the day that we do is live from berlin in the course of this hour u.s. president donald trump is expected to declare a national emergency along the u.s. border with mexico his controversial president to access the funds he needs to build a border war with mexico since congress has only approved a quarter of what he says he needs to take you live to washington for that announcement and for analysis of this politically charged.

time phil guy welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump is preparing to declare a national emergency to free up funds to build a wall on the mexican border and that's despite a bipartisan deal in congress that provided funding for this project mr trump has agreed to sign a bill in order to avert another government shutdown but he insisted the barrier along the border must be built citing drug and human trafficking concerns declaring a national emergencies like it's a lead to legal challenges opponents point out that most drugs arrive by points of app ports of entry and immigration numbers are far below historic peaks. so let's get more on this from the hell of the humphrey in washington political scientist a borisov foreman from bada college a here in welcome both let's start with you in the washington hello we'll start

with the why we're expecting that the president to declare this why is this his only way of getting this money. well the president essentially is going down this route because congress has tried on various occasions to get this passed congress has now said this is not going to happen there was a bipartisan deal that was on the table and although he will sign it to circumvent a government shutdown at the same time he will declare a national emergency essentially so that he can then take executive action himself to take the money from other pots of money whether that's from military spending whether that's from the counter drugs whether that's for disaster relief budgets so he's going to go around that congressional method of how normally you should get the money simply because he cannot get constant constitutional congressional approval this is not really something that's been seen in the forty three years

that the national emergency text has actually been on the books but it's course the wall is a key tenant of his campaign pledge he's already looking to twenty twenty he still promises that he's going to build the wall and it seems like this is the only way that he thinks that he's going to be able to achieve them and how the president's for this for this sort of action who gets to decide what a national emergency looks like. right so a national emergency is usually declared in the wake for example of a serious attack or a catastrophe it is something that the president can then decide on himself the text is an explicit about it but you know even republican senator susan collins from maine for example is saying that this likely would not constitute a national emergency trump insists that there is an emergency on the southern border migration experts who have been there say that this is not the case in one thousand nine hundred fifty s. there was a case with the steel mills when they were seized and that went all the way up to

the supremes court it was then voted down there in the supreme court if this for example went to the supreme court i mean or perhaps they could be a change that is now the justice brett kavanaugh who has been in favor of an expansion of presidential powers but certainly in forty three years that this is been on the books this is not something that we have seen in the past ok so that there are two issues here that the headline is this wall but there's also this the federal funding to avoid another shutdown just just explain to us how these two have become intertwined well i mean one of the problems for trump has been that he wasn't able to push this through as home and so that this is a long term complaint compared pledge he's been politicizing it was health and so he's trying to work around it i think one of the reasons why this has been seen as a problem not just on the side of the cross but also among republicans is because

well it sets a precedent and undermine something that's at the core of american democracy which is the separation of powers ok so obviously the democrats are against this or where his own republicans well third they're divided i think if it came to a joint resolution or they would be the only way of thwarting donald trump's plans in the final analysis ultimately. the republicans will probably line up and rally behind behind trump also because he has the final veto on this and so he could veto any joint resolution nonetheless i think we see a cleavage within the republican party also because there's fears that by setting a precedent after wards the democrats might might use the same types of emergency powers when it comes to gun control when it comes to climate change as a national emergency ok and then humphrey. why is this war so important to this president that he would go to these extraordinary lengths that i was looking at as

his campaign pledges a little earlier on he's not doing that badly why is this such a forum such as such an important thing. well it is a key campaign pledge is something that he's promised since you know as he started running as you say you know that he does still have backing in the country but now we're almost bypassing twenty nine thousand we're already looking to twenty twenty some people are saying that with that new election trump and this executive action trump know that if they stand if he tries to push this border wall through through executive action he will face legal battles with it that's from civil organizations states from democrats for example challenging him this could take months it could take years even and it could see him through to the next election so that he can still then counterpane saying the democrats are not letting me build this rule i will continue to try and build this wall i'm certain that way it sees him over the

line to ensure that he wins his next term all right we'll leave it for now head of the humphrey in washington thank you sir much of form from bob college here about it thank you i mean for the presidency is that use you to speak now in the next thirty minutes or so and when he does we will bring that to you live here on t w two other matters now germany's defense minister or sort of home to lyon british counterpart the government william sort of giving the opening addresses at the munich security conference the conference is three days of high stakes debates and closed door meetings and brings together the president a number of international decision makers including the largest ever u.s. delegation at a variety of international organizations also represents it including the international monetary fund the world bank the united nations. that the double chief political correspondent linda crane is also there in the thick of it to

welcome belinda. the large germany's defense minister has spoken about a return of competition between great powers what was she getting at. she was absolutely getting united states unilateralists and and the actions by the united states that are perceived as a rejection of the kind of multilateral cooperation that has been a hallmark of the international order since the second world war i was thinking actually as you were just talking about trump's decision to go ahead and declare a national emergency in order to get the wall built that he's now practicing unilateral ism at home as well as abroad and certainly that is a source of major concern here just one example from the remarks of the german defense minister she reiterated germany's commitment to contributing two percent of german d. g.d.p. ultimately to the nato budget but she said at the same time that u.s.

calls for fairness and burden sharing need to be much larger than simply how much money different members spend she said they also fairness is also about joint decision making when we go in together to a place like afghanistan we go out together so a clear reference there to the unilateralist decision by president trump to withdraw u.s. forces from afghanistan the fact that nato allies saw themselves as being broadsided by that and their real frustration she said there were good talks on the matter yesterday at the nato ministers conference but clearly there is still a great deal of concern and frustration here at the munich security conference and in europe generally about the u.s. essential sensually america first policies and i know i heard from your references i just bet you've been speaking directly with the you know germany france has

a sort of call to live so what it would take a look about and. i'm joined now by the german defense minister. and minister. front aligned you've just been speaking to the conference you reiterated germany's commitment to the goal of contributing two percent of germany's g.d.p. to the nato budget then you went on to say something i found quite interesting you said fairness is about more than burden sharing it's bigger than that it's about common decision making when we go in together we go out together and then you referred to afghanistan a message there for the united states and its unilateral decision to take its soldiers out of afghanistan and syria this was the point where we needed to clarify things and we had a very good meeting yesterday at the nato defense ministers meeting in brussels where our new colleague the acting secretary of defense shanahan reassured us that

first of all any progress in the military mission will be tied to progress in the peace process and we decided to get at this was very important for us. thank you very much another thing i found quite interesting you were standing there shoulder to shoulder with your your british colleague the british defense minister and you talked about how very very close cooperation between germany and britain is now and will be also after however we heard him say that efforts among e.u. members to coordinate their procurement and their operational activities should not occur at the expense of non e.u. nato members in other words britain after breakfast so actually a few clouds on the horizon of that british german cooperation i think he's right we have building up the european defense union yes but we're working on

a regulation that is the so-called third state regulation that gives access to countries like all british french which we want to have in our you. defense union to certain projects they're interested in want to european missions so he's right by reminding us to work on that and this is the goal to have our british friends as close as possible one other point in regard to that european cooperation you talked about the fact that germany supports majority decision making and then you went on to say but we have to be aware that that doesn't mean simply railroading our will through decision making bodies german foreign economic policy needs to be e.u. compatible so is that a sort of an indirect acknowledgment that perhaps germany pushed too hard on its nord stream gas pipeline and perhaps didn't adequately take account of other e.u.

members interests and concerns this is exactly the fact that we always have to keep in mind very often we have topics where we are together with the majority in general but there are some topics where will we have a hard time to shape change of position and if we won the q one majority decision which i am absolutely pro than we have to accept that sometimes we will be isolated and we will have to move towards the consensus our european friends have this will be a learning process but a good one thank you very much defense minister also the founder. let's go back live to iraq chief political correspondent. melinda branch that of course is an interesting phenomenon within this the whole nato architecture because of course britain is a is a big defense player it remains in

a so but leaves europe do people see that that necessarily making a difference to the situation. certainly both of the ministers who stood there today on that stage together were saying no to that but as you could hear in my interview with the defense minister we did hear some concerns or doubts certainly between the lines of what the british defense minister said namely as europeans work harder to try to coordinate their own defense procurement and operational activities in the military arena will they somehow push britain off to the sidelines and clearly that is something he's concerned about the defense minister of germany saying there no that's not going to happen but germany is very strongly advocating multilevel out a rule solutions and cooperation here and we heard the british minister using the

word of bilateral again and again so there are clear differences of perspective here going forward and i think one could explode when hans this is talk that we have heard before is that any sign of action. well yes you know that we'll sometimes turn slowly in europe but they are definitely making moves to harmonize procurement and to harmonize cooperation and ursula funder lion described some of the european union nato members cooperation in the baltic republics in what's called the extended forward presence in other words a contingent from ten different european countries that are working so shoulder to shoulder in the baltic republics and she talked about the learning experience of doing that and how important that has for been for the sense of assurance in the cooperation between these different countries how their soldiers really work

together concretely on the ground so yes there are moves to make that. happen to improve cooperation and coordination but it will definitely take time and she made that clear but it's interesting the sort of fall into line use is donald trump's talk about more fairness within the night so but changes the meaning of probably why the way he's talking about money she's talking about well it doesn't have to be mud it could be cooperation but it could be just doing other stuff. true and germany has actually a long been saying that this two percent of g.d.p. target is so often referred to especially in washington tends to neglect other kinds of peacemaking making investment namely foreign aid for example or neighborhood policies to try to strengthen institutions in northern africa for

example essentially in countries that have fragile governance and germany has long been saying those kind of policies and those kinds of activities should also be seen as a contribution to preventing war and isn't that also as important in many ways as solely military expenditures now we didn't hear that message from her in so many words today but we certainly will hear it in the course of the conference because it is a theme of european members approach and so that essentially is one aspect and the other one is what she talked about in the interview the fact that fairness has to be working together in every sense of the word meaning if the u.s. and other nato members are cooperating in afghanistan those nato members need to

know if the u.s. is having doubts about how long it wants to keep its troops there and that the way that the process. extraction of that mission occurs has to be coordinated with the peace talks that are going on with the taliban and can't simply be the us setting the timetable so again very clear words from her on that aspect of what she sees as the larger challenge of fairness ok for political correspondent melinda crane of the munich security conference thank you. offering virtually nonstop coverage of the security conference on our web site that's a d w dot com to find a live stream and updates of course we'll be tracking the major news from munich here on the deadly news throughout the next three days now india's prime minister there under modi has warned that pakistan has warned pakistan to expect what he calls a crushing response to a car bomb attack on

a military convoy that killed more than forty indian paramilitary police the bombing outside srinagar in administered kashmir is the worst attack in the divided region for decades india says it has clear evidence of pakistan's involvement. the first pictures from the blast site show confusion and devastation. security officials see a kashmiri militant around an explosive laden van into a bus carrying indian soldiers. the attack took place on a key highway on the outskirts of string ago in indian controlled kashmir the bus was part of a larger convoy at least five other vehicles were badly damaged in the blast police have launched an investigation and. despite the inspectors caution authorities blamed rebels fighting indian rule. the militant group jaish

e mohammed has claimed responsibility for the attack and local media have named the driver as ideal ahmed alias walk us commando a known militant. in jammu an indian controlled kashmir people took to the streets waving indian flags and damaging cars in full test the attack. meanwhile indian prime minister narendra modi after observing two minutes silence for the victims squared up to islamabad suggesting pakistan was harboring those behind the deadliest bombing in three decades just that it is sad news that if our neighboring country thinks that it will succeed in creating instability through such acts and conspiracies in our country. they should stop dreaming our mates are going to chore a bit. what got me into the guard why they will never succeed. but islamabad rejected quote any insinuation that seeks to link the attack to the state

of pakistan without investigation. whatever the claims or accusations india and pakistan is troubled relationship is at risk of entering a dangerous new phase. after some of the other stories making news around the world authorities in zimbabwe are trying to rescue a group of illegal gold miners trapped into flooded shops it is thought however that none are likely to have survived officials believe around forty people are trapped underground in the settlement of battles fields out west of the capital harare flooding happened on tuesday after a nearby downburst. a new report estimates of four hundred twenty million children undergoing in conflict affected areas that's a fifth of all children worldwide the study was commissioned by the international charity save the children and also said that verified cases before they called grave violations against children in twenty seventeen are the highest ever recorded . hundreds of thousands of students and i don't say in the united states 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 at marjorie stoneman douglas high school and sparked a push for school and gun safety reform in the u.s. . thousands of brazilian football fans paid tribute to the victims of a fire that killed ten young players of the flamenco football club the state championship match was the first game played by from anger since last week's deadly blaze the police are still investigating the cause. when the british prime minister theresa may says she is continuing to try to secure the five deal with brussels regarding britain's exit from the european union on thursday she suffered another major parliamentary defeat after lawmakers voted against. if you motion are supporting her approach to break that progress you don't please in the prime minister's own party stay saying that she's moving in the right direction. resits opposes in britain say that leaving the e.u.

would give london more opportunities to trade beyond europe's borders roxette opponents say it would leave the u.k. vulnerable to pressure from bigger countries and trade talks take a look now at the challenges london is facing as the clock ticks down to bret's a day on the twenty ninth of march. a great trading nation that is about to become even greater a pioneer free trade that's the message of a recent ad from the british international trade department the whole world awaits the united kingdom it's similar to the line used by breck's its supporters free of the stifling corset of e.u. membership britain will be off to a great start a bright future lies ahead the reward for leaving the e.u. short term losses will be offset by investments in exports with partners all over the world at the head of it all is international trade secretary liam fox his top priority rewrite forty trade agreements negotiated by the e.u. they would otherwise be dropped with the brics it says here with switzerland. you're confident. we will be able to maintain

a very high proportion of continuity of trade of course it's always dependent on the other part was wanting to retain that continuity to why we're partners not want to have access to the world's fifth biggest economy few seem ready to commit at least not by march twenty ninth fox recently admitted to parliament switzerland the feral islands the african trade association yes but the thirty six others such as heavyweights japan south korea and turkey are not prepared to offer the british the same conditions as the e.u. and with eastern and southern africa what it means for u.k. business really is that they become uncompetitive compared to european business will still have the benefits of these trade agreements so they will still have the benefit of lower tariffs on for example automotives we want to have that benefit our businesses then become harder to compete but liam fox had promised that

everything would be very easy a simple matter of copy and paste before the japanese prime minister's visit in january fox said that the trade agreement with tokyo would create new jobs across the country what he failed to mention was that the agreement the british had to sign is one the e.u. just formally concluded with the japanese and that the japanese had come to teach the british a lesson science matters. they don't want the u.k. and other countries of u.k. size to have the same quality of deal as the you got and they may feel that the u.k. has less to offer them the e.u. does so they're trying to rebalance it to make it work for japan a mass understandable that's what trade negotiators do something that the u.k. did not do for forty five years no expertise no experts deadline pressure too many negotiations at once not a good sign this is just one of many problems that poses. and it does not appear to

be the path to post perks of prosperity that only works in an advertising not in the cold hard world of international trade. d.w. news a live from. in the next ten or fifteen minutes u.s. president to donald trump is expected to sign a bill a voting another allow him to get his hands on enough money to build his border wall so to talk about tibet we have in the washington humphrey here with me in the studio his supporters former political washington. so so the this is all about the war but it's also about avoiding another shutdown right exactly right phil so essentially the president said yesterday and the white house said yesterday that the president would sign that spending bill to the shutdown there was a temporary saw of relief let's say here in washington d.c.

and yet at the same time another fight was raised on the horizon and that would be over the fact that the president now wants to declare a national emergency circumventing congress and then using that executive action to take money so that he can essentially spend eight billion dollars on a border wall so that is the status now that's what we're waiting for that's what senator mitch mcconnell said that the president would be doing yesterday mitch mcconnell said that he would support president trump in that that in that action but no sooner had he said that than there was all sorts of pushback already from democrats saying that this was unconstitutional that essentially the president was poised to commit what they called a gross abuse of power so what does a national emergency look like who gets to define it.

right so what we understand as a national emergency usually and in the past forty three years since this law has been and that after the watergate scandal is something that would be a major terrorist attack it would be a major catastrophe and in the past that's what it's been used for to quickly take money for example from military budgets that's why in this case it specifically needs to be declared a national emergency a president can take money from other funds but when it comes to the military it must be declared a national emergency that we haven't seen it used in this way i was just taking a look through twitter feeds and in twenty fourteen when president trump wasn't president of course and barack obama tried to use the national emergency to take some funding. tweeted that this was unconstitutional it goes against that tenant of the separation of power which defines the american political system so presumably it's something that he is aware of of the potential legal challenges and pitfalls

to this but this certainly isn't a national emergency we've seen the likes of in the past so boris foreman if the president does this. i fought to hell and i was saying this this happens by this these billions coming from a different budget than we have a separate budget with a hole in it this this is this is a problem that has just been sort of redistributed. yeah well i mean what he's doing is he's tapping into something that the constitution doesn't really know him to do which is the power of the purse lies with the congress so basically he's circumventing that and he's using. emergency powers in order to concentrate some powers which normally under normal circumstances he doesn't have and i think this is a this is something that can have long term repercussions we're talking about the crisis of democracy in many different contexts not least the u.s. and it seems like this kind of action on the side of an executive is something that

is quite unprecedented in this form so the president makes this declaration because he can can anybody stop him can anybody challenge it well it will be challenged in all likelihood in the courts so probably we'll see some results only in the longer term but what the democrats in the house with the new majority will try to do is to start a joint resolution from the house and the senate which forces the senate.