this is d.w. news wire from berlin tonight with britain's divorce from the european union looming france and germany designed to renew their vows the leaders of both countries today signed a new pact of friendship aimed at really energizing the european union at a time of crisis tonight we ask is there substance amidst the symbolism also coming up living history the emotions the gestures the facial expressions of actual holocaust survivors given eternal life at a chicago museum and all captured as homer grams and could it be the end of

a young man's wife and his football dream a plane carrying a million has disappeared over the english channel that's all it was on his way to join an english premier league club now the search is on for the plane that has been missing since last night. i burnt off it's good to have you with us consider it a reminder of how the european project began today germany and france signed a new treaty a deepening cooperation between the two countries french president emmanuel mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel committed their nations to increasing time and cooperation on issues such as security and foreign policy both say they hope the treaty will reinvigorate the e.u. at a time of crisis. a signature and a kiss sealing

a promise of peace turning old into fact today france and germany renewed that post-war pledge in a new friendship treaty signed in often home of the medieval. united much of europe shami well the previous treaty aim to heal the wounds of the past the new signed and our one aims to meet future challenges by strengthening corporations and when the loans we can buy as part of our joint systems for collective security germany and france commit ourselves to offer help and support including military support in the event of an armed attack on our respective territories. these trees. president cross said both nations wanted to improve political dialogue military coordination and life for people living along the common border. only.

sort of done the unity solidarity cohesion these are the key points of the treaty europe would not survive while we're united it would die. germany and france have a responsibility to create the tools to realize true european sovereignty in defense and security this space travel migration and monitoring the economic and digital change. in the marriage. building and new french german economic zone and improving the free movement of labor off the goals of the treaty they may ultimately help the french president in his struggle with protests by some french people who feel forgotten by the political elites. the so-called yellow vests even made their presence felt in our. the parliaments of both countries wanted even more intense corp but for merkel and today's treaty goes far

enough for now. quite clearly german chancellor angela merkel and french president mano mccall wanted to do nothing less than make history here in our home today as germany and france renew their vows of corporation within the european union they want to demonstrate that that franco german engine is still working and they're putting that target pretty high when they say they want to coordinate deeper on defense on security on the economy and those transporter reasons sewing that europe can do this too but first and foremost this was a highly symbolic act especially in these times with brags that nationalism and trump donald trump the u.s. president and danger in what the european union stands for so them signing this treaty supporting multilateralism the german french friendship going in together is

a sign to the world. of our correspondent max hoffman in mckellar reporting there british prime minister theresa may she is preparing to go back to brussels to try to really go. her breakthrough deal now that deal was really only rejected by the u.k. parliament last week on monday she outlined what was supposed to be an alternative plan but critics say she failed to offer any new ideas or yesterday may repeatedly said there will be no second breaks that referendum but she is facing mounting pressure from campaigners to change her mind among them is former british prime minister tony blair at the world economic forum in davos switzerland today he told the w.c. been fizzling why he believes a new vote is necessary. the idea is to to change the withdrawal agreement obviously that's a matter of negotiation between the british government and europe but look the myself and others have been arguing in the u.k.

that this process is is a mess and this new agreement as to what the future trading relationship with europe should be one group of people want us to stay close to europe another group one has to break out of the european trading system altogether these are very different futures and our view is that it's got to go back to the people for decision because parliament i think will be close i doubt that she can get a deal through there's no but you're ready for any other form of break that and therefore the sensible thing in this situation is to go back and ask the people that was former british prime minister tony blair speaking to been. of the world economic forum today that full interview was available on our website you can see it at d w dot com. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.s. supreme court has ruled that the trump administration can go ahead with its ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces the court voted five to four to lift

injunctions against the ban former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko has announced that she'll be a candidate in march as presidential elections opinion polls show that she is the favorite to win the machine co was jailed for two and a half years over a gas deal with russia in what was largely seen as a politically motivated conviction french police say that they have detained american singer chris brown after a woman filed a rape claim against him and two other people the woman claims that she met brown and his friends at a paris nightclub earlier this month before going with them to the hotel. well tonight china is lashing out at a group of former diplomats and academics who have signed an open letter calling for the release of two canadians a businessman michael spade war and former diplomat michael covert were arrested in china in december on allegations of spying canada says they face daily interrogations and have had no access to attorneys it's believed they were detained

in retaliation for the arrest of a top chinese food weight executive in canada last month. when they talk more about this i'm joined now at the big table by tom brokaw fee is vice president of the german marshall fund think tank here in berlin he is one of the people who signed that letter and it's good to have you on the program china's foreign ministry they're accusing you and the others who signed this letter of being disrespectful and meddling in china's judicial process what do you say to that well i'm a private citizen i'm a policy research i don't represent a country how could i be meddling and if the chinese foreign ministry refers to a just judicial process i would like to know what that process is so for these. two colleagues have been detained on trumped up charges actually on no real charges for six weeks no access to them no clear information about their treatment.

there's really nothing therefore we're calling on the chinese government to let these people free in the letter you say that these arrests will discourage foreigners from building relationships with china and ultimately leave china worse off why do you think that argument is going to persuade president xi jinping president xi jinping a year ago came to davos. and styles himself as a liberal and as a proponent of a free trade what are now if you want to do business with the west or can to rest its it is is that will backfire against you in the long run and by the way china researchers is a relatively small group of people who have a soft spot for china and he if you turn them away. you're not going to have a very good response. to your europe to your politics and your

country outside of your country you know we've been hearing a lot about this arrest being a tit for tat response to the arrest that was made in canada i mean but let's broaden that out a little bit would you be concerned if you were traveling to china right now would you be concerned after signing that letter that you would be arrested and no charges would be far well michael space michael covert did not sign such a letter and yet there were arrested and became a pawn in a much bigger game that the chinese are seem to be playing so yes in a in a regime like this there is always a risk raney body. travelling there which is why i would expect and would hope for my own government to step up and step to the side. to the canadians. and demand freedom for these two people they have indeed to couple of weeks ago call for fair treatment and fair treatment is important judicial process important is more

important for people who are on trumped up charges and to be let free the german foreign minister has declared an alliance of multilateral lists with the canadian foreign minister to to his side last fall this would be a great opportunity to show that there is a lot in the lines of multilateral us are you worried that almost we've got a report tonight that the u.s. is pushing for extradition of that executive from who away from canada to the united states are you worried that that's going to make the situation worse i am not a friend of america has. extraterritorial sanctions regime is a very it's an instrument that can be abused now there is a judicial process in canada i trust that judicial process the way efficient will was elect free on bail so let's have that canadian process

play out right thomas broke off vice president of the german marshall fund appreciate you coming in to talk with us tonight they talk with three well first of the holocaust sharing their experiences and educating new generations is an important part of making certain the world never forget that the horrors that they experience now one museum in chicago has found an ingenious way of doing just that even long after those survivors have gone. whose real here fritz meets her hologram. which was the real me. i felt it was important i felt it was an important story it was difficult because they took me back into the past and it's something that i didn't wish to relive. is the president of the illinois holocaust museum in chicago the museum has long considered how to keep the holocaust memory alive.

was thirteen when the nazis deported her and her mother to auschwitz they were crammed into a cattle car like this one she says she has five hundred ninety nine women to thank for her survival. when they all gave me their crumbs that was the size of a marble but it saved my life and maybe took away from theirs in turn i made a promise that if i survived i would be the messenger preacha wants to tell their stories to young people in the future even when she's no longer alive. a girl asks how she felt about religion after the war. it's god doing. ok. but she loves people.

and so i was embarrassed that there were. no. at some point i actually just sort of forgot that she was a hologram it felt so natural in it gets real it was really touching to i don't know like eve you felt like you were with her like and like you saw how much like you know how much of her which was going to. producing the holograms was challenging. for five days in a green screen studio in los angeles countless cameras were pointed at her she was asked thousands of questions she never knew what would come next with the help of keywords the holograms are programmed in such a way that they can give spontaneous answers for every question there are several

responses. the part that's the most important is the interactivity so that our visitors feel that they are having an intimate conversation with a survivor in real time and they can drive the content as we're all used to now. the message from survivors new generations must learn from the past. their stories live on is holograms there already twelve of them the chicago museum hopes to persuade other museums to use this new form of memorial. well there's sad news from the world of football tonight a plane carrying the new cardiff city signing a million osama has gone missing over the english channel the twenty eight year old is feared dead after contact was lost with the plane which was taking him from nonce ome of his former club to wales the search has been called off until daylight

on wednesday. emilio salah only signed as a cardiff player on saturday he said he can wait to get started now his new crop are in show i mean what's cannot just describe. the look on his face. very. red he met us and we walked him around the grounds and. he was absolutely ready to give it a go. and renewable we knew him then and we really feel sad so it's sad as goals in the french league made him a favorite with non-fans joining in twenty fifteen he quickly established himself as one of the teens most reliable clay it's become a good mother he was like a friend because we used to see him at the training pitch a stadium from time to time a little to do so that i was really would congratulate him for his performances

because he was one of the players who for the most. about that or produced siler had returned to france to say farewell to his teammates in person he posted this photo on twitter with the message to my child the final goodbye. the aircraft with sal and the pilots on boats to call from a known some monday evening headed for college if it disappeared from radar close to the channel islands the search resumes today off to bad weather in the english channel a few nights but rescuers say they're not optimistic very much whether they were wearing survival gear in the woods temperatures just above ten degrees of the moment doesn't give you very long if we start to freeze up. salaries the most expensive play a qantas ever bought friend said it was his dream to step out in the english premier league a dream that may now never be fulfilled. well the last two quarter finals

spawns have been booked in soccer's asian cup south korea's kim to lead the winner in extra time to past bahrain two one south korea will face qatar in the next round a second half go from boston hisham was enough to secure a narrow victory over iraq. while superstar footballers yana were not although has pleaded guilty to tax fraud in spain the thirty three year old you ventus and portugal forward signed autographs after leaving court in madrid believe it or not in a deal with the court he agreed to settle the case by paying a nineteen million euro fine and accepting a suspended jail sentence for all charge dates back to his time playing for real madrid. russia has avoided a new ban from the world anti doping agency wanted despite missing a deadline at the end of december to hand over data from its moscow laboratory

water it was able to collect the data last week rue saw that which is russia's anti doping agency was reinstated less september on the condition that one it was given access to that data risotto was suspended back in twenty fifteen after a state sponsored doping scandal in russian sport. are business news now stephen is here to talk about the opening day of the world economic forum thread brants we know that trump isn't there she won't be there either so this year's davos meeting a chance for the europeans to turn the spotlight on themselves there's certainly enough for the continent to chew on at the moment. he's at it again part of a promotion for a scottish company in davos but it's hard not to hear a melancholic tune after all by next year's world economic forum britain should officially be out of the e.u. it's still not clear how so the british prime minister cancelled her visit to you might see prince william cross your path he probably won't be commenting on brags

that though but others like this top german economist are speaking their minds as a country infinit is the terrible things that the e.u. is trying to find a way to make britain an offer for leaving that doesn't make sense we want them to stay in the e.u. we want them to be part of it so we have a historic opportunity to turn the situation around the e.u. should be making britain an offer to stay. it breaks it were off the table europe could finally concentrate on the future again it would do well to act now so that it's not left behind in competition with china and the us. it it's time to talk about a new european economic policy in the us consumer sector there is the digital platform economy in china we see how industry is rapidly digitizing and one of the big issues here is what is the future of digital infrastructure for european industry and davros is of course a forum where all that's being discussed. that. europe will try to set the tone in

davos this year even though everything is being overshadowed by briggs it. and one of those who has made it to davos is the newly minted populist president of brazil jeb also noro he selling his new brazil to the global establishment he urgently needs investors to have confidence in the weak brazilian economy which is been run down through years of corruption and mismanagement both in our zero told the world economic forum he's opening up brazil for business he promised to fight corruption invest in security and cut taxes to boost production and generate employment. we want to show that brazil is taking measures so that the world reestablish just confidence in us. let the business will once again flourish between brazil and the rest of the world without being guided by ideology which will show the world that

we're a country safer investments especially in the area of agribusiness which is very important to us. the meeting is the first international outing for brazil's new president top economists are surprised about his popularity at davos it's ironic that. they're over for. sessions with autocrats. dominate and you can't get into that at a place like this. at a time when autocratic strong men dominate the world's political stage this year's davos gives both scenario and air of legitimacy. and to talk a little bit more about this we're going to go now to our correspondent in davos javier gave us javier was the business friendly crowd there convinced by what the business friendly bolsa naro had to say. well stephen of course you have to give also now a little bit of time we know that he just started off as an january first and there

is perhaps one approach or one aspect that people here tend to mention as a positive aspect considering of course that he is often labeled as a populist and it is that at least both so narrow does not blame the problems that brazil has other countries or for example on migrants like many populist leaders do so that is something that people are definitely rescuing from his speech that being said there are some very important crucial questions when it comes to how wilson out intends to transform brazil and the questions are about the price tag will that be at the cost of the environment or will that be at the cost of the poor in brazil that won't have state aid like they have now those are two fears that we saw since the beginning of all scenarios campaign at that yet have to be answered yet have to be solved so the public was definitely skeptical is specially considering that all

scenarios address was rather short and not really that long now if you listened closely to what he had to say he mentioned agri business as one of the pillars of how he intends to bring brazil's economy forward and that goes in line with some of the other voices of leaders that we have spoken to here in davos today for example i spoke to one of the leaders of the international fund for agricultural development and he had to say what culture actually means considering the globalization of the future. i'm so much convinced because joe is the sector that would benefit so much from the four point of only technology yes some jobs will be lost but more job will be created which is one secondly you know very aware that today and because there's almost twenty five percent of the guys in mission in terms of sustainability and to technology that also help us to make sure that the court is smart as we call it it's kind of missing might actually culture most

important to the photos is for the small holders if the more we will be able to bring technology to the small holder particularly do you feel they're more would be able to make sure that the choice of either because their job is not the last resort we would be able to develop in the youth much more interest in going back to the agriculture and therefore i think what you'll be part of the solution when you come to the you for employment what kind to false economy can make edition and yet when we speak about new technologies there's often the criticism that it's big companies it's picked countries it's the rich that really have access to them do you see the focus this year put well enough into the smaller and the poor not only does you have to see yes the danger is dead that we have to make sure that it technology is affordable a valuable and user friendly for the small holders but i have to say that even in

the past years of grady the b. companies are very very much asking as we from their money that's about what should we do what can we do to be of help from a business perspective but also to make sure that nobody is left behind so trying to michoud out we develop products that are adapted to the needs so our position also advocating very well that is important to bring the farmers organisation when you. assessing the needs and therefore making sure that we develop a product that is really in response to the need in sort of tell you about with it development well built it's a very difficult task i'm very glad that you're also fighting for it who's you bet on war thank you very much for giving us a few minutes of your time thank you so much. thank you very much javier our guest there in davos and reminder of the top stories we're following for you. france and germany have signed

a new friendship treat aimed at strengthening their relationship and their country's roles in europe the agreement includes an increasing cooperation on security and foreign policy. you're watching news from berlin after a short break brett will be back to take you through the day thanks for watching.

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