twenty four correspondents around the w world. it's nine pm here in the french capital headlines from around the world. fall to germany renew the european marriage vows to the treaty but what value does it really holds in the age of brexit and populism. elsewhere trying for trump is the us supreme court backs his ministry transitions of band with the latest fashion washington. also coming up the second in our series of esters reports from yemen. are often witnessed first hand the tragic humanitarian impacts the ongoing conflic. you're watching live.

thanks for joining us assuming all responsibilities at a time when europe is threatened by nationalism. the words of emmanuel michael in the sea and i get a medical put pen to paper on and you franco german treaty. the french president and german chancellor meeting in the symbolic border city of auken. top date that nineteen sixty three post war reconciliation accords. but many scams cool off the hopes of reinvigorating the e. u. central axis. nature presence anti brussels populism. first with the force known best shots more franco german friendship and european unity. mignon mclaughlin angela merkel holds the often treaty can help counter growing euroscepticism on the continent. stocking up on other ones and then the populism and nationalism are becoming

stronger. for the first time a great person a c country s leaving the new one was done in. what does so that's why we need a renewed commitment to our responsibility within the european union unfoldin? in idaho was vision when your own. key elements of the e treaty include plans to o ramp up military andnd security cooperation and a pledge by france to back germanyny's campaign for a permamanent seat on the un security council. the agreement also o seeks o harmonize the two countries economies. to reinforce cultural and cross border ties and paves the way for the creation of a joint franco german parliament. the largely symbolic measures have been criticized by euro files for their lack of ambition. but were also slammed by euro skeptics who fear they could a road and national sovereignty. french far right leader marine le pen wrongly claim to the treaty would impose german language and some french schools. and force paris to share its security council seat with berlin.

while the german far right has accused michael. of quotes wanting to renovate his country with germany's money. false allegations that were strongly review by the french president. circuit gotta get to those who mobile iphone removed to spread lies format hurting our history. and the plo which they claim to the family stone that the phone call. with the may european elections looming merkel in mclean hope the often treaty can help rally voters behind their common vision. and quell the growing voices of pop. when this i'm joined from berlin by the us for so who's the director of the german council of foreign relations thanks very much for talking to us first of all very simply your reactionon to this treataty? well it's a largely symbolic act at a time where europe is challenged from within and from the outside. and in my view it reflects the import tool importance that both berlin and paris

attached to the bilateral relalationship inn that situationn. where i believe both sides know they have to do more for europe and it's very hard to pull national public so long to you know to to get the majority say need in the european union? and it just shows that from the perspective of berlin and paris that relationship remains at the core of the european union and there's a very clear commitment not only. to a deep and bilateral relations but also to to do what they can to regain that role of an engine of integration in the european union. you're talking about onto your pay invoices eurosceptic voices pappas forces we have marine le pe- in that report -- what can those who believe in europe who believe in close ties close inspection what can they do to counter that narrative at a time when people are distrustful? one thing is to really explain what we need europe for these days you know much of the narrative about european integration is about the pasta way europe

was built in the first place after the second world war. and one of those arguments are stillll rigight but i bebeevee have to explain in a much better way what europe can soap on whicich y you're a concernff citizens interest. and one of the problems is obviously that so many challenges are coming from abroad and what not so that nationalists -- warranty european this give is that -- gain sovereignty and what the issue has to do in this situation it has to explain how it can devise policies that match that can actctuay help to to solve the problems that we are facing and also -- but basically the the attacks that out in in some degree coming from the outside. fixing finally all not that key* the franco german axis traditionally at the heart of europe part of the appeal. for some in germany over manual my chrome was that he promised to do something which few french presidents have done before which would be to balance so

the french budget and therefore. i am and they forget credibility -- in but it looks like he might fall short of that given what we see with the protests. hey in phones there tension. within even within the call axis -- of the e. u. there's two powers. well i know my court date is a french president who who said two things at the same time and that message was well received in berlin he said that on the one hand. he will reform fronts and he will yes consolidate the budget and on the other hand he wants europe to move forward and that was always. both basically the two sides of of the coin that michael put forward as his program when he was a candidate and he stuck to that when he became president. and now indeed he has refor- franz and he he took a quick in some. indeed am that's that's the problem but i would say in general germany knows how much it relies on fronts for many of the european efforts

that come out of berlin. and the indeed berlin has also very late and only partially to michael's big proposals for the future of the european union. so i believe there still is a huge interest to make him succeed but indeed the the demonstrations on the street house scene was some worry. first of all because of the violence that is surfacing secondly because indeed the question is whether the michael can stick to his reform program which fronts like like many of the u. countries do need. the nurse for side but in thanks very much for joining us [inaudidible] thank you. we've all phone system and its lease i'm* ongoing spats over m my creation flarares once again that off the italian deputy pririme miminister luigi tomorrow court for e. u. sancnctions agagainst paris. accusing fronts of fueling immigration by c ctinuing to colonize african countries. latest in a series of clashes between the two neighbors since it's these populist governmnment came o power last year.

yeah okay though case yes. i think that phones is one of those countries not by printing money for for african states. vents the economic developments and contributes to the fact that the refugees leave and then died in the sea control arriving because he put off will be. if you were a good now wants to show some courage sit it must have the strength recently issue of the decocolonization o of afric. the quality that sooner tha. the bios claims a french colonialism in africa sentry as you heard that in pots on the cfa franc currency. used by a number of former french territories in afric. from twenty four more judy optics closer look. the cfa frank was created in nineteen forty five following the birth monetary unions. in total one hundred and fifty five million people use the cfa frank on the

cocontinent. yet it's manufactured several thousand kilometers away in the small town of some idea in the center of france. inititially the tererm cfa s ort f for the frerench colonies of africa. later that changed it to financial cooperation in africa and today the acronym means african financial community. the c cfa frank is tieded te euro meaning it follows the european currency fluctuations. the perceived advantages the springs are monetary stability a low inflation rate and an easy conversion into other currencies. and reteturn the african countries are required to deposit 50% of their currency reserves in paris. critics say that a stronong euro means the cfa frank could be over valued which would weaken exports. they also points to the issue of monetary sovereignty and the fact that african central banks are not free to lend money as they would need. to to

develop their economies. you know the status that is with the supmeme court was given the go ahead to president trump's's plan to ban certain transgender pepeople from m the ministr. conservative majority call routing five to four to lifting junctions blocking the policy. the g governmentt looks to e away from the stones of the obama administration. little while ago i alsoo washington correspondent for the crowther how trump had been justified with this. well this comes from a series of tweets from the president in july of twenty seventeen a series of tweets that came out of no where it seemed and that certainly haven't been. coordinated with the u. s. military -- with the leadership in the pentagon the president said that he was banning trans gender members from the military he says that it wouldd simplyy be too expensive the reason gender transition costs for example that kind of thing. that -- members of the merit military it's about able to do something that was put in place under the obama

administration as you said. that when the president first spoke about this again it seems to come out of no where the pentagon didn't agree with this and certainly wasn't ready to implement any kind of a change. but now it has become official the administration can now implements of this change and ban anybody who is going through a gender transition from joining the u. s. military there are currently. a loss of members in the u. s. military i think around - several hundreds who are considered trans gender -- and who can still remain in the military they would be thrown out what this does show of course is this is a supreme court decision it shows how important it is to get the justices on the highest court in the land that you want. because this was a decision by a five to four of the five conservative leaning judges and that includes the likes of neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh two supreme court justices who were nominated by donald trump. they were among the majority of five the full who

dissented with the full left leaning judges that's what the supreme court is going to look like for the next few years it seems a conservative leaning a majority giving the trump administration. successes like the one at seoul today. crowther in the washington them. which are now if the second in a series of astley's reports from yemen a nation reeling from the impact of a hootie rebellion and subsequent sound the last minute tree intervention. as diplomatic efforts to bring a halt to the fighting intensify. humanitarian situation remains as critical as ever. report to sit by and and i'm a i'm from it's all we have just returned from yemen when they witnessed the suffering first hand. features the voice of a movement as well. i saw the jusust a few kilometersrs f from the saui border. the historic bastion of the he's the rebellion this city has known its fair share of conflicts over the centurie.

but the most recent one h hs all but dedestroyed it. the little local hospital is overwhelmed with injured. civilians and fighters who were not allowed to see. the fighters keep c close control of that image and rally cross access to the strongholds. but they will take us to the children's emergency room. mine is are on the frontline of this conflicts. and for them suffers from malnutrition. it's a lot and i do it i'm in lovove with the fat it's because of the endless fighting and its economic impacts. that we see cases like thes- and if we had enoughh medication and resources wee wouldn't be facing this health cririsis that it hada ththat. we've been here for nine days her h health has just t worse we've trieded everythg but we're losing hope. yeah well i should.

this pediatric unit is one of the law still g going. in the high plateau of nova in yemen well hospitals and clinics have been destroyed and harry. home what prevented you from cocoming earlierer. the war of course. then with the it's not just the rule. this is the third time we've seen this. one what can we send him. to sign off so he can be treated overseas. obviously that's not possible. then i flieses. the reality i is we just don't have the means to save the child. it's a visit him.

this is the least visible but most devastating consequence of the w war. a scarcity and lack of everything. that will affect generations to come.. us thing a chris brown and two other people in custody here in paris off to being detained on potential rape and drug charges. that off the woman filed a complaint of the meeting ground and friends the night club. returns the star city center hotel. brown's beating repeated legal troubles is putting often rhianna. french investigators have another two days to decide whether to let him go you want to file criminal charges. now for most of us it was spell financial disaster. footballer cristiano ronaldo it relatively relieved the spanish court handed down eight nineteen million your i find. that is it roads on a tax avoidance case against the five time but on to a winner relating to his time rail madrid's. for more i'm joined from madrid by correspondent sarah morris

good evening sarah i would now didn't seem to look overly concerned about one of this. he said he didn't he tried to avoid what is known as the walk of shame into the court he tried. to persuade the court to let him use the underground car park so he could avoid that camera -- crew that was a waiting outside for him at the court refused and so he seemed to turn it into what many people said. i looked more like a wheel cup of capital than a walk into a court he signed a few autographs so with -- waiting fans i he didn't really answer any journalist questions he said he didn't apologize i've been inside that court he was treated. in a way it like any other criminal he had to accept that eighteen point eight million euros find us for setting up a shell company to avoid. paying money only he's image rights and they should be back in -- twenty seventeen grow now

just said that he would settlement six months ago. is not the first a celebrity to face tax issues that. he certainlyly isn't an infection jusust before himn ththe coururt was chubby alg so a another former real madridid p player whoho is acactually going to a try to consnsist the charges he's accused. of defending four mimillion euros and of course -- weemember lino messi who actually i was convicted of twenty one months a in jail- but to have receceived a suspenended sentence -- he also -- was accusedd and convicted f setting up a s show companis anand of course you might remember t that it's not jut footbaball is here thehe juf palmlm former duke of palme. two kingng phillippi in yeah kilo don gooding is currently in n jail. seserving a five years and n months out f for tax andnd f they did fraud and

embezzlement. sir noise of a great thanks for joining us. a danish scientists havee made a stall warning home one of the key indicators of global warming. disagree nuns melting ice which causes sea levels to rise dissipated four times fost in. twenty thirteen and in. two thousand three green and i she contains enough frozen wateter thrice global sea level. it may already be too late. according to a new reportt the greenland ice sheet has nearly r reached a tippiping point. meaning that it may be more sensitive to temperature changes. and in a worst case scenario the entire ice block could melt over time scale of a few hundred he is. they could be dire consequences for low lying communities as c. levels rise. the only thingg we can do is adapt to mitigate for the global warming it's too late for that to o be no effect. this is going to cause

additional sea level rise. we are watching the i. sheets hit a tipping point. the findings are published in the u. s. journal proceedings of the national academy of sciences. study shows at the rate of ice melting increased fourfold between two thousand three and twenty twelve the largest sustained loss came from southwest greenland. until now mr such in the region concentrated on glass his. but this new reportt showsws that there's also been a significant rededuction of e surface on sheet which were it to melt completely. contains enough water to raise global sea levels by six meters. your watching live from paris their own phones twenty four ton of a business with kate made see high case starting off with a bit of a drop off in shares amid concerns of i an economic downturn. absolutely we've heard a very sharp warning this week up from the international monetary fund we've seen a jump in pessimism among ceos and other business leaders.

as well as a drop in chinese economic the trump administration has cancelled around preparatory discussions with chinese officials ahead of their next official trade talks. no this tuesday the video address to the world economic forum you secretary of state mike pompeii -- said he remained optimistic about the outcome of those negotiations but he stressed that economic ties between the world's two largest economies do need to be adjusted. norman barbash is the chief economist at ihs market has been seeking to press for the force stephen carroll into office. just about every country in the world the slowing down but we don't think that's gonna be a recession in two thousand nineteen either in the u. s. so the world economy or europe i know there's a lot of concerns about europe. going into recessision i i k that's a low probability kind of events. when you lookk at the u. s. shut down and we're heading into a very long period of it now what's of a fact is not going to o have on the american economy? if the shutdown ends by say the end of january the end of this month then i think it will reduce u. s. growth

in the first quarter. by at ten thirty two but if they make it extends through february or longer even than the effects could be quite large. the chinese economy the slowest growth growth since nineteen ninety is not a big concern going forward to some extent it is but we've been expecting the chinese economy to slow down for some time we're saying six point 3 3% growth. in two thousand nineteen as some of his deliberate the government wants to squeeze leverage will data out of the economy. was to reduce the impact of the shadow banks as a some of i it is delibiberate butn some of it is also the fact of the us tariffs on chchine exports. and your biggest concern looking at twenty nineteen what h he most worried about is my biggest worry is a policy mistake of some kind and in particular trade policy mistake if the us and china allow this -- trade spat to turn into a could be a serious problem both for the us and china and that could be a recession scenario. let's check in on the day trading action now wall

street is falling is trading resumes after the martin lutherer king day holiday. the dow jones has plummeted four hundred and fifty points caterpillar shares dropping nearly 4% at the nasdaq slipping nearly two and a half percent there. with less than an hour to go until the closing bell. earlier on european markets closed lower thehe fifty one hundred d dropping about 1%n london at the docks and get count about half that. ubs shares drop three percentage cpas lenders fourth quarter results missed expectations. banks net profit for twenty eighteen jumped sharply but clients pulled out a whopping thirteen billion dollars in assets during last year's market volatility. ubs chief executive said the results were not up to his ambitions and warned uncertainty in a number of areas could affect this year's performance as well. the european union is find mastercard five hundred and seventy millionn euros. auauthorities say the credit card giant limited uses from seeking cheaper payment fees at other banks. mastercard is eueurope's second largestst card provir

after visa had cooperated with the fivive year long investigation and said the finess link to historic not current practices. according japan it rejected carlos ghosn's bail request for second time since his freshman document on financial crimes earlier this month. the ruling came despite the ousted nissan chairman offefering to surrender his passport and wear an electronic ankle tag while he awaits his trial. meanwhile here in front of his days as high no ceo could be numbered. a board meeting is reportedlyly being scheduled for later this week after the government the car maker's top shareholder publicly called for you peter schiff. the us justice department has confirmed it will formally request the extradition of a top while way executive. who's been under arrest since december. the incident has sparked fresh diplomatic and tions with chinese tech giant firmly in the spotlight own burnell explains. china in canada have not seen eye to eye since the us the main ones you by

canadian authorities on a u. s. extradition request. after more than a month of both trading pot shots on tuesday b beijing changed am with a dye that message for the united states. they found us although these actions by the u. s. seriously infringed chinese citizens legitimate rights and interests that violent naturere. china was firmly opposed. we urge the us to take seriously opposition correct the mistakes and withdrew the arrest warrant against a chinese citizen. washington wants ms mang extradited on charges she misled banks about hallways business dealings in iran. putting them at risk of viviolating us sanctions. the diplomatic status complicated by the ongoing trade standoff between the us and china over beijingngs tech ambitions and alleged on fat trade practices. speaking in doubles always deputy chairman h. businesses to speak up for the trade war spirals out of control. i would strongly advocate

that the business community two wars to opinions to the government. to that aparartment under there understand the requirements from the business community. otherwise i wore it out to mail the trans. willllxpand to many many hardrict industries in the countries. who always at the forefront of china's tech ambitions? the world's biggest producer of telecommunications. it's in the west it's facing intense scrutiny over just what exactly that relalationship in saless. the british appliance maker dyson will move its global headquarters from the u. k. to singapore. companies billionaire founder inventor james dyson was an outspoken and high profile birds it's harder in the run up to twenty sixteen referendum. the statement said the decision was not linked to the uncertainty over the u. k.'s looming exit from the european union. was rather an effort to be closer to the fast growing asian market. move is unlikely to affect tyson's of four thousand

workers in the u. k. the timiming those certainly symbolic. pro e. u. politicians havee already accused tyson of abandoning the united kingdom. time that it needs to attract more investments. but we'll be hearing a lot more reaction from that -- in the days to comeme w we l committee thank you very much that was business. we're gonna take a short break now here on my from paris of which i'll be back with the headlines

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