institute at the free university of berlin and imposing these tariffs president trump invoked a seldom used section of trade law from the one nine hundred sixty s. in fact allowing him to impose trade barriers when there is a threat to national security was was there any sign of that. i thought canada i thought the european union i thought mexico were all friendly countries and also that we're all in the same boat together speaking about security so it's clearly one of these distant ideas of industrial policy if you don't have something very specific then somehow you're less of a nation less secure but it is clearly just made up the only way he could get to do what he's just threatened to do and he's doing it does seem rather obscure but the u.s. commerce the comma sexual say not enough have been done to reduce that trade deficit we do have to acknowledge it is it is very large does he have a point that sometimes you can say you got there is that deficit now the question is do we agree what the cause of the u.s. deficit are economists are actually pretty much in a great agreement it ha

instituted three instance at the free university of berlin always great to have your analysis. deutsche bank shares were down at a historic low on thursday after a downgrading by u.s. federal institutions came to light according to the wall street journal the downgrading actually took place a year ago first the federal reserve labeled the banks and u.s. businesses troubled this in turn causing the u.s. federal deposit insurance corporation to put deutsche bank on its list of problem banks those with weaknesses in danger being their financial viability the revelation comes amidst the bank's restructuring efforts. a corruption scandal is rocking kenya twenty four of the country's highest officials are accused of misappropriating funds with seventy million euros and this court proceedings on fold more and more don't details are coming to light and people taking to the streets in an angry response it's mostly the young people in kenya who are angry kenyan police have arrested the head of the government youth organization with legibly stole the money the funds were slated for financ

but with me here in the studio is a professor of economics at the free university of berlin great to have you with us today now and it seems that the real sticking point for the united states with china is this industrial expansion policy the china twenty twenty five policy with its rapid developments washington couching it as a national security concern is it right to well everything is being wrapped now in a national can security framework we can see whether it's on the border suddenly migration becomes a national security issue also everything in trade steel aluminum imports from canada are considered a national. security issues so here there is a kernel of truth in the u.s. complaints a lack of regulatory reciprocity but to clothe that in sort of this national security issue you know twenty thirty years down the road right now the united states and china are rivals and as rivals other countries have similar issues so i think it's more the issue of how do we coordinate to get this regulatory reciprocity that when investors go into china that they are treated the way chinese invest

of things. i have actually seen temple hops airstrip in berlin, because it is not in the center of the city, it is near the free universityf berlin. and what happened after the second world war is that stalin went back on his word after the armistice, and he decided he would petition germany and try to get a large portion of religion under soviet -- of the region under soviet control. one of the ways he was going to do that was with the food blockade. he managed to do that and, as a result, supplies that were not coming into the rest of the city had to be airlifted in. and it is one of the unintended crises as the cold war began. the problem of food supply. when the soviets blockaded berlin and they blockaded the rail access -- people were not flying food into berlin. most of the food supply came in by train. first of all, there was not very much, but it wound up where the united states and britain were foodg over 18,000 tons of -- inerlin between 1938 1938. and here is the interesting thing about that. most of the united states planes were no longer in europe. they were outside of the european theater, because the war wa

institute at the free university here in berlin and to my near run my colleague indeed of the business anchor helena i'm free to both of you welcome back to the big table so let me start with you how is the u.s. commerce secretary how is he justifying taking punitive measures against the european union which is supposed to be one of the united states best friends not to mention one of its biggest trading partners exactly of course that friendship going paul straight as well so fairly shocking perhaps. you know he announced the terrorists from paris so he didn't waste any time he was of course that in paris for the meeting of the o.e.c.d. where they were trying to negotiate with leaders to avert those tariffs that wilbur ross said simply that not enough progress had been made to warrant a full preview of the to the european union canada or mexico and he did say though that president trunk can lift those tariffs any time he wants that was kind of the justification of course what european leaders have said is that it's not how you act with an ally we will not come back to the negotiating

berlin where the alternative for germany party made a polymer entry breakthrough in last year's election on a platform of opposition to islam dominant came al-jazeera. free harvest from georgetown university says the austrian government is trying to interfere in religious offense is a message that is intended to be sent out to the austrian electorate i think there are many groups outside of of austria and other european countries who may applaud them who may try to to kochi what they are doing but we have to understand that also the state church relation is very different in very in various countries throughout europe so austria has a kind of very specific understanding of most security and secularism should look like and what they are doing at the moment is trying to interfere into religious affairs so why do the united states you have the understanding that secularism means that the state is far away from religion in austria in terms of the most and only it seems that they are trying to really define what a good religion should look like and what a bad religion should look looks like so they are kind of redefining the good islam versus the bad islam this is the game they are playing and