Donald trump takes his America First message to davos declaring the u. S. Open for business but he also uses his speech to attack the media. Thirty seven dead after a fire sweeps through a hospital in south korea. To expand its operation in a kurdish enclave of syria all the way east to the border with iraq. And why eight years after haitis earthquake millions are still struggling to access keen water. In sport Roger Federer has an easier than expected passage in her record seventh Australian Open final his last four opponents from charmed were torn from their much of list is. Welcome to the program our top story u. S. President donald trump has taken his America First message to the worlds elite addressing the World Economic forum in davos he declared the u. S. Open for business and warn that washington would no longer turn a blind eye to unfair trade practices he also used his speech to attack the media this after a report alleges that he was talked out of firing special prosecutor Robert Muller is investigating claims of collusion between russia and Trumps Campaign team well in a moment well get reaction to that from alan fischer whos in washington d. C. First though lets head to dallas and diplomatic editor james bays and so it was a very k. M. s from donald trump one that weve certainly heard before in terms of his trade and economic policies but it seems to be much more restrained not the time that were custom to. Yeah absolutely you know what youve heard on the issue of trade from donald trump as a candidate and in the last year of president as president and the world was watching to see what happened when the president came here to the World Economic forum a place devoted to open global trade. As the band played a President Trump stood somewhat could leave aside the man who founded the World EconomicForum Klaus Schwab his vision for almost half a century open world trade is not at all with the president s America First policy taking the role of salesman in chief trump declared no America First does not mean america alone when the United States grows so does the world american prosperity has created countless. All around the. Trump who has recently as this week has been accused of protectionism after slapping terrorists on imports of solar panels and washing machines criticized other nations for their trading practices we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others we support free trade but it needs to be fair and it needs to be reciprocal he was politely received until he lashed out as he always does the media and it was until i became a politician that i realized how nasty how mean how vicious and how fake. The press can be as the cameras are going off in the back. Of trumps cabinet colleagues seem pleased with the speech. But Nobel Prize Winning economist Professor Joseph stiglitz said trumpet got his sums wrong and doesnt realize that the Global Trading system is already stacked in the us is favor he tried to put a soft spin the fact is the rules of the game have been written by the United States largely for the United States and now for the United States to say that they are unfair to United States theyre unfair to developing countries but to say that theyre unfair of the United States is unconscionable. As he left his breathing a sigh of relief President Trump has made some of the most disruptive comments about global trade but this meeting though he was on script and restrained. Larry interesting to see alongside people like this because many of the business and political elites would have viewed his election his inauguration a year ago as some trepidation and uncertainty how was he received and. Well i think people are happy with the state of the stock market people are happy with the tax cuts but i think theres still some on these about President Trump what he says what he does the style of what he does i think theyll be pleased here in davos that this was the restraint trump that came here apart from those boos you heard when he mentioned the media they mainly listened politely to him there was afterwards some criticism that perhaps there was nothing particularly new here and there was no concrete detail one veteran. Attendee said people dont come here just to listen to mar a lago happy talk. Ok thank you very much a diplomatic editor changs with all the latest from. Well President Trump attack on the media was prompted by a report in the New York Times that he had tried last year to sack is leading the investigation into allegations of collusion between the trunk Campaign Team and russia alan fisher is following developments on this from washington d. C. And alan we know that president trying was very frustrated with the russia investigation into the election and robert was appointment as special counsel but how important is it that he went that one step further and ordered him fire ordered him to be fired last year. It was important to see that the New York Times reporting is now been confirmed by another of other organizations we know that back in june last year donald trump sent out a number of surrogates and they were talking openly in the media about whether or not Robert Miller was compromised whether or not he should be able to conduct this campaign and it looked as if they were preparing the groan for Robert Mueller to be fired now the white house said it was never discussed never came up donald trump wasnt even thinking about it and now we have this report that says in june last year he wanted Robert Mueller to be fired and he went to the white House Counsel to do that but dont mcgann said i cant do it im not going to do it thought would be very bad for the Trump Presidency and said if you go ahead with this i will resign the donald trump can fire Robert Mueller directly what hes got to do is to get the department of justice to do it in fact to get Rob Rosenstein who is the man who appointed him to do it and dont mcgann would be instructed to tell him to do that and dont again dont want any part of the and so it seems as if wiser heads prevailed and talked donald trump away from that because they believed it would create a crisis in the same way the jury in the watergate crisis nixon fired his attorney general and his assistant attorney general for refusing to fire the special prosecutor and eventually he managed to get the then solicitor general of the United States promoted him got the special prosecutor fired and we all know how that ended so there were those in the white house are saying this is not a good idea and certainly sure is that the white house when they were saying for so long this never came up it was never discussed that they werent exactly being entirely forthcoming with the facts right and now the other Big Development there in washington is trans and a gratian proposal as sort of a pot for citizenship for the the socalled dreamers the young undocumented immigrants what has been the reaction there and how feasible is the plan. Well this is a starting point donald trump said he would come up with a plan for Daca John Kelly whos his chief of staff apparently didnt go to davos because he was working on the details of this its no been unveiled department of Homeland Security secretary has in the last statement saying this is what people on the front line want to see but hes going to have a hard time selling it is going to a hard time selling it to his own base and his supporters because were hearing on conservative radio just in the last couple of earth people like mark levin saying this is a terrible idea its an awful idea and will not walk so the republicans dont like it and then weve heard from nancy pelosi who is the leader of the democrats in the house saying this is a plan to make America White again and they dont like either no there is a possibility that somewhere in the middle there are people who are looking at this saying well i could what with the idea of one point eight million dacca representatives being a load into the country given the chance to get citizenship after ten to twelve years eighty six percent of the u. S. Population like the idea of giving back a recipient some sort of citizenship so that might what but there are others who are saying look we dont want to start spending money on a wall this is no more than a starting point but theres got to be discussions and discussions in a very short space of time because you remember this time last week we were talking about will the government close down is that going to happen and it did shut down but in reopen because the democrats got a guarantee that there would be discussions about some sort of bill covering immigration before march the fifth or sixth when the next deadline was up and so weve got a very. Small period of about five to six weeks to come up with a deal that both sides will agree it will go through the house of the senate go on to the president s thats going to feel like that that he will sign it but it will be much change from what were seeing being talked about over the last few hours thank you very much allan in washington actually just one more development to tell you about a United StatesCongress Committee is to investigate sexual abuse in sports in the wake of the scandal in the National Gymnastics team on wednesday former Gymnastics Team doctor larina sentenced to one hundred seventy five years for sexually assaulting young female gymnasts the committee has already written to the u. S. Olympic committee Michigan State university usa swimming and usa taekwondo. And watching the news hour live from london much more to tell you about looking at why growing numbers of young people have turned up in the French Quarter of callaway hoping to cross the channel to the u. K. Weve got Creation Centers stand and see whats really behind the delays in sending a henge of refugees back to rock island state. And is port royal mcelroy closes in on the lead at the dubai desert classic i will have that and much more right. Now a fire in a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefight is in the Southern City of marianne did manage to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames kathy novak reports from seoul. I the fire started in the emergency ward at about seven thirty in the morning it quickly spread to other parts of said John Hospital and took firefighters more than an hour to bring under control and another two hours to extinguish. All or should we stop the fire from spreading from the first floor to the second floor during the initial phase and therefore also prevent a difference spreading to the rest of the building. Despite the rescue effort patients and medical staff were killed most were suffocated by inhaling toxic fumes about one hundred patients were being treated in the hospital when the blaze broke out about ninety other people in an adjacent nursing unit were safely evacuated president in ordered an investigation into the cause of the fire. That the president moon expresses regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out a sage Long Hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after the fire in that fire in the Southern City of jackson claimed twenty nine lives just last month at the time Prime Minister in the not beyond promised there would never be a repeat now he says hes ashamed to have to say the same thing questions are once again being asked about fire safety in south korea so John Hospital doesnt have water sprinklers because its a relatively small size the law doesnt require them kathy novak aljazeera. Up to six children have been killed during fighting in the central afghan city of gaza but there are conflicting reports as to who was behind that test city officials blame the taliban while some locals claim they died in an air strike on Security Forces. Turkeys president says the operation to push kurdish fighters out of Northern Syria will extend as far as the border with iraq Turkish Forces have been fighting for a week now to expel the kurdish why peachey militia from the african region the y p g is a key part of the Syrian Democratic forces backed by the u. S. Dozens of people have died in the fighting each side said its killed hundreds of enemy fight has begun you. Will continue to all Branch Operation which is on its seventh day today until we reach all of our targets after this will cleanse man bids from the terrorists as it has been promised to us nobody should be bothered by this because the real owner of members is not those terrorists but the arab brothers theyre after this well continue our fight until no terrorist is left out is there a stephanie attack as being inside syria she sent us this report from just east of. Where in the syrian city. This is an area that is part of sort of talking eastern fraud with their operation pretty you know you can feed life is pretty much normal here or was a lot of children in these areas were in the Turkish Press tour so to speak theyre very keen to show us their operations here what is striking is the influence and the presence also when it comes to its military now the f. S. A. The Free Syrian Army fighters they are the ones at the front line coming around this sort of as weve been speaking to some of them that is well they say theyre committed to this fight this is the fight in our footy in the fight that turkey says its targeting the white rich they grew a terrorist organization weve been hearing from our children that were going to this war with their minds that this remains a very active war. Now in vienna a nights round of u. N. Led talks to find a solution to the war in syria appears to have reached a dead end little progress has been made in this round or even earlier rounds held in geneva and the government and opposition still have not met face to face well lets get more from abdul hamid who is following developments for us in vienna tell us whats the latest on these talks. Well certainly there have been its been a very long day i would say for stephon the mistura the u. N. Envoy started with a very long meeting with the opposition about five hours during which they discussed this working document that has been put forward by five countries france britain the us saudi and jordan now this document was described to us working document two to discuss mechanism to basically kick start the over revive the peace talks because we keep on saying these are peace talks but what has been going on at least for the last two rounds theyre basically trying to find ways about how to start the substance of negotiation or even talks been very difficult even to in vienna here for the past two days you never had two delegations in this building at the same time you know after the meeting with the opposition then the regime delegation arrived here and that meeting was much shorter a little less than two hours and at the end of that meeting we heard from the Syrian Ambassador joe of Bashar Al Jaafari and he basically outright rejected that the working document and he said that actually if people are describing it as an attempt to revive the peace talks and it well it did all the opposite he actually called it a conspiracy now just listen to how he put it. Lace i mean no sweat for. And yet theres a man and a cook and its no coincidence that the vienna talks coincide with the leaking more than intentional distribution of what is called an informal paper about reviving the syrian political process in geneva this was drawn up by representatives of five countries who met in washington then recently in paris they are the us britain france saudi arabia and jordan all of them have participated in the bloodshed of the Syrian People this is in fact tantamount to a black comedy in which we live in a new blatant chapter of conspiracy against syria and i guess he didnt know i was expecting a breakthrough in these talks especially if the two sides failed to meet face to face what do we go from here is there any hope of the need seen again. Well the opposition delegation just arrived a few minutes ago back here at the u. N. Building in vienna to start another round of meeting with the file on them is through as we understand it certainly the attendance of sochi will be high on the agenda of that meeting we