this is d.w. news live from berlin president trying to drum up support for his border wall with mexico. this is a humanitarian crisis a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. but democrats say trump is misleading the american public and holding the nation hostage with a government shutdown also coming up on the show. a break said brain drain world class universities like cambridge fear a loss of talent when britain leaves the you talk to researchers and to

a man who's decided to vote with his feet. and heavy snowfall over the alps springs chaos to parts of austria and southern germany there's been a number of deaths and the risk of avalanches remains high. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us president trump is used to live prime time t.v. address from the oval office to press his case for a border war with mexico the president describing what he said was a humanitarian crisis caused by illegal immigrants at the border he also said it was being used to ship mass quantities of illegal drugs into the u.s. he said a physical barrier along the border was critical to security and called on democrats in congress to back his five point seven billion dollars plan to fund the wall. he

said illegal migration posed a threat both of the economy and to national security. 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 all democrats responding of course with their own address to the nation also broadcast during prime time the speaker of the house of representatives nancy pelosi saying 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 these bipartisan bills which would reopen government over his obsession with work forcing american taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on expensive and ineffective wall a wall he always promised mexico would pay for let's get more now of g.w. washington correspondent stuff and siemens 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 are overwhelmingly for the president and they are also supporting overwhelmingly the stance and the argument the president makes everybody else

pretty much a little bit more differentiated and says again the president. making up or forcing a crisis at the southern border of the united states on the american people 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 this democrats are in no way prepared to follow the american 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 some 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 stuff on so who will be paying for this wall if it moves forward. takes player will because as the president says and explained see the follow up deal of. not even ratified by congress and democrats have already said they have questions and will have some kind of opposition to the to rectifying 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 will 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 i've said no way that they will be paid. 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 you so when i say it is a really good chance it won't happen this also good chance they will do it anyway. stuff and siemens talking with me earlier from washington now for a look at some of the other stories making news today australian police are investigating suspicious packages that were delivered to foreign diplomatic missions in the capital canberra and other cities consulates and embassies affected include those of the united states and germany tests on a white powder taken from the argentinian consulate in sydney on monday showed it was not toxic. authorities in britain have launched a criminal investigation into a drone sighting that temporarily grounded flights at london's heathrow tuesday heathrow is the world's second 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 hundreds of european flights. united nations says it has moved an eighteen year old saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend to a safe place mohammed al k'naan remains in thailand while the un processes her application for refugee status a stroke he says will consider canoes case if she applies for asylum there well in 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 prime minister theresa may postpone the initial vote on the on december because she did not have the support of the majority of parliament last night she suffered an embarrassing defeat when members of her own party joined the opposition in signalling they would

not support a no deal bracks. on a moment we'll be talking to alex for us whiting but first this report on the fears among academics in britain the bracks it will make their lives much more difficult 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 and serbo-croat in two thousand and twelve the oxford graduate was named the most multilingual student in the u.k. . readers who has. never 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 of the city leaving the u.k. because his country feels claustrophobic. i don't think that 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 new turn 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 cooperation with the european partners is key to its success the prospect of visas and settlement restrictions makes britain less appealing to research as. half of all of our research staff is drawn 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 shoe samples is vital a loss of such networks would be a bigger blow than losing subsidies researchers here say. patients in the u.k. could suffer because the most advanced clinical trials the most molecularly informed clinical trials require participation in large culbertson if we're not

part of the larger cohort of europe u.k. patients could be excluded. uncuff has been in cambridge for almost thirty years he teaches and researches at the department of zoology at the disappointment and uncertainty of bricks it has taken its toll since he's suffering from stress related had loss. came. 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 interests for not so. his laboratory faces an uncertain future the focus of its research is the drugs 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 today used to be a collapse that will reduce access to european of funding and labs like mine will teach and the research funds will get much much tougher. but an exodus has already begun long before britain actually leaves the e.u. 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 to new life in europe. let's talk about this now with the w.'s hours for us why i think covering rocks of force good morning alex concerns like we just saw in that report be taken up and in the debate in parliament today i mean look every concern about breaks in there are many many concerns about brics it will be taken up with the next five days in parliament

from those who are pro breck's it those who are anti brics and those who are somewhere in between the government has already come up with a no deal scenario scenarios and what they're going to do promising to spend billions of pounds to make sure that the u.k. will be ok you know from stockpiling medicines and from working out how flights can still go in an ounce of the rest of europe but we do know that there is a brain drain and we know that other europeans on leaving the u.k. from the city of london where people are being relocated to the common a fracturing business which is also under threat so there are big fear is now. there are financial services of course being hard right now last night theresa may suffered another defeat in parliament do you think this is an indicator of how next week's very crucial vote it's a key vote a lot of ways on the brics a deal will go yes and i think it was very interesting last night because it was

m.p.'s who are normally very loyal to theresa may they decided to support the main opposition labor party over an amendment to the finance bill which isn't particularly important but it was them flexing their muscles saying look you breaks it is it game playing hardball we will too this is guerrilla tactics from both sides and it is looking very difficult for two reason may she still doesn't seem to have those numbers for next week's vote next tuesday's vote so she may well not get it through there are many people who are very concerned particularly about the so-called backstop to prevent a whole boat up between northern ireland which will stay in the u.k. and the republic of ireland which will stay with the new and there are many appropriate system particularly those northern irish m.p.'s who support to raise a maze government to a very concerned about what will happen with that with the e.u. saying that they may well have to keep that the u.k. in a temporary customs union if that has to if that if it comes to that point you know

in particular a very unpopular idea and very difficult for her unless she can get some legally binding concessions from the e.u. and that doesn't look likely at the moment although the u.k. is still trying. trying it doesn't look likely as you mentioned doesn't look likely that the votes are there next week what happens if her is the very very good question i don't think anyone really knows there's a high possibility that reason they will try and bring it back to parliament at the end of this month maybe february but she will have to have some profit concessions if that's to happen there's more talk about disposing bricks it. extending so-called article fifty of that lisbon treaty which is what gave the u.k. to you is to remove itself from the e.u. the problem is if that happens and the e.u. would have to agree to that all twenty seven of the members would have to agree to that what is the alternative there is actually no majority in the british

parliament for an alternative a second referendum a soft a brics it we do know at the moment they do they do not want to no deal bricks it but it is as to reason may have said it would be uncharted waters and that is the problem nobody no one knows and that's what we could be facing next week ok we'll see how this vote goes and alex forrest whiting will be following force as well thanks very much well heavy snowfall and avalanches in austria and germany have claimed at least five lives about one and a half metres of snow has fallen in the northern alps in less than a week that's a lot for that region thousands of tourists are now stranded in villages more snow is expected this week train services and road travel been disrupted authorities are warning the risk of avalanches remains very are these forest rangers on patrol in southern bavaria this road has been closed since sunday the reason trees buckling under the weight of snow. those two trees over there are

in a critical state if the top comes down onto a car or a pedestrian they're probably dead. in many places emergency workers are out trying to minimise 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 this is the danger is that the masses of snow come down off the roofs when the kids are playing underneath it was so intelligent to play somewhere else. in austria authorities have ramped up the avalanche warnings power lines have been brought down living large areas without electricity. there was some rest but for about a hundred tourists had been trapped in the searing a ski resort authorities used to loving the snow fall to evacuate them. but

with many roads impassable thousands of people remain cut off from the outside world. avalanche warnings out there today there's also a warning for the world's economy because it's right brian the global economy is facing darkening skies that's the sentiment of the world bank and its annual report the lender downgraded its outlook for the global economy this year it's 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 go grow by two point nine percent in twenty nine thousand that's marginally down from its forecast 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 economy ministry it's the

third consecutive month in which the figure has dropped. how it 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 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 on online freedom that global politics is in the spotlight at the consumer electronics show. china's tech giant while away has a large booth in the us 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 hundred you ass dollars so at this price you'll have the premium to sign you up to. the screen we still can't touch it because if you get it exactly people you will have they'll be offering 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 a 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 products stressing that they are still very much interested in the u.s. market however no one wanted to go on 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 logic tech rivals. east cooter anybody could make a 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 to look into their actions and new territories all over the world

. where it ends up it's undetermined that this point but i believe it's our obligation to explore. a trade war could lead to higher prices and dropping travel news some however think that president is not all wrong on china. i think to try to. go the number and offer a billion years for a trading products and purchasing product so you know i want to see more fairness in that respect for us it's negative in the short term but you know maybe setting things resetting things so that it is in the right direction you know c.s. is about new tech trends and connecting with new partners this here however it's hard to ignore politics and that's make us. well for 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 sprint they electronics maker to announce that they are moving part of its of their production out of china to minimize their consequences of a trade war now alexandra five g. the 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 tech fare. 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 past 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 asked cities such as for example seattle and those angels and alexander briefly the chinese tech sector has long had the reputation of simply copying other companies technology how has this changed. well it is changing china is speeding up its shift from manufacturing to innovation and that's of course something we can also see here in. the example in our

reports made by. this company trying to outsmart apple. phenomena reporting from las vegas from the consumer electronics show examiner thank you so much. the united states has imposed sanctions against seven venezuelans for allegedly stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from the really country this as president he goes in the door is scheduled to be sworn in for a new term of office on thursday following a controversial vice president. denounce the u.s. sanctions calling them abusive and illegal the united states treasury says it is targeting a currency exchange network scheme that managed to siphon off billions of dollars to corrupt venezuelan officials washington blames the material government for widespread shortages and hardship in the country. and here's a reminder of the top stories we are following for you 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 accuse mr trump of listen misleading the people by stoking fear of immigrants and a number of foreign embassies and consulates have been evacuated in australia after suspicious packages were discovered there. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin we have more coming at the top of the hour don't forget in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on the website. for now for me and the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching and have a good tip. look

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