metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth. w. . this news coming to you live from berlin president donald trump marks the second anniversary of the white house amid an unexpected challenge and escalation in the sound also with the democrats of no end in sight to the partial government shutdown so do his fans think he's the right man first second. or so coming up a u.n.

peace corps comes on the gunfire and given in the crucial course john a full good on the saudi led coalition an accord to rivals blame each other for the attack. what does the future hold for britain and as its exit from the e.u. approaches nothing is certain. it goes i'm looking for and find them in the most unlikely of places. because germany becomes the latest country to say it might exclude the chinese twelve range from its high speed five she network says it has concerns about national security. hello and welcome i'm honored that she must visit to have your company. in the us ross escalate in bush between president trump and the democrats over

a record four week partial shutdown of the government in a display of presidential power from profuse military transport for an overseas trip by a democrat house speaker nancy pelosi the move came off to produce the suggested postpone his state of the union address amid the shutdown all this as trump mocks the midway point to office four year term in the white house did washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon 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. the fake viewing of the presidency through the lens of a 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 is administration has seen a record breaking turnover with top level of fishelson advisors 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 disadvantage. 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 compounded 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 his view trump is only delivering on his campaign promises the president is someone new to 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. their relationship trumps two years in office have been overshadowed by the russian investigators focusing much of the on one question. for russia not only does that 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 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 such changes come to washington and that's the way it looks like. as to mulch us as events have been so far donal's

from first two years may ultimately local comforts to what lies i have. now to assess jobs record and future challenges i'm pleased to welcome barra's film i was director of the political science program at college. welcome barra's now if we had to have two very eventful ias under the presidency for someone who's been a put a rising figure how does one assess his performance what yardstick does one use i think it's the easiest way to do an imminent critique of what has been going on he signed the contract in the beginning of his presidency that was called the contract with the american voter and you could print it out and signed it yourself and the three points basically he wanted to slash corruption so drain the swamp was the was the label she wanted to help the american worker and he wanted to restore what he called restore comes to constitutional rule of law and i think we can look at each

of these point and then ask well is that actually what happened and for the first point of corruption the first thing that happened was that trump employed one hundred eighty seven lobbyists so many people would say that's not exactly what happened many of the agencies government agencies and departments are headed by people from the industry now some would make the argument that they are business people they know how to be efficient and have things but it doesn't seem that this is quite what what turned out there's been massive to regulation and i think that we will see the effect of that for the american worker it's more of a mixed bag i would say it depends a little bit on your political position if you think whether the trade wars and the reno negotiation of enough to really did bring a positive effect and the rule of law well the wall is the big decisive point democrats would say this is not going to help border security so judging by it. trump's own yardstick is how. it might be a problem for him but it's

a problem for american democracy and it will to turn out to be a problem for the republican party i think at some point at the moment and for the first two years the republicans have pretty much either drawn out or kept very quiet or supportive trump in his endeavors and i think that his heritage will fall on their feet at some point but this remains to be seen for trump the government shutdown is obviously it's a problem of the pressures are mounting the miller investigation is closing in on him there's a backlash in the house of representatives he said he would all the shutdown i think in part this is what we're seeing right now so i think that the next two years will be even more chaotic than the first two years so what is before we continue let's take a look ahead to dollar trump is already organizing his reelection campaign and reshaping the republican party in his own image our reporter went to detroit to meet some republican voters who say donald trump is the right man for

a second. julian 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 victory come county outside of detroit julien 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 . a little of that much of a stretch for me in the beginning but when he became the nominee for the party back because he was a businessman this is exactly the sort of small middle american establishment that was at the heart of campaign message to lift up the little guy and stick it to the old. an celine wide event 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 out i was at first. grade the first debate i was almost inside the t.v. one of my listening to you know it was just very interesting it was 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 cringe worthy that maybe he has a tendency to speak without thinking and sometimes his personal life can be messy joan for a name 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 for the moment. 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 trump you know he's 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 they have been shocking announcement scandals treaties have been torn up but would these people heard from again. would you vote for him again yes i would anything i'm so you know i hope. well i will fall for him again 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 for a second term. so telling to bars fallen from college was what do you make of would like to perhaps run for a second job his supporters clearly think is the right man to do it but how likely is it that he survived the second part of this first. well i mean yes impeachment has been in the room for a long time in the german media sometimes you think it's going to it's imminent it's going to happen very soon but so far the democrats even after the

congressional elections have tried to keep relatively calm and wait for the miller report first because they don't want to seem as though impeachment was a revenge on trump but rather that they can also govern and that they are neutral in their position and are just going after the facts so to speak. so it's unlikely for this to happen the first half of this year at some point he might be such a lame duck that it's not even worth for democrats to work against him and they might even think that they have better chances against him than they might have against mike pence as a. presidential candidate so i think the democrats will be will remain undecided i think it's rather unlikely for an impeachment to happen. at the same time one thing that was said in the little video we just saw these were mostly white elder. people from the working class the. supported trump also in the first in the first election but what we've seen in the congressional elections is

a shift of suburban voters and also of educated skilled workers towards the democrats so i think what was said is very right it doesn't depend so much on trump himself it depends rather on who the democrats put up against him because we should not forget he was the least popular president who was ever elected into office it's not that he was so popular that he was sort of ward into office good thank you very much. an analysis and assessment thank you thanks. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world in colombia a car bomb exploded outside a police academy in the captain killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more the bombing is toward being carried out by a fifty seven year old man with links to the group the national liberation army. people in northern argentina are struggling to cope with widespread floods that have lashed the region above average rainfall in the past seven months of course of

the agricultural damage some three thousand five hundred people were forced to leave their homes in the province of the faith. united nations convoy has come under fire in yemen it was caught in the head of the un peace mission retired dutch general patrick met he escaped unhurt the incident took place in the port city of the u.n. says it doesn't know who fired the armored vehicle back who went and the saudi that coalition have blamed each other the attack happened shortly after the u.n. security council approved an expansion of its mission overseeing. the truth was a result of talks aimed at calming the conflict and crucially opening up the port for badly needed humanitarian aid as we hear in our next report for millions of civilians help soon enough. getting 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 harmon because of who the snipers and armed drones both sides are continuously suffering casualties thirty two seven of our people were killed 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. these refugees don't have enough to eat. not even half of them they're receiving what they actually need. we're hoping for support from the un and the international community. four 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 yemenis. and it's feed their own a coast a week for british politics with the historic defeat of the prime minister's drags a day and then have government narrowly surviving a no confidence motion and heading into the weekend the situation remains in deadlock to resume represent tell plan b. next week so what's next for britain did the unexpected on says. london business as usual but wait was there something oh yeah breaks it for to now have years now we journalists have followed the brits to debate parliament 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 on in the british capital ask the cabbies they are the keepers of the city's secrets the ones

with the ears on the ground. as she. has been driving a cab for ten years and still center on one thing 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 i think is going to happen so what is going to happen to me let's pull over for this one. the fear factor. is coming in more people i would say all all interested in me in the. and having the second vote. ok that's a start but can we make this more concrete i'm like politicians numbers never lie and to support it that british makers of course every major book

a company in london politics is a big money maker so what do people think about bricks that actually put their money where their mouth is. so out of all the options that the country currently faces that's a second referendum the punches think is the most likely that's followed by another general election obviously something the chairman called and would love and the least likely at the moment is actually and what is the odds of six to one punches do you not think that is probably going to happen in the states but we're money is one it's also lost and was breaks it all about winning let's find spiritual guidance maybe the ghosts of veteran church 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. the wonderfully good as back later today after the winter break with a friday night match of the three hoffenheim and rating champions line the two clowns have held their winter training camps with by once again choosing the weather of the bush and. 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 face a tough test in their twenty nine hundred 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. and is and 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 biron need to do if they're to stay in with a chance of winning the bundesliga title for a record seventh consecutive time. the full squad of a different kind a tale of

a diver and a shock with a happy ending when divers spotted a great white shark known as deep blue one brave person took to the water to get a closer look at the creature now ocean ramsay the diver has long experience with shocks and wasn't afraid to show deep go as you see deeper and it's he swam uncaged with it. was. cries by deep blues. and scientists believe that the fifty year old female shock is pregnant as she is taught to be the biggest great white in the world a don't let those big teeth scare you because deep blue was spotted earlier this week feasting on a spoiled rich probably explained a good mood along the di. a

jury in the u.s. has charged four employees of u.w. subsidiary out the indictment is connected to the ever widening diesel emissions scandal nine v.w. employees have already been charged in the u.s. the indictment alleges the four engineers jobs now were fully aware they could not meet u.s. emissions standards so design the software to cheat on tests none of the four is in custody and all are believed to be in germany. pleaded guilty in twenty six of the criminal charges in the scandal that is set to pay more than thirty billion u.s. dollars in fines and settlement last. spring and now financial correspondent joins us from frankfurt what do we know about these employees and their role in this neverending diesel great saga. you're right garrett it really seems that in fact this durtal the thirty days or gave scandal is not coming to and we're now

learning that a federal grand jury in detroit has addicted for audi engineer managers we also know their names chef on k. carson and richard b. and axle either all named in a twelve count in a diet meant alleging conspiracy wire fraud and also violations of the clean air act well what that means that prosecutors in the u.s. are convinced that all of them manipulated on purpose for years the emission tests of audi diesel engine it seems that the attention in the desert gate scandal. is shifting over an hour a little bit more to our the at the beginning volkswagen was more in the headlines because of that we have to remember that also last year the c.e.o. of audi started i went here in germany to prison because of the situation was later fired hope and frank you in france for a while but thank you. u.s. lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban the sale of american chips and other components to wow a c.e.o.

and of a chinese telecommunication companies that violates u.s. sanctions the move further expected to escalate trades tensions between the two countries it will make upcoming to go she ations 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 a 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 in failing 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 did you see the entry of the action of

these you representatives demonstrates extreme arrogance and a lack of self-confidence you don't achieve 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. in the government shutdown u.s. president. trip to the world economic forum. he went. to the. treasury. with chinese vice president. a punitive trade.

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