info migrants' your platform for reliable information. this is d w news from berlin tonight us president at the southern border with mexico telling the country yet again why he wants a border wall and why the democrats remain the problem but they've been taken over by a good for people that don't care that they don't care if that human trafficking is wrong they don't care that any. of that is what this gun free.

in texas the president trying to make his point with the show and tell of weapons and drugs captured from mexican gangs also coming out u.s. secretary of state my home page slams the obama administration's middle east policies in the egyptian capital car broke jews detroit's predecessor of being naive and timid in the face of the arab spring uprisings and is a shia sugarcoating the past just months after greece emerged from its debt bail out german chancellor angela merkel says yes those were tough times but we strengthened the european spirit. i'm going to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has arrived at the border with mexico. he continues to

campaign to get money to fund his border wall there so he and congress which is now partly controlled by the democrats are in a standoff over more than five billion dollars that he wants for the project well that faceoff has led to a partial government shutdown but at the border in texas trump was among friends people who live there have experience of migrants arriving from mexico and who support his efforts although some protesters also made their presence felt earlier trump accuse the democrats of not caring about the crime that he says migrants are bringing into the u.s. . alexander phenomenon is in macau in texas with protesters from both sides of the divide i asked her what they're saying. people i talked to among the protesters told me that they were born and raised here in the valley and make allen and if you can see behind me you see opponents on one side of the street and

from supporters on the other side and potence off the wall told that they live in this community and that it's a safe community and therefore there is no crisis at the border and therefore they need a wall and they also think that a wall is not going to the effective to protect the community here but of course when you look at the albert site of the three to and talk to trump supporters they will tell you that they want to support the president because he is determined to keep them safe so that's what people are saying you have. come to this area for today's event but what about the locals the people who live there do they want to see a border wall built. you know i have been to the border region here a couple of times and i spoke to many people to people who lived here for decades to patrol agents and not all of them even if they are and as i said even some supporters would tell you well we don't need necessarily the border to get built

here and that was under phenomena and speaking with us earlier from the u.s. mexican border in mcallen texas where u.s. secretary of state paygo has delivered a scathing rebuke of the obama administration's a mideast policies on pay it was touring capitals in the region to brief allies after president donald trump announced that he is pulling u.s. troops out of syria speaking today at the american university in the egyptian capital accused trumps predecessor of being naive and timid when confronted with the challenges posed by the arab spring uprisings which shook the middle east and its political order back in twenty eleven. said that obama's policies have diminished america's role in the region and harmed its longtime ally. these last witness convulsions from tunis to tehran as all systems crumble and new ones struggle to emerge. that happened here too. and at this critical moment

america your long time friend was absent too much all right i'm joined now at the big table by barry he is with the german institute for international and security affairs you know it's good to see you again so we've got this major middle east policy speech delivered today by mr peo what did you make of it well mr pompei or already obviously wants to do two things he wants to reassure allies in the region the states that he would call the moderate states israel egypt saudi arabia and some others that the united states is there to stay although it is withdrawing troops troops from syria and secondly he wants to build this alliance for a single purpose that is to exert measure maximum pressure as he said several months ago on iran in his speech today pompei was emphatic that the u.s.

is not retreating from the middle east but at the same time he said the syrian withdrawal is still going to happen so it is contradicting each other it is contradicting of course but the united states is present in other countries in the region it is present in turkey in iraq in jordan all over the gulf so the united states is there and he and states in the region now know that they are there to stay and possibly that to stay in order to confront iran. i think that this speech was was kind of frightening because there is something looming on the horizon and that is at least a military complaint by the israelis in syria you know speaking of iran mr taylor he had a lot to say about iran today none of it was good take a listen let's turn to iran. president trump has reversed our willful blindness to

the danger of the regime and withdrew from the failed nuclear deal with its false promises. the us we imposed sanctions should never have been lifted we are parked on a new pressure campaign to cut off the revenues the regime uses to spread terror and destruction throughout the world. in syria the united states will use diplomacy and work with our partners to expel every last iranian and work through the u.n. led process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people. so you've got mr trump there saying that the u.s. is going to drive iran completely out of syria despite the u.s. troop withdrawal and he's also saying that he wants to end iranian influence in lebanon how realistic is this this is only going to happen. as a result of a major war and do you think the that he is he is he prepping the world for for a military conflict i don't know it's very hard. to interpret what is going on in

the trump administration remember when. my complaint got the jobs in april american media speculated the bowl or called it a war cabinet these are the most politicians that you can find in washington concerning iran and i am positive that we will see major military action by the israelis in syria in the coming years and perhaps the united states will join then after this speech i wouldn't rule out a larger military action against iran in the coming two years out well let's hope this time that you're wrong you're going to hear as always we appreciate your insights thank you. well the german chancellor angela merkel is in greece for talks with prime minister alexis c.p.s. and other officials there it's the german chancellor's first visit since two thousand and fourteen and it comes just four months after greece emerged from its

final bell package i will head of the formal talks with. a highlight of the improvement of greece's finances relations between the two countries they have called since miracles previous visits which were overshadowed by angry rallies merkel was widely blamed degrees for the all stare and that the country has lived through for much of the past decade. and for more on this now i'm joined by our chief political editor of the helicopter she is in athens tonight good evening to you make hello you know we've said it and we've seen it many times alexis tsipras and uncle americal walking horns as what they used to do how was their meeting today. well they were trying to stress the harmony between them it is true alexis see press before he came to power one of his campaign slogans was actually against machall and of course against the austerity package which in the end once he was in office he himself implemented and took

forward so both of all that began to move away from i'm going to natural being the face of all story sterrett greece and with alexis tsipras implicit promising that the toughest days were over now that greece is on a much more stable course both were very eager to stress that they are looking at this whole challenge in the hospital so this challenge is in the future as a european project that they stand there is european and there of course they feel that they are united by taking a stance against populism across europe ahead of booking to the european elections in may so that was also mirrored by just a very few protests in the streets this time around very few protests but we can't forget that many greeks are still dealing with the ramifications of almost a decade of austerity so what do the greek people what do they think of this visit

. absolutely i mean walking the streets and talking to people here today we've got reactions when once people recognize this is a german camera team basically saying rather rude words about machall but all the way to one woman who came up to specifically stressed that she was very impressed with anger that machall being a female lead just standing in not just for europe but also for peace and most people were somewhere in the middle where they said yes they are having a very tough time but that they felt very dark days where the future of greece was really very uncertain within the euro zone but it would be pretty even say some young people feeling rather resentful of this austerity package and we see much headway for them with greece of course having some of the highest youth unemployment in europe but the economic data also shows that greece is already through the toughest times when i just write to remind us of

a half sentence that i heard the german chancellor say today as well is that she said that this road of reform continues so clearly there are still expectations from europe from germany towards greece to continue on that part of our chief political editor the hill the governor in athens tonight we go thank you. all across europe the heaviest snowfall in two decades is bringing daily life in alpine regions to a grinding hole at least seventeen people are reported to have died from weather related causes in the past week alone austria has been especially hard hit forecasters are warning that they'll be more snow and in some places avalanche warnings are at their highest level. it is a beautiful sight but the snow laden slopes also spell danger many mountainsides in austria so heavy with snow that the army is preparing to sort of avalanches with

controlled explosions in the past twenty four hours at a snowed nonstop. most of the interest in them and it makes sense to set off these explosions that's a common strategy to defuse the situation but the areas with the highest threat level they're above two thousand two hundred meters you cannot set off explosions there because you can't get there and when you think in the valleys the battle against the snow continues hotels are complaining about cancellations the austrian chamber of commerce is expecting business to drop by fifty percent in the affected areas. one hotel owner who is grateful just to be alive. he was finally lifted from his mountain chalet on wednesday he had been snowed in since christmas day. on monday actually i thought i was trapped the feeling was very depressing and it's exhausting to shovel snow all day lows in germany a state of emergency has been declared in parts of the very. the need to be in the

worst affected areas the snow on the roof sways up to four hundred kilos. you know most urgently from those roofs forms need to be frightened experts fear that up to me to a fresh snow will fall in austria before the weekend meaning the chaos in the northern alps is set to continue. to use the army in s. if it is in the austrian town of allt else say he described the scene for us from there. one thing the snow has done to this small austrian village of say is to make it even smaller a lot of the roads have become just narrow passages between mounds of snow and some of the houses half buried look half the size they actually are the people have had to cozy together as well and that's because half the village over here has been evacuated eighty to one hundred people have had to leave their homes that is because of the danger of avalanche occurring any time authorities have raised the

level to the highest alert level and they're trying to get everybody out of this area even the mayor has had to evacuate his home we spoke to him earlier and he said that he hasn't seen snow like this for at least twelve years but he says that the people here are used to a lot of snow and they're trying to get on with their daily lives and he's seen them really come together to make this happen it was i mean yes it's there braving the winter elements force are some sports news police in spain of arrested in twenty eight professional tennis players following a match fixing investigation linked to an armenian criminal gang the unnamed players are thought to be from the lower tiers of pro tennis but one of them took part in last year's u.s. open now footage from the e.u. zero poll police agencies showed the raids including searches of eleven houses in spain where hundred sixty seven thousand euros in cash were seized along with

credit cards and a shotgun eighty three people in total are being helped. well the business leader returns to action in just over a weekend ahead of the restart byron munich are flying back to germany following their mid-season training camp in qatar with controversy injuries and a new signing the winter break has been eventful for the reigning league champions . by an munich's last training session in qatar is done and dusted with no you and robin is struggling for fitness for friday's button is the grid so against hoffenheim there was a glimmer of hope after a solid day of work. today was good. a good into the camp. the week didn't go as i hoped but today was good. bye and time in qatar has been equally mixed many fans were happy to see them but back home of us were upset with the club spending the mid-season break in

a country accused of human rights abuses. controversy that erupted when frank river re posting a video of him eating a three hundred euro gold coated stake in dubai ahead of his arrival in cats on his expletive laced backlash against critics led to a big club fine he then ended up getting injured in it cuts out training match there was some good news for by and during the week with the announcement france will win they will join in july. by and head back to munich with the looks of baggage now they have to focus on the big job at hand trying to over hold the russia dalton's lead at the top of the boot as they go. well it was that one of the most spectacular robberies in living memory in march twenty seventeen thieves in berlin somehow managed to steal a one hundred kilogram gold coins from one of the city's most prestigious museums four suspects are going on trial in connection with that seth prosecutors say three

of them broke into the museum and used a ladder a wheelbarrow and the rope to extract the coin from its violet proof glass case a fourth suspect is a believe it or not a museum guard there's still no trace of the four million euro coin but there has been plenty of speculation as to where it is now. it was one of the most spectacular heists ever seen in berlin a golden coing weighing one hundred kilos half a metre across and worth four million euros but what happened to the piece called the big make believe we asked goldsmith max korn what you could do with a huge gold coin but this is the first you have to cut it up to melt it i would use a circular saw you'd also be left with a pile of gold dust which you somehow have to melt down but it would all be very time consuming it was. melting the gold down mean it could then be cost into

pads or brings but only by using specialised equipment that's a sort of melting is an expensive process it can be done sure but a furnace that can reach the right temperature to melt gold is not like you have an in your kitchen. the temperature of eight or nine hundred degrees celsius would be needed and the leverage affair like the heist itself the thieves walked across the train track running alongside the museum then used a lever to climb in through a window. they smashed open the display case with an ax and threw the heavy coin on to nearby parkland police were quickly on the case three members of a well known criminal gang were arrested along with a museum supervisor traces of gold were found on their clothing and tools but there was no sign of the loot the big maple leaf. marks gone the goldsmith has got his

own idea about what happened to it. as i stated that's what incredible i think it was melted down into small balls and taken out of the country and. he would have been used in some other business probably illegal. so because you can't sell gold without leaving a trail of evidence. this is. when the dust the boda museum is still hoping the precious original will resurface one day but for the time being there's only this cardboard replica. no one knows where the gold is today some business news now illegal babble that it could have ensured better working conditions in pakistan it could have done that that's why that was the aim however it apparently isn't that easy a court decision has left many asking who is liable for the working conditions in supplier factories and low wage countries that happened here in germany

a court has rejected a lawsuit by four pakistanis against a german discount clothing retailer kick they wanted the company to take responsibility for a fire at a textile factory in karachi six years ago in addition to thirty thousand euros each in damage. the plaintiffs a survivor and three parents who lost their sons won't get compensation retailer kick refuses to take legal responsibility for a deadly factory fire in pakistan and the case cannot be tried in germany if the reason is that the statute of limitations has expired therefore the court cannot decide whether the claims asserted i even possible in substance and amount recent in september two thousand and twelve more than two hundred fifty people died in a fire at a kick supply a factory in pakistan the blaze was triggered by a pakistani protection money racket the victims say they want to take to compensate them because the high number of victims was due to a lack of adequate fire protection the textile retailer has long rejected any guilt

. in we don't see it or the judgment to be correct and fair in every respect the fire itself was the result of a terrorist arson attack that kick could not do anything about. the factory was in perfect condition at the time the fire happened before. human rights organizations are disappointed who's held accountable for duster disasters in low wage countries local suppliers of the companies they serve. that question remained an uncertainty in dortmund. and earlier we spoke to miriam she's with the european center for constitutional and human rights and represented one of the plaintiffs we asked her if this case has had any impact despite the claims being rejected. so the merits have not been decided which still means that the whole industry needs to be on their toes because when ever there is a new defect or a disaster the next claim will be brought and we will again ask the courts to make

a decision on liability questions also the case has been putting so much pressure on kik that they were willing to pay in total six million us dollars in an out of court negotiation. and i think at least for the german debate this case has also highlighted that we are desperately in need of better laws and make us need to be thinking about supply chain liability of the worlds. to the u.s. no where president donald trump has canceled his trip to the world economic forum in davos this comes amid a standoff with a democrat led house of representatives that has led to a partial government shutdown leaving more than eight hundred thousand workers unpaid for nearly three weeks several hundreds of them braved the cold to protest the shutdown in washington trump's insistence to include funding for a border barrier has led to a budget impasse the shutdown is souring investor sentiment amid

a broader global economic slowdown. corporate news now unlike german carmaker. chrysler has fallen foul of u.s. authorities in the diesel emissions scandal it's now due to pay more than five hundred fifty million dollars in settlement the u.s. the tally and company is accused of using illegal software in more than one hundred thousand of the jeep cherokee assume these and ram pick ups it however denies any wrongdoing the settlement is a far cry from the german automaker has already paid more than twenty billion dollars in the u.s. alone meanwhile fiasco chrysler says it will issue an emissions recall for the affected vehicles but will not offer to buy them back. you know we corresponded my actuator has been following this story for us in washington my it's good to see you now let's start with the basics this all sounds very much like the old gate scandal where the company as we know used illegal software to alter emission levels so why

is chrysler settlement so much lower. a lot of this has to do with the volume of cars in the u.s. chrysler simply sells far fewer diesel cars than volkswagen does and diesel cars are far less common in the u.s. than they are elsewhere in the world the number of cars being recalled is also far less than what you had to deal with i think v.w. had to recall or even buy back around six hundred thousand cars and that will only have to take back around one hundred thousand but it's also there's a very different way that the scandal affected both these companies or as a v.w. the it was the top executives who were aware of this cheating software that was part of their cars and they specifically built this software to circumvent testing and make it look like they were pushing down emissions when in fact they weren't chrysler in fact what it was was the company that makes the software that regulates

these things in cars bosch just snuck of the software into the cars without chrysler knowing which is part of the reason why they're pleading not guilty they're found out guilty and prosecutors are not pushing further with this but let's talk about the customers because we know as you mentioned it's pure cars in this case it's also for customers probably but has there any been any reaction to these revelations from effect to customers. well i'm sure if you're a chrysler car owner this is going to be extremely annoying but fortunately there's only two models of cars that have been reported to be affected by this recall and it's just models that were built between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen so again in the grand scheme of things not that many cars will be affected and chrysler in as part of this package this this payout that they're giving out they are setting aside between two hundred sixty and two hundred eighty

million dollars specifically to compensate their customers who will have to have their cars recalled it started very small at that time and folks like us well let's see how this one goes thank you very much my inflator in washington for us. for watching from berlin remember you can always find out more about the latest headlines on the w. dot com we're going to go in a one minute break when we get back brant will be back to take you through the day stay with us.

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