We have great people in the department of justice and at this point have you seen any evidence of good cause for firing of special counsel moller no i have not but yeah its a real bad once you seen whats happened at the f. B. I. If the President Trumped in order to fire the special counsel why point you to him and if they were good cause i would consider it if they were not good cause it wouldnt matter to me what anybody since. But theres a lingering stand should were going to get rid of that. You know are you afraid of president trophy firing you know im not theres. Also coming up tonight a breakthrough medical procedure three paralyzed people learning to walk again. To be able to move. My legs and. To walk even in a stand it means a lot. That there is hope for not only me but other people. Or we begin the day with two questions which almost brought political washington d. C. To a standstill today will Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein quit his job or is president about to fire rosenstein paid a visit to the white house today fueling rumors of tonights rosenstein still has his job he and President Trump are scheduled to meet on thursday and rosenstein and trump theyve never been Close Friends just a few days ago a report emerged that rosenstein have allegedly suggested that he should secretly taped his conversations with the president it was also reported that rosenstein raised the idea of invoking the twenty fifth amendment of the Us Constitution to declare trump unfit for office rosenstein has denied both of those accusations its important to know that rosenstein is in charge of overseeing the investigation into the trunk campaigns connections to russia his job is also to shield the investigation from any outside influence. Our lets take the story down to the u. S. Capitol our very own meyer sweeter is on the story for us tonight good evening to you miles so there are so many unknowns about this story what do we know i mean it was reported today that rosenstein plans to quit and that trump will fire him which is true. Theres a lot of ifs still with this story and as it turned out at the end of the day neither of those things were true because he still has his job there was a lot of confusion as he was heading over to the white house particularly because it was reported that last week he had actually offered his resignation after a New York Times story broke saying of that reporting that rosenstein had offered to wear a wire around trump and has discussed perhaps invoking the twenty fifth amendment to that would start the process to remove the president from office. It is particularly interesting that rosen still has his job because he is a marked man and hes been a marked man in terms of the trumpet ministration for a while we know that trump has been discussing removing rosenstein and his boss the attorney general Jeff Sessions for over a year now and now that these allegations have come forward it is curious that he is still in office but we do have this thursday meeting to one hour do shall we say. As the president himself loves to say well see what happens yeah theres been a lot of talk today about what would happen if rosenstein were to be fired and why would fiery rosenstein be as some people are saying tantamount to political suicide the president wrong. Its sort of a damned if you does damned if he doesnt situation for President Trump on the one hand he is absolutely no fan of the russian investigators and thats been going on and we should note that resisting as you said has been really acting as a kind of a human shield between the trumping ministration and the investigation trump has been looking for any way he possibly can to shut this investigation down and rosenstein has really been quite a liberal with the with what Robert Muller the man whos leading this investigation can do so rosenstein being removed would certainly allow trump to shut down this investigation that he so hates on the other hand this would put the white house into further turmoil it would in raise the last further and this is all happening near weeks before these midterm elections that are very much suggesting the republicans stand to lose a lot in these election theres the been this predicted blue wave coming and the white house really wants to project this symbol this picture of strength right now and really rosenstein would not help with that in mind you know what happens if the reasons dean is no longer Deputy Attorney general i mean he has been privy to many conversations that involve the president over there have been about the president could he begin cooperating with special counsel robert. That is certainly a big question mark in washington right now it is curious that trump hasnt done more up until now what does it matter we should say is the way in which rosenstein is removed if in fact he is removed by the end of this week because if he is fired its a bit murky but if he actually resigns as he offered to do last week the president gets to pick the next person who takes his place he gets to pick basically the next person who oversees the moeller investigation and there are a lot of fears around washington right now that trump could pick someone who is basically a crony he could step in and shut down the entire investigation he could at the very least throw of roadblocks he could start informing the white house of what the investigation is actually looking into all of which does not look good for the investigation so a lot of ifs still a lot of confusion in washington today the facts on the ground are the russia investigation is still Going Forward rosenstein still has a job this meeting is happening on thursday yes thursday trowbridges the theyre scheduled to meet but thursday is an important day this week for another reason isnt it. Absolutely is this impending hearing for brett kavanaugh. Nomination for the Supreme Court of the United States he has been accused by now two women of Sexual Misconduct in high school and in college and the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in high school is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary committee on thursday and now it remains to be seen whether or not its going to be senators questioning her of the senators staffers questioning her but a lot hangs in the balance right now for this nomination and again this does not look good for the Trump White House to be seen backing this man who has these accusations against him now theyre trying to paint him as a Smear Campaign that its just the left getting riled up over nothing but at least one of these accusations is very credible right now and the fact that theyre doubling down on this nomination especially close to the midterms all of this does not look good and. How does the wind howls or how does the white house attempted to explain the scheduling of these two incredibly important events on the same day i mean weve got thursday weve got these hearings for kavanaugh and for Christine Ford weve also got this meeting between rosenstein and trump do you think is it just by chance. Well one thing we know is that is the day that trump is coming back from the u. N. General assembly and it may simply be that trump wants to fire rosenstein in person and its a coincidence of timing that this is when. The Kavanaugh Hearing is going to happen cavanagh is also scheduled to show is a break his silence this evening u. S. Time he has a precourt interview with the right wing Fox News Channel thats scheduled to come out so there may be some political machinations that are happening in the week leading up to thursday but either way its certainly it is certain that there is going to be a pretty monumental day for this Administration Oh yes definitely all eyes on thursday that is for sure a correspondent on your sweater on the story for us tonight in washington miles thank you. Well it is the First Time Since the british handover to china twenty one years ago that hong kong is government has taken such a step against the democratic process critics fear it sets a dangerous precedent authorities in hong kong have ordered the National Party to cease all of its operations immediately now the party thats led by twenty eight year old indian chan it calls for independence from china the. Think of a mountain hong kong said it had decided to ban the National Party because it was a threat to security announcing the move hong kong secretary for security described the group as extremist it has also will make it very clear that it will make use of old means to achieve this goal and this includes the option of using poles. It has also used terms of the revolution. The young leader of the party twenty eight year old andy chan predicted the crackdown to meeting foreign correspondents in hong kong last month due to the nature of how the chinese public and western works the National Party was instantly demonize as some sort of Extremist Group do these things go word independence. Chan denies accusations he wants to foment violence but he accuses beijing that eroding freedoms in hong kong and says the only way for the territory to get full democracy is to break away from china. He says he was inspired to set up his party after the failure of what became known as the Umbrella Protest Movement back in twenty fourteen demonstrators there also accuse china every meeting on a promise of autonomy and interfering too much in the running of palm kong. But china and its supporters such as these demonstrators in hong kong last month i determined to take a hard line beijing says it will be no tolerance for any groups advocating for separation from the mainland its ace such acts should and will be punished. Joining me here the big table is bernhard bar she is a senior asia analyst at the battles Mint Foundation here in for a live good to have you back on the show you know this is the first time weve seen a Political Party banned in hong kong i mean what does this tell us about the state of democracy or the state of hong kongs freedoms now. And shows us that these freedoms only exist within very strictly defined boundaries and these boundaries spaces are shrinking and the beijing government is making it very clear what is within this space and what is outside and apology calling for independence of hong kong that is far sighted is anything that beijing is going to allow his then far outside anything that even you know twenty one years ago would have been considered reasonable i mean are you are you know are you surprised by this party being banned or do you think ok they should have seen it coming i think twenty one years ago we would have been surprised looking at how china has developed and huge in ping this is not a surprise we had the Berlin Movement in two thousand and fourteen occupy central and ever since then the beijing government has been very wary of any protest in hong kong and theyve been very aware that young people are very frustrated about china and them how hong kong is developing you are they afraid is this beijing telling us that they are afraid to give any voice to the notion of hong kong being independent because theyre afraid that it would take hold its not only about hong kong this is about china sovereignty and this is about the South China Sea the East China Sea its about the territorial conflicts with india its ultimately about taiwan and that is starting to be a big play in beijing there. Are all these war games that theyre playing about taiwan and people think by the taiwan is something that is within xi jinping calculations of what he might be doing but in his reign so this hong kong issue this independence issue is much bigger than this tiny party in hong kong what does it tell us about the condition of the government in hong kong particularly it being able to act somewhat of a bore work against the need of the communist party in beijing and is it basically is it just caving in over time. In fan is this still is one country two systems a lot of liberties that they have in hong kong that dont exist in china but when they came up with this concept one country two systems in the eightys basically. Expectational then was that china would eventually become more democratic and hong kong would be the oratory for trying to mock risky time by that but there were there were fears even back in the eightys i remember that people were saying that once you give hong kong back to china eventually they will absorb it into what the one nation principle and they are doing that or do it now will be a seeing that now. In fan is in the eightys it was a totally different discussion of a totally different expectations where china might be moving but under huge him being the spaces are shrinking and hes very much aligning the government and thats much less political debate in china today and it is this you know you mentioned it taiwan does this indeed signal to taiwan of any of any kind. It definitely does china is starting to put more pressure on taiwan and on all other neighbors that are testing chinas. Resolve towards protecting a. Its territorial claims in the area are you surprised. When we see around the world that now people are talking about the at the china model for for global order world order as an alternative to the western order but when we talk about things like this i mean this is certainly not something that the west we would find appealing do you think that people tend to forget the reality of you know were the party thats being banned for example i think thats why its important that we discuss these issues when we talk about the china model we usually talking about chinas economic success and of moods many people in other countries look at china and say we also want to have growth figures right that way but china is a big package its not only Economic Growth theres a lot of dark areas that are involved too and when you look at china you can can cherry pick this china and not have that china its all one package and you get the whole deal you get the whole deal whether you like it or not there are bars with the Bertelsmann Foundation here in berlin as always we appreciate you coming in during your insides thank you thank you very much. Well some good news now tonight we shine a spotlight on those working to make the world a better place each year the right widely heard award authors those creating Smart Solutions to our planets greatest challenges now the award is known as the alternative nobel prize there are four winners this year and weve been looking at them across the day here on d w one of the winners jacoba so theyll go has been recognized for turning barren land into fertile forests in his native burkean a fossil. When you go said he would plant a forest in the desert his neighbors thought he was mad. But the forest grew. Now so i would go travels around his native burkean afonso to teach his technique using a traditional method called he shows farmers how to dig small pits and fill them with compost to protect the seeds the mounds attract termites whose tunnels trap rainwater. I want the Training Program to be the starting point of many fruitful exchanges in the region. So i would go has been a farmer for most of his life when a drought was forcing thousands to flee the semi area its a hell region of Central Africa in the one nine hundred seventy s. He stayed and began experimenting with traditional techniques. Since then he has created some of the most diverse forests in the region and his methods have saved hundreds of square kilometers of arid land from desert if occasion the reclaimed soil allows farmers to produce crops even in times of drought. So i would go has gained International Recognition for his work in two thousand and ten he was a featured guest at the United Nations convention to combat the certification for this stadium so i do. But the farmer spends most of his time back home in burkina faso. Fighting the forestation during times of Climate Change takes Constant Care and vigilance. And his community depends on his knowledge to bring life back to the land. For many so i would go has given them a reason to stay. And joining us tonight from amsterdam is chris rage he is a close friend of so doug a mr a just good to have you on the show i understand that you have known. For more than thirty five years can you tell us what this award means to him well this award is very important to him it is perceived as an International Recognition of the book that he has done and he has managed to create it lends to production by experimenting since the early one nine hundred eighty s. So what he has done is just remarkable in those days in the early one nine hundred eighty s. Nobody really knew how. It went to put it productivity. And at reasonable cost so and he was the one who developed the technical breakthrough. Has improved conditions that we were talking about turning barren land in the forest and helping farmers regenerate the soil so they can use it i mean how did how did they come up with this idea. Well he started to experiment he had a lot of the great atlanta and and. See that that he was living was considered to be one of the most be created and i guess off the whole country so he began experimenting me mate to and deeper and ended up going to mecca and by doing so he concentrated water and soil fertility and same spots which allowed even in drought years so that makes a big differenc