this is why even from tonight you're provides a reality check for britain's brecht's renegotiations hopes of being well. what the special place. in the code looks like for the both school promoted because it was out the relish. to cut rates say a special place in hell europe's tempers fray as theresa may prepares to go yet again to brussels in search of a new bright city also coming up

a signal at european regulators of the walk the merger of the railway operations of germany's zeman in france is. and the annual event that no movie can afford to ignore the berlin film festival. gets underway tomorrow if you go already lining up for this year's hot tickets in the race to see you will win the gold in. viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome british prime minister theresa may she heads to brussels tomorrow to talk breaks it yet again and the storm clouds are already gathering today the european council president vented his frustration over the breaks it came. os by saying british euro skeptics and i'm

quoting here deserve a special place in hell it's a sign of how frayed tempers and nerves have become in europe and with brics it just over fifty days away teresa mayes hopes of reaching a new brics a deal could be due. with only fifty days to go and no solution in sight and fear of a hard breaks it is growing day by day and so is the frustration in brussels watching terrorism make head towards a no deal exit. what that special place. in the code looks like for those who promoted that suit without even a sketch of a plan on how to cover it's safe. a provocative statement that irish prime minister leo overact are predicted would not sit well with those it was aimed at. but not only in the press the response coming out of westminster was fast and

furious because. i don't recall even the president insulting members of this house members of the government and the british people in such a way. others took a step back to look at the bigger picture. her. job is to speak her sometimes the truth hurts. for nigel for raj the former leader of the euro skeptic you can toasts comment as proof of why britain wanted to leave the e.u. and the first place after brek said we will be free of unelected arrogant bullies like you and run our own country sounds more like heaven to me. heaven hell or somewhere in between it's up to to reason may after meetings in belfast today the british prime minister will be back in brussels tomorrow seeking fresh concessions on the withdrawal agreement however neither donald tusk nor european

commission president john clarke younker are open to renegotiate the deal. yes very strong words today in the talk about how the words if they fell on deaf ears are friendly ears for when to pull in quick he is in london he's an associate fellow at the europe program at the think tank chatham house and from brussels our very own barbara basler standing by to both of you could even barbara let me start with you you were present at that press conference today what was the reaction when mr towser said that and who was seen actually talking about who does he think deserves that place in hell. now there was of course a sort of audible gasp in the press room when this remark about a special place in hell for hardcore bricks and tears came and then furious tweeting started because everybody knew this was sort of like a little smoke grenade that donald had been loving across the channel and also we know that this was not an off the cuff remark because we immediately sort of

received the verbal sort of. remarks and it was written there just word by word so this first very carefully thought out this was something he was doing deliberately because he obviously wanted to make quite clear to the other side of the negotiating table tomorrow that these sort of insults flying back and forth of course they can force and we remember we saw andrea let some the leader of the conservatives in and talking about european intransigence today and that was the reason why nothing would be moving and it was all the fault and so on it's a force that everybody in brussels was quite fed up with that. we've been hearing today. was aiming those words directly. boards john what do you say about that and what about the backlash to that in the u k.

the backlash is coming from precisely those people and i think donald tusk was entirely justified in saying they rushed into this entire process without any clear idea of how they were going to get to a safe landing so it's rather refreshing to hear that having said that the problem is that the reason they and her government is still really in exactly the same position they haven't got a united position she hasn't got a solution that she's sure she can get through parliament she's been desperately trying to talk to the northern irish today to see whether she has any movement there and i fear that when she comes to brussels tomorrow she's going to be on a hiding to nothing and there's a problem behind this whole she's been really playing chicken with the idea that we may crash with no deal well the trouble is the people she's trying to frighten with

that actually don't kidnap people like nigel for. johnson and the other hardline brits and they really don't mind if we crash out with no deal and that's a nightmare you know it's a nightmare and it's becoming you know more likely with every passing day there barbara we know that theresa may she wants to get some sort of concession from the european union preferably tomorrow when she is in brussels why do you think mr taus said what he did today i mean was he just venting or didn't seem to have some other all teary or motive for tomorrow. he was of course inventing in a way because he is basically an angle file i mean to squeeze in london numerous times he tried to talk to a leading british politicians he talked several times to to reason may last year he was all about let's be friends and that sort of resolve this in an amicable way but it seems that this all has been completely leading to nothing i mean this first

just so much waste of time and after two years of negotiations the e.u. is now confronted with tourism a coming back in the other time was demands that on not realistic that will not be sort of given into at the moment and just say please help me over the hurdle yes but what is really telling her and her political friends and enemies in her own party is the hurdle and the problems you are in this is your own fault you made this you created this and it's not up to us to resolve it for you it's a very good point and. the parliament is supposed to vote on this final budget withdrawal plan on february fourteenth what do you think is going to happen if there is no progress report from theresa may does that increase the chances of seeing new elections or a second referendum a branch. you know the trouble is everything is possible the nightmare for

two reasons maybe she's gone on and on and on trying to deliver a deal that is except to pull to her right wing how hard line breaks it's as and also to the democratic unionist party from northern ireland and it really doesn't look as if there is any deal that's acceptable to them that is also acceptable to the twenty seven other members of the european union they're saying look get it crossed party deal where it's soft of form of brecht's it you would have a majority in parliament then come back to us but that would split the conservative party so they don't want an election because they'd be going into it totally split the labor party says it wants an election but it's also split i do think that the possibility of another referendum is still there but even that doesn't have a majority in parliament at the moment we're really in deadlock which is why there

is growing fear in brussels i think that no deal might be the accidental outcome incredible. quintile in london barber being told in brussels to both of you thank you very much for your insights tonight. world bank critic david mulhouse has been nominated by a us president to lead that barry institution the decision is likely to spark concern among fellow members of the international lender which is controlled by the world's wealthiest nations now one of its biggest forwards is china which is embroiled in a trade dispute with the trumpet ministration the us is the biggest shareholder in the world bank and it has always picked the president. well staying in washington president donald trump last night delivered his second state of the union address in front of a packed divided congress the president made a plea for unity while also breaking his opponents and pushing his controversial

policies on emotive subjects like immigration it was a vintage truck performance and in that sense it went down best with his republican base take a look. it was an event watched by millions of americans president donald trump states of the union address here in denver colorado traditionally a swing state term speech delivered to his republican base. i always 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 with a little shock and awe and that's what. the trumps of 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 farmers supporters. but i think president trump very gave a great speech it was a little more unifying then 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 was billed as bipartisan but here in blue washington d.c. trump faced an uphill battle. i have to grade him on a curve because my expectations are a little below zero and he's getting through it so you got to give him an eight her getting through it that it's ridiculous and it's full of bald heads that were given out for one undocumented migrant in the democratic stronghold of california focus on illegal immigration was tamara lising the previous thing that i can say to him is like i am not

a crime in there and we came here from the gandhi we could be so we try to fix it we have to war with this these damn well this is them leave them later on we have here and i leave for almost fifteen yet we walk like by the end trump may have called for unity but there's likely to be more division with next week step line to avoid another government shutdown over his border wall. our back here in europe macedonia has taken a big step towards becoming the thirtieth member of nato the world's biggest military alliance the government has signed a session papers and must now wait for them to be ratified by all natives member the move comes after the resolution of a years long dispute with neighboring greece over macedonia is named the former yugoslav republic will be renamed to north macedonia once athens which is also a nato member endorses the session protocol. a macedonia foreign minister nicola

dimitri spoke to d.w. correspondent teri schultz today after that signing ceremony. mr foreign minister thank you very much for making time on this very busy day thanks for having me. this is a very big day secretary general says it's a big day a historic day for macedonia and also for the alliance one thing that stuck with me from what you said is that now macedonia will never walk alone what do you mean by that. we've been lonely we've been trying to join in forty years the first the cooperation of our parliament was dates back to ninety three. and this is a quarter of a century now and plus. and with the step now as the accession protocol that was just signed today goes through the twenty nine parliaments of the allies of the member states we will be part of the family. so

the journey is easier. when you have friends around so this is what i meant and do you think that the sacrifice will be worth it i have i have friends who are pro nato pro europe and even they have mixed feelings about what it took to get you here today we have four major. motivations the results of the principle agreement to scold process the first two are looking getting out of the waiting room both the nato and the new the third and all of them are very important the third of my niece is making a friend. with her neighbors. greece which i think is probably the fundamental purpose of any diplomacy if there is an issue to resolve it to build the breach to become closer to become friends. and the fourth

one is i think also very important and this is historically conciliation between the peoples in the region that is so rich in history but struggles to produce future. identity issues are always very difficult very emotional. and it has been difficult on both sides of the border. message was to some extent protected. in the former yugoslav base as part of a bigger for that ration when he was labia fell apart when we declared our independence. we had these issues with our neighbors. so i think it will take time and good faith implementation but i think people will be convinced the even those who oppose the agreement today boats from greece

and from most of them here. that this was the right thing to do while the military alliance is the business mergers the european commission has blocked a plan to tie up between german engine hearing giant and france's and the two companies wanted to merge their real way businesses do enable them to take on bigger forward rivals but the e.u. antitrust office rejected the plan over what it called serious competition in sir or investigation showed that the merger would significantly lead used competition in several signalling markets and the very high speed trains. the marriage company wouldn't become by so far the lowest paying europe and in some sickening markets that would be no competition that. 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 i'll stop the german and french corporations as well as their government are on board with the merger together they want to stand up to the chinese industry leader and that is 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 lagging far behind zimmerman's and alstom warned of the overwhelming chinese competitor c r r c but in vain. the state controlled supply of trains in china c r c has more than ninety percent of its activities incites china it has less success outside its no markets for. the stockers bottom line it's a no from brussels to both france and germany. our for more on this now i'm

joined by our very own stephen beardsley's the first time he's been at the big table with me here stephen it's going to go to you so this is bad news for alstom but this is bigger than these two companies isn't it is much much bigger and i think that's important thing to take away from this this really goes into a debate about how europe stays competitive with the u.s. and china the u.s. really having a lead on digital technology china of course having massive amounts of money behind it stay back firms one of those biggest firms is c. r. r. c. which is the largest train manufacturer in the world we actually have a graphic i believe that goes through the numbers here and shows what their. right as you can see here what all some in siemens were hoping to do together would only have amounted to actually half of the annual revenue that c r r c clears and a year at least in two thousand and seventeen without that they were much further behind but even with that they would have been behind. especially c.r.c. leads and high speed rail and of course that's where the future is going they have

seventy one percent market share there seems and also don't really see a way to compete without that fusion yet so if they're not able to merge and when you look at the comparisons with with china what really then were the concerns of the commission the concerns were that by trying to increase competitiveness at a global level that they were going to stifle competitiveness at a domestic level and they said look you know if we're going to put our thumbs on the scales there we're going to prevent real competition here and as much in the area of signal technology not to get too technical that's something in europe that these this merger would have actually as merged company would have really dominated prices could have gone up that was their concern in what does the rejection of the merger mean for european efforts then to compete globally against china i think it's really going to spur this conversation further at an e.u. level we're already seeing officials from both france and germany saying whoa whoa how are we going to compete globally if we're not going to be allowed to have these kind of mergers others again. the stocks are saying you have to encourage

competition within the market here it's important to note here peter a commie minister actually has an interest yesterday going for the same thing at a german level so these conversations are happening now all over the place how do we compete globally and you going to see them continuing all right stephen thank you very much you're. right here in germany leading politicians have marked the centenary of the nation's first democratic constitution at a ceremony invite more it was in the eastern city that a national assembly failed in the republic after imperial germany's calamitous deceit in world war one lawmakers including german chancellor angela merkel attended a church service to commemorate the occasion. germany's democratic constituency and was drawn up environment as national theatre. it was one of the most liberal and progressive ever penned the timeline. jim and president on friday to steinmeyer have pointed to the last in importance. and that site.

india we live in a time when historical achievements including the separation of powers the parliamentary system and the rule of law are being challenged and questioned even here in europe so. after the first free elections in january one thousand nine hundred nineteen the national assembly met environment and created germany's first democratic legal constitution the cycled weimar constitution. it formalized the principles of sovereign seem separation of power was and women suffrage but the constitution also contained faith to fools. the nations president had considerable power and could even dissolve parliament in an emergency that was a power hit and nato used to destroy the young democracy and despite its shortcomings today's german president praised the weimar constitutions ideals. does

lupin's a hard against raising today's constitution does not mean it's weimar predecessor it was a bad one and it's left of us and it isn't engagement on the contrary much of what was created then it lives on today weimar's ideals of freedom and democracy the rule of law and the welfare state have not failed and even if just two it was decided to stein my own so wound of complacency saying that while democracy is not meant to fail it's not guaranteed to survive. the horror from orchestras now popcorn it's the event that movie fans in berlin look forward to every year tomorrow sees the start of the berlin film festival the earlier this year seventeen films are competing for the festival's top prize the

golden bear the jury will be chaired by the french movie star juliette binoche at a festival otherwise lacking in star power this year that won't stop the fans however there are already lining up for the hottest tickets. the fans make that such a unique event it attracts the largest audience of any film festival in the world and anyone can get tickets here as long as they get in line and off. i read every single synopsis of every movie and made my choices but. i wasn't prepared for how difficult it is to get tickets. to feed the movies the timing but you have to fit quick because a lot of ticket offices when they fly very quick nearly four hundred movies will be presented and one thing is for sure it's going to be a women's. french osco winner juliette binoche believe the jury british actress

charlie drownding will receive the honorary bear for her lifetime achievement and seven off the seventeen movies running for a golden bear were directed by women are a cut and a milestone for an a list festival. and it's a woman he's kicking off the movie marathon danish director alona shaft this will open the festival with her film the kindness of strangers in it she tells the story of a group of people who meet during a cold new york winter. and then many once and for years now. this year celebrates women festival director says it's a reaction to the gender equality debate. that. course this is partially a result of the ongoing debate by our views of expanded and we're learning to question things. but i have to stress that we didn't include any films where we

weren't convinced of the quality from the. german films are also well represented at the. one powerful entry is by prize winning director. in the golden glove he profiles a notorious serial killer. and this man will be lending the festival some. hollywood glamour christian bale playing former u.s. vice president dick cheney the biographical film presents him as a power hungry politician for president because of the decision prove. they're standing. at the bell as main venue the red carpet is being rolled out this year it's environmentally friendly it's made of recycled fishing nets green and

glamorous. fish not red carpet that after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight reading donald trump state of the union speech and the woman and the women who stole the show today with .

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