these are to contribute eradication of poverty and the promotion of sustainable develop the state of new news life from poland. donald trump's republicans complete this week and to power the policy is now set to control the white house. and both houses of congress also coming up police in south africa they've, they've, they've determined to arrest hundreds of illegal vinyl stuff called on the ground. what's going to save them to die without the food and water? a product of blocking the welcome to the program. republicans in the us have want enough seats to control both the house of representatives and the senate. that gives president elect donald

trump potty complete control over the income and government phone has moved quickly to fill his cabinet. one of his latest selections as robert f. kennedy junior to meet the department of health and human services. he has an antivirus inactive us that has promoted vaccine construct securities. the costs from will depend on his fellow republicans and the senate to approve us fixed a cabinet before his 2nd time begins in january, a man, donald trump, return to washington this week, try i'm sent relishing his election when and what he called a powerful mandate. well thank you very much, is a very nice gathering. is the dice when nice to in colors. nice to a lot of good friends. it is those good friends and now being nominated for top government positions among them. attorney general pick met gates,

a loyal trump follow a who has often acted as his attack dog on capitol hill. gates has been the subject of a federal 6 transit king investigation with the one that ended with out criminal charges . summers and fox news channel hosp hicks is a military veteran whom trump once as defend secret tree. the civilian nomination has reportedly shocked many at the pentagon with concerns he could politicize the defense department, touching the top generals. but from may face challenges securing them in the roles, and the pix must be consumed by the senate, while republicans have a 53 seat majority. the nominations, approved and controversial, even within their own ranks. republicans presenting a largely united front with the senate house and white house now under the control . yeah, trump meet with president joe bind and on wednesday,

the polite but we'll put exchange signaling a vastly different era for us leadership with democrats now facing an uphill battle to combat trumps agenda on douglas b is a political scientist at emory university in washington dc. welcome to the w under donald trump pad full control of government for the 1st 2 years of his presidency in 2016. do you think he is better prepared to push through his agenda this time? well, i am not sure that uh, president electronic is actually going to use congress a lot. i think the big question of this administration is, how much is he going to expand executive power? and so, yes, he does have legislative majorities in the house and in the senate. they are one slim, legislative majority is which means it only takes a handful of congress members or senators a to a schedule of bills. we've done it. he has to keep the republicans in lock step. we also have to keep in mind that most of those in congress basically requires 60

votes to pass because you have to make sure that you can get past a culture vote. and so that there, filibuster, proof is a $53.00 seats. there's probably still going to be a lot of stalemate in the united states senate. so i think the question is, especially with some of these very controversial picks is, do they actually get through the senate confirmation process or does a future president, trump try to use the recess appointment process to put people in office at least for the 1st 2 years while the senate is out of session and then the other place where he's likely to act more is in the realm of executive orders. so there has to be laws in place in order for president to issue executive orders. but i expect that trump is going to be more active and executive and using executive orders to try to put his agenda forward. then he was in his 1st term. and that's a circumvent congress. a lot the note was all with us. kennedy junior has just been confirmed as tons of choice for us health secretary, it's not a surprise, but what do you make of it?

so i mean, and i want to be careful about how we use the term confirmation. trump, that's confirmed that he's nominating him to be the health and human services secretary, but he will have to be confirmed by the senate in january or go through this recess appointment process. and it's not surprising. he said that he was going to have a big role during the campaign. i think the concern is one of kennedy's doesn't have a lot of experience with respect to the issues related to health and human service . he's an environmental lawyer by training and by profession. and it's not just does he have the management experience to be able to handle a massive agency like helping human services, but his perspective on vaccines. so some people are actually worried could actually increase the incident of diseases that had been under control in the united states . for decades, the most controversial pixel felt as much gates as attorney general. do you expect him to when the senate confirmation as well? um, is there

a base for particularly controversial picks that have happened within the last couple of days? so robert f kennedy. net case p a heads up at the department of defense until he gathered as director of national intelligence. and i think the big question is, what kind of test to wells are we about to see between donald trump and send it republicans? so, will they fight all 4 of these controversial pix and any others, or are they going to pick their battles and confirm some um, and then go to the nominations of some of these other candidates. and so, you know, it's very likely that senate republicans may pick their battles. so some of these controversial people make it in, and then it becomes a question of whether or not they're fit to leave for all 4 of these candidates or questions of whether or not they actually have the requisite experience to lead these massive bureaucracies. and then there are questions about whether or not they would put loyalty ahead of national interest. and what does that have to wait to see who actually can make it through the the confirmation process, and then how they perform. if they actually are confirmed for the job, we do have to wait and see who actually joins the administration. but looking at

all of drumsticks so far, what did they tell you about his policy plans? what? what would you expect from the 1st months of his presidency as well? i mean, he's picking people who are extremely loyal to him and, and so there isn't any question right now that he's picking loyalists and that he's prioritizing that. i think, you know, he's making good on his promises. he's putting people in for instance, you know, somebody like matt gates who will attack what he perceives to be the, what a division of government and somebody who, you know, if he did want to start investigations, probably wouldn't stand in the way and keep a bright line between the justice department and the white house in the ways the other attorney general have tried to do, you know, the other, you know, issue that i think is there is whether or not of these folks are actually prepared to leave these nasa bureaucracy. now we know that you are not going to be that promise swami. you don't want to cut the size of government, but you can cut government only but so far. and so these are still going to be massive organizations. and i think that there's huge questions about whether or not

these folks actually are prepared to be able to lead these very, very complex organizations and agencies. huh. that's on can let's be political scientist in washington dc. thank you so much. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north korean leader kim jong own has ordered his military to begin mos producing suicide phones. according to states media. he said the introduction of such drones around the world requires an urgent update of the military puting on young has been bumping up the development of new weaponry and recent years and increasing alms exposed to russia. air pollution levels have sold in delhi to levels at least 30 to 35 times the safe limits recommended by the world health organization. authorities have shut all kinds of the schools until further notice. the small is blamed for thousands of premature death each year. and as an annual source of misery for the capital specified a pro palestinian demonstrators while it outside

a football stadium in thomas, a head of a game between from an as well, thousands of police officers with deployed all the security concerns. but it's rarely funds, but they have been no major incidents last week. at least 5 is really enjoyed when support over is rarely club. my coffee tel aviv flashed with locals and answer them . these ready, military stays, that will strike against any attempts to bring weapons from the city. we got into nothing on the supply the headphone. i'm initial warning photos to as many as strikes against the syrian capital, damascus and its suburbs. southern states media say at least 15 people were killed in the attacks with more than a 1000. others moved to south africa now with hundreds, even thousands of people are trapped in a gold mine in the countries northwest. providence. prepped that is by a policy is waiting to arrest them for illegal mining relatives have been blocked from providing food or water to the miners. a law enforcement tactic. the basically

is already having deadly consequences. an agonizing waiting game on folds in south africa's northwest province. as it's estimated that thousands of illegal gold minors have been down this shaft for 4 weeks, while police wait above ground to arrest anyone who comes out. relatives who normally bring food and water to the mine had been blocked by police. now all they can do is stand by helpless with my brother. one brother came to mind me, the domain name. now we've got 7 months inside, but i'm looking for the brother m o, i don't. if he's in communication with my brother, that's why you see most of those most come on because we have bought us the. we have sounds think that overall, like he said, the all of our children must probably one tell. so our government must help us. but the government has refused to help anyone who stays

under ground. the officials say the miners can come out any time, but they're unwilling to do so because they feel of arrest and possible deportation . police say they have already detained a 1000 people. those that uh um, the stuff isn't oh i brought up the processing them in terms of the law. meaning that we also charging them. um, depending on the conditionality and maybe the state testing the country, because the mine was the commissioned official say it is too dangerous to send down rescuers. one volunteer who went to check on conditions reported seeing several dead bodies the south african human rights commission plans to investigate the police action now to the mountain political and economic toe model here in germany . charles, the old off shows of governing coalition has unraveled with

a confidence both and stop the elections moving. it comes with a particularly bad time for the countries economy, which was expected to shrink for the 2nd, for the 2nd deal in a row. so what kind of government crisis do about it? dw cassandra was and triple council has spoken. germany is in a slump and requires urgent reforms to boost grow. the major issue which brought down the government was the so called debt break, which caps deficit spending. the german counseled economic experts saying it needs reform to losing the purse strings and fix 3 key areas, transport defense and education has also i asked counsel member or read a moment here is it would be irresponsible to allow for the racking up of more debt . we actually not say a borrow more, we don't want to increase the fiscal space in. the emphasis is quite the country, right? if you want to is what we're saying. this is what of a, you know, fisco financial capacity. you have,

think about how you're spending the money. we do things as a lied reform of the dead. frank would be useful. we want to make a comically smarter, but indeed, the calls will also things. that's something along those lines. some graphs, rails along those lines have actually been useful. the old truism about businesses is a crave certain d, something as a chaos in the coalition has eroded. how do you see fresh elections? reading some lights into the german economy if they can? one of the big factors that has affected the german economy is uncertainty. we have seen it both on the side of firms who are not investing or i'm not sure whether to build up capacity. if those do mind and keep citing uncertainty, economic and certainly policy uncertainty, the same on the consumer side, the consumer wants have had to gain an income that's still not spending. so if we can reduce the uncertainty, that would be good. however, i would say we have to wait for the election results at the new coalition to see whether we have a better alignment amongst us,

the potty running. but the germans nap elections comes as the world braces for the pressures of a new trump presidency. he's proposed harris on imports, cars and major german industry, and it's called on european nations to increase their defense funding, which would mean a diversion of the budget from other priorities. the report recognizes that simply spending more is not the answer. structural challenges like labor shortages and demographic pressures need bold reforms, yet the political appetite for such changes is limited with fiscally conservative parties and dominating the poles. a broken coalition means it's highly unlikely that any economic revival will pass through the bush dog until election day. so the country will likely be less high and dry until a new government comes into office several months from now. and with that to your up to date, but stay with us. we'll have the full interview with, i don't recall monday or on what germany has to do to rescue with economy. that's

up next. stay tuned for more than that. and here's an analysis. remember to check our website dw, dot com, but also on social media at the handbook dw leaves of the hill jewelry. thank you so much for watching. goodbye the, the untold story.