chinese detectives starts feb fifteenth on w. o. o. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin a devastating fire in paris the blaze in garson apartment building killing at least ten people police believe the fire may have been caused deliberately. also in france unions course for a general strike to protest against the policies of french president in modern them across the board for action comes as the core cross to placate his critics by

holding town hall style meetings across the country plus the us president donald trump is set to deliver his state of the union address this evening his controversial plans for a border war i expect it to feature calm and meet in his address we'll hear more from our washington bureau chief. cullen welcome i'm touching good to have your company. police in paris have received a woman in connection with the fire in which at least ten people have been killed it took place at a residential building in the sixteenth hour on this mall a wealthy area in the southwestern part of the city several people were also injured in the blaze and rescuers are searching the building police suspect the fire may have been deliberately. paris is wealthy

sixteenth district only to die residents say they heard a woman scream sin there after flames began shooting out of the top of a night story apartment building the five and through the night first responders described what happened here as a scene of incredible violence many survivors were torn from their sleep and fled the flames any way they could. i live on the eighth floor so i tried to climb from balcony to balcony to get away. eventually we had to huddle in a corner other people clint up to where i was to escape the fire. hundreds of firefighters were called in they took hours to bring the blaze under control and several of them are among the dozens injured in the fire. i want to pay tribute to the huge response by paris's firefighters floor by floor

they climbed eight flights of stairs and saved as many lives as they could fifty people with saved that way you know this is. the search vance's has now begun authorities have detained a forty year old graduate into the building over the incident she said to have a history of psychiatric problems and the search for the times is being as far for his reach the top floors with the death toll likely to rise further the sense of shock and grief in paris will only increase. pope francis is ended a three day trip to the united arab emirates by leading a mass attended by more than one hundred eighty thousand people in the event fails a stadium in the capital would be during the second when he acknowledged the plight of migrant workers in the gulf country many a filipino and indian and work to support families back home earlier he called for more cooperation between muslims and christians. as the

crowds cheer pope francis is cavalcade makes its way slowly into this sports stadium in abu dhabi. all around the catholic faithful care to mark this historic occasion. for most of you by his personal views about you know which appears to each morning they would imagine that they will see the pope in this country you obviously you are. i never imagined the. the. it's. not the issue is. this the first ever papal mass in the arabian peninsula and what some consider to be the largest show of public christian worship in the gulf arab region public displays of non islamic faith are restricted

but on the last day of the pope's visit tens of thousands openly celebrate mass with him. for jesus on the other hand blessid of the poor the me very sternly to those who remain just even at the cost of appearing in a bad light to those who read those who are persecuted or joining who is correct here jesus or the world. to understand this let us look at how jesus lived poor in respect to things but we'll see in love and a final message in a country famous for its riches and the end to a landmark trip in which the pope has appealed for christians and muslim leaders to work together to promote peace. look at some other

stories making news around the world russia's defense minister says the country must develop a new land based missiles within two years sergey saw goo's comments come after russia followed the united states in announcing its own big drawers from a decades old nuclear weapons on sas to the agreement the i.n.f. treaty bands or short and mid range missiles launched from the ground. british prime minister terrorism mabel visit northern ireland later today in the bid to reassure people of the border issue tourism may want to renegotiate or break the deal with the e.u. and seek alternatives to the backstop proposal avoiding a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. to the u.s. now where president armstrong is set to deliver a state of the union address later today he is expected to challenge democrats to approve funding for

a long sought border war but it's thought he stopped short of declaring a national emergency over the war at least for now his aides say he will also call for unity and optimism the w.'s alexander phenomenon takes a look at what we can expect. this state of the union address a grand stage for the u.s. president to speak directly to a national audience about what he has accomplished and what still needs to be done but what is the state of the union after two years of trump's president see my state of the union i think and pretty good shape and look forward to hearing what the president has to say. going to serve union in the conmen everything and hopefully to. focus a little bit more and bipartisanship working together i think it's. put the car. in the white house and we have an incompetent.

possibly in saying no person at the head of the three executive. the same old stuff . you know money for the border. and all the other stuff he wants can afford choosing greatness that's the official white health theme for donald trump address to congress you as president plans to strike a conciliatory tone and deliver a cold for you need speech but in many ways it might be too late the country and congress are divided along party lines and the democrats are determined to make sure that's true on from maine a one term president rebuilding the country's infrastructure lowering the cost of prescription drugs these are issues both parties could agree on but instead they fight over trump's planned border wall the topic is expected to be front and center of trump's address to congress with no indication of either side giving an inch we

will be looking at a national emergency because i don't think anything's going to happen i think the democrats don't want border security and when i hear them talking about the fact that walls are immoral and will still work they know they work to. suggested there will be a major announcement in his speech but then again he might be just trying to raise expectations ahead of the address he's difficult to predict says elaine k. mark alter and former aides to president bill clinton we don't know if he'll stick to the script and also remember that behind him sit the vice president who is by the constitution the president of the senate and the speaker of the house nancy pelosi so i don't know what kinds of expressions nancy pelosi might make as he is making this speech but that will be interesting to house speaker nancy pelosi will be visible in nearly every camera shot her presence is evidence of the newfound power of the democratic party and

a reminder of trump's struggles to adapt to a divided government in washington. unions in france of course a general strike to protest against the policies of president emanuel mccraw demonstrations are set to take place across the country some representatives of the yellow vest protest movement are also expected to join the rallies as the city braces for demonstrations i asked correspondent max hoffman in the french capital to tell us more. it's the city's it is so one of the biggest unions in france that has called for the general strike in paris to be fair some unions have abstained from this but the interesting part here is how many yellow vests will really participate in this strike because they are at a crucial juncture yes they have the same topics as the c.c.t. as the union it's against social injustice but in the beginning the yellow bus

especially were proud not to be affiliated with the unions not to be affiliated with any political parties but now some of them have other plans because they feel like this movement as we have known it for the last month has run its course that's why our reporter catherine martin went out there to speak to one of their leaders to find out what their plans are clean little or no longer takes out her yellow vests to protest she was one of the founders of the yellow vests movement but now she's moving on at age fifty one she's founding a political party news imaginal all the emerging ones the goal is to fight for greater social justice and equality. sets and then. continue this week i'll continue to do my part she's ill fitted but we have to develop a network across the region. two thousand it will be a lot of work i'm looking. for now the party headquarters are in her kitchen

don't could not muster is over to so that there's no time for lunch new goes and the afternoon coordinating with supporters and dealing with legal questions she's a composer but her face is known across france as one of the leaders of the yellow vests need keys but more it's the money for. how you tube video against president emanuel and the old tax hikes went viral and stirred up the yellow vests protests but now she says it's time to move on. the movement has reached rock bottom it's becoming nonsense. they've radicalised tonight these people think the oh and the whole yellow vests movement there to no one can own me or hold me hostage. move who isn't alone and denouncing the yellow vests to. the more than ten thousand people took to the streets of paris

that message to the yellow vests that's enough they feel increasingly alienated from the movement it's the first rally in months that's for the government. twenty one million people voted for the president. to define actually i'm defending freedom and democracy. structure and trade also hurts people. back in movie was village in brittany many people support her rejection of violence and also backed her party that's critical of the government. i think it's a moderate and constructive way to propose ideas. but they don't want to get rid of the president is enough we believe it's better to deal with the current government and try to improve things rather than to kick them i could believe you

they. just stand an upcoming local elections she wants to play a different political. actually his report while the paper was a prominent and they had no vested moving now was to create a own political body what do you think this means for present money and mcconnell i read a maybe we'll even see more than one party emerge from the yellow bus movement because it's really never been such a unified movement but there are some cross points with the far right because in the beginning the all of us weren't affiliated to a party some of the far right movements tried to take advantage of that for example that i saw him on us in the formerly known as for on us you know from not even look ten but what might happen now is that they will take away votes from the far right now in current polls it looks like the far right like the us and on the us and is

an head of you know under my call for the european elections but that might change with the yellow vest parties coming into the pictures too early to say but there is an actual possibility that it might have been my call might win european elections here in france because of the yellow vests which would be quite a contradiction so this could actually play into his hands a max but in monaco meanwhile is on his town hall meetings in a victor connect with the feet but how's that going on. well it's all part of the strategy what he's trying to do on the one hand is to reach out to the people to give them the impression that he has abandoned his top down approach his vertical approach of the monotheists versus years of his presidency that was didn't go down too well with the french so he's listening he's listening to the mayors he was concentrated on the rule areas now he's going to the city she's going to the suburbs hard to say if this is really working out because we don't have any numbers

on that it seems that some mayors some officials are impressed by that the yellow vests aren't impressed they say still the same minor and i call his government is not listening on the other had this trying to get tough and be on those yellow vests that are still on the streets especially those that are violent actually today the something that's you know so the parliament here in paris will pass a law that allows officials to be tougher on those that are demonstrating or even altogether tell them that they're not allowed to demonstrate also highly criticized move but part of the dual strategy on the one hand listening on the other hand getting tougher right max so fun in paris thank you very much for that. not a problem occupying germany's policy makers how does europe strongest economy stays strong in the face of billions of chinese investment and the u.s. is dominant position in digital tech jim is economy minister peter has just given an address outlining the country's industry strategy here's some of what he said.

we are achieving a turnaround mainly that germany moves from being a passive observer of developments which are in full swing in the us japan and china to an actor that must be our goal we must approach it in an impartial and confident way with the determination to succeed. of. joining me now is my colleague monica jones from businesses welcome monica before we talk what the strategy first tell me i mean jelly is the largest economy in europe why does it need an industry strategy what if you've mentioned some of the things in your introduction already i mean for one there's this huge competition obviously and china's big appetite for german technology and the competition when it comes to the new technologies especially if the digitalisation in the united states and their germany is lagging behind dreadfully i remember and you will remember that just a couple of months ago we heard and an industry survey which was released by the

o.e.c.d. which actually said that germany was. the highest innovation level of all the industrialized countries but that is misleading because that only refers to research and development to the amount of peyton's that we put forward which is all brilliant but when it comes to implementing those innovations real business ideas real products that is what germany is like and behind and just to give you an example of which it's always the same example it hasn't changed in germany we still have vast areas where fast internet access is not possible and that's a big problem for the companies there they can't you know develop artificial intelligence which is something that. the economy minister likes to quote mention an awful lot autonomous driving which could be key for the german car industry is it possible in those regions and that needs to be tackled though we heard a bit or what the german economy minister had to safety to briefly some of what do you think is the strategy is going to be well one of course is to develop key

technologies in germany and that brings us back to the digital infrastructure right now the germany has a competition for companies to bring in their bits for the roll out of the very fast five g. internet by the way chinese away the very controversial company is also allowed to to submit its bid and this is exactly the problem already here way already holds some sixty percent of technical infrastructure which is currently needed for our mobile phones here in germany if we said all right we want to have a law on national champions which is what the strategy is all about what that means you would have to separate your way and that means that would throw us back something like two years which we would need more in order to get five g. so. that national strategy still has to prove that it's actually working it's monica just thank you very much and i'm sure you have more on that story in business news later. on the german budget can't get money or has grounded all

its flights after filing for bankruptcy the airlines in strong struggles became clear when it was unable to pay its workers last month good money is just the latest carrot to declare bankruptcy in germany off to add berlin did the same and a half ago especially low cost operators are facing many headwinds europe's biggest budget airline grinding air recently announced plans to slash spending and the two thousand and nineteen isn't either rising fuel expenses and foreign ticket prices good for the airlines. not to a new development in the so-called football league the whistleblowing platform that has revealed some of the murky aspects of the global football business. a major source for the stunning revelations is now gone public for the first time after his recent arrest speaking to the german broadcaster. a secret

location in budapest it's here in this modest apartment building. wants to give his side of the story. on january sixteenth last he was arrested in the hungary in capital in response to a portuguese arrest warrant on charges of attempted extortion and cyber crimes. he's under house arrest wearing an ankle monitor while awaiting a decision on whether he is a whistleblower who illegally obtained the documents which could exonerate him or whether he is a cyber criminal. which could lead to extradition. i'm a whistleblower what matters for me and for football leaks is the documents are authentic i don't care about the origin. or so i have i have to expose and we have to giornale ascribable with the real deal and among those documents are details of confidential plans for an elite super league or kofi for president john

yoo frontino helped top european clubs get around the financial fair play rules who also admitted to contacting sports investment company under a false name a meeting was organized which led to accusations of attempted extortion. i think i was naive if. i did. i mean something stupid i decided to play with them and basically said that yeah i have some documents. and i wanted i wanted to see their reaction i wanted i wanted to know. how. how valuable were these documents for them i want i wanted to know fault for how far they were ready to go and you really really. no. zero point zero faces up to ten years in prison in portugal if convicted. and beaten or both. because i'm

a target and. and i feel that at the moment i will enter portuguese thea lee's been jail. i can end up that. i'm aware of. a home gary in court times until march nineteenth to decide if pinto will be extradited to his native portugal. with me now i have chris had intended from did these thoughts welcome chris but it is a little bit about the football release in the background it was sort of revelations have been coming out over the past year well well first off the history behind it it started as a website twenty fifteen you know the biggest story the most recent revelation is has been surrounding krishna rinaldo this alleged rape case he's dealing with it's ongoing in the united states specifically las vegas nevada so that's the biggest that's continues to make headlines you know but as we heard of the report you know

the alleging that gianni if it's you know if he was president was involved in helping clubs evade the financial fair play rules you know these things obviously caused a lot of outcry of justice you know in the public but it really changed when spud locations such as d.s.p. go and just a network of investigative journalist started reporting on these issues and that's why it's come to light and what's going to be no a budget. situation and the allegations that he's facing well the allegations are quite serious you know he's dealing. the portuguese government you know are trying to charge him with extortion violation of secrecy and also accessing information illegally you know and i think that's the biggest issue that he'll have to deal with but he did give stiff spiegel and investigative journalists seventy million documents of the information so we haven't had enough time to go through all of

these different types of things that might come to light you know soon enough but there's a lot of information to filter through and as of right now it is just a very interesting and peculiar case and i really i feel fearful for what could happen subpoenaed so absolutely insole is he we heard in our report that he says he is a target how serious is the situation for him well for him in portugal specifically one thing that he's accused of doing is excess in information that suggests been fico portugal's most successful club was dealing had some misconduct and they ultimately were charged with corruption and portugal you know being a hotbed of football fans if he is extradited that's what he's waiting for to for it to be decided if he is extradited he's received death threats via facebook authorities have told them take those quite serious he basically describes the situation in portugal is being the mafia is everywhere those are his own words so i

think you have to take very seriously what we heard last from him in the report that his life could be on the line and i do hope you know for the best in this particular outcome and do for you then you see this going chris given the number of documents how much is it going to time is what we all call the beautiful game the i think the gilded age is over the idea of having heroes and putting them up on a pedestal is over because once we find out this terminating information about someone obviously we're going to look at them in a different light so i think reputations are at stake and in terms of what he will be classified will also warn future people you know whether or not they should follow in his footsteps. so i think that's in march that should happen so we have to wait and see what the courts in hungary decide right chris hansen from us for says thank you very much. and for your celebrations for the lunar new year underway across large parts of east asia in downtown beijing thousands of people gathered to pray for the good fortune of the next twelve months and before was reenacted

a traditional so many dedicated to the god of the earth most commonly believed to bring riches and a good harvest today marks the start of the year of the pig astrologers believe it's a year of success friendship and love no matter what years of the excise. and from all of us here do the obvious news desk. peace and prosperity in the year of the big.

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