tonight we had a happy moment and quite some unity to tell you the truth brant more than we usually see because the leaders celebrated the start of tesco the permanent structure of cooperation in defense matters maybe you didn't leading to a real defense union that something that federica more to really the chief diplomat of the european union didn't think possible only three years ago that's what she told us but now it has become a reality in some dream of a european army so there is unity there there is progress there and it's also you know it's been propelled by the realization that the u.s. might not be a reliable partner not even a military partner in the future and then there was also unity apparently on the topic of sanctions against russia because of ukraine and heads of state government agreed to extend those sanctions another six months until july two thousand and eighteen so there is some unity but as you know in other matters like migration there is not yet i mean migration really is the issue that is causing a major fault line in europe isn't it. you know and it's been like

house of commons and we have on course to did it on the back six of the debris out this stuff only unity would be the second phase of the should. we should not put these british citizens because they decided to leave european union between should not punish also the other countries because when he said believe me i welcome the initiative to strengthen the unit in the fence i believe it will be good for to opinion for europe on for nato the illegal migration that we have to sold stroman bringing this on had to be put to euro promising them the but the future which will not happen. also coming up a putin faces the media the russian president's one man show you here is views on trump ukraine and his political opponents. the government has never been and still isn't afraid of anyone. or we begin the day as the next chapter in a tell of two unions is about to be written tonight leaders of the european union are meeting in brussels for their final summit of the year all those leaders include theresa may prime minister of the united kingdom and there we have two unions the european and the brit

defense pact and the lack of progress in dealing with migration unity and the lack thereof ahead of this summit here's how european council president obama put it today the divide. and some of the geographical simplification. between. when it comes to migration. between the east and with. these divisions on the emotions. we each make it through to find even the calm on the language and russian arguments for this debate and this is why we should. even more intensively and more effectively than before. emotions and using common sense are brussels bureau chief max hoffman is covering the summit for words tonight you can even do you max so when we look at everything that the e.u. is dealing with right now what would you say how would you describe the state of the european union tonight how much unity is there. tonight we had a happy moment and quite some unity to tell you the truth brant more than we usually see because the leaders celebrated the start of tesco the permanent structure of cooperation in defense matters maybe you've been leading to a real defense union that's something that fe

it is important that we say we do not have unity without reform. it takes reform to have unity. i want the people that came here , that you are respected, even though the process makes those on the inside feel as if they are not respected. we do respect you. folks will have to get engaged. it is a long time between now and march. i would like to see those that care about strengthening this party to be engaged. this change will not happen without you. having these words are one thing. execution is another. we have one of the most progressive platforms, but execution is important. what the community reform has done is about execution. titles are good, but purpose is better. i hope we will push the purpose of making sure that the democratic party is inclusive. i wanted to superdelegates eliminated all the way. i want that on the record. i don't think there are some whose authority is more important than others. we significantly reduced them. we have more work to do in the democratic party to win over those folks. broughtit was nomi who up the point of how important it is to be stro

it takes reform to have unity. i want the people who came here today to understand i'm so glad that you got up to express yourself, you are respected. we do respect you. folks are going to have to get engaged. there's a long time between now and march. i want to see the general public be engaged. this change will not happen without you. having these words are one thing. execution is another. we have one of the most progressive platforms but execution is important. what the unity reform commission has done is now about execution. titles are good, but purpose is better. i'm hoping we will continue to push the purpose of making sure the democratic party is inclusive of all. i wanted to see superdelegates eliminated all the way. i don't believe there should be a certain set of people whose authority and ideas are more important than others. we did significantly reduce them. we have more work to do to win over the folks. it's important to stand up and be strong. we are the ones that the people need, not just in our word

unity doesn't fall like rain from the sky. you've got to workday and night for it, like the song said. don't worry, i won't sing it. i would say that to all of us, because the only way we will be able to effectively fight trump, the only way we'll fight ryan and mcconnell, the only way we'll fight ricket or any of the other horrible governors is to do what i call party building and party building means inside to do better work outside. and jen and others here, you know, have heard me and heard each other sort of grumble about the hundreds of hours this ended up being. lots of grumbling. but i keep trying to say to myself, and i say this going forward, half the work, whatever you have to commit as a volunteer, half the work is always going to be inside. half the work is always going to be what does unity mean? it's not a five letter word. you've got to work for it, day and night for it. and i would say to my sister here, the chair, who will get the last word. you've made that a pleasure, you're a model, and carry it on. [applau

that's what she told us but now it has become reality and some dream of a european army so there is unity there is progress there and it's also you know it's been propelled by the realization that the u.s. might not be a reliable partner not even a military partner in the future and then there was also unity apparently on the topic of sanctions against russia because of ukraine and heads of state government agreed to extend those sanctions another six months until july two thousand and eighteen so there is some unity but as you know in other matters like migration there is not yet i mean migration really is the issue that is causing a major fault line in europe isn't it. you know and it's been like that for years it's sort of been under the carpet you know hasn't been talked about that much in the last months you could say because also of bragg's it because brags it all matters brags that the the other twenty seven you member states had a surprising show of unity so you could be fooled into thinking that this was a new reality for all topics but it is not as we clearly saw today the visio

b one big ifggjzheyve emphasis on the eu maintaining that unity.st few months, which is that they are very much stronger negotiating with the uk when they maintain this united front. and i think that they will do their arguing behind closed doors and then face the uk. and i think we've seen, actually, even in the guidelines today, you are talking about narrow parameters — the eu side is laying out very clearly what it expects will be the terms of a transition to come. and those are pretty restrictive for the uk. there is quite a lot to swallow in there, but this is exactly what happened in the first stage of the negotiation. so, in the new year they move on to that next part of they move on to that next part of the negotiation. 0ne they move on to that next part of the negotiation. one thing we should just say about the withdrawal process , just say about the withdrawal process, they are saying in the document today that they expect the withdrawal agreement to be put into a legally binding text, and there is still some work to finish on that, parti

and not threaten the g c c's unity. well it seems that the timing of this announcement of the partnership between strong players now the strongest of players and the juice you see now very clearly there is a within did you see an alliance that is emerging very clearly between saudi arabia and u.a.e. along with the bahrain to form some kind of partnership maybe a button will join the spark not ship. in the future but this is really that is not the board well that would be would the future of the g.c.c. this go this could cause a splintering of the g.c.c. into a comma towards the g.c.c. the six countries as as it has been on society eighty one that was for. a collective security organization to deter or taught or to strengthen the six countries in a position visa via the air never evolution the turmoil in afghanistan the soviet invasion afghanistan the iran iraq or iran evolution and other upheavals at that time and now we are at the stage that a dysfunctional g.c.c. is a not as is a real reality now after what we have se

pearl harbor resulted in a new national unity based on resentment. but that is not enough. we must have a deep spiritual unity that will make us ready, even eager, to sacrifice our material goods and when necessary, even life itself for the moral principles for which this war is being fought." >> i think it's important to recall the historic and emotional setting for this service. this was the winter of disaster, it came to be known as. not only was pearl harbor attacked, there was carnage in the north atlantic. great britain had held on by the skin of its teeth. the japanese were conquering bases, american and british and dutch bases throughout the far west. throughout east asia. and the wehrmacht, the german army had reached the gates of moscow. and if they had succeeded in taking the soviet union out of the war, it would have taken a tremendous counterweight to hitler and the german army out of europe, which would have been very bad news. on top of it, making it even more poignant for roosevelt and churchill, when churchill came the first time, in that august off the coa

married but because the man has done this he's in jail and so there's a lot of questions about family unity and how women are going to be supported in those situations and then finally there's a lot of concerns about whether this is a law that's going to really be targeting in demonizing the muslim community the reason for this is that. police are not actually going to need a warrant to arrest the men under this charge and so people are worried that this is going to go down a slippery slope in a situation where we already have some simmering religious tensions between communities here in india people are worried about what this could mean whether they could be over veatch with this law all right. thank you the fatal stabbing of a fifteen year old girl here in germany has hit a national nerve and the suspected assailant is in police custody a fifteen year old unaccompanied refugee from afghanistan the two teenagers were dating until recently they reportedly ended their relationship earlier this month the girl's parents filed a police complaint for harassment and threatening behavior before t

just we're not is by schools of quality since in as well as formal reaches of government from the unity party in my interest it's an on back to a full on speaker of the house of representatives and its title was because of alleged corruption allegation had a coalition of this judge we have he stands up with that by judge and then who have their four month senate put simply was present got feeney he's also a chemical judge we have all the comments many styles of government also supporting judge we are on the ground so he's someone that by and halls of support us current and past with us but i'd like you to address the fact that of course one of the controversial choice says is that the ex-wife of warlord or charles taylor who has been convicted by the special court of sierra leone for some very serious a war crimes are liberians ok with her being his running mates and having a very prominent position and whatever administration elites. and the people saying that we answered election of their former wife of president taylor westcott seagate drive how to love whose husband is in the here i

world unity unity has been a nuisance in the past and it will be interesting to see whether today this very important juncture in history the country is not going along to the organization of islamic countries that was created in one thousand six thousand line of time astronauts not form a lock some mosque in jerusalem will stand up once again to be counted on to come up come up with something near a common stand on top of the commission mohamed let's go back to something you say yes it would seem that it would you know be obvious for everyone to be on the same page here but that is not the case and partially because all of these countries have different relationships with israel to varying degrees if any relationship at all and differ. or relationships with us so just how complicated is this in fact to get everybody on the same page for what the plan is what the mission is how to move forward. yes indeed it is a very complicated thing and president on sim's talks set for himself a very high targets here. some of these countries we're talking i mean you come just come how seriously the

phenomenon, now i can see this unity is weakening a bit.nition ofjerusalem as the capital of israel, it has put trump outside the unity. the only realistic way was as macron said by saving the prime minister of lebanon from being a prisoner and keeping lebanon, this fragile country. but it is very gloomy for the middle east. we end this year with more stability? yes, destruction but at least syria is now stable. the real unstable thing is lebanon and israel and palestine where things have got worse. it is not only syria which is stable now. relatively stable. it is the whole region. iraq is stable again. syria and iraq are coming back. also the stability of syria is good for immigration because many people, many syrian people, will go back because syria is a rich country and the people of syria are hard—working. it is devastated at the moment, the infrastructure is devastated, but the point is that there will be those who want to return? there will be reconstruction in syria and iraq. this will attract a lot of capital, a lot of skilled peo

talks and the national unity efforts now underway to mature further we're talking about a few days whenhe palestinian national council is convened and. had that hamas will be invited as we heard from president abbas that means that the entirety of the palestinian political system those who are outside of the p.l.o. and those who are traditionally inside that political system are united in rejecting this american position and are united in saying that the u.s. has disqualified itself from the role it has played nobody had any illusions about trump his administration or even previous administration everybody knows that the u.s. is closer to israel than it's ever been or ever ever will be unfortunately to the palestinians at least in the foreseeable future but no administration was so all day shifts in its bias in its ignorance of international law and international politics in the nuance of this conflict as to take a step that is as reckless and irresponsible as the one that trump has just taken and it will it it has really opened the possibilities for a lot of unknowns and that is a very

the most serious stress test on our nation's democracy perhaps in our history and the work of this unity commission is so critically important. larry and jen, thank you so much for what up been doing. it's impossible to overstate the importance of the work that you have been doing. his is -- i come to you both with a sense of remarkable sobriety given what's happening in washington and around the country in the era of this president and also a sense of optimism borne out of what we've een on the ground. you look at the chaos and carnage that we see every day from this administration and the stakes couldn't be higher. this tax bill that people like congresswoman fudge and others fought against is just an absolute abomination. it is a break for wealthy eople, wealthy corporations at the expense of virtually everybody else. the attack on the affordable care act, 13 million people potentially losing health care all in service of the tax cut for large corporations and wealthy people who don't need it. they tell us there is no money to re-authorize the state children's health insurance program

to reflect unity, and to increase unity and got that comes from it.up the unity lights and we said we want this unity right to last. >> again we are listening right new as city officials hoe first ever kwanzaa celebration right there on both bet house row, and the iconic row of homes will be illuminated in kwanzaa colors that is set to happen in a few minutes, that ceremony got underway a short time ago with drum line procession to the fish ladder. remarks from mayor jim kenney and members of the kwanzaa cooperative are also part of the festivities. >>> lauren casey joining us now, notice everyone has many layers on out there. >> yes. >> like digging your closet for all of your gloves, all of your hats and that is your trend. over accessory, is that a word yes, that is what we will be doing over next several days with high temperatures that are sub freezing for a extended period of time and getting a live look at center city philadelphia, it is, cold skies mostly clear right now. we will see included deck increasing, in precipitation in the forecast b

ththis is deitite emmersrson mnangagwaa sayingg -- calling fr unity and saying he wants to bring about meaningful change in the new zimbabwe. anchor: how are zimbabweans feeling about all this? what are they expecting from mnangagwa at this point? zimbabwe'se know ececonomy is in tatters. the people of zimbabwe are expecting the new p president t fix the economy. we also know t that millions off ,izimbabweans s are u unemployed living in zimbababwe, and there are millions living outside of zimbabwe. in south africa, thehere are mimillions of zimbabweans, univiversity graduates, who a ae working as gardersrs, taxi drivers, at cooks in restaurants inin neighboring countriri. these pepeople are sayaying they want to rereturn to zimbabwe and to help rebuilild their cocount. people are relying on the neww president to rebuildld the economomy, tcreate m more jobob. and of course they want job security and they want street security. anchor: a fight for political survivor. those are the words of "der spiegel." germany still has no government, though talks are underway. those discussions have n

these prayers, he said, were for peace and unity.though, and the aura of cambodia's greatest historic era, hun sen hopes to demonstrate that his legitimacy is secure. but this was a largely organised crowd. many of them schoolchildren. it was not a spontaneous show of support. these girls had no idea why the ceremony was being held. they had been told to come by their teacher. all of these people have been brought to this, the most symbolically important site in cambodia, for one purpose. and that is to impress upon the rest of the population that the country is united, despite the distraction of the opposition. but the fact that the prime minister has gone to all of this trouble suggests he is not so sure. the party he outlawed has been doing well enough in recent elections to pose a serious threat. now, its leaders are either injail or in exile. they believe that his drastic move against them actually shows the wily cambodian strongman is worried. if he were sure of himself, he would call us back and say, let's compete fairly, free

these prayers, he said, were for peace and unity. by wrapping himself in the ma ntle unity., though, and the allah of cambodia's greatest historic iraq, hun sen hopes to demonstrate that his legitimacy is secure. but this was a largely organised crowd. many of them schoolchildren. it was not a spontaneous show of support. these girls had no idea why the ceremony was being held. they'd been told to come by their teacher. all of these people have been brought to this, the most symbolically important site in cambodia for one purpose and that's to impress upon the rest of the population the country is united, despite the distraction of the opposition. but the fact the prime minister has gone through all this trouble suggests he's not so sure. the party he outlawed has been doing well enough in recent elections to pose a serious threat. now its leaders are either in jail or in now its leaders are either in jail orinx now its leaders are either in jail or in x i'll. they believed that his drastic move against them actually shows the wily cambodian strongman is worried. if he were

president calling for unity amongst the delegates there. yes indeed nic it was a hard hitting statement one heavy on more from the ski describe the situation that the palestinians were going through in the occupied territories and say israel will seeking to do to mice its occupation of palestine and the un is seeking to unite the muslim world to come up with a consultant. response to a president trumps the clinician it is still a. couple of israel but he faces a daunting task in doubtful he was addressing the leaders. countries do not have any diplomatic relations they are countries not willing to go beyond the total position of the expense of sacrificing their relationship with the united states and it will be interesting to see whether these extraordinary summit can come up with anything near. that response to president trump's acknowledge it is that what they're trying to do i think it is they trying to get some kind of istanbul dick. for example what could the impact be of anything. well if they come up with anything going to jump in th

the problem with the women's rights movement in the past is they didn't have enough unity there was always some shiksa ready to sell out her sister to become a supermodel but now there's so much sexual perversion out there particularly in hollywood that there's a unity with that sense not sense the suffrage movement you know rights for women to vote have we seen such unity no more rape no more army weinstein's and this is going to create a wave of political activism in females in politics randi well you're seeing it by the election of donald trump i mean had hillary won i don't think you would have seen such a virulent backlash but i mean his victory with his baggage connected to the other issues that you bring up i mean weinstein obviously was a big player in the democratic party as far as a donor and all these others across these industries are being exposed and women are saying it's our time we're tired of hitting the glass ceiling we're tired of you know pay inequality we're tired of being a singer. a mom trying to make it on two and three jobs and having a master's degree and n

there might be unity on tax cuts. is there unity on anything else in the party? >> no, and you know, this is nothing new from president trump, that he would say that sitting next to jeff flake is truly incredible given the things that jeff flake has said about him, that they would even put jeff flake next to him at the white house is something of a troll, i think. i'm assuming that jeff flake didn't intentionally go sit next to him but i'm happy to be corrected if that did happen. but trump likes to put, you know, either empty seats or political opponents -- >> props. >> props next to him so jeff flake has answered with a prop of his own. $100 is $100. but it's not going to turn the tide. >> not a lot of support for the tax plan rolling its way very quickly through here. remind folks this is going to touch every corner of the american economy. if you are a student, if you are a teacher, if you are a renter, if you are anybody in america this is going to affect you and it's not very popular here. they've got a hard sell, but they don't have to sell it to the publi

we're live now the democratic national committee unity reform commission. created in 2016, meeting for its final session in washington today. their recommendations will be issued to update the d.n.c.'s rules and bylaws committee to be considered for the 2018 election. once it gets under way we expect an all-day session here and we will have live coverage. politico magazine wrote about the unify ty commission's efforts saying that with a potentially historic number of democrats getting ready to launch aed by for their party's nomination in 2020, the d.n.c. has barely 18 months to institute any reforms. the unity commission recommends they, they quote bernie sanders as saying, the party can cannot remain an institution largely dominated by the wealthy and inside beltway coon sulltants. senator sanders saying. it must open its doors and welcome into its ranks millions of working people and young people who desperately want to be involved in determining the future of our nation. we'll have live coverage once it gets under way. in the meantime from this morning'

unity is a unity of purpose everyone working for the. plane the a party for the country if the opposition would only have taken positions in them i would be surprised and i would think that would be a very fatal political mistake because how would they criticize the government in eight months time how would they attack. was a rational prism and was administration in a few months time but now they are the same they are out there they are going to be picking holes whatever it is your administration is going to be making and it gives them in some impetus and some political space to to to to be an alternative ok because it's all eyes on the on the coming election right so what do you think we're likely to see the cabinet do in that time. what will become the company just to play it safe in the moment in playing safe means for sleep the people have to get money from their banks when they deposit well they should get it bonuses should be sort of people civil servants should be paid on time. it basically economic stability you know. starting to

the obstacles thrown at scheveningen the common decency a market in old to reach for the economic unity by twenty twenty five a cold in practical programs you need it to be implemented their leaders stress them potence the role of the g.c.c. in keeping stability and security in the region and in fighting terrorism and extremism and defending our values and defending the moderate spirit of religion islam the leaders. of those media people in the. trays to be up to that is sponsored but it is to play an effective role in order to give the momentum to other parts of the g.c.c. it do at cheve the common interests of the g.c.c. countries and the g.c.c. peoples and to implement all the plans and all of the projects through the common work kuwait the fifth of december of two in the seventeen. thank you for the secretary general of the g.c.c. now we come to the end of this session and i want to tell you then animals. you are. high in this shift i mean behind the emir of the state of. that had been the site a present of the soul. of sorry and your excellences representatives of the magisters and

unity prevents any danger from happening to our society and the. hezbollah have the considerable arsenal of weaponry which they say is to defend lebanon. but many communities in lebanon itself a concern before the strength of hezbollah how do you provide reassurance to these communities. c.s. here. this is a political concern rather than a security issue because everybody knows that hizbollah large do not use their weapons in the domestic arena except only for one time when the lebanese government took measures against it. and a slight incidence occurred which ended in two days but ever since the establishment of hezbollah in one thousand nine hundred five until today there has only been one small incident but if nothing else. some new york many. in lebanon the snow there are one and a half million refugees from so they are as well as perhaps five countries. but the international community does not cooperate with us until now except for russia turkey and iran iran we hope to be able to change the opinions of the europeans and americans in this resp

governance that has been in one way to since the start of the company days the need to change the unity of parties so it has really been a trouble for vice president yourself so that is the online factor not another unity party. and one of the biggest challenges that hall now be facing as president we are has a huge challenge ahead of him especially when we talk about you when you plug meant and chop creation the country has to challenge with the high or you climb into and the issue of poverty over eighty percent of the country's population still leer live below a dollar a day so judge we government to have this as a reason not to crack liberating a country from poverty which many believe he i mean is just in the president has not really been able to adequately address since her two six years of twelve years he toured to. where was a football star in the ninety's who played for italy's ac milan do you think he's going to succeed as a politician. will he has not had experiences in politics for the time he started it was just football a lot of people have known he. could pour but others a

show of unity leaders meeting in brussels clashed over the migrant quotas and the meeting is overshadowed by the ongoing talks we'll take you live to brussels for the latest also coming up and also trillion in court in the child sex abuse says the catholic priest should no longer after make a valid celibacy prime minister malcolm turnbull calls the report's findings a national tragedy. and sarah harman it's good to have you with us welcome here waiters are meeting in brussels and heading for a showdown over the issue of migration european council president called a mandatory quota for refugees highly divisive and ineffective as ministers arrive for the second day of the summit the house of lords of german chancellor angela merkel ringing in their ears she said member states cannot pick and choose when it comes to burden sharing and solidarity the migration crisis is not the only controversial issue on the agenda another difficult topic. i'm joined now from more by correspondent. in brussels following these talks for us here so concerns about rex it is it going to dampen the christmas spir