this is deja vu doos live from berlin toronto police question the suspect in monday's deadly down attack ten people are dead after a twenty five year old plowed a van through a busy city street the mode of his last player but police are saying they found no links to organized charge groups also coming up. as president trump posts his first ever state visit for the french president we asked the french people living in washington d.c. what they expect from the two leaders wrong neighborhood. and jubilation in the

armenian capital as the prime minister steps down the street protest for ignoring the latest crisis in the moscow lines nation we'll talk live with our correspondent in the capital your overall. also coming up the next sixty minutes an intimate portrait of brock obama on the former president's official photographer publishes a bestseller of images he took during his two terms in the white house. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us police at this hour are investigating the motive of man who plowed a van into pedestrians ten people were killed on a busy street in the city center at least sixteen others were injured some seriously the suspect fled the scene of the incident but was arrested a short while later after a standoff with. police. the onslaught started as crowds emerged for their lunch

break a white rental van mounted the sidewalk and drove at high speed into pedestrians leaving a trail of destruction. the rampage stretched for almost two kilometers as witnesses described scenes of carnage. he just went on the sidewalk you just started dating everybody he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would hit the bus stop everything was shattered one by one one by one holy god i've never seen a scene like this in one life and there was bodies on the ground in front of the mill losman where the sidewalk is clearly way into the. to the sidewalk and there was four bodies on the ground police and the ambulance hadn't arrived yet but people were trying to revive them very sad day for toronto i mean this is unbelievable police were quick to react locating the white van and subduing the driver without firing a shot the alleged attacker was named as twenty five year old alec manasse on

police said he was not linked to any terror group. the actions definitely look deliberate and at this particular point in time there's nothing that does affect the national security footprint we are looking very strongly to what the exact motive the motivation was for this particular incident to take place and dozens of victims were treated on the street before being rushed to hospital. many could not be saved. the attack brought to rome towed to a standstill downtown streets were closed for hours as were several subway stations this kind of tragic incident is not representative of how we live or who we are or anything to do with life in this city on a day to day basis it's the latest attack in recent years in which a vehicle has been used as a weapon in cities including nice berlin london new york and minced. to

run to has now been added to that tragic list. now when u.s. president all from visited france last year he was given the red carpet treatment and now he's returning the favor a french president among all is on a three day state visit after an elegant dinner the two leaders will be getting down to business a test of whether they can save the iran nuclear deal and avoid a transatlantic trade war wus claire richardson is in washington she asked french residents there what they want to come out of the meeting. washington d.c. turns two kinds of red white and blue when the president of france comes to town donald trump is hosting his first state visit pulling out all the stops for his french counterpart. their relationship has been called everything from a bromance to a marriage of convenience but no matter which way you look at it french president emmanuel necron and u.s. president donald trump seem like an unlikely pair one is

a young globalist the other a seventy one year old with nationalist instincts so how did the two form such a close personal relationship. some experts say it comes down to their common backgrounds in business and as outsiders so it's paradoxical that they get along so well given how different they are on the surface but at the same time they are self-made political men you know that come from outside the establishment that were elected when nobody expected that and you know they they really shared this experience but how did the french feel about having a president who has been called the trump whisperer. these d.c. locals want to see them work to get there. i think it's a better interest for him for the u.s. and for everybody to get something out of it is very few have to bend over a little bit and the president from he knows that france is going to be you. know we've the u.s.

and europe in general and i think prism to do that what else do they expect to see from trump during the two leaders run dave we were in d.c. . to. get micro toward is a way it's not easy to do under so we'll see if we get firework or if we get another cherry blossom. we'll have to wait and see whether his charm offensive can reap rewards. so will it be a cherry blossom and what's behind all the smiles and handshakes i'm joined in studio now by to bow model all french journalist here in berlin good morning to you . the first question is what can we expect from what is he looking for in this his well i think what he's looking for is a success on two or three political issues the two main ones will be iran save the iran deal. which trungpa may decide to withdraw in may

and also say a deal on trade. has exceptions to the new tariff barriers put into place may first is the date there and may first as a deadline so there's a fuse of this exactly ok you mentioned around that that you know let's pick that up first that is the big issue politically do you see any movement there well it will be interesting to look at i think there is a common interest in europe that the these days remains in place we see that donald trump has been very clear since he's come pain against the which is. really obama's heritage. i think français that deal has. keep point for just a bit lazy in the middle east so. it will be quite important and we see how

successful in the hall will be on that issue ok now should there be no progress on the iran nuclear deal with that hold up agreement in other areas you mentioned the economic front and a possible threat. well it's difficult to say i think obviously all these issues will play a role you can't tell if there is no progress on that issue there. m b any progress on other issues i think of our interest are very much and to try and so and there's also syria we france britain and the u.s. have a common policy in syria with the strikes they made last month. it is very difficult to say what if you what kind of the middle i think one dish is and may have but i'm sure if that there is. a. council of the it will have major impacts on the middle east and also on the transatlantic relationships ok in terms of the transatlantic relationship trade is very important

mentioned the intertwined interests what we have here donald trump was an economic nationalist manual but it was a globalist can they overcome those backgrounds and and engage together and multilateralism on trade. surprisingly the to get along very well. although they do have different approaches to trade and also the way we do politics. in the end they're both beyond the charm. and the old the. nice pictures we have in washington of both those you they own national interest and i think they're quite pragmatic that's what both are really we'll see in the next few days of pragmatism wins out over the various the all g.'s developmental all french journalist here in berlin

thanks very much thank you. now for some of those stories making the news today the former u.s. president george h.w. bush is said to be recovering after he was hospitalized in houston for an infection just the day after his wife barbara's funeral the ninety three year old has a form of parkinson's and has received treatment several times in recent years were respiratory problems. and police in the u.s. state of tennessee of arrested a man suspected of killing four people at a restaurant nashville a manhunt was launched sunday afternoon after the gunman fled the scene of that fatal shooting police believe the suspect is mentally ill. a team of doctors in the u.s. has successfully perform the world's first complete penis and program transplant using tissue from a deceased donor the operation was carried out on a soldier who had been wounded by a bomb in afghanistan a fourteen hour procedure has been held as a success. while there are celebrations in armenia after the resignation of

the country's veteran leader the prime minister. was previously the country's president but all to retain control by becoming prime minister and extending the executive powers of that post now that move has brought thousands of armenians onto the streets. celebrations on the streets of the armenian capital yet of on. after ten days of mass protests the people got what they wanted. the former president who became prime minister just days earlier resigned. and even soldiers had joined a demonstration against their prime minister. now they too were in a jubilant mood. in a statement said. admitted he was in the wrong he'd become arminius president in two thousand and eight and served ten years earlier this month he was elected prime

minister by the country's parliament but this enraged many armenians who felt his latest move would secure his hold on power over the country indefinitely. the former soviet republic which is in the caucasus region was plunged into political crisis many of armenians three million citizens are also struggling with economic turmoil and there's been disquiet about such a close ties to russian president vladimir putin. i back on the streets of yet of on the main opposition leader. has received a hero's welcome. i mean eons are hoping it's the start of a new era. the news live from berlin still to come on the show the champion's league semifinals kick off tonight and the english premier league superstar most followed will be up against his former club as liverpool those roma will tell you

all about. christophe as you know the french carmaker p.s.a. reports a jump in sales this morning that's right bryan revenue is up by more than forty per cent in the first quarter lifted by the acquisition of opel vauxhall last year and now the spike this rise in revenue the honeymoon between p.s.a. and opel is over as opel is still making also as the french parent company now says it needs more wage and job concessions from workers the opel staff say they've made enough sacrifices and after all didn't p.s.a. make a lot of commitments to jobs and plants. the p.s.a. takeover was seen as something of a rescue for opel the carmaker had not made a profit in seventeen years and then parent g.m. was eager to offload it but p.s.a. saw the prospect of massive synergies and a doubling in size which would put it into clear second place in europe behind v.w.

and ahead of rival renault nissan. at the time p.s.a. promised to make opel and vauxhall profitable again without any plant closures or compulsory job cuts but opals lost p.s.a. one hundred seventy nine million euros since the takeover and its sales continue to disappoint first quarter sales came in at two hundred seventy four thousand units this year that's twenty five thousand down on the same time last year and market share was down from over six percent to five point seven percent and that in an expanding market p.s.a. has put investment plans on hold for one plant is mulling the closure of another and tabled mass redundancies at its main research center it's reportedly now refusing to uphold a multi-year job and plant guarantees it gave during the takeover workers' representatives say at least four thousand jobs could go by twenty twenty. somethings think a closer look at this dispute was

a. good business to now initially p.s.a. made a lot of commitments to jobs on plants now the company the man's more sacrifices so how did we get here well we're in the situation where p.s.a. is being held to account by unions and the government which has taken the side of the opel workers at the same time t.s.a. of course is pointing out that opel cap possibly go on as before if it's meant to survive that the status quo is not an option is something that p.s.a. and management has been trying to impress upon workers in five takeover it's a valid argument but at the same time it probably wasn't terribly prudent of b.s.a. . to make assurances that it might not be able to afford me and at least in terms of the optics so you can imagine a situation where the goal was to take over cut deals to make it happen and try to correct the strategy as you go along and talk about the changing circumstance has been deep in the red for more than fifteen years why is the company unable to turn

a profit even under new ownership. well there are various reasons for that and some of them are reflective of greater shifts within the auto industry like pretty much all car makers are struggling to get behind electrification and autonomous driving and when you think of opal you think of boring dependable cars he said that your first car was an opel it was born it was the punjab it was the pen but it's a medium sized company and it's in a worse position to make big investments than these sexy trends if you compare it to say they just have more money they're weak in emerging markets and so on but a lot of this failure can also be blamed on its former parent company now they struggled to make big cost cutting decisions they were constantly in conflict with the labor unions it was hard for them to move forward and in many ways that's where we still are. has become a part of the of the french drama could be as a last year thereby creating what some call a new european champion. because they doubled in size with this acquisition other

than growth what has been the strategy of a chief executive of ours here well it depends on who you ask a clear strategy is what the german unions are demanding they say that the virus has really yet to still outline what he intends to do and how it will affect especially the german workers now labor unions in france and the u.k. they've already accepted consequences of the cost cutting program agreeing to reduce to pay rises and variable working hours but it's the german workforce that's holding out so it really depends on how much will be able to push forward with this cost cutting program will he be able to break out into all of port and auto markets like china and maybe then we could see a strategy succeeding but for now it looks pretty patchy breaking down the struggles between me and opal force you know thank you so much. the european union steve bracks of negotiator says there cannot be business as usual after britain leaves the bloc next year he warned companies are they had over fare to prepare for

the consequences of bracks at the trade show annually showcases the latest developments in industrial technology and with trade relations between britain and the e.u. far far more saw for the future many have increased their foothold in other markets in mexico for example for german engineering companies like partial x. wat mexico is a very enticing prospect on the one hand of the market for production robots and other engineering equipment but also the production location something german car makers in particular have capitalized on mexico's geographic location makes it a perfect platform for exports to the u.s. . over the last five years mexico has launched important structural reforms as a basis for future development. for your to make it a center of opportunity. and above all to show investors that we are a trustworthy country. on a joint tour of the one of

a mess of trade for german chancellor angela merkel told mexico's president to trade ties between the two countries are also set to expand under the new e.u. mexico free trade agreement but security still poses a major problem along with corruption mexico is also in the midst of tough nafta free trade negotiations with the u.s. and the country elect a new president in july but those uncertainties are unlikely to scare off german investors. german companies find the strings and opportunities in mexico outweigh the risks of continuing to expand their mexican operations especially in the automobile industry and in the sea is just mechanical engineering and if the trade to you between the e.u. and makes the call goes through the partnership with even stronger. a bank in shanghai is calling itself the first in the country to go free that is apart from the cost of mergers of course the on man brands of china construction bank has just

opened its stores high tech and high street bank branches are supposedly a response to growing competition from cashless payment systems giving the banks iran for their money. who needs the human touch this branch of china construction bank in shanghai thinks nobody does robot assistants are just one part of it so called person with strategy it also has virtually reality rooms for customers looking to buy real estate or gold in these screens let customers pay their bills their communist party membership fees many customers welcome the bank's innovations . these days because people are less and less likely to be inclined to want other people to come in father them because they want to be left alone we hope when we come to a bank that we have human machine interaction this kind of experience. but some are worried that this sort of automation would leave some customers behind. some

people in their sixty's or older than i talk to now their view is that these technologies look great but when it comes to actually using them it's not convenient because they haven't used these kinds of equipment before so they have to ask people help how on earth do you use this what does it do. that. others are skeptical that investing in more tech doesn't necessarily add value much of banking already has a high level of automation and whether increase or valence from a steep bank is something customers really need is questionable to still a bank free of human interaction is still a novelty for customers they're lining up to see the potential face a future services. it's back to brian now and the latest on the political shake up in armenia one of our top stories today christoph armenians have been celebrating the resignation of the country's veteran leader after days of massive street protests prime minister sarah. was previously the country's president but sought to

consolidate power by extending his term in office becoming prime minister with executive powers in the post following developments in armenia as did have you correspondent emily sher when and why good morning to you. we've been looking at images of armenians celebrating this morning in the air of on where you are what's the atmosphere like what kind of reactions have you been saying. ok with some problems with this sound there was if we get that uplink back later in this program let's go now to a report from the spanish holiday island of a beats a masters i'm there is taking a toll on the environment especially on the islands population of flamingoes there's more. thank you one kalispell and approaches the flamingo carefully he doesn't want to startle the bird flamingos on his passion.

flamingos are all looking highly unusual birds so it's easy to get people interested in them even those who don't care about environmental protection. and. tell em is happy to see the birds flock to a beef is last salinas salt flats he's counted hundreds of them already and their numbers have been on the rise in recent years that's good news for the spanish island but mass tourism is posing a danger to the birds. has become too busy for them to bring up their young. girl when the breeding season begins most adult birds fly away to reproduce. because in spring flocks of tourists descend on

a beta which has become known as the mediterranean is number one party destination as visitor numbers soar the environment pays the price and most holidaymakers couldn't care less a road leads straight through the cess salinas national park to a popular bache which is teeming with visit has even in low season tourists stop to snap pictures of the exotic birds some even strike into the nature reserve. when it only got one i don't know that they would but while that's the only way to get to really see these birds then are unfortunately that's how it is when you enter a nature reserve so that when all you enter to see the birds in the actual habitat you get is that not and i can assume someone out there are going to say i thought. l.m. says this kind of behavior has to stop last silliness with the phoenicians began producing salt two thousand years ago has plenty of plankton and small crabs for

the flamingos to feed on it's an ideal breeding ground for the birds says were it not for the tourists. most of them simply don't know how to act appropriately in nature park rangers could help but they don't exist here there's just not enough money even though the flamingos could help change the island's party image as the belaire garlands environmental ministry hopes that way everything could become an eco tourism destination. so. those have come to stand for a clean environment and they're apparently pulling in visitors the other birds are giving the party island pizza a totally new image. but protecting the species is costly and limits mass tourism and says the government is unwilling to risk that which he says is inconsistent this year many dead flamingos have been discovered across the island

in january alone twenty one dead birds were found. in a pharmacy several we don't know if the animals are examined to ascertain the cause of their death when there's all kinds of diseases not just conventional ones are being looked into we have no information on this. i almost think the government isn't taking this problem seriously but you know. the one that. are probably one of. the learned believes the problem is being swept under the rug he says all the talk of sustainability is just an empty marketing ploy. it would also give. i don't think there'll be a change in course or so yes maybe they're trying to attract other kinds of holiday makers and they're not taking action against mass tourism and definitely doing nothing to stop the party tourism. according to yawn kalispell and it's all about

the money tourists bringing to the island the flamingos simply cannot compete with that so their numbers might soon begin to fall. on the second leg of the air race world championship took to the skies over a car in the south of france this weekend it's the first time this event has taken place in france and fans on the ground were treated to an all inspiring spectacle pilots maneuvering their way through gates of death defying speeds of over four hundred killed me. there's prowar the australian pilot matt hall came out on top of the time of fifty seven point seven seconds. this is the interview news live from berlin still to come on the show a rainy and women showing their muscle will meet the country's female weight lifting team who've been given permission by the nation's supreme leadership council to compete abroad for the very first.

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what influence does he have on politics and general culture on his two hundredth birthday karl marx and arts twenty one special and the documentary marks and his airs on t.w. . welcome back here at the interview news our top stories in this hour the suspect in an apparently deliberate man attack in toronto is due to appear in court later today ten people were killed another fifteen injured after the man drove into pedestrians on a busy city street and police are investigating the driver's motive but say they do not believe the attack has links to terrorism. and french president among all mccall is in washington on a three day state visit in his u.s. counterpart donald trump will hold high level meetings today expected to focus on trade and the iran nuclear deal it is the first state visit of the trump presidency

. a saudi arabia with its rigid one harvest interpretation of islam is one of the world's most restrictive countries and that's especially true for women who make up of course more than half the population. reforms initiated by crown prince mohammed bin solomon are indeed easing the harshest of those restrictions on women are part of an attempt to diversify saudi arabia's oil dependent economy did abuse funny travel to saudi arabia where she met a female writer an academic who's pushing for more freedom we'll speak to her in a bit first here's a report. but i did not take back my name is doctors in a while who died a year and today i'm signing my novel it's about two generations shahar a mother and her daughter higher. than it describes problems saudi women face and it's about the relationship between men and women that see at the end. that is enough first novel hajar criticise

a stalled mass within our society and between different generations but only between the lines. that it i really like which of ricin and the way you write it's charming but this has that did you also take the other book its new. life as a catholic in that i think you and then and women and then go here at the book fair in riyadh a place where conservative and modern world views. how much has somebody arabia changed. i sing of science or books at several steps so i guess. i did want. to say. that this radical oh let it be why don't you use your complete for me. i

hate it yes i will soon it's time to now have a very interesting i say no i didn't want to talk on camera about not publishing on the her family name it's because not everyone in her family supports her push for change i. guess that's right what do women today have in common with those fifty years ago when i know that it was in this book i describe how a mother felt fifty years ago and how her daughter feels now they share the same burdens. that the daughter has to suffer just as her mother did before her nothing has changed. even at the end if you know at the end i ask whether a person can change and improve their feelings. and whether time can change how we feel. that if and and if women are to change over the course of fifty years with all the challenges they face how will that influence saudi women. and their level and that's got to be on them but it did it influence them at that yes it did but

only if they're willing to leave their cage and the past if a woman is strong enough she can do it. at first glance rio it seems like a modern city but that's a facade riyad is very conservative women are still not allowed to drive you live out your life on social media and your smart film the country wants to become more open but they are still limits regarding what can be discussed on camera. i don't. get it i don't talk about politics but i understand it well and i read a lot we can talk about change and i accept every change that benefits we had in the regardless of how radical or crazy it is you see society wants you to marry to be like the rest but i don't want anything from society and that's why i am who i am today i mean my kingdom in my house with my life in my travels my daughter.

zainab doesn't need to do much at home she has a major from the philippines the minimum here for the middle class she's divorced and lives here with her daughter who doesn't want to be felt. zaineb says the reams joins her for breakfast. but the topic of conversation is a good thing. because i have these changes continue. that they will continue. and i don't want them to be only temporary. i'm going. to be one thing and women are already advisers in the shura council maybe later they can become junior ministers a lot going backward isn't an option where women would block that there'd be resistance change will be fast and already now there are a lot of laws benefiting women it will get better. not to have said here.

i went in and are going in and out of the sun i wanted to send the laws are indeed changing right now. and they're changing in favor of women have on the law regarding child custody and divorce for example what would help you know other arabic countries these things remain huge problems but not for us anymore and i. in the in the cellar how would you react if changes that have been made were to be undone. that. among the lot of that affair in which time on a market that i've seen and we have no experience with changes like these and was so it's difficult to say what would happen. maybe women would think about emigrating. others would use social media to raise awareness and build pressure those would probably be the most immediate reactions. you have other than that probably not much. we don't take to the streets and protest here but what about

some of our mafia. seen a past fought for independence as a writer a mother and as a professor she's on the way to king salad university a university for women and men say no peaches only women. here yet we would finish them out of. the restrictions that exist in society that apply university to. the how to get it but i think much too much as soon as society becomes more liberal there will also be more freedom at the university. and what you want to have a political job but. of course no we're not. i would serve my country and i could serve women as well. and then end up with an admission every woman should know her strengths. regardless of the field she works

in. over the next few hours saina will feature students that he co-management. she had hopes to be able to show us. but again the spite having octane official permission we are forbidden to fill. change in saudi arabia is a slow process every day there are more barriers to be broken. down. headed i'm joined now by the correspondent put that report together for us on the far shore of on the good morning to you when i listen to xining i am struct by extremely low expectations when it comes to herself you know just developing for abilities are enough as opposed to it and protest this is something that you're seeing played out in the east of the country shia minority i guess the sunni majority but when you look at women like saying that for other women to typical

that comes to this in-between situation that we experience right now in saudi arabia when you talk to people and we talk to women a lot of them are overjoyed about the small size of change they have really ecstatic about it at the same time to secure because they don't know how far these changes will go and some people simply do not know what to do when it comes to these changes just as an example when i was in saudi arabia the crown prince mohammed bin sanad said these and doesn't mean that as a woman you necessarily have to wear a black hats and a bio a lot of people said what does it exactly mean should i take it off straight away or a different color or do i want to take it off because it may threaten my islamic identity city so many factors at play that it's really hard to tell in the changes or treating uncertainty you know when you talk about the transition to freedom that we hope is in place right now we have a process that looks that way at least isn't it though in the end will harvest islam that is putting the walls there that are so difficult for women to surmount

doesn't that need to reform for real change for women i would refer to saudi arabia as a country of difference between of course what happens in this very conservative form of islam does shape influence the lives of millions within the country and i have to come back to that not a thought of the case actually it really depends on you and all of your social surroundings how much you can break out of that and whether you want to and pauley of course that also has to be that guardianship so. if your brother your husband your boyfriend but that doesn't exist officially but if the male part in your family doesn't a lawyer you to embrace this change embrace those changes that are just about to take off then you're basically back to square one so it's really an interesting question how this process going to evolve and what is actually going to look like what saudi arabia is going to look like when you look at the broader context your view mean rights are always there devalue the dollar you want to go saudi arabia since one thousand lashes and

a long prison sentence for insulting islam he's in prison right now. how is it possible to to to interconnect these two are genuine are they related. definitely they're related event it comes to the level of expressing what you want to express is basically nonexistent if you do of course it's not just mr dali there are hundreds of others academics john list who are in jail not even facing a trial or not having charges officially made public so this country is facing huge problems not only that into human rights issues also when it comes to gender parity the country's one of the last of it comes to equality between man and women there's so many problems interlinked and of course it is the war in yemen that saudi arabia says that is being sad it is a proxy war actually against iran what when you talk to people on the ground on the camera they would not talk about things like that they would not even hard the of us speak about that off camera what i phone quite astonishing harbor is not the

human rights situation that people are talking about but what it really seems to be from the government side is that there's a rising nationalism actually of some people who say we are making some changes the are making more changes than are archrival iran so if ya getting i have there they are not seeing the bigger picture the ones that i spoke to or they simply do not want to express that bigger picture. fear of what we see happening not just in this to badawi but to many others who are in jail and some facing of course the death penalty ok you mentioned iran we're going to talk about that shortly for now funny foster thank you so much money for your report for coming in to thank you for a while it's on to around now and women in iran saudi arabia's arj regional rival face similar repressive rules but here too restrictions are easing somewhat in a rare concession by the iranian regime a team of female weightlifters was recently given permission to compete abroad in

international competitions for the very first time now they're set to travel to the asian youth and junior championships and back to stomp our correspondent caught up with the team members in tehran just before they left for the tournament. it's training time in this timid west end to run champions have pumped iran for decades. just as heavy as they look at foot and nasm the other girls lifting them is that dream come true. my dad was a weightlifter i've loved the sport ever since i was a child and i watched every competition hard. and then member of us so as soon as it was possible i started lifting weights myself. and it's probably to continue the family tradition and to passen has paid off. she's the strongest of

the four girl to so far. the brains behind the goal success has this office just want. to be is president of iran's weightlifting association and perhaps the girls biggest fan he says there should be a difference between men and women in his sport. we have many iranian men who have many championship titles on our record holders in the field of weightlifting. the word strongest man right now is an iranian that we want to achieve the same with our women. we hope that in the future not the far future i'm talking about the olympics of twenty twenty four that the arabian women can add to these glories. to make that happen the girls work hard every day just like the men they live in

the compound of the association under close supervision by dr coaches. in just a few months to come a long way. from over. time i mean they don't have any experience yet next year they'll do very well in competitions for sure. but for now we just want them to build up confidence. after all this is their first international competition i met him but then after. i became a mom i had to go to. him now as in the others excited to leave to run for this because it's a historic first for the girls and for iran's female weightlifter us all together. martin you know i think. what men can do women can do to in the first five or six months since we started weightlifting we've already broken more than half of the women's weightlifting records that's glorious well i was up with only if they

caught it at glory they plan to continue at this week's tournaments and beyond confident well prepared and determined to show the world how strong iranian women can beat. barack obama as many of his supporters like to recall the former president's serious reflective but there's also the private man with his wife michelle the public image of obama has a lot to do with the person who took these photos pete souza obama's official white house photographer has collected some of the photos he took of the forty fourth u.s. president in a best selling book. joining me now in the studio to talk about the new york times bestseller scott roxboro from the culture does more than scott born what has made this book do so well with the readers is

a political mistake i think so yeah i think you hit the nail they had their eye it's funny at just two years ago the obama presidency i think people are still already looking back to those house in days and i think that has a lot to do with why. book is so successful and it was instantly a bestseller and also does done credibly well here as well in germany his pictures are there's an exhibit of his pictures in the candy's museum here in berlin the book he was just a book tour we met up with him when he was on the book tour here people also here in germany are seem to be just for for the obama presidency what i find really interesting though will be is that as you said his images are what his pictures are what created the image of president obama the obama that we think we know right came from those pictures i mean that's an important question these are high quality images no question but in the end isn't. for obama well he worked for the white house so yeah he was his employee and you can definitely see now he that he's left

the white house he posts a lot of his old pictures on instagram often in reference to donald trump so when trump told called kim jong il of north korea only of north korea a little rocket man was a put put up a picture of president obama with elton john and said this is the real rocking that out of their eyes that are so obviously has that but i don't think you really call him a political acolyte because before he worked for obama he was the official white house photographer for president reagan and if you look at those pictures that he shot of reagan i think we have some of those images of reagan. it's the exact same style and the exact same. even the setting set up a real counterpoint to a real political counterpoint but it's the same reagan as the statesman reagan the serious even. he should some often below angle shot to get that sort of sense of grandeur about it there but then and reagan you know as a statesman talk a leader is the leader and so forth but then also the private moments reagan with

his wife nancy here with michael jackson or reagan the shots that we all know over again him on his ranch ride this horse cowboy solar exactly that image that we have of reagan is the image that those gave us of reagan and that's the exact same thing with obama we think we know obama we think he's a strong intelligent serious man who also has a fun side has a sense of humor is a very close loving relationship with his wife we don't really know that i don't know if i'm out of the what he's like but we think we know that because those are the images that a piece of gave us ok we're going to look at more of them now and yes you know we have a piece on him when we met in berlin let's take a look. for eight years pete souza was barack obama's chief photographer and he was busy two million pictures historical political and private he portrayed obama as a president with a sense of humor. by responsibility but often playful.

he was the only photographer in a position to capture intimate shots like this one the presidential couple in the goods lift and then they're. kind of sharing this little. private moment and you have the staff and secret service trying not to look not to intercede is sort of see you michelle through all the you know. her long. track on the floor. and barack obama had a very close relationship was like a shadow he never took a vacation he never allowed himself to be ill he became as close to obama as the president's most trusted advisors there wasn't a collaboration where we would talk about. you know what he was doing i would just follow him long all day on every day. the iconic fist

short with the white house janet at that three photos with employees leaving the white house like this route jacobs family a young boy jacob told the president that his friends had told him that his here look just like the president and when jacob said that president obama bent over and told the little boy to go ahead feel as head so that's very unusual moment i have one friend and it was over. pete souza as a free dance photographer in washington is iconic pictures of barack obama already have the aura of a great legacy and are increasingly in denial and. one of sousa's most famous certainly white house situation room photos is when we see obama watching the military strike in real time to kill osama bin laden what kind

of political impact did this photo have tremendous one has if you member at the time people calling obama soft on terrorism this photo which went viral instantly was used by obama supporters to say no you see how serious he looks look how determined this is a man who defend america against his enemies interestingly of course you have the almost the opposite effect for hillary clinton who was then secretary of state that image of her with her hand over her mouth was used by some of her critics to say this is a sign that she's she's too weak on the shirt she is uncertain and so forth i later when she tried to run for president peoples of this shows that she's can't be commander in chief kind of ridiculous when you think about it's one image but you can see how much power these images have and how much power really a man like who we don't really know about has in shaping how we see these incredibly important especially when that when there's images that are. so a little open to interpretation is clear what they mean and i can we get find out more on the website about the go up one is on

a website and if you're really interested in photography check out his instagram page where he often posts pictures and unseen pictures of obama so if you're a fan of philip at all that's a good place to check it installed it is rocks preserver scott thanks very much into. we have time for the reminder now of the top stories we're following for you the suspect in the apparently deliberate van attack in toronto is due to appear in court later today ten people were killed another fifteen were injured some seriously after the man drove into the desk on a busy city street police are investigating the driver's motives but say they do not believe this attack has any links to terrorism. and french president emanuel mark all is in washington d.c. on a three day state visit to the u.s. he and his counterpart donald trump will hold high level meetings today expected to focus on trying to and the iran nuclear deal is the first the visit of the trump

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