bruni grew up in a musical family and says music has always been her passion. makes me happy. explains things to me and it's it's a great deal of things at the same time that really. it gives a meaning to my life and two thousand and seven bruni met then french president nicolas sarkozy at a dinner party just a few months later the couple tied the knot making bruni first lady of france for the next four years. besides attending state dinners bruni became an ambassador for an international aids charity and founded her own charity just support universal access to education. but behind the scenes bruni kept writing music and in two thousand and eleven she made her acting debut as a tour guide and woody allen's midnight and paris life. is she was an influence look at me was not there was that his mistress yes. rose was the line or he was never allowed to roam yes even. in the last year of their lives that your mistake in arguing with the guy is. uncertain. now separating her fiftieth birthday bruni's touring europe and north america with her new album french touch. the broom a wom

happy birthday to carla bruni always going to have.the critics are very divided on this album she's a polarizing figure some people say elevator music others have said nothing wrong others have said it is a unique and tasteful mixture of. her own french songs that she wrote at the beginning of her career i thought they were beautiful i would love to see her go back to that. is a fascinating person ok. so we have time for thank you for watching. the end. screens up close. and the girls house of music right this time with vocals. and rock poet kinds wouldn't considering the it's a nice down joke is inevitable. the. only. serious up lonely night sleep. is to. its own kind of winning coach of pretty. sure link to news from africa and the world. your link to exceptional stories and discussions continue and welcome to news african program tonight from funny to me from the news of these eats and why i would say d. debit it comes to africa join us on facebook at g.w. africa. g w true diversity. where the world of science is at home in many lan

french singer and former first lady carla bruni was in frankfurt on wednesday performing songs from her new album french touch. it was the first of three concerts in germany. bernie's first album includes covers of songs by depeche mode and the rolling stones among others. the forty nine year old singer adds a sensual touch of shall song tradition to our music. the humble pizza is now on unesco's cultural heritage list the art of the neapolitan pizza dough twirling or pizza has been added to the u.n. organizations list of intentional cultural heritage. also making it onto the list german organ craftsmanship and organ music. altogether unesco added twenty four traditions from the areas of dance theater and crafts to its register. in the city of odessa has marked one hundred fifty years since popular author hans christian andersen was made an honorary citizen the city has put on a fantastic light display. it was designed by british light artist bruce munro. on hand to open the installation crown prince frederick the field of lights will be on display until next february. every year they j

here to discuss cnn contributor frank bruni and op-ed columnist for "the new york times" whose new collinis titled democrats are the new republicans. what happened? everything is flipped occupyicide down now. >> i think it's been flipped for a while, but donald trump has just accelerated it. the very elements of their brand, family values, fiscal discipline, national security, patriotism, you can make a very per suasive argument that oall those scores democrats make a better argument than republicans do because of the influence of donald trump. >> the senate is about to vote on this new tax bill now. in your new article -- there's live pictures of the floor now. republicans are smashing the pillars of their brand. the pillar is fiscal responsibility and now republicans on the brink of passing this new tax bill. it's going to run up the deficit and increases it by $1.5 trillion over ten years. so for years republicans were dead set against deficits. now they're for them? >> well, no, i mean there's a lot going on here. you're right they're the party that used to fantasize the budget. they

i want to bring in analyst and frank bruni the columnist for "the new york times." hello to you. >> good to see. >> you i thought about this when -- before we get to the strategy and you talk about that in the column -- i woke up this morning and then i watched the news because i wanted to be tuned in for work. everybody started tweeting what the president said. apparently the president had said -- seen sop fox news -- i'm sorry "fox and friends" segment and started tweet bag it. what if people just didn't report it because the president is reporting from "fox and friends." that's part of the entertainment division of fox. not a news program. is it even consequential? why are we reporting the president's tweets because he is going to tweet something else just as outrageous and nonsensical. >> you're right. you're asking the question why do we let him whip us into a constant frenzy and stay in the frenzy. >> yes. >> ace wrote in the recent column there is a danger to that. because when everything he says and does provocation unmitigated outrage and fury. how do we ge