Rolls out the red carpet for u. S. President donald trump but tense talks still lie ahead the two powers are at odds over trade and cracking down on north korea. I am a layla the rockets a pleasure to have you along in germany could be the first the e. U. Country to allow people to register as a third gender in the countrys top court ruled that present laws discriminate against intersex people and that official documents could either recognize a third gender or move gender entries all together now the government has also has until the end of twenty eighteen to draw up new regulations. Fine you can hardly believe it. The years of fighting for a third gender have finally been rewarded and. There are lots of places in society where theres a split between the sexes. So i have to ask myself again and again how do i define myself do i try to fit in or do i trust myself not to do so and how are people going to react and. Its an issue that directly affects van year and around one hundred sixty thousand other intersex people in germany people who were born with male and female features and whose gender cant be identified and thats where the problem starts so far its only been possible to enter a male or female on the birth register or leave it open. Finally has campaigned for a third category a third gender like into and diverse the court is open the door to that although theyve left the exact description open. As a basic personal rights also protect the Sexual Identity of those people who dont define themselves as male or female. The current law on civil status or infringes on the prohibition of discrimination. Just because its not possible to enter anything other than male or female would have viably he used the court has given lawmakers until the end of december twenty eighth seen to draft new rules. Although you who brought this case to court a constanza pled to is joining us right now the lawsuit was filed along with the Advocacy Group the third option mrs pledge what does your mean when mean for people like your client of on your who identify as nonbinary. First of all it means acceptance and not any longer being neglected by the law because as you said and. Previously it was only possible to register as mayor or female or neither one saw that means there was no positive agenda that could be righteous that and now its accepted by the has been accepted as a federal Constitutional Court that also people who. Dont fit into made off you made they have the right for a positive. Signify a and thats most important and in the ruling itself it says there is no obligation given by the constitution for binary construction of gender as it has been up to now ok now what will that change and what will change concretely for those who identify as nonbinary binary now change as a result of this the court ruling. Yes on that they have entry of their own and then all of what follows from the birth retros the line. Of thought and. There are so many occasions the sex has been given to all your sorties and now its clear that its not not in this. Take on air or something unheard of. Person has. Different from made off email and so they will be positive about that not being male or female all right so theres this positive reinforcement why is it important for to be identified and to have that option to be legally recognized as nonbinary. Because some many other legislation and orders and all kinds of legal norms require. An entry for sex and. Individuals who dont identify as mayor of he may. Just silenced. All out cost of whatever. Tom applies for they. Must be silenced and now they can. Stand up and. Say what they are without being really sure by law and administrative bodies and misplay would you say that the just your in here is taking the lead on this issue. Yeah definitely because its on and ministration. Of us hasnt turned. Taking the lead and the legislature four years ago when it introduced the possibility to leave the sex category open and the bass register was. I think. Also hesitant but maybe four years of quite a time and the discussions and the Political Agency has gone farther and but in these matters. We have it. When i go back over decades has quite often being the federal judicial federal Constitutional Court who has the also or o. T. For. The final interpretation of our front. Fundamental rights and now it has was that yes the claim for a positive. Significator in all of the thousand. Followers from some of the torsion all right cost us a flat there as a lawyer who brought fine yes case to the court thank you. All right now are to china where donald trump a has arrived for what according to his aides is the most crucial part of his a five country trip across asia chinese president xi jinping and his wife gave the u. S. President and first lady a lavish welcome starting with a private tour of the from britain city a compound in the center of beijing the two president s have a lot to talk about the u. S. Hopes china will ramp up economic pressure on north korea in an attempt to stop young mans Nuclear Ambitions more than a night at the opera President Trumps asia trip brings him to china where his key themes trade and north korea converge china is one of americas largest trading partners and north koreas major sponsor. Competing for Global Commerce but also partners in it part of trumps trip includes a signing ceremony for commercial deals between the two countries worth about nine billion dollars. Trade is tricky Business Trade imbalance is a big issue for trump he even said it got him elected one year ago and its really big with china. The u. S. A leader in services enjoys Service Trade surpluses with china and many other countries however trade in goods easily wipes out these gains in two thousand and sixteen that left the u. S. In a three hundred ten billion dollar hole with china which trump is keen to climb out of. Two of the worlds most powerful leaders havent always seen eye to eye but there may be room for Common Ground trump is a business person you know i mean. You know the president president you know status but china is a business a state. So a businessman and a business state they would understand oh lets do business together. While they have very different leadership and speaking styles trump and she appear to be forging a relationship based on mutual business interests because everybody. Thats there is so much riding on this visit and that is here with me in the studio in asia specialist with the Bertelsmann Foundation a think tank here in germany good to have you with us topping the agenda of course is north korea and its Nuclear Program lets listen to what president alltime said before he headed to beijing and then well start our conversation the regime has interpreted americas past restraint as weakness. This would be a fatal miscalculation this is a very Different Administration than the United States has had in the past today i hope i speak not only for our countries. But for all civilized nations when i say to the north do not underestimate us and do not try. This of our sister very dire warning there that we heard a president a trump issue what exactly does he want to do. From one state to take the problem off his hands that from approach to north korea seems to be to let china solve it and then take credit for it and say i told china to do it and they solved it problem is its not going to work that way because does china have that type of leverage over pyongyang. It does not of course it has some of all big nations it has the most leverage most trade with north korea goes through china they have the closest contacts but the system in north korea is not only very suspicious of the u. S. Its also very suspicious of china so they have no real reason to give in and its not like china could be pushing around north korea and they would listen to them all right so if beijing basically cant just walk into kim your Morning Office and say this is what youve got to do what can be aging off for the u. S. President they can make sure that the sanctions will be implemented more straightforwardly than in the past thats been a problem they have been the sanctions for a long time against north korea and they were not really followed up by chinese customs they are most strict about that now but then theres a lot of discussion whether sanctions are really a way to change north korea this big doubts about it so i think the north korea problem is very far from being solved all right well and next to the other hot button issue trade us china trade is beijing prepared to make any concessions. In that area where it does have leverage. It will not because it has no reason to do so the u. S. Has no real instruments to force china to change its approach china has been very successful with this approach in the past and although there has been a lot of rhetoric in the u. S. The Trump Campaign was very much about china is stealing our jobs. Nothing really has happened and as long as the u. S. Doesnt have any real policies that would be really threatening to chinas core interests china has no intention to change its course and no reason really and how is china viewing this visit i mean they rolled out the red carpet hes going to be the first foreign leader since one nine hundred forty nine to dine in the historic forbidden city they clearly you think theyre calling it the state visit plus is this just a Charm Offensive or is this all that they can really offer him in terms of concessions when it comes to bilateral relations the chinese are putting on a very good show for donald trump they know that he needs this he needs the pictures at home the chinese side needs good pictures too that is really what this trip is about they want to demonstrate harmony they want to demonstrate that they can Work Together in a way these two leaders he and trump the only leaders that they respect and vice versa they are the two most powerful men in the world they know they are they know they they need to project back home that theyre at the same time working together and theyre not being totally bored by the other. But the show for the first day has been working very well has been working very well talk to us a little bit about the people in china what do they make of us president dollar trump theyve been much entertained by him they knew donald trump long before he was president as billionaire. They dont take him very seriously as a politician and donald trump is a great gift for Chinese State propaganda because he is the example that they need to demonstrate that democracy western style is going to lead to disaster and its nothing that china should copy and what better could they wish for than an example like donald trump that is very easy to communicate to the chinese audience like bernard brushes. Specialist with the british Men Foundation here in germany thank you for you thank you thank you. Thank you. For your Business News now commissioner muscovy she says Member States can and will do much more to fight tax havens top priority is creation of a blacklist to name and shame jurisdictions that cater to wealthy firms and individuals get the e. U. Has been working for two years on similar measures with limited success consensus remains a challenge especially among members with a lower tax rate of their own. Joining me now is the man him self he used commissioner for economic and Financial Affairs pia moscow we say good evening thank you very much for coming in youve said that the e. U. Must seize the opportunity to make a credible blacklist of tax havens what counts as a tax haven. Attacks even is a country which fulfills three criteria the first country which does not respect the Global Standards of governance of the said to me what we call beds procedure from the u. E. C. Second a country would not have Automatic Exchange of information on the readings or all simply on my own personal goals and third country which as zero tax rate as far as corporate taxation is concerned about zero tax rate is a very high bog though and some would look to a u. Member at least for the moment no return as being the no now you know member state is a tax even if you look at those criteria then youve got to examine that as. The objective because it was a British Crown dependency with a zero percent youre talking about Something Different im talking about you if you talk about the u. K. Country you know well the u. K. Is not a tax even and the country on the country is very prominent. Fighting dogs for the tax evasion but there are some crown dependencies all the territories which are to see to do the crown or to the u. K. Which are screen that will take another example that drizzy which is the isle of man i have designed. For your wall so for jack the way the stacks to be out of man and i expect responses and if the responses are not satisfactory then we will have an estrangement procedure and this island is also cremated taking the easy route between good because really because. The u. K. Sounds like a fun geez sounds like an excuse in order to not be tough with mistakes like britain imo although not point five percent tax rate is i dont really love dont be upset with u. K. I learned as a country with a low tax rate but there is suffering on tax rates but its not zero its twelve point five and when its not respected which was the case with upul then we consider that it is a state aid thats what my colleague margaret this is decided so coming back to the blacklist if weve got those criteria and they are severe enough much more severe than the o. E. C. D. Quote syria. I have three messages first it must be delivered fast we must have this block list before the end of two thousand and seventeen it will be the First Time Ever that we have a european belgrade his second we need to have a credible blacklist of critical blacklist as more obviously than one territory or noncorporate jurisdictions all countries which are. Following those criteria is considered a tax even must be listed and food you cannot have a credible list if you dont have credible sanctions appropriate sanctions and thats what were working on yesterday that was the council in brussels we made Good Progress i think that with the parties paper scandal the ministers the governments few of that they need to deliver the commission is there push them to deliver the Public Opinion is there to push them to deliver the media here to what was the daily mirror that coming out of the mystic Commission President drunk or younger has been remarkably quiet over the last few days and i put it to you that the commission has zero credibility to handle this issue of tax avoidance because after all he the Commission President is accused of encouraging tax avoidance when there was a Prime Minister lesson that absolutely force this commission has done more on fighting tax fraud and tax evasion than all the commissions in the previous twenty years you know that you employ you dont think you have waited minutes its not due to the fact that this or that person ids here due to the fact that we are in a new window in the new area new period which is a period of transparency i have proposed that i am the tax commissioner and ive got full trust from could you i act in these names i have proposed eleven proposals directives among them six have been adopted which is not that easy if you consider what is the rule of unanimity inside the e. U. We have the best treating ever for a commission chose to commissioners my colleague not going to and myself who are really i think a team which is dedicated to find a text of massive tax avoidance you know you can all say that in two thousand and three he encouraged the amazon to put its tax base in knox and im talking about the president of the commission. And dr you are president of the commission and this commission we are i can say that quietly but very confidently the champions of fighting tax fraud and tax evasion we talked about this is a Commission Proposal i will mention two other proposals the one is the first one is that i think that the activity of those intermediaries legal advisers. Fiscal advisors or banks it must be made transparent to the next administration and this third one is that we have already established a country by country reporting this is one of the six directives i mentioned but between tax administrations i would like it to become public i think there is no a position between investment which we want to protect the value you want and arent yes because transparency if you want to see is the only way to tackle with those phenomena is if we can reach our goal but when you are addressing it when youre looking for how will this affect the average person in europe who is watching this right now if you do manage to get what you want and close these tax loopholes and blacklist these tax havens i think that what we are attending now with those parties papers which is a scandal but probably those practices are mostly legal but they are not moral this cannot be possible why because it exists only because it is even and certainly it is revealed if it is transparent if it is public it is not possible anymore you know all those people all those structures all those companies all those states which today named and shamed after the brothers paper if their activity would be immediately made public then they would be much much more careful thats why transparency is the massive destruction weapon against tax evasion against tax aggressive tax planning. And thats why this commission is so so strong on france broke the you could commission right and you mention the threat to the potential threat of sanctions what are we talking about here are we talking about fines directly for a few who try and squirrel away their money in tax havens of a role its ok because unless theres a significant legal threat th