much the impeachment now it's been done against bill clinton so there's a precedent so they were on dail and some progress in syria shows russia and the united states can sit down and tackle global problems successfully if they need arises is this how it's going to be for the foreseeable future sanctions and hostility mixed with pragmatic operation. you know that is certainly. i mean it's a step maybe in the right direction where you can get more cooperation on different issues. you know hopefully at some point that cooperation improves there are a lot of east shoes like arms control where we need to be talking with one another so yes i mean fully it doesn't stay there and minimal cooperation but moves up so more more cooperation the u.s. and russia managed to deal with it on issue together and now we have another nuclear crisis with north korea can the two countries go again and sit down involved china get the koreans to work things out pull this off one more time. it will be it would be easier for the u.s. to deal with russia as part of a group of countries along with china japan south

so they were on dail and some progress in syria shows russia and the united states can sit down and tackle global problem successfully if then it arises is this how it's going to be for the foreseeable future sanctions and hostility mixed with pragmatic operation. you know that is certainly. i mean it's a step maybe in the right direction where you can get more cooperation on different issues. you know hopefully at some point that cooperation improves there a lot of east shoes like arms control where we need to be talking with one another so yes i mean fully it doesn't stay there and minimal cooperation but moves up so more more cooperation.

despite the dail angle of merkel isn't out of the woods just yet now the fate of a new grand coalition lies in the hands of the social democrats party members all four hundred sixty thousand of them will have the chance to vote on the deal by march second only if they vote in favor of the deal well it finally be signed and sealed. or mine are now of our time. story at this hour the twenty third winter olympics have officially kicked off and john china south korea almost three thousand athletes from ninety two countries will be competing over the next two require among those at the opening ceremonies john the sister of north korea's leader kim jong un she is the first member of the north's ruling dime to visit the south. thanks for watching you got me of beneficial and has been coming right up. frank food. international gateway to the best connection self you know road and radio. located in the heart of europe you are connected to the whole world. experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by from.

laura: do you think this will make a difference in syria, this five-hour dail pause in the bombardmen br it might have modest impact for some people, but what sewe hav before, when the esyrian reg bombed humanitarian convoys in 2016 with russia watching them do that, they use aid as a weapon of war. they will continue to use all sorts of means, military andck aid, to atta who they see as their opposition. laura: we saw the espalling pictf what was happening in eastern ghouta. the white house said was put on notice some time ago. there was that one airstrike by the trump administration against the syrian military. does the u.s. have any influence? brian: it could if it wanted to, but it doesn't appear to want to. there is no serious debate in america today abouumsyria. the tradministration has a rhetorical approach in speeches and saying it is putting actors on notice, but besides that strike in april of lasyear, ere doesn't seem to be any impetus for effort at all for the u.s. to engage in a serious wa laura: if eastern ghouta falls he syrian government, wh will the state of the war b

missiles will fall but that we already know anything about it dail. all right take me that with the business thank you very much indeed. sure right now on the program tuesday june are much more. to come here on life powers to say she's. i 02/22/18 02/22/18 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> i don't understand. i turned 18 a day after. woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. understand why i could still go in the store and buy a weapon of war, an ar. amy: a week after one of the deadliest

much the impeachment now it's been done against bill clinton so there's a precedent so they were on dail and some progress in syria shows russia and the united states can sit down and tackle global problems successfully if they need arises is this how it's going to be for the foreseeable future sanctions and hostility mixed with pragmatic operation. you know that is certainly. i mean it's a step maybe in the right direction where you can get more cooperation on different issues. you know hopefully at some point that cooperation improves there a lot of east shoes like arms control where we need to be talking with one another so yes i mean fully it doesn't stay there and minimal cooperation but moves up so more and more cooperation the u.s. and russia managed to deal with it on issue together and now we have another nuclear crisis with north korea can the two countries go again and set down involved china at the koreans to work things out pull this off one more time. it will be it would be easier for the u.s. to deal with russia as part of a group of countries along with china japan south

dail has made to iran more requested and could see the country develop nuclear weapons. this is in my judgment the greatest threat to our world not just to israel not to the store arab neighbors. not just to muslims foreign ward but to use as well. because once your weapons. iran's aggression will be unchecked. and it will compress the entire world the nuclear agreement with iran has brought the countdown has begun the countdown to a new reigning nuclear arsenal a little more than a decade and the sanction relief that they do provided has not moderated iran has not made them more moderate internally and it's not made them more moderate extremely in fact it's unleashed a dangerous iranian terror group in the region and beyond. for more information on this story paula what else did netanyahu say. when essentially being israeli prime minister is urging for more sanctions against iran he says as we heard in that clip that iran poses the greatest threat to the world he drew a parallel between the nine hundred thirty eight munich agreement which essentially was a failed attemp

so they were on dail and some progress in syria shows russia and the united states can sit down and tackle global problems successfully if they need arises is this how it's going to be for the foreseeable future sanctions and hostility mixed with pragmatic operation. you know that is certainly. mean it's a step maybe in the right direction where you can get more cooperation on different issues. you know hopefully at some point that cooperation improves there are a lot of east shoes like arms control where we need to be talking with one another so yes i mean fully it doesn't stay there and minimal cooperation but moves up to more more cooperation the u.s. and russia managed to deal with iran issue together and now we have another nuclear crisis with north korea can the two countries go again and sit down and involve china at the korean.

the nation address due to fears that lawmakers would disrupt the speech it is an embarrassing climb dail for zuma and a sign of the intense pressure on him to step down in the wake of a string of scandals. jacob zuma future hangs in the balance as pressure to resign mounts the opposition says zuma has no right to address the country in an annual speech that was set for this week the south africa wants to close a chapter on this story that's going to future with actors to do the specter of what he's done to like me so our party of politics into politics is through must own party is also raising doubts about his future party members are set to discuss his fate at a meeting next weekend a vote of no confidence is. all most important consideration is that we don't believe. should wish for. the instant of. this week protesters have already been sending messages to the a.n.c. as the party weighs its options on zuma some are convinced his time is up. others say pounds off the president until his term ends next year. you're tensions running high in south africa and to put this into context i'm j

despite the dail angle of merkel isn't out of the woods just yet now the fate of a new grand coalition lies in the hands of the social democrats posse members all four hundred sixty thousand of them will have the chance to vote on the deal by much the second only if they vote in favor of the deal will it finally be signed and sealed. and we want to take this german government deal across the atlantic to the united states i've joined tonight by dr pierce incorporate going to her she is a psychologist by training and she's now a member of the german parliament the boldest talk with the green she's visiting the u.s. with a delegation of german lawmakers at the invitation of the u.s. congress dr covered good or it's good to have you on the program tonight this week as you just heard i'm sure you know germany move closer to a new government another grand coalition what reactions to that have you heard in washington and fact i heard very little that people weren't. very alert that there is this coalition coming up interim and the i think there is a lot of other american issues to discuss so

despite the dail angela merkel isn't out of the woods just yet now the fate of a new grand coalition lies in the hands of the social democrats party members all four hundred sixty thousand of them will have the chance to vote on the deal by march second only if they vote in favor of the deal well it finally be signed and sealed. was talked up. close enough she's the reasonable chair of the young socialists here in berlin as the youth wing of the s.p.d. party thanks for being with us today you we've talked just a couple of weeks ago about this i know you're a strong opponent of the grand coalition the party's future the future of this grand coalition is in your hands essentially because you get to vote on it all of the members of the s.p.d. get to vote on it how are you going to vote i'm going to vote against this and contract that's for sure because looking at the results of the coalition talks after say it's basically is a same as the result of the current of talks and the criticism saying this is just keep going as it was contract and not a change that we were asking for stays the

despite the dail anglo merkel isn't out of the woods just yet now the fate of a new grand coalition lies in the hands of the social democrats party members all four hundred sixty thousand of them will have the chance to vote on the deal by march second only if they vote in favor of the deal well it finally be signed and sealed . ok time for business now there's been more. trouble on wall street or guard shares have dropped dramatically again you can say that the dow jones plunged more than four percent last night the bond with monday's losses the slide of more than ten percent from january twenty sixth record high officially puts this drop into a market correction territory and provisionally is ending a nine year bull run asian markets followed shanghai closed four percent in the red the sharpest drop in the region. and now we're talking to our market correspondent in frankfurt from from our european markets daniel seem to have been struggling at all off why is the. let me tell you first kara the traders here they are alert as the market already also true day even though we are not losin