holmes world this week on t.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin president donald trump march two years in office as he reaches the halfway point of his term at the white house we take a look at the performance of the trump administration also on the show. what does the future hold for britain as its exit from the e.u. rapidly approaches nothing is certain. goes looking for answers and finds them in

the most unlikely of places. and it's back to business for the big names in germany's business later the winter break is over and byron munich think it can be the club at the top of the league. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us president donald trump is marking the midway point of his four year term today his administration has been marked by bitter divisions within his own party but his feud with the democrats over funding for a border wall is dominating american politics right now in a highly unusual move the president has denied military transportation to democrat house speaker nancy pelosi for an overseas trip an attempt to end the longest government shutdown in history did abuse washington correspondent alexander.

phenomena looks at what the forty fourth president of the united states has achieved so far. he has remained true to himself bragging about his accomplishments fleshing out at his critics ok perfect viewing the presidency through the lens television show presidents trump has been dominating the national conversation as no other of modern president has done before at the midpoint of his term he has grown more confident of his own judgment but he also seems to be more isolated no then that any point since he took office his administration has seen a record breaking turnover with top level officials and advisers leaving or being fired as the president continues to push through his america first policy of paris climate accord is simply the latest example of washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the united states it is time to officially

recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel iran sanctions are very strong to stronger sanctions resolver opposed there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria some of trump's decisions come down to america some even shock its closest allies but no one should really have been surprised says ken that's weinstein the president of the conservative leaning concent institute in he says the u. trump is only delivering on his campaign promises the president someone new to politics someone who both has outside the box ideas and a management style that is very unconventional not suited. particularly well too the way washington works. that's especially controversial dealing with.

fueling speculation about the issue and made sure their relationship trumps two years in office has been overshadowed by the russian investigation focusing much of the on one question for the right not only did i work for russia i think it's great that you read that. despite the russian approach most republicans are happy with their president praising him for bringing in conservative judges cutting taxes and fighting for a border wall thank you very much of this fight could be just a preliminary skirmish in the current divided government and not just by a backlash against some of the president's policies the democrats are now in charge of the house of representatives with many freshman lawmakers eager to take on trump and we've seen how much more investigation is closing in on this administration and so this is this is why i like to. show house of cards because this is what

he knows how to do is about creating distraction and chaos so that the american people are not paying attention to the real disaster that's happening in the united states and that the sastre being his presidency and that's part of why so many folks around this country voted for change and such change come to washington and this is what it looks like. as to mulch us as events have been so far donald trump's first two years may ultimately low call comforts to what happened. ok to assess the trump's future challenges and record i'm joined now by thomas barker program director of the aspen institute here in berlin good morning tyson morning what what metric do we use to. judge this presidency donald trump has been dismantling the international order from trade to alliances something he and his

base vehemently reject but that many find horrifying what metric to use i guess the metric really depends on who you are because if you're in the general public clearly his polling numbers are pretty low there hovering around forty percent maybe a little bit below majority of americans disapprove of his presidency right now in those numbers as disapproval numbers are going up that said the stock market remains turbulent but still you know high unemployment is low the tax cuts that he delivered delivered a lot of money to corporations so a lot of those people who are managing that money reinvesting in the economy are very supportive and his base is very very supportive of what he's doing those people who went out to the polls in twenty sixteen and got him elected in those swing states in the upper midwest are very happy with what he's doing in the numbers among his supporters remain above eighty percent as the strong support among his supporters like to pick right on the president's locked in what looks like mortal kombat right now with the democrats expresso especially with the head of the house are now see palosi over the wall specifically and over the government

shutdown donald trump afford to be the one who blinks first well this is really difficult you know a lot of people are asking in washington the united states why now the shutdown we should note began when the republicans still had majority in the house but you know his supporters his base supporters and the people who are speaking for them the sean hannity's of the world fox news and even mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham are saying don't blink first the question is can they find an elegant solution that could satisfy both sides and there are options on the table but right now that there's so much atmosphere of poison in the waters the leadership of both sides are coming together so the president met yesterday with a bipartisan group of let's say representatives from swing states of the meeting was said to be didn't lead anywhere necessarily but if you think. long term is there a solution that you could have that would make the next election the next general election a referendum on supporting the border could they allocate funding that would come

into play in two thousand and twenty one or afterwards so the president could run on his border wall saying this money would be freed if if we get reelected and the democrats could run and say if we get reelected this money will be allocated to say health care or education ok so the something for both sides there is a possible solution on this to end the show there's always a solution. has already organizing his reelection campaign is reshaping republican party in his own image a reporter went to detroit to meet some republican voters who say donald trump is the right man for a second term truly an brothers bakery is a community fixture in this detroit suburb it's one of the few small locally run operations left every morning for the past forty eight years richard julian has put on his apron and serve the neighborhood everything from deli meats to birthday cakes the bakery is also situated on the edge of a county that was pivotal for trump's victory mccomb county outside of detroit julian like some of his employees and many of his customers voted for trump he

thinks the president's term has been good for his thirty employees and his bakery donald trump was. a little of this much of a stretch for me in the beginning but when he became the nominee for the party i backed him because he was a businessman this is exactly the sort of small middle american establishment that was at the heart of trump's campaign message to lift up the little guy and stick it to the elites. and celine might have been an educator and a neighborhood resident said she was attracted to trump and his message in part because of how different he sounded more i listened to the more i heard his. scene ideas those were my ideas and. that's what i think and to watch but i was at first. the first debates i was almost inside the t.v. one of my listening to you know it was just very interesting it was so different

and it wasn't state it was just different they don't love everything about him everyone we spoke with mentioned that his tweeting can be cringeworthy that maybe he has a tendency to speak without thinking and sometimes his personal life can be messy but joan for earning a bakery regular and lifelong michigan resident said despite everything she wants to see the president succeed i'd like to see him take us back to the days when people were pay paul not units or objects or numbers classifications where people were people we have respect for one another and. i like some of the things that he's done on those are the moments. i just i really like the man and i want to see him continue with his goals and least get most of them accomplished not everyone in the neighborhood is a trump supporter and some family ties have been strained. gary milburn an employee at the bakery has two daughters who do not like trump he says he understood their

objections but he still voted for trump. family is not thrilled with me because because you know i did vote for trump you know he's made you know different you know definitely many many excuse me many statements regarding our gravity women by the whatever and doing this and that which to me is a lot of you know a locker room talk. two years into trump's term as president the country is still divided there have been shocking announcement scandals treaties have been torn up but would these people vote for trump again and. would you vote for him again yes they would have influence with him i hope. well why. don't i want this to continue i would vote for him again depending on who he is going to be running against at this stage a true republican challenger looks unlikely during the two thousand and twenty campaign and the democrats will have a tall order to win back the hearts of these voters here in julian's bakery it

seems trump would have no trouble getting reelected for a second term. or can the democrats win back the hearts of the people they lost their bark of a mess of an institute what does donald trump need to do to get reelected well i mean you know he's delivered a lot to his conservative base and he's delivered a lot to the people but he really energized these people who found his rhetoric refreshing so one of the things that came out in that report was you know that he's sticking to the liberals and that is really a big part of his campaign promise the tax cuts and the judges that's that's a really delivering to conservative base evan jellicoe voters and the like the question is what comes next can he deliver for example on his three big rallying cries literally that he use that rallies build the wall lock her up drain the swamp in the swamp and build a wall those rights you big ones right now right exactly and those in those three areas there hasn't been much progress in all those states these three these four voters are you know kind of the cross-section of his base older white working class

in the upper midwest but those states we have to note really switched back to the democrats and overwhelmingly voted for democrats in the last election in fact every statewide election was won by a democrat in michigan in this last midterm election so the question is will they remain in that democratic column and will that translate for a presidential election not just a congress congressional race exactly and governors and other state wildlife officers some workers over from the aspen institute program director thanks very much. thank you now for a look at some of the other stories making the news at this hour u.n. convoy has been shot at yemen a convoy carrying the head of the u.n. peace mission the retired general camera. the u.n. says it does not know who fired on the armored vehicle or the state of hurt. a car bomb has exploded outside a colombian police academy in the capital bogota killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more bombings thought to been carried out by

a fifty seven year old man with links to the guerrilla group the national liberation army. people in northern argentina are struggling to cope with widespread floods that a blast of region above average rainfall in the past several months of calls of your agricultural damage some thirty five hundred people were forced to leave their homes in the province of south of that. is to britain now where the prime minister threesome a has been meeting cabinet members and he's to put together a revised brecht's a deal that she will present the parliament next week her original bracks a plan was thrown out of course by lawmakers in an historic defeat earlier this week. consensus with representatives of britain's main political parties that could prove crucial to escaping the current political deadlock everybody is facing criticism from many sides over her fusil to rule out a potential damaging no deal breck's it. so what's next for

britain our correspondent found some unexpected answers in london. london business as usual but wait isn't there something you can oh yeah breaks it for to now have years now we journalists have followed the brits to debate and vote again and again and we spoke to analyst after analyst and we still don't seem to be much smarter about the outcome of that well maybe it's time to look for some chart of ways to find answers if you really want to know going on in the british capital ask the cabbies they are the keepers of the city secrets the ones with the ears on the ground. him of the mill no has been driving a cab for ten years and discussions center on one thing in particular i mean that's all i ever talk about is. there is there is no subject not even not even football is just. what i believe what what what what i think is going to happen so what is

going to happen to me let's pull over for this one. the see effect. is coming in more people i would say all all interested in the in the. in having a second vote. ok that's a start but can we make this more concrete unlike politicians numbers never lie and to split at that british automaker's of course at a major bookie company in london politics is a big money maker so what do people think about that who then actually. really put their money where their mouth is. so out of all the options that the country currently faces that's a second referendum the punters think is the most likely that's followed by another general election obviously something that surely corben would love and the least likely at the moment is actually an ideal breaks his odds of six to one punters do

not think that is probably going to happen at this stage but were money is one it's also lost and was bricks it all about winning let's find spiritual guidance maybe the ghosts of churchill will have the answer. is well connected in that area and he's getting vibes that prime minister theresa may is playing dirty game i think she's going to make another pact the devil. i think she's going to look for we have here we have the devil we have temperance so the devil is all about me having contracts and making a pact and here it temperance is about connecting things and putting things together right and so i think she's going to find a way to negotiate something. let's be honest the future of britain is still murky until that's resolved all bets are.

diverse force now and my colleague jonathan crane joins us now to talk about the bundesliga which returns from the winter break this weekend kicking off tonight it's raining champions bye and munich traveling the hof and i'm good morning jonathan it wasn't the usual dominance out there on the pitch was it to write about that not very dominant from buying a tour that they had started moving in the right direction before christmas they'd won five days out of five so lifting the pressure a bit on coach. i think they'll obviously be looking to pick up from where they left off against hoffenheim tonight and maybe also in the second half of the season start this rebuilding process we know that the score de veau won't really come until the summer they have got canadian teenager alfonso davis in the squad now he can make his debut tonight for a match that both teams been preparing for in very different ways let's take a look. biren have

a tradition of holding their winter training camp in qatar but in recent years their form has been markedly better at this point in the bundesliga campaign their six points behind leaders brasil dortmund and face a tough test in their twenty nine thousand opener against hoffenheim they're the only side to have beaten the last two times they've hosted the champions and says it's going to be a very difficult we want to win in fact we must win if we want to increase the pressure on dortmund. just one of four teams to brave the winter weather and stay in germany a win against biron on friday would be a welcome boost to a club just on the edge of a guaranteed european spot. that is and will be under pressure on friday if they don't win the game then it's a clear message to the leading teams that they have to step even harder on the gas

. and pressing down on the gas pedal is exactly what biron need to do if they're to stay in with a chance of winning the bundesliga title for a record seventh consecutive time with johnson to talk about rebuilding is that enough what's your prediction for this match well as we had in the piece off and. have a very good record against munich beaten as one in the league in ten games they have drawn six zero i think it's going to be a very tight game but i do fancy by and. yeah there's a lot of. one miller to want to go to that. what about. it can they win this fight so. they'll be all too aware that. who leads can disappear very quickly that a six point lead over by and but if by wins tonight that gap is down to three and

don't have a very difficult match at the weekend against fourth place in the brain this leak this will be a real test of dortmund's type of credentials right off the bat of the desk both in director says his team keeping the main prize that. enough of the lineup even christmas season then new year's eve then you spend time at a sunny beach and dubai you will somewhere and you look at the table and everyone is passing you on the. molly that's what perfectly normal attention to lessen them but we can't let it out affect us. we must maintain off with the same approach we had life of the season it on the. sporting directors is very hopeful there but they'll have to hit the ground running when they will suddenly have to hit the ground running because as i said a couple of slip ups and six points will quickly disappear what really surprised me this season brian is actually not bad by munich have been in some points before

christmas or been a member they were truly awful but actually how good dortmund have been they've managed to bring for a lot of exciting youngsters like jayden who's established themselves in the first team marco royce's really stepped up as captain and unlike last season they've got a backbone now in defense and so what concerns me about goldman's is the lack of experience this team haven't been involved in a tight race before say as you get towards the end of the season the nerves are going to start to say which is why is it is important for them to hit the ground running try and build up as much relieved now so they have got a bit of a cushion about the end of the season what else can we look forward to this season jobs well aside from the serious title race in the business league is we always know it's tight behind the title race the race for the european places the lights of light amounts i'm glad that i laid. couzin will be hoping to join that party they have a new coach they fired her had is just full christmas takes a boss is the new lave accusing coach now he was in charge of dortmund for

a bit last season a disaster six months he said he's learnt from that he likes to play a brand of attack you football and i think he's going to lot of players that they've accuse him who fit that style and then of course if bolton said of the relegation fight said the likes of. nuremberg and got really going to need to dramatically ten things around if that's get themselves out of trouble ok there's some work to do out there will be keeping a close eye on that biron magic johnson crane from degrees for such a rare much we have a note there on that point spread for buyers thanks so much jonathan we have a politically charged encounter now the asian cup in the united arab emirates or saudi arabia were beaten to know by qatar that means tare team top the group they face a rock in the round of sixteen will runners up saudi arabia will play japan the match was dubbed the blockade derby with saudi arabia among the four countries that joined in a blockade of qatar. let's get our business now is gary hart there's been some

movement in the trade speed between china and the united states that's right brian on thursday was announced that a high profile chinese traded voice going to washington at the end of generators who talks and today asian stocks are trading up off through port in the wall street journal suggested that the united states is considering to lift some or all tariffs imposed on chinese imports the prospect of a let up in the months long trade dispute so gains in shanghai and hong kong and tokyo and an increase in risk sentiment across asia pacific gains follow a similar rally on wall street. u.s. lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban the sale of american chips and other components to huawei zip t. and other chinese telecommunication companies that violate u.s. sanctions the move further is expected to escalate trade tensions between the two countries it will make upcoming negotiations to end the trade in january even

trickier. nothing would work in while we and c.t.e. plans without us made semiconductor chips or the mobile phones and network devices made here in china need american technology from tech giants like intel a.m.d. and qualcomm but plans by u.s. lawmakers to ban the sale of chips to companies that violate washington sanctions or export controls could draw chinese companies the u.s. has accused both weiwei and evading american sanctions against iran the chinese government has some sharp words for what it sees as efforts to destroy china's tech industry. to someone about. i saw the news on the bill which was hysterical or just as he entered the reaction of these few representatives demonstrates extreme arrogance and a lack of self-confidence that says in the. last year the u.s. government banned the sale of american goods to chinese tech giant which had

violated washington's iran sanctions the export ban almost bankrupted c.t.e. as a result it agreed to pay the u.s. government a hefty fine of one point four billion dollars to lift the ban the japanese engineering firm hitachi has put plans for a nuclear power station in britain on ice plant angle say island off the welsh coast was expected to provide about six percent of britain's electricity it was seen as a vote of confidence in the british economy it was his boss says briggs it is not the reason to shelve the twenty eight billion dollar project but insiders claim that it's actually things break that have limited the government's capacity to devise plans. it was supposed to be a massive project a new nuclear power plant named will for a while some countries are trying to give up nuclear energy due to safety or expenses the u.k. has had several projects and planning but that's changed just last year toshiba pulled out of another u.k. nuclear project due to growing expenses hitachi has now followed and that despite

the british government's promise to provide a third of the financing hitachi couldn't find additional investors as the total cost estimate mounted reportedly doubling to twenty billion pounds mean from an economic standpoint of a private company we've made the decision to freeze the project. hitachi says it's this edition is unrelated to the ongoing brags that chaos but at any rate the british government knows that long term investments carry more risk now than ever before. this is because if nuclear is to be successful in a more competitive energy markets which i very much believe country it's clear that we need to consider a new approach to financing future projects the willful project was supposed to employ nine thousand people for the construction of two reactors those jobs are now hanging in the wind. that's up to date you're watching news from news that's all of the.

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berlin. but the criminals don't reckon with him detective superintendent comes cannot. live metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth. on t.w. . hello and welcome to quadriga international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas britain and its european partners are struggling right now to come up with some solutions after the parliamentary vote that inflicted the worst defeat in modern history upon a british prime minister by a surprisingly wide margin the commons rejected teresa mayes hard won but unpopular bracks a plan for leaving the european union.