this is g.w. news from live from berlin tonight in washington a partial truce in the trade war with china and the go ahead for the impeachment trial of president donald trump china and the u.s. have signed phase one of a deal aimed at ending their dispute but major issues remain unresolved also coming up tonight russia's government resigns and president putin approved it comes as the president calls for reforms that could keep him in power well beyond the end of his

firm we'll get details from moscow. plus will it erupts sweetmeat people fleeing the tell all book in there with the philippines they fear returning to scenes of complete devastation. and that storming the stasi east germany's secret police were feared and hated today marks 30 years since citizens of the former communist regime forced their way into the headquarters in east berlin and prevented the destruction of millions of files in the waning months of the country known as the d.d.r. . i'm bring coffin's good to have you with us we begin tonight with what u.s. president trump is calling a major victory. in his economic policies with china after 18 months of economic

conflict the united states and china have entered a trade truce or at least the 1st part of that truce president trump and china's chief trade negotiator today signed phase one of a new trade agreement just a short time ago at a ceremony at the white house it's aimed at lowering tensions in a trade war that has slowed growth around the world ahead of the signing trump held this deal as historic. today we take a momentous step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade as we see in phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china. together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families and this deal will ease some u.s.

sanctions on it china and see beijing step up imports of american farm products both sides are holding off on imposing further tariffs on each other but many other hot button issues they remain unresolved. chinese vice premier. said the 2 countries can work together to achieve a win win relationship despite differences in political and economic models but i.m.f. managing director crystal reminded china's trade meeting and washington that the deal was only a truce not a permanent agreement the deal leaves in place tariffs on $360000000000.00 of chinese goods it doesn't cover china's huge subsidies for state owned firms or claims of cyber theft these issues will be addressed a joint face to negotiations these terrorists will stay in place until there's a phase 2 if the president gets a phase 2 quickly consider releasing terrorists is part of phase 2 if not there

won't be any terror leave newton even said terrorists could be raised again if china doesn't. the saber rattling between the 2 economic powers continues the phase one deal just prevents an escalation for now according to the deal the u.s. has agreed to stop labeling china a currency manipulator beijing will buy 200000000000 dollars worth of u.s. farm products manufactured goods and services. i think it would fight she was right. so i can turn on the united states so. continue to run it with a strategic advantage. no solution can be expected any time soon on the strategic rivalry between the 2 biggest economy. u.s. presidential elections are coming up in november and the chinese side feels it has enough domestic strength to avoid a major compromise. or it was in some context

a reality check if you will to do that i'm joined by my colleagues in b.w. business good to see you so the u.s. president says this is a historic deal. well it's but of historic as anything that's lasted 18 months but it is a big moment symbolically because i think it's really important to remember that while the u.s. president donald trump started this trade war the ideological rifts exposed far predated his presidency so we're talking about issues like china treats foreign companies in the country so traditionally if you're a company operating from the united states or germany anywhere when you go to china you have to partner with a chinese company and that of course involves a lot of technology transfer and that is one reason yet you see it both ways and that is one reason that china has been able to advance technologically so rapidly and that's an issue that trumps predecessor obama hot as well so these issues

aren't really new but i think what's really interesting is that it's also raise this question of who the winner is losers of globalization are so you know china has been accused by many countries of being protectionist but really trump decision to start this war was the ultimate defensive move he has been watching china grow there's one if there's one thing very good it's understanding who the winner is on the who the losers are not he's been very worried about the prospect of china increasingly becoming a winner so i think what's significant is that. this is really a protection of stance on the part of the united states of called into question the very principles underlying globalization winners and losers who profits moves from this agreement to do on the surface it's definitely united states so china has agreed to 2 by $200000000000.00 worth of american goods as you mentioned talking about farming products manufactured goods and energy now that sounds pretty interesting pretty significant but really it's quite hard to implement so for one china has said it's going to base this on marcus' market moves but you're really

going to have to create a an artificial market for $200000000000.00 worth of american goods so it's going to either involve chinese communist party officials eating a whole load of soybeans. meeting with us lee or of course they're going to have to stop buying goods from elsewhere so it's actually quite difficult to implement this policy and of course the existing tired so $360000000000.00 worth of them remain in place they'll be no new levies for now but the tariffs that we ready have for us staying for now so what are the 2 so face to potentially where the substance is out and out 3 where we might see some of these ideological questions being addressed especially the question of state subsidies so one reason that china has been able to advance so rapidly in the recent years is because the government is helping companies that's propping them up and one company more than any other that has profit from this is of course huawei and that brings us to

a whole host of other issues right and while way is a leader in 5 g.'s that's the newest high speed highly reactive internet of the future it's going to enable technology like self driving cars companies in countries all over the world want to get in on this game and they're putting pressure on their governments to buy products you know are saying well look we won't be able to stay in on this game if we don't buy from huawei and again it's a question of ideological ideology what's a bigger risk not keeping up or blindly trusting the chinese government only policy and national security policy their story to merge as always we appreciate your reporting thank you thank. staying in the united states now the u.s. house of representatives has voted to send 2 articles of impeachment against president to the u.s. senate now that paves the way for a trial which is expected to begin next week the articles charge the president with

abuse of power and obstructing congress and its authority to investigate that abuse the house also approved the choice of prosecutors today they're known as trial managers here's what house speaker nancy pelosi said about that the emphasis is on litigators. the emphasis is on a comfort level in the courtroom the empathy is making a strong if possible case to protect and defend our constitution to seek the truth for the american people i'm very proud and honored that these 7 members they stand wished members have accepted this seriously sponsibility again to protect and defend for the people defending our democracy there was an instability there speaking today has you know the wills begin turning in the trial of u.s. president donald trump well here's a look at some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world it science is our morning of more extreme events like wildfires and

flooding being on the horizon after the hottest decade ever recorded the average global temperature in 2019 was 1 point one degree celsius above pre-industrial levels beyond 1.5 degrees global warming is projected to have extreme consequences including wiping out most arctic sea says. china has rejected a report by human rights watch condemning the treatment of its $1000000.00 muslims held in so-called political education camps the country's foreign ministry says that the document is biased and distorts the facts the report also denounces beijing's use of mass surveillance and the silencing of critics. well here in germany a black lawmakers says bullet holes have been found in the window of his constituency office in the eastern city of hala sinegal born chemist

karama budge abi became one of germany's 1st black lawmakers when he was elected to the federal parliament back in 2013 a member of the germany since her left s.p.d. social democrats john b. has been the subject of racist slurs and is office window has been smashed in the past. all right my colleague carol has been on the story for she joins me now what more do we know about this as you mentioned. actually currently the only african born m.p. in germany he moved here from some of the many years ago he posted a photo of the aftermath on his twitter account we just want to show that to you here it is this is that picture and you can see at least 3 holes there and the window of his office he writes in the tweet he says an office window with his likeness was littered with what he says are several bullet holes police are

investigating this they say they were likely air pellets it doesn't seem that those objects penetrated both both panes of glass and you represent as you mentioned the city of hala in eastern germany that's a city where in october there was an anti-semitic attack outside of a synagogue the attacker did not gain access but killed 2 people in the process the suspect in that case has admitted that there was a far right motive to this attack in terms of this case we reached out to mr jobby a spokesperson told us that there were other buildings in the area that were also attacked so motive is not 100 percent clear yet but as we heard has been the victim of racist abuse before as a politician here in germany and he's not the only politician more public. they've been targeted yeah absolutely i mean there have been several recent incidents in germany german politicians being threatened they've even come under attack and police have links many of those incidents to the far right here let me just go through a few so the local mayors have recently resigned after they received death threats

their cars were also attacked america germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia he said he recently got a gun license to defend himself because there's a very unusual here very unusual very hard to get one in for having most significantly of course you remember last year a local politician a vault he was shot and killed in his own home the suspects in that attack is also believed to have far right beliefs we should also mention though there has been a threat against a very high profile. l a f d politician that's a far right party there was an envelope that was mailed to him with white powder in it it turned out to be a hoax but of course that can be interpreted as a death threat as well many of those incidents taking place in eastern germany that's where far right sentiments are on the rise as well as a stronghold for the far right party and overall the statistics say this is a german wide problem across the country all 16 states have seen a significant rise in threats and violence against politicians so what kind of reactions have we seen to this latest attack many are rallying behind the most

significantly foreign minister want to show you what what he had to say today and these were strong words brant he said quote simply unbelievable disgusting and cowardly and you can see he continues we will continue standing by your side for a free tolerant and diverse democracy i think that last bit is important a lot of germans are worried that perhaps the diversity of germany's democracy is in fact under attack from nasa as always we report that you're reporting current thank you ari to russia now a dramatic shake up of the country's government prime minister dmitry medvedev and his entire cabinet today stepped down this just hours after president vladimir putin's state of the nation address in which he proposed changes to the country's constitution that would allow him to extend his grip on power after his term in office is supposed to end in the year 2024 russian prime minister dmitri

medvedev decision to step down can you miss a surprise medvedev said the president's proposals to mend the country's constitution would significantly change russia's balance of power he due to fully made the announcement public. because we as the government of the russian federation should provide the president of our country with the opportunity to make all necessary decisions to change the russian political system. in the circumstances i believe it would be right for the incumbent government of the russian federation to resign. the news came just hours after president putin's state of the nation address. in that speech putin suggested changing the constitution to grant parliament more powers in effect weakening the powers of the presidency analysts believe putin could use the shake up to create a new job for himself when his current presidential term ends in 4 years time under the russian constitution presidents can only serve to consecutive terms some

believe even take on a new role in parliament. although medvedev has become increasingly unpopular with the russian public in recent years putin praised his service. i want to thank you for everything you've done in this phase of our cooperation i want to express my gratitude about the results of your work even though we didn't accomplish everything we wanted to. i hope we will succeed soon. some people on the streets of moscow were slightly less forgiving of madrid gives 10 yeah. in principle the only question is why it took such a long time to be honest such a government should have been expelled many years ago were you sure you can. you meant that gives the resignation is long overdue it's the right decision and putin is long overdue to control the economy the same way he controls politics. was

putin is reportedly asked me to move to russia's national security council to work on defense and security affairs but the president appears to be leaving his own future career options open. illicit about that sco to moscow now where my colleague emily sure when she's following this story can even help us understand this we've got the government in russia today resigning in mass we've got the president mr putin saying he approves and then we've got dmitri medvedev he's out of the job i mean what who will replace him and what is the role of the prime minister in russia. well we've now heard from president putin that he's proposed. to me excuse me see him to replace me that in the video if as you can tell by my mispronunciation of his

name he's a little known figure in russian politics he so far has headed the russian federal attack service since 2010 he's known as a kind of a fish and bureaucrat now i wouldn't say that that necessarily means that the role of the prime minister is being downgraded the role of the president in russia has always been more important and in fact that is the real sea change after letting your putin speech today where he kind of increased the power of the parliament and downgraded the presidential power but he did emphasize that russia would remain presidential republic and it's hard for people outside of russia to imagine vladimir putin giving up power volunteer a leader mean one of his critics is that this move means that he plans to stay in power indefinitely is that what is going on here. well in the is speech today the state of the union of the nation address it did

seem that putin isn't planning on going anywhere soon and in fact that speech and though the reforms the proposed reforms to the constitution that he mentioned and explained today those kind of give. various potential options for his future after all presidents in russia can only serve 2 consecutive terms 2nd consecutive term is up in 2024 and essentially since this term began people have been discussing what could happen next and today he opened up a potential option of becoming the speaker of a strengthened parliament that's one option he could also become the head of the state council which is an institution that he wants to now put into the constitution as well that's made up of regional governors he could also become the head of the security council which could be strengthened and become some kind of have some kind of an advisory role in the country so he's kind of opened up

a lot of potential avenues for himself there. potentially creating a new job for himself in 2024 really showing with the leaders the political should go in russia tonight i believe thank you. 30 years ago today people in east germany stormed the headquarters of the country's secret police known as the stanzi just weeks after the fall of the berlin wall they feared that officials would destroy the millions of files that the stasi had kept on most citizens of the communist country once a day germany's president from voters dined my and visited the former stasi headquarters here in berlin to mark the anniversary he praised public access to the stasi files as a deeply democratic act that allowed people to look inside a dictatorship stunned by also valid to do his part to keep this archive open to

the public. i'm joined now here at the big table by my colleagues i'm in young people's covering this for it's getting to do you so i mean the study was one of the biggest secret police forces in the world at the time how did it shape east german society well i think it was it was a massive part of east german society in in 1989 when these germany fell there were nearly 300000 people working for the stones in one form or another and of course it was a system of that operate it it's a network of prisons they had the sweeping powers to deal with what with enemies of the state locking people up to which ring them and and so on and they carried out an enormous amount of surveillance of pressuring people in many cases to spy on friends and families and so that's the legacy of pain that that has left behind but

one of the useful things to come out of the fact that they had these habits of documenting everything they did was that there's an awful lot of evidence still around and people are still going through it now you know 30 years ago east german citizens prevented the destruction of the stasis surveillance files on millions of people one of those who took part in that storming 30 years ago tonight spoke with the w. news he was there both gang templi hm a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germany stars the headquarters it's still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on. yusof is oh yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament of our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no personal. was opened the gate the

storming of no man in street was a key moment after the buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the preceding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters. was the 1st as the workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. from its border come from the uk. but the fight to save the files was far from one that took a hunger strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public full temp lien applied to see his own. it was certainly

a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1930 . 9 u.s. in opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thora but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to follow. for 2 years template himself was an unofficial start as the informant he ultimately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany. after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stasi but he's still struggling to cope with what happened to this day. doesn't feel a lot of people say yeah well it was so long ago. if we think about the nazi era and i'm not saying that the same just comparing that to it took decades to process

the monstrous things that happened back then. the status the files will be transferred to the national archives from 2021 as long as they remain easily accessible to ordinary people templin has no problem with that in germany decided to do to make these files public people can see their own files is that a template for other countries around the world that are coming to terms with their dark histories i think it is and it's hugely successful still thousands of people even last year just see their files and it's a model that's been called beat in the former communist countries of eastern europe but not only there even in places like last in america where they you know they're dealing with the legacy of injustice from military dictatorships or in other places in africa even those departed south africa that all these situations can learn from the way that germany has dealt with that legacy from east germany and it's all part

of that process of truth and reconciliation so i mean young as always thank you well this is g.w. news and these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump and chinese vice premier have signed the 1st part of a trade agreement the deal is aimed at lowering tensions between the 2 countries following a longstanding dispute it. russian prime minister dmitry medvedev has resigned to make way for constitutional reforms proposed by president vladimir putin earlier today proposals would shift power from the presidency to parliament which could have implications for putin's role after his term in office and it's. in the philippines tens of thousands of people have fled the erupting volcano and merges it seems have been deployed to ensure evacuation from high risk areas

authorities say there could be more dangerous eruptions to come. during president john paul the steinmeyer has led commemorations to mark 30 years since people in east germany stormed the headquarters of the country's secret police steinmeyer praised those who helped preserve evidence of the stars these cross.

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