the by. the book. this is you know when it was live from berlin a reality check for britain's rags that renegotiation hopes. you know. what the special place. in the photos looks like photos go promoted by st resulted in a schedule for blood and go to college so you get europe's tempers fray as theresa may prepares to go cap in hand to brussels for now she's still trying to sell her deal in northern ireland also coming up u.s.

president ultron delivers his second state of the union address calling for national unity but at the same time lashing out at a public school and the german leaders mark the centenary of the country's first democratic constitution and why mark the eastern city that once it's named to germany's post to the wall to wall one republic to. the boy. great to have you along everyone i'm hauraki. british prime minister theresa may is meeting northern ireland's five main political parties as she attempts to break the deadlock over the terms of britain's exit from the european union while talks are focused on arrangements for the irish border the issue remains the biggest seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the british. parliament ratifying

a deal well the even as those talks grind on the european union insists it will not reopen the existing brigs it deal revealing mounting frustration over the impasse european council president. at this to say by the way. what that special place in looks like for those who promoted big feet without even a sketch of a plan how to carry safely thank you. art for more now on all of this i'm joined by our brussels correspondent barbara vessel she was present at the press conference given by mr just that has provoked a very angry backlash in the u.k. good to see you barbara i know mr tusk is known for not mincing his words and having a way of putting things very bluntly but even for him these are very strong remarks

coming from the e.u. council president what was the reaction in the press room when you were there. the press room gasp collectively of course and then at the microphones when the two leaders knew of iraq of the irish shark and donald two square leaving the podium the microphones picked up that said to the british press is going to cause you a lot of trouble for that and yes indeed they are already at it of course but this was the sort of well thought out and before hand prepared to remark i mean this was not off the cuff because we later saw that in the minutes off his little speech there it period exactly word by word. deliberate this so why does he do this one is of course that he is really really he feels deceived and he's been to london during the last year particularly over and over again he's trying to talk talk to the reason why he's trying to talk to the british top politicians and sort

of try to find common ground and breck's it into now sort of sees spinning out of control and if you really look at the market it seems strong but of course it's worded carefully nobody is actually insulted because nobody is named and of course ac d.c. springs to mind and the highway to health may be for hard line for executers. i don't think that reference indeed was lost on us rubber overreaction was fast and furious from leading briggs appears in great britain nigel farrar former leader of the euro skeptic party ukip tweeted this in response to. after breaks that we will be free of unelected arrogant bullies like you and run our own country sounds more like heaven to me. barbara i would say to shay there the backlash to comments were immediate in the united kingdom. of course the backlash was immediate but there were also some like the scottish s.n.p.

who said that this kid hit the nail on the head because it was exactly like you sent here is so well to the british public a sort of exit from the european union that they hadn't thought about beforehand and they hadn't offered up a plan for and now it's sort of things are sort of just getting more and more kids chaotic in london and to sort of refer back to nigel for i mean he has no reason to complain because he once insulted a european council president to create a sensor of skin and called him a damp rag was the sort of charismatic off a bank director i mean really the two sides sort of deserve each other on this point i think and these remarks are i think what's really worrying and come just a day before british prime minister three some may head it to brussels goes to brussels to meet with counterparts there does that that doesn't bode well for the talks. yeah but that was clear from the beginning because the e.u.

at the moment has no presence to give to tourism and they really want to see for us what happens in westminster they want to see whether she can carry any sort of stable and reliable majority any sort of deal they might offer her any sort of sort of change in the withdrawal agreement or if that is off the table is the reiterate again and again within the political declaration that might smooth the way for british parliamentarians to say yes to that was droll deal so that is something that probably this remark by i don't want to say was like a verbal smoke grenade something to sort of cover up the political reality on the ground and also to sort of log back at the other side the accusations that have been made for instance by some leading breaks it is today again that said it's the intrenchments and infringements of the european union that causes the difficult situation and russell says no it is really the hard line breaks the cheers who have

no idea how to deliver what they promised but obviously reporting from brussels thank you. i'm going to shift our attention now to the u.s. where present all trump has given a wide ranging state of the union address calling on americans to unite and politicians politicians to start working together across party lines on foreign policy an ounce to a new summit with north korean leader kim jong un in three weeks his address was delayed by over a month because of the dispute over his controversial border wall. street. of the united states. for his shaken. a high tempo of american politics for a speech of the union that's a week behind sched jewel such as the rule of donald trump's presidency. on the agenda and the sprawling speech economic boom 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 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

legal and never official response the democrats called decision to shut down the government over the wall is a disgrace and happy 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. you know like this i had 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 at any time after the. harmony lost but in this deeply polarized colden of politics for how long. well we're trying to address last night was required viewing for many americans orders from both major parties and from around the country have been given giving their verdict on the president's performance. it was an event washed by millions of americans president donald trump state of the union address here in denver colorado traditionally a swing state trump speech delivered to his republican base that we feel like he's got our back and that is what his speech represented as it once again tonight and i

love not only was he presidential but i love when trump is trump i love when he puts out there it's a little shock and awe and that's what. the trumps are partners voted for and we need that and it keeps the opposing views on their toes. in michigan a state trump won by a narrow margin in twenty sixteen the address solidified one farmer support. but i think president trump very gave a great speech it was a little more unifying than i might have expected i would like to have had him hit on the wall a little bit harder than he did but overall a good speech trump speech. it's billed as bipartisan but here in the blue state of washington d.c. he faced an uphill battle. i have to grade him on a curve because my expectations are political low he's getting through it so

you got to give him an a for getting through it and it's ridiculous going to school of bald heads that were given out for one undocumented migrant in the democratic stronghold of california trumps focus on the illegal immigration was demoralizing they feed thing that i say to him is like i am not a cream enough and we came here illegally we've been we try to freak said we come to war with this this damn well this is them the then later on we have here leaving for almost fifteen years we war like. trump may have called for unity but there's likely to be more division with next week's deadline to avoid another government shutdown over his border wall. all right let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world the european commission has blocked

a planned tie up between german engineering giant siemens and france's alst all the companies were set to merge their real businesses so they could take on bigger foreign rivals but the e.u. antitrust office said it would hurt competition and drive up consumer prices a russian court has sentenced a danish jehovah's witness to six years in jail dennis christensen 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 on russia to respect freedom of religion. human rights group amnesty international has accused the united arab emirates of providing western arms to yemeni. militias in a report the group says amorality forces received billions of dollars worth of arms from western states and siphoned them off to militias in yemen that have been

committing war crimes amnesty also says countries like australia france germany and the us were involved in the trade and urges them to stop supplying arms to the conflict. all right with me now is patrick wilkinson the arms control and human rights researcher at amnesty international a very warm welcome sir now amnesty accuses the u.a.e. of diverting arms to militia in yemen arms supplied by western states like germany so are germany's arms sales and directly fueling the conflict there. well i think we've long argued that all states including germany to this line almost to the coalition including the last arab emirates are complicit. in a conflict that in this particular this is were we looked at as a

a series of militias. that trained equipped by the generals and we see certain patterns of us that has used of. that miss america for the sake of this conversation i'm just going to play devil's advocate for a second if i go to a store and i buy a panetta was rising there were weapons he paused and two groups. or very briefly mr o. welcome the fact that countries like germany are reluctant to stop or suspend arms sales to the u.a.e. is that the real problem. i think that is the core problem and it's a problem that will be a policy and. we've seen a very serious human rights violations committed by all parties to this conflict all coalition members who she's and and the militias that associated with the coalition and as we start to see a very fragile peace process that shape pouring more arms into this region is not

the solution it's not helpful at patrick we're going to amnesty international arms control and human rights researcher thank you sir for joining us. the catholic church has been had by yet another abuse scandal for the first time for francis has acknowledged that high ranking members of the clergy have sexually abused and raped nuns france has admitted suspending priests and bishops for abusing women and promise or do more to eradicate the problem up to now the vatican has done almost nothing to address the crimes campaigners say sexual abusers are protected by a culture of silence and secrecy. 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. on the mistreatment of women

is a problem. i would dare to say that humility has not yet matured. women are 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 they don't count that 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. 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. 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 house

is true. should something will be done yes you do have the will yes. but it's a puff that we've been on for quite some time. the pope has off the faithful to pray for progress on the issue but many want to see action now not just was. here in germany a leading politicians are marking the centenary of the nation's first democratic constitution lawmakers including a chance to anglo-american all were attending a church service in the eastern city of why mark where the constitution was drafted present one called the steinmeier is giving a speech and germany's national assembly met in y. mar to create a republic after imperial germany's calamitous defeats in world war one. the first world war was devastating nine million soldiers and six million civilians were

killed starvation and misery were widespread including in germany people began to riot. high ground on the ground in november of one thousand nine hundred eighteen social democrat philip shot a man proclaimed germany a republic. and after the first free elections in january of one nine hundred nineteen the national assembly in find maher created the first democratic legal system the so-called weimar constitution the most modern and the most liberal of its era. it formalized the principle of separation of powers as well as women's suffrage it also laid the foundation for the modern welfare state and introduced work councils and regulated wage agreements. later the constitution proved to also contain fatal flaws the president of the german reich had enormous power and could even dissolve parliament in an emergency leeway hitler later used to destroy

the young democracy. while for more about that very a significant constitution joining me in the studio is our chief political correspondent melinda crane a wonderful to have a year i mean it's so interesting we saw outlined in the package that we just ran the constitution was considered very progressive for its time why because reformers saw this as their moment of opportunity that kaiser had abdicated and they hoped that a progressive constitution could catapult germany from authoritarian monarchy into liberal democratic modernity and those reformers included people like the sociologist max baber second reason blood was flowing in german streets the country was riven by social unrest and it was hoped that universal suffrage the proportional representation could help to heal the social divisions. yet as progressive as it was as far ahead of its time as it was it didn't manage to inoculate this society in

a way that guarantees democracy to flourish what are some of the lessons that we've learned since well one reason is to birth defects they were referred to as fatal flaws in the piece of the constitution itself one of them was proportional representation it gave rise to small splinter parties on the far left on the far right polarization as we know today and this is one of the lessons can make a country and the parliament ungovernable that happened secondly very important article forty eight it was an emergency powers provision it allowed the president to declare a national emergency and override the legislature does that sound at all familiar today president trump loves to talk about a national emergency article forty eight is often cited by those who are critical of the powers that that would give him and what it would mean for democracy now the german president emphasized in his speech today that even a very clever constitution could not protect democracy from failure what did he

mean by that that's right and that's the second package of reasons because it wasn't the constitution alone this essentially was as the president said today a good constitution in bad times and times were very bad for germany in the twenty's first of all economically crippling reparations payments to the victors in world war one brought the economy to its knees they sparked hyper inflation that economic distress helped keep those social divisions i referred to going nationalist terrorist killed no less than three hundred fifty six members of the government over the course of the weimar republic again making it ungovernable in some respects all of that i think hustle has two lessons to teach us first of all economic instability economic inequality which was very high environment despite that progressive constitution they really are. matter hate speech really matters these splinter parties they demonized their opponents anti-semitic rhetoric was

absolutely rampant all of that matters if you want to keep a democracy stable right wise words said andrew with a mill in the current thank you so much always a pleasure listening to you thank you. all right and to something altogether different how football in johnny in france you know is almost guaranteed to serve a second term as president with nobody else standing in june selectional in front dinos has been in charge of world football's governing body since two thousand and sixteen taking over in the wake of the sport's worst ever corruption scandal the forty eight year old will be unopposed after his only potential challenger former player and i'm on they got failed to secure the backing of at least five a few foes two hundred eleven federations. all right a look now at tuesday's of german cup results from the third round two or three going to sleep a sides were knocked out how to hire came back from

a goal down to beat liver crews in two one and last year semifinalists dortmund didn't fare much better they went out on penalties two were vetter braman following a hectic period of extra time in which four goals were scored to make it three all after one hundred twenty minutes elsewhere hauberk beats nuremberg one nil and powder born one three one in berg to advance to the fourth round. i have to speak our mind our of our top story that we're tracking it for you right now european council president doll toast has expressed his frustration at the briggs it process he said proponents of britain's it would draw water from the block deserve a close special place in hell for failing to come up with a realistic plan for the process. made in germany it is up next that's all affirmed for now don't forget you can get all your news on our website twenty four seventh's baths at d w dot com also you can at the top of the hour.

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