here the big table tonight is christiane one of he's an expert on the middle east with the bertelsmann foundation it's good to have you back on this so well and what did you see happening today in sochi with the leaders of russia and turkey finding common ground on what to do in northern syria concerning syria it means very clearly that who is investing military power in syria has a say in this i.e. iran russia and and and russia and turkey and the russian turkish agreement tells us that russia is replacing the rest of the u.s. . the u.s. forces in north east syria. even today russian helicopters came to came to military sites where we are a couple of days ago american troops i mean it's been so easy thing to see that it's been very fast are you going to use of surprised how quickly the russians are had filled this vacuum. no because putin wants to show that he is the real broker in the syrian conflict and he has 4 concerns russia has 4 concerns the one is that u.s. and nato get back into the syrian field secondly that israel and iran continually. confrontations syria and he cannot prevent this a

flowed into the country innovative technology is of special interest to beijing a study by the bertelsmann foundation shows china is is specially keen on drive technology for cars energy systems and biomedical and mechanical engineering and right now trying these investors have their eyes on an apple in southern germany the large black farmers the airport is currently being leased by a german engineering company but it's not the only one that is keen on the chinese moving in a solitary helicopter buzzes over the runway but there's not much else going on here at la or airport in southwestern germany there's a boeing 747 used for test flights otherwise the skies are empty. but because the city of largo has contacts in china investors there learned about the former military airfield the mayor says it has a lot of potential. and of its own to you if you look around the world as there aren't many people who are in a position to recognize these benefits and take action as well as provide the financing so sooner or later you're going to have to deal with china but the idea of the chinese taking over the air

brent: android at the -- i am joined at the big table by christian hanelt of the bertelsmann foundation. a day after the turkish president sends into syria, now he is aiming threats towards the european union, saying that if you criticize as i will open the floodgates and you will be flooded with refugees. what is he hoping to achieve? christian: we haven't to know that turkish president erdogan loves hard-- we happen to know that turkish president erdogan loves harsh rhetoric especially against europe. i think turkish diplomacy did not expect that the five eu member states at the united nations security council or so for them to criticize this military operation, and that the statement of the eu foreign minister's council this morning was also very harsh, to criticize the military operation. he didn't feel this, and he doesn't like the wording of "invasion." in his narrative, it is a military defend operation and not an invasion. brent: we talked about this last night, but if you talk about the definition of invasion, he did cross the border into another country yesterday. the kurds in

elam joins us on here the big table by christiane he is a middle east analyst at the bertelsmann foundation it's good to have you on the show so you know what we're seeing right now is a day after the turkish president since his forces into syria now he's aiming his threats towards the european union saying if you criticize us i'll open the floodgates and you will be flooded with refugees why is he doing that and what's he hoping to achieve and we happen to know that the turkish president. laughs very harsh rhetoric especially against against europe. and i think that the turks to bob diplomacy did not expect that the 5 member states at the united nations security council where so firm to criticize this military operation and that the statement of the e.u. foreign ministers council this morning was also very harsh to criticize the military operation so so he didn't feel this and he doesn't like the wording of the invasion you know it's for them it's all in his narrative it's a military defend. operation well and not of not an invasion we talked we talked about this last night as but if you t

bertelsmann institute clifford coonan with w. business and in washington bradley bowman the foundation for defense of democracies gentlemen great discussion thank you thank you. the impeachment proceedings against u.s. president trump are moving along quickly and the allegations against him are widening geographically after ukraine the latest revelations showed up fresh uring the australian prime minister to help him get some information that could maybe help him profit politically the u.s. president asking him to investigate the origins of robert bowler's probe that found russia trying to swing the 26000 election in the republicans favor the u.s. secretary of state might pump a oh he has hit back at house democrats he is accusing them of bullying behavior by calling 5 former and current state department officials to give depositions this week trump's personal lawyer rudolph giuliani is among those under scrutiny for trump's dealings with ukraine. all this nonsense about identifying the election i gathered all this evidence before the moeller probe ended so it was clearly under my responsibility as the lawyer for the president of the unit