideas for the future and they can go pretty long. term so it's natural to talk about children and especially their education the legal foundation has been exploring the best way to ensure a better education for children needless to say it involves play the w.'s policy on but it spoke to the legal foundation c.e.o. john goodwin in davos and asked him how early we need to start educating our children. well it's important that we start right from day one. for the first thousand days are really important in terms of the child's neurological development

and it's really important that parents can gauge with their children in a playful manner to help them through that neurological development and laying the foundations for important learning in the future when you're talking about the future so does that include screen time as well because people children need to learn about computers and stuff right yeah i mean there's much debate around whether or not screen terms good or bad for children but the digital developments of today are a reality of the world that children come into says important they learn how to interact with them appropriately so what we said to lego foundation is that as long as what they're doing in front of the screen is active and they're not sitting passive then it can be very effective at developing them but we would also say that's important they complement that with some good physical activity as well to make sure that they're developing the full range of skill sets that children need so that's of course concerning people in countries where there's a pretty good educational system but not everyone gets that basic skill set to begin with two hundred fifty million children don't get basic skills what what went

wrong in education here yeah i mean the learning crisis has been defined by the by the world bank in their recent report indicates that so many children are being in an education system but they're not learning what we would say a leg a foundation is we need to change the approach to development we need to make it more child centric to enable the children to be engaged and we need to make it more playful because children are learning much better when they're actively engaged how do you do that where you do that through change in the approach to teaching allow the child to be more at the center of their learning opportunities and to allow them to explore their creativity their problem solving and critical thinking rather than just focusing on knowledge retention and regurgitation which really is limiting their overall development. there was pakistan but it spring as one of the voices at the world economic forum which we now leave behind to talk about another

subject that can be relevant for the economy however in the future to cannabis is getting legalized in more and more countries and that means great business opportunities for those who dare to get involved now one investor in iceland believes his country is ideal for growing weed and the government should miss or not miss the opportunity of a lifetime growing cannabis the plant used to make marijuana is illegal in iceland but one investor wants that changed he believes the island offers great conditions for growing the wheat. question we need electricity and water for production we have a lot of both here in iceland. iceland has a huge amount of geothermal energy and islam says using that resource to grow cannabis could benefit the country's economy. it is clear that there are things happening in this area and everything is on the move. whether we like it or

not everything indicates this is growing into an extensive international business. as more countries legalize marijuana the market is growing earlier this month alone legalizing recreational marijuana went into effect in california experts say sales of marijuana could reach seven billion dollars use of the drug is already legal in countries like spain and the netherlands no surprise that investors in countries aspire away as iceland and to benefit white. that herman is here from to have a use for it so to talk about this weekend's bundesliga action good to see you not the ball gets rolling for two teams that we didn't necessarily expected to balance out for second place here yet we brought you much i'm glad i had a bit of a down year last year no one knew what to expect from them this year and frankfurt have just come out of nowhere they were super inconsistent last year i thought they might actually be in the relegation fight this year but they're doing well they're

doing well ok let's take a look at a preview of that clash between frankfurt and then we'll continue our conversation . are flying high this season with the club in the race for a european spot. this despite a run of form that could be described as inconsistency in part june to a lengthy injury list. with the news that several key players like christophe cama will be back in the squad to coach is feeling upbeat this was a president of the drought's who owns a huge things are getting better for us because the players that were out for a long time training and getting. more and more guys are coming back. this helps me build up the squad who can i also have more players to choose from. that you. bloodbath will be hoping to take advantage of frank for it's less than impressive home form the eagles have only managed to win a paltry two games on their own turf starkly different to their away record which

is only bettered by people in this league leaders by on several big names are among the marco fabiana and alex meyer peter hacking expects a tough encounter in frankfurt. this actually beat a month off to have a boost among their stable and robust team to boast book i watched their game against waltz bottoms and they played well let me see the team has progresses and they deserve to be among the teams vying for european spot in months of that will go into mobile well we know it's not going to be an easy game. jussi jewel is on the cards with the winner being catapulted into second spot in the bundesliga types. all right matt let's pick up where that report left off can we expect one of these teams to make it in the champions league we can but we probably shouldn't i think both of these teams really have a lot going for them in certain aspects but they also pretty big limitations. to take the first example you look at their forward line players like rafael players

like lost and don't like it and all those guys can score goals and in quantity they're even getting goals from one of their defenders mathias tkinter this year unfortunately didn't turn coat in the back for not doing their primary job very well they've given up thirty goals already this season that is the most of any team in the top half of the table so unless they sort of to sort that out and stop you know letting in so many goals i don't think that they're going to stick around at the top through the long haul frankfurt's problem is exactly the opposite they have the fewest goals scored of any team in the top out with just twenty four and you know as didier hacking the glovebox coach put in that report they get it done through their robustness let's just say they play a very physical game a very defensive game they lead the league in stats like blocks and interceptions so you know things might change when marco fabio an attacking midfielder or alex meyer a striker get back from injury they might have

a bit more tip at their spear but until then i don't know all right let's talk bahrain because they seem like years ahead of everybody else but what about like right behind them a lot's going on there yeah it's crazy i mean this league could hardly get any tighter under by in munich we can actually show you on the table here forty seven points of mind they are miles in front but fourteen two three four five on thirty one points two more teams on thirty points and all the way down in the second half of the table you have to turn the page to see them hannover on twenty seven points are within four points of sex. play so this is going to create huge volatility in the table over the next couple of weeks until it sort of shakes out who's really real and who's just a pretender. i can't say that this is just sara lee a good thing other than it makes things exciting because really there's a lot of mediocrity in the league this year there's a lot of teams who have who've struggled for consistency besides byron of course our last look forward to this weekend then matt herman thank you so very much. all

right we're going to move on to cycling now a passion for the sport of cycling has reunited a group of friends separated by the war in eritrea the african the refugee cycling team was founded in neighboring ethiopia will now they've received documents from the united nations refugee agency and they're hoping to raise the cash that will allow them to take part in an international competition. the love for cycling is in my blood and. i've been cycling all my life if i had to quit it would be very sad. i'm very passionate about cycling i cannot put it in words but when i'm riding a bike it makes me happy and i feel relaxed this. early morning on the outskirts of addis ababa ethiopia these men shared

a love of cycling as well as a similar life story they've all fled their home country at a trailer where they could have faced compulsory military service under slave labor conditions anyone who resists risks their life. every day they spent hours in the saddle under the professional guidance of their coach to fled a traitor to escape being drafted into the military. i'm very proud of the refugee cycling team. i was a professional cyclist and had technical manager of the eritrea cycling foundation . once the training is over the team heads back to the city it's a tight squeeze in the car even though several team members aren't here today three are in uganda and others have left for europe. we don't have any money to pay them so they don't get a salary. if i do think they might have gone to uganda to look for

a better clubs and earn some money. refugees are not allowed to work in ethiopia so they need to survive on money sent to them from relatives or friends in america and europe. but it's not always easy cycling can make you very hungry so things like food also need to be included in the budget. and. four of us live in this room and we pay a rent of three thousand beera per month. that's about one hundred fifty u.s. dollars. we share everything and all of us contribute to the bills. and. after the rent is paid each cyclist is left with the road one hundred dollars a month this has to cover all other expenses including bicycle repairs and spear

parts if you crash or damage your bicycle you can train for weeks. problem other tires. you have to change them frequently. you know if other bicycles part spray that is more problematic and even more expensive to buy. if all goes according to plan the team trains every day the hard work is already paying off cycling has a long tradition in every tree it's a remnant of the colonial era. because you. started from scratch with very limited resources but we compete with different teams from. dominated the addis ababa championship we're very proud of the. big races like the tour de france will probably remain a distant dream for the african refugee cycling team it is after all unlikely that

countries will grant visas to these better trained cyclists. liberalism the international film festival opening next month is known for showcasing movies that address the social and political issues of the day while last year's program was devoted to refugees and migration all this year a well known chef from syria and refugee herself will be cooking for the ip guests at the opening reception and here is our story. conjuring up the taste of damascus bringing the craziness of her home country like fried okra to germany is maliki just my passion the sets year old migrant hopes that she can help germans learn more about her heritage foundation try our food in the they see it's it's good food it's not all that people think about food we have only falafel and. after they see it it's very big

maliki has been practicing has skills in the shared kitchen of this refugee shelter and. she now runs a catering business making the dishes she grew up with. she's also published a cookbook which takes readers into a world of colorful spices. the subtitle brings a smile to her face it reads recipes of longing for my homeland a homeland that's been devastated by civil war maliki's husband made the perilous journey to germany by boat in twenty fifteen she followed one of hundreds of thousands of syrians to arrive that year but maliki's story is unique she was already somewhat of a star having her such a t.v. cooking show in syria and jordan and she's no stranger to cooking for v.i.p.'s

she's prepared a meal for the german chancellor. so how does she feel about cooking for four hundred guests next month spend the night. with not only had p. . it's like if you if you do your dream. maliki's recipe for success it's how she uses food to build bridges between culture. ok ok and then maybe eighty's british or musician and poets and clark the down spores of europe which tracks like this one called darkness or spoken a word of music helped pave the way for the techno takeover that followed clarke is getting her dues now as a musical pioneer a new documentary film about her has come out it's called walk out into tomorrow.

night let us just hear from a call to this to talk more about this movie coming out three decades after she stormed the techno scene what is it about her that mater such an icon in germany and around europe well she had this rebellious edge to her you can't forget that this is they were talking about ultra conservative years in europe margaret thatcher in power in the u.k. had would call here in germany and young people were thirsting for this sort of rebelliousness and then came along this woman with crazy hair and she was singing about darkness and doubt and that really struck a chord with them also her music had a weight and a force to it and of beat that people later found and techno but that they weren't used to yet because this was the time when punk was shifting into something new called new wave and there were synthesizers and and clark was using the synthesizers she was making new wave but with. the edge she was making dark wave

actually as it was called so and clark really tapped into the sound of the time but she did it in a unique way she was the strong female voice she was bellowing out these spoken word lyrics and they were about melancholy they were critical they were about problems in politics and in every day life and as we find out in this documentary and clark knew a thing or two about that. oh thank shot was. a child that was childhood. touching. like i was thinking serial.

so that was her other big hit called sleeper metropolis we've also got a look at this documentary that just came out here in germany it's called a walk out into tomorrow. ok. ok ok ok. growing up in a london suburb the chances that graeme clark would become an artist for a small. of the working class kid from croydon was constantly told she would only ever be anough the work. i mean there was no expectations i was told. don't think that you'll ever become something you won't. kate ok but then

came home. and everything changed and you know many of the of my generation of kids that would be nothing suddenly decided no we're going to try and become something. close became an icon of the new way. i see she landed her biggest hit asleep in metropolis the secret childhood. you see. the inspiration for this song came from this residential high rise which she revisit in the documentary body workouts into tomorrow. which the film is an intimate portraits and up close she is the only person who speaks in the film. and call she a poet in a single she has remained difficult to categorize both as an artist and as

a person who has been an outsider you know in my family i was in the outsider in in my school in music. i am a real genuine outsider but in some ways ups very exciting but it can also be problematic sometimes kind of test me you know in a musical sabbatical but this new documentary will increase the pressure to get it back into the studio and on the road. you can really see why this music is so big particularly in germany it's such a precursor to the techno that we still hear everywhere i go there right now it talks a lot about the director of this documentary how did the how did he end up making this film where he saw her the for the first time on west german t.v. when he was twelve and he just was fascinated by her and twenty years later he went to a concert he tracked her down and he said i want to make something of you and and then he ended up following her for ten years making this documentary oh yeah so quite

a story you know meeting your dream and making a movie with a new movie out of it well that's terrific he's a hardcore fan and then he got this opportunity to meet her and it's now or this intimately thank you so much david leavitt's have a great weekend and thank you for spending this part of your day with us so the news continues at the top of the hour with her and i'll see you again thanks rick have a great weekend. european

stars deliver rousing performances. the be. the music comes straight from the book conor like germany's most successful singers. to be the be.

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com science and research for. playing the legislators . in. the state of the news coming to you live from berlin america first doesn't mean america alone that's what u.s. president donald strong told the crowd in davos and his closing remarks the world economic forum gets a credit for the booming u.s. economy and that's tacked on is there a global trade practices also coming up in trying to tame corruption in africa and

the issue tops the agenda at the african union's annual summit in ethiopia blasted our correspondent whether the plans under discussion cannot.