The search for any signs of the sub which disappeared more than two weeks ago with forty four crew on board. Earlier this year u. S. President donald trump made british Prime Minister theresa may his first guest at the white house he even tried to hold her hand on how hes telling her to talk to the hand tonight a lesson in trump diplomacy when he takes to twitter not even a special ally gets special treat im burnt off in berlin this is the day. The. Fact that we Work Together does not mean that were afraid to say when we think United States have got it wrong what she said was pretty strong for her i dont think its Strong Enough and im very clear that We Tweeting From Britain First was
the wrong thing to do the mess that were in is down to the down to Treason Making Tea keen to go to to make friends or to Close Friends with donald trump look at the way in which shes trying to build a little and humiliate and now she needs to learn the lesson from this which is you cannot be friends with this man and. Also coming up take two for Uncle Americal the german chancellor tries again to form a new Coalition Government with some very familiar players medical and her magic or a chancellor whos run out of office thats coming up later in the show. We begin the day with a lesson in how to treat your closest friends when youre u. S. President dollar trump tweet whatever you like and tell your friends to mind their business and do that with a tweet too on wednesday the u. S. President reads we did three Islamophobia Videos posted by the far right u. K. Extremist Group Britain first now one claims to show muslims pushing a boy off
kingdom we are doing just fine. Well if you Hadnt Heard Of Britain first before this week. The alone the tiny Extremist Group has received enormous publicity thanks to dollar drums re tweets hes got almost Forty Four Million followers dirt read i mean when you read tweets of course you know where it has an impact lets talk though about britain first what exactly are we talking about their own britain first is the far right Ultra Nationalist Party which as you might imagine campaigns against immigration and full of the Eradication Of Islam from British Society if we take a look at what they post on social media that gives us more of an idea of what this stand for some videos theyve posted muslims burn Christmas Tree in belgium muslim migrant said girls hair on fire all of these posts accused muslim of violence and of being criminals but a lot of this has been debunked as being misleading or even fake now its important
to point out here that britain is a marginal group they claim to have a few thousand members they do quite well on Social Media On Facebook in particular theyve got around two million fellows which is huge but if were talking about success at the ballot box how well they do in elections they are marginal now if you look back at trumps rate tweets three of those videos that he tweeted were originally tweeted by this woman her name is jay de france and she is the Deputy Leader of britain lost to france and was convicted of abusing a muslim woman and she is facing fear the charges of racially aggravated harassment now as you can imagine trumps free tweeting has given her an enormous during where she went from Fifty Thousand twitter followers yesterday Eighty Thousand today we dont know why trump is retreating because he doesnt actually follow her he Doesnt Follow Britain first but what he has done is given this potty
a big boost and so everyones talking about them including us we still dont know either if he knew difference and more. Tweeted her tweets if youre sitting thats for sure as always thank you very much. I want to go to washington now and bring in our correspondent there Michelle Michelle good evening to you are we going to see michelle thats the question there yes all right good evening to you michelle first of all lets listen to how the white house is trying to explain this reid tweeting route. Whether its its a real video the threat is real and that is what the president is talking about thats what the president is focused on is dealing with those real threats and those are real no matter how you look at it so it Doesnt Matter even take. A look im not talking about the nature of the video youre focusing on the wrong thing the threat is real and that was the White House Press secretary basically saying that it Doesnt Matter if the videos are real what matters is the the message there
i mean is that how you understood that. Basically were hearing it Doesnt Matter if the videos are fake what matters is that the threat is real. That is exactly what i understood from listening to the video and what she said basically is that you know this regard whether the tweets are accurate or not the key point is that the message donald trump was wanting to send and that is that islam and terrorism is a threat and that whether the tweets are accurate or not is not really that important and this is really not not surprising that the white house uses this tactic given that that they usually you know. Say stories that they dont like that they call them a fake newest and that they have also given us the alternative facts so its not surprising that the white house would use this strategy basically to to deflect
from from these tweets and we had a new reaction in the United States from muslim groups to the reach we see. Well in one word theyre shocked the council on American Islamic relations deplored tweets basically saying that donald trump was sending a message to his followers that they should hate islam and muslims and a candidate for for congress from new york a Muslim American basically called on. To resign and to leave to leave the white house. Is getting pushback of course for four for his tweets yeah and there are british m. P. s now calling for trumps invitation to visit the country next year to be cancelled an invite donald trump weve been hearing a lot of that today if he is there damage tonight to this Special Relationship between the u. K. And the u. S. Well this is obviously not good for the socalled Special Relationship between the u. K. And the u. S. Especially since may and trump had a fairly decent relationship at least compared to the trumps ties with a lot of other european leaders that are really rocky so this is of course is not good for the for the relations between the u. K. And the u. S. Having said that. Those ties are historic and have been tested before and so im pretty sure that they will survive the latest tweet storm by the president and what about on capitol hill i mean will this raise even more questions about trumps you know say being fit for the job and his competency to be the u. S. President. Well quite frankly i dont think so i mean a lot of people by now in congress and beyond know. What they have been president and that he is you know given to these kind of actions so those people who feel he
is unfit for the office and there are many many on congress in congress and beyond that only confirms their view but as long as as republicans continue to stick with the president this will not have any real consequences all right our correspondent you see how can you go on the story for us tonight in washington which i thank you very much. A new government before christmas that was the goal after National Elections here in germany last september and today the first Christmas Trees arrived at the office of german chancellor Angela Merkel but she has no new government to put under that tree well that could be about to change tonight the leaders of germanys two main parties are meeting to discuss possibly joining forces yet again in a new government now theyve done this before in fact the past four years but another go with whats known as a Grand Coalition will be not as easy as putting
a present under the Christmas Tree. The two get along well and respect each other. And a Foreign Minister. If it were just up to the c. D. U. Chief and the former leader of the Social Democrats negotiations for the Grand Coalition would be rather straightforward but many s. P. D. Members are still reeling from the poor Election Results they now want the conservatives to pay a high price for a new edition of a Grand Coalition one of the core demands is that the states spend more money on social welfare programs. In a bid to combat old age poverty the s. P. D. Wants to increase State Pensions with more tax funds and they want to limit temporary were contracts something the conservatives have fought against theres also disagreement when it comes to Refugee Policy the s. P. D. Wants to allow close relatives of Wall Refugees in germany to join them but so far the cd you see as you has blocked this plan the Social Democrats in turn reject the
c. S. Use demand for an opera limit on the number of refugees allowed into germany the s. P. D. And the conservatives have few differences when it comes to foreign and e. U. Policy. Would like to remain Foreign Minister and even conservatives agree that they sometimes abrasive has been an effective Foreign Minister. The only difference is that the s. P. D. Sympathizes with the french president s idea on e. U. Reforms such as a common European Finance policy the conservatives reject many of my calls plans but say theyre still willing to talk the new addition off the Grand Coalition is not a sure fire success but analysts say negotiations should not take as long as those for the previous Jamaica Coalition years of working together have led to a certain family have pretty. Everyone and now van are upon thoughts he is
a professor of Political Science in dresden hes a leading researcher in the country when it comes to populism and populist trends in politics here its good to have you on the day lets talk about the far right party they had a sharp strong showing in the National Election theyre now the Third Largest force in parliament are these talks tonight to possibly form a new government are they really aimed at ensuring that the far right doesnt become even more powerful well as a Mentor Effect a Grand Coalition with leave open free space for the a if its the right wing of the political spectrum and see if laura a Great Coalition will be quite beneficial for the a. F. P. So if theres oh should democrats want to fight against the if the they should not enter a Grand Coalition but our top politicians are so concerned with a stable government that they are willing to pay the price for this Grand Coalitionand form off giving kind of a Life Insurance through to a fifty i mean mr broad so thats quite a strong indictment that youre making there about what were seeing here so youre saying that the politicians would rather let the far right become stronger than to go maybe another month another two months without a new government. Indeed indeed see there are two different it in the protection why the a if d. Has risen to the Strongest Party in the parliament the one is the theory of a chain of of a Representation Gap which i have been referring to that days the Great Coalition left open space at the right side of the political spectrum the competing theory is theres a Christian Democrats have taken to far right positions during the last four years which gave laws have been a teacher of the positions of the a if the c. If were only if the Christian Democratic Union and hold of course in the center of the party the spectrum this would fights down they have unfortunately most of the gemma Political Class of the second into protection which i think to be absolutely wrong and so in your opinion then what would be the best outcome from these talks were seeing tonight should they collapse and force a force search for another coalition or Snap Elections and what do you think should happen well see in politics its quite often the case that you have not really a good choice and you have to take the least worst choice you might have so the best would have been that the John Mica Coalition could have been formed because. I apologize for that were having some technical problems there that was very possibly a professor in Political Science in dresden talking with us about those possible
collision thoughts taking place tonight here in berlin he is of the opinion that another Grand Coalition in germany will strengthen the far right in the country. Still to come on the day shocking reports of modern day slavery thriving in Libya Today African And European leaders announced an Emergency Plan to evacuate thousands of stranded migrants in libya before they go to the highest bidder thats coming up later on the day. In sweden a group of winners of the socalled Alternative Nobel Prize have read out a letter of protest to the eyes are by john government now they are calling for the journalist dijon is my you know to be allowed to leave the country she and three others will be awarded the right livelihood award which is also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize in stockholm tomorrow the award is for courage an excellent
its in fields not recognized by the nobel committee. Is my alone and will not be there due to a travel ban a travel ban that she says was imposed on her after she criticized the government in eyes or by john one of this years four winners of the right livelihood award of that Alternative Nobel Prize is collin gunn solve and he is a Human Rights Lawyer from india he was among the protesters in stockholm who delivered that letter protesting the government in azerbaijan. My running away from their embassy so fast they said. Well the week on see you we said were coming in any case at about three oclock in the afternoon and we know that your embassy stays open till six in the evening to which they said well be a closing much before that and when be open and then be closes of business
than our business alone so we read nevertheless we went and tried to give them. A kind of a protest. So either they were there they didnt open the door or they had to bend in your office to avoid meeting us but it was a simple that pretty they didnt have reacted the way they did it was a simple democratic activists had to global or a Protest Letter and asking them to please allow to come for the ceremony tomorrow which they could have done and that was call them gonzales as they are he will be one of those receiving the right likelihood of words theres awards take place tomorrow in Stockholm Ga Bell is a Media Partner and will be giving you complete coverage of the awards right here on. Whats a night a plan to rescue the slaves that is once european and African Leaders gathered in ivory coast today agreed upon they are calling this an Emergency Measure to
evacuating nearly Four Thousand african migrants stranded in libya it comes after shocking reports of migrants being sold into slavery in the country the African Union says there could actually be as many as Seven Hundred Thousand migrants trapped in libya some waiting for the