good moments in the life of a great fashion designer and when the sun smash and. start september night w. . this is g w news live from berlin it wasn't me senior trump administration officials are lining up to deny that they wrote that new york times article and even vice president mike pence is forced to issue a public denial as the hunt for the anonymous author intensifies the bombshell article talks of insiders efforts of the war to the president's agenda trump has

called it treason also coming up. a rock star reception for italy's far right interior minister might tell you something he helped take the country's populous coalition into power will look at the coalition government's first one hundred days in office and german police move into clear of protesters from a forest that's to be cut down to make way for a coal mine but the protesters are vowing that they will keep up their battle to protect the tree. it's good to have you with us tonight a whodunit inside the white house senior members of the trumpet ministration are coming forward to say that they are not behind yesterday's new york times article in an op ed piece in the paper someone said to be

a senior official claims that aides are working to frustrate parts of trump's agenda from inside his administration trump has lashed out calling the peace treason and whoever wrote it he says is gutless for hiding their identity. i am part of the resistance inside the trumpet ministration the headline proclaims i work for the president but like minded colleagues and i have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda the new york times describes the author as a senior official in the government his claims have sparked controversy and of course damning criticism from the president himself. if the failing new york times has an anonymous editorial you believe landowners' really gotten us a gutless editorial. we're doing a great job the poll numbers are through the roof our poll numbers are great and guess what nobody is going to come close to beating me in twenty twenty because of

what we've done trump later followed this up with a tweet. does the so-called senior administration official really exist or is it just the failing new york times with another phony so trump asked if the gutless anonymous person does indeed exist the times must the national security pat he says turn him over to government at once the times has defended its decision to publish the editorial anonymously and some the scrambling for clues as to the oath his identity others want to focus on the message i think the all the alarming part of it is that there's someone in the white house who is very afraid that our nation is being damaged on a daily basis and i think we should take that very seriously this is not a warning from a liberal democrat this is a warning from someone you don't trump hired to work in the white house who is revealing information that is very troubling. americans are divided should an

inside the resistance be commended condemned. or the trump presidency and america's divisions are also things that people here in germany are watching with growing concern a new survey puts donald trump at the top of the list of things that people here in germany worry about let's go through the numbers here for you now more than two thirds strongly fear that donald trump's policies you see right there sixty nine percent are making the world a less stable place the consequences of immigration are also playing on german minds trouble of course is talked about immigration here in germany sixty three percent right there say that they feel overwhelmed by migrants that germany is being overrun by refugees now the same percentage fear rising tensions due to foreigners and germans don't have much confidence in their political leaders are there and you see right there sixty one percent. and expressed their concern that

wall makers are not up to the job that say a poor report card for lawmakers and one of those lawmakers is joining me tonight right here at the big table happy to have mr that very it's good to have you on the show this are very you are a member of the german parliament with the social democratic party you're also a member of the german american parliamentary friendship group so had to ask you looking at this poll and looking at what's happening right now in washington d.c. do you agree i mean is the biggest fear factor in the country right now the presidency of the ultra. if you ask those questions and you get those answers then it is but of course we having a lot of surveys these days what are what people fear and i think that what they all have in common is a sense of insecurity for the future so if the president of the united states is not to forseeable for a german citizen that might be fearful because the united states is a very important if not the most important country in the world let's look at that

letter that appeared yesterday in the new york times is anonymous letter have you been able to speak with anyone in washington d.c. about this letter no not yet ugly and in d.c. at the end of the month. and what frightens me most because obviously probably we will not know who the author is. or friends anymore that it sounds more or less. realistically that it could be that way it's not like a fantasy we all don't believe. we are all aware of the fact that might be that's what's happening in the senate so you think so you think this letter is a realistic it's a description of the reality inside the white house i'll take could be the reality and that's good enough to scare people off of this white house and in the united states i believe obviously the country the united states is very divided and it has been it was divided before this presidency but no this division seems to be carried into the administration and then it's getting really messy do you think we're

looking at an attempt to topple the u.s. president. i have no it's not it's not a business of of and member of parliament of a foreign country to talk into space the future of the president but what do you see what do you see there though i mean germany is a major ally to the united states regardless of what the u.s. president has said i mean you're still one of the most important allies for the united states what do you see happening in washington. actually i'm trying not to make it a subject between the united states and germany actually i'm trying to look at it as as a crisis in liberal democracies you know we are all part of the west and of the united states more or less the home of the west but germany certainly is also part of the west and we are struggling we're struggling with our old systems we're struggling with the fears as you said as the service shows with a few of our of a population and i think this president is at the beginning it he was just

phenomenal he was just the sign of those fears but no his actions could be part of the story that leads to fear right and germany is not free of that we have a different system we don't have a presidential system election system works a little differently but we have guys in all parliament that could be fearful as well if you look at them from the united states point of view. the wrong about right wing populist i thought you did the d we you say the a.f.d. in this country that is the far right party that is now the largest opposition force in the national parliament would you say that party has got a lot of the drive and support from the rhetoric that has come across the atlantic from double trouble actually on the opposite when people saw in germany what devastating effect a presidency like of donald trump has i think basically a lot of support that lust for the fifty but the roots the cause of people

protesting they might be comparable from that states into the center but of course you have there is no comparable to that mistreated in the united states i think all right mr. with the. german bundestag and a member of the german american parliamentary friendship group mr gridley appreciate you being on the show tonight we'll be talking with you a little bit later on the day thank you very much. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world germany's foreign minister has concluded a trip to turkey a bit rebuilding the street relationship his mission was to pave the way for a state visit to germany by president everyone this month and to try to secure the release of seven german citizens detained in turkey on political grounds britain has told the u.n. security council that it has clear evidence moscow was behind the poisoning of a russian expert i last march it comes a day after the u.k. announced attempted murder charges against two russians suspected of carrying out the attack british allies have issued

a joint statement backing one's assessment moscow has denied any involvement. its how you prosecutors have placed twenty people under investigation in connection with the bridge collapse that killed dozens of people in general last month the group includes top managers at autostrada the company that operates the bridge the suspects could face charges of manslaughter for failing to comply with safety regulations. and staying in italy the populist coalition government has been in office for almost one hundred days one of the coalition partners is the league headed by interior minister matteo salvini and he has taken a hard line against migrants and it is proving popular polls indicate that support for his party has doubled since the election in march but critics say migration is not the calls a bit of these problems and they fear the populists are ill equipped to navigate the country's troubled economic waters w.'s correspondent max hoffman reports

tonight from northern italy. through. the side of the show is about to start after hours of waiting such enthusiasm begs the question is this really the interior minister of italy or pop star. the lego was founded close to where we are right now and it's been hosting this first of all the many years now so this is classic for my tale with the me and you can tell people here absolutely adore him. and his fans appear satisfied with what he's done in the first one hundred days in office especially on migration why why it should be supportive is trying to protect the police try to give us a better part of the. park down before i need to get it. we believe in solving any and what he's doing that this can be a revolution for. a lot of things are moving for i went and he's keeping his promises. even mean that it's time and. no surprise that his

promises on migration are a big part of the salvini show but outside the populist bubble many are getting nervous about what the new government is actually achieving especially the financial markets. there are people who are against us government is free and independent from the multinationals from big finance from the banking powers both international and european we have no fears the italian economy is sound it's not in business is sound. and most economists disagree insisting that italy's in trouble but facts don't seem to get in the way of success. across the river from the festival people are trying to do something about that. political entity has organized a protest picnic they are sick of their new government claiming that migration is.

answerable for everything. you got that baby to be that you don't want in reality it has problems like elsewhere we have high youth unemployment and many other people have only temporary jobs there are very few young people who get permanent contracts we have a high poverty rate in relative and absolute terms. it's no surprise that the event on this side of the river is the only one to host some migrants. on the other side show is drawing to a close the interior minister's folks and sometimes funny demeanor is one of the reasons why he's managed to govern and gained in popularity he admits though when pressed that it's not all been fun and games just. that well it's not easy it's really is

a big country we have important challenges but i was tired of being in the opposition i was. in the opposition answers to complex problems are often easier salvini has survived the first one hundred days in power unscathed but soon he will have to show if you can actually. see the past previous hour and from this stage to the big table here i'm joined now by matteo god of all of you he is from oxford university center for international studies marty it's good to have you on the show today i mean when we look at the far right party and we look at the unique they certainly can be proud of the fact that they doubled what is it their approval ratings in just one hundred days in office how would they done that the what seventeen to thirty four percent impressive they've they've done by focusing on managing perceptions but are rather than dealing with reality there are two key words here fear and identity fear which

doesn't mean de de de de de way to develop the whole. course that focuses on security on crime and all that now that's fascinating given the fact that mr selene even talked of the interior ministry and interior ministry it's just really used last month they showed that all types of crimes in italy have been decreasing for the last five years yet the story is one of crime the oddities for terry's idea and then there's this idea that migrants a commie taking over the country and destroying the country and cultural terms yet again data released by the ministry shows that the number of arrivals of migrants and refugees and italy has been declining stock ok so you're dealing with facts and if the facts are that way then is it the media's fault in italy are they not reporting the facts to the italian people is that why there's this misperception that you're talking about you know i'm not blaming the media the media in my view is like any any other profession good ones and not so good ones and no no no i

think in that respect we have to you know give credit to mr sylvie for being extremely skillful. when looking in our developing narrative i mean that's that's nice that's that's political speech for telling a lot i mean that's what you're saying he's a good show human but he's also good been doing the facts absolutely i mean the fact he doesn't even mend them that they're not touched on this let's talk about italy facing high unemployment it's got a slowing economy. it's got you know problems with corruption how credible are the plans of this government with i mean do they even talk about the actual plans for tackling these problems you know there's a lot of chaos and a lot of proposals left and right but it no there's no i don't see any clear current plans now probably doesn't matter because i would expect discovering to be able to implement only a minimal amount of the duals proposals that are put for so far for a number of reasons fundamentally because the two main stakeholders the foster movement and the league have very conflicting views on

a number of legal or strange bedfellows absolutely destroyed so when it comes to to you know implementing policies they'll struggle secondly because of external constraints brussels won't let them spend all the money that it want to spend and thirdly because the numbers do not add up when you look at their proposals there's simply not money to pay for what you want to do having said that i think that what we have is a situation where there's a couple of people that will play a key role in here and interestingly there are two technocrats independent thinkers the current foreign minister and the current economic and finance minister they do not belong to these parties and each one of them a specific job one of them for minister is a task we have a minute relationship with the european union and containing the most and the european what about the shift to the far right what does it mean for the european union. immediate terms i don't think that he's a big problem in the sense that a lot of what has been coming out of rome is referee rather than

a significant change in terms of policy making the keep killers all the time in foreign policy have not changed where things could change the oh. you know it's two thousand nine hundred to european parliament because italy does bring a lot of any peace to european parliament and an alliance between the league and the five star movement could contribute to really strengthen on your set your skeptic. contingent there all right. from oxford university center for international studies month here we appreciate you being on the show tonight and sharing your insights they q thank you. the united states is poised to move ahead with another round of tariffs on the you guessed it chinese imports christoph is here with that story brant this time it's a twenty five percent levy on two hundred billion dollars worth of goods it would be the lead latest measure in a dispute that is hitting businesses around the world including american farmers many of whom voted for president trump now u.s.

meat corn oranges and cotton are all facing chinese counter-terrorist now u.s. farmers already forced to accept financial aid from the government now that i've could become even more difficult. last summer the m barger family farm in virginia faced a bright future thanks to china wholesalers there wanted to buy its beef in huge quantities that's what they told farmers set on barger when he went on a business trip sponsored by the us government to beijing. potential buyers they were they were very excited they wanted to be frightening and they wanted to go ahead and sign a contract they wanted to make a deal that day but that all changed when china imposed retaliatory tariffs on american products over the summer after the u.s. imposed its tariffs china imposed thirty seven percent import duties on beef and at such high prices the chinese prefer to buy elsewhere like in canada the farmers

there are the winners of the u.s. is trade disputes and it's not just china european companies are also increasingly buying meat grain and other i recall general products here the reason is simple. the terrorists that you're placed on u.s. corn twenty five percent tariffs that would be the main driver that would then make u.s. corn more expensive thank you nate in course says the barge your family has passed down its farm from one generation to the next but now it's under threat from those tariffs. and to think that it could come to an end and. the fact that it would end at the fifth generation is it's hard to swallow sometimes. the family now hopes that the u.s. government can come to an agreement on tariffs with its trading partners as quickly as possible. cryptocurrency is have been falling sharply for a second day in a row bitcoin dropped nearly ten percent extent in

a slump and dragging down rival cryptocurrency is it going to account for more than half of the digital currency market several financial firms have pulled back on keep their currencies this year in part due to concerns about government efforts to step up oversight of the sector. now for more let's bring in our man on wall street yes court against cryptocurrency on nosediving give us some more background on what's going on. you know what one of the main reasons for this current crisis of cryptocurrency is comes from goldman sachs the u.s. bank actually decided to drop plans to start a trading desk on crypto currencies and that really got those coins going south just within twenty four hours within two trading sessions so to speak were down by about twelve percent and. another cryptocurrency got hit even harder

by about twenty percent just within twenty four hours so there were times when many said crypto currency is worth the next big thing in finance are they still saying that well the hype has already vanished quite a bit different look back pretty much a year ago for example stood at about four thousand dollars apiece and then they went almost up to twenty thousand by christmas and then the high started to fade and now we are good six thousand dollars so the hype is to a certain degree over but that doesn't mean necessarily at the end of two cryptocurrency some of the big changes here in the united states are also working and trying out ways how to deal with crypto currency and so it's not the end but certainly the hype is has vanished quite a bit in the past couple of months already but cotton and other currencies under

pressure has quarter of porting from walls for against thank you. it's back to right now and some very dedicated activists exactly right kristoffer to take you to western germany where there is a clash between environmentalists and a coal mine operator over the future of a forest now police have moved in to secure the forest ahead of its scheduled cutting down next month but environmentalist they say they'll start what they're calling a program of massive civil disobedience this coming friday the woods contains centuries old beach trees and a protected species of backed their mission is to chop down germany's most controversial woodland humbucker forest the energy giant r.w. wants to clear the remaining timber to make way for open cast coal mining there's not much left of the original four thousand hectare forest the next part of the

operation is due in a few weeks' time. but there is huge a position a few squatters began the protests six years ago now more than hundred young environmental activists a living here and three houses determined to save the forest. several hundred police officers moved into a humble forest in order to expel dozens of activists and protesters who have been living here for years they live here and three houses in order to protect the forest from being cleared and they keep resisting. most of the squatters prefer not to give their names. one of them put it this force wouldn't be here without the protesters from going on for the past six years and that's enough motivation for me to keep on fighting. if you activists stand firm before the police and clearance workers this man held out on a barricade made from two tree trunks for hours before being forcibly removed.

the shock for the assam that activists who've come here from all around germany. what we've just seen dragging someone by the hair giving them an eye injury that's shocking treatment for someone who's come here for a good cause it leaves me feeling sad and lost for words mcclish what was most. curiosity brought medical students sophie to her mother forest a week ago but she's been so affected by what she has seen that she wants to stay as long as it takes to see the forest another student sees it the same way. you talk about this mind as the biggest source of c o two in europe germany always says it's working to protect the environment but it ultimately does nothing instead and ancient forest is being cut down to set our w.e.e.e. this madness will only exacerbate the catastrophe of climate change for good scheme . in june the german government can vent a commission to come up with

a timetable by the end of the year for phasing out coal that could unravel several members are threatening to resign if r.w. egos ahead with clearing the forest next month. activists still hoping to persuade our w.e.e.e. to give up on cutting down the forest but the company is sticking to its plans the clearance teams and their equipment are set to move in. showbiz news in a big loss for hollywood the american actor burt reynolds has died at the age of eighty two this is probably have a lot of us will remember him reynolds rose to fame of the one nine hundred seventy s. you want to claim for his performance in deliverance smokey and the band it and boogie no i suspect he was perhaps best known for this photograph posing nude. there we go on the pages of cosmopolitan in one thousand nine hundred seventy two wasn't that the year we were born christophe reynolds was a hollywood's top grossing star every year from one nine hundred seventy eight

through one thousand nine hundred eighty two. are years remind of the top stories that we're following for you the hunt is on to find which senior administration official wrote to that anonymous new york times article that claims aides are working to frustrate parts of trump's agenda from inside the white house the president has called the article treason and he's called the author gutless. you're watching news from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

quandary gun international talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week a series of angry sometimes violent demonstrations by far right. tester's has prompted soul searching here in germany how should politicians and civil society respond to can germany defeat its demons that's

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. the first time i had a feeling of being pumped something. new plans of those events today. too soon spoke of civil rights the peace movement the women's movement planned during this period. until sixty eight the i. just wanted to double. all day one after another cabinet members and even the u.s. vice president saying publicly it wasn't me an anonymous letter in the new york times accusing president trump of being a moral and dangerous has gone off like a grenade inside the oval office tonight the world is asking who was it and are we watching an attempt to topple the u.s. president i'm broke off in berlin this is the day. when.