truce detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . this is news coming to you live from berlin a national emergency to build the border wall that's what u.s. president donald trump says he's going to do despite a bipartisan deal in congress to provide partial funding for the walt and emerging government shutdown democrats called trump's move a gross abuse of power also coming up. another tough defeat in britain's prime minister to resign another mile on the perilous path to

brag to bed and just six weeks to go. pretty young contender upset the political elite in nigeria's presidential election we joined the youngest ever presidential candidate on the campaign trail for the nation but it's. yet another contender this time for the top prize at the berlin film festival film is so wrong myself the family chronicle covering china's explosive development over the last forty years chinese director host already one silverback others could it be this year. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us u.s. president donald trump is threatening to declare a state of not. emergency to get enough money to build

a wall along the mexican border trump is angry that congress has only approved a quarter of the funds he wants for the wall one point four billion rather than the five point seven billion he had demanded declaring a state of emergency would give him direct access to funding the bipartisan bill approved by both parties in congress also avoids another federal government shutdown senators in the chamber which despite u.s. lawmakers efforts to come to a compromise trumps decision sets the scene for a constitutional conflict the border security bill had support from both sides of the aisle and easily passed its first hurdle of votes in the senate but not before senate majority leader mitch mcconnell dropped a bombshell he said the president would be bypassing congress to fund his controversial us mexico border wall leader mcconnell i just had an opportunity to speak with president trump and he said all my colleagues are going to kate is prepared to sign a bill he will also be issuing

a national emergency declaration at the same time and i've indicated to him that i'm going to prepare to support a national emergency declaration conference democrats members of the senate were quick to condemn any possible use of executive powers to build a wall if president trump decides to go forward with a disaster declaration he'll be making a tremendous mistake declaring a national emergency would be a lawless act a gross abuse of the power of the presidency and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that president trump broke his core promise to have mexico pay for the wall the border security bill then went to the house of representatives where it also easily passed the bill will now go to the white house for president trump to sign it off on friday. house speaker nancy

pelosi warned that any attempt by trump to sidestep congress could have major implications for the future everyone a democratic president can do that democratic committee president can declare emergencies as well so the president that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay while lawmakers showed a willingness to cooperate on keeping the government running they remain deeply divided on the border wall and any executive order to fund it is almost certain to land trump in a lengthy court battle with lawmakers over constitutional powers. are washington correspondent helen humphrey says democrats are planning a legal challenge to president trench threaten state of emergency. spending bill may have been passed by both the senate and the house are voting a fresh government shutdown but that was to be expected this was always meant to be a bipartisan deal now though there is a new fight here in washington although the president will sign off on the text the

white house has also said that the president will declare a national emergency in order to obtain the funds that he's looking for to fund his border wall essentially that means that he would bypass congress and take the money that he needs for that border wall from other parts of money for example federal coffers for funding for projects such as the military or for humanitarian aid and disaster relief now no sooner had that statement been made than high ranking members of the democratic party came out and said that the president was poised to commit what they called an abuse of power saying that they would challenge him in the course setting up a new frontier in this ongoing clash over funding for a border war. china's president xi jinping is scheduled to meet with u.s. trade negotiators who are seeking in accord with beijing to end the u.s. china tariff dispute this is the second day of talks in the chinese capital reports

suggest little progress has been made on u.s. demands that china crack down on forced technology transfers and reduce subsidies for domestic companies sheeting ping's presence is seen as a sign that china is trying its best to accommodate the u.s. delegation will have more in d.w. business. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today the indian government has choose pakistan of allowing islamist militants to operate from its territory as follows the killing of at least forty four indian police officers by a suicide bomber in indian administered kashmir pakistan based islamist group josh a mohammad has claimed responsibility. twenty people are feared dead after a boat capsized in bad weather in northern san diego authorities say the vessel was carrying more than forty people when a storm struck the lake where route the boat had left the town of inch in length

and was heading toward some small islands when the accident occurred. thousands of brazilian soccer fans have paid tribute to the victims of a fire that killed ten young players of the flamingo football club the state championship match was the first game played by flamingo since last week's deadly blaze police are still investigating the cause of the fire. and hundreds of thousands of students and adults in the u.s. have observed a moment of silence to mark the first anniversary of the shooting at a high school in parkland in the state of florida the killing of seventeen people marjorie stoneman douglas high school sparked a push. work school and gun safety in the u.s. . you're watching g.w. news still to come this half hour the chinese family on a cold chinese family chronicle covering china's explosive development over the

last forty years the chinese director has already won two silver pairs of the berlin film festival a reporter on the red carpet tells us whether so long my son is in the running for the gold just. now british prime minister theresa may has suffered another defeat in parliament over her brags that strategy lawmakers voted against a government motion asking them to reaffirm support for her plan to seek changes to her breaks and feel hard line breaks of tears in which a recent maize party opted to abstain from the fire saying the prime minister is moving in the wrong direction but it does not force the government to change tack but it is likely to deter to undermine the new leaders confidence that may can be in a parliament support for anything revised agreement. so what's next for theresa may we put that question to our correspondent in london. well it's seems

like the drama is not ending to reason may has said that in two weeks' time she will come back and she will yet again present a house of commons with half well she says a solution she wants to go back to russell's and she wants to have another results you want to have something that's legally binding that is a commitment but you need us to change somehow the position over northern ireland yet you really this we know are really on willing to do that so her critics here in the labor party mostly accuse her of really running down the clock of trying to achieve something that is already clear she called the chief and then she really runs down time so that at the very end of this process at the very end of march when the. the u.k. has to leave the european union that there is no choice but for those m.p.'s in the house of parliament here to back sam how whatever deal to reason may will have hammered out that so that she is just buying time and this is the fear here in

london also by business who say we need clarity we call and live anymore with this on saturday it's affecting business already and there is a lot of criticism here in london in the u.k. as far as tourism a strategy is also of course there is a concern and the e.u. saw it as if they somehow give into had the mons and change the backstop go for a different compromise can she even get anything through the house of parliament so how trustworthy of a negotiating partner is she that's what a uni does must be asking themselves even more after this defeat tonight because they're in london so the u.k. is scheduled to leave the european union at the end of next month people in germany have never liked the idea and the latest polls confirm it in this latest trend opinion survey for german public broadcaster are deep in protest d.-ma found that

only sixteen percent of germans welcomed the idea of bragg's it now willing seventy nine percent of germans surveyed say they regret that britain intends to exit the e.u. . well hans bunn from our political desk is with us here in the studio to help break down the results of the survey starting with the topic of bragg's it good morning hunt so a vast majority of germans would still like to see the u.k. stay in the e.u. after all the chaos and bad faith you might understand the germans if they were to say well good riddance to britain maybe they should just go on and stay on their island why are germans so attract attached to the brits well i guess you could say this is this result is to remain stable for the last two years since the brics that . yes indeed i think there is some feeling that this would be a big loss for the european union i think the feeling is composed both of rational

and somewhat irrational attitudes to britain one part is obviously the british language a lot of people speak english in germany and i think as a result have a better idea of how england functions and of english culture and so on british culture i should say at the same time they obviously are economic considerations that play a role it will be a very bad situation also for german industry for german companies they will make losses as a result of bricks of that'll affect some of the sentiment and also i think they are things like soccer that play a role people follow british soccer. yes i think all of those together mean that people in germany really are attached to britain strong cultural and economic ties must be said well stay with us some posters are also tracking sentiment in the run up to the e.u. parliamentary election in may they asked voters in germany how they would cast

their ballots if that election were to be held this weekend and here's what they found chancellor merkel's conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc would get thirty three percent of the vote in an e.u. election if held this weekend the greens would be. at nineteen percent the social democrats would come in behind the grain something interesting there at eighteen percent the a f d would be at ten percent the business friendly f.t.p. is on seven percent and the left party would be at six percent. so what these numbers tell us do german voters approach european elections any different than they do national elections at home because i think you have to say that is the case in general the interest in european elections is not as intense as the interest in national elections would be maybe understandably but one has to say

that in recent times because of bricks it to some extent the interest of germans in the european union has increased and the attachment to the european union in many ways has increased so people have a lot more appreciation for the things that the european union actually can affect in their daily lives these poll results are very similar on the other hand to the results that the national polls would produce at the moment according to the survey the christian democrats the conservatives well they hate even the results of that as predicted there would still be their worst result for a european election and what's significant is who comes second and third the sort of democrats have been having significant losses in the support in recent years both in national polls and in these european polls while the greens have really almost doubled their support. change in places in second place that's really significant in june or thanks very much so pretty much

a sea change there the social democrats were at the top just some years ago and now they're surpassed by the greens quite interesting in the well looking at german domestic politics there's currently a big debate here in germany about pension policy it's a key issue for an aging society chancellor merkel's junior coalition part of the social democrats have announced a new plan calling for a basic state pension the pollsters asked germans what they make that plan well they put the question this way which party do you trust most to secure your pension in the long term and here's what the survey found only twenty two. percent trust the social democrats to secure their pensions confidence in the pensions plan of chancellor merkel see if you see as you block is not much better twenty three percent assaulted forty percent do not trust any party at all in terms of securing their pensions. so we've been talking about the social democrats they've suffered

massive losses in the past couple of years as we mentioned it doesn't look like their new pension policy is going to turn things around for them well what this what we haven't reported here is in fact that there is a lot of support for that said pension plans not only among social democrats but even amongst conservatives so the plans that have are there for presented recently averill well received by voters but at the same time it doesn't as this is as survey shows doesn't really increase support for the parties in fact the adults in the german electorate about what will happen when they retire when people are going to be needing their pensions which is you know hof of people in germany in employment at the moment are likely to retire within the next ten years as a very large number so this is a very serious issue in germany and people do not trust politicians to be able to solve this problem that's the case for both the social democrats and the

conservatives thank you so much for your analysis from d.w. politics now to the berlin film festival that's underway here in the german capital and china's only entry this year is being tipped as a strong contender for the top prize the golden bear it's sweeping three hour portrait of a nation in transition from the very end of china's cultural revolution to the present day acclaimed director walang shell schweizer says it's a hopeful story of people overcoming their struggles to make something out of their lives. face the future forget the past that was the ideology driving the cultural revolution in china with his new film so long my son director wayne childish way shows us the years that followed this traumatic period when china transformed at an unprecedented pace.

that she's sure. they are scholorship true you told alan is always hope that india should push us is. for us all of us will. push us he told those counties as to how. to crochet to god. the film tells the story of a family that loses a child the sole chance for them to have a future under china's then strictly enforced one child policy. the three hour saga refuses however to forget the past constantly returning to that which was left behind. in so long my son we see

a country that is changing so rapidly its people are struggling to keep up director wing said that china today is so different from the time he was trying to depict that it was even difficult to find the props he needed for his set yet without this change the film would likely never have been made until recently any criticism of china's one child policy would probably not have gotten by the censors some have speculated that government censorship was behind the surprise withdrawal of two other chinese films invited to premiere at the bell another weighing said he could not speculate on whether they were pulled for political reasons but he said their absence is a great disappointment. on and i'll show you one initial is that i was on the plane when the news came out and i only heard about it when i got off the plane i was quite shocked and i really felt for them as well because it's really quite tough for any director to make a film. now so long my son is china's only chance for

a golden bear this year but hopes are high some critics are calling it the most fascinating film of the festival. to nigeria now and africa's most populous country is going to the polls on saturday and it looks like the presidential election will be a tight race between two candidates the incumbent president mohamed do bihari a former army general who was voted in four years ago on an anti corruption ticket and his main opponent atiku. car he was a businessman who has also served as vice president and stands for more modern and liberal policies both men are part of the aging political elite but not. syria has reduced the minimum age for presidential candidates so some youngsters are also thrown into there and thrown their hat into the ring one of them is thirty five

year old. in a country where the under twenty five's make up the majority of the population his chances may be better than some of predicted. met him out campaigning. on the election campaign trail in nigeria's capital she who is visiting a private school he's the youngest ever nigerian presidential candidate and education is his central theme. until we start to fix education it will be difficult to fix any other sectors in our nation who lived in the us where he worked as a mathematics lecturer he's calling for thirty five percent of the country's budget to go to wards education. because of the school's principal surprised to see a politician who understands education. the school receives no state support and is financed by fees affordable only to those earning good money. to

government i don't think they have interests in an education because of the quality of the density how. many. cinnabon to do cation. and they don't see it. as something that would bring money to them so this was funding an issue like the political failures of the past few decades can be seen three hours drive from a state funded school in northern nigeria where you work feel the name parts of it have collapsed the classrooms have neither desks nor chess. opportunities fourteen years old himself a student but currently responsible for his whole class. i take care of them because i am older and i want to help my brothers and sisters like this the teachers aren't here again that's why i'm doing it and.

here they are no books joggers chalk up to it's only learning eight. it is nine o'clock in the morning and only now the first teacher has shown up in total the school has eight hundred students and only four teaches. sons go to school here affect their father reduced day and the teachers are poorly paid he says no one would want to teach at such a school. no homos and like children should become doctors or soldiers they should have a worthwhile job and a good future that's my dream of these circumstances nothing will come of it. if he had enough money of the motorbike taxi driver says he would have long ago

sent his children to private school the ruling party of president he has been in power for four years and the federal state of the commissioner of education has shifted the blame for the educational situation onto previous governments seventy percent of teachers where i'm qualified more than twenty thousand teachers have been let go because they couldn't reach all right. let's go. straight. to the idea this state spends a third of its budget on education but at the federal level education spending makes up only seven percent of the budget the issue plays hardly any role and president were our. election campaign. she wants to change that but he and his small party are struggling to be taken seriously in nigeria in spite of

a minimal campaign budget he wants to lay down a marker. it's the hope the passion the vision the puppet that we as young people bring to the table. to change this narrative good enough that we're not ready to fight to be think is very evident we have a whole lot more to offer to our generation and generations coming after us and the people who've been there. says it's a simple equation if nigeria with its booming population no longer invests in education the next crisis will not be far away that he says is something every politician should understand so you can do it either way. football for you know in the europa league last thirty two kicked off last night and the two german sides came away with creditable away drawls in the first legs

they were cruising left russia. with a nil nil scoreline while it picked up a baffling two two draw against the nets and other standout matches. one nil. arsenal suffered a one nil loss at the russians bought herself the second legs are next week. just reminder of the top stories we're following for you here today on g.w. news u.s. president donald trump is threatening to declare a national emergency to build a border wall with mexico that's despite a bipartisan deal in congress to provide partial funding for the ball end of a government shutdown. and british lawmakers have inflicted another defeat on the prime minister to resign may over the rights of members of parliament for a few years to reaffirm their support for changes he was seeking to deal to take

for the trial the european. is coming up in just a minute all our business desk should be talking about the latest round of trade talks in beijing between the u.s. and china other scheduled to end today chinese president xi jinping is due to join talks towards the end of the session. all that and more still to come.

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the musicians and being part of that magic it was a difficult trip to the first one she really did come world famous come dr thanks. for the not. elect thank. you maria it takes all day w. . me. they're still talking in beijing becomes a result of their dispute trade talks between the u.s. and china are due to wrap up today with few signs of progress as we get some insight from one of the world's top investment analysts. also coming up on european car imports a threat to u.s. national security and if so what's washington going to do it afterwards.