Round of tariffs on chinese goods takes effect today beijing calls the move trade bullyism the tariff wars getting ever more better but so far neither side looks willing to compromise. Plus hong kong authorizes authorities formally banned a Political Organization the Hong Kong National party led by any chance promotes independence from china the government says it is a threat to National Security how far away is hong kong from direct rule by beijing. And we visit the beethoven fast and bog one of the highlights of peace commissioned by d. W. And performed by german and indian musicians. Im brian thomas a very. Warm welcome to the show we start here in berlin where chancellor all america has apologized for being out of touch with voters now that after leading members of her coalition became embroiled in a dispute over how to handle her controversy or Domestic Intelligence chief the decision to move into a higher paid position in the interior ministry met with a huge backlash the coalition has since walked back his pay raise and now america was trying to repair the damage just a month ago the punters lined up outside the Chancellors Office for open day the chancellor they experienced was down to earth and approachable but this sense of connection sometimes gets lost something on the american seems to have noticed over the past week. Its all the more important of course that we now start solving peoples problems we have resolved some of them but in some areas during the past months we were too concerned with ourselves that has to change in that there is no shortage of issues preoccupying ordinary german vote in this old age care for example pensions crime and Climate Change and most recently Affordable Housing but in recent months refugee and migration issues have dominated the agenda culminating in a debate about high ranking Civil Servants at the interior ministry not necessarily the average citizens main worry and. I was too focused on the workings of the interior ministry and gave too little consideration to what people think safety of its of anything and thats the toughest dimension so they should be. America Coalition Partner the s. P. D. Concur. We need a new way of working in the coalition and we have to get out of the hysterical frame of mind that we have seen in the last few days. Now the German Government has pledged to turn a venue and to get to work in a way that the electorate can appreciate. Well will it our d. W. Chief Political Correspondent trains with us now and our crisis may have been avoided but voices inside the social democrats and the conservative say this government is hanging by a thread. Thats absolutely right the government is riven by divisions and not only between the two big parties the social democrats and the christian democrats who govern in this grand coalition but also by divisions with in the conservative bloc that is to say within between chancellor merkels christian democrats and the Bavarian Sister Party the c. S. U. Those divisions broke out in june and nearly brought the government down and they broke out again now over the last two and a half weeks just a reminder about how they played out in this particular case the head of the Domestic Intelligence service gave an interview to germanys largest tabloid newspaper in which he appeared to be playing down right wing violence that had taken place in eastern german city of camden at the end of august now supposedly he had okayed this interview in advance with his boss the interior minister who happens to be a leading figure in that varying conservative party his boss then essentially under pressure said ok he was willing to see this man move to a different position but in fact he wound up promoting him for higher pay and that led to this current scandal so the man in question has now been demoted once again but the government absolutely remains divided and if you look at polls the two parties that are joined here in this coalition would only get forty three percent of the vote if elections were to be held today thats one of the reasons they dont want the fight to come to the ultimate coming to namely new elections because they are worried they could no longer form a government and theyre particularly worried about the rise of the right wing if tea party so that explains why they remain together but its a very uneasy comradeship ok no no lets go back to the case youre this case calls public outrage. That outrage underscored the real gap between the governing politicians including the chancellor and the broad public have the politicians here in berlin addressed that gap with this decision briefly if you could place no i think this is very much a cosmetic decision you know we saw the government essentially completely preoccupied with itself for the past ten days devoting a kind of a crisis meeting to this subject alone seventy particular cent of germans are saying this is absolutely decreased their confidence in the governments ability to solve the tough issues that they need to be working on. Did have you chief Political Correspondent linda crane thanks very much. Now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour the british Prime Minister theresa may is chairing a Cabinet Meeting today amid growing pressure to ditch her bracks of plan shes defended the blueprint despite your leaders rejecting key proposals it has at a summons allsburg last week mays conservatives are holding their annual Party Conference later this week with arrivals pushing for a hard. Old francis is in latvia on the third day of his baltics tour the Roman Catholic leader celebrating mass at a shrine in the town of glow which is popular with pogroms because of an icon there believed to have healing powers the pope also praised the cooperation between latvias mix of catholic distant and orthodox communities. Well now we want to put the spotlight on those working to make the world a better place each year the right livelihood award honors people and organizations offering Smart Solutions for the environment and for development a swedish philanthropist created the ward because these areas are not authored by the more famous nobel prize and the award is therefore known as the alternative nobel prize there are four winners this year will be looking at them throughout the day here on the w. One of the awards goes to three of the most prominent defenders of human rights in saudi arabia all three of them are in prison for challenging the countrys all true conservative and totalitarian rulers of amede Mohammad Khatami and will lead to a career are serving ten to fifteen year sentences their crimes advocating the separation of government powers advocating a transition to a Constitutional Monarchy and calling for a quality for all and that includes the abolishment of the system of male guardianship that deprives women of the most basic human rights joining me now from new york is my tawny shes the wife of Mohammad Khatami one of the three laureates thanks so much for being with us today what is a surprise mean for the public visibility of your husband and of the two other men in prison as well and really do you think more people will now get to know about the. Yes thank you thank you for your all to public to make this a life. Case like that. What are your hopes for for the future of saudi arabia this award has focused a lot of attention on your country what direction do you hope will be moving. Help in moving forward justice for i think body and the country activities and all women and men die. All. People inside iraq. Ok ma i did i understand its a very emotional time for you with your husband stone prison i understand and thank you again for your time do you think this could help the situation for women and particularly for the end of the male guardian ship system in your country. Oh i hope so i hope so i hope its going to change because its. With their arrest for a woman activists its kind of hard to predict the future but. With with the this that we received today and the news its its kind of for we we get in some hope so we. Oh ok do you think that International Pressure like this can move saudi arabia toward some of the reforms that your husband has so bravely been fighting for i hope so. A little effect ok tani wife of a mom of a hard all caetano in prison in saudi arabia one of three alternate nobel prize laureates thanks so much and and we understand that there must be some mixed feelings for you today especially for your husband thanks very much maha for being with us thank you so much thanks and if youd like to learn more about the other winners along with maz husband of course you go to the right livelihoods award section our website interview dot com now though lets go over to ban a lot of Business Today trade tensions hitting the Financial Markets if and only definitely traders are increasingly bracing for a pro trade war brian a lot of the key asian and european indices falling this monday washingtons latest tariffs have kicked in for two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products beijing retaliating targeting sixty billion dollars worth of u. S. Goods with extra duties. Workers in a chinese factory making flags on banners for Donald TrumpsReelection Campaign in twenty twenty if you want an idea of the irony and complexity of the trade dispute between the worlds two biggest economies here it is in a nutshell. The dispute has escalated dramatically since this meeting between the american president and his chinese counterpart teaching ping almost a year ago. So whats happened since then and what it meant for both economies lets take a look at last year the u. S. Imported five hundred five billion dollars worth of goods from china back in june trump impose tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of them as of today further g. s have come into effect on another two hundred billion dollars worth of goods on the other side to china its imports from the u. S. In twenty seventeen totaled One Hundred Twenty Nine billion dollars in the summer china responded to u. S. Tires by imposing duties on some fifty billion dollars worth of u. S. Goods and now its retaliation again by adding two shes to a further sixty billion dollars of u. S. Products. Meanwhile the war of words continues to. Heres what u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o had to say about the trade war when he appeared on fox news on sunday. We know this much the trade war. Against the United States has been going on for years. Heres whats different in this administration to the extent to call this a trade war we are determined to win it china for its parts accuses the United States of bullying with no sign of a less up in the tit for tat spot economists say the real losers in this trade battle could ultimately be consumers in both countries. Lets bring in our correspondent linda. Linda what are people saying where you are is china going to come out on top. Well china being a one Party Government since one thousand nine hundred forty nine it means that this has means to waste this trade war for longer and apart from terrorists its actually launched the typical terrorist is also Oil Companies like alibaba has also backtracked its promise of treating a million jobs in the u. S. That this promise was made in twenty seventy and now its a they no longer does its going to do it because of the trade war thats ongoing and next week look at the population of over a billion and its also one of the ways that you know the government could actually boost domestic consumption growth so these are some of the advantages that china my have when going into this trade war Going Forward for the long term and were trying to could be. Sustainable but at the same time reports keep rolling in of Companies Shifting production from china to other countries in the region surely thats going to hurt beijing at some stage thought one off the lawn bright star that were seeing is the faster they expected imports growth and the signal that the message the mind might be holding up for now about to take note that the headwinds china has a population one billion over a billion yes but its population is also aging and due to the one child policy that it has come up with that has ended in twenty sixteen some people might think that it might not be right for them to have children anymore so these are some of the headwinds that china might be facing an aging population Going Forward so what is the next move in this trade for. Well there are many ways for china to grow you know it has just before the trade what it has already looked at a robotics going its robotics sectors and its also making solar panels and Sustainable Energy and in fact a rising wages china not too attractive for manufacturing trade war or not and theyre also tweet deals i mean there are also things like the multilateral deals like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that looks set to conclude by the end of the year and this this trade deal is actually one of the pieces the Transpacific Partnership that President Donald Trump as a cheap backed out of when he became president of the u. S. And china is looking to be part of this deal that comprises sixteen countries and its very big i mean its when its concluded that it has three point four billion people with a g. D. P. Of about forty nine trillion dollars and thats a key thirty nine percent of the worlds g. D. P. And its actually and china was. Likely to be able to take advantage of the and were also looking at one belt thats going to be Financial Products coming up china needs to come up with loans and this is one of the ways that china could perhaps not rely on this trade with the u. S. Going forward in growing its economy that it sounds like the trade war could actually spark quite some progress for the chinese home for us in singapore. To come including the slow death of diesel for specter bryan and a controversial visit. Thats right ben turkeys president want to visit germany later this week relations between the two countries have been strained following turkeys failed two two years ago and the subsequent government crackdown there yet there is also a strong connection between germany and turkey several waves of migration over decades have resulted in germany being home to the largest turkish population outside the home country today there are nearly three Million People with turkish roots in germany half of them one point five million have a turkish passport among those who voted in turkeys president ial elections in june loyalty to president aired on was very strong aired a one got sixty five percent of the german turkish vote thats about two thirds and its significantly higher than everyones overall result of this three percent well for turks living here in germany integration is a big issue and many turks in germany for them sports especially football can be an important path towards that but even though turkish teammates often play an Important Role in their teams success some players say theyre often viewed as outsiders w. Visited one Football Team where more than half of the players have a migration background theres more than the berlin a k under nineteen squad couldnt have asked for a better start to the season today theyre looking to extend a four game winning run more than half of the players have roots in turkey and such theyre often referred to as the turkish club which angers some of the team. Give us was the only thing that distinguishes me from a complete german with german roots is that i also have turkey shrift my parents are turkish but i think that should not matter that i was born here and im as much german as anyone. On the. German turks or germans but the turkish culture we live in this culture and thats completely ok. Germany is generally a country with many cultures and also has a different culture than someone from hamburg. My needs was this Bustling Community club is proud of its diversity this is the club are keen to point out that the head of the use department doreen and goalkeeping coach anna are germans without migration backgrounds but they say their club lives and breathes multiculturalism of that oh. The m five hundred six and we have twenty six youth teams where twenty to thirty different nations play together integration has never been an issue for us the boys play football here no matter where you come from. Poland croatia nigeria wherever it i will hear but its not all kicking a ball in the room next door youngsters who can sometimes train four or five times a week who are sitting through a lesson provided by the club its a Firm Believer that the kids also need good School Grades to get on in society but its their diversity that brings adversity Club PresidentMehmet Ali Han says racist hate messages and threatening phone calls are on the rise. For his club its increasingly difficult to play clubs from the former east. He was particularly afraid of the game in kemet after recent far right demonstrations there. This is the fed were going to go they say t