the end. this is deja news coming to you live from berlin u.s. president donald trump delivers his state of the union address he calls for national unity but also hits out at his opponent. an economic varicose taking place in the united states at the ole thing that could stop. or foolish wars politics or ridiculous partisan investigations.

thanks to. you on the wrong track at the european regulators blocked the merger of real b. operations germany siemens and france's out stop. losses on the devastating revelation from the catholic church pope francis admits that some priests and bishops have reaped nuns and that abuse is still going on the church is also forced the answer have abortion. other unwelcome i'm a retired cheema good to have you with us us president or 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 and else a new summit with north korean leader kim jong il. in three weeks his address was

delayed by over a month because it's a dispute over his controversial border war. that. the president of the united states. riding for his second annual address 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 jeremy and kim and i will meet again on february twenty seventh

and twenty eighth in vietnam. not 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. 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 would he in their official response the democrats called trump's decision to shut down the government over the wall 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 looks out on a pool of democratic female congresswoman dressed in the white of the suffragette movement. don't 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 state 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 are more women in business and in congress but if you look at the numbers there are 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 called themselves did he try to achieve unity yes he tried reaching out to the democrats but on his terms he said if you for the follow me you have peace and prosperity if you don't you have me against you built a ball and i'm 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 is 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 the united 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 announce 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 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 is the speech of a president who is in control or also someone who is a bit him back and weak and he's made macho 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 is the battle is facing not only a lot of sort of investigations the munna report 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 don't 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. let's not focus on want the biggest the nonsense in that state of the union president trump said that he would hold another to disoblige with north korean leader kim jong un on denuclearization that's next month at the same time a confidential you hundred port claims north korea is doing all it can to ensure its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities gone to be destroyed the two leaders met last in june a way kim plans to work towards denuclearizing the korean peninsula trump has said that there had been tremendous progress in his dealings with the state and u.n. monitors say they found evidence that young ballistic missile programs remain intact they also say the country's backing to ensure those capabilities cannot be hit by nuclear strikes. now for more i'm joined by janice stephen a burra vickie's

based in the civil south korea is a steven two very different views on north korea and denuclearize zation what are you hearing that the thing is that neither side is totally correct correct when he says that it's over the past year that we've seen all this sort of unprecedented diplomacy between north korea and the u.s. and north and south korea and that with korea has pulled back from its usual confrontational stance and they have stopped testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles as far as we can tell at the same time they haven't done anything to actually get rid of all the work that they already possess or to permanently dismantle this infrastructure that they've built up that allows them to develop these kinds of weapons so coming up north korea will have to either take some kind of meaningful step towards real to nuclear ambition or this is a good move to try to looting may not continue and sooner why is this summit taking

place in vietnam and what are then the realistic expectations of this summit. i think vietnam was chosen because it's a country that both north korea and the united states have diplomatic relations where it's true that north korea has traditionally been pretty productive with its also a country that i think the united states wants more creative follow in the footsteps of and that is supposed communist country that happens opened up internationally and instituted a market economy as for what this summit might yield both sides are going to be coming in with a pretty clear objectives north korea is going to be seeking relief to be very strict sanctions that they're gonna mean is under and the united states is going to be seeking some kind of verifiable promise from north korea that they do we intend to earnestly denuclearize but this will be a stiff negotiation and it remains to be seen which side will yield and whether or not they'll be able to come to any kind of meaningful agreement. stephen berwick

infill south korea thank you very much for that update. yes let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world macedonia has signed an access protocol with nato allies bringing the country a major step towards joining the military alliance macedonia's foreign minister and nato secretary general led the document signing ceremony the move comes after the resolution of a name dispute with. british prime minster to resume his meeting with northern ireland's five main political parties as she seeks to break the deadlock over the terms of britain's exit from the european union talks are focused on future arrangements for the irish border the issue remains the biggest obstacle to ratifying the deal. tired thought is have said that a refugee foot 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 the street where he has refugee status he could face a long. if extradited to. a russian court a sentence a danish victims to six years in jail dennis christiansen was found guilty of organizing the activities of a banned extremist group after the religion was banned in russia he denies the allegations the danish government has called and russia to respect freedom of religion. not a controversy over european merger the european commission has just blocked a plan to tie up between german engineering giant siemens and france's storm the two companies were set to merge their real b. of businesses to enable them to take on bigger foreign rivals in a rare move the e.u.

antitrust office rejected the plan what it calls 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 our stop 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 oust them would have achieved just over half that figure the canadian train manufacturer bomb body is lagging 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. after our investigation showed

that the merger would significantly reduce competition in several signaling markets and for very high street trends the merits company wouldn't become by sar the lowest paying europe and in some signaling markets there would be no competition that's. what he's done business is very blunt joins me. max what has been the reaction to the news this. the chief executive of siemens was very quick to react ok he said that this isn't proves that europe urgently needs structural reform in the way it shapes its industrial future in a globally connected world so not very positive reaction here also from the few you parliamentarians we have heard of so far they're calling this an own goal and put it in there the french finance minister already anticipating this decision in the last day said this is an economic mistake serving the interests of china of

blocking is very for the e.u. and office in three decades is banned destine touchy why did officials veto this particular. what we already heard from the commission would come commission of a staggered that two sectors were are going to be negatively affected in the eyes of the e.u. commission in the future that is the first of course signalling systems and they also call this a security concern and that's why also one of the reasons why they blocked the merger and then very high speed trains and they believe that. some of the humans merging here would basically eliminate the european competition that's very important because that's of course what the e.u. commission is in charge of making sure that there is competition in the european union not on a global level here and that's what she said also repeatedly saying that the two companies had the chance to give remedies that actually work but they failed to do

so in the eyes of the e.u. commission them actually mentioned china one brussels victory to size for leaving chinese dominance in the really this sector unchallenged. already happening at the moment and this is not the first time it is happening because we have many examples in the last years where the chinese are moving in towards the european union getting ever closer for example they're operating in many countries on the balkans serbia that is not part of the european union and where the chinese are taking over a large part of the business they've also started the initiatives i'm sure you're familiar with which is called the new silk road that will also affect the european union and they have been acquiring technology also technological still skills and knowledge from the western world some say they've been stealing. that knowledge without the european union really being able to do anything about it so what some are calling for here is a common industrial policy to defend the interests of the european union and that

so far has not happened max of money in brussels thank you very much. japan scarred china to you just saw its nine month operating profit for close to thirty percent prompting it to slash its full year forecast it attributed the drop to slumping sales in north america blowback from a potential no deal breaks it also has the comic of our it is predicting and the profits of one point nine trillion yen or just under fifty billion euros that's significantly down from your estimates. 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 been sexually abused and raped and sexually abused and raped nuns francis admitted suspending priests and bishops for abusing women and promise to do more to eradicate the problem up to in our the vatican has

done almost nothing to address the crimes can be in a say the reverse are protected by a culture of silence and secrecy. nuns throughout the world abused and even held to 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 humanity has not yet matured. women are second class citizens but. 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 denounce the culture of silence and secrecy that prevented nuns from speaking out. one of the if an abused nun goes to her superior and says that she has suffered abuse she will be told to shut up 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 it i mean. the consequences have been too difficult for them to bear what happened. 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 say this doesn't happen in my house is true. should something will be done yes you do we 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 was. i to talk more about this is my. religious affairs analyst welcome lot in some

really shocking revelations we heard in our report the pope is talking about the clergy abusing and raping nuns what is the scale that we're talking about we don't really know what sort of this merger brome one particular case in friends but anecdotal evidence really shows a pattern sort of pretty widespread there are cases that we know of in the in the 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 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 we're going to announce that are essentially part of the orders. so you know we are at the stage in which really i think you know i myself following this for a very long time no i can honestly say that i more or less have run out of how drage and you know it's very hard to say how was it that the church manages to

maintain itself without actually making very specific claims as to what policy they're going to take to stop this 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 this which is the fact that the church was 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 the accusations that are being level of owed sort of forcing abortion this abortions being paid with the money of the church i mean instead it's one farther blemish on the moral authority and religious i with already of this 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 words they want to action you know i guess we had there's a culture of secrecy and silence within the catholic church 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 these cases to national authorities they have. the tradition has been to take care of this in 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 let actually justice take take its course right. these are just religious affairs analyst thank you very much for your thoughts. turning now to india where researches say the country's camel population has fallen by thirty percent in recent years as they've been replaced by motorised forms of transport that's bad news for those whose

livelihoods depend upon the animals but a new market is opening up that could bring the boost that they need. for centuries they were known as the majestic ships of the desert but technological advances have seen the reliance on the camel slowly declining the days of nomads like ritesh reika and his family leading caravans hundred strong are all but over well i'm about earlier we had around a hundred fifty camels but we can't find the labor to look after them it just doesn't generate money any more it's the opposite we have to put in our own money to keep them going. but salvation for a cash in his father lakshman could come from far away in the cities where the market is being driven by another of the camels qualities then milk. its past year and saltier than cow's milk the researchers are hoping to pair up herdsman with urban entrepreneurs to produce

a line of new products with an emphasis on the health benefits of camels milk. but we saw that the camel milk. the locals there were very nicely and it can manage that by. india being older by riddick there were two we can make use of milk. converting indians to camel milk could be a tough sell many in the country worship cows and their products are sacred but. his fellow still hoping it will be one way of keeping the ships of the desert afloat. the german capital is abuzz with anticipation ahead of the bird in international film festival the billion dollar many stars will be arriving for the event including those she is this is judy president with just two days until reopening the red has been rolled out and this

red carpet is in fact very very. it's made of recycled textiles and fishing. so during the festival some four hundred friends will be screened and all sorts of genres lengths and a lot of excitement for people who love cinema you're watching the news here's a repeat of the union is strong quarter of congress to support its border war with mexico he also announced a second summit with north korea. to take place in vietnam. and the european commission has blocked a planned merger between the real big business and german industrial giants siemens and france's. beer competition commission moderator finished august said the companies had failed to address what she serious competition is.

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