passed by the democrats after they were few. of the government. isn't a morality it's not a nation never had so much support for border control. frankly the war for the barrier. trade with china. germany's. deportation.

be. committed crime and. they have to go back. to friday. all of us here are. welcome to your store. with the u.s. government shutdown over designed to end the stalemate the democratic controlled house of representatives passed two bills to fund the federal government but the bills don't include funding for a border wall. to veto the legislation and while senior democrats to cry the notion of the war. that the us president is that his idea has widespread support. isn't a morality it's not actually we are is a nation and this is not a wall that you. in mexico and the united states that the president is creating

here it's a wall between reality and his constituents his supporters i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security for border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier. to hammer home his star donald trump took to instagram posting this statement of intent and he also posted the following video. illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple. or the whole us standoff over the wall looks likely to intensify the democrat bails

on getting the government running again now going to the republican controlled senate where they are likely to be shot down. donald trump's not just being blamed for the entire government shutdown a tech giant apple has accused him of hurting his business in china but the trade war he's waging against beijing u.s. stock markets are simply a sea of red after apple issued a profit warning for the first time in sixteen years the us president himself though insists his tariffs are actually helping america and here's daniel bushell. what happened wall street's darling the world's first ever truly in dollar firm just months after that historic milestone the i pad make issues the canary in the mine shaft the most nail biting announcement the chilling profit warning the first official public admission that a company's to announce bad news within minutes of the new york markets opening on

thursday apple marriage to sixty four billion dollars of its value enough to replace every i phone cracked screen in the world investors now want the head of apple boss tim cook all right so you're saying that tell me. what cook blame someone else trumps trade war with china we believe the economic environment in china has been further impacted by the rise in trade. tensions with the united states of the donald slapped painful tariffs on imports from the communist superpower beijing swung back imposing or proposing tolls on most american imports from all i macs to cause so our polls not the only us multinational i call punning the trade crossfire between the world's top two economies but the dollar will remain strangely cool in fact he's glowing the united states treasury has taken in many billions of dollars from the tariffs which are going china and other countries that have not treated us fairly in the meantime we're doing well in various trade

negotiations currently going on at some point this had to be done just one day off the apples profit warning sends shock waves through us think he tweets his tariff hikes bring in billions to the u.s. purse so the trade was hurting or hoping to do is definitely bring in this money but it's not bringing it in from foreign governments it's bringing it and from american businesses and american consumers which is to say that it is a tax and taxes are not good for economic growth and he began this whole trade conflicts same trade wars are great they're easy to and they will boost growth so everything the opposite has happened and we haven't won is increase in television from around the world and how it seemed i was profoundly effective in tech companies as you could see from apple's sales in china this is a direct consequence of the trade wars and it's not just china that's felt the

burden of tom's policies and twenty eighteen of the u.s. presidents tariff slapping spree has also hurt american allies some of whom are now questioning whether they need a friend like that here's what i guess the. two thousand and eighteen hasn't been easy in america i know it was a rough rough year friends came friends went more. went really then came and those that weren't friends in the first place well it lost all fear. with landing onto a bullying enemy yesterday saddam was in front of us today it's trump there is no difference we must resist and we. have to see the criminal supremacist this move those who govern the united states. countries shouldn't just point fingers at the others but ignore their own mistakes this shouldn't be the torchlight doing nothing but exposing the weakness of others while ignoring their own come no surprise those

countries weren't all that buddy buddy with america to begin with but us allies friends that's another story without a happy ending take trump's little vendetta against iran where he top nuclear deal with it deal that took his allies europeans years of efforts negotiations sweat and nerves trump is now threatening his own allies if they there break his blockade against iran no one trades with iran he insists that the europeans are playing ball. as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act we believe that it is and it has to be up to. the europeans in this case to decide with home to trade with. take

also trumps advice to germany lately sort of bullying with regards to russian gas pipelines germany will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately change course nothing complicated here in america. cannot compete with much cheaper russian gas but if you get rid of russian gas pipelines europeans trump's allies will have no choice but to overpay for american gas well it's better than taking advantage of your friends problem is germany isn't that stupid we can't rely on the superpower of the united states neither is nato immune to trump's charms huge smalling out this year between turkey and the states and current wanting to buy russian missiles and trump

trump didn't like that one bit we have had serious concerns about turkey's potential acquisition of the ass four hundred system so this is turkey's decision we made a deal on the s four hundred that file is closed it is closed business trumps gung ho attitude his speak first think later and then change your mind style has undeniably pushed away friends or shove them away made enemies it's getting harder to bully co worse and stronger on your way around shining example as what's happening at the un or rather what isn't happening in the us getting its way q more threats the american people pay twenty two percent of the un budget more than the next three highs donor countries combined in spite of this generosity the rest of the un booted with us only thirty one percent of the time this is not an

acceptable return on our investment president trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars are we serve american interests. america's erratic behavior its tantrums costing it power influence friends even the famous bromance with french president mark crown is ending but it's more than that it's a new global trend where people nations are pretty sick of being ordered about told what to do it regardless of what they think hard of trump tweeting about them two thousand and eighteen was hard on america trump made it so. germany's interior minister is demanding tougher laws on asylum seekers after a migrant gang went out of brutal spree against passers by including children top

politicians are warning that current laws do not allow deportation even of violent criminals. the here certainly will not turn i've been asked for months already to make the deportations more effective in germany and that's why we've been working for weeks at the ministry of the interior to prepare a constitutional amendment for a more efficient deportation system so violent offenses are increasingly worrying me whether they are done out of xenophobia or whether they are carried out by foreigners and asylum seekers a state governed by the rule of law must decisively combat both that is our basic position the person who randomly attacks innocent passers by demonstrates that he does not seek the protection of our society the mediated perpetrators can expect no understanding in our country but only the full force of the law currently deportation is not legally possible but we're working hard to change that following the incident that took place on saturday evening which left twelve people injured in a seemingly random attack in the town of place have four main suspects in custody they

range from seventeen to nineteen years in age and come from afghanistan and iran well this is prompted ministers to call for a change in the laws as it stands at the moment you can be deported back to a home country if your applying for asylum and your a minor or the country that you would be returned to is deemed to be dangerous now the christian social union under the merkel's coalition partners in bavaria they've come out and said they want this law changed now the green party and the mayor of the town of umberger have accused the christian social union and interior minister horse and see hoffa of playing politics with this issue i do understand the anger which i see in some of the reaction to amberg but this hate and the threats of violence now coming from all over the republic have gone too far the hard for is using the amber consistent f. actively to tighten asylum legislation such proposals have next to zero impact when

it comes to fighting crime and only helping extremism politician. split over what to do over to porting asylum applications certainly seems people are also equally as spliffs i spoke to people on the streets of berlin and they gave me their reaction to the story they should be honored to be able to be here and. yeah should . they have to do and to commit a crime and if they do thorough they have to go back to fence or it's their mind this is ok they have. been to a lot so in the war in afghanistan they need help i think we have our laws we don't have to change the laws and i think we are right doing it. right now they deserve a second chance while the center for european reform says that one third of those migrants and refugees that came to germany since twenty fifteen currently in full time employment or an apprenticeship scheme however it's what to do with those

other two thirds especially those about. it has been four days since tragedy struck the russian city of where a block of flats collapsed search and rescue operation that has now been called off its softer the body of a thirty ninth victim was recovered it is thought that a gas explosion caused the disaster of daniel hawkins has more details thirty nine bodies appears to be the final casualty count from this building collapse that the recovery workers went on for around seventy two hours in total almost nonstop throughout the day and night pausing only for safety as you can see behind me some of the balconies and the roofs are in a state of total destruction and we're not allowed to go any closer for fear they may collapse as well residents fled this disaster scene with only the clothes on their back perhaps a few documents or cash they didn't have time simply to grab anything else they were allowed intermittently to go back to the scene to pick up any other

possessions they may have left behind. but you know when the quake. she is a smart and is that of a woman they are innocent of all i see it was she was. just a child some did and on bush. wanted to be sure to just let you have it when your could you were sure what their own and as you spoke to these people more and more stories emerged one such example the family a mother and daughter who slept just as a one off in a different room they would have stayed normally the father stayed on the couch tragically that was the first part of the building to collapse she managed to get away with her daughter the father tragically was not so lucky another story to come out over the last few days an infant boy who was buried in the rubble here just behind me he was heard trying to workers who rushed to the scene managed to get him out after more than twenty four hours in these freezing temperatures he says been taken to moscow and now despite his multiple serious injuries his condition is

described as stable many of the people we've spoken to the witnesses at the scene those who were directly affected by this tragedy but they are saying they're also pleasantly surprised by how people of comes together offering their support for the political news in. order to. give them the need to this time so much time is. still with me. most of the press and i think. one of the songs in which. indeed we saw a pile of flowers of candles soft toys and icons getting bigger and bigger. many of them quite emotional in tears coming here to express their condolences there simply is offer support for those affected by this and of course preparing for the large number tragically of funerals in this city of magnitogorsk on your hawkins

reporting. or more of your for. the stories here were not international just. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

make this manufactured consensus public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. lifts only the one percent. can all middle of the room. good to have you with us here on the international program on this friday if you can't beat them join them the u.k. army is appealing to snowflakes and selfie addicts in his latest campaign to get the younger generation to enlist but just how many would be willing to swap time for the front lines and i see a truck and it takes a look. the new year and time for a fresh start but the british army is kicking off twenty nineteen when the curious

one struggling to get new additions to join its ranks of come up with a new recruitment campaign aimed at the new generation or those the u.k. ministry of defense addresses in their new ads as me me me millennial snowflakes selfie addicts class clowns and phones are the new your army needs you series of posters video clips am radio ads aims to turn those society allegedly undervalues the scene of the most. news useless into those the army would properly appreciate. all this for. the new campaign is the third execution of the this is belonging series showing how the army finds potential beyond gens ed and millennial stereotypes and identifying

the essential skills needed in new army recruits such as compassion self police in its attempts to recruit if you're a snowflake the army needs you and your compassion if you're a binge gamer it's your drive that's useful if your phone's on be you must have great focus skills and if you're a me me me millennial you must apparently be fantastic at self belief that's the logic but how likely is it that this approach will appeal to the audience but i think you appeal to younger generation i think they're all offensive like to people like a different message thirty five connotation put in the military in a bit of a strange light this would be quite rude to me any sense. because the difference on these doesn't actually mean anything to do so. it's appealing to the saying so to people is that people are always a fool about the army been for them it's no secret that the british are. me has been failing to reach its target recruiting numbers currently at seventy seven

thousand fully trained troops and several thousand short of its eighty two thousand five hundred goal voluntary drop out rates for applicants have also been recorded at a whopping forty seven percent that's almost half of all those applying so it seems likely that even this kind of in your face campaign could mean winning this recruitment war proves mission impossible and as i said r.t. one over the next few days we are looking back at some of the stories we've brought to you in twenty eight. it was certainly a big year for news watchers there was an awful lot to see but what was it like from the point of view of those reporting the big if that's

a tough luck. so for. now everything being. being supplied. the stimulus this is from the public. everything you can possibly budget as they try and take away that will goes to the floor. this instrument near the border with north korea is a. really really close. who's in the most dangerous man in the world from the street.

so to speak. so this sort of leader. kim jong il. actually see you guys. it's like the content on the site that we. have gone from it's complicated to inhalations to see what are you going to. weaken. all my buddies telling on. the really close oh there we go.

to receiving a blow to the face. of the police at a little bit less. but this was. news. to. me. i'm so. happy. for today's program and for most of twenty eighteen as well we'll see you soon we're back in about twenty five.

desperate for a single purpose. they have a super. training very young. eight months of intensive school. rats. and they saved lives. we're continuing our special episode here the new year celebrating not only twenty nineteen but ten years of crisis reports at some point. i'm not sure exactly when that is but we'll keep you posted. after the war. was still active rich in the nineteen seventies current towhead as

the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery. a german company developed. a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out of terrible side effects what has happened to my baby anything paul you know she said is just. mimics a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only won't i want the revenge. to sophie and co i'm not so one more turns to create

a work of theirs in the shadows who are bringing the pieces together is often ignored and officials take the credit but not today i talk to a french businessman who takes no glory in saving lives and the conflict shown here expert in peril diplomacy chairman of brazzaville foundation my guest today. with international mediation politicians and career diplomats feel to it conflicts of the forces come into play working quietly as private citizens and. patiently bringing. to the table. diplomacy work with. the people. with the promise of nobel peace prize. and how do they get the job done. thank you very much for being with us today thank you for everything. to be in such an interesting profession i want to know all about it so you are

a noted negotiator lots of success stories in africa i know that you're now trying to get sites in libya to sit down and talk i mean in a way you're more successful than united nations at least you're getting these guys to sit down and talk. as you would need united nations but also somewhere somehow i needed those. two forces which. so you are right now talking about putting down the barriers of mistrust in libya but those barriers are were actually put up way before you and for the reasons that are beyond you what makes you think that an outsider can bring them down. over the country and i goes across. that.

and bed also so he spect was a tradition and always a completely leaves and. going to one. while all easy to show off i think where all countries are fighting over libya why not giving really begin to proceed to have to exist as a voice and to jointly express what i would like to do is a home country she's my aim is not to make peace east to p. eight. the fundamentals to create. for. peace this is what i'm trying to say what kind of africa do you have to make to actually bring these people together in the same room bust class is always a big word yes he said he went but it's essentials what they have done fully by for

example is a following i've tied to look i don't the five. is a general scope of politically. two extremes of the scope and i for i found bishop was aids and very close to. their feet and their large ability belhaj was formed it was thought but to fight it has got to fit him since he is years of seventy so. and those of the two weeks or so he has as is the one who uses it will never talk together because. one accusing the other.