i'm one of them i did rush into systems. move family starts january twenty third on t w. this is deja vu news live from berlin president trump addresses the nation to drum up support for his border wall with mexico. is a humanitarian crisis a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul but congressional democrats say trump is misleading the american people and wholly the nation hostage with a government shutdown also coming up on the show. a branch of brain drain world

class universities like cambridge fear a loss of talent when britain leaves the e.u. we talked to researchers and to a man who's decided to vote with his feet. and heavy snowfall over the alps bringing chaos to parts of austria and southern germany as well several people have died emergency services warned the risk of avalanches is very high. and he's done it again egypt and liverpool's mohamed salas is named african men's footballer of the year for the second time in a row he's now targeting a big prize on home turf after a landmark day for egyptian football. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us. u.s.

president donald trump has used a live primetime t.v. address from the oval office to press his case for a border war with mexico he described what he said was a humanitarian crisis called caused by illegal migration at the border he also said it was being used to ship vast quantities of illegal drugs into the u.s. he said a physical barrier was critical to national security and called on democrats in congress to back his five point seven billion dollars plan to fund the walk home country he also said illegal migration posed a threat both to the economy and to national security all americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration it strains 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 well democrats 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 baseless fears and misleading the public. we 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 but the president is rejecting these bipartisan bills which would reopen the government over his obsession with work forcing american taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an expensive and ineffective wall a wall he always promised mexico would have let's get more now at g.w. washington correspondent stephens humans 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 of conservatives and republicans and of course of his base they're overwhelmingly for the president and they're also supporting overwhelmingly the stance and the argument the president makes everybody else pretty much a little bit more differentiated and 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 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 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 stefan so who will be paying for this wall if it moves forward. takes player will because as the president says and he's playing to 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 ratifying 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 actually different 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 paid ok in the run up to this address there was a lot of speculation that don't trump would declare a national emergency to allow him to build the wall without congressional approval he didn't mention that in the 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 fail he 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 the end of 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 there's also a good chance they will do it anyway. that was the seaman's talking with me earlier from washington. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news today australian police are investigating suspicious packages sent to a number of foreign diplomatic missions in the capital canberra and other says the city's consulates and embassies affected include those of the united states and

germany on monday a suspicious substance was intercepted at the argentinian consulate in sydney test showed it was not dangerous. 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 to busiest 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. the united nations says it has moved in eighteen year old saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend to a safe place. remains in thailand while the un processes are application for refugee status australia says it will consider canoes case if she applies for asylum or well short while the british parliament will start the first of five days

of debate ahead of in a storage vote on the government's deal to leave the european union prime minister treason may postpone an initial vote on the deal in december because she did not have the majority of m.p.'s behind her 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. well we'll get some analysis after this report on the figures among academics in britain 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 that in two thousand and twelve the oxford graduate was named the most multi-lingual student in the u k. 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 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 alix 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 of cooperation with the european partners he's 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 tower. 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 and to shoot 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 hopers if we're not part of the larger cohort of europe u.k. patients could be excluded. but an exodus has already begun long before britain actually leaves the e.u. alec's 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 prying to before he heads to pass the now under new life in europe. let's talk about this now with w.'s hours for us why i think covering brock's of force good morning alex will concerns like we just saw in that report be taken up and the debate in parliament today i mean ok every concern about breaks in there are many many concerns about brics it will be taken up paper with the next five days in parliament from those who approve breck's it those who are brics and those

who are somewhere in between the government has already come up with a new 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 you cancel 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 the key vote a lot of ways on the bracks 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. it was them flexing their muscles saying look you breaks it

is it game playing hardball we will to 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 border 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 the u.k. in a temporary customs union if that has to if that if it comes to that point so she says you know you were a you know 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 it's a 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 she will have to have some proper concessions if that's to happen there's more talk about bricks extending so-called article fifty of the lisbon treaty which is what gave the u.k. two year 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 of brics it we do know at the moment they do they do not want to no deal bricks it but it is is to reason may has self a said it would be uncharted waters and that is the problem nobody knows when those

and that's what we could be facing next week ok we'll see how this vote goes and for swiping we'll be following force as well thanks very much. well heavy snowfall and avalanches in austria and germany have claimed at least five lives some one and a half meters of snow is falling in the northern alps in less than a week's time is very unusual for that area thousands of tourists are now stranded in villages and more snow is expected this week over the next few days train services and road travel been disrupted authorities are warning of the risk of avalanches remaining very 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 defended those three 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 we tell a child and to play somewhere else. in austria authorities have ramped up the avalanche warnings power lines have been brought down and living large areas without electricity. there was some respite for about a hundred tourists have 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. we have some sports news now and egypt and liverpool forward mohammed

salaam has been named men's african footballer of the year for the second time in a row he picked up his award at a glitzy ceremony and senegal and then to double celebration for egypt after that country was also given hosting rights for this year's african cup of nations. another all suspicious start to the year for the reigning king of african football mohammed salah helped liverpool to the champions league final last year at school twice for egypt at the world cup in russia he's got big goals for two thousand and nineteen as well. as. with you. it's no secret that salah is

a hero in egypt the country has just been announced as the new host for june and july his african cup of nations after the tournament was taken away from cameroon partly because of security concerns but in egypt the threat of a terror attack is very real and besides that egyptian football has plenty of serious problems of its own. and i'm very happy as an egyptian i'm happy this an event like this is taking place a pressing issue will be the next step to come will the next step be a positive one will it be a step that can benefit football in egypt or will things go badly because of the poor condition of pitches poor stadium attendances and the present security restrictions. or the infrastructure security and even the hot climate could all cause egypt trouble at their home tournament but star power in the squad is one thing that the hosts won't have to worry about. to alaska

nowhere a hospital there in unexpected visitor this week a giant moose wandering in through an open door and chomping on the plants in the lobby got into the building workers are absolutely spellbound there they say they've never once felt threatened by a curious visitor. and he's deck around for about ten minutes before sauntering back out the moose cause no problems other than for the plants of course which were luckily not plastic. let's get our business with kristoff now and a warning for the world economy today that's right bryan the global economy is facing quote darkening skies that's according to the latest assessment of the world bank and its annual report the lender downgraded its outlook for the global economy does year it cited rising trade tensions weakening many factoring activity and growing financial stress in emerging markets the world bank now says that it expects the world economy to grow by two point one percent in twenty nine thousand

its marginally down from its forecast back in june for some more analysis let's bring in our financial correspondent only bars or frankfurt only the world bank talks about darkening skies but world economic growth of two point nine percent still sounds pretty robust so what's the issue here. there's hardly a difference between two point nine and three percent but the question is whether that is tenable and i think that's what the world bank means by darkening skies by perhaps a storm brewing we're still in trade talks in beijing between the u.s. and china and the talk is going starting on how the banks it is supposed to be voted on in british parliament and if either one of these issues flares up and winds up on the wrong side of. good politics and good economics then you have a problem not just politically but for the world economy as well and the world bank

also points out it's not just about the number of t. shirts produced or tons of steel or number of cars on the road it's also about debt mounting and that's also a bad sign at the moment with growth being threatened not yet the climbing that much but being threatened and governments and corporations have been rising that at the same time with rising rates and some of the economic groom can also be seen here in germany europe's biggest economy economic data has come in weaker than expected in recent months give us the latest here. well industrial production both and orders for new goods came down and that was already bad news that continued to trend in those two items and exports just fresh off the presses if you will for november also down zero point four percent the exports for german industry while imports going down by need been stronger one point six percent that's not

a good number now these are month on month declines to december versus november on an annual basis they look a bit better but you know there is a question does raise a question of whether germany is rate setting for a recession i heard in a bank economist this morning negating that he's optimistic he says that yes there will be we can growth but no recession but others because of those world problems out there are a little bit more pessimistic now the world bank warns of darkening skies for the global economy only parts reporting from frankfurt only thank you. striking workers have hit the streets of the bangladeshi capital dhaka for the fourth day running now they are protesting conditions in the country's garment sector prime minister shake seanie who was reelected at the end of december has raised the minimum monthly wage by over fifty percent of the country's largest industry but the people working there say that's not nearly enough. police fired rubber

bullets and tear gas into crowds of demonstrators on the streets of dhaka and some of them fought back with stones over fifty protesters are reported to have been injured in the exchanges so far along with twelve policeman. the garment industry plays a key role in the asian country bangladesh is the second largest manufacturer of clothing globally and its factories supply some of the world's largest retailers although the industry has turned the nation into a major exporter the benefits haven't trickled down much the minimum wage is still just eight thousand taka around ninety five dollars a month the strike and protesters want more. and we are demanding twice that sixteen thousand taka. the basic monthly income has to be ten thousand taka and salaries have to be sixteen thousand the authorities are giving us nothing. unions have warned that the strikes may spread to other cities the protests are expected

to continue. policy makers in china have approved five new genetically modified crops seeds for import the move could eventually boost grain purchases from america and help china convince washington in that it is serious about opening its markets to more u.s. farm products the approved products come from companies including buyer dow dupont and b a s f the decision comes as u.s. trade negotiators are in beijing for talks trying to gain concessions for u.s. companies. venezuela has asked the world trade organization to intervene against a raft of u.s. sanctions targeting the country's financial system and key members of president nicolas maduro inner circle the united states has imposed sanctions against seven high ranking venezuelans for allegedly stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from the beleaguered country this comes with mr moore a due to be sworn in for

a new term of office after a disputed election washington blames the moderate government for widespread shortages and hardship in the country. europe's largest carmaker is about to begin selling green energy a false flag and has created a berlin subsidiary called l e to sell electricity generated from renewables the plan is to offer charging charging stations for electric vehicles and homes and parking lots. says the company will also sell household electricity all of it free from all of it from carbon free sources the bush compliments the car makers a new focus on electric mobility. and a reminder of the top story we're 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 misleading the public by stoking fear of immigrants. and don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just download our app from google play all from the apple store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world is about us push notifications for you breaking news you can also use the detail we have to send us photos and videos you think we might find interesting. you're watching the news coming to a lot from berlin you have a fresh bulletin coming up at the top of the hour for now from me and the entire team thanks for watching.

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