please let. this is the w.'s line from an emotional plane from germany to britain leaving german personalities publish an open letter in the times newspaper asking the british people to abandon in the european view and bring you reaction from london also on the program u.s. president donald trump to vs and the white house explosive new allegations that he

directed his former lawyer to lie to congress about stevens and russia. germany comes like this country to consider excluding the chinese john twilight from its five it's high speed. well it says it has concerns about national security . i'm forgetting welcome to the program well than twenty eight leading figures from german politics sports a business and entertainment appeal to the u.k. to abandon. the open letter period in today's times newspaper and amongst the signatures of a new head of i'm going to machall c.d.u. party on a cotton bow the head of germany's social democratic party on threat not less and green party to robert havoc it reads after the horrors of the second world war britain did not give up on us and has welcomed germany back as

a sovereign nation and the european power base we asked germans have not forgotten and we are grateful should britain wish to leave the european union for a go. but it will always have friends in germany and europe but britain should equally know that we believe that no choice is irreversible door will always remain open europe is home we would miss the legendary british black humor but more than anything else we would miss the british people our friends across the channel therefore britain should know from the bottom of our hearts we want them to stay well let's go to london then i got reaction from i.t.w. our correspondent. welcome bogut how has this letter been received well we don't have as far as i know an official reaction but it by any of the government figures but i've looked at the newspaper headlines and it has been reported even though it's not exactly had like news because there is so much going

on in terms of brecht's it and as an absolute chaotic situation where the u.k. is trying to figure out where it wants to go so it has been a exist for example the financial times the business paper said reflects a rising anxiety in berlin in terms of the cost of business so it's the fear of the heartbreaks it and this is a reaction to it then we have the sun the biggest tabloid they say they report well germany is begging us to stay in the you and similar the express and other tabloid and both the my leaning towards brics if they say it's a desperate desperate bid for britain to stay in the european union i haven't seen a lot of scathing criticism but it's certainly seen as something that is political and it's a political intervention so it's not just hot to hard by by leading german figures but it is something that has yet at the center come from the center of british of german politics really well it's nice to be wanted do you think it's likely to have

much of an effect. testily i think it can harm i have really haven't seen that people are extremely cynical about it here however we need to we need to wait and see how it plays out i think what britain is really hoping for and maybe this is a signal that it's giving hope to the british government that maybe germany might be pushing towards reopening somehow the withdrawal agreement so this is how some are reading this well is this a sign that they are making some more concessions however brick city is will say well it also reflects what they've always said that german business is putting pressure on the german government and that they will continue to trade and also continue to pressure the german government to give really favorable conditions for britain so i think everybody is going to read in it whatever they want but i think

you know on the human level and as a signal to the british people that i don't see how we can do much on target mass in london fact you know actually some of the other stories making news around the world russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to us and i will send german monitors to the castrates this ask his german counterpart visits moscow the waterway became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago. sweden's problems has reelected prime minister hun often to a second term a confidence vote that ended a four month political power often social democrats and greens to come back to center right across party bill was struck to keep the far right or at least sweden right out of government. car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in the colombian capital bachata killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more is sort of been carried out by fifty seven year old

man with links to the national liberation army guerrilla group. u.s. president donald trump directed his personal attorney michael cohen to lie to congress this is according to a report by buzz feed news citing two are named law enforcement offices the president is said to have ordered mr cullen to lie about plans to build a trump tower in moscow unsupported to go into meet with russian president vladimir putin to jump start the project last year mr curry pleaded guilty to lying to congress about development approaches as to trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with russia. i spoke to correspondent all of a sudden washington and asked him if the reports are proved to be true how significant they could be well the president tells his lawyer to lie in front of congress that is one thing another thing is negotiating such

a huge business project like the moscow trump towers as an officially candidate for u.s. presidency and this could mean witness tampering as well as obstruction of justice if this turns out to be true of course it's a new quality and what we're witnessing here is pressure again amounting on donald trump from all sides so how are both sides of the political divide reacting to these potentially explosive allegations well it's just another puzzle pieces that we're witnessing here but it could really mean a shift in tides if these allegations turn out to be true because the report says the trump personally directed his lawyer to lie in front of congress about this project and you quality that we're witnessing here the problem being that negotiations were still carried out why he was running for president's year and the

democrats are certainly happy to use this against him some are even calling for impeachment but it was not as in washington thank you. well all this is happening as donald trump marks the midpoint of his time in the white house two years in he's already organizing his reelection campaign and reshaping the republican party in his own image has been to detroit's to meet republican voters who say mr trump is the right man for a second term regardless of the scott it's truly an brothers bakery is a community fixture in this detroit suburb it's one of the few small locally run operations left every morning for the past forty eight years richard julian has put on his apron and serve the neighborhood everything from deli meats to birthday cakes the bakery is also situated on the edge of a county that was pivotal for trump's victory mccomb county outside of detroit julian like some of his employees and many of his customers voted for trump he thinks the president's term has been good for his thirty employees and his bakery

donald trump with. much of a stretch for me in the beginning but when he became the nominee for the party i backed off because he was a businessman this is exactly the sort of small middle american establishment that was at the heart of trump's campaign message to lift up the little guy and stick it to the elites. and celine might have 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. first. grade the first debate i 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 some. times 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 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 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 deferent you know definitely many many excuse me many statements regarding i grab a woman 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 folks heard from again. would you vote for him again yes i would i hope. 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 re-elected for

a second term. and this weekend sees they've been dissed they could return from it's been to break the latest dortmund. game after an impressive first half of the campaign dortmund could finally stop by and i munich's run of six consecutive bundesliga titles there's plenty of anticipation in dortmund they sit comfortably top of the table with a six point lead and complacency may be their biggest rival going forward. it's a good situation to be in but we know there are seventeen more games and that it's still a long season ahead or a big challenges and difficult games to play especially in the next few weeks pressure to perform main dominated the opening half of the season with fast paced entertaining play will have to hit the ground running straight away with their first opponents fourth placed leipsic coach lucien five expects a tough away trip. this in dangerous in possession but also on the counter-attack

they can also play a long talk at my house and. transition really really quickly so there's not much else to say about life they're a very good team is in the. dampening the mood somewhat is the recent illness of captain marco royce. cossar is also only just coming back from injury together they've scored twenty three goals over half of the total the team also looked shaky in recent friendly matches. enough to the final you've got the christmas season then new year's eve then you spend time at a sunny beach in dubai or somewhere and you look at the table and everyone is passing you on the back of your model so perfectly normal for the tension to lessen but we can't let that affect us if we do if we must maintain our form with the same approach we had my first half of the season enough to get on an ng and that's.

statistics point towards a successful second half of the season dortmund have led the league three times at the halfway mark and each time they won the title not a bad omen. a name is deep blue and she's thought to be the biggest great white shark ever recorded when she was spotted off the coast of hawaii some shock research is that it would be a great idea to just jump in with her don't worry apparently she just fed on a spam well i'm so glad the divers allowed i'll be back at the top of the hour and will leave you with these pictures.

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