this is deja vu news live from berlin president trump addresses the american people with a plea to func his border wall or face the consequences of illegal immigration. this is a humanitarian crisis a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. but the democrats say trump is manufacturing a crisis and holding americans hostage with a government shutdown also on the show. a number of foreign embassies and consulates have been evacuated in australia after suspicious packages were

discovered there will have the latest from sydney. and the price of brain drain world class universities like cambridge fear a loss of talent when britain leaves steve you know we talk to researchers and a man who's decided to vote with his feet. and heavy snowfall over the alps brings chaos to parts of austria and southern germany there have been a number of deaths and the risk of avalanches remains high. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us president donald trump has taken his case for a border wall with mexico directly to the american people in a live primetime address from the oval office the president describing a humanitarian crisis caused by thousands of the. illegal immigrants and

a vast quantities of the illegal drugs and trying to enter the u.s. every said a physical barrier along the border was absolutely critical to border security and called on your democrats in congress to back is five point seven billion dollars plan to fund that will. only know one certain terms he emphasized economic and security threats posed by illegal immigrants all americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration it's strange public resources and drives down jobs and wages among those hardest hit are african americans and hispanic americans our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs including meth heroin cocaine and fentanyl every week three hundred of our citizens are killed by heroin alone while democrats immediately responded with their own address to the nation also broadcast

during prime time the speaker of the house of representatives nancy pelosi said the president was appealing to fear and misleading the public who want to start with the facts the fact is on the very first day of this congress house democrats passed senate republican legislation to reopen government and find smart effective border security solutions that the president has been jacking with bipartisan bills which would reopen the government over his obsession with work forcing american taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on expensive an ineffective wall a wall he always promised mexico would pay for let's get more now at g.w. washington correspondent stephan simmons stuff and the president is hoping his primetime appeal will build public support for his border plan how likely is that. unlikely i would say if you are referring to the entire public of the united states

he has the backing all for conservatives and republicans and of course of his base they're overwhelmingly for the president and they're also supporting overwhelmingly the stance of the argument the president makes everybody else pretty much a little bit more differentiated and says again the president is making up or forcing a crisis at the southern border of the united states on the american people and doesn't get his facts straight and. keen on fulfilling a campaign promise which he now can't with a democratic house of representatives because as you pointed out before in the reporting with the or with the clips democrats are in no way prepared to follow the american the president's lead and give him what he wants five point seven billion dollars for the border wall ok this was the president's key campaign promise building the wall let's take a listen to more of what president trump had to say the border wall would very

quickly pay for itself the cost of illegal drugs exceeds five hundred billion dollars a year vastly more than the five point seven billion dollars we have requested from congress the wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with mexico stefan so who will be paying for this wall if it moves forward. american taxpayer will because as the president says and explained see the follow up deal of nafta is not even ratified by congress and democrats have already said they have questions and we'll have some kind of opposition to the to rectifying this the number one and secondly he got his facts wrong there too it doesn't work like this that if you have revenue or more tax income from a trade deal you make that this will be earmarked for

a border wall so this is not going to happen that any followup deal from for nafta for the we'll pay for the water what will be if he gets what he want the american taxpayer who will pay for the border wall which will be. actually there for him to what he promised in his campaign that mexico will pay well the mexicans as you know have said no way that they will be paying ok in the run up to this address there was a lot of speculation that donald trump would declare a national emergency to allow him to build the wall without congressional approval he didn't mention that in this speech is that still an option. that is still an option but more so maybe in his mind than in reality because reportedly he was told by his aides and by his legal advisers that. he would fairly quickly run into trouble and that the declaration of an emergency national emergency would not work for him and it makes sense

a position in there for democrats but also independent observers and experts have said if the president. is going to declare a national emergency this will be immediately almost immediately a case for the courts this can take a long three years even to be resolved and at the end the national emergency will not translate into a national emergency executive order or something like this so there's a good good chance that he will never ever exercise this right however we're talking about donald trump yourself when i say there's a really good chance it won't happen this also good chance that he will do it anyway ok well the first part the senate minority leader chuck schumer also spoke on behalf of democrats after the president's address let's take a listen to that democrats and the president both warn stronger border security however we sharply disagree with the president about the most effective way to do it so how do we untangle this miss well there's an obvious solution

separate the shutdown from arguments over border security there is bipartisan legislation supported by democrats and republicans to reopen the government while allowing debate over border security to continue steffen is that possible can these two issues be separated or will the government shutdown continue indefinitely. thirdly it's absolutely possible it's really only done. because democrats and republicans actually had passed a law. that would give the president some measures for increased border security because there's no doubt everybody wants border security and wants to spend on border secure and increasing that however what the democrats are suggesting which actually was backed by republicans by the g.o.p. in the senate was that they separate the shutdown and not use

a partial government shutdown as the white house does as a as a tool as a weapon sort of speak to get what he wants what all trump wants separate this from the issue get the government into place again because this is going to her if this is hurting now eight hundred thousand people alternately directly but many many more millions indirectly and they feel the pain now this is going to be the second time that they miss out on the paycheck and this is going to be hurtful to them however so the only reason here is the only path forward from the perspective of the democrats is separate this bring the government back into order and then negotiate about the border wall or increased border security the president is not going to have it just as you know stefan thanks very much for that from washington . it's to australia now where police are investigating after suspicious packages were found at a number of embassies and consulates a number of diplomatic offices in melbourne and camber are affected including those of the united states and germany as well as other european and asian countries on

monday a suspicious substance was intercepted at the argentine consulate in sydney package was later deemed not dangerous for the very latest on this developing story let's go to correspondent roger maynard in sydney roger what's the scope of this. grant of the moment this incident . mogen have been targeted including the german the us the greek the french italian hong kong indians new zealand has done south korean and the swiss consonance of a very broad range of. diplomatic offices a spokesman for the us consulate in mobile confirmed it had received a suspicious package and that had been it had been handled according to standard

procedures the swiss consulate and also said a suspicious package of be delivered there it was believed to be not hazardous a spokesman said but at this stage they were treating it as hazardous know exactly what's inside the envelope is still unclear. they have been reported could be asbestos could be a form of cement that certainly one of the plastic bags delivered to the new zealand embassy or consulate in melbourne had the work asbestos printed on the site so it possible it could be asbestos and have also been reports the embassies in camera have also been similarly targeted with the australian federal police saying today that they were aware suspicious packages had been delivered to it and this is across the moat and camera although we don't have any more details about the camera site at this stage a spokesman said that the packages were being examined by emergency services and the circumstances surrounding the incidents were still being investigated so

a lot of police activity here a high degree of concern in melbourne but the full extent of the emergency still emerging ok roger maynard for us and sunny thanks very much for that and we'll have more on the story as it develops. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news today authorities in britain have launched a criminal investigation into a drone sighting that temporarily grounded flights at london's heathrow airport on tuesday he throws the world's second biggest the biggest airport drone sightings at london's gatwick airport grounded traffic for a number of days last month affecting tens of thousands of passengers and unders of european flights. the united nations says it has moved an eighteen year old saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend to a safe place mohammed okanagan remains in thailand while the united nations processes her application for refugee status australia says it will consider

conditions case if she applies for asylum there on a few hours' time the british parliament will start the first of five days of debate ahead of an historic vote on the government's deal to leave the european union prime minister theresa may postpone the national vote on the deal in december because she did not have the support of the majority of parliamentarians last night she suffered an embarrassing defeat when members of her own party joined the opposition in signaling they would not support a no deal bracks. the impact that bracks it will have on british society remains unclear but in our next report we look at fears among some academics that it could make their lives much harder alex is packing his personal treasure a collection of books in the fifteen languages he's mastered he's fluent in german and russian spanish uncivil crow that in two thousand and twelve the oxford graduate was named the most multi-lingual student in the u.k.

. the beatles bill has. never really looked represents a moment in my life so i can't throw books away because i don't want to throw my life away. alex is flying the coop he's leaving his stylish london apartment with a view over the city leaving the u.k. because his country feels claustrophobic i don't think the government has even remotely made an effort to talk to people like me he liked growing up in the european union for me the most democratic thing i can do is to vote with my feet and to express my dissatisfaction with the direction the country is going in by saying well i don't want to feel. that britain can't afford to lose young talent like alex many highly qualified professionals and academics are reconsidering their future in the country. and. that's a blow to a country that prides itself on scientific excellence take cambridge home to start

research as an legendary academics no other university in the world has produced more nobel laureates darwin a newton a famous among its alumni the beautiful buildings along the river cam emblematic of britain's claim to academic excellence but can it maintain its reputation greg hannan has his doubts his cancer research laboratory is one of europe's leading facilities heavily subsidized by britain and the e.u. funding from brussels alone amounts to ten million pounds of cooperation with the european partners is key to its success the prospect of visas and settlement restrictions makes britain less appealing to researchers. half of all of our research staff is drug from europe and if you can imagine an impact on that talent pool would not have to be very large to significantly weakened us as a research organization. top research is always the result of collaboration

especially on a european level. access to findings of case studies lab results until shoes samples is vital a loss of such networks would be a bigger blow than losing subsidies researches here say. patients in the u.k. could suffer because the most advanced clinical trials and most molecularly informed clinical trials require participation in large corporates if we're not part of the larger cohort of europe u.k. patients could be excluded. because office being in cambridge for almost thirty years he teaches and researches at the department of zoology. the disappointment and uncertainty of bricks it has taken its toll since he's suffering from stress related hand loss. cambridge. cambridge is world famous because it's very creative creativity is generated by the diversity of

cultures that meet here and that creativity emerges from the mix that brings together different ways of thinking and that's changing as fine notes of his laboratory faces an uncertain future the focus of its research is the drug the fruit fly and how its brain develops he studies have yielded important insights into ageing he does get british funding but if european money dries up it could spell the end of his branch of research. because not everyone stands to lose the big labs that will lose access to european funding and labs like mine we're going to teach if the research funds will get much much tougher road. but an exodus has already begun long before britain actually leaves see you alex the language genius is leaving london shortly his friends respect his decision but wonder why the country isn't doing more to hold on to such

stellar talent as he enjoys a last pint before he heads to barcelona and a new life in europe. heavy snow fall and avalanches in austria and germany have claimed at least five lives at least one and a half metres of snow has fallen so far in the alps in less than a week thousands of tourists are now stranded in villages more snow is expected this week train services and roads have been disrupted authorities warn the risk of avalanches remains high these forest rangers on patrol in southern bavaria this road has been closed since sunday the reason trees buckling under the weight of snow could the thing to those two trees over there are in a critical state if the top comes down on to a car or a pedestrian they're probably dead. in many places emergency workers are out trying

to minimize the risk several people have already been killed in weather related accidents in the alps. but locals know full well it's not just the roads that's a dangerous the danger is that the masses of snow come down off the roofs when the kids are playing underneath it so intelligent to play somewhere else. in austria authorities have ramped up the avalanche warnings power lines have been brought down leaving large areas without electricity. there was some rest but for about one hundred tourists have been trapped in the steering a ski resort authorities used to love in the snow fall to evacuate them. but with many roads impassable thousands of people remain cut off from the outside world. to get a business that was christoph and

a serious warning for the global economy today a stark one brian indeed the global economy is facing quote darkening skies that's according to the world bank and its annual report the lender downgraded its outlook for the global economy this year it cited rising trade tensions weakening manufacturing activity and growing financial stress in emerging markets the world bank now says that it expects the world economy to grow by two point nine percent in twenty nineteen a slightly down from its forecast back in june. and some of that economic gloom can already be felt in europe's largest economy production at german factories fell in november according to the country's economic ministry it is the third consecutive month in which the figure has dropped. how but fell one point nine percent from october after declines of point eight percent and point one percent in the previous two months new factory orders were also down in november. the figures are worrying for investors waiting on the upcoming fourth

quarter results the german economy shrank in the third quarter another decline would mean that germany had entered a recession berlin has suggested that one off factors were behind the recent contraction among them a bottleneck in car deliveries the new data suggest broader concerns like weakening global demand and uncertainty over trade could indeed be hurting the economy economy minister peter meyer said tuesday that underlying factors were strong the german economy is in a very good position the order books are full of meyer said the new numbers in the coming days will determine whether he's right. it's to las vegas now where the year's first a big tech event is on the way over the last couple of years china has grown into a major player in the sector with a flurry of companies developing apps and web solutions within the strict limits the ruling communist party in beijing has set but it's not just because of

questions about online freedom that global politics is in the spotlight at this year's consumer electronics show. china's tech giant while away has a large booth in that's vegas and it's crowded here the company famous for its phones and tablets it's taking on apple introducing its new laptop for just a little over twelve pounds but you asked dollars to at this price your house the premium design you will have. to screen is still hitachi because if you get it back like people in your house they'll be helping your friends they're trying to focus on business here but it's certainly not easy last year and why weigh executive was arrested in canada at the behest of the u.s. the arrests came amid growing tensions between the two countries why why way attend c.s. other chinese companies decided to skip the show altogether the number of china's except hers is twenty percent lower than last year. the chinese vendors we spoke

with were open to talk about their product stressing that they are still very much interested in the u.s. market however no one wanted to go on the record about the current straits tensions between china and us and the consequences the tensions are already slowing down business especially for startups and smaller companies to don't have the flexibility of large attack rivals. east and the bike maker jetson for example says it is using the show to meet with merchants and talk with competition about moving its supply chain out of china to vietnam we will continue until the internet directions and new territories all over the world. where it ends up it's on determined at this point but i believe it's our obligation to explore. a trade war could lead to higher prices and dropping for every news some however think that president is not all wrong on china. i think.

i'm going to bordeaux for billion years for trading for purchasing products so you know what. it is and that respect for us to get it in the short term but you know cities are sitting in the right direction no one hears this about new tech trends and connecting with new partners this here however it's hard to ignore politics let's make us. before the spring indeed of your correspondent alexander phenomena in los vegas alexander twenty percent fewer chinese vendors at this year's c.s. but are there also companies that are doubling down on their presence and if so why . yes according to the organizer there are chinese companies doubling down and by doing so they are reflecting the deep ties between the

industries in those countries and we have to add that that chinese vendors still occupied about thirteen percent of the show's floor space however you also have to add that there are apparently more and more you ask companies with thinking that their strategy for example was the first printing electronics maker to announce that they are moving part of it of their production out of china to many of my the consequences of a trade war now alexandra five g.d. next generation wireless technology is a major topic in las vegas the u.s. and china are engaged in a fierce battle over five g. supremacy how does the show of the texter. you know you're right this is a major topic of discussion here in las vegas and there is no surprise that the you asked that there is a battle going on between the u.s. and china over five g.'s from a c. because it's such an important technology that is going to expand the potential of

we can what we can do over telecom networks and what we have seen here in las vegas for example was the rise and now and seeing that there are going to provide five g. technology not only to businesses but also to homes and some major you as cities such as for example seattle and the st louis and alexander briefly the chinese tech sector has long had the reputation of simply copying other companies technology how has this changed while it is changing too is that china is speeding up its shift from manufacturing to innovation and that's of course something we can also see here in las vegas just think about it the example in our reports the left made by why way this company is definitely trying to outsmart apple examiner phenomena reporting from las vegas from the consumer electronics show examiner thank you so much. and

a reminder of the top stories we're following for you at this hour u.s. president donald trump has made a televised address to the nation to drum up support for his plan to build a wall at the mexican border democrats are refusing to fund the wall and accused of misleading the american people by stoking fear as immigrants and a number of foreign embassies and consulates have been evacuated in australia after suspicious packages were discovered there. you're watching the news coming to you live from berlin we have a fresh bulletin coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime for me and the entire team thanks for watching.

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