Attempts to sign a revised agreement with rebels weeks after the original accord was rejected in a referendum. And in cambodia, two leaders of the notoriously brutal khmer rouge remain behind bars. Judges in the country have rejected their appeal against life sentences. Thanks for joining us. In the u. S. , pressure is growing on the president elect donald trump to cut ties with his Global Business empire at the time he takes office in january. Its far from certain he will do that. Trump told the New York Times yesterday that the law is on his side when it comes to socalled conflict of interest. He is turning over management to his Adult Children, but critics say it is not enough. They worry this business ties could influence his decision as president. It could be a soap opera a story of power, influence, and family ties. The trumps, the patriarch, his children, the american corporation. Never before has a president been so rich and his complex web of corporations is sounding alarms. It a very disconcerting conflict of interest. Trump has financial interests around the world. While putting together his cabinet, he found time to meet with Business Partners in india. He is a businessman. That is what worries many. Trump knows that as president , he is not bound by the same conflict of interest laws as other government officials. One example of an already apparent conflict is the new trump hotel and washington, d. C. Trump is leasing the Government Property from a Government Agency for 3 million a year. He finance construction with a 170 million loan from deutsche bank. The german bank meanwhile has been fined 14 million for mismanaging securities. Can the Justice Department remain neutral . How are his personal financial interests potentially conflicting with the National Interests of the United States . Donald trump has gone on the offensive, often a strategy when criticized. Everyone knew about his business during the campaign he tweeted, but the corrupt media is now making an issue about it. Cheers and boos as donald trump leaves the offices of the New York Times newspaper. There was no comment, instead a video message announcing Donald Trumps plan for his first 100 days. Trump im going to issue a notice of intent to withdraw from the transpacific partnership, a disaster for our country. Trump wants to negotiate directly with countries like japan and canada, which poses yet another conflict of interest for him as president. He has financial stakes as well, but he is sticking to his core message. Trump my agenda will be based on a simple core principle putting america first. Donald trump has made lots of promises. The world is watching if he will keep him. Lets get more on this now from someone you just saw in that report, a Government Affairs lobbyist at the washington think tank public citizen. We heard you in that report talking about what you called a very disconcerting conflict of interest. Which of Donald Trumps business dealings is most disconcerting in your view . His Foreign Investments and their banks. As far as we can tell, and donald trump has not opened of his tax returns, so we do not have concrete records, but as far as we can tell, donald trump owns and controls about 111 companies and has Business Investments in 18 different countries. These countries ran from azerbaijan to saudi arabia, germany all across the globe, and its these Foreign Investments that are the source of serious concern here in the u. S. I want to emphasize we have had wealthy president s before john kennedy and others but they owned domestic property, and they handled it reasonably. Each president prior to donald trump has placed their business interest in a blind trust that was run by an entirely neutral executor. Every president has done that. Despite the fact that the law does not require him to do so, only donald trump appears to be refusing to do this. You are saying you would like to see the future president of the United States put his business dealings into a blind trust . You are saying that handing over the day to day management of the Business Empire to his Adult Children is not enough . Yes, handing over the Business Empire to his family is not a blind trust. First is the obvious conflict of interest that every decision donald trump makes is going to have a potential impact on his own wealth. That influence his decisions, but even more importantly, if the family is in charge of the trump empire, foreign governments, foreign interests, and Foreign Corporations are going to use that as an open window to throw money at the feet of the trump family in the hope to endear trump to whatever their cause may be. The conflict of interest is enormous. How bad is this going to get . Could this develop into a constitutional crisis . It could. Donald trump has not even stepped into the white house yet , and theres already half a dozen different conflicts of interest. What happens when he does become president and steps into the white house . Yes, this poses some serious problems. One of the reasons why it could become a constitution crisis is because theres no real enforcement of the statutory conflict of interest law over the president. However, we do in the constitution have a clause that specifically prohibits the president from receiving compensation from foreign governments and foreign governmental officials. So its called the ambulance clause, but its right in the constitution that we hardly have ever dealt with in the United States. This is one of the very first times everyone is dusting off the constitution trying to read that clause and make sense of how this applies to donald trump. We have not answered that question. Many thanks for that. Yes, you are welcome. We are going to stay in the United States. As donald trump toss in a duration approaches, he has chosen the first female member of his administration, South Carolina governor nikki haley is slated to become the United States ambassador to the United Nations. She has little foreignpolicy experience and was also an outspoken critic of the trump campaign. If confirmed, she would become not only the first woman but also the first not white cabinet official in the future trump administration. She is the daughter of indian immigrants. Social media giant facebook is reported to have developed software that would allow it to accommodate censorship demands from the chinese government. Operations in china are currently blocked. Former and current facebook employees who spoke anonymously to the New York Times say the software was created to help facebook resume operations in the country. Facebook has refused to confirm or deny the existence of the software, saying instead that no decision has been made so far about the companys approach in china. Terming turning to germany, chancellor Angela Merkel says she is not happy about the potential collapse of the transpacific partnership, a free trade deal involving free trade countries. U. S. President elect donald trump has announced plans to ditch the deal. That debate usually marked by fierce political argument. This year, though, one topic saw many lawmakers thinking along the same lines. Concerns about rightwing populism ran through the parliamentary debate. Populism, political extremism, and hate are on the rise in western democracies. The democratic culture of debate that we need, that we also practice in this building, we just heard some of it, must be self evident. But this all has to take place in the spirit of respect for the otr persons dignity. That is essential, and this is simply no longer happening for many areas. The Opposition Left Party made an attempt to address why there is rising interest in populism. U. S. Citizens did not primarily elect donald trump the billionaire. Instead, they voted against business as usual and had every reason to do so in a country where average wages are less than what they were in the 1980s. Even in germany, more and more people have good reason to be disappointed and outraged by the grand coalitions onesizefitsall approach. It no longer has anything whatsoever to do with peoples vital interests or their fears for the future. Chancellor merkel says europe has improvements to make when it comes to balancing the demands of globalization and social justice. Sometimes europe does not keep up with current developments. That means decisions must be made more quickly and what has been agreed must be agreed upon. German parliamentarians offer Different Reasons to explain the reason the rise of rightwing populism. One thing they share, however, is concerned about its effects. Colombias government says it will sign a new Peace Agreement with leftist rebels on thursday after a previous deal was rejected last month. The revised agreement will be submitted to parliament for approval but not to its people. The deal aims to end more than 50 years of Armed Conflict and is expected to be approved swiftly. They thought piece have finally come. Smiling faces in september when the government and rebels signed what they thought was a final agreement on peace, but it was not to be. A month later, it was defeated in a referendum. Negotiators were forced to go back to the drawing board. In a matter of weeks, they agreed on more deals to appease citizens. Lives have been lost and many more are at stake. We have to act. There is no time to lose. This time, the revised accord will not be put to a referendum. It will be up to congress to approve it instead, but that is not going down well with opponents. They say the new deal still goes to easy on rebels. They also want it to be put to the public once again. The second agreement has improvements, which are absolutely indisputable, but there are still fundamental issues that concern them, which is why there are more than 6. 5 million colombians who voted no. A ceasefire between the sides has been in place since august. But the killings of two militants in a clash with the Army Last Week her flip them increasingly fragile, which makes securing a peace deal all the more urgent to finally put an end to latin americas last major insurgency. You are watching dw news in berlin. What to take a very short break. There is still plenty more to come. Stay with us. Welcome back. You are with dw news in berlin. Our top story concerns are growing over conflict of interest when Donald Trump Takes Office in january. Critics wonder how his family lost business deals will affect the government. Trump says he is under no legal obligation to cut business ties. To cambodia now, where a United Nations tribunal has of health life sentences 14 of leaders of the communist khmer rouge. In the 1970s, nearly 2 Million People died during the khmer rouge regime during the rule of dictator pol pot and the southeast nation. The khmer rouge went to the extraordinary links to eliminate the difference between rich and poor. They drove people into the countrys. Temples and schools were turned into prisons. Rice fields became mass graves. After neighboring vietnam overthrew the regime, remains of tens of thousands of victims were discovered. Few of the regimes leaders have faced justice, giving added significance to todays ruling. The men sat impassively as their sentences were handed down. Cambodias humanbacked tribunal said given the gravity of the crimes committed, the tribunals earlier verdict was allowed. The decision has wide reaching implications. The decision by this court today is a historic victory. All four victims, not only those who live in the country, but outside of cambodia too, so they can all receive justice, and we, the prosecution believe it will come as a relief to many people to hear this verdict is final. The khmer rouge word for years the trial for conviction may never lead through age. If i can accept it, it offers little justice for me because we were tortured, forced labor, starvation, families were separated. These are very big thing is for my family and all the cambodian people. It has been a long road for the victims of the khmer rouge. The tribunal was set up more than a decade ago, but todays pruling goes some measure toward addressing the victims pain. Bad news for people with travel plans. That pilot strike is now set to continue until friday. The industrial action will affect shorthaul flights. Industrial flights will see over 2000 canceled and counting. Over 2000 passengers plans left up in the air this week while left tens of Ashley Spencer lufthansa attempts to address the strike. Empty your skies over germany once more as pilots say they will continue their strike into friday. Thousands of flights have been canceled. Tens of thousands of passengers affected. But travelers and airport staff have adapted to what now seems to have become part of the routine of flying in germany these days, the pilot unions 14 strike since april 2014. They are calling for regular salary increases over the next five years, and left fans a and lufthansas offer false far short. Everything they offer is supposed to be elsewhere in the agreement. They have made plenty of offers. The unionist amending a 20 pay increase instead of arbitration. They prefer to go on strike. No deal. Subsidiaries like Austrian Airlines and swiss are not affected by the strike. They are trying to operate larger aircraft to accommodate some of the delayed passengers. Lufthansa says the strike will cost millions of euros. Brexit will slam the brakes on british growth according to the british Prime Minister on wednesday. He presented his first statement of the budget since the u. K. Decided to leave the eu five months ago, and in it, he warned economic output will slow sharply next year, putting the u. K. Are deeper into the red. Hammond says the sharp vote back in june will change the course of writtens history. British finance minister Philip Hammond went to parliament to deliver a somber view of his countrys economy. Week growth and dwindling tax revenues will make it tough for the government to boost public spending or cut taxes as it faces a complicated separation from the european union. Our forecast today is for growth to be 2. 1 percent in 2016, higher than forecast in march. In 2017, with forecast growth to slow, which they attribute to lower investment and weaker consumer demand, driven respectively by greater uncertainty and by higher inflation resulting from sterling depreciation. That means britain will need to borrow an additional 122 billion pounds over the next five years, when it was actually predicting a Budget Surplus by 2020. The cost of resetting the british economy post brexit our task now is to prepare our economy to be resilient as we exit the eu. Still, hammond was insistent that britains economy had remained resilient since the brexit referendum even though the pound has sunk to record lows, but some say the real power of truth will only come when the u. K. Formally begins Divorce Proceedings from the eu. To the u. S. Now, and the trump effect is hampering business on the avenue in new york. Since the election, trump tower has become a fortress, protected by concrete barriers and military style police forces, not that inviting. Police with automatic rifles, security barriers, and crowds of shoppers. This is the new view outside trump tower in new york as u. S. President elect donald trump the homes of president s have always been protected, but never before did the commanderinchief reside smack in the middle of the american the busiest american metropolis. The problem is that it is severely restricted. We are talking about the loss of tens of millions of dollars just for the christmas season. After christmas, things will not go back to normal, either. President elect trump has said that his life and their 10yearold son will not be moving to washington any time soon. New york mayor bill de blasio and about socialist sees problems, to new york mayor bill de blasio, and about socialist an avowed socialist, sees problems, too. The traffic is a real problem. Back to you now, christopher. We are going to get to some sports news. Bruce arena has been hired to replace the coach of the u. S. Soccer team. He left his job with la galaxy and agreed to a job which takes in through the 2018 world cup in russia. He led the u. S. To its best ever world cup finish. They lost to germany in the quarterfinals in the 2002 world cup. The previous coach was fired after his side were beaten by mexico and costa rica in their last two finals. Bayern munich were expected to cruise through their final match , but they did not. Rust offhanded buyer and they handed them their second defeat in a week. It does not make much difference in that buyer bayern have already qualified to make the finals and their opponent was not in a position to do so, but it was their best show ever. A signed buy and frank was written by march in 199042, shortly before anne frank went into hiding from the nazis and is addressed to a childhood friend, whom frank urges to use her time wisely. If you have not done your work properly, lost precious time, please use your time again and better than before. Please make sure that you do better, and that is the real answer. We going to take a short break now, but i will be back after that break with all the latest indepth analysis on the top world stories of the day. Stay tuned for that. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] a University District in the south korean capital, seoul. South korea is known as a country at the forefront of beauty. One cut