this is g.w. news live from the berlin the caucus chaos in iowa nearly 24 hours after voting for the democratic presidential candidates we finally have some results. we want iowans to be confident in the results and in the process and we are going to take the time that we need to make sure that we do just that. the democratic party and i will blame the new app and under-staffed phone lines for the delay now with just over 60 percent of precincts reporting there's

a surprise early leader also coming up president donald trump prepares for the state of the union address likely the last of his current term he's expected to tout his record on the economy head of the senate voting to decide his fate later on wednesday. plus on strike to protect themselves from the virus thousands of health care workers in hong kong walked off the job are demanding the territory's government completely seal its border with china as the coronavirus claims more like. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us after a day of chaos iowa democrats have finally begun releasing some results from monday's caucuses presidential hopeful pete but a judge is in the lead followed closely by bernie sanders that's with just over 60 percent of results announced the. counting process was plagued with problems

including a faulty app that was supposed to make the tally faster and easier on stead results were delayed by almost 24 hours the caucus is or the opening of vent in the 2020 alecto will calendar democratic voters across the country are choosing a nominee who will almost certainly face off against president in november we still don't know when the full results from iowa will be out. or we want to go straight to d.w. correspondent pablo fully l e s now he's in washington d.c. for us pablo finally some partial results at least coming from iowa what can you tell us about these numbers. that's right finally indeed they came just a short while ago here in the united states and like you said a little bit of a surprise pete booted who is a more moderate democrat he's topping the caucuses with 62 percent of the total

from in iowa bernie sanders a close 2nd followed by elizabeth warren and then joe biden so not a very good day for joe biden we can take a lot away from this result because if we actually focus on for example the popular vote count in fact bernie sanders at the moment is topping and also there's interesting there are 2 of the progressive candidate bernie sanders and elizabeth warren doing quite well if we put their vote together and then like i said a really not a very good result there for joe biden that there had been some sort of indication that that could possibly happen at leading up to this caucus in iowa but it is important to stress karl that at the moment we have just over 60 percent of of the total amount so anything could happen it could change so far so that's what's happening at the moment absolutely i mean the numbers aside there's been a lot of fallout from this hold this whole debacle and i was the top democratic official they're calling this on the settle and now other states reacting to this

as well yeah you're absolutely right well there's a lot of focus now on the primaries in fact in new hampshire that's where the candidates have been trying to put older energy into it but you just said if they're in fact nevada which also has a cold has said that they won't be using this app at all and instead they're going to be going about it in different ways so this is already the old ready saying have president has been reacting it's a lot of fodder for him he's been focusing on the democrats saying they're incompetent and how they really messed up. yeah there was one clear winner in iowa tonight that would be president trump himself he is expected he won the republican contest easily pablo stay there we want to come back to you in just a minute because later tonight the president will also be giving is 3rd state of the union address that's even as his historic impeachment trial continues to play out his acquittal is all but a guaranteed in the final vote expected on wednesday but the impeachment tsonga and

his dealings in ukraine have helped highlight trump's many controversial foreign policy decisions. he comes to authoritarianism strong man he'd be raids and ridicules close u.s. allies and he views himself as the next steps in the deal maker donald trump came into office believing that the foreign policy of his predecessors was badly wrong and that he alone could fix it there were indeed some serious problems with you ask foreign policy when trump took office since christopher preble an expert with the libertarian cato institute but on balance the president's successes are few and far between. i think the president set for himself some very ambitious objectives he allowed his rhetoric to get ahead of his ability to execute and we're seeing it play out over the last 3 years and so when he boasts that he's achieved

some great success it's fairly easy to see that that is not the case for example north korea and the famous bilateral meetings between donald trump and. the white house claims this was a great breakthrough but north korea's nuclear program continues and the human rights situation in north korea is still dreadful for iran since the u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal there have been tit for tat escalations culminating in trump's order. to kill iranian top general qassim soleimani the us maximum pressure come paint on tehran doesn't seem to be working and even though trump promised to end the wars in the middle east the us military presence in the persian gulf now is larger than it was when he took office but in his state of the union address the u.s. president is expected to tell his ability to keep america safe he will probably

also praise his achievements as negotiator pointing to the new trade agreement with canada and mexico they face one u.s. china trade deal and his middle east peace plan a plan that critics deemed unrealistic and dead on arrival president trump could be more successful if you work closer together with friends and partners instead of accusing them of taking advantage of the u.s. says has our conley an expert at the center for strategic and international studies in washington. this is something very very new and every past us president not that we haven't had difficulties with allies but we see allies as a force multiplier of u.s. influence and economic prosperity not as a negative so this is a very new element to president trump's foreign and security policy and certainly europe has felt that most keenly ironically it's the u.s.

policy towards europe that has become crucial to his legacy because of his dealings with ukraine impeachment will always be attached to donald trump and the years from now it will be one of the 1st things students are taught about the 45th president. let's go back to g.w. correspondent pablo folios in washington for us probably heard the foreign policy side of things barrow what are you expecting from tonight's state of the union address. well 1st and foremost he goes into this president trump with the highest approval ratings he's had in fact in 3 years and also it's importing to important to note as well have many top republicans have been essentially saying the president needs to focus on a message of unity of course and as this impeachment trial winds down it comes to an end and you know what they want is for trump to focus on old the positives as they see it in that such as the economy how it's booming have

there's been no recession under his presidency how wages are employment is down and how the markets are doing well and and sort of stay away from will say the cultural issues and all the other areas where president trump has found himself dividing the nation very much like i said he will probably talk about the fact that you know his approval ratings and how the republicans in particular are you know backing him have openly backed him and. is expected to be one of the core areas where the president will talk in the state of the union address ok that speech expected in just a few hours correspondent. in washington for us thank you very much. our here's a look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world iran's top court has confirmed a death sentence for a man accused of spying for the cia a court spokesman said the iranian man was paid to send information about the country's nuclear program to the u.s.

spy agency in another case 2 charity workers received long jail sentences on similar charges. libya's warring factions have met for face to face cease fire talks brokered by the u.n. in geneva they're trying to end years of conflict between rival governments funding has continued since last month's conference in berlin in which foreign powers pledged to stay out of the war. firefighters in the french island of corsica are battling an out of control winter blaze the fire started on tuesday and quickly tore through hundreds of hector's in remote terrain it was marked by large gusts of wind and followed a weekend of unseasonably warm weather. well fishel is now saying at least $479.00 people have died on the chinese mainland to due to a corona virus outbreak the total of known infections has surged up $20000.00 earlier on tuesday hong kong confirmed the 1st death from the virus on its

territory on kong was hit hard by the sars virus 18 years ago and this new coronavirus is fuelling alarm and anger. hong kong's health workers are angry they want the border with mainland china shot to halt the spread of the corona virus that has infiltrated hong kong and now killed a man. i hope the government listens to our demands quickly closes all the borders and brings this epidemic under control. the concern is not only here many countries are taking drastic measures in that effort to contain the spread of the virus. japan has quarantined this cruise ship after a passenger who disembarked in hong kong tested positive for the virus there almost 4000 people still on board a medical team has boarded the ship to conduct extensive health checks. the world health organization has declared the virus a global emergency but not

a pandemic in other words it might be spreading but don't panic currently we are not independent make. we are to face where it's an epidemic with folk foresight and we will try to distinguish transmission in each of these sites. in tough times china is claiming a victory the beds are for the thousands of expected coronavirus patients who are already arriving at this emergency hospital in one hand where the outbreak began. the facility was built in under 2 weeks breakneck speed to tackle the rapidly spreading virus the w.h.o. has praised china for its urgent action saying it's provided a window of opportunity to hold transmission around the world. are in sports now and the round of 16 in this year's german cup kicked off today in

the 1st 4 quarter finalists have been confirmed shellac up prevailed over hertz of berlin with a dramatic winner in extra time well bundesliga strugglers verite of braman completed a surprise victory over brucia dortmund also by rb leipzig were knocked out by frankfurt and fortuna dusseldorf beat a 3rd division kaiserslautern by 5 goals to 2 well the 1st ever stage in the inaugural edition of the saudi cycling tour was won on tuesday by portugal's rico stuff costa came in 1st and the end of the 173 kilometer stage which started in the capital riyadh and writers battle with powerful desert cross winds the 5 stages saudi tour is the latest in a string of high profile sporting events to take place in saudi arabia and as drawn criticism from human rights groups who accuse the kingdom of sports washing its international reputation. well they say an apple

a day keeps the doctor away but how about combining that with a hot bath that's exactly how these cappie bearers survive the long winters and as soon north of tokyo they weigh up to $65.00 kilos and they are the world's largest rodents and always draw a crowd zoos hoping to boost visitor numbers during the year of the rat by showing off these huge animals in and out of the war. well don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google player from the app store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news if you're part of a news story you can also use that d.w. app to send us photos or videos of what's going on where you are watching news from berlin more news coming at the top of the hour in the meantime d.w. africa up next with my colleague christine window and of course we will have live

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