A hint of possible talks and hes just arrived in china for the next stop on his inaugural asian tour also coming up catalonia separatist plant their flag in brussels there ousted president is there launching a war of words against spain can he convince the rest of europe thats a session is a good thing. And twitter doubles its character limit the move is supposed to reduce the time we spend editing down bridie tweets but a lot of users are asking isnt brevity the point. Im so me so much going to get to have you with Us Donald Trump has touched down in china the third stop of his five country tour of asia the u. S. President and the first lady arrived in beijing from south korea just over an hour ago a trade is set dominate to. Discussions as is north korea observers expect trying to push the chinese president xi jinping to increase economic pressure on pyongyang to abandon its Nuclear Ambitions now before leaving a south korea trying to leverage a stark warning to the north lets listen to. The regime has interpreted americas past restraint as weak in this. 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. Lets bring in. Berlin or he is covering a Donald Trumps visit to china for us and he joins us from our time it is good to see you so what donald trump is me that meeting the chinese president xi jinping what is g. s reaction likely to be to Donald Trumps approach to dealing with pyongyang. There has been a sign of goodwill by beijing. From yesterday on it ng has prohibited tourists Chinese Tourists visiting north korea which is an important source of income for the north korean regime. It is possible that we will see further restrictions on trade with north korea announced by the chinese president but we can be sure that we will not see anything that will hold the north korean regime unchecked imitates as youve been speaking of weve been looking at some live pictures of donald trump and the first lady as they have arrived in china what else is on the agenda for this meeting. Well there are a lot of feel good programs or names on this program they are going to visit the forbidden city together they will have a state banquet anything that would feel welcome because china is trying to charm this president hoping maybe that she will be softer on some issues as north korea as we talked about or the trade imbalance between china and the u. S. Is on the agenda as well you know we can see these are very pictures of a very grand a reception for donald trump so far this is the leader of the west arguably and the leader of the east a very big meeting lets take a look at whats at stake. They are the leaders of the worlds two biggest economies but they couldnt be more different. The shoot from the hip impulsive donald trump and the guarded protocol loving xi jinping. And things didnt start out too well between them. To allow china to rape our country and thats what theyre doing on the campaign trail trump took a hard line against china and its Economic Policy accusing it of manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages. But since becoming president he has taken a noticeably cozier stance towards americas one time. When she visited the u. S. In april trump had room words for his chinese counterpart we have developed a friendship i can see that and i think were ok were going to have a very very great deal and im looking forward to. Trump was also quick to convey his admiration after she consolidated his grip on power and the communist Party Congress last month. Spoke to president xi to congratulate him on his extraordinary elevation also discussed north korea and trade two very important subjects. And two subjects where despite the friendly rhetoric the two president s dont see eye to eye. North korea is the major issue thats testing u. S. Chinese relations and it will top the agenda of trumps visit China Remains north koreas closest ally the u. S. Has increased pressure on beijing to rein in pyongyang but china is reluctant to become directly involved in the escalating conflict. The us is chinas biggest trading partner but it imports much more from china than it sells there and trump has threatened hefty tariffs on chinese goods. Chinas plans to build in the disputed waters of the South China Sea have angered washingtons allies and nice day asia. While the u. S. Navys continued patrols and what china considers its territory have riled beijing. These contentious issues remain unresolved but one thing has already become clear trumps isolationist policies have played into president shes hands trump turned his back on the world she has cast himself as an advocate of globalization opening the doors for china to gain more influence in the world. So mathias as we saw there are donald trump paying these are two very different leaders donald trump says they have been able to found a real friendship together but how well do they really get along. Well of course we dont know how well they really get along but she being is somebody who just tells foreign audiences what they want to hear and he mostly gets away with it and that this is exactly what he has done with trump trump might be an easy person to handle in this regard he has been flattering him he has been crabbing by his vanity he has done some. Concessions business wise trumps. And this has worked very well so far i think that persons they also share a common. Value with a very very high power and they have a fables a strong man politics they might that might be also something that brings them to get. Rid of these materials pillinger in beijing thank you very much. Now to some other stories making news around the world the u. S. Democrats have won several high profile victories in state and mayoral elections wealth north of here a winning a tight race against his republican rival in virginia other wins for the democrats for the state of new jersey and the new York City Mayors Office elections were a key test of Voter Sentiment exactly a year after donald trump won the white house. The United Nations says trafficking that marks are preying on children in refugee camps in bangladesh the country has been overwhelmed by the arrival of more than six hundred thousand fleeing me and more over the last two months children make up more than half of the new arrivals in the bangladesh camps. Now catalonia has ousted leader carlos freedom all has sharply criticized the European Union for not supporting the regions bid for independence he made the comments in a speech in brussels where hes facing possible extradition back to spain to face charges whos been on had some supporters from home in the audience two hundred separatist mayors from catalonia flew in to rally behind his costs but youve got to be right about. Freedom these mayors wanted for catalonia and for the regions x. Leaders now behind bars. Use of perea toast is the mayor of a small cut along village he joined his colleagues in brussels to say they want support from europe its very difficult for us that the European Commission is doing nothing catalonia is a very pro european country we see ourselves as part of the european family alongside berlin and paris. Catalonia is ousted president carlos puts them on got a heros welcome from the mayors gathered in brussels he too condemned the response in europe to his regions push for independence to sit there what is this the europe you want is this the europe you want to build a europe with a government in jail a country without the right to choose its representatives in a democratic way. On himself could face up to thirty years in jail on charges of sedition and rebellion if belgium sends him back home to spain. Puts them on currently is in belgium on provisional release that means a number of conditions apply for instance he cant leave the country but it seems he can campaign and so europe will have to prepare for more events like this one. But European Commission chief sean claude isnt budging he says the u. Doesnt need any more splits and hes urged cut along leaders to stop violating spanish law. A group of protesters in brussels some to say message to the separatist mayors there are many who dont want to see a breakup of spain. Twitter is rolling out a new feature thats drawing plenty of cheers and jeers its doubling the number of characters allowed in most tweets from one hundred forty to two hundred eighty twitter had previously raised the character limit for just a select group of users to test out the change one gamer and a you tuber used all of the new characters to repeat this was a mistake many critics say doubling the character limit ruins their favorite thing about tweeting the brevity others think it sounds better than it really is one woman joked me with out two hundred eighty characters i have so much to say me with two hundred eighty characters false alarm and some people talked about the whole issue of character limits like this user who posted a collage of two hundred a cartoon characters but for all the skeptics the American Medical Association had this to say change is resisted because it is psychologically and physically uncomfortable your brain feels good when you hold firm to whats known and for milly or using science to rationalize why it feels so weird to tweet using two hundred eighty characters. Well lets bring in our social media editor all when at to not to give it away lets talk about this why is twitter making this change well as you already mentioned sumi this changes coming about after a limited trial also a limited amount of twitter users use the new two hundred eighty characters limit and twitter then released a statement announcing that it was expanding to two hundred eighty characters because it said under the old one hundred forty character limit people were having problems fitting all those thoughts into a single tweet so it also released statistics and saying that nine percent of twitter users were having a problem fitting their thoughts into one hundred forty character tweet but when it did this trial and allowed people more space to tweet if then that only one percent of users run into this problem so one big reason is better User Experience and it also said that during its trial these longer tweets got more engagement so that they were liked more they were shared more about also amounts to a better User Experience because people feel better about tweeting when their tweets are shared and liked more but we have to mention that this change does not apply interesting me to tweets in korean japanese and chinese ok because twitter says that twitter user is using these languages. Theyre able to fit more thought into a shorter tweet because of the nature of these languages so thats one interesting point about it for those of us who do get two hundred eighty characters how is this going to change the essence of tweeting well twitter itself says that it probably wont change very much because it referred to this trial again saying that actually most users in the trial they stuck within this the old character limit so only a small amount of tweets actually ended up being more than one hundred forty characters but. You know we have to wait and see now that this change is being rolled out to the whole platform. You know maybe its going to have a different effect and we must note that one of the most powerful twitter users in the world if not the most powerful donald trump the u. S. President hes already been making use of this new one hundred new two hundred eighty character limit so you know thinking that his tweet can one of his tweets can have an impact on Global Policy politics then maybe it is going to have impact that hasnt been for a scene yet so its a wait and see on that i think all right a big change in the twitter sphere all went to not give us from our social media desk thank you very much all when. Youre watching d. W. News still to come one hundred years after russias bolshevik revolution we meet modern day protesters in St Petersburg seeking to take down the establishment. And the Germany Football Team is and world cup moto very as a cure for this fridays glamour friendly with england at wembley stay tuned to find out about some new players and a new jersey. But first lots of changes in store for european carmakers monica and theyre starting already sumi the European Commission plans to invest eight hundred Million Euros in more electric charging points though the aim is to boost the appeal of electric cars because in europe sales are sluggish now this autumn just under two hundred Twelve Thousand cars with alternative engines were registers that is over fifty percent more than last year according to the latest figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association a c a but compared to combustion engines and the cars remain a niche product just one in sixty cars and sold in autumn two thousand and seventeen run on alternative technologies. One of the problems with the mobility is that charging your electric car is more costly than using petrol or diesel and the other problem there are simply not enough charging stations around at least not in germany there are only about eleven thousand of them nationwide most of them are in hamburg in the north seven hundred seventy four to be precise in the capital berlin there are six hundred twenty eight charging stations and that god takes third place with a four hundred two which means there is one charging point for every nine newly authorized ecards in germany clearly there needs to be better incentives and one could come from brussels today e. U. Regulators are due to announce fresh proposals for cutting c o two emissions now the new rules could impose massive. Hes on comic us who dont comply and thats left german comic as in particular on it. Theres a lot at stake and nowhere more so than in germany carmakers here were on tenterhooks as they waited to find out the new rules of the game. The European Commissions proposals on emissions rules will cover the period between twenty twenty one and twenty thirty. Report suggest c o two limits could be cut by thirty percent. But according to germanys. There will be no real penalties for failure to meet the new target a breath of relief for germanys car industry already grappling with the fallout of the diesel emission scandal taking a closer look at the countrys Auto Industry the livelihoods of some eight hundred thousand people depend on it german carmakers produce fifteen million vehicles worldwide each year that amounts to around four hundred billion euros in revenue almost a fifth of g. D. P. So its hardly a surprise that german carmakers enjoy a rather cozy ties with lawmakers in the past efforts to get tough on regulation have been met with fierce resistance heres what the head of germanys Automotive Industry association had to say back in july. The older mislead may have done the wrong kind of political intervention could threaten the car industry. So as long as politicians propose guidelines instead of interfering with technology this sector will continue to succeed in the past politicians or bureaucrats making decisions on technology has not been good for jobs or for the Economic Development of the country to be shifty go to church you can become a small. Jobs and Economic Development under threat environmentalists say such arguments have enabled car makers to get away with far too much the Auto Industry may have a sympathetic ear in germany but on a european wide level there may be a bumpy road ahead. So lets bring in dunhill cope with standing by for us in frankfurt. B. M. W. Dima old big german comic has all trading on the front for the Stock Exchange how their shares holding up today as the industry braces for tough c o two emission rules well this is certainly a big topic here also at the Stock Exchange in frankfurt monica because we just saw yesterday when b. M. W. Came out with their quarterly numbers and their effort to make their cars more green they announce that they would invest a lot of money in emo biller t. V. And because of that they were making less money and their share prices were falling yesterday by more than two percent when you look though at the share prices today we dont really see a big impact so far share price of diam la vie going to also b. M. W. Pretty much unchanged this morning all right well how full of Top Economists here in germany the socalled wise men their due to present their economic report any idea whats in it. Yeah the five wise men the five stages of economy that thats how some of them are also calling them here at the Trading Floor are coming to gether today in about two hours they will be talking with our american were already hearing that their forecast for the rest of the year is actually better than it was predicted at the beginning of the year they are predicting a growth of two percent also with a better forecast for the next year they were talking before about a growth of one point six per cent now theyre talking about a growth of two point two percent theyre asking the German Government though to make sure that people here pay less taxes this is going to be very interesting because tomorrow were going to get a report on how much the German Government can actually expect how much taxes they will get this is also a big topic of course right now in possible Coalition Talks for Jamaica Coalition of the new German Government all right daniel cope in frankfurt thank you so much for this. When russia celebrates a big anniversary in one thousand nine hundred seventeen the. October revolution began thats right monica and we are taking a special look at the events that happened one hundred years ago when communist seize power and russian pave the way for the birth of the soviet union and today were focusing on the city of St Petersburg russia former capital where the movement began. To went to see how that revolutionary spirit is playing out today. That was pertinent. And october twenty seventeen this is the sound of anger heritance and petersburg russia second largest city has become a hotbed of protest as was the case one hundred years ago when lenin and his comrades orchestrated a revolution and change the world. But what do todays protests mean are they a real fight or more of a romantic idea how revolutionary are young russian intellectuals. Many of the young people here in st peters before because more down day revolutionaries is very present to defeat the recall thats the generation taking to the streets to demand political change and they even risk going to prison for their ideals. Like eighteen year old dimitri me action he supports opposition politician alexina valmy. Urges this when i feel like a revolutionary my goal is a change of power in russia. Action was arrested at an antigovernment demonstration several weeks ago he stands accused of entering a policeman as he was trying to get away hes been put on trial for allegedly attacking a Government Official and faces jail time. You know. I dont want to see violence of victims like in my down in ukraine i hope that we can change our system through democratic means but if the government doesnt listen to us then we may see radical protests in a country of socialist workers and farmers and the soviet union lasted more than seventy years yet even today many memories of the uprising still stand in St Petersburg so do tributes to the soviet state such as street names. Soviet sky can be found around the city a total of ten times. The victims of the revolution are commemorated here at mass over paula. The shot that kicked off the revolution was fired from the washington aurora today its a sparsely visited museum. For dimitri me action the soviet union is a closed chapter and its heroes are inch in history. Not impressed by the communist revolution the only parallel i can see today is the concept of a peoples revolution of course im a bit scared but im trying not to think about it we must be courageous that is the only way to achieve our goals. Sure that. Young people like to meet jimmy action view whats happened in St Petersburg in one nine hundred seventeen as a coup a coup that led to repression and not emancipation of the people theyre trying to fight the same tendency in contemporary russia. Me action says the history of his hometown is a source of inspiration he even dreams of a true democracy in russia. When i look down on my city from up here it is clear that we have many talented people who are capable of building a beautiful citys people who want to improve their lives. One hundred years ago young people expressed the same hope hope that remains more relevant than ever today. To football now and world champs germany are facing england in a friendly fixture on friday the match will provide coach rock in love with a vital opportunity to test his squad for junes world cup and russia hes been able to select some returning stars as he strives to strike the right balance in his team. Joachim loew has a clear vision for germanys world cup squad he wants these players to exhibit social skills teamwork and a strong mentality. Lovesick left back muscle howsomever has been called up for the first time while mario kurtz is finally back along with a one off to both missed international for a year due to illness and injury. Isnt. He this is a game to prepare ourselves for the world cup weve seen that we have an incredibly wide range of play is and of course every game against an opponent like england is important to division here germanys new kits was also on veiled this wake with spice on the chest for a fifth stuff for a possible fifth world cup top kill you. Are now our top stories at this hour u. S. President donald trump has arrived in china for the next stop on his asian tour trade and north korea are expected to top the agenda trump had issued a stark warning to pyongyang earlier as he visited south korea saying do not try this. And it twitter has announced it will double the amount of characters allowed in most tweets to two hundred eighty that change aims to reduce time users spend editing their messages. Thanks for watching you were back in about thirty minutes. United in the fight against global warming. Made in germany look at the u. N. Climate change conference in bonn. High tech geo engineering influences the climate government szymon activity is heating up the atmosphere of human activity can also counteract that getting into a sound idea or a Risky Business made in germany next on d w. The monday an as nigro the amazon. Now land is trying to end from gigantic dam projects like the belmonte. 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