this is news to live from berlin u.s. president donald trump delivers a sprawling state of the union address calling for unity and getting out at his opponents. and economic miracle is taking place in the united states and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. we will have problems and now with this from washington including

a look at the response from his critics also coming up another devastating revelation from the catholic church pope francis admitting that some present bishops have break to nuns and that the abuse is still going on the church has also forced the not to have abortions. plots you were on the wrong track european regulators look set to vote down the bircher of the railway operations of germany and trances i'll stop. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has given a wide ranging state of the union address calling on americans to unite and on politicians to start working together across party lines on foreign policy he announced a new summit in three weeks time. with north korean leader kim jong un his speech

was due to be delivered last month but was delayed because of the dispute of a government funding for his controversial border wall. street. the president of the united states. writing for his second annual address on the high temple of american politics for a state of the union that's a week behind sched jewel such as the roller coaster of donald trump's presidency on the agenda and the sprawling speech economic border walls and matters of war and peace if i had not been elected president of the united states we would right now in my opinion be in a major war with north korea. my relationship with kim jong un is a good one chairman kim and i will meet again on february twenty seventh

and twenty eighth in vietnam. not will surely dominate the headlines but trump soon turned to the issue which almost saw the showdown in congress called his controversial plans to build a wall on the mexico border. i. in the past most of the people in this room voted for a wall. but the proper wall never got built i will get it built early in their official response the democrats called trump's decision to shut down the government over the wall disk race and happy lunar new year i'm stacy abrams the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people but our values. facing a divided congress for the first time the president called for compromise and cooperation

before attacking m s b i investigation into his campaign links to russia amid the divisions there were flashes of unity as donald trump looked out on a pool of democratic female congress women dressed in the white of the suffragette movement. yet you know like this i have exactly one should sheree after congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote we also have more women serving in congress then that any time the early. harmony at last but in this deeply polarized cauldron of politics for how long. and earlier i asked washington bureau chief alexander phenomena to sum up her take

on trump's speech. well he called upon republicans and democrats to work together to help him push through his agenda but he didn't really offer an the old friends to the democrats who talk about criminal justice reform about infrastructure about other topics like reducing costs for prescription drugs but there was no really offer of any compromise particularly when he talked about immigration and border security and now we have already heard from president trump that he will hold another two day denuclearization summit with north korean leader kim jong un but a confidential u.n. report claims that north korea is doing all that it can to ensure that its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities cannot be destroyed the two leaders met last

june where kim pledged to work toward denuclearizing the korean peninsula trump had said that there has been tremendous progress in his dealings with the state but u.n. monitors say that they found evidence that young yang's ballistic missile programs remain intact they also say the country is working to ensure those capabilities can not be hit by nuclear strikes. a quick check now some other stories making news around the world a leading u.k. newspaper says the government ministers have held secret talks on delaying britain's withdrawal from the e.u. the telegraph says that ministers discussed postponing brags that until may twenty fourth eight weeks later than planned britain and the e.u. remain deadlocked over the terms of britain's exit from the block. australian prime minister scott morrison says that he has written to thailand calling for the release of a footballer who is fighting extradition to bahrain football player hakeem al-arabiya is a former bahraini national who now has refugee status in australia he's being held

in thailand. and the former coast to reckon president. has said that a criminal complaint of scott sexual assault has been filed against him according to the new york times the paper reports that his accuser who is a doctor said that arias salted her in his own home the former nobel peace prize winner has denied the allegations. so francis has acknowledged for the first time that catholic priests and bishops have sexually abused nuns francis' admitted having suspended priests for abusing women and promised to continue fighting to eradicate the problem. nuns throughout the world abused and even held as sexual slaves by priests and bishops faced with a growing international outcry about the latest scandal to rock the catholic church the pope could no longer remain silent. they don't know the

mistreatment of women is a problem. i would dare to say that humanity has not yet matured. women all second class citizens but swears. it is a cultural problem. probably. a cultural problem that the holy see itself isn't immune to the vatican has reportedly long known about nuns being sexually abused by priests and done next to nothing to address the matter it was first publicly acknowledged as a structural issue by the vatican magazine women church world. basically the church has a great tradition and habit of not seeing women at things they don't exist but they don't count them this is a mentality that is resistant to all changes and there's another problem many of these women have been forced to have abortions with money from the church bishops

and priests have paid this is a very bad thing for a church that fights abortion and this is dramatic. last year various media outlets and clerical women's organizations started denouncing the culture of silence and secrecy that prevented nuns from speaking out about sexual violence. that if an abuse none goes to her superior and says that she has suffered abuse she will be told to shut up with because if you don't want this bishop will turn against us the noise. the power that these bishops and priests have has become truly dreadful for magdalene think that i mean. the consequences have been too difficult for them to bear would happen. with more and more abuse cases being brought to light pope francis is now vowing to step up efforts to protect nuns from unwanted sexual advances by clergymen. i can't slow you this doesn't happen in my heart

this is true. should something will be done yes you do we have the will yes. but it's a puff that we've been on for quite some time yet. the pope asked the faithful to pray for progress on the issue but just praying for a change is unlikely to break the cycle of abuse in the catholic church. now the next big thing in european mergers may just be too big for european authorities france's finance minister has now said that the e.u. commission has rejected a merger between german engineering giant siemens and france's allston the two companies were set to merge their railway businesses to enable them to take on foreign rivals brussels is worried about creating a monopoly. it may not be all aboard for the merger of europe's two most important train producers with siemens i c

e on the left teaming up with france's out stone t.g.v. on the right the companies have been working on the merger for a year now but even if they do succeed they will still be miles away from the chinese industry leader that company is c r r c with an estimated annual turnover of twenty four billion euros together zeman is in our stone are worth just over half that amount and canadian train make a bomb body a is left far behind and a new zealand's our system giant wouldn't automatically be better for european consumers at least that's what some in brussels think so e.u. competition commission imitative a stock is not expected to approve the merger in europe the alliance would be close to a monopoly but zeman are more concerned about the global market the main competitor is a state owned corporation make that a super conglomerate emerged from two state owned corporations. chinese own c r r

c is planning ultramodern projects. for example trains that don't run on rails and new zealand's austell merger would have to keep track of new developments. and earlier we asked our financial correspondent in frankfurt what the reasons are for wanting to block this merger. the two merged companies would make up about forty percent of the european market share in the commission is just worried that this kind of monopoly might be too much that it might derail the competition and there for leads to to less choice and ultimately to higher prices for consumers we saw with the breakup of the energy sector in europe how that brought down prices back or have tried to make the e.u. look at at the broader picture not just look at the european market but look at china for example where the c.r.c. the chinese railway company has managed to gain over seventy percent of the global

market share when siemens alstom merged company would only make a dwarfish ten percent in that global market. now japan's car giant toyota saw its nine month operating profit fall close to thirty percent prompting it to slash its full year forecast it attributed the drop to slumping sales in north america and equity investment losses blowback from a potential no deal brads it also has the carmaker worried its predicting annual profits of one point nine trillion yen or just under what fifteen billion euros that's down from earlier estimates of more than eighteen billion this. summer face is also a german carmaker dime last year's profits fell twenty nine percent to seven point six billion dollars last year despite selling more cars the auto giant had a challenging twenty eighteen following the united states trade disputes with china and the european union in which the car making industry has been

a big bone of contention the aftermath of the diesel emission scandal also wait until i learn it is the first german car maker to release results this year. a quick reminder of the top stories we've been following for you here at g.w. in his second state of the union address president trump has called for an end to the politics of revenge saying that the state of the union is strong trump called on congress to support his border wall with mexico he also announced a second summit with north korean leader kim jong un to take place in vietnam later this month. and coming up next monday to be used berlin joining with golden twenties was regarded as the most modern the trouble is in europe people flock to nightclubs to enjoy this uninhibited and decadent parties the second part of the doc film berlin metropolis of crime and uses criminal cases to paint a picture of the lead during the weimar republic that's all from us for now but

joost keep it here at the w for all that and mark i'm sorry kelly is berlin thank you so much for joining us have a great day. any time.