this is the news live from berlin or a new call for calm in yemen after a u.n. envoy there comes under gunfire the head of the u.n. mission overseeing a cease fire there escaped unharmed the saudi led coalition and who the rebels are blaming each other for the attack also on the show. a feud between president trump and the democrats is escalating over the government shutdown as the president marks two years in the white house if you take a look at his performance thus far. and germany becomes the latest country to

say it might exclude the chinese tech giant huawei from its high speed five g. network says it has concerns about national security. and is back to business for the big names in germany's bundles later the winter break is over and byron munich thinks it could be the club at the top of the league byron travelled to seven played often on tonight. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us united nations convoy has come under fire in yemen the incident taking place in the city of ho died or shortly after the u.n. security council approved an expansion of its mission seeing overseeing the cease fire there over convoy included the head. all of that mission the retired dutch

general patrick campbell no one was hurt in the shooting start yet known who fired the shots now this port city has been under a fragile truce since mid december after fierce battles between who's the rebels and saudi backed government forces the warring parties have accused each other of truce violations but u.n. officials say the cease fire has largely held. for the very latest let's bring in nasser robbi he's a yemeni journalist joining us from the capital sana good morning and thanks for being with us on what more can you tell us about this incident. thank you very much intact and none none of the nothing you got until you lot of then you said because the most in both english you know about who was behind it again fire is not known and did know. about the.

sound of the amount of about forces and these cues that are in fact from yesterday. and i think who benefits from this incident is the most involved and question out and to answer this question who benefits from this question is i think that saudi. backed forces because date if you was that we didn't. even from the beginning especially the back of the forces on the ground and this is what i can say you know ok does the united nations have enough monitors on the ground right now to monitor the ceasefire know exactly what both sides are doing. that one if there is value in monitors on not enough to get out of us there do you see. persons in there and they are not enough so this

is why they can say who is the responsible for this violation of this bridge this clash is they can't say who is the responsible because they are not. if you maybe you know after the new orders if you should of us yesterday or the day before they would be seventy or seventy five maybe it would be better and they could say who is violating who was pretty maybe but now they come to even say who was doing wrong and who was doing right nasra ravi joining us from song thanks very much for being with us while the truce in hobart it was the result of peace talks aimed at calming the conflict and crucially opening up its support for badly needed humanitarian aid for millions of civilians help cannot come soon

enough. heading into the war zone in central gamen we're imbedded with troops from the south he led coalition. it's too dangerous for us to go to the front today says colonel hammond sadly because of who the snipers and armed drones are most signs are continuously suffering casualties thirty two hootie and seven of our people were killed on one day. you'll want to forget 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. 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 interested in the plight of millions of human e s. . let's take a look now some of the other stories making the news this hour in colombia a car bomb exploded outside a police academy in the capital bogota killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more the bombings all to be carried out by a fifty seven year old man with links to the guerrilla group the national liberation army. prince philip the husband of britain's queen elizabeth escaped unhurt when his car was involved in an accident a land rover he was driving overturned in the accidents near the royal estate of saturn and eastern. president promised council the delegations trip to the world economic forum in davos switzerland consolation comes amidst the turmoil of the government shutdown treasury secretary steven engine was

to have been part of that u.s. delegation well. for now the feud between president trump and the democrats over that shutdown has escalated further in a display of presidential power trump refused nor terry transport for an over scenes trip by democrat house speaker nancy pelosi the move came after pelosi suggested trump postpone his state of the union address amidst the government shutdown but that. now this all comes as the president marks the midway point of his four year term in the white house and of years washington correspondent alexander phenomena looks back at what the forty fifth president of the united states has accomplished so far. he has remained true to himself bragging about his accomplishments lashing out at his critics ok to fake giving the presidency through the lens of

a television show president's 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 says. 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 fishelson advisers leaving or being fired as the president continues to push through his america first policy 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 resolve or impose there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s.

forces from syria some of trump's decisions compounded america some even shock its closest allies but no one should really have been surprised says candidates weinstein the president of the conservative leaning cups an 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 their relationship trumps two years in office have been overshadowed by the russian investigation focusing much of the on one question the war for russia not only did i never 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 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 unit 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 this country voted for change and for change has come to washington and this is what it looks like. 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 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 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 express especially with the head of the house are now see palosi over the wall specifically and over the government shutdown can 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 the something for both sides there is a possible solution out there on this to end the show there's always

a solution. has already organizing his reelection campaign is reshaping the republican party in his own image a reporter went to detroit to meet some republican voters and say this is the right man for a second term really and 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 white of an educator and 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 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 one of my listening to you know it was just very interesting. 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 naina 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 people 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 at 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 you know he has made you know different you know definitely many many 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. to years into trump's term as president because. he is still divided there have been shocking announcement scandals treaties have been torn up but would this people vote for trump again and. would you vote for him again yes i would be making runs and i hope you know where 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 twenty 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 re-elected per second term. or can the democrats win back the hearts of the people they lost their spark 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 to evan jellicoe 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 the 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 a congressional race exactly and governors and other state wildlife officers barker's a river in the aspen institute program director thanks very much. we have some sports now and the australian open tennis tournament the huge greek speaking community of melbourne is going just a bit crazy right now because one of their own stephanos see boss has made it to the round of sixteen to mark is when a greek restaurant in melbourne has named a souvlaki after him something he said he wanted the greek well next play the swiss reigning champion roger federer of course freighter a beauty american killer fritz in three sets to advance to feature match of the evening in melbourne saw the former champion ria sharp over get past the number three seed caroline wozniacki. back later today after the winter break with a friday night match up between hoffenheim and reigning chavez fire in munich the two clubs held their winter training camps with byron once again choosing the warm

weather of 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. 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 were already there are down the latest on the growing pressure on china's high tech giant and. introduced a bill to ban the sale of american ships and other components to walk away and other telecommunication companies that in their view violates u.s. sanctions the move is expected to escalate trade tensions between the two countries it will make up upcoming negotiations to end the trade spat at the end of 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 while way 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 didn't see the u.n. try the action of these few representatives demonstrates extreme arrogance and a lack of self-confidence on the chip that says you. 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. well the german government says it also may have block wall ways involvement in the country's high speed five g. networks citing national security concerns the fear is that the company's link to government in beijing increases the likelihood of cyber espionage so this got the

bit further on now joined by must go he says with the institute for international security fast here in berlin muscle welcome to the studio is that any hard evidence that while my products pose a security risk no there is no public evidence at least that we know so people are connecting dots here so what dots well two things basically is the first thing is that technical experts tell us it is very hard to find out if there are back doors and of course this technology has maintainance services entries already so there is. a possibility to already money to what's going on with the systems that drive those just meaning that the company while we can access the systems from the outside yeah so there is the regular met maintaining entry point here but there is the fear that there are other hidden back doors. that's the first

thing and the second thing is that there's a strong push from the five states and from the national security community towards other states including germany to exclude who are away from a technology like five g. but it's still if i mean that there's no evidence and still everybody is up in arms about it some experts say that you can't build a phone network without a hardware other really an alternative where they are turning to but they are more expensive so there are there are two other firms and they are basically from europe who are able to create this kind of technology it's very complicated and it's very netted so it's a difficult thing and obviously if there are only two of of left that go. increase the price. for. german industry wants while way to be a part of the five g. bidding process they say nobody should be excluded unless there is hard evidence so

what would be your accommodation for the german government for example well it's basically a geopolitical game that we see here so it's not about security at all at least it's about the geo political conflict between the us and china so i think it's good advice to be cautious. towards both so exclude will buy from the very critical components but leave the channels open towards china for the rest when it comes to economy. the five g. network is a huge thing of course everywhere because a lot of lot of business models will in future rely on it and the internet of things will rely on it. could china pull the plug if it's true that they can access hardware. how could china in future pull the plug on five g. then you reckon well they can actually every company who provides such kind of technology

can because there is a maintainance entry into the technology here but they wouldn't i mean it would be very obvious and the fear is not that they use this kill switch the fear is that they can money to a certain kinds of communication in that network and that that's kind of the security problem here. thank you very much for that analysis. four managers of german car company audi have been indicted in the u.s. the indictment is connected to the ever widening diesel emissions scandal. have already been charged in the u.s. the indictment alleges the four engineers were fully aware they could not meet u.s. emissions standards so they designed the software to cheat on the tests none of the four is in custody and all are believed to be in germany folks are pleaded guilty in twenty six teams of criminal charges in the scandal and the set to pay more than

thirty billion u.s. dollars in fines and settlement costs. and that's all your business here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you here the u.n. has appealed for calm off the court a convoy carrying the chief of their peace mission to yemen came under fire no one was hurt but the wrong backed rebels and the saudi led coalition are trading blame for the attack. coming at the top of the hour and of course there's always. more news stories. of.

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