Dreamers. We will look at their fight against the trump administrations immigration crackdown. Plus, the lowdown on the latest arrivals at the pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Not athletes, but an orchestra from north korea, sent over the border to perform at the Opening Ceremony. Can they bring a little harmony to the troubled peninsula . Brent im brent goff. Its good to have you with us. Germanys main Political Parties have finally agreed to a deal to form a coalition government. They made the announcement in berlin after another session of allnight talks, another grueling game of giveandtake, four months after the countrys elections. Both Angela Merkel and her social democrat counterpart Martin Schulz said the agreement is the only way to safeguard german stability. Reporter after a marathon 34 hours of negotiations, it is all strained smiles for the wouldbe coalition partners. With a working compromise achieved, relief from the chancellor. I am convinced that the Coalition Agreement we
Next german finance minister could well be this man hes a probusiness centrist all of charlottes for his from the social Democrat Coalition partners and could soften the harsh face of austerity. And Business Executives will struggle to convince schultz to adopt a new Corporate Tax cuts modeled on those passed in the United States which have triggered a flood of investment the last Corporate Tax overhaul here was a decade ago the association of german chambers of commerce and industry praises the Coalition Pact for investing in Digital Education and broadband but theres criticism from other groups that nothing much is going to change under another grand coalition we spoke to tino boatmen of germanys Engineering Association the v. D. M. A he was certainly rather lukewarm about the coalitions tax plans. There is no increase of income tax only very very little to refuse the taxes in germany for the time being small things like what we call in germany. Are going down but not for everybody o
Place. Mark bowden will join the discussion. He is the author of hue 1968. We are live. Welcome. Im peter prichard, chair of the museum, and we are here tonight oakmark the opening to mark our opening of our latest exhibit. This is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if you are a millennial, i will explain it to you, was a coordinated offensive by viet cong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities and american and south vietnamese military facilities. It began on the night of january 30th, 1968. And i remember it well, because i was an intelligence clerk with mac fee at the time. Our exhibit showcases the work of john olson, who, like me, was a young army draftee. John was a photographer for Stars Stripes, the militarys daily newspaper. And he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue, in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. This innovative exhibit features 20 large format photographs
Bitter medicine is taking effect greeces back on International Markets today scheuer has already moved on to his new job as president of the bundestag and the next german finance minister could well be this man hes a probusiness centrist all of shots for his from the social Democrat Coalition partners and could soften the harsh face of austerity. And Business Executives will struggle to convince schultz to adopt a new Corporate Tax cuts modeled on those passed in the United States which have triggered a flood of investment the last Corporate Tax overhaul here was a decade ago the association of german chambers of commerce and industry praises the Coalition Pact for investing in Digital Education and broadband but theres criticism from other groups that nothing much is going to change under another grand coalition we spoke to tino boat man of germanys Engineering Association the v. D. M. A he was certainly rather lukewarm about the coalitions tax plan its there is no increase of income
Chancellor merkel my colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, let me say i am delighted to be back in davos. Let me remind all of us that, 1918, 100 years ago, the First World War came to an end, which is called the seminal catastrophe of the 21st century. Even worse catastrophes were to follow. In a way, the political act is a almost sleepwalked into a her into a harangued a situation. We today, 100 years later, have to ask ourselves, when we have less and less people who have actually witnessed this time of the second world war, we have to ask ourselves how we learned the lessons of history . I think we havent. This generation, born after the second world war, one has to prove that we have truly learned the lessons. The lessons were of cooperation. A quarter of a century later, we have the end the cold war, the splitting of the world into two blocks. But then this was overcome. This opened up an opportunity. In 2008, there was a risk wants to the Global Financial crisis, where the g 20 was