this is deja vu news live from berlin hailing a new american moment president donald trump delivers his very first state of the union address there has never been a better time to start living the american dream optimistic words there in turbulent year in washington the president calls for a bipartisan push to rebuild infrastructure and overhaul immigration and we'll bring you some analysis of his address. also on the show a shortage of life saving thousands of palestinian refugees could go hungry after

the u.s. cuts its funding to the palestinian authority united nations is now in desperate need of a new source of cash. and music that might melt your heart but it will still leave you cold audiences are bundling up for a look at this entrancing performance in italy. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show president donald trump has hailed what he called the extraordinary success of his presidency thus far during his first state of the union address the president challenge lawmakers to make good on his promises to fix the nation's infrastructure and reform immigration the us president also warned of dangers on the international stage here are some highlights.

then. not surprisingly they gave the president a hero's welcome the big question ahead of donald trump's first state of the union address with the leader of the free world adopt a more presidential term on twitter trump or teleprompter trump a lot of change he said over the last year but one refrain from his election campaign remained constant. a new tide of optimism was already sweeping across our land each day since we have gone forward with a clear vision and a righteous mission to make america great again for all americans. and there was praise for his own administration is achievements two point four million new jobs rising wages after years of stagnation more red tape cut them by any other administration unemployment claims at

a forty five year low stock market smashing one record after another this in fact is our new american mom there has never been a better time to start living the american dream and together we can achieve absolutely anything to it wasn't all upbeat a magical moment for the world to give up nuclear weapons had not yet arrived and the u.s. would exert maximum pressure in the face of north korea's nuclear provocation in one surprise trump announced the kohen tandem obey detention center would stay open he clocked in at one hour and twenty minutes one of the longest state of union addresses in recent years as long as we have confidence in our values faith in our services and trust in our god we will never fail. our families will thrive. our people will prosper and our nation

will forever be safe and strong and proud and mighty and shree thank you and god bless america goodnight. it was another landmark on don't need trumps extraordinary white house journey. let's talk more now about the president's initial his maiden address to the nation what did abuse washington bureau chief alexander phenomenology under the president's goal was reaching out across the aisle did he succeed in doing that. well the have to admit that president strong struck a conciliatory tone during his first state of the union address and i think it was a very wise move to the american people in the center of his speech he started his

speech by praising the american people stressing that they are and the challenge that they can manage and the difficult situation and then he continued by calling upon congress on democrats and republicans to work together on behalf of the american people because although makers have been elected to serve the american people so he was sort of trying to reach out to the democrats however when we talk about policies we have to say that he did not offer and the concession and the compromise that could leave by virtue of legislation ok in terms of foreign policy alexander the president was discussing north korea its security challenges and he also a north korean defector. yes

that's true and it was quite a thing to do to see this north korean defector in the house chamber and it will be interesting how the north korean regime is going to react though that they will you know feel. will be ready to do anything provocative or will consider a provocation and here once again talking about north korea president. repeated that he thinks that the right way to deal with this threat from coming from north korea is to rebuild the new america's nuclear earth and he thinks that there can be no concession that the right strategy is the campaign of pressure in terms of the speech overall was that the message america needs right now is just what the american people want to hear from their

new president after his first year in office that's definitely what they wanted to hear and talking about konami situation that all saw matters for many americans i'm sure about that that it's important for them to be reassured that america's economy is growing that the wages are rising and that the stock market has been hitting new highs however we have to say that the president did not really or let me put it in a different way he missed the opportunity to reach out to he's open to his critics to the people who had not voted for him alexander naaman from washington for us this morning thanks very much alexandra. well during his speech the president saved some of his harshest words for iran vowed to increase america's military might to

repel any possible threats to the united states what does that all mean for america's allies in nato and for the european union here with me now is the german member of parliament you know going hot of olim ackles conservative christian democrats to talk about that he's also the german government's coordinator for transatlantic cooperation good morning to you running and thanks for being with us relations with germany and the trump administration had been rocky from the start will this speech change things. we have close relations to the united states of america there's a communication between the president there's communication between several members of congress and dod to bring to start on the other side to never we never saw so much senators and congress men and women in germany as in the two years before but we have some open questions concerning the relations we have no.

ongoing process in negotiating business trade agreement between the european union and us we have the stepping out of us concerning the fight against the climate change. concerning nato and international security we trust on the support of us for europe they stay close to that what was the cretin's of washoe the nato summit but for the future some questions open ok superstar you didn't hear what you would have liked to have heard about trade and business between america and germany but you were happy with what you heard about security do you think this is a donald trump that you can trust as a guarantor an ally a friend for germany and europe look at do that what u.s. politics is in europe and look into that what approach what the president mentioned the last months. and his. visits in europe we can trust on him in security

questions but we have to face some challenge in trade and international tax policy because the core message of his speech tonight is as it was there fourteen months before all bet is coming from outside us and all good comes from inside us and therefore international relations is not of that importance for him as a bonus for his predecessors ok and so but you are nonetheless confident that united states security guarantees will continue but in terms of iran there are some real concerns germany in the e.u. do not want to see the nuclear deal with iran renegotiated there is a possibility that that could happen what are your concerns there really go she hated that treaty with iran concerning the. development of nuclear weapons the question of missiles and missile testing was not part of the treaty this is.

this treaty miss is that that piece president is right that we also have a challenge with that missile program but the treaty itself is better than to have nothing it's also good for security for israel because. the face where we have to weigh up probably potential nuclear. armament of iran is extended from three months up to twelve months this is important for the security of israel because we have more time to find new diplomatic solutions in case of iran goes more confrontative and i think we have to talk about what can we do concerning the missile program but the answer is not to skip the treaty ok so the tree was a wrench should remain in place what about north korea the president pointed to that in the speech as a threat to america and its allies do you support his call for a strong and robust nuclear deterrent for north korea. the north

korean presidents can only be banned by cooperation in the security council of the united nations therefore china and russia needs to be in the game i think one of the keys to solve the problem is that china because the influence of china to the north korean dictator is much bigger than the inference from for example from the us president of arms as i was korean prime minister therefore we should not go. in and our own alone solution and that field looking to that what happened in the last weeks and months probably there is a clear message from china or elsewhere to north korea behind closed doors that the myside program needs to be stopped and as the dictator mentioned he said it's finished it's finalized it's a test program probably this is the chance to to to qantas hot situation but

at the end of the day we have to find a way how in north korea can be back on the table of the peaceful nations of the world ok i'd like to switch gears mazhar and talk about the coalition talks for a new government here in berlin if we could you're part of those negotiations how are they coming along. and we plan to have results of that week maybe monday or tuesday but probably on sunday and then members of the party especially since those are democratic party members and delegates from says if you insist party conventions have to decide on whether we should continue with the coalition or not my opinion in the field of foreign security policy is that there is enough common grounds to continue the. coalition and if all will go in the right direction we might be able to elect a government in march ok there also is apparently a possibility that the sanctions against against russia could be lifted is that

a possibility. we always have this discussion every six months always if they needs to be. extended for the next three months at six months and i think. it's good to have that debate but the principle is that we only can lift those sanctions if russia is fulfilling their minced obligations and it was lifting sanctions without any result on the russian side we we will not come forward and this crude crucial question of the of ukraine you're going hard thank you so very much for being with us german government coordinator for transatlantic cooperation and member of the american city you thank you so very much. now for a look at some of the other stories making in the news at this hour britain's prime minister for reason is in china for a three day visit her office said this is traveling with the largest business delegation britain has ever taken overseas china is key to british for forging new

trade deals around the world after it leaves the. activist in peru have taken to the streets in protest at a pardon granted to the country's former authoritarian president operative for jim henri serving a twenty five years for corruption and human rights abuses committed during his government. was allowed to leave prison on medical grounds. separatists in yemen backed by the united arab emirates have seized the area around the presidential palace in the southern city of aden now this comes after clashes with horses still loyal to president monsoor hardy's government yemen's prime minister is reported to be preparing to flee the country or saudi arabia. while some five million palestinian refugees are urgently in need of aid this after u.s. president dog from drastically cut pledged funding funding to the u.n.

agency that oversees aid in the palestinian territories let's take a closer look now at what that agency is doing. the united nations relief and works agency has provided essential aid for palestinian refugees and their descendants for seven decades many of them were displaced during the arab israeli war in ninety forty eight and the six day war in one nine hundred sixty seven today more than five million palestinians are registered in camps in jordan lebanon syria the occupied west bank and the gaza strip donations from u.n. member states make up the nearly all of the agency's budget of over one billion dollars the united states gave three hundred sixty four million u.s. dollars in two thousand and seventeen four hundred forty one million dollars come from the e.u. and its member states earlier this month the us administration fro some sixty five million dollars of its aid for the un refugee agency during the world economic

forum in davos president trump threatened to cut off u.s. aids to the palestinians altogether it is seen as an apparent punishment of the palestinian leadership for harshly criticizing the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the cut in funds risks to effect the most palestinians across the region for which provides basic care education health social services and basic food distribution in addition emergency aid supports palestinian refugees in war torn syria or in gaza they cut comes at a critical time for the organization and it's no urgently looking for a way to make up the difference. or you foreign ministers are meeting in brussels today to talk about funding crisis for palestinians earlier i spoke with christopher gunness he's a spokesman for the u.n. agency supporting the refugees i asked him if he expects that european aid to come

through. well we're certainly hoping because this is the worst financial crisis in under its history this agency which has over five million registered refugees on its books is running on empty let's be very clear about the possible consequences are thirty thousand plus stuff giving an education to half a million children in the arab states and territories around israel we give one point seven million food insecurities a million of which are in guards food and cash other doctors do nine million health consultations each year on the list goes now if anybody thinks anybody in europe or elsewhere in israel and america thinks that it's in anyone's interest for million children on the streets of the middle east instead of being in u.n. schools at a time when militants are in full recruitment both then i really don't know what

they're thinking because as far as we're concerned this could have very dramatic consequences for the middle east ability when you disrupt an organization like iran which is so deeply imbedded in communities the consequences could be dramatic and unpredictable and so we say we need to be proper under this. christopher gunness there speaking to me earlier well the u.s. health care continues of course to be a huge issue the president in his state of the union address talking about exactly where he wants to see it come from the private sector and the plans and while some real heavyweights brian online retailer amazon warren buffet's investment company berkshire hathaway and banking giant j.p. morgan chase are teaming up to offer what they call quality health care at a reasonable cost to their u.s. staff and three c.e.o. say the new company will be independent and free from profit making incentives initial focus will be on technology that provides quote simplified high quality and transparent care and shares and health care companies took a hit in tuesday's training session at the new york stock exchange hinting at the

threat to the new entity poses to existing healthcare structures in the united states now for some more analysis of these plans here as all wall street correspondent can score the american healthcare system is probably the most expensive in the world some americans are roughly spending three and a half billion dollars per year on health that's roughly twenty percent of total g.d.p. and if you look at the history of health care in the united states the health care system is much more privatized here than it is in europe it started basically also after world war two when there was a lack of workers and to a correct those workers companies started to offer pension plans but also called health care plans and right now we are in a similar situation because we almost have full employment and that could be an incentive for talents for good skilled workers to join those corporations.

yes quarter reporting from wall street there today wednesday is the annual general meeting of german engineering giant siemens protests are expected because the men's is planning to lay off workers and close production facilities here in germany at the same time it looks like the company is towing u.s. president president trump's line to boost investment in the united states. as the world's rich and powerful gathered in davos fifteen captains of industry got a chance to get up close and personal with u.s. president donald trump one german paper remarked they were like schoolboys eager to impress their master works siemens head joke is a promised mess of investment in a new gas turbine development project in the us work for a country. trumps a far reaching tax reform sound very appealing to some german see those. siemens does robust business in the u.s. doing more than a fifth of its id three billion euros of turnover there in the last financial year

the u.s. accounted for seventeen billion euros. cases offered to expand operations in the u.s. has drawn fire at home because in germany thousands of siemens workers will soon be out of a job the company used to shed seven thousand workers worldwide half of them in germany mainly in gas turbine production in the locations threatened by downsizing or closure there's real anger the company boss has so far been unmoved and that's unlikely to change at the a.g.m. . now you may or may not have a samsung smartphone but no matter what brand many phones are full of samsung chips and that is what's driving record breaking profits at the south korean giant samsung slashing galaxy smartphones may get all the glory but revenues there were dow's lightly thanks to increase spending on advertising but the last glamorous memory and processor chips are where the money is fourth quarter earnings giant

seventy three percent surround eleven billion dollars on top of strong demand and samsung's as it expects demand for its chips to remain strong. and now it's time to talk superheroes brian and they're right behind me here first off here's a clip from the just released. black panther it's the latest in a long series of blockbusters from marvel studios but it is the first of feature a majority black cast of films as world premiere los angeles where it has received some very positive reviews here's a preview of what to expect when it hits theaters next week. after the death of his father china returns home to the african nation of wauconda to take his rightful place as king. tut. black panther is not only a visual feast but

a superhero film that offers depth and she storytelling it is also in more ways than one. child there is an african superhero movie ever so. i mean in the ilk of like james one of these world i'm not kind of late so it's exciting. to see what happens next. with black panther marvel cinematic universe expands in a new way was fun thing. happens now determines attachment to the rest of the whites this could be a shift in popular culture and i think you know. that something like marvel has a way of like really affecting popular culture and. there's a lot. it's not it is not a movie it's a movement and that's i think very true you know it's exactly cutting right across

everything that we've previously perceived goes you know what we think is entertainment so i think. that this man is responsible for that man is a rising star filmmaker ryan coogler but you know you try to keep. the bigger picture stuff out of it especially cares you go work on a minute show the details you know she don't. cohen. the pressure to do every day they're not big about. you not not not not think about what i mean. you know more than just just just you being a film you know santa trying to make the best film we could out most honest film you could go from there. with black panther checking for a record breaking to view with a film doesn't go from here is it runs guess. well one of a kind chalo has made its debut at a concert in northern italy the instrument was crafted from ice on the top of

a nearby glacier the reception of received was anything but for costly. this is how ice can sound when you give it the right shape. they call it the nice cello. italian musician giovanni salema plays it in a bubble inflated with cold air. for. inside it's minus eight degrees celsius but nothing puts him off his notes. the audience is in chant it. american schools thirty million are made to cello on a glazier does john kerry he's created ice instruments before for him it's easy if you shape it like a cello it will sound like one. it's a sculpture it's a complicated ice sculpture you know i sculpture i have two kinds of eyes i use the

white two which is see which is the body of the instrument is made of snow and water and the bridge which is the clear part of the chalice mission goes beyond the entertainment its creators wanted to draw attention to the urgency of climate change and water shortages in some parts of the world. yet from the northern city of parental. the channel will continue its journey to the south of italy transported in a mobile freezer. the last concept will be in sicily where the instrument will be thrown into the mediterranean sea returning it to its liquid state. polls. this is deja vu news live from berlin thanks so much for being with us.

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