pro ba bly less around. growth has been very weak. over the course of 2018 and one way of looking at that is, well, with consumption coming back, with private investment looking a lot better, growth can only improve. thank you very much indeed. you will be joining thank you very much indeed. you will bejoining me to review thank you very much indeed. you will be joining me to review some thank you very much indeed. you will bejoining me to review some papers later on, won't you? so stay with us. us president donald trump has reiterated the suggestion that he may not increase tariffs on chinese products on march the first, as previously threatened. the reversal comes as the two countries continue trade talks in washington this week, after last week's discussions in china ended without a deal. michelle fleury has the latest from new york. trade talks between the two largest economies are going well and that is the assessment from donald trump who says he is open to pushing back the deadline to complete negotiations. much one is not a ma

now, the lieutenant governor says it's demonstrate bly untrue and if he has evidence it's de. he has a right to put that forward. but this is serious. >> terry mcauliffe, who is going to run for president who many of us believe and may well be a factor, the nomination, certainly, he wants to separate himself entirely. he wants to be clean hands on this. the speed with which the other democratic front runners, kirsten gillibrand and booker and warren, they don't want to look like they have a separate standard for a democrat. >> reporter: right. you're right about that. they have to. democrats have enforced a zero tolerance policy when it comes to misconduct in their ranks, whether it is allegations of bigotry or racism or sexual misconduct because they don't want to look hypocritical when they criticize president trump for his perceived shortcomings on those issues and women and people of color are a part of the democratic base and virginia is a swing state and they will have to come through to campaign, for all of those reasons, that's why it's a much easier decision for the f

been there throughout theod wholen history of the united states and when you look at that, there'sic bly almost no one who's had that combination of longevity and impact that john dingell has had. robert: he often would talk about being with his father am pearl harbor, being there in washington as f.d.r. made his nation. he lived through so much history. katty: not just that he served under, i think it was 11 presidents, he was there for the second world war. we're losing that memory of what the country can be like, what the we.est can be l the liberal democratic values that were built after the second world war and i think for people concerned about those values, john dingell represents a file when they were drive -- and when countries worked together towards those. t this is me of much more divisiveness as he said in his article.be : i know you were riding that. >> the one lining that stuck with me was something h wanted to leave for other people to carry for. he talked about elected officials not having power but holding power and that powerth coming fro trust that people place in the

bly on tuesday. wednesday is pro going to be the soaker out of it all. in essence, what you can expeow, tomoe actually have an air quality alert, that's code orange for your monday. it's really holding off to next wekend. i kno dip down to the 40s but look how quickly we rebound. 57 by thursday.ep friday,ding on what the warm air really does, if we get the nice surge,e uld be in the mid to upper 60s. right now i'm going around 64 and then you see the cold air move back in next week. we could see some rain and snow mix there. >> thank you so very much. coming up, the caps suffer a ser back on s bowl sunday and more on the patriots big win wherh means anoth title for tom ♪ ♪ ♪ rhythm is a dancer ♪ it's a soul companion ♪ you can feel it everywhere ♪ lift your hands and voices ♪ free your mind and join us ♪ you can feel it in the air ♪ oh sorry, we were running late. no problem, come on in. ♪ it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now, from $899, during the ultimate sleep number event. it senses your movement, and automaticall

i'm at a factory that makesnd exports clothes to the united bly as and this is pos model for their own economic development. vietnam was an isolated state-led economy and llansitioned success to an open economy. managed to do that without political upheaval. kim ha feared that economic reform could lead to regime change. vietnam is also seen as attractive because it's been able to carve p outolitical independence. the u.s. used to be an enemy and now it' an export market and that has given vietnam leverage over china. north korea is entirelyt dependn beijing. he won't be able to do what vietnam did iforth korea remains wrapped in sanctions. the trump administration's offer on the table is we will make you rich if you give up your nuclear weapons. the question is will this visit make him more willing to take that offer in the path of denuclearization. i'm eunice on in hanoi. >>> macy's is trimming its management ranks. that's where w begin tonight's market focus. the department store plans to oiminate 100 senior management jobs as par a plan to save $100 million a year. macy's reporte b

>> well,erhaps predict bly at least when you talk about democratic members which are most of the california congressional delegation, they're not responding well t you knoy said for days and weeks there's this idea of a nationa emergency declarati was floating out there, that they would opposite it that they recommend the president not do it. we haven't gotten at least from nancy pelosi and chuck schume we haven't gotten an explicit commitment to file a lawsuit but it's certainly someth on the table and something you hear other members of the delegation pushing for. it's definitely an option. you also hear them saying that now that this preside.has been course on their repuican side of the aisle you know kevin mccarthy in general has been supportive of the president, we're getting a little bit lesu pushback,nterestingly among the broader republican congressional members, including ,n the senathere are some that are also pushing back and enying that this sets a dangerous prec. >> sean, when you were on our show last month when weaponry talking about the government shutdown, you actually said

treasury secretary steve nugent and trade representative robert bly ties are meeting with china's top economic official leo hit on friday chinese president xi jinping will join the talks underlining how important a deal is for the chinese whose economy has been crippled by the recent trades that . all right for more on this i'm joined in the studio by my colleague lars halter from d.w. business good morning to you ok so u.s. president donald trump says he's willing to delay the deadline here originally set for these new tariffs to begin can we believe him is he really going to do that well that's a tricky question of course with everything that president trump has said over the last two years you never know whether he will change his mind the next day or so but one thing we know it is already for these ongoing talks no an important signal it takes a little bit of the stress out it creates a much friendlier atmosphere because we're talking about extremely comprehensive talks here comprehensive traits deal and that of course is even harder to make when you're under a huge amount of pres

the interim government of self proclaimed the interim president lied all i was actually speaking to bly ball last night sounded very comforting to those who gave me the details he says i have been quantized to the opposition and many thirds of the armed forces and then he is very confident that they will be on now because they all deserve the last mughal so this is a very very significant development we did see last week alysia the military attache in washington also recognizing why though as they are in term president one wonders if there will be more defections back in her tribe that's impossible for us to say it's the that's certainly the objective of the opposition to for this to just become a snowball effect but the question is whether or not this general yang is. has any kind of truth into the charges distribution of certain things inside. the air force but whether or not he commands troops is the key point. i think this moment if he can actually order members of the armed forces to follow him and certainly when we saw that the the military attaché in washington abandoning them an

treasury secretary steven new chairman and trade representative robert bly ties or are meeting with china's top economic official new head on friday chinese president xi jinping will join the talks underlining how important a deal is for the chinese economy has been crippled by the recent trade spat. thousands of people formed a human chain in the german city of dresden to commemorate its intense bombing during world war two british and us bombers dropped nearly four thousand tons of bombs and incendiary devices on the city killing tens of thousands of people. thousands of people gathered interest in to mark the anniversary and to form a human chain intended as a symbol of peace and reconciliation so we don't want it ever happening again. thinking back it was terrible. exactly seventy four years ago allied bombers began pounding dresden most of the city center was destroyed in the raids and up to twenty five thousand people died many also gathered for a ceremony of the city's largest cemetery among those invited survivors of the raids students from the united kingdom and visitors from polan

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stood up against the chinese and said end the deficits, end the external debt that is rising uncontrol bly -- >> the theft. lou: and stop the intellectual property and technology theft that you seem to think is a birthright that is of the pla. i mean, it's madness. and then the united states turns to china and says as part of a trade deal, we're going to ask you not to steal from us. a bank doesn't say don't steal from us. they put up armed guards. they put up ways in which to stop you if you wish to rob them. they don't say please sign this, dear bank robber that you won't try again. this is madness, is it not? >> i think we can place a bet of a thousand dollars lou between you and me. i think the president is going to insist on an enforcement mechanism. this is not going to be the end of the story. the china theft story and the trade lack of reciprocity -- lou: not going to be the end of the story? >> it is going to go on for our lifetime, lou. but the president is going to make -- he's going to score some points in these talks. lou: you are the chinese expert. >> you are too. i hereby a

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i know e bly theren all kinds of news reports what he did early in his career on housing. read t new jim crow by alexander and the decades of housing discrimination. and we know the trump family including the now sitting president played to that and deepened that. so these issues that this is not a racist charlottesville was only a symptom and only a more public viewing and outing, if sident's about the p views about race. i mean, there's just no question about that. we know theresident doesn't tell the truth frequently. we know he lies freqntly, and we know of his racist comments and background. that's not ev counting the policies of this administration. we have consent decrees all over this country including in cleveland. we he a justice department that's turned its back on it. we knoot about suppression. my job when i was secretary of state was toop encourage of all races to vote, especially young people and especially young people ofd color. worked at that. we now have a government that suppresses the vote, and we know wh happened in georgiand we know what happened in

the president has also led some toh believet, you know, michael cohen was on a retainer, and that pos bly thest bonus payment that moomichael cohen claimed he had was a severance check. because after, that to my knowledge, i don't think michael cohen ever did anyegal work for president trump again. >> woodruff: so you think he may have just made the whole ing up? >> well, i don't-- i don't know what happened. ut. i want to find i think a lot of america wants to find out. but, unfortunately, we have a witness that the things that he can prove, like the check, you know, he has a check.ob ously, he showed a copy of the check. he recorded certain had withtions that h the president. but other things bhrk he talks-e talks about i think they did coordinate with russia or assange on wikileaks. i heard that but i don't have that reported. he made a lot of spectacular claims today. it's just unfortunate that there wasn't enough evidence, in my mind, to be able tgo much further in trying to punish the esident for any wrongdoing. >> woodruff: well, he certainly did have countriesicisms of the preside

. >> you could see that pap pa bly inside that inference with chicago pd. i want to bring in boarbara mcquade. it is not clear if he's released or if he's going to speak or say anything to the myriad of media who have gathered outside that courtroom. >> it's important to remember that he's entitled to the presumption of innocence, but if he's convicted ultimately, i think it really does a great disservice to all the real victims of hate crimes that are out there, and i worry that will be used to diminish their claims. i've been involved in hoax prosecutions before. it's important you bring those so you send a message of deterrence to those who would bring a false charge because it wastes resources of the police and doesn't help the real victims out there. >> miguel, can you give us a sense of what it was like in the room? you could feel this visceral anger coming from superintendent johnson during what he described as a hoax by jussie smollett. >> yeah, the superintendent really did not hold back. i mean, he went right after smollett and he certainly needs

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the industry was to be as close as possible to the single market and prefera bly possible to the single ideal coming at the end of march, i expect there to be furtherjob losses. even if there was a deal, this is a long—term decision now. if this this dilemma is the announcement comes tomorrow, we have to be careful that there isn't an announcement, this is very strong rumour. nonetheless, if thatis very strong rumour. nonetheless, if that is what they do, they are not coming back. those jobs that is what they do, they are not coming back. thosejobs will that is what they do, they are not coming back. those jobs will now have to be found elsewhere, people with skills will have to be redeployed. that is right. those workers that can move on and keep their manufacturing skills will probably do 0k. when we look for example at what happened to the rover workers in birmingham, this is the biggest car plant closure since then, those workers that were able to keep working and keep their skills maintain good wages. those that took longer to find work but then had to retrain to go into service as

to be a newspaper woman when i was six or eight years old after i read a child's biography of nelly blywho was a woman who wrote for newspapers when women couldn't vote, when they could not own property, when they had virtually no political standing. she exposed corruption in new york. she exposed mistreatment of immigrants. famously, she traveled around the world in under 80 days to beat the jules vern record. i wanted to be her. history, not just of newspapers, but if americans relationships with newspapers, how they help the country to grow. you needed a newspaper in a town to sell real estate, to tell the story of churches and rail roads to the newcomers. they were vital to making the country happen the way it happened. the great age of newspapers really started about the middle of the 19th century, the civil war, into the second world war and shortly after. the technology allowed more reproductions of newspapers. americans were moving into the cities more. suddenly, you had news and urban .evelopment you also had the advent of electric light, which was no small factor in looking at

i've gotten pretty rusty on my arabic and bly dari.per in norwegian but only slowly. >> you speak spanish? you speak -- you are someone who clearly has been interested in learning more and being intellectually curious. how important do you think that is for a president of the united states? >> i think curiosity is a really important quality for leadership, being motivated to peel back the layers and see the story behind the story. it frightens me that we have such an incurious president right now. i don't think he's inclined to ask questions, obviously he doesn't read a lot. how could you be in that office and not use the fact you could have lunch with a nasa regulator and then also -- one of america's great qualities is we've always been a curious country. it's part of what america's p r entrepreneurianship is built on. >> how do you tell the people when you govern a city that has the population not even a quarter of staten island? >> that question is fair game. i would say a mayor of a city at any level has the kind of executive expe

watching who might be injobs that be so many people watching who might be in jobs that don‘t sit co mforta bly from you all today, and lovely meeting the cows. more from us later, but first the news, travel and the weather wherever you are waking up this morning, and enjoying your brea kfast. good morning from bbc london news, i‘m charlotte franks. cases of domestic abuse in the capital have risen by more than 60% over the last eight years. today the mayor will announce he will spend an additional £15 million on tackling violence against women and girls. the money from business rates will be used to help domestic abuse charities and increase support for victims and survivors. rail commuters are being warned they face another difficult year, with more timetable changes and engineering work. a report by mps says passengers and taxpayers risk continuing to pay the price for the government‘s mismanagement of the railway. the deptartment for transport says it is committed to making improvements. a housing association in essex has started to build modular homes in its own bid to help solve the housi