thousands of people gathered in florida to demand urgent action on gun control this follows a school shooting in the state were seventeen teenagers were killed with an assault rifle a survivor of the shooting had this to say to every politician who is taking donations from the n.r.a. shame on you. and the ethiopian defense minister says the government is looking to declare a state of emergency that will last six months the move comes on the heels of prime minister helle mariyam death cell and supplies resignation there has been years of violent unrest in africa second most populous nation over jailed political prisoners. german foreign minister sigma gabriele calls for european unity during his address at the munich security conference and he also says the u.s. and europe need to return to historical bonds in the face of growing assertiveness from countries like china he emphasized this is not the time for pursuing individual national interests. did you know they
a change in that transatlantic relationship well we ve even heard the chancellor herself say in the course of this past year of twenty seventeen to a certain degree we can no longer rely on the u.s. in the future as we did in the past so she is not all that far off. the points that were made by sigma gabriele in a speech in late november i believe it was early december in which he said in rather stronger terms but nonetheless along the same lines we can t count on the u.s. any more we in europe must take more responsibility for our own fate but both acknowledge that nonetheless they must still work together with the united states so i think there is room on that issue i think there is real room for the conservatives and the social democrats to work together in shaping a transatlantic policy that is perhaps based on pragmatism and ad hoc cooperation where it works but very much looking toward strengthening europe in areas like
sigma gabriele the foreign minister relations between the u.s. and europe won t be the same anymore even when donald trump leaves the white house that signals a watershed moment in transatlantic relations it might actually i think relations will be better once he s gone and he will be gone eventually at the same time i think that it also has to do with the european feeling of trying to become strong europe and to to to be more independent off being an influence of the americans and the united states so i think it s a double strategy also if you can see that obviously we are not them the main part us anymore but at the same time it gives us the chance to sort of look around and say who are we you know who do we want to be where do we go and what is our aim do we want to be europeans do the germans and the special relationship do you want to be just part of a big scheme of western values whatever you know so it s a redefinition of the own situation and the european situation at the start
a quote genius and a very stable genius at that. german foreign minister sigma gabriele and his turkish counterpart never heard of a charter you have held fresh talks and it s coming tensions between ankara and berlin thais have suffered in recent years amid disagreements about the refugee crisis and the wave of arrests in turkey following twenty sixteen s failed coup attempts. for talks christians in many countries have attended christmas eve midnight masses several denominations such as the russian orthodox church celebrate the birth of jesus on january seventh russian president vladimir putin attended mass in his hometown sent petersburg. the legendary u.s. astronauts john young has died at age eighty seven was one of only twelve people to walk on the moon s surface he was also the only astronaut to go into space as part of the gemini apollo on the space shuttle program is.
technology has not been good for jobs or for the economic development of the country for the shift to go to go traffic and 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. and just how bumpy is it going to be for con makers let s ask greg ought to direct a claim to have a trance but. he joins us now in brussels good to have you with us first of all i d like to put a quote to you i mean german foreign minister sigma gabriele who was economy minister previously has told the european commission president joke led you to that he has he s against toughening of european car emission targets by twenty twenty five and the reason is he says he believes that stricter rules will cost jobs and