tens of thousands cheered balsa naro in the capital brasilia but was. after being sworn in he set the tone for his term as president i near to zero who will do that today is the day our people will begin to free themselves from socialism was seated in the us by them to free themselves from false values from overreach by the state and from political correctness it's a core have. both in our eyes cap and it is mostly white and male with only two women seven of its twenty two members are ex-military their agenda is staunchly conservative the foreign minister wants to break with alleged cultural marxism many back the incoming finance ministers pray for the market stance and his promises to privatized many industries foreign companies operating in brazil have also voiced support for his plans. but paulson are also has his critics and amongst the toughest of them is left wing congressman john willis he's openly gay and says he's receiving more and more death threats. i think it was a ball he ever said and will really do is hunt minorities i consider him a pol

jair bolsa naro says his bangladesh were at that time.nforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom. why is that seem to have become politically more attractive? in brazil, they had a crimewave go on for so long with the apparent that neither side of mainstream politics could do something about it and in politics, if neither side can address the main concern in voters thoughts, then another force arises that can and very often, whether that be in australia where one nation grout of their concerns about migration or in our country where ukip emerged over concerns the mainstream wasn't dealing with migration and europe, if you fail to offer voters a choice that addresses their concerns in that addresses their concerns in that situation which could be either way, it could be more freedom or more authority. something else will emerge and we live in a time it has been a wave of parties coming up to offer choice and brazil is the most remarkable example of that, notjust because of the positions he is taken but also b

mexico border he says he's received overwhelming support for his plan brazil's new president also naro has held his first full cabinet meeting since being sworn in two days ago his chief of staff announced a purge of government contract is seen as sympathetic to previous left wing administrations. the u.s. has demanded the democratic republic of congo's election commission released accurate results from sunday's presidential voters the congolese branch of the catholic church said it knows the outcome based on information from the forty thousand want to avoid the church has not said which candidate believes won the election. dozens of people are dead after three days of fighting between rival groups in northern syria it forced people to flee a camp for the displaced close to the turkish border the fighting has intensified since president trump announced the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria a joint investigation by al jazeera and the intercept has revealed that the us military has stepped up its bombing campaign against eisel since trumps decision shares an apple have closed down ten

so if brazil has sworn in its new president jar your bill so naro he's the country's first far right leader since the military dictatorship and it thirty years ago both were normal has vowed to revive brazil's economy and crack down on crime but his offensive remarks about minorities and women have alarmed many who fear he's a threat to.

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about the prospect of a military base in brazil and human rights lawyer thinks that trump and also naro are united by a common hostility towards left wing governments in latin america. it's very clear that a pulse in our at the president is in lockstep with the trump administration in wanting to militarize latin america and wanting in particular regime change in countries like venezuela nicaraguan cuba it's a very concerning situation both in our early and trump share you know a right wing at the ology they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly boston are always going to work very close with trump he will try to do his best to partner with the united states but i think the u.s. has more bases throughout the world than any country should i mean they just don't need a military in terms of national security so i don't see why the u.s. should have a base they are i think it could only be viewed as an aggressive stance again towards countries it doesn't like like venezuela. at least thirty miners have been killed in a gold mine collapse in northeast af

gave us javier was the business friendly crowd there convinced by what the business friendly bolsa naro had to say. well stephen of course you have to give also now a little bit of time we know that he just started off as an january first and there is perhaps one approach or one aspect that people here tend to mention as a positive aspect considering of course that he is often labeled as a populist and it is that at least both so narrow does not blame the problems that brazil has other countries or for example on migrants like many populist leaders do so that is something that people are definitely rescuing from his speech that being said there are some very important crucial questions when it comes to how wilson out intends to transform brazil and the questions are about the price tag will that be at the cost of the environment or will that be at the cost of the poor in brazil that won't have state aid like they have now those are two fears that we saw since the beginning of all scenarios campaign at that yet have to be answered yet have to be solved so the public was definitely skepti

that the rate of violence against people had increased significantly since right when president also naro to go office. sports now in germany is currently co-hosting the world championships in a sport that many in the english speaking world may not be familiar with and that's all arenas have been packed with fans from around the world excitement building here in germany ahead of the country's semifinal clash against norway tonight. the main train station in the northern german city of. fans turned out in droves to watch germany's last game here on a big screen they have little doubts about who's going to win the tournament. the glue to guys are great they're playing brilliantly well can i say we're going to be world champions. the tournament's issues really popular in germany more people have been following the german team's games on t.v. the top matches in the football but in this league. that's been what's important for us is that we don't just reach the normal handball fans we want to get all sports fans on board when we want to have everyone in the country talking about the team he wa

his new brazil concept hoping to drum up business business for the country's ailing economy bowser naro told the world economic forum he's opening up brazil for business he promised to fight corruption invest in security and cut taxes to boost production and generate employment. we want to show that brazil is taking measures so that the world reestablish has confidence in us. that the business will once again flourish between brazil and the rest of the world without being guided by ideology which will show the world that we're a country safer investments especially in the area of agribusiness which is very important to us. the meeting is the first international outing for brazil's new president top economists are surprised about his popularity at davos it's ironic that. they're over for. sessions with other crafts dominate and you can't get into that at a place like this. at a time when autocratic strong men dominate the world's political stage this year's davos gives boston r.-o. an air of legitimacy. and we'll have of course more coverage of the world's economic forum in davos through

rate of violence against people had increased significantly since right when president higher balsa naro took office. it's topola now where emotions have been running especially high since last month's fatal stabbing of the liberal mare of the dogs the murder has brought to light the political fractures running through polar society no wonder then that rock music has become the latest front in that country's culture wars and adam dark skin from the black metal band behave that has become a point man for critics of the country's conservative climate. is a heavy metal guitarist adam doors he likes to throw his angry weight around he's the provocative frontman of the polish black metal band behemoths. the vehicle for his political protest. message against. conquering are. two years that it's just driving towards some kind of isolation but a. critic of poland's right wing nationalist government which has little regard for the european union. among his snubs against the ruling law and justice party is this subversive take on biblical themes. parliamentary member of the party even tried to tur

announced a purge of government contract is seen as sympathetic to previous left wing administrations also naro has already unveiled plans to step up privatizations toughen prison sentencing and hand control over in didn't get a slammed claims to the powerful agriculture ministry. shares in apple have closed down ten percent in u.s. trading in its worst session since two thousand and thirteen it comes off the c.e.o. tim cook surprised investors announcing that revenue was being slashed by up to nine billion dollars those are the headlines. the week began with. a truce in the u.s. china trade. the. us is leaving the biggest. we bring you the stories in the economic world we live in counting the cost. i'm catherine. a year ago it was. the democratic republic of congo's capital and. today as a presidential candidate. with security forces using. the nation to disrupt. some parts of the country. he's the biggest threat to president joseph kabila and the. candidates.

first we go straight to the snowiest risking down to davos where today political leaders like both the naro and netanyahu meet with millionaires celebrities like bono and david blane to discuss improving the state of the world will oxfam also wants to improve the state of the world and to talk about the ngos public good or private wealth report out in the past forty eight hours as head of advocacy tony p.s. tony thanks for coming on so we had asked and broome magician david blaine briggs william yesterday today it's i.m.f. boss christian the god of borneo. they're discussing something called the financing gap tell me about your report of a kind of financing gap absolutely say the report that some have released this week demonstrates the way in which wealthy is being concentrated in the hands of a small number of people in the world and i'm inside in the last yeah and what we've seen is that billion as around the world have seen their wealth by twelve percent two point five billion dollars a day whilst the well it's fifty percent poorest people at three point eight been. people have seen the

personally the sixty three year old former army captain represents a major shift to the rights also narovowed to respect democracy and carry out its difficult economic reforms needed to get latin america's biggest economy back on track he also wants to loosen up his country's environmental protection laws potentially allowing the agricultural sector to exploit more of the amazon rain forest he was propelled to victory by his campaign promises to curb corruption and combat crime. corruption privileges advantages have to win and political favors forced trading that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do hence food has an undeniable purpose to put first and foremost the interests of brazilians. u.s. president donald trump says he won't rush to pull troops out of syria after coming under intense pressure from allies and senior figures in his republican party last month trump abruptly announced that all two thousand american troops will be brought home immediately following what he described as that victory over iso about tracking on plans for a

also, jarro bowles naro who's known as the donald trump of south america, the heaved brazil. donald trump and theresa may but also emerson man nag wa. the leader of zimbabwe. he wanted to come to davos to show that after years and years of being closed and hyp hyperinflation, but he has protests on the ground in zimbabwe to he sanitied to stay there. president macron of france not attending because of the yellow vest movement. we've seen protests in germany because of the hard right. the five star movement in italy, jornl, as well now in power. the hard-liners in greece. i'm waiting to hear what chancellor merkel has to say about the rise of populism and how the european union responds. and even an olive branch yet again to britain to try to stay in the european union and remain flexible on theresa may's plan b. this will be a very important position for angela merkel as she fades out of power after so many years in germany as chancellor. >> you talk about the rise of populism. also, john, walking through some of the people who are there, some of the people not attending. ove

now he was only sworn in this week but brazil's new president chair balsa naro has started a perch ofthe public service also now has authorized the dismissal of some three hundred public servants on temporary contracts since taking office on tuesday of this week targets officials who don't share his administration's far right ideology his own chief of staff has described the move as cleaning the house. and let's talk more about this with renate mater from the institute for latin american studies at the free university here in berlin renate thank you for joining us in our studio and we're talking about three hundred members of the public service who've been dismissed now some could be reinstated we've heard if after their ideologies are examined so to say what do you make of this how significant is this i think also not have created an atmosphere of cold war in which the other the enemies that the. socialists or communists and everybody who works for the government of the workers' party is considered to be. fought with the ideology of though he does not hit see himself as also. with a

also naro is a far right nationalists his world views are directly incompatible with a world view that davos seeks to represent and we can say that this is probably going to be a battle of the forum organizers are going to have to grapple with in the next years as populism continues to grow in many parts of the world talk about populism nationalism that one of the big elephants in the room that must be breaks it is it on the official agenda. indeed it is and you know what talking about elephants in the room it's really getting hard for world leaders to associate with the glitterati and davos and the decadence of davos when they're fighting battles at home you talked about brags that there are two reason may of course not here as he continues to try and establish these brags that flames but you know who is here however a former british prime minister tony blair and earlier my colleague ben fuzzy will then talk to him in an interview about his views for bragg that this is what they had to say as i understand that the idea is to to change the withdrawal agreement obviously that's a matter

what is the bolsa naro presidency waiting for the ceremony.ersial as his campaign has suggested? yell —— his campaign was full of rhetoric, sexist, homophobic, racist rhetoric. they got very many people nervous about what that would mean for the presidency. whether he will turn that down once he comes into power, he says he will be willing for all of brazil. a lot of people are very nervous about what the next four yea rs nervous about what the next four years will mean for people here, especially minority groups. financial markets are happy. they think the economy will be in much better hands with bolsanaro. socially, in terms of progress, what will it mean for brazil? a lot of people very nervous. katie watson. thank you. north korea's leader, kim jong—un has given a new year address in which he says the country is still commited to giving up nuclear weapons and that he is prepared to meet again "at any time" with us president donald trump. there's been little progress on north korea's denuclearisation since the two leaders held their histor

brazil's new president also naro has signed a decree making it easier for many citizens to own firearms that's the first of many expected changes the new government intends to make in an overhaul of gun laws the decree establishes a wide range of categories of people who qualify to guns official said it was crafted to cover just about any citizen who wants a firearm. gun laws have just been relaxed in the country with one of the world's highest homicide rates. brazil's president. strict regulations. prevented civilians from bearing firearms. in order to guarantee the citizens this legitimate right of defense as president will use this weapon. the decree opens up gun ownership to adults over twenty five living in rural areas or high crime urban areas they must have no criminal record and a gun club course is obligatory. in a country that almost sixty four thousand homicides in two thousand and seventeen both scenarios hardline law and order platform has one in support from those who see why do gun ownership is a better way to protect themselves. the new. violence but at least it gives a

brazil's incoming far right president dry balsa naro has repeatedly said that the rain forest can no longer stand in the way of economic growth what exactly he means by that is unclear but brazil's powerful mining and farming lobbies accounting on him to represent their interests the military dictatorship that ruled brazil until one nine hundred eighty five wanted the forests chopped down and ordered the country's space agency to monitor the clearance now research is a trying to protect the environment the yellow areas on this map show where the rain forest has been destroyed. the areas of the amazon that have been deforested at up to about twice the size of germany. cattle and soy farming require lots of land the farms are profitable in the short term but in the long term research is argue intact rain forest some more important on trees team demonstrates how that could work to map out the forest selecting individual trees to be logged valuable would then this area will go untouched for thirty years is. what we're missing in brazil is strong environmental policy is environmental awar

brazil prepares to swear in president a leg jab also naro the country's new right wing leader has pledged to kickstart the economy promising to emulate the policies of u.s. president donald trump by putting national interests first and promoting the private sector is said and done perhaps especially as the country continues to grapple with soaring debt for the new finance minister there will be no shortages of challenges this is paolo gadget is the man in charge of turning brazil's economic fortunes around a u.s. trained economist he's pledged to introduce a host of free market reforms here he is back in october telling the media about his plans to boost investment by lowering interest rates and reducing bureaucracy. he also wants to sell off state enterprises in order to reduce public debt which skyrocketed to in the previous administration so just how big of a challenge will that be let's take a look at the numbers. back in two thousand and fourteen brazil's government debt amounted to fifty eight percent of total economic output by two thousand and eighteen is had surged to seventy six

safe as it was sworn in its new president jar your bull so naro he's the country's first far right leader since the military dictatorship and thirty years ago those in our own has vowed to revive brazil's economy and crack down on crime but is offensive remarks about minorities and women have alarmed many who fear he's a threat to democracy. cuba has been marking the sixtieth anniversary of its revolution communist party leader raul castro told crowds in the eastern city of santiago that the country's new constitution aims to reflect modern society while maintaining a commitment to socialism he also blasted the trumpet ministration for returning to a path of confrontation with cuba. a baby boy has been found alive thirty six hours after an explosion destroyed a russian apartment building in the city of mark and it took course rescuers found the boy in freezing temperatures after hearing his cries authorities believe a gas leak caused the blast at least eight people are dead and dozens are still missing. hundreds of people in new york city rang in the new year by taking a dip in the chilly

safe president was sworn in its new president year bull so naro he's the country's first far right leader since the military dictatorship and thirty years ago. has vowed to revive brazil's economy and crack down on crime but his offensive remarks about minorities and women have alarmed many who fear he's a threat to democracy. romania has taken over the e.u. six month rotating presidency the country marked the occasion with a projection of romanian and e.u. flags on to caress victoria palace its motto for the presidency is cohesion a common european value that's despite concerns about bucharest fitness to lead the bloc during practices and european parliament elections this year. a baby boy has been found alive thirty six hours after an explosion just roared a russian apartment building in the city of martin it took course rescuers found the boy in freezing temperatures after hearing his cries authorities believe a gas leak caused the blast at least eight people are dead and dozens are still missing. hundreds of people in new york city rang in the new year by taking a dip in the chilly at

brazilian president gerry or both so naro has dismissed more than three hundred public servants since taking office earlier this week this week targets officials who don't share his administration's far right ideology bosun are as chief of staff referred to the purge as cleaning house. thirteen foreign ministers from the americas meeting in the peruvian capital lima have vowed not to recognize the recent reelection of venezuelan president nicolas maduro the so-called lima group said it would consider additional joint measures to restore democracy in venezuela and stop the outflow. the world's refugees. a surprisingly upbeat jobs report for the u.s. in december is welcome news on the new york stock exchange where shares shot up also an in to surprise you should all know more rate hikes from the fed. than we want to stay in the e.u. but with less austerity and fewer rules that's what many italian entrepreneurs told us here on d w. this is your business update on humphrey in berlin glad you could join me wall street stocks are off to a monthly labor market report showed that some three h

brazilian president gerry are both so naro has said that he would be open to hosting a u.s. military base on his country's soil a move seen as a sharp shift in brazil's foreign policy the far right leader said that russia's support of president nicolas maduro in neighboring venezuela had significantly increased tensions in the region. protests continue in india after two women defied an ancient ban and entered a hindu temple in the southern state of carola in september india's supreme court ordered the lifting of the ban on women of menstruating age entering the us a bar in mala hill temple that has drawn criticism from conservative hindu groups. in. south korea's intelligence agency says north korea's top diplomat in italy has gone into hiding acting ambassador joe song gill and his wife are said to have disappeared from pyongyang's rome embassy in november. or. to the. a selloff on global markets without co-leading the plunge chinese spies lose their appetite for the i phone seeing the tech giant cut its sales forecasts also coming up the search goes on for potentially dan