the world economic forum he was president donald trump delivered a full throated a braggadocios report card on his america 1st policy but the words climate change never crossed his lips an hour later swedish climate activists gratitude she scolded the adults such as strong for doing nothing to stop climate change saying it's time to panic our house is on fire i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. you say just need to stop us we will fix this we promise we won't let you down don't be so pessimistic this is not a time for pessimism this is a time for. optimism and then. nothing. science or something worse than science empty brackets and promises we're

committed to who could serve it be majesty of god's creation and the natural beauty of our world our hopes is still on fire. you're in action fueling the flames column we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. also coming up tonight the sparks are already flowing in the u.s. senate as the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump begins this is not a process for a fair trial this is the process for rigged trial. this is the process if you do not want the american people to see the evidence. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day caught in a split screen moment 2 different versions visions of the world offered by 2 people

who could not be any more different u.s. president donald trump and these swedish climate activists gretta to bear both spoke today at the world economic forum and it is safe to say that never in the forums 50 year history has there been so much anticipation ahead of the unlikeliest of speaking do woes trump the climate change denier today practically ignored the threat of climate change all together instead he bragged about the u.s. economy and mocked his audience of globalists by singing the praises of america 1st now sitting in the audience was a teenage girl named gratitude bared an hour later she scolded the world's business and political elites for not doing enough to stop climate change and for acting as if the climate is just part of partisan politics it's time to panic she said our house is on fire leaving behind the heat of impeachment trials

few could blame donald trump for seeking out some medicinal alpine. the us president was in divorce to address the global and it but said this selection media his message was meant for households across the u.s. . america's thriving america is flourishing and yes america is winning again like never before with just days after reaching a breakthrough with china trump sees this speech to bang the drum for his america 1st approach and these agreements represent a new model of trade for the 21st century agreements that are fair reciprocal and prioritize the needs of workers and families but as well as baseness this year's conference was supposed to deal with the growing plummet crisis with activists like gretta to embark summon to rebuke the powerful you say children shouldn't worry

you say just leave this to us we will fix this we promise we won't let you down don't be so pessimistic and then nothing. while davos choose one man was enormous for lectures this is not a time for pessimism this is a time for optimism fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy an optimism in action but to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow we must reject the perennial prophets of doom it was an image that left an impression you an honest answer is live it odd. it's because it's it's mainly all about us a few little. i think that leaders have to take out not only about themselves but

also about other nations because we have the same collective planets he does some good triggs raise worthless if you were to think beyond that much more. likely propped up the job of logging his economic record he left a flurry of questions in his week not least out war cost to the world he will leave behind. it was quite a day my colleague our very own sara kelly she is covering the world economic forum for us in davos she joins me live from davos now where it is obviously very cold good evening to you sara the u.s. presidents he gave a campaign speech for his supporters today a lot of people said but he also spoke of prophets of doom and fortune tellers how did all of that sit with his international audience. i would certainly say that the crowd approached the speech of the u.s.

president here in davos switzerland with a sense of skepticism today the american president was here to tout his particular brand of politics and policy saying the following the u.s. is experiencing a boom like never before america is winning again now those are the types of hyperbolic statements which we have simply come to expect from the united states president and it did not play well in the room last at times there were even some snickers at times and the general feeling among the crowd individuals with that i spoke with after his speech was a sense of being underwhelmed by what he had to say however that being said we have to keep in mind the content of his message the u.s. president touting the successes of the economy in the past years saying that it is his policies which are responsible for those successes he gave this speech to a room filled with some of the most powerful some of the most influential people on the path planet some of the most wealthy people on the planet donald trump clearly

saying like it or not i am good for your bottom line and that is certainly a message that he was at least hoping would resonate with some you know the billionaire president for the blue collar workers if you will the president was quick to brag about this phase one agreement in trade talks with china today but his word choice raised an eyebrow or 2 take a listen. our relationship with china right now has probably never been better we went through a very rough patch but it's never ever been better my relationship with president xi is an extraordinary one he's for china for the u.s. but other than that we love each other. we love each other did you get the impression that the audience believed the president. in a word no they most certainly did not believe the u.s. president in fact they laughed when he made that particular statement keep in mind

that this is coming against the backdrop of what has been highly contentious tit for tat trade escalations between the united states and china over the past months over the past year we had as you mentioned that signing of the u.s. china trade deal last week the ink is barely dry in that agreement just a reminder the united states has agreed not to raise tariffs further on china whereas china has agreed to further open up its economy and buy more from the united states but the feeling among many is can we believe it can we believe that china will make good on its promises can we believe that the united states president will add here to this particular agreement we heard today from the chinese vice premier here in davos switzerland he spoke as well his message was china will continue to open up the message here among the participants will believe it when we see it and you know above an hour after the u.s. president spoke the swedish teenager to the climate activist she took to the stage

you were there for that you you heard her saying that you know this is not about partisan politics this is about an entire generation failing the future generations what more did grow to do what's what struck you. i was in the room when she took to the podium here at the world economic forum in davos switzerland gratitude came with a message of action that was clear we've heard her say before i want you to act like the house is on fire well now she is saying the following when children tell you to panic we don't mean a low carbon economy we must forget about net 0 we need real 0 this was a jab at the world economic forum itself there is a challenge currently right now underway the world economic forum is challenging c.e.o.'s to go net 0 by the year 2050 we've seen a number of them sign up we've seen

a number of them behind that pledge gratitude saying that is absolutely not enough we need to mattick action we need it now we needed to be deeper and we certainly need that before 2020 and we know every year there is a buzz word or there was a catch phrase that everyone's talking about in this year one of those phrases is stake holder capitalism tell us about this. yeah in fact it goes as follows stakeholders for a cohesive and a sustainable world now this is a concept which says that companies have a responsibility to society it is not just about generating wealth it is not just about making money it is not just an obligation to shareholders and said they have an obligation to their stakeholders including the following employees customers suppliers local communities society at large that companies must be concerned with

inequality that they must be concerned with climate change that they must be concerned with human rights and they must act on that as guardians of society there's very much the feeling here at the world economic forum in davos switzerland that business in you as usual is no longer an option customers are calling for more from their companies however there is also a lot of concern about greenwashing that this might just be a pleasant message filled with platitudes that c.e.o.'s are delivering in order to satisfy those concerns. and people will say again as i've said they'll believe it when they see it when they say yes that's right. sarah killing at the. switch when sarah thank you. the u.s. president was in switzerland as history was being made in the united states. is now the 3rd president in u.s. history to face removal from office by trial in the senate the leaders of the 2

political parties in the chamber the republican majority leader mitch mcconnell and the democratic minority leader chuck schumer presented their cases for and against the resolution that sets the rules for this trial mcconnell calls it fair he says it's based on the bill clinton impeachment trial back in 1999 schumer says it's anything but fair here's part of what both men said earlier today. the senate is not about to rush into these waiting questions without discussion and without deliberation without even hearing opening arguments for there were good reasons 100 out of 100 senators agreed to decades ago to cross these bridges when we came to them that is what we will do this. as well fair is fair the process was good enough for president clinton and basic fairness dictates it ought to be good enough for this president as well it's hard to imagine

a greater subversion of our democracy than for powers outside our borders to determine the elections from within for a foreign country you attempt such a thing on its own is bad enough for an american president to deliberately solicit such a thing to blackmail a foreign country with military assistance to help him win an election is unimaginably worse well the 3rd impeachment trial of a us president is now under way my next guest tonight says the evidence is clear the united states has a problem because it has a problem with the folded impeaching its president he has authored several books including cult of the presidency america's dangerous devotion to be executive power i'm happy to welcome to the day this evening gene healy vice president at the cato institute in washington gene it's good to have you on the program i mean it before

here before we talk about impeachment per se let's talk about what the definition of a trial is here the democrats say that the trial rules make a fair trial impossible because no witnesses will be able to take the stand is an impeachment trial is it not like a courtroom trial as we understand it to be. well yes and no if this were a court room trial you could disqualify many of the senators for having prince judge the case there'd be a standard burden of proof. there are many elements of say a criminal trial that you don't find in. an impeachment trial which is sort of a hybrid of law and politics perhaps with more politics and law as we move further . you wrote a white paper about 2 years ago on the broad scope of the constitution's

impeachment power and i have to say i read through it sid a it's an excellent piece on the history of impeachment there's one clause one phrase that caught my attention we want to show it to our viewers here you write most jobs in this country are employment at will most of us can be fired for good reason bad reason or no reason at all yet we've somehow managed to convince ourselves that the one job in america where you have to commit a felony to get fired is the one where you actually gets nuclear weapons and you make an excellent point there i mean that we laugh is a sells and scary when you think about it but i want to kill her that by arguing in u.s. politics you have to be a superman like a superhero to endure the 2 years of campaigning fund raising the live t.v. debates the primaries the caucuses all of that there for firing the president should not be considered something that we do easily what do you say to them.

well i think the process by which we select the presidents actually rate should raise our concern about whether they have the character to be trusted with the vast powers that the office has accumulated i mean you know we we've got a primary process that sort of self selects for people who are willing to say and do practically anything to become president so i you know it seems to me it certainly seemed to the founders that you know quadrennial actions warrant a sufficient check on something going wrong and it seems to me that this whole process shouldn't be is fraught angsty is we seem to mate made it you know it's a dark day everyone should wear black but we're really talking about is you know the president is not you know on trial for his life or his liberty at most he's

going to be out of a job if he's removed by the senate certainly the the man who rose the national fame with the tagline you're fired can't complain too much about that process yeah that's true and he's probably differ and some would say you're fired to him that's part of the problem here the president's team he they are now saying that abuse of power is never an impeachable offense and teachable event has to be a crime that's how we're just ending it's a correct me if i'm wrong here but the president's team by saying that they're actually they're peddling something that's not true they're peddling a lie here is that right. yes it's nonsense to say that abuse of power isn't it an impeachable offense i mean nobody thought that before a week ago. the case of richard nixon even though nixon actually quit before the full asking vote to impeach him there's a good reason it looms large in our public understanding of what an inch means for

it's for a corrupt president who abuses the powers of the office the idea if a piece of power isn't an impeachable offense and nothing is and ends it looks tonight the republican majority senate will not convict donald trump they just don't have the numbers the 2 thirds majority that required so he will not be removed from office at the end of the day at least as we see it from outside the united states it looks looks like this whole impeachment process that has been for naught has has the process itself has it been valuable or has it damaged. the country in your opinion. well i think it's always valuable when you remind people in power that they work. you know that they don't have a unbreakable lease to their jobs and that they can be removed for misbehavior i

also think that impeachment in the house serves some of the functions that censure is supposed to serve but never as historically i mean president trump the other week was you know lashing out on twitter about the quote unquote stigma of having been impeached if nothing else becoming one of. the now the 4th president the 3rd president rather to to have been impeached by the house you know it's it leaves a mark and so i don't think it's right to say that it's a waste of time to try to impeach a president if the votes for removal don't happen to be there and you know it was last week i think that nancy pelosi the speaker of the house she did say regardless of what happens in the senate trent will now for ever be any impeached president you're right i mean he is marked for life were the founders of the united states

who wrote the constitution where they thinking event that if you impeach someone you don't have to put them in jail to punish them it's the impeachment removal of office that's punishment enough. well i think there are familiar with some of the history of impeachment in britain and there are many times that house of lords never even tried the case just the the risk of impeachment indictment was a sufficient check on misbehavior so. i i don't know of any commentary on this particular point but it's certainly plausible that they would view it that way and you know it i i think they were on the whole much less anxious about the possibility of presidential impeachments then we are today they knew that it could still partisan passions they didn't want it to see it in every presidential

term but they they weren't scared of doing it when you know circumstances demanded it well leave the circumstances have given it to is now the 1st case in the 21st century gene healy we appreciate you joining us tonight putting context around the impeachment process against donald trump gee thank you thank you. but here in germany chancellor angela merkel today opened a new exhibition spotlighting $75.00 holocaust survivors it's part of the events taking place to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp which was established and operated by nazi germany now the exhibition teacher's place of portraits of people who lived through the nazi genocide some of those survivors were in attendance today for merkel's speech merkel valid that germany will do everything possible to combat present day racism and anti-semitism.

more than 1000000 people were murdered auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the soviet red army in 1901. these people were persecuted by nazi germany and the survived. the portraits on display in the german city of s. and. the title of the exhibition is survivors faces of life after the holocaust. the 75 photographs by martin schoeller the german who lives in new york. what i think really brings these people together is a certain type of optimism and strength i don't know if you can see that but there's also a kind of a pride and a lot of them over the top very defiantly about i overcame the holocaust and then i did this and then i did this and this and now i have 20 grandchildren 5 kids and 20

grandchild so they're very proud people close ups of celebrities such as barack obama hillary clinton and uncle americal cemented shadows renowned. each owes the same big head style as he calls it for his series on survivors. the faces speak for themselves. charlotte took these photos in jerusalem the atmosphere at the shoot was relaxed. he completed the 75 portraits in just 10 days that's not much time but time enough for moving encounters and incredible stories the russians liberated the camp and i make my. i am it made by any chance in this picture i had a photograph of me from

a newspaper article and showed the pictures famous picture of the children standing behind this wired friends and she's like oh yeah that's me and that's my sister moto wise herself a historian is concerned that the stories of survival not before go. isn't especially in the face of resurgent anti semitism vivian oriya works where yad vashem israel's holocaust remember and sent a which co-sponsored the portrayed project when we try to lay it to fight then to symmetry is aim in the denial all fall of course that we we are doing need that the main to info doing need is education and this exhibition is pontiff i woke it's a do cation to educate to teach what hip and what took place for this sake or for their knicks their generations motm shul a says photographing survivors was a very moving experience and hopes people will contemplate the portraits with an open mind and an open hot as time passes an as

further way you we get for amid do more beyond the new did so the information it's the more bay people talk maybe about as a i see it as my personal responsibility to to keep the fact strayed viz are among the last survivors of nazi persecution as shallow said that optimism and strength c'mon to respect auschwitz of any 5 years old the days almost done the conversation continues online they remembered no matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another dick was the you that it worked

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