this is d w news live from berlin renewed call for calm in yemen after a u.n. envoy comes under fire the head of the mission overseeing a cease fire there is unharmed but the saudi like coalition and the rebels are blaming each other for the attack also on the show. as president donald trump reaches the halfway point of his term at the white house we take a look at his performance so far. and it is back to business for the big games in germany the winter break is over and byron munich thank they can be the club at the

top of the league. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us a u.n. convoy has been shot at in yemen that convoy was carrying the head of the u.n. peace mission the retired dutch general patrick kemmer the u.n. says it does not know who exactly fired on his armored vehicle iran backed movement in the saudi led coalition blamed each other cameron escaped unharmed is appealed for calm and the strengthening of the cease fire in the port city of the entry point for most of it means aid. for the very latest let's bring in nasser robbie yemeni journalist joining us from the capital sanaa good morning to you now sir what more can you tell us about this incident. thank you very much in

fact the incident of yesterday was very very. ambiguous in terms of who was behind it and with each side's now blaming the other and accusing the other all for being behind it but i would say that because nothing has changed since the. mission they just started about one month. that i can fit into between the tool box use is is still zero until now and i got i think then i'm done many things will be behind this. just within the agreement was to build the confidence couldn't for this is still zero and deadly incident of yesterday is this something now we're. kind of not sure of because

they didn't do anything they had to call a redeployment of the coordination this is fighting that's right guy and so it's it's it's a missed up ok they didn't do anything you're talking about the u.n. or the parties and conflict didn't do anything. no human is trying to do its best but i mean the two who bought the two bodies didn't do anything until now things are still the same as they where one month ago nobody deployment yes been there's been no change on the ground i'd like to ask you about the timing of this incident it comes right after the u.n. mission in yemen was expanded by the security council now the mission's mandate is overseeing the truce between the iran backed with the rebels and the government forces who would oppose

a monitoring and why i think now it's a very difficult to say who but as i told you. to want to use it to try to all of this to. buy it because it's one it's not one step. and things do go in the interest of. and this is why now it's not it's even difficult for the union mission who would then to say who was behind it because it they have only thirty monitors there which means it very few and they don't know what's going on and what's happening and this is something that i mean they need a lot of people a lot of observers if they know if they want at least if the u.n. wants at least to understand what's going on if they want to ask right

responsibility on this or not but now it's difficult but. we have to leave it there thank you very much nicer robbie journalist joining us from song thanks very much. well the truth when he died i was the result of peace talks aimed at calming because i think crucially opening up a port city for badly needed humanitarian aid for millions of civilians help cannot come soon enough. heading into the war zone in central gamen we're embedded with troops from the south he led coalition. it's too dangerous for us to go to the front today says colonel hamad sali because of who the snipers and armed drones most signs are continuously suffering casualties thirty two hootie and seven of our people were killed on one day. neither side seems willing to halt the fighting here despite peace talks in sweden in

december more than two million people who have fled the battle zone are housed in this refugee camp in mari of which aid workers from saudi arabia say is overstretched. and these refugees don't have enough to eat not even half of them are receiving what they actually need to get. we're hoping for support from the un and the international community. for out of five people in the country depend on external food aid to survive but the warring factions seem to be an interested in the plight of millions of human knees. now some of the ows stories making the news at this hour car bombs exploded outside a colombian police academy in the capital bogota killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more that bombing has also 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 of lashed the region above average rainfall in the past several months of call severe agricultural damage some thirty five hundred people were forced to leave their homes in the province of santa fe. it's to the us now where the feud between president trump and the democrats over the longest government shutdown in u.s. history is escalating and a display of presidential power the president refused military transport for an overseas trip by democrat house speaker nancy pelosi move came after palosi suggested postpone his state of the union address amidst the shutdown one dollar but that. well this escalation comes as the president marks the midway point of his four year term in the white house is washington correspondent i was on a phenomena looks back at what the forty fifth president of the united states has achieved so far. he has remained true to himself

bragging about his accomplishments lashing out at his critics and. your faith viewing the presidency through the lens of a television show many presidents trump has been dominating the national conversation as no other of modern president has done this. for 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 of officials and advisers leaving or being fired as the president continues to push through his america first policy the parish 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 the stronger sanctions resolver impose 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 cannot weinstein the president of the conservative leaning constant institute in his view trump is only delivering on his campaign promises the president someone new politics someone who both has outside the box ideas and a management style that is very unconventional not suited. particularly well to the way washington works. especially controversial dealing with. fueling speculation about the issue and made sure their relationship trumps two

years in office have been overshadowed by the russian investigators focusing much the on one question. the right not only work for russia i think it's great that you're even worse. 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 however could be just a preliminary skirmish in the current era of 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 in part why so many folks around the country voted for change and for change has come to washington and that's the way it looks like. as to most of us as events have been so far donald trump two years may ultimately local comfort through what i have. ok to assess the trump's future challenges and record i'm joined now by tyson barker program director of the aspen institute here in berlin good morning tyson morning what what metric do we use to judge this president say 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 so 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 ok 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 nancy pelosi 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 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 is 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 more 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 there's 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 is the right man for a second term really in 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 light of an educator and a neighborhood resident said she was attracted to trump and his message in part because of how different he sounded the more i listened and the more i heard his. ideas. and. that's what i think and to watch but i was at first. the first debate i was almost inside one of my. you know it was just very interesting it was so different and it wasn't stage it was just different they don't love everything about him everyone we spoke with

mentioned that his tweeting can be cringe worthy that maybe he has a tendency to speak without thinking and sometimes his personal life can be messy but joan for 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 paying 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. the family is not thrilled with me because

because you know i did vote for trump you know he has made you know different you know definitely many many excuse me many statements regarding our grubby 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. would you vote for him again yes i would anything runs with him i hope. well why. don't i want this to continue i would vote for him again depending on who he's 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 per second term. or can the

democrats win back the hearts of the people they lost their tiresome 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 really delivering to conservative base the. voters and the like the question is what comes next can he deliver for example on his three big rally in christ literally that he use that rallies build the wall lock her up drain the swamp 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 the congress congressional exactly and governors and other state wildlife officers workers over from the aspen institute program director there thanks very much thank you. back later today after the winter break with a friday night match up between hoffenheim and reigning champ munich the two clubs held their winter training camps with byron once again choosing to enjoy warm weather in the persian gulf. byron 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. hoffenheim are 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. as biron will be under pressure on friday when 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 byron need to do if they're to stay in with a chance of winning the bundesliga title for a record seventh consecutive time. united

states is charged were employees of the v.w. subsidiary audi in germany and st brian and the indictment is connected of course to the ever widening diesel emissions scandal nine v.w. employees have already been charged in the u.s. the new indictment alleges the four engineers were fully aware they could not meet u.s. emissions standards so they designed the software to cheat on tests none of the four is in custody and all are believed to be in germany folks are pleaded guilty in twenty sixteen to criminal charges in the scandal and is said to pay more than thirty billion u.s. dollars in fines and settlement costs. u.s. lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban the sale of american ships and other components to wise tea and other chinese to communications companies that violate u.s. sanctions the move is photo expected to escalate the trade tensions between the two

countries will make upcoming negotiations at the end of january to end the trade spat 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 in chinese companies the u.s. has accused both weiwei and evading american sanctions against iran and 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 action of these few representatives demonstrates extreme arrogance and a lack of self-confidence and chip 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. this thursday leading scientists from around the world of demanded humankind must change its eating habits all suffer the consequences going organic and doing away with industrial large scale food production is seen as the way forward by many and their rich countries where people can afford organic food it might well be a viable option i think that for any town of even spoken southern germany everything is organic that the big. if you go to the small town of the beaten book in the very end you might be surprised you won't find any of the well known supermarkets in the city center but you will find an organic shop but that's not really surprising when you consider that one brewery here has been brewing organic

beer for a long time organic hops spelt and barley in both areas oldest organic brewery. there's no no we don't do organic on the side because it's fashionable we do it out of conviction it's very important to us that our beer is wholesome which means that our beer is unfiltered the proteins in attendance that make the beer cloudy over time stay in the beer because we want our product to be the highest quality of health for. twenty five years ago the krieger's completely changed their product lines and their sales plummeted at that time there was hardly any demand for again of products but today of leading burger beers are in many organic shops there on the shelves next to dairy products ready meals meat fruit vegetables and even cosmetics revenue from organic products has increased five fold since two thousand to over ten billion euros per year in cities like brylin there are more and more

organic supermarkets they provide healthy ecologically conscious foods germany's most prominent person in the industry is felix pincer live in china he's not surprised that organic farming is on the rise give us the logic types to think what motivates people to buy org. manic is that they realize more and more that the way food is produced the way we deal with nature and the products that come out of it is not always healthy for us and in particular it can't be good for the coming generation that's typical phoenix get up to one and. according to organics experts organic farming is the only genuinely sustainable method the conversion to organic farming has to proceed much faster organic accounts for only five percent of the total food turnover in germany that's why the consumer protection organization food watch doesn't think the food industry will be switching to organic anytime soon. but we're very far away from an organic boon organic is still

a niche product the price of organic farming is higher than conventional farming because organic farmers try to avoid environmental damage and therefore have much higher expenses but this will cost expenses that are reflected in the price. is have to pay twice as much for a redan borger as for a non-organic beer nevertheless business is good so good that they have to expand their operations a new fermentation and storage hall is planned for this year. and here's a quick reminder why it's better to have your finances in order when you want to retire legendary guitarist color son thomas as announced two of the seventy one year old musician will play in cities across north america to mark the twentieth anniversary of his multiple grammy winning album supernatural and the fiftieth anniversary of his story woodstock music festival. thirty day also include some new music and book people from phoenix arizona on june twenty second.

and that's all here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you the u.n. has appealed for calm after a convoy carrying the chief of the peace mission into yemen came under fire no one was hurt but the iran backed rebels and the saudi led coalition are trading blame for the time. president donald trump has refused to military transport for an overseas trip by the democrats house speaker nancy pelosi becomes off the pillow suggested that trump postponed his state of the union address amid an escalating spat over the partial government shutdown. watching news from berlin more news coming up at the top of the hour of course stay tuned for kickoff thanks for watching.

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