this is news coming to you live from berlin a racist motive suspected in a new year attack in germany police say a man who rammed a car into crowds in the early hours of january the first intended to kill foreigners can go to our correspondent in the western city of paul trump also coming up your boss nora was sworn in as brazil's new president vowing to liberate his country from socialism and political correctness of all right leaders election marks a radical shift after decades of centrist group. and

a new year's miracle in the ruins of a collapsed apartment building in russia rescue crews pulling a little baby boy to safety after he spent more than a day trapped in subzero temperatures. below i'm terry martin glad you could join us sherman authorities say a man who ran the car into new year crowds intended to kill foreigners five people were injured in the attack in the western city of basra with afghan and syrian national zoo among the victims in a moment we'll get the latest from our correspondent there first this report. it's shortly before midnight when a car suddenly swerves towards a group of people celebrating the new year. name managed to dodge the vehicle. onlookers tried to stop the driver but he escaped. but old.

car drove through the crowd everyone jumped to the left and right and then he was gone. but as i read over charisma the driver steered towards people at three other locations leaving five injured one of them seriously syrian and afghan nationals are among the victims the state interior minister says the facts indicate that the suspect a fifty year old german was carrying out a targeted attack this one it's even if the german deliberately trove into groups of people who were to a large extent foreigners. that means this man had the clear intention to kill foreign as you can see he's a man also notes into it investigators say the suspect has a history of mental illness but it's unclear whether that played a part in the attack police say he hadn't previously come to their attention and they were not aware of any links to far right groups. or walshes in ball trough

covering this story for us and joins us now i was there we heard the interior minister there of the state of north i was fairly is saying that the driver of that car was out to kill foreigners what more can you tell us about the possible motives of the matter rested. well when he was taken into custody he reportedly told police fairly unequivocal anti vikrant state statements. and then that was later confirmed by the state interior minister who as you said said he had a clear intention to murder people now he does have a history of mental illness according to some reports he was sectioned off and in a closed psychiatric facility so that may have played into account. in this attack and also i've just spoken to police just before coming to light of giving me a few more updates on the victims of the attack. near me i mean

you the site of the main attack where four people were injured. and it seems that the victims were all from a syrian families or four victims here that was a forty year old mother and father and their two teenage daughters now police have told us that the mother remains in a serious but non life threatening condition there was also a couple of afghan victims as well now this must this attack must have come as quite a shock for the people there a ball trough how are they reacting to. well generally one was meant to be a day of celebration and festivities here in pot shop it's the hundredth year anniversary of the foundation of the city i don't know if you can see behind me but there's a stage set up in a few stalls there was meant to be celebrations here but the mayor came out and cancelled all festivities he said we cannot sell upright while

a woman is fighting for a life and that seems to have been. accepted here about the people of basra now this isn't the first time the foreigners in germany have been targeted in by lines of taxes that. no last year they seemed to be a series of attacks against foreigners we saw a few awesome attacks against my creation vikrant shelters in germany. and probably most notably were these. protests in encampments in august where large groups of. right wing extremists were protesting and hounding foreign looking people. here i was to thank you so much steve i was so walsh there in ball truck. brazil's new president shyer bowl so narrow has taken office in his first public speech at the helm of

latin america's biggest nation the former army captain declared a crusade against crime corruption and left wing ideology his second name is messy us and many brazilians do see him as a kind of messiah also nora's supporters hope he can revive the economy and bring safety to the streets but others worry that is hardline policies could lead to an erosion of fundamental rights was the. president's loose far right president now officially in office. is vowing big changes in ways that have already polarized the country may speak see that caitiff us i expect that he'll make brazil better and safer. than sonny i'm black and gay possum are says were useless he does not represent me in them if it isn't in the capital brasilia tens of thousands cheered balsam are at his induction into office

was. after being sworn in he set the tone for his time this president have near zero who will do that today is the day our people will begin to free themselves from socialism was seated and silenced by this to free themselves from false values from overreach by the state and from political correctness to call her by false nora's cabinet is mostly white and male with only two women seven of its twenty two members are ex-military their agenda is staunchly conservative the foreign minister wants to break with alleged cultural marxism many back the incoming finance ministers pray for the market stance on his promises to privatized. many industries foreign companies operating in brazil have also voiced

support for his plans. but paulson are also has his critics and amongst the toughest of them is left wing congressman john willis he's openly gay and says he's receiving more and more death threats. i think it was a ball he ever said and will really do is hunt minorities i consider him a political fraudster and a threat to the world with me. on twitter also norah has already announced plans to liberalize gun laws part of the efforts he's making to show his supporters he won't delay implementing his campaign pledges. we will make sure that proper citizens have the right to own weapons and to defend their property sheets for the fifth. year polson are is the face of brazil's political shift to the right many a painting their hopes on him while others fear he threatens democracy. earlier we spoke to reporters have cowley in sao paolo he explained to us how much

of a departure both sonars presidency is likely to be for brazil. brazil will undoubtedly face a very hard line conservative shift and this is something that be brewing for a while now. you had in the last four years essentially you've had mammoth corruption scandals that at times he'd. be brazilian policies you've had rising crime violence you had a you know hand coming recession the most direct woodhall i mean we should have been considering at the moment and so i mean this back you know you've kind of you know stablished. and. you know because of the corruption scandals except you see on all right he's basically he's risen in this vacuum has been left as the traditional policies in brazil on the left and on the

right have become embroiled in these corruption scandals and he swept to victory you know promising corruption and tackle rising crime etc now reality stalls and whether he's going to be able to put things into practice with a very fractured congress remains to be seen tensions between him do traditionalists and women's rights activists in india are likely to flare after two women went into one of hindu isms holiest sites for the first time the women entered the temple in the southern state of carolina last year india's supreme court overturned a local ban on women of men's trading visiting the site but the ruling has enraged traditional posts on tuesday thousands of women in kerala formed a human chain in support of women's access at least one conservative politician has called for protests against the women. well the indian prime minister narendra

modi has sided with traditionalists who want to keep women out of the hindu trent temple in a tweet modi wrote every temple has their own beliefs there are temples where men are not allowed and we will keep you up to date on this developing story as more comes in throughout the day now to some of the other stories making news around the world today chinese president xi jinping has said it's inevitable that the self ruling island of taiwan will be reunited with china in a speech marking forty years since the start of improving ties she called for peaceful reunification but he warned reserve the right to use force if necessary. officials say gunmen have killed at least thirty seven civilians in central mali children are reportedly among the dead the clash allegedly occurred between two communities fighting over access to land and water the country has been hit by

ethnic violence in recent years. and cuba has celebrated sixty years of revolution of its economic crises and political reforms the symbolic commemoration took place in santiago de cuba at the foot of the tombs of the country's socialist heroes jose marti and. now more and more migrants are risking their lives crossing the sea from france to britain over two hundred people are thought to have made the voyage since november now the british government is strengthening its coastal defenses in a move the opposition has condemned as politicizing migration. this little dinghy mated from france to england with twelve migrants huddled together on board the dangerous passage across the english channel is becoming more popular since strict road checks have made illegal crossing to britain by truck next to impossible.

british home secretary sajid javid returned to the u.k. after cutting short his safari holiday in south africa his conservative party colleagues see the boat arrivals as a threat since christmas around one hundred people have attempted the journey. will come and visit. here at the front line look to creating a patrol fulls with the french to make sure that any cross found in the channel whichever side of the line they will help back safely and soundly to the french coast up till now only one ship has patrolled britain's maritime border now the country is calling back to more ships from the mediterranean together with french interior minister christopher custom now javid has promised tougher measures to stop people smuggling. we will do every thing we can to make sure it is not a success in the sense that i don't want people to think that if they need a safe country like france that they can get to britain and then just get to stay

european law stipulates that france must take back many of the migrants seeking entry to the u.k. but if the u.k. were to crash out of the e.u. in a so-called hard bragg's it that guarantee would no longer apply opposition leaders in britain said to resume as government is playing up the issue to make her proposed brags a deal more attractive all of this is little consolation for the migrants many of whom say they'd rather drown in the english channel than stay in france. well joining me now in the studio is chris metz he's a spokesman for the u.n. refugee agency berlin office welcome to the program and now we just heard migrants there saying that they'd rather drowned in the english channel than to stay in france are conditions that they face in france really is that now i think not but probably need to distinguish between refugees and migrants and we talk about migrants but we also need to see that many people of these refugees so people were

seeking protection from from present in their home countries and many of these people have relatives in the u.k. they have probably seen them for a long time separated sometimes for even years and yes sometimes they do doing nearly everything to get back to their children or to their parents but it counts reza not that they are of course promotes always legal passageways also for these people so there is the fate of these individuals who are crossing the channel that we're talking about irregular migration to some degree. but we're talking also about a politically charged environment in the english channel between france and britain to what degree is britain's looming beggs it from the european union driving irregular migration across the english channel well technically that shouldn't be a reason because the u.k.

has committed itself to protect refugees so again people who are persecuted in their own country but will take the reasons when the u.k. signed the united fifty one refugee convention that will not change with bricks that are not of within the u.a.e. you are not something with the migrants it it's the responsibility of the country so here at the governmental london to decide if these people can stay are not and i think that will also not change with the brakes that what is probably the case is that traffickers that smugglers using the situation telling people you. need to go now you need to give me your money now otherwise it will window of opportunity he will close but this is of course not because they care for the people just care for their money what kind of risks kind of dangers do irregular migrants face in trying to cross the english channel well we've seen that for years in the mediterranean and just last year about three thousand people died drowned in the mediterranean in the channel these are not so many people now but it's

a different situation it's not that big than the mediterranean but these thirty plus kilometers we have only between calais and over and of a parts we have one hundred two hundred kilometers and don't forget it's winter now so it's much colder than the mediterranean we have rough weather there and these people using very often very small boats made actually four of four shallow waters or even lakes ok christmas leave it there chris meltzer spokesperson for of the un refugee agency the u.n.h.c.r. here in berlin thanks for being with us if you. to russia now or at least fourteen people are reported to have died after an apartment block collapsed on new year's eve dozens of residents are still missing authorities believe a gas leak caused the blast in the city of magneto go risk about seven hundred kilometers east of moscow but there's also been joy after rescuers found a baby boy alive under the rubble.

it felt like nothing short of a miracle as a baby boy was pulled from the rubble a life thirty five hours after the collapse the. rescuers say he survived temperatures of minus eighteen degrees celsius because he was wrapped up morley in a cradle but he does have some serious injuries amazingly his mother also survived the collapse and has now joined her son at the hospital. it was a rare moment of joy in what has been a grim operation for rescuers. the only people they found otherwise who are already dead. local residents are in shock many have come to the scene to express their grief openly. to

my colleague from work died here she was only young she's gone you. know with full read so many of us have lost loved ones we must be strong. first responders had to temporarily hope their search on choose day while workers try to remove or stabilize sections of the building which were in danger of collapse the ten story apartment block was home to many ordinary families dozens of people are still missing but given the freezing temperatures in russia's year old manton's region hopes are fading of finding them alive. or as catch up business news now it is the first trading day in the new year monaco what's the mood well terry for stock markets in asia certainly made a cautious start into twenty nine thousand after figures showing that china's manufacturing sector contracted for the first time in almost two years equities

across the region. broadly hong kong's hang seng index was less before on the first trading day of the new year losing almost three percent a series of purchasing in manages indices show that fact to be activity dropped amidst the u.s. china trade and a slowdown in chinese demand markets in south korea and australia also down in tokyo the nikkei was closed for a holiday. all right let's catch up with the market action here in europe but it's a standing by for us and as i can see just outside the front of that stock exchange how did europe starting to twenty nine hundred. when monica people here in frankfurt out of stock exchange were of course crossing their fingers for a positive start into the new year but they were also realistic and so at the start of trading it wasn't really surprised that the docs dropped into the red similar

picture across europe the euro stocks fifty also down and london and paris also trading lower oil the oil price was also down and the all of this comes after the purchasing managers' index in china has dropped below the fifty mark which is an indicator of the slowing growth so lower demand for oil being foreseen and we are seeing this of course as an aftermath or as an as a result of the u.s. china trade route so twenty nineteen continues in the new year just as twenty eighteen has ended with worries over the u.s. china trade and of course it also continues when it comes to the u.s. shuts down but there could be possibly some movement apparently donald trump told nancy pelosi on twitter let's make a deal do you know what. well it's still unclear what kind of deal that would be. as with any of donald trump's tweet. self-explanatory but

what is clear is that this shutdown isn't really in any one in anyone's interest currently eight hundred thousand state employees go on paid some still continue to work even though they're unpaid and that's because donald trump once five billion dollars from the from the american people to fund his wall to mexico now the democrats don't look like they're going to budge they are taking over the congress tomorrow after successful elections and they've prepared a spending package that doesn't include these five billions now the republicans are unlikely to pass this bill that would fund currently unfunded departments like the justice and transportation department and that's if they block this republicans block this they're going to look bad because it looks like they've taken this taking these departments hostage for the. for the wall and that's going to look bad for them and it's going to continue to spook investors ok so no solution just yet

that it's in traffic thank you so much. i increasingly turning to the fischel intelligence to help them tackle some of their problems is a look now at a robot prototype that could help them deal with we in fields. are these carrots or weeds that's the question a prototype robot is being programmed to answer farmer hina custance is trying it out he believes artificial intelligence will play a key role in the future of agriculture. the global growth of isn't enough when i think i'm a visionary because i'm trying to foresee the problems will have been a decade and i'm doing my best to solve them. the robot is still in the learning stage ultimately it will be able to detect and uproot weeds. experts are currently teaching it how to differentiate between wanted and unwanted plants. will

come with those forced to imagine someone drawing a picture and coloring it in either with a green or red marker and then telling them that's a carrot and those are weeds and later you have pictures with no colors and you ask the robot where it would color in red and green wood and that's what you see in the end the robot examines all the images and says you are a weed. that causes all things of who was called to technology could relieve farmers of the laborious task of pulling weeds by hand scientists say the possibilities of artificial intelligence are huge. our dream is to come here with a small trailer and open the door and then have a hundred drones flying around the field and everything functioning automatically. but there is still work to be done before the waiting robot hits the market next year. european alum indian produces say that u.s. president on its terms terrorists up backfiring despite having to pay higher due to

sell their products shipped to the united states they say there's been an unforseen move in the markets that's actually benefiting them. each of these aluminum blocks weighs more than nine tons specialist producer allie max uses them to make extra durable industrial components since june the german company has had to pay ten percent in import duties in the u.s. but al emacs is actually making more money that's because the tariffs have pushed up the price for aluminum. and that's one reason why the company's c.e.o. wants to increase production at its plant in south carolina. the american effort reported by the more value creation we do on site the less we have to import from our point of view and the result will be that the tariffs will have no effect in the future because the more we produce on location which trump wants the less tariffs are militarily. to german companies u.s.

operations only account for ten percent of the company's total revenue but that will soon change demand is on the rise the company's special aluminum it's required in medical technology as well as in solar cells and cars. pepper is an increasingly popular crop in cambodia which is home to a special rights uva composite pepper has received the protected geographical indication status much like coming back from france or italy as gonzalez is dramatically changing things for the local paper industry a bumper crops expected this year. this could be the cash crop for one of asia's poorest countries complet pepper is growing on about four hundred fifty farms income podio said to be ideal for the spices because of its oil industry is the biggest employer in the impoverished provinces of complet and kept. growing complet pepper has allowed me to take care of my family and have

a good standard of living my own kauai one coming audience know how important it is to grow here. during communist era the coming rouge cut down the production saying it was decadent the crop was revived in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. it's rebirth helped the local community and paid for your old medical clinics and schools the e.u. has given comfort to pepper protect a designation that has pushed prices higher and opened up new markets. you're watching news live from berlin well coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime of course you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at www dot com thanks for joining.

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