this is good news coming to you live from berlin a key shipping straight at that was a once a flashpoint between russia and ukraine has reopened the german foreign minister heikal ma says the cash street is now free two months off to the standoff job all those will monitor the streets we go live to moscow for the baby was a coming up president donald trump mocks his second anniversary in the white house in the midst of the longest partial shutdown of the government and

a bitter standoff with the democrats. and what does the future of corporate britain as its exit that exit from the e.u. approaches nothing is certainly goes and looking for on susan finds them in the most unlikely places and solution. being. alone but i'm a bit that shima good to have their company. jilin foreign minister high command says the cast straight is now open for shipping following mediation by but in the straits became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago speaking in moscow off to meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov not be able to send to russia has accepted a proposal from german chancellor on the american observers to monitor the strait which links the black sea to the sea off of ukraine temporarily imposed matia no

off to russia captured three of its vessels in the cash stream to the russians also detained twenty four ukrainian seamen who were the crew of those three vessels with no nothing on buses for the main it is a correspondent emily shebeen joins me on the line from law school emily ma sais the k. street is open which is quite a breakthrough what well can you tell us. well i'm sorry to today both sides confirm that the question. that ships ability it out and also today called again for those ukrainian sailors just to be let out they're still in custody there and pretrial trial detention actually and they have to feel better but it doesn't mean that there will be so much was going on from the russian side those soldiers are still behind far that their pretty time trial shouldn't it was

actually a long week for some of the sales or. sale and eight of the pretrial detention which belonged to it doesn't mean they'll be much movement on both sailors and the portal was just the german proposing for mediation in the strait and the knee. well germany had actually proposed to mediate in this conflict already last year and what we see today though what is new is that hamas has obviously come forward to go abroad with a written proposal a concrete proposal to have german and french observers go to the courage straight going yeah this was likely to propose that same document to the ukrainian side. putin had actually already agrees to observers going to the courts trade with merkel on the sidelines of the g. twenty meeting in argentina and he said that they would have to the russians i would have to study the proposal his main kaviak he said was that if this whole

thing of a whole observer question becomes political and that it will have to be agreed with ukraine discussed with ukraine then the russian side is not open for that so he doesn't really want ukraine to be. involved in the proposal i don't russia sees the crèche trade as its own territorial waters since it illegally annexed the crimean peninsula. identity show when in moscow thank you very much for that update. to the us on the feud between president trump of the democrats so will the record for be shot down is escalating in a display of presidential power trump refused transport for an overseas trip by a democrat house speaker nancy pelosi the move came off to produce he suggested. his state of the union address. all this as trump mocks the midway point of his

four year in the white house these obvious reporters went to detroit to meet some republican voters who ordered sets to give trump a second truly 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 deal. and celine white of 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 heard his. ideas. and. that's what i think and to watch but i was at first. grade the first debate i was. 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 cringeworthy that maybe he has a tendency to speak without thinking and sometimes his personal life can be messy to 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 pay paul not units or objects or numbers classifications where people were people but 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. 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 there have been shocking announcement scandals treaties have been torn up but would these people vote for trump again. would you vote for mccain yes i would i hope. i want this to continue i would vote for him again depending on who is going to be running 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 re-elected her second term. so great support for president trump from the supporters we just heard but during this two years in office the u.s. president isn't spied both fierce loyalty and bitter opposition some say he may not even survive this current in office is that likely i put that question to political

scientists boris four months of bad college but then. 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 it 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 in 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 to 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 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 they supported trump also in the first in the first election but what we've seen with the congressional elections is a shift of supper urban voters and also 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 that was born as fallen from college and let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the vide president trump has canceled his delegations trip to the vatican on the forum in davos switzerland the cancellation comes amid the turmoil of the pasha u.s. government shutdown shows the sec the steve you know has been was to be part of

that u.s. delegation. 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 bombing is thought of being carried out by a fifty seven year old man with links to the guerrilla group the national liberation army. and prince philip the husband of britain's queen elizabeth escaped unhurt when his car was involved in a collision with another car the langrune where he was driving overturned in the royal estate of sounding him in eastern england the ninety seven year old prince was last seen in public after vetting of prince harry and meghan markey last may. now more than twenty prominent figures from jail in politics for its business and entertainment have written a passionate appeal to the u.k. to abandon brick said it was printed as an open letter in today's edition of the times newspaper it included the leaders of germany's three main parties on

a great balance the new head of chancellor. body has signed a letter as well as under anonymous the head of the social democratic party in germany and the green party leader robert harvick as well as other leaders here's what they wrote after the horrors of the second world war britain did not give up on us it welcomed germany back as a sovereign nation and a european power this we as germans have not forgotten and b. are grateful that they also wrote should britain wish to leave the european union for good it will always have friends in germany and in europe but britain should equally know that we believe that no choice is irreversible our door will always remain europe always remain open i beg your pardon europe is home and finally we wouldn't miss the legendary british sense of humor but more than anything yes we

miss the british people are friends across the channel therefore britain should know from the bottom of our hearts we want them to stay. ok so let's form on this a list joy indeed obvious political correspondent simon young windsurf is from britain welcome simon and a pastor from prominent germans to the british saying that they just stay on in the european union and included out of this camp tomball who's the frontrunner to succeed as chancellor of germany significant is that. you know this is a very nice letter and i think its impact is intended primarily to be emotional rather than political although i'm told that i've been working on it since before christmas in fact but it rather charmingly refers to the idea that germans could miss after bricks at all sorts of quintessentially british things like tea with

milk or driving on the left i think it probably stretches a point when they also talk about germans love of going for an hour in the pub after work. or indeed of christmas panto's rather goody christmas entertainments for unknown british viewers but you know look this is this is a bit of fun really but it also carries that message the germans think that breaks it is a bad idea and this asylum is a very emotional appeal that was made it is certainly give some support to the romina and britain but what give it enough support that they could might be a second referendum as many people hope. well you know a letter to the times doesn't carry quite the weight that it once did but this will surely dawna some attention it's been signed by a lot of prominent politicians as you said as well as leading figures from business and from culture and indeed for even by

a former german football national goalkeeper yes it's lame and so i think it will attract some people the main message here is you know we respect the choices the british people make whatever they are but no choice is irreversible it might just knowledge if you waver is in britain to have another think right simon young up a little correspondent thank you very much. well that letter to follow was a year on a close to a week in british politics with a historic defeat of the prime minister's vegs a deal and then hug of the naturally a surviving a vote of no confidence heading into the weekend the situation still remains in deadlock tourism they were present to plan b. next week so what's next for britain did of these shock to six find some unexpected on says in london. london business as usual but wait isn't there something that you 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 the milner has been driving a cab for ten years and still scotians 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 what what i think is going to happen so what is going to happen to the fleet let's pull over for this one. to see effect in is coming in more people i would say all all interested

in me 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 who is good at that british automaker's of course every major bookie company in london politics is a big money maker so what do people think about that who then actually. put their money where their mouth is sigh 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 a night which is odds of six to one punters do not think that is probably going to happen in the states but where money is one it's also lost and with bricks it all about winning let's find spiritual guidance maybe big goethe's of veteran church

will have to answer to roll card reader out of you know. it's well connected in that area and he's getting vibes that prime minister teresa mayes is playing dirty game i think 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 are 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 off. selling with the australian open tennis now and the huge greek speaking community of melbourne is delirious with joy that's because the greek stephanos c.c.

boss has made it to the round of sixteen and to block the wind a greek restaurant in melbourne has named a super lackey after him something he said he wanted on the greek les next play the swiss reigning champion roger federer and federal beat the american taylor fits in three sets to advance. and the feature matches the evening in melbourne so a former champion madea shot a poor get past the defending women's champion caroline wozniacki. the was anti doping agency wada says its inspectors have successfully of it covered computer data from a moscow drug testing the bar a tree access to the data was a key condition for wada to lift a ban on the lab russia's state sponsored doping scandal russia had previously missed an end of the year deadline to hand over the data leading some to call for

another battle what us said getting the data out was a breakthrough for king's force could be used to build cases against russian athletes suspected of cheating. well the what is legal is back later today after the winter break with a friday night that shot between hoffenheim and reigning champion 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 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 in the home else but i took my hand 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. now you might recognize the music if you hear it because we're going to tell you about a tale of a diver and a shocking but i'm happy to say has a happy ending when divers spotted the great white shark known as deep blue off by one brave person to the water to get a closer look at the creature pretty close unit net ocean ramsey the die one has long experience with sharks and frayed. deep blue and swim on with it

for hours ramsey was surprised by deep blues. and now we have the secret the scientists say the fifty a torch if you will shock is probably pregnant she's told to be the biggest great white in the world deep blue was spotted earlier this week feasting on its own way in which probably explains why she was in such a good mood and no telling when she will be hungry again look at those teeth. the jury in the u.s. has charged four employees of v.w. subsidiary audi the indictment is connected to the ever widening diesel emissions scandal nine v.w. employees have already been charged in the u.s. 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 before it's in

custody and all are believed to be in germany folks are treated guilty in twenty sixteen to criminal charges in the scandal that is set to pay more than thirty billion u.s. dollars in fines and settlement costs. well donna kolbe as often as a correspondent what do we know about these employees and their role in this neverending story. yeah exactly well we are known earning that a federal grand jury in detroit has indicted these for our d. engineering managers we also know their names richard b. axel e.'s chef and k. and carson and they're all named in a twelve count indictment alleging conspiracy wire fraud and violations of the clean air act well what that means is that prosecutors in the united states are convinced that all of them manipulate it on purpose for years these emission tests of diesel engine it really seems that the attention and that these again scandal is shifting over with more focus now to the audi brand at the beginning mostly the

volkswagen brand was in the headlines because of this situation just last year the audi c.e.o. started out went here in germany to prison and was later fired and the share price by the way was not affected by this latest investigation it seems that investors are used to scandal after scandal when it comes to these tests and so always thank you very much frank for stocks and the u.s. after a report in the wall street journal suggested that u.s. president donald trump may be ready to lift all of the tariffs imposed on chinese imports the news has boosted hopes that the two countries will be able to find is a resolution to the dispute where the next set of trade talks at the end of this month's trump previously said terrorists are good for the u.s. but businesses beg to differ signs of it good times and the markets rejoice

signs of an escalation panic no relationship has so much power over investors as not between the united states and china relations report that trump may be ready to lift the term fee imposed on beijing sent markets across the u.s. and asia up. but to join maybe premis sure it was only two weeks ago that trump was extolling the benefits of tariffs john is not doing well now and it puts us in a very strong position we are doing very well but we're taking it in billions and billions of dollars and i hope we're going to make a deal with china and if we don't they're paying us tens of billions of dollars worth of tariffs it's not the worst thing in the world but the behavior of the markets on the performance of many u.s. companies tell a different story earlier this month apple's decision to slash its revenue forecast on weakening demand for i phones in china made headlines around the world but it's

far from the only u.s. company finding it difficult to weather the conflict in the first ten months of last year california's wine exports to china were dying fifteen percent tiffany missed its last quarterly sales target due in part to a drop in chinese tourists spending. carmaker for its latest figures show a thirty percent drop in exports to china and even barbie maker model says business in china is slowing. trade tensions are far from the only problem u.s. businesses are facing in china a more general slowdown they're driven by domestic issues like a cooling property markets are putting pressure on bottom lines too but cordial ties between washington and beijing are the foundation business is need to feel confident about the future. in the midst of the longest government shutdown of history u.s. president donald trump has not only cancelled his own trip to the world economic

forum in davos he also decided that the u.s. government delegation would forego the trip to the swiss alps initially treasury secretary stephen the secretary of state might have been slated to attend the meeting. with chinese vice president while he shot to further negotiate a truce. tariff. that said you're off today if you're watching news from. stay tuned for. brian todd. thanks michel.

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migrants dot net. hello and welcome to quadriga did abuse 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.