We have a crisis House Speaker nancy pelosi sitting over the president in almost every shot of the speech the president cannot be more clear that he has the absolute right to declare a National Emergency on the southern border and the congress has failed to do it but this is the first time the president will be addressing a divided chamber calling for cooperation. And also compromise and its going to point out a couple of examples where this is actually happening listen closely. As you say its a very its a very active and the results speak for themselves i think youll find it very. Also coming up tonight the pic was banished from chinese social media last year after becoming a symbol of teenage rebellion no really but now shes hitting the countrys big screens with a new movie to mark the year of the pig. Likes and we begin the day in the United States where President Trump will soon deliver his second states of the Union Address to congress is expected to challenge democrats to approve funding for the war he wants to build on the border with mexico aides say hell also call for unity and optimism but critics fear it will be difficult to overcome. Division after the last two years of a personal attacks the w. s Washington Bureau chief alex hunter phenomena has this preview. This state of the Union Address a grand stage for the u. S. President to speak directly to a National Audience about what he has accomplished and what still needs to be done but what is the state of the union after two years of trumps president see my state of the union i think and pretty good shape and look forward to hearing what the president has to say. Going to save the union in the conmen everything and hopefully to. Focus a little bit more and bipartisanship working together i think its. Put the top. In the white house and we have an incompetent. Possibly in saying no person if they have been through executive order the same old stuff. You know money for the border. You know. Other stuff he wants can afford choosing greatness thats the official white health theme for donald trump address to congress you as president plans to strike a conciliatory tone and deliver a cold for unity and he speech but in many ways it might be too late the country and congress are divided along party lines and the democrats are determined to make sure that trump remains a one term president rebuilding the countrys infrastructure lowering the cost of prescription drugs these are issues both parties could agree on but instead they fight over trumps planned border wall the topic is expected to be front and center of trumps address to congress but no indication of either side giving an inch we will be looking at a National Emergency because i dont think anythings going to happen at. The democrats dont want Border Security and when i hear them talking about the fact that walls are immoral it was the work they know they were plump that suggested there will be a major announcement and he speech but then again he might be just trying to raise expectations i have of the address hes difficult to predict says elaine k. Mark out there and former aides to president bill clinton we dont know if hell stick to the script and also remember that behind him sit the Vice President who is by the constitution the president of the senate and the speaker of the house nancy pelosi so i dont know what kinds of expressions nancy pelosi might make as hes making this speech but that will be interesting to House Speaker nancy pelosi will be visible in nearly every camera shot her presence is evidence of did new found power of the Democratic Party and remind of crime struggles to adapt to a divided government in washington. So lets take a look ahead ben with times in the Program Director and fellow Aspen Institute in germany welcome to you for all of us not americans explain to us what is the point of the state of the Union Speeches president s presumably will always ask for unity and cooperation is anything substantive come out of well you know the americans have a great deal of respect for the constitution and a great deal of respect traditionally for institutions of the constitution is kind of the pinnacle of our respect for those those institutions and it is written into the constitution that the commander in chief the president has to deliver state of the union its an article two this is a deep tradition and because of that it commands a certain amount of majesty its also the opportunity for the president to set an agenda you know when you look at that room and that chamber of the house its not just the house and senate its not Just Congress its every cabinet member its every member of the Supreme Court this is really coming together of all. Institutions of the u. S. Federal government and to that extent its a real opportunity for the president to bring people together will this president take that opportunity is a big question so the state of the union at the moment seems it does look in pretty good shape booming economy g. D. P. In the two to three percent growth sweet spot unemployment down it all looks like its going jolly well well its a trend line thats been continuing for about five years you know unemployment is below four percent Growth Continues to increase the stock market has risen that said life expected but expectancy among certain classes of people is down the quality of jobs is down wages remain stagnant so there are a lot of questions and you see that frustration because a lot of those fundamental statistics that you cited were the same in two thousand and sixteen but despite that it led to a massive backlash against the establishment against the system that led to Donald Trumps election so there are a lot of questions about the state of the union right now. We heard in the report that sitting behind the president will be the Vice President and. The House Speaker nancy pelosi right nancy pelosi clearly has had a good couple of weeks standing up there isnt this yeah i mean she has really come out of this the winner i think even the president himself would acknowledge that you know she got everything that she wanted which was essentially the government open she did not want to give even a kind of symbolic victory to the president for guarding his border while she said its immoral and this is a red line that shes not willing to cross his goal right now is to try to get back where he least has the optical advantage of the optical perception particularly among his base that hes winning and theres only what two ways to do this either to force another Government Shutdown which theres no appetite to do in congress or to declare a National Emergency which would eventually get wrapped up in court the courts and lead to a big court battle that would probably be drawn out for years the you you talked about a film to do with the this talk of a when finance it palosi but i wonder how how. This busting of heads this is seen by known politicians well i mean you know when people outside who are not paying attention to the day to day of washington look at this they say washington is broken but the truth is as washingtons broken traditionally in the past eight years since youre bottom of industry has tended to favor republicans but in this case and democrats got a lot of blame for the the last shutdown the one that happened in twenty seventeen or the democrats were trying to force some kind of solution on doc on the children of undocumented workers but in this case the clear majority of the American Public including those who dont low information voters who dont Pay Attention was that this is really trump shutdown and part of the reason is because he said it himself he said if theres a shutdown its my im responsible for it and id be proud to shut down the government for this wall and it happened and the American People blamed for it lets look at the likely agenda issues and lets lets start there with the domestic agenda what do we expect well there are a couple of areas where the president is going to try to unify the congress and the public hes going to try to talk about drug prices the number one issue in the twenty thousand election was health care thats what people were voting on they voted overwhelmingly for the democrats when they were voting on health care so hes going to try to to win some of that support for his agenda hes going to talk about infrastructure there are questions about his infrastructure proposals because it does rely on a lot of tax breaks and you know there are questions about whether democrats are willing to support tax breaks but there are other areas that are going be more divisive obviously immigration is going to be quite divisive to the extent that he brings it in the speech it has been since the beginning of the year and the issue of abortion you know he has a big chunk of his base voters are these evangelists evangelicals thats really the the foundation of his support and hes going to want to say to them look ive delivered two Supreme Court justices ive delivered a number of coin Court Appointments that are going to be Lifetime Appointments and theyre going to be probed. Life thats why you should support it so theres a couple of different areas in domestic policy and on Foreign Policy the. Amount to go where do you think he will claim wins to get where weve been talking for the last month claim of having defeated dices. Right i mean this is thats a very tough one because obviously his secretary of state left because of his very abrupt decision to withdraw from syria since then there have been some clawbacks on that you know hes going to try to strike a very tough macho stance visa v. Duro in venezuela hes going to put a point to International Support being rallied to the position of the United States of recognizing the interim government which hes actually correct on there might be some outlines of policy there you know hes going to point to a tough stance on iran and the drying up of investment in iran due to secondary sanctions obviously thats an area where the europeans have a lot of problems hes going to point to the decision to withdraw from the i. M. F. Last week that he says you know if people are not sticking to their word in treaties were going to act and thats what his administration would say they did in the case of the Nuclear Agreement with russia those are going to be a couple of areas that hes going to point to hes also going to say you know look im always open to make a deal and hes going to point to the decision to have a new summit with the leader of north korea in the coming weeks so probably set up a little bit of that agenda and maybe talk a little bit about russia as well and just it just finally the us has had the big of the so many big ones but china we were with weve seen the a lot of the recent diplomatic to ing and fro ing of the rest of the way chief financial officer. Should we see that as being linked to the president s power in the china trade policy i think that this is a been a big reversal of u. S. Policy trade policy and Foreign Policy because you know this president has been much more aggressive about really putting punitive trade barriers on. To try to rebalance the trade relationship with china and thats having or ricochets throughout the International System we see it with the rest of this official in canada for example we see it even today here in germany with the economic ministers decision to have this industrial policy which also is squarely aimed at china so the decision of this president to be much more lets say aggressive tough about chinas breaking of rules for example on intellectual property about theft about Cyber Security industrial espionage that is actually starting to be adopted by other countries like japan like europe who took a few things. From the Aspen Institute thank you. Pope francis has ended a three day trip to the United Arab Emirates by leading a mass attended by more than one hundred eighty thousand people filling a stadium in the capital abu dhabi during the mass francis raise concerns about the plight of Migrant Workers in the gulf country the vast majority of whom are for the paedos and indians pope also called for more harmony and tolerance between muslims and christians i ask the crowds cheer pope francis is cavalcade makes its way slowly into the zoe sports stadium in abu dhabi. All around the catholic faithful care to mark this historic occasion. You buy here or see at least you know which appears to each one i would imagine that they will. Visit country you do it. I never imagined the. Last three years with. This their first ever papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula and what some consider to be the largest show of public christian worship in the gulf arab region public displays of non islamic faith are restricted but on the last day of the popes visit tens of thousands openly celebrate mass with him. For jesus on the other hand blessid of the poor the me those who remain just even at the cost of appearing in a bad line to. Those who are persecuted or join who is correct here jesus or the world. But to understand this latest look at how jesus lived poor in respect of things but wealthy in love and a final message in a country famous for its riches and the end to a landmark trip in which the pope has appealed for christians and Muslim Leaders to Work Together to promote peace. So what was the pope trying to do with this trip bill law as a journalist and documentary filmmaker who specializes in gulf affairs joins us from london welcome to day doubly what do you think was the purpose of the popes visit to the usa. Well i think the pope wanted to reach out to its a start visit no pope has ever been to the Arabian Peninsula its part of his project to pursue a message of conciliation of interfaith dialogue and i regard you have to say that it was a significant breakthrough point for the policy and for the pope and so what has been the state of relations between the and right so forces and christianity. Well i think recently its improved a great deal and there is a political. Part to that story if you will. The emirates want to present an image of a tolerant and open society and theyve been wired successful in doing that and part of thoughts of tolerance is to include religions different religions up in the past its been very difficult to practice if youre a christian or a hindu or a jew certainly in in in the u. A. E. United arab emirates and certainly in saudi arabia where you can indeed. Be headed should you try and practice your faith in an open fashion so thats changed and its changed for a variety of reasons but one of the points that i think is worth making is that although the United Arab Emirates resent the self as an open and Tolerant Society its only open and tolerant as long as you do not criticize the leaders or things like the war in yemen or other states like saudi arabia if you do criticize then youre going to wind up in jail and the way in which is the m. R. Audie authorities go about doing that is they arrest people usually in the middle of the night they take them to an unknown place they are held incommunicado denied access to lawyers and their families often tortured held in solitary confinement and then buy up worth the. Fashion brought to trial a sense to many years in jail and and that is the taller answer. Of the United Arab Emirates towards people who take a view contrary to their regime so whats happened really has been hugely successful i think for the iraqis theyve been able to present themselves as really high and hears it opening up the Arabian Peninsula. To the Catholic Church in a way that was here to do im imagining all but bear in mind that one hundred fifty thousand people. Looks like weve lost. That. We thank you for your contribution thats. Lunar new year also known as the Chinese New Year this year is the of the pig and people hoping it brings good fortune. Praying for good fortune in the new year a tradition for chinese communities around the world. Here at beijings baju temple thousands flock to welcome the year of the pig in Chinese Culture the zodiac sign is a symbol of luck and wealth hopes that were reflected in the new years wishes. I wish for good health for my family and success in my career and of course i hope for perspective pretty conventional. So for this year ill be taking my College Entrance exam so i hope to get. Another custom to bring good luck temple go is trying to strike a bell hanging under a bridge its a lucrative time for the monastery stuff needed shovels to clear the coins and a motorbike helmet for protection. But for the chinese and a growing interNational Audience this has become a major part of the celebrations the spring festival gala. Its now the countrys most watched t. V. Show with an estimated billion viewers. To keep the millennium pipit with young celebrities like chinese boy band t. Have boys. But the showstoppers a highly choreographed routines like this twenty thousand challis martial arts performance. For most people celebrating the Lunar New Year is about spending time with friends and family. And its about food lots of it. Hundreds of millions of people have travelled to be home for the feast and festivities theyre hoping that this year of the pig will be a lucky one. So they survive did their reporter. Lay it to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the chinese the year of the pig but to afraid to ask a wealth of this here how seriously do people in china take the different zodiac items i would say that they take it quite seriously the Chinese People believe that our fortune is a fact. Our fortune in one year is affected by the animal that roost that particular year and whether you have a lucky year or not it always depends on when you were born and this year is the year of the pick give you an example the chinese believe that takes to go wild with snakes so for example if you were born in the year of the snake it means that they would tell you that youre going to have a really bad here and so what do people do when you when people tell you ok youre going to have a vet year you try to change that so they go to temples and so thats why i learned their Year Holidays to temples were before and then. They will ask for gods fussing and thats handfuls and besides there are also bokes who check their fortune and they are all written based on the. Science side you have and theyre very detailed telling you what to do or what not to do each day and there are people who really follow the. I was advised. So i dont know the full of his actual closely but i do know that i would drug him and that makes me very pleased. Very famous the childrens cartoon character peppa pig has actually been quite controversial in china while yeah yeah as most people know papa very concisely a very nice series for preschool children but then this pew were innocent image just got subverted as it arrived in china now the videos from path of pick have been moved by a lot of netizens they change they change the videos they jumped over the videos and changed the story completely even use foul language is in those videos and they actually went viral and one super virus and then that is a problem because. At some point the image of peppa pig just became too gangsta like so some social media sites said no this is having a potential negative influence on teenagers and children so there are reports saying that yeah just got in from social media but actually. These were the recent via popovic actually got some viral in china not just whod a thought. No purpose making a comeback with the help of chinese tech giant alibaba so lets just take a look at the. Top. Of the. So thats part of the online trailer promoting the new path a big movie in china its just been released to coincide dilute the new year what so what was going well it seems that the year of the pick and screaming for help and. Im going to tell you to say yes in fact it had never been confirmed that to pick up and like officially back and so the series had just been blacklisted like they were saying that the series have been listed on the social media site a very popular one indeed its called take talk and that was said and some analysts say that it was merely a self censorship act carried out by that platform itself because usually the Chinese Government is very sensitive to like money is like this but while we dont really know whether that was selfcensorship what we know is that type of pick still insanely insanely popular in china and so with the chinese now like celebrating their own in their year the chinese year of the pick maybe the government just succumbed to demand. So thats why i like the i love the idea of public back great all right good talk if you like the joker is a shred of the thank you thanks. Well the day is nearly done but the conversation continues online you can find a. 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