mr. macron commissioned this report, he is going to create a recommendation.itically risky is this for him? >> first of all, i want to say that the french colonial presence in algeria was 132 years of atrocities. you had a war to conquer algeria . then there was -- [indiscernible] a lot of people seem to be happy with the french ruling at the time. and then a war started, war of independence, which started against two french school teachers. then the french army did commit some atrocities and torture. torture was banned only in 1958. of course, also, a lot of atrocities were committed by the rebels against french civilians, but also against a lot of algerians, and after the war, after the peace was signed in 1962 where algerians and french did not decide for apologies and things like that, algerians did not abide and they massacred, where all of this writing -- all of this fighting with the french army. of course, if france would apologize, algeria would have to apologize for the fact that rebels did torture french people, but also a lot i can southern algeria

mr. macron?litschko we think the main challenge facing europe is lack angelaership, that after merkel steps down that macron will take over as europe's up preeminent leader. he will be distracted by his own domestic politics, and we fear that if more stimulus money is needed, there is no sort of space for a creative new fiscal deal, that foreign policy could get very complicated. with the turks in the eastern mediterranean, and we could see a resurgence of populism. the scar tissue of covid really bites into the european economies. that is where we come out on europe. doncine: sigmar gabriel, how you think europe should engage with china? depending on investments or cooperation with china, will it weaken the relationship europe has with the e.u.-biden administration? is not first of all, it a really big agreement, and europe and china negotiating about investment agreements since more than seven years, and china always asked the europeans to negotiate about a real free-trade agreement, and the eu

mr. -- president macron. generally we meet in davos. nevertheless, i'm very pleased that we are able to have this visit and dialog instead. i know mr. president, that in my opinion and in the opinion of many, you are one of those who have a long-term visit and so i would like to talk about questions relating to how we should be building the post covid world. and let me start with the first question. in your opinion, what would be your vision to rebuild a greener economy, a more resilient economy, more sustainable? so what is your vision for the long-term? do we need a new vision? >> hello professor schwab, i'm very pleased to see you, also, through this virtual conference and thank you very much for organizing these virtual discussions that are so important in this period. i wanted to talk about today's world and its link to tomorrow's world because in all of our countries, societies are transforming through the experience that we're going through and i think we have to remember a few things from what we have been experiencing over the l

mr. macron.a proponent of the paris climate accord, a proponent of the world health organization. those are two initiatives president biden rejoined in the first two days. they talked about iran. there again, a lot of commonality. they have been trying to keep the iran nuclear deal on life support after trump pulled out of it. now they're dealing with someone in the obama administration who brokered the deal originally. a lot of commonality is what comes out of the phone calls. one more thing. look, everybody in europe knows that the u.s. will protect u.s. interests first, but before trump they believe that more often than not the u.s. could be relied on to be a force for good in the world. that was put on pause from the european perspective for a number of years and they are now back to that belief, christine. >> and a unified europe. a strong, unified europe, of course, is also in the u.s. best interests. so that's what this administration believes at least, not the prior administration. thank

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macron. so between states, ngos, and investors -- we have recovered sound, it seems. dr. schwab: mr. president, in all what you mentioned, there is also the fourth industrial revolution. how much will the digital system bring a new future? how will it make this vision of the future more possible? >> and it seems we have lost president macron. dr. schwab: i'm sorry, i seem to have lost you for a minute. president. i know how interested you are a new technologies, and i was just asking you a question on the fourth industrial revolution. in all its different concepts, the digital has played a major role. how do you see the impact of the digital ecosystem on everything that you mentioned for? pres. macron: i think there are several, actually. the first one is that we are seeing many revolutions at the moment when it comes to the digital, but there are several revolutions rolled into one. we are at the start of a technological revolution. we have ai, artificial intelligence revolution as well that is going to change productivity and going to change the paradigm from industry to health car

mr trump said it was quote completely wrong. one of the president to cash doubt on a free and fair election. french president emmanuel macronn the strength of american democracy, and germany's prime minister angela merkel said the images of riots at the capitol made her both angry and sad. fundamental rule of democracy is that after elections they're winners and losers doubts about the outcome. we're fueled, and that's that the atmosphere that made the night's events p the incident could have an impact on u. s foreign policy. the chinese government used the violence of the capital to justify a crackdown on pro democracy leaders in hong kong, and there are indications that iran might try to exploit the situation to further their entrance into their nuclear weapons program. an incredible surprise for an historic bay area restaurant after the break the reaction from tad it's grill after being gifted $31,000. to help keep that restaurant open. we're tracking rain just north of santa rosa. now it'll be in your neighborhood in the north bay in the next few hours, we'll time it out. i'll see you back here and tragedy in the centra

mr. johnson, that will be tricky because we know that already there is a crossing of sword s over the ireland border. and wenknow u.s. had more scathing remarks from macron saying that this is not american, definitely we believe in the strength of our democracy and the strength of the american democracies. and very interesting comments out of germany from angela merkel, of course we know has had a very difficult relationship over energy, over russia, a whole host of issues with the united states saying very angry and sad but i will if i may say what her foreign minister said, from inflammatory words come violent actions on the steps of the right start and now in the capitol. you talked about history and that is a direct reference we understand to the events in 1933 and the parallels for all our viewers. >> and the ideal being that the united states version of democracy had been a model for the french of course we won't go into some long standing political history, but certainly what we did now is going to be watched by the world. we saw these awful scenes yesterday, but we go forward we wake up and we move on throughout history, that is exactly what happ