troops detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . place. blame. blame. blame. blame. this is you know what you do is live from berlin the anger at inequality spills onto the french streets major trade and unions trade unions rather join yellow vests activists in widespread industrial action in the latest challenge to i mean aren't you a man you read my comments a government they demanded a social justice and higher wages still in france a devastating fire in paris flames engulf an apartment building killing at least

ten people police believe the fire may have been caused intentionally also u.s. president double trouble is set to deliver his second state of the union address of this evening for his controversial plans for a border wall are expected to feature prominently in this highly anticipated speech plus a new revelations in the so-called of the football league says the alert source behind the largest leak in the history of sports goes public for the very first time ruperto discusses his role and his uncertain future following his arrest his recent arrest in budapest and the boat celebrates nason i doubt the tens of thousands flocked to see him in the siege sports stadium france's uses the historic occasion to directly address the million catholic migrants living in the u.a.e. .

leyla iraq it's great to have you along everyone one of france's major trade unions has called a day of strikes to protest against the policies of president emanuel. demonstrations are underway in paris and around the country a labor union to organize the action in response to what it called the country's social emergency and to call for a fairer taxation system while us some people involved in the country's yellow best movement which has been protesting against president michel since last november have also joined the rallies. all right let's find out how things are right now in the french capital is our correspondent max hofmann max why is this strike so significant. because it's the first time and you can see that the jaime

that you have one of the big unions the c.c.t. teaming up with the gene is old so the yellow this movement the yellow this movement in the past always prided themselves to be independent of political parties or traditional affiliations like unions but here it is different that we talk to some of them and everybody says the same thing we are fighting for the same cause social justice so it's not uncommon to find in this crowd people who are at the same time members of the c.g. t. so that trade union but also jeanne is old was what they call convergence here that's what's happening on the streets of paris today put this in perspective for us max is this a turning point for the yellow vests movement. well the yellow this movement is trying to reinvent themselves that is the strong impression we are getting in paris first of all there are a lot of people who say this has gone far enough they are fed up with the movement because they say it's. violent and it is also keeping them from making money

because tourists are no longer coming or coming in decreased numbers during the weekends to paris because they're afraid of the violence so they say this is enough and then you have some of the leaders who are trying to take this to the next level they're founding political parties they want to participate in the european elections but we have to see how it plays out because today here we have a very very mixed crowd public workers public sector workers we also saw many people from the black bloc there has been some violence of it of course you have the trade unionist so this is a very wide mix of people how exactly this is going to develop some political power we have to we have to wait and see really quite huge crowds there i mean really se of humans that there behind you know what does this mean for president michael. just like this movement is at the crossroads in money when the call still is that the crossroads this is probably the first time in months where he has

a chance to regain the momentum two fold first of all he's trying to reach out to people through his big national debate that's been going on now for some weeks and will continue until the fifteenth of march making them understand he no longer is relying on the top down method of governing he's trying to get new ideas trying to find compromise that's one point but the other side of course is he's trying to crack down on the violent elements of the yellow this movement that's why today the parliament here is expected to pass a new law just for that to be able to prohibit demonstrations especially violent demonstrations river people from covering their faces it's it's inspired by the anti hooligan law here in fred's also very heavily criticized but still too full crackdown on the violent elements reach out to all the other that's his way of trying to regain the momentum right max hoffman reporting from paris thank you. and staying in paris there were police. there have arrested

a woman in connection with a fire in which at least ten people have been killed and more than thirty were injured it took place at a residential building in the sixteenth on the small the district is located in the city's south west not far from the center river first responders are still at the scene continuing their search of the building and there are fears now that more victims will be discovered in the hours ahead. paris's wealthy sixteenth district early to die residents say they heard a woman scream sin there off the flames began shooting out of the top of a night story apartment building the fire then 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. you know 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 will code 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 safe that way. to sort. this search frances is now begun the authorities have detained a forty year old resident of the building hugging the incident she said to have a history of psychiatric problems. the death toll from this plies may get rise. the city's mayor says paris is in mourning already this fire is the deadliest in a decade. here washington news we still have

a lot more to tell you about including the pope wraps up the historic visit to the united arab emirates with a powerful mass to local catholics but will his message as peace and tolerance influence the region. but first want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. a taleban assault on an army base in northern afghanistan has killed at least twenty six members of the country's security forces the attack and can do is province lasted for more than two hours while the militants were eventually repelled when reinforcements arrived. british prime minister to resign may he says she will visit brussels on thursday to secure changes to her bridge the deal surest ensured that the u.k. is not locked indefinitely in the northern irish backstop a policy intended to prevent a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland may is talking

in belfast today. russia's defense minister says the country must develop new a land based missiles within two years sergey it show whose comments come after russia followed the united states in announcing its withdrawal from nuclear weapons agreement on saturday well that agreement the i.m.f. treaty bans all short mid range missiles launched from the ground. a new study warns that two thirds of the glaciers in the himalayas could melts by the year twenty one hundred if global emissions that is are not reduced scientists say even if global warming was limited to one point five degrees celsius a third of the glaciers would still disappear the glaciers in the himalayas supply billions of people with water. u.s. president donald trump is set to deliver his second state of the union speech later

today he's expected to challenge democrats to a proof funding for the wall he wants to build on the border with mexico his aides say he will also call for unity and optimism but critics fear it will be difficult to overcome division after the last two years of personal attacks and animosity w.'s i'll examine our nominee has this preview of tonight's highly anticipated speech. 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 would. it's the state of the union after two years of trump's presidency my state of the union i think and pretty good shape you know i look forward to hearing what the president has to say. during the state of union in the congo and everything and hopefully to. focus a little bit more and bipartisanship working together i think it's in. bad shape at

the top. in the white house where we have an incompetent. possibly i'm sorry no person with you know that the executive coach 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 unity and he 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 trump remains 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 transplant border will 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 it was still work they know their work clamp has 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 kmart author and former aide 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 new found power of the democratic party and a reminder of trump's struggles to adapt to a divided government in washington. to business now and one of the most pressing questions facing berlin how does europe strongest economy stay strong in the face of billions of chinese investment and the u.s. is dominant position in digital tech germany's economy minister peter outlier says his government has found an answer here's a look at the key points of the country's so-called industry strategy twenty three . shore up europe's economic motor and almost german companies like siemens and thyssen krupp against hostile takeovers that's the goal of the german government's new investment strategy after recent years so china buy up one company after the

other germany's economic affairs minister says burn in can't afford to sell its high tech peyton's to foreign powers. and it's not good as i think when certain countries and specific companies use very aggressive tactics to expand their market share then we have the right and responsibility to respond. out smiles say said german companies needed to lead the pack when it comes to innovation in new technologies like artificial intelligence or battery development for electric cars but in is planning to help kick start that development with billions in new investment which could also help protect german jobs aren't reform or we are now joined by clemons first from the institute one of europe's leading business at think tanks a very good to see you mr force i mean what i wonder with this investment plan is

germany's economic situation really that bad that it calls for a plan like the one that's been presented today it's not bad at all but this is about the future the question is how sustainable is the position of german industry and hence a massive intervention measure in the free market basically so you know without being too dramatic is this the beginning of the end of germany's free market economy. i hope it isn't and i see a number of problems in this strategy one problem is the tendency to imitate what the chinese are doing so the china is an economy that is still catching up technologically in this situation it may be good to have some steering towards export markets to us large companies germany is a different situation german industry is a technology leader and we know from research on investor policy that what's needed here is p.s.

competition to make sure that these large companies innovate and change so i think a lot of the things we find in this strategy are problematic one example is the emphasis on size on loss companies if you look at the german industry at the companies their competitive edge is often due to specialisation to being very inoperative but not to size germany is the country of the hidden champions self small companies very specialized and very innovative and there is nothing that suggests that this model won't work in the future all right well let's continue talking about the elephant in the room china which is the reason behind this investment plan how is facing likely to react. i think that beijing has its strategy they have the plan manufacturing china made in

china twenty twenty five this is a plan for upgrading manufacturing for catching up in technology and what the chinese are doing is actually experimenting a lot they have to find ten key technologies where they want to be leaders about what they're really doing is experiment very broadly. but we need to see what if what they do i think the german economy and the european economy needs to do to base its industrial policy on its own conditions and we are not like china we are different at the same time it's true we need to keep an eye for instance on subsidies paid by china to chinese firms and we of course need to check is this are these subsidies distort in competition and then we can take measures but i think the chinese model is not a model for us for instance i don't think we should protect our large companies

against foreign takeovers this will only make them lazy and this will only prevent them from implementing the necessary changes from innovating i think we need capital market pressure on them at the same time i think are we not as joplin's as europeans should use our market power access to the european market not to keep the chinese up but to make sure we have access to the chinese market. commons first from the i have no institute sir thank you so much for sharing your perspectives on this issue thank you. now annex to pope francis who has ended a three day trip to the united arab emirates by leading a mass attended by more than one hundred eighty thousand people while the event filthy they had sports stadium in the capital of davido all during its mass the pope raised concerns about the plight of migrant workers and the gulf region a part of also called for more harmony and tolerance between muslims and christians

. as the crowds cheer pope francis is cavalcade makes its way slowly into the zoe sports stadium in abu dhabi. all around the catholic faithful care to mark this historic occasion. the most viewed by his person could you see you know which appears to eternal i would imagine that they will see the pope in this country you know that is what you. might never imagine leaving. the. it sound which. he is with. 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 of restricted but on the last day of the pope's visit tens of thousands openly celebrate mass with him. positioning. for jesus on the other hand blessid of the poor the me very sternly those who remain just even at the cost of appearing in a bad line to those who read those who are persecuted or join in who is correct here jesus or the world. but to understand this let us look at how jesus lived poor in respect to things but wealthy 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.

hour an hour to a new development in the so-called football leagues the whistleblowing platform that has revealed some of the murky aspects of the global football business where pinto a major source for the stunning revelations has now gone public for the first time after his recent arrest speaking to german broadcaster a.r.d. . a secret location in budapest it's here in this modest apartment building we're told 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 and wearing an ankle monitor while awaiting a decision on whether he is a whistleblower who legally 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 i'm a whistleblower so i have i have to expose and he have to jordan. the real deal the monk those documents are details of confidential plans for an elite super league or for president john yoo frontino helped top european clubs get around the financial fair play rules. 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 they 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 fought for how far they were ready to go if you really really know the. faces up to ten years in prison in portugal if convicted. and beaten are both. because of them a target. and i feel that at the moment i will enter a poor portuguese jail more thea leave the bun jail. i can end up and that. i'm aware of. a hungary and court time zone two on march nineteenth to decide if pinto will be extradited to his native portugal. all right well joining me now for more on this topic is at mccain bridge from d.w.

sports good to see you ed give us some background on football leagues for those of us who haven't really been following it closely what has been revealed during the past couple of year ok so really it was set up in autumn twenty fifteen with the aim of publicizing documents relating to corruption and the legal activity in the world of football now initially revelations sense on things like players' salaries and tax evasion but in the past twelve months things have taken a rather more sinister air the bit allegations of match fixing in portugal particularly relating to benfica one of the most successful clubs in portugal accusations made against fifa president giani in fancy you know claiming he has assisted clubs in the evasion of financial fair play regulations and more recently evidence relating to the rape allegations made against christiane iran eldo currently under investigation in las vegas now at the time of his arrest pin so claims have been in possession of more than seventy million documents so as far as we know the revelations of this magnitude could just be the tip of the iceberg that

these are really high profile revelations they're high profile cases what do we know about real. pinto the whistleblower that we just saw in that report in the allegations that he faces while he's currently awaiting the verdict of the hunger in color we just saw in the report so he's going to find out if he's going to be extradited to portugal now if he is he'll face charges there of sort of a crime and extortion now he says he's just an honest whistleblower book portuguese officials claim that he obtained these documents illegally through hacking now he claims he didn't do that they also claim he tried to use this information to extort money from organizations in exchange for his silence a lot to say first we have to wait to find out if he's going to be extradited right and what was really scary is that he actually fears for his life and yeah that's right he says as we saw in the report he says the he's received death threats via social media and all sorts he told me to take it seriously right mccambridge from do you sports thank you. our next celebrations for the lunar

new year are underway across large parts of east asia and downtown beijing thousands of people gathered to pray for good fortune over the next twelve months that performers reenacted a traditional ceremony dedicated to the god of the earth who is commonly believed to bring riches and a good harvest but today marks the start of the year of the pig in astrologers believe it's the year of success friendship and love no matter what your zodiac sign. great news for all of us are a reminder of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour. french workers have joined with yellow vests activists and widespread strike action to gather there demanding greater action on inequality and higher wages with a large is the latest rather challenge to the government a presence in many ways a market. all right up next kick off with the display the highlights of match day twenty go for it you can get all your news headlines on our website the c.w.

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