start the jewelry t. w. this is coming to you live from berlin the u.s. president dollar trying delivers his state of the union address he calls for national unity but also kids out at his opponents and economic miracle is taking place in the united states and the old thing that can stop it or foolish wars politics or ridiculous partition investigation.

analysis office address and get some reactions of people also coming up. another devastating revelation from the catholic church pope francis admits that some priests and bishops have drips nonstop and that the abuse is still going on the church is also for finance or have abortions. you're on the wrong track european regulators vetoed the merger of the reveal durations of germany's siemens and france is a strong. plus one young nigerian boy has found it people in lagos with his a rare talent for now he's hoping to go global you find out why join helps to kill his pain.

hello i'm a bit touchy now 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 politicians to start working together across party lines on foreign policy he announced a new summit with north korean leader kim jong un in three weeks his address was delayed by over a month because of his dispute over the controversial border wall. street. the president of the united states. arriving for his second annual address such a high temple of american politics for a state of the union that's a week behind sched jewel such as the rule a coaster of donald trump's presidency on the agenda and the sprawling speech economic order 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 german kim and i will meet again on february twenty seventh and twenty eighth in vietnam. the news 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. 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 going their official response the democrats called tom's decision to shut down the government over the wall is a disgrace 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 an f.b.i. investigation into his campaign links to russia amid the divisions there were flashes of unity as donald trump looked on a pool of democratic female congress women dressed in the white of the suffragette movement. you know like this. and exactly one surgery after congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote we also have more women serving in congress then that every time.

harmony lost but in this deeply polarized cauldron of politics for how long. now for some analysis of trump's address i haven't needed to get lance's ahead of the aspen institute. what do you make of the seat of the union address there do you think trump was able to bridge differences with the democrats despite what we heard as flashes of unity and reader we just saw it that was one of the rare moments when nancy pelosi the speaker of the house also applauded trump but she did it only because you mentioned that there were more women in business and in congress but if you look at the numbers there more than eighty congressmen on the democratic side but only thirteen on the republican side so what the congress did when they were pulled from the democrats pulled in prosperity if you don't you have

me against you built a wall and i with you and this will not work ok and what defines us is international international partners what do you think they'll take away from this a state of the union address because he has a reputation of alienating his allies and pandering to his foes he didn't officially alienate his but allies but he did mention them and that small the same as in the past this was a speech directed at the domestic public and maybe looking forward to the next upcoming presidential election twenty twenty so he didn't mention the nato alliance he didn't mention international bodies like them. did nations he didn't mention america's role within that framework what he didn't mention was pulling out of a maybe pulling out of syria which you already announced and partially. went away from it so this is more america alone that's why america western allies are very much concerned about this president because he's not consulting us on anything

concerning foreign policy and global economic policy but talking about domestic politics he has trump has some seventeen investigations going on and he's just lost a battle with the democrats of it over the funding of the border wall is this it was this the speech of a president who is in control or also someone who is a bit him back to it and weakened he's made sure and he tried to show no signs of take of refusal or or backing off i mean he's a fighter and i think this has to be recognized. as foreign allies but also about those he will stand his his term and tried to to win the battle but i think he's the battle he's facing not only a lot of sort of investigation of the month of reports will come out pretty soon and we have to read between the lines what's in there and if that will be enough to

sort of weaken him we'll have to see but he has the next ten days and then he has to decide to do what about the ball and if the democrats the cave in and it doesn't look like then he will have lost another battle trying to do to get lance the head off the aspen institute here in germany thank you very much for that assessment. listen look at one of the biggest announcements in that seat of the union address president trump said that he would hold another two days summit with north korean leader kim jong un on denuclearization next month at the same time a confidential your report claims north korea is doing all it can to ensure its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities cannot be destroyed the two leaders last met last june where kim pledged to work towards denuclearizing the korean peninsula trungpa said there has been tremendous progress in his dealings with the state but u.n. monitors say they found evidence that pyongyang ballistic missile programs remain

intact they also say the country's working to ensure the skater abilities cannot be hit by nuclear strikes. let me have been some other stories making news around the world macedonia has taken a major step towards joining the military alliance nato after signing an access and protocol didn't need to analyze macedonia as foreign minister says nato secretary general led the document finding ceremony the move comes after the resolution of name dispute with greece. a leading u.k. newspaper says government says it has secret talks on delaying britain's been drawn from the e.u. the telegraph's ace ministers discussed postponing brags that until the twenty fourth of may that's eight weeks later than planned britain and the e.u. remain deadlocked over the terms of britain's exit from the bloc. tire parties have said that a refugee footballer fighting extradition to bahrain could remain in jail until

august while his case is decided. he was arrested in thailand in november while visiting from history of costa rica oscar arias has had a criminal complaint of sexual assault filed against him has been deported by the new york times the paper reports that is a q. the doctor said arias afforded her in his own home the former nobel peace prize winner has denied the allegations. the catholic church has been hit by yet another abuse scandal for the first time pope francis has acknowledged that high ranking members of the clergy have sexually abused and raped nuns francis admitted suspending priests and bishops for abusing women and promised to do more to eradicate the problem up to the vatican has done almost nothing to address the crimes campaigners say the reports are protected by a culture of silence and secrecy. nuns throughout the world abused and

even held a 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. on the mistreatment of women is a problem. i would say that humility. women are second class citizens but. it is a cultural problem. 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 they don't count then this is a mentality that is resistant to all changes with 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 denounce the culture of silence and secrecy that prevented nuns from speaking out. about 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 this bishop will turn against us you know i. think the power that these bishops and priests have has become truly dreadful for maggie when through that i mean without

a sword 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 more be done yes you do have the will yes. but it's a pass that we've been on for quite some time. the pope has off the face full to pray for progress on the issue but many want to see action now not just words. i did talk more about this. religious affairs analyst welcome martin some really shocking revelations we heard in our report the full this talking about the clergy abusing and raping nuns what is the scale that we're talking about. we don't really

know one sort of this merger brown one particular case in friends and the go to live events really shows a pattern sort of pretty widespread there are cases that we know of in india other cases that we know of and that in america and also in asia. the fact is that we don't know but you know in a sense i mean there is no longer a scandal and what we have now is a very very consistent pattern of sexual abuse that only at every level not only children that were put in the care of the church but now actually within the very structure of the church against each other and you know against nuns that are essentially part of there are so you know we are at this stage in which really i think you know i myself following this for a very long time know i can honestly say that i more or less have run out of outrage and you know it's very hard to say how was it that the church manages to maintain itself without actually making various specific claims as to what policy

they're going to take. because you know it seems it's been known for a while that nuns were being abused why has the pontiff decided to speak about it now but i mean there is something to be said in favor of the fact that the church which was not talking about it most certainly did not mean that it was not occurring and i think that for many years those of us that were looking at many things thought it is remarkable that they can get away without saying this is something that one can say in favor of this but the sea which they have brought these things out into the into the light evidently questions of prayer and questions of penance are quite simply not enough some of that are being level about sort of forcing abortion this abortions being paid the money of the church i mean it's one farther blemish on the moral authority and religious i with already is institution something has to give we've been saying this sort of this very screen for a very long time but there is still nothing concrete that we see other than essentially words that say it and what people want is more than. let's see if we want action

you know and yet we had there's a culture of secrecy and silence within the catholic church i was like you just see any criminal prosecutions you know it's very hard to say i mean the church has been very timid about turning this cases to national authorities they have. the tradition has been to take care of this ng house. with completely what a complete lack of transparency i think that there really has to be a very strong push to turn this basically to the justice of man and lead to justice take take its course right. these are just religious affairs analyst thank you very much for your thoughts now to a controversy of a european much of the european commission has just blocked a planned to tie up between german engineering giant siemens and france's. the two companies were set to merge their real b. businesses to enable them to take on big foreign drivers in a rare move the e.u.

and to trust office rejected the plan what it cause serious competition concerns. these two companies had planned to share a single track on the left is the i.c.e. from zeman and on the right the french t.g.v. train from. the german and french corporations as well as their governments are on board with the merger together they want to stand up to the chinese industry leader and that c r r c with an estimated annual turnover of twenty four billion euros togethers evens and house them would have achieved just over half that figure the canadian train manufacturer bum body is the lacking far behind. but the e.u. commission in brussels doesn't want the european merger to happen keeping the doors open for competition from abroad benefits you consumers but as evens out some group would almost have a monopoly in europe so e.u. competition commission immigrate of a stogie pulled the emergency brake on the deal. our

investigation showed that the merger would significantly reduce competition in several signalling markets and for very high speed trains the merged company wouldn't become by far the much in spain europe and in some signaling markets there would be no competition that fast. and he was very she's max hoffman joins me now how has the news gone down there where you are well the press conference wasn't even finished yet that we had a first reaction from siemens from the head of steam as joke has a who said that this decision proves that europe urgently needs structural reforms in the way shapes its industrial future in a globally connected world and since this decision wasn't to subpoena. the french finance minister already before this decision even was officially announced said that it is they cannot make a mistake and it will serve the interests of china so those two not very happy of

blocking not just is fairly rare for the e.u. antitrust office in three decades is banned less than thirty why did officials veto this particular tie up. my kind of a saga repeated a couple of times actually that this was just about two sectors of the planned merger which is signalling equipment signaling systems she called it and also the mark of a very high speed trains and the remedies offered by the two companies and this is the part she repeated often what these two companies were able to really do anything about the concerns of the e.u. commission or not willing to do it so it seemed like veiled criticism here but the point is that the e.u. commission believes that in those two areas signaling systems and very high speed trains european competition of someone would be crushed by that move and of course the commission you have to give it to them they are there they are founded and

that's why you have you competition law to prevent things like that from happening i think fent just says it is already being criticised for leaving chinese a dominance in the railways sector unchallenged when it face low. we have heard this topic really boil over the last years when you have european politicians but also members of the e.u. commission heavily criticizing the european union as a whole for not having a common industrial policy not preventing the chinese of taking over markets on the fringes of the european union for example and some of the balkan states that are not yet part of the european union also with the chinese new silk road project that is something that is threatening and challenging the european union which is looking more or less in words because it's operating with old rules and not really being able to do anything about that so yes european union is aware of that but it

has a set of rules that is anchored in the world that really no longer exists maxiell funny and duffy thank you very much having us up to date with that story. a young nigerian boy has impressed the art world in lagos with his unusual talent twelve years old a vitus karim has been drawing since he was tree but it was after you sketched a portrait of french president in one of the mccraw that he shot to local fame since then his life has been transformed as did obvious florist a trip without reports he now has big plans for the future. every detail matters why risk karim's aim is to make this joint look like a high definition photograph at just twelve years of age karim is the youngest

realities in artist in nigeria destroying are usually inspired by his environment and his family sure grew to survive he says the moment he saw this image he knew he wanted to use it. was close to a. close. and. what's. seizure is the name of kareem's latest joy he started drawing comics when he was just three years old he later joined the idea would be academy and art school that started as a makeshift art learning center for children in this poor legal neighborhood tutors helped him to improve his talent within weeks after posting his first joint online

he's famed spread all over the internet especially after he drew a portrait of french president manuel macron last year this is the reverse of the we haven't really seen the rule this is. i think this is the beginning of a blow for. why reece careens rare talent has brought fortune to his family in his parents proudly display his accolades his mother says she'd always encouraged her son to follow his passion for arts but she never expected this level of success. i didn't think you'd be an artist to be recognised. by important people at this stage i just decided not to stop him from drawing because you never know what path the child will follow in the future. after his big break with president korn the kareem family was invited to move to

a new apartment while the reece was transferred to a better school as a gift from the government according to an official statement of the government's intention is to make sure the boy isn't the best environment to not show his talents meanwhile the at academy where why reece got his start now has a far more studio that's more conducive for young students to learn arts. because i didn't know to go to the root of fruit he was to. be. in the movie. you know in the. north korea. why resteal comes to be academy every weekend and when he's not drawing he's learning new techniques from our textbooks he says arts has always been

a way for him to escape hard times. good. just. when. i just. say why reece is now well known locally but he wants to keep improving until he becomes a global star. that's just. like . nigeria's own new matter of dough vinci that's what my rescan rheem aims to be by the time he's fifteen. then good luck to him the german capital is abuzz with anticipation ahead of the berlin international film festival. many stars will be arriving for the event

including as you had been nourished she is this year's jewelry president let me just two days until reopening the red carpet has been ruled out and this red carpet is. very. it's made out of recycled textiles and fishing nets. and during the festival some four hundred fans will be screened so feast. here's a recap of the top story that we're following for you in his second stage of the union address president has ordered for an end to the politics of revenge saying the state of the union is strong trump called on congress to support his board of war with mexico he also announced a second north korean leader. to take. in a few weeks. coming up next made in germany the focus is on the almighty algorithm how important is it. made in germany.

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