this is news coming to you live from berlin president trump orders american troops out of syria and provokes a storm of protest the president declares victory over so-called islamic states but senior republicans condemn the pullout as a costly mistake we'll find out how american allies in europe are reacting also coming up here back to earth

a safe landing for the crew of the international space station but their six month mission was marred by technical problems on the ground and inside the earth demonstrations in the west in the streets of budapest we meet the protesters demanding an end to new labor regulations and a return to the rule of law. plus in the bundesliga by munich put more pressure on dortmund at the top of the table it wasn't pretty but by and fought their way to a tightly contested one nil victory over life is a. blow i'm terry march it thanks for joining us president donald trump's prize decision to claim victory over so-called islamic state and withdraw all american troops from syria has been met with criticism from both parties in cong. leading republicans

are calling it a premature and costly mistake one that would benefit iran and russia others question whether the militant group has in fact been defeated two of america's allies britain and france isn't finished yet and the battle to clear them out should go all. if president trump gets his way the american troops currently in syria will start leaving the country as soon as possible trump posted a video on twitter explaining his move i've been president for almost two years and we've really stepped it up and we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly we've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home i get very saddened when i have to write letters or call parents or wives or husbands of soldiers who have been killed fighting for our country it's

a great honor we cherish them but it's heartbreaking is no question about it it's heartbreaking now we've won it's time to come back they're getting ready you're going to see him soon these are great american heroes about two thousand american soldiers are currently stationed in syria officially as instructors and advisers to rebel forces that includes could his troops with the sitting democratic forces the s.d.f. who have led the fight against the so-called islamic state the move to spot surprise and outrage from republican lawmakers who call chum's actions rash and dangerous. it's a terrible thing parr nation it's a terrible thing for the. for the allies that we've been working with this terrible thing for the s.t.'s and it's just. it's hard to imagine that any president would wake up and make this kind of decision with this little communication with this little preparation i mean monder stanny as we're. beginning

to move out right now. yes. entirely. the withdrawal of u.s. troops is also called the allied nations involved in the anti i asked coalition offguard britain for its part said it continued to view i.s.i. as a threat. france too is convinced that the job of fighting i asked is not finished here's what french defense minister false polly had to say on twitter she acknowledged that islamic state are weaker than ever that they have gone into hiding and are fighting as insurgents islamic state have lost more than ninety percent of their territory she says they don't have the logistics they once had but she continues islamic states have not been obliterated nor have their roots we must defeat the last pockets of this terrorist organization with military force so that's the view from paris let's go over to brussels now where did the use teri

schultz is standing by terry any other reaction from european governments. hi terry well the u.k. as you mentioned has expressed its disagreement with president trump's assessment of the situation on the ground in syria the u.k.'s junior defense minister tobias' elwood was even stronger than this on twitter he said i strongly disagree the isis threat has morphed into other forms of extremism and it's very much alive and as far as other e.u. reaction you foreign policy chief federica mcgreevey was asked at a press conference last hour. mrs mcgreevey was asked for reaction and said nothing so i think that people as you mentioned have been caught very much by surprise and are still digesting digesting this decision what about nato nato has its headquarters there in brussels to what nato officials make of trouble pulling u.s. troops out of syria. nato doesn't have any troops on the ground with its own

operations in syria unlike in neighboring iraq where it would probably have much more to say about this all nato is saying is that it takes note of the u.s. decision and stresses that it's important that the u.s. has said that the coalition to defeat isis will still be maintained that thirty one nation group led by the united states so i think there are probably some questions about how much energy the united states will continue to put into that if it's not on the ground but nato says that the important thing here is that isis must be defeated now there's a former supreme allied commander of nato james stavridis who has written something on twitter even more strong he says this is a big mistake it's like walking away from a forest fire while it's still smoldering he says the winners here are going to be first iran then russia then syrian president assad so everyone who is not bound by

institutional decorum is speaking out much more strongly against this move both inside the administration and here in brussels terry thank you so much for those inside so the w's teri schultz there in brussels. three astronauts have returned safely to earth after spending more than six months on the international space station their mission proved to be problematic for technical reasons but german commander of its other guest said the return trip went smoothly. back from space after spending months in zero gravity attacks on aghast had to be helped out of the tiny so us capsule they tarried him and his crew back to earth. burst through to fifty feet is the one that it feels like coming home and although i am in kazakhstan in a place i haven't been to before it still feels like coming home for the article if i'm on guard you know all the people and his fellow astronauts russian surrogate procopio and american serina and chancellor exhausted but all are said to be doing

well. the catcher was docked onto the international space station the i assess which has been home to the astronauts for the past six and a half months the crew performed dozens of scientific experiments on board an x. and a gas later became the first german to take over command of the isis. airbus an arctic not always an easy task the replacement teams failed launch meant that many experiments could be carried out and gassed had to extend his mission and russian astronauts also had to carry out a grueling repair on a mysterious hole in the sole use capsule the craft that would ultimately bring them safely back to earth. hearing his mission alex and i guess stayed in touch with people on earth through social media he used his unique perspective from space to offer insight on scientific and very mental issues before he left the iowa says he sent a message to future generations. when looking down to earth i feel that i have

to apologize. it looks like my generation is not going to leave the planet in the best condition that. i wish i could see the future through your eyes your world and your perspective on it. unfortunately that is not possible so the only thing that i can do is to try to enable your future the best future that i can imagine. and so i. guess is expected to be home in germany tonight. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today flights from london's gatwick airport are suspended after drones were spotted flying above the airfield late on wednesday and again today on thursday numerous incoming flights have been diverted to other airports flying

a drone within one kilometer of an american airport is it legal in britain anyone convicted of the offense could spend five years in jail. officials in the democratic republic of congo say sunday's presidential election has been postponed electoral commission sided any bold outbreak ethnic violence and a shortage of ballot papers as reasons for the delay voters are set to elect a successor for joseph kabila in the country's first democratic transition of power . one person is reported to have been killed as people take to the streets to oppose price hikes and corruption demonstrators are angered by worsening economic conditions after prices more than tripled this year state of emergency was declared in city after protests erupted on wednesday. hungary's government has ruled out changing an unpopular new law on over time which critics have dubbed the slave law that's despite

a week of protests in the capital budapest targeting prime minister viktor or bonds government our correspondent our correspondent penny travelled to budapest to find out exactly why demonstrators were braving freezing temperatures to take their message to the streets. protester symbol the past usually starts at the hung parliament this afternoon i meet a couple of students preparing for an anti or band demonstration. hungary has experienced a wave of protests in recent days and normally of course these young people like gossip are like who come here to the course with square to say void which means it's enough what exactly is enough well there are certain amount of things that we have experienced the the destruction of health care the destruction of education or the slave law which is going to make people work overtime for in the hours before the whole society is collapsing around us is suffocating us on all levels unlike

past antigovernment protests recent ones have not ended in the past they have shifted to the countryside we are in need in the north east one of the poorest regions of hungary and a stronghold of feet as the governing party. i want to ask people about the new labor law that has triggered the protests it allows companies to ask their employees to work four hundred hours overtime every year but snow wants to talk on camera afraid they may lose their jobs i meet a girl who may not be afraid but he's only job is to drive five hundred kilometers to hungary every night for a shipping company. if i start work every night at eight o'clock and have to sign that i finished at four thirty in the morning that they're making us committed them in fact he works twelve to fourteen hours every night for four hundred euros a month the. government says there are other options if that's not true there

aren't many jobs and that's why you're forced to accept working overtime. until is concerned that employees will be exploited even more and he's taking his anger onto the streets hundreds of others have come to the city center to protest at. what they call a slave labor. it will be here all week. of the wall that represents the system of. organizing different opposition parties pool for street protests they don't want clashes for the police they're chanting or bon alex we don't want your slave lol this crowd here is very energized all of a sudden the very much for granted opposition the opposition parties are united against orbán and they want to keep this momentum alive. it's freezing way below zero the protesters here are determined to fight in the streets beyond

christmas the big question is how many people who support this new wave of resistance. it's obvious funny reporting there well russia's vladimir putin has used an end of year press conference to rail western sanctions he also said that allegations about lost those covert operations such as the poisoning of a father and daughter in the u.k. were made up it was a typically strident performance at an event designed to showcase the russian leaders strong man image. it's like. a president holding court before a nation rounding up the i'm casting to the future with a live broadcast press conference in front of some two thousand charnel missed. a lot to me and marriage from the wings the ripple of applause belied any notion that this would be bruising the session began with something off.

so there it is begin and we will give priority to the kremlin journalists. we should always begin with those who are close to us quips the president. so good for those three and for months and years the part of. the building with close to four hours of questions this is more a test of anduin their mental agility despite nuclear threats and wars a home and abroad question after question dealt with the country struggling economy . even state broadcaster. the russian economy is in stagnation it's going round in circles. but also we can't provide strong economic growth unless we change the structure of the economy that's what we're doing with national projects we want to put it ahead of everything else we want to innovate her economy and see greater rates of economic growth and more

opportunities for development. every commitment it's an annual shore piece meant to project strength and prosperity but with rising poverty in russia the ostentation touches were fewer this year and the economic strife is hard to turn his popularity among the people has plummeted and. whatever the signs here may suggest. here now with more on the economic situation in russia. terry though the russian president claims real incomes are rising across russia their standard of living has been dropping consistently one politician decided to try and live off the money many people receive his experiments sparked the national debates but will his campaign really help russians living in poverty. correspondent. we're going to be talking to in

a moment went to the city of sorrow itself to find out. which table. is on a political diet for a whole month now the parliamentarian from south of has based his food budget on a local pensioners living wage spending just three thousand five hundred roubles or around forty six euros to eat. the communist party politician only buys the bare basics and says he's been hungry all month. i want to prove that living on three thousand five hundred roubles a month is impossible without a negative effect on your health and shoot. some accuse the politician of populism others here at south of market. is pushing to double the living wage in russia his campaign has gotten a huge amount of media attention along with us a russian federal t.v. crew is also filming him preparing his rations but to this is more than just p.r. and bigger than his health. i don't think that

a month on this diet is enough to seriously damage a normal person's health in the long run of course i have worried about my health but what i see across the country scares me much more. as documented the experiment on his video blog and also shows the debate that kicked it all off the top of slavery minister and. insisted the living wage is enough to guarantee a balanced diet she was fired over the remarks in bonn during because argument has grown into a national debate even on state television. but the government including south of new interim minister for labor says the living wage will stay the same for now. living wages to substantiate it's based on statistical calculations and on the law of course we are striving to improve our approach in order to work out new more effective methods for calculating the living wage that work has begun and should be

finished in two thousand and twenty. experiment has struck a chord beyond south of across russia the standard of living has been dropping consistently the government has made having poverty a goal for the next six years currently every eighth person lives under the poverty line which means they are in less than the living wage but abducted prices are going up prices for bread and milk are going up to the existence minimum is still tiny. i can hardly survive. and only buy the cheapest products on three thousand five hundred you can exist on them but not live. at his office at the dew money. phone has hardly stopped ringing the communist politician is convinced his words about the living wage will be heard on a national level the only thing the government can control is the solidarity that unites us the government would rather lose a finger than a whole hand. is now preparing to take a draft bill to the russian duma. he wants his voice to be heard beyond the

hallways of the local parliament. is. the venue of press conference would. just rather be putin says incomes are on the rise in russia although really in light of what we've just seen in your report or of those. specific fact also surprised me i've just read in media reports quoting russia's statistics agency that actually this month real wages have been going down and that that tendency that that. fact is probably like to continue in december as well this will be the fifth year if so that real wages have been going down and of course has been putting a rather positive spin on the economy here today he was talking about low

unemployment rates a longer or longer lives that people are living here but the fact is that the economy here is in stagnation prices are going up and that's not likely to change soon as russia is going to hike up the a t v. from eighteen to twenty percent in january so the economy seems to be one of the main worries for people here and that's likely to continue really he spoke a lot about you know that the average russian living conditions for the poor quality and all that is he on the pressure of people fed up with. well i think that when it comes to the economy putin is absolutely under pressure his popularity ratings have gone down as of the summer particularly when the russian government passed a rather unpopular pension reform raising the pension age and also. they passed

this hike that i was just talking about and that really has hit putin's ratings and i think you can kind of sense that talking to people across the country just after the pensions reform i spoke to someone who said to me look the government and putin as well they don't live here they drive around in their black cars but they don't know how people really on the streets here live and i think that's why the focus today was so much on the economy putin spoke several times about social justice he keeps kept referring back to that and kept talking about how everything that the russian government is doing is in order to improve people's standards of living and people's lives across the country. and really serving in moscow thank you. at the age of sixty seven bangladesh's most celebrated swimmer is retiring for good question. taught himself to swim at the age of eighteen and has captured the

nation's hearts with his feats of insurance his secret he sticks to breaststroke. after nearly half a century navigating the waterways of bangladesh for tournaments on dry land beckons. bangladesh's most celebrated swimmer one frame at home as a young man in the late seventy's when he swam seventy four kilometers of india's big river nothing however compares with his final great achievement before hanging up his trunk speccy a vow to swim along three rivers in bangladesh's north uninterrupted after two failed attempts he prayed fatigue and polluted water to complete the slogan earlier this year in a time of sixty one hours sixty sixty six years and four months old i swam for one hundred eighty five kilometers straight according to my calculation and that is a record. the key to his success regular yoga sessions a healthy diet and plenty of practice i felt warm for more than three thousand

hours actually far more than that it's kind of my addiction to swim for three to four hours every day but as i got the effect of these bases attention has now turned to getting young bangladeshis into the water in a country which sees eighteen thousand inhabitants drown each year at an average of fifty a day that won't be easy but if anyone can convince them to take the plunge it's bangladesh's most unlikely swimming star. bangladeshi swimmers to german football players but mostly were buying munich headed into their match with leipsic knowing they could cut the gap so the top two six points leaders doughton slipped up on choosing gave up on exactly that chance to pal. face coaches knew this was a chance for their teams to claw back some ground at the top of the table by and enjoyed the best of the opening exchanges and they were

a whisker away from going in front of a break through the first half of it live in just the phrase free by session at break it's a night by the post takes a good lashing the lights go with an all important touch. up the other end right sick had the reigning councell with the woodwork macondo headed against the crossbar to beat mats hummels to the ball but unfortunately for the businesses without rewards. it's heights us topham not much for these fans to discuss during the break she's fingertips helping to keep things level and he was busy again and in the second half thomas miller played the ball and he's eventually found its way to us they were kimmage. last she's seen her reflexes catch a mouse. the hosts were ramping up the pressure it was a nice a match to lash she could stop and he's out blocking renounces sanchez knocks from pre-birth i. suppose touches by the french once

you control once you take it past his man and wants to finish with seven minutes to go joy unconfined in munich. the match and did an ugly scenes stefano sanker was given a straight match for this foul. times has also given his marching orders to his role in the ensuing medway. he's finished one male advice all three point struck by an. and hear all the results from the business leaders between games by and grab that late winner against leipsic as we saw later cruising got an all important win in shaka in the days other matches braman drew at home to hoffenheim five zero and however also share the spoils the derby undid with old square after four first half goals between mines and frankfurt on tuesday dusseldorf with arguably the shock of the season against dortmund

a lot buff we know about bowls for exhausted got and berlin drew with oil. now we were talking about swimming just a moment well the just while ago the most world of swimming is losing one of the most prominent figures due to retirement at the age of twenty three missy franklin won five olympic gold medals during a stellar career but the u.s. star has decided to quit because of a show chronic shoulder problem. you're watching d.w. news still to come another chinese artist ends up behind bars we look at the end comfortable truths on show include ones work that made him a target for beijing. the. british actor christian bale undergoes an astonishing transformation to play former u.s. vice president dick cheney in a new biopic friends maestro. all that and more coming up after just

a short break stay with us. please. when it's so cold the foam freezes on top of the winds. that's when anton is only. so far only a few know about to come chuckle but anton and his friends believe in the russian surfer a revolution. the high surfers love come check. in forty five minutes on d w. a hijacking the news.

where i go wrong the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a script to react. the show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china turkey people are told it's that simple and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond that you are facing scare tactics intimidation and i wonder is that where we're headed as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to give the young the smoke and mirrors it's not just about being here and balance or being neutral it's about being truthful. funny was boring golf and i were getting up. to twenty nineteen come. a starting whistle was about to set up for the premiere

event of asian football. has had a look sick and identified the favorites moment shocked coaches players fans up close personal. twenty nineteen. the big kickoff season starts december twenty seventh g.w. . welcome back here at the news i'm terry march and now our top stories u.s. president has declared victory over so-called islamic states and is pulling american troops out of syria the move has provoked protests with senior republicans condemning it as a premature and costly mistake. and three astronauts including german commander of eggs on the gas have returned to earth for more than six months on the international space station they landed in a remote six time. now to china where campaigners

are hoping to secure the release of a photographer famed for his work. covering issues that china's government controlled press prefers to avoid loog lung had been missing for more than a month but chinese authorities have now confirmed that he was arrested in the region where there's been a massive crackdown on the weaker muslim population. these photos show the tragic face of china images that tell the recent history of the most populated country on earth and the high price it has paid for its rapid industrialization decades long environmental damage and the careless poisoning of its own people. is the man who captured these pictures. coming to us really shit when they make a mistake i have to report on it. they tried to prevent me from filming with their

president and often being caught taking photos from a war i would use various tactics to get away. but in november luck ran out he was travelling in the shoes young province where a vast number of muslims and other minorities are being held in reeducation camps an area where press are not allowed here he was arrested. for the state the lure is flexible and arbitrary like inching jang today where a million people are being detained oh his crying is now one of them that's very troubling. the photographer has won numerous prizes his documented chinese infected with hiv through blood transfusions drug addicts condemned by the state villages suffering from cancer and pollution since

the early one nine hundred ninety s. has been highlighting their misery. the space for criticism in china is getting ever smaller most of the people i know who have dead to criticize are in prison the rest of fled in the living in exile like me or they don't dare to speak out anymore . luke wants photographs are uncomfortable viewing for the chinese. it's too close to reality too clear in their depiction of failure and injustice in his homeland. his wife and human rights organizations are campaigning for his release so far without success. now it was supposed to be a happy occasion a victory lap for the newly crowned miss world africa quinn not joe from uganda instead the beauty queens meeting with ugandan president yoweri most seventy has ignited harry debate over what it really means to look african loucheux joins me

with that story from both liz ha walk us through this now what's the point of contention here. oh terry first of all i have to point out that the missile world pageant is a pretty big deal in many african countries so that is why the ugandan president invites to the state house queen i've been actually to congratulate her on her success but then he tweeted this about her a visit so first of all he posted a picture of the two of them together at the state house and then he added this takes he said i've been actual is indeed tall a beautiful girl to a guy is her tripe my only concern is that she was wearing indian hair here pointing out that she has a weave in her hair i have to encourage i have encouraged her to keep her natural african hair we must show african beauty in it's a natural role for him and this ignited

a huge discussion on twitter as some people siding with the president this use or for example saying natural hair brings out the beauty of an african woman but others said leave the girl alone and this girl is fine if she can wear indian hair if she wants it's her head isn't it doesn't take away her beauty and i really love this commenter right here when you were saying while at that tell about we did she is western clothes and wear skin or nothing at all as a way of embracing our african culture and i have to say as somebody from east africa myself and as somebody who almost never shows had actually i re much enjoyed this discussion on line. of beauty and identity very sensitive subjects from what i understand not sure wasn't the only african contestant to wear a weave. that is very true and in fact even when she was running

a for the miss uganda title she already had that very same hairstyle so it's not like she had changed her hairstyle overnight and i mean if you look at photos from of the miss world contest here then you see that most of the participants they have very long hair and that is why most people are just try to also make the hair look long so that they can look like the others this is the kind of a look that the go for most of the contestants now people may ask ok these african women why do they want to add stuff to their hair why are they not satisfied with the hair that they have well first of all sometimes you just want to make your hair longer and then sometimes it's just more a t.d.'s to keep or to take care of the natural here the artificial hair is just easier to take care of and sometimes you just want to change your hairstyle you want to look different and in most countries and in most places there are no restrictions as to whether you have natural hair or a natural hair but in liberia for example

a few months ago the ministry of finance said that any woman working at the ministry is not allowed to come to office if she has what they call natural hair but in general they have very few restrictions and i mean the hair industry is a very fast growing industry so it doesn't matter whether they had baits or discussions the industry will continue growing well my hair is still growing and it's all natural leisure you know liz liz show or social media editor thank you so much. turmoil at one of japan's top carmakers terry foreman isn't c.e.o. and chairman col is gone may be released on bail on friday the bid by. a court has thrown out a bit by prosecutors to extend his detention the former c.e.o. has been sitting in a japanese pension center since his arrest in november for alleged financial misconduct he's accused of having under declared his income by some forty four

million dollars between twenty ten and twenty and fifty his arrest has raised concerns about the future of the alliance between japan's listen and french. fire gold has retained him as c.e.o. . right highly company has to pay a four hundred thousand euro fine in france for a wide ranging leak of user data french data protection authorities say that the company did not do enough to protect the customer details stolen information on fifty seven million users of drivers in twenty sixteen in france alone around one point four million people were fact affected the company already had to pay a record penalty of one hundred thirty million dollars in the u.s. over the same incident. after asian stocks headed south european markets followed that leads today footsie the docs the cocher all

they all hit two year lows off the massive losses on wall street the reason for the college the latest rate decision by the u.s. federal reserve on wednesday the fed hike to interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point and largely maintained its outlook indicating there might be more hikes next year. despite signs pointing to lower growth next year the u.s. economy remains strong and is expected to post three percent growth this year that combined with low unemployment paved the way for the latest rate hike for two thousand and eighteen has been the strongest year. since the recovery since the since the financial crisis and during that period we've got low unemployment and strong growth and inflation still remain just a touch below two percent so i do think that gives the committee the ability to be patient in moving forward when the states rate hike was the fourth this year and the ninth since fed policy makers began tightening credit three years ago meanwhile

the european central bank has left rates unchanged at zero since early two thousand and seventeen the federal reserve made the move despite vocal opposition from president donald trump you know political considerations have play no role whatsoever in our discussions or decisions about monetary policy we're always going to be focused on the mission that congress has given us we have the tools to carry it about we have the independence which we think is essential to be able to do our jobs in a nonpolitical way and you know we are we at the fed are absolutely committed to that mission and nothing will deter us from doing what we think is is the right thing to do the fed's updated forecast projects just to benchmark increases next year amid concerns about the trade dispute with china signs of a slowing global economy and financial market instability the latest increase will make it more expensive for businesses and consumers to borrow money. for two

hundred years coal was the main source of energy in west germany is industrial heartland who competes but that era is now coming to an end today as germany's last deep shaft coal mine is shutting down the closure of the underground coal mine in the industrial who're river valley marks the end of an era where mining powered the post-war economic boom for the rest of the country there are still some open pit coal mines in the eastern part of the country and coal remains a critical part of germany's energy make spot the closing of the mine near the city of box is loaded with significance because with it a way of life spanning generations in the region it's also disappearing. one last photograph many coal miners remained true to traditions even as the decade changes in the industry at a miners' association event in november they said

a final farewell to the community where the industry has always played a central role it was a moving moment. really hits you hard when you realize that it's all coming to an end a lot of the guys have tears in their eyes right now you know. in the heyday of coal mining there were one hundred sixty three pits and pit manager you're close to two of them. this is third and last. the other day when i was down the shaft i thought this is probably the last time you'll be down here with the crew the last time you'll come down to the coal face the world has moved on. the miners will continue to descend the twelve hundred meters into the earth's bowels here until the end of next year but instead of bringing machines cables and old iron most of the equipment will end up in turkey or china many of the miners are bitter that their machines are being sold off to competitors who will end up

supplying germany with cheap imported. machinery gattis is the only minor in the german parliament the bundestag he worked in the mine for decades and believes germany's move to end the end history is a big mistake. you're going to miss german blackhole one day the fact that we're no longer producing in germany doesn't mean power generation will see so we'll need from other countries and their prices will clearly rise and the standards that we introduced here don't exist in those countries. the landscape is still marked by winding towers and coking plans but other companies also moved in here long ago the top is betting that by developing something new on the many areas once dominated by mining. it'll be able to secure jobs for the future. i'm optimistic because we have good projects to further develop areas will clean up contaminated old mining sites

then we'll have a new company set up there it's a big project but i'm optimistic as a single. in your team is that europe's largest chamber of horrors has set up shop in the old pits historically listed laundromat the positive investment in the region in the post coal age. the city of me in india has a population of just under a million people and there can be considered small small by indian standards but it has the distinction of being one of the cleanest cities in the country no small feat in india struggling with sixty two million tonnes of waste every year tears and a city employees pull together together to keep the sewers trash properly about it for. the city of misrule is in mission mode at the break of dawn every day an army of civic workers has been going all out to reclaim their city's status as the cleanest city in the country. messroom was given the cleanest city

award by the government two years in a row and then we came in third in twenty seventeen and this year we're eighth the whole administration all these workers all of us are trying very hard to go back to number one. mother left on a corner. produces around four hundred tons of waste every day fifty percent of this is treated at compost plants while a quarter of it is processed by recycling units the national figures whoever aren't quite as impressive india produces about sixty two million tons of waste every year one of the largest generators in the world well eighty two percent of it is collected only a quarter gets treated most of the waste invariably ends up in landfills and open dumpsites two decades ago the local government here decided to set up a zero waste management plant in the northern part of me sue the cumber a couple plant was going to set the stage for the rest of the city you know raise

money when doesn't know raised. the money. as you can see we have. a vase. and we have also had this we gave out most of the public. there were about forty civic workers employed at the cumber a couple plant they've all been given the title of knocking up on dues or friends of the city developing a detailed waste segregation module that's also created an opportunity for formal employment for these workers most of whom were part of a large network of informal rag pickers the city corporation is now trying to bring more and more of them into the fold. messroom may or may not be awarded the cleanest city again next year but it's well on its way to achieving so much more and it's endeavor towards building a sustainable future. and that's all your business now is that time of the year

when the new come free pass to take over the e.u. presidency terry that's exactly right. rumania is the one due to take over the rotating presidency of the european union on the first of january two thousand and nineteen but as it prepares for the task there's a crisis brewing over corruption president klaus your highness has vowed to do all he can to keep anti corruption laws in place despite attempts by the government to overturn them european commission has also voiced its concern. this is the floor e.s.q. hospital in northern bucharest it's a constant source of frustration for staff and voice he's angered that millions of euros meant for patients is wasted on overpriced medical equipment. corruption has wrapped its tentacles around the entire romanian health system and crippled it absolutely. is an anti corruption detective and

a former advisor to the health minister in that position he was struck by the fact that different hospitals were paying different prices for exactly the same pieces of equipment. he shows us the hype of barry chambers used for example to help treat wounds which won't heal properly. the florey ask a hospital paid seven hundred thousand euros to buy one instead of the usual price of around one hundred thousand euros the other six hundred thousand euros siphoned off by middlemen hospital managers and doctors he says that's typical says them while. the system of bribery is a remnant of communist times than in the common ways she sent them all back then you had to pay for everything if you wanted it to work. as the quite. generous tips of the order of the day when dealing with officials at schools universities and especially with doctors this petty corruption reaches all the way to the top it's not the case that remain i wasn't aware of the problem in the past it's for

hard against it because she was seen as exemplary. the european commission was impressed with our own to corruption fight in places like bull garia were less efficient unfortunately things have changed. and that's largely because of this man levy oh drag me are the most powerful man in romania and leader of the governing social democrats he's already been sentenced once and is banned from holding office now he's facing a potential prison term for investment to avoid jail he's pushing a judicial reform which will roll back anti corruption efforts. that spot mass street protests which have had little effect but young romanians especially have recognised the advances made in the fight against corruption and now feel frustrated. there's corruption everywhere the reason is a mentality of people here to get used to it so. yeah i know i hear corruption goes

as far as god and back again the government is the worst not i. believe you're dragging his influence on the government and law makers has provoked the intervention of president klaus you hannis he cast doubt on remaining his readiness to assume the e.u. presidency it's not an encouraging start to remain his tenure at the head of the european union. prison she is also defined by the president. we were to come to a. different understanding. of. the mission. that a scene from the movie vice which is in cinemas from christmas day it stars christian bale as life president dick cheney and sam rockwell there as you guessed it george w. bush very different from robin merrill from our culture desk is here to tell us all

about it so robin dick cheney this is a story of a man who is said to have been the most powerful vice president in history yes it is i mean evidently before cheney really it was a kind of ceremonial role the vice presidency not as important as secretary of state or secretary of defense. cheney changed that from the time he took on the job persuading george w. to give him but most states as we saw all that the movie is also i should say about his his whole life and indeed very much about his marriage to his wife linda was paid by the wonderful amy adams because he was very much the tactician the man who knew the corridors of power in washington because she was the evidently the steel in the relationship i mean they do show a scene in beginning the movie dips out of yale he starts hitting the booze she basically says that if you don't stop the booze and get your act together i'm outta here and he does get his act together anyway here is

a being actually offered the job of vice president by george w. secretary of defense. i have been the chief of staff of the president. so he was a phenomenally brilliant man being able to understand the machine of government christian bale plays dick cheney the former us vice president but here the nominal number two in charge is actually number one. they can. proceed. energy. coming to be possibly the most powerful vice president has ever existed. and somebody who has altered the global landscape forever.

director adam mckay has assembled a spectacular cast for his film he's especially enthusiastic about his lead actor. i'll never forget the day where everything just lined up where the makeup matched his character research and what he had done and then he did the cheney walk in the makeup and i got like chills up and down my or a large company and as the saying goes behind every great man is a great woman and sometimes even greater when cheney is played by amy adams when you have power people always try to take it from you always here respects her opinion and she respects his opinion now i think that. that's true of a lot of successful relationships and especially when you're in a town that deals and so much scrutiny and so much power you have to be kind of solid you have to form a solid front with your partner that's

a bit of an understatement in this case it was lynne cheney who gave her husband the motivation he needed to change his life you know live in a trailer only then did he become the power hungry politician who wrapped the president around his little finger. so we don't do that here. we can make this work. i must admit i didn't recognize him as being christian bale when i saw the guy in the black shirt that being the guy cheney the good is what a transformation is extraordinary i mean this is a method actor plus two two hundred percent you know he believes in possessing the role wherever it is i mean let's take a look at some of the roles he's played down the ages and this is american psycho where he's complaining playing a complete psychopath but

a very good looking one and fight rather buffed up in fact is then be prepared for the contrast any second now coming up where he is in the machinist he's playing someone who suffers from insomnia and paranoia he took off sixty three pounds for the role evidently living on an apple a day coffee and cigarettes that is really quite frightening picture he deprived himself of sleep as well so he could experience what insomnia is light. then just a few here's a stomach for you that is christabel believed in american hustle where he plays a food and a loan shark and he put over forty pounds for that the thing that i thought is very admirable for him to do this but i wonder what is right thinks he's coming home at night you know i feel for anyway there is plenty of dick cheney and cheney looks like a good film could be an oscar contender absolutely has got six nominations for golden

globes which is a precursor an indication of the all because yes i think he could get best actor we'll watch robin merrill from our culture this thanks so much. that's all yours for now they will be with you in just a couple of minutes with much more thanks for being with us here on the. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. blah blah but. the book. comes. from. the mob. the most common. law.

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