World Economic Forum in davos ahead of Donald Trumps keynote address. And is already making news in davos with tough words for the palestinians and a renewed embrace of israel. South koreas president orders an investigation after dozens were killed when a fire breaks out at a hospital. And india uses its Republic Day Celebrations to build bridges to Southeast Asia. All eyes are on top of us in switzerland where in a few hours time the u. S. President will deliver the keynote speech to the annual world Economic Forum donald trump along a champion of protectionism is expected to use the speech to promote his America First agenda but there are indications he could be adjusting his position with the senior ministration official saying he will call for free but fair trade. And may consider rejoining agreements charlie after arriving in davos on thursday president made headlines about repeating his administrations threat to withhold millions of dollars of aid to the palestinians from davos our diplomatic editor same space reports. The u. S. President seemed in upbeat mood as he arrived here. And prosperity between israelis and palestinians that seems further away than ever you might think that when youve alienated one side in a negotiation in this case the palestinians you might reach out to the you very much flanked by israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu the author of the art of the deal showed that not his way where they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great Vice President to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in support tremendous numbers numbers that nobody understands that money is on the table that money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace because i can tell you that israel does want to make peace and theyre going to have to want to make peace or were going to have nothing to do with it and. Of course the reason the president pence on his visit was shunned by the palestinian president and heckled by palestinian members of the Israeli Parliament the knesset was the controversial u. S. Decision late last year to recognize jerusalem as israels capital something again praised the downfall spy Prime Minister netanyahu this is the story. That will be for the very hard to argue for generations to come we took jerusalem off the table so we dont talk about it they never got past youre saying we took it off the table we dont have to talk about it more. One one point. Give actual points later on the negotiation if it ever takes place i dont know that it ever will take place that seems to be a complete misreading of the situation the president is suggesting that hes removing the stumbling block of jerusalem from the negotiations in fact most believe hes making it an even more divisive issue previous us administrations knew the recognition card was one they needed to keep and not use to maintain leverage with the israelis a two state solution requires pressure on the israelis to give up illegal settlements they built on land that should form a palestinian nation great honor to be from the trumpet ministration israel seems to get only praise and never pressure james pays zero s. The gulf between washington and the palestinians was also on display at the United Nations thursday Christian Salome has that story. The United States and palestinians exchanged accusations during the Security Councils monthly debate on the middle east Palestinian AmbassadorRiyad Mansour spoke passionately about how his people had been demonized and dehumanized and accused of disrespect while the israelis were rewarded for building settlements on Palestinian Land he pointed out that jerusalem status according to Previous International agreements should be decided in negotiations but the United States ambassador nicholas helli accused palestinian leadership of walking away from peace talks. And response to repeated this notion of our position i am compelled to clarify further our position is not intended to respect. This respect and should not be translated as such by anyone in the contrary it is a position rooted in full of the spec for the for the principles of justice and equity for the charter. Photo this concert for the assembly and for the decades Long International consensus on the program at those over peace which we will not chase after a palestinian leadership that lacks what needs what is needed to achieve peace to get historic results we need courageous leaders history has provided such leaders in the past for the sake of the palestinian and israeli people we pray it does so again the United States is isolated in its position here at the u. N. Even its closest allies in the Security Council the United Kingdom and france voted in favor of a resolution calling on the u. S. To rescind his decision to move its embassy to jerusalem the u. S. Vetoed that resolution to go live now to davos where our correspondent john hall is standing by with more on perhaps where u. S. President all truck may be headed when it comes to trade jonah. While everyones waiting of course for Donald Trumps closing address here at davos in a couple of hours time he is the man the name at the center of every single conversation going on at davos at the moment well were going to have a conversation now about the global trust the annual trust were only to released by the new york based Marketing Firm edelman it measures public trust in government and institutions and has come up with some pretty interesting findings in this year after the first year of the trumpet ministration in the United States im joined by Matthew Harrington head of Global Operations for edelman thanks for joining us matthew your trust barometer has concluded that fully a third thirty three percent of americans do not have any faith in their government you know its been a remarkable year we had the largest double digit drop in trust in a country and that was a thirty seven point decline for the u. S. An interesting lee thirty percent of the inform publics had a drop in trust in government in particular is that a forgive me is that a third of people who do trust the government or a third who doesnt trust that distrust number in terms of the plummeting so were now the least trusted country of the twenty eight that we have how much of that do you think is down to the trust of the trumpet ministration i think its a combination of factors i think it its the congress its the level of discourse has declined its such an ironic situation to find ourselves in with a growing economy employment rates it kicking along and yet the decline of trust in our institutional government your report notes that is the ultimate irony and it is odd isnt it because as the economy clearly is going up in the United States trust is going down what does that say about the nature of government of the way people view government is a Strong Economy no longer seen as a function of Good Government does appear that theres a disconnect and that theres a heightened cynicism related to the absence of actual facts coming from or good constructive discussion coming from our administration and from the congress. Well its a big theme of Donald Trumps of course he will speak about it later that growing u. S. Economy he will claim its all down to his policies another big theme of his is fake news another bit bit of mention in your report made sober reading for me that the global media is trust in the global media is at an all time low has fake news one it hasnt won but its made a big entrenchment on the mindset seven in ten of those we surveyed no longer trust the information theyre reading as being factual which is a very real concern we unpacked media this year social media platforms like twitter and Search Engines had a real question relative to our day at advancing trusted information the Positive Side was journalists had a five point increase so traditional journalism is seen as arbiter of facts so thats good news for us i guess youve been hanging out here for the week whats the sense youve been getting from the people youve been speaking to about what they expect to hear from donald trump a bit later on today i think that theres a expectation that hes going to try to maybe counter some of the messaging around populism that hes put forward in the past year i also think that people would like to be hearing from him that he is interested in global trade i know in the last twenty four hours he made some comments about the p. P. That the people scratching their heads a little bit so were just going to have to say tough crowd here isnt it. And yet they are going to have to reconcile themselves a little bit with the fact that while they dont like what he says or what he stands for they do like the fact of the Global Economy is booming to some extent because of his tax reforms and regulator reforms that cant really afford to dislike donald trump too much here in davos by i think the trust barometer indicates that people are actually uncoupling in some respects the benefits of a pot Strong Economy and the degree to which they have trust in their institutions and i think one of the. Most interesting pieces of the study this year was that business was actually more trusted than a year ago and c. E. O. s in particular will be calling you called upon to engage in society and societal issues so i think thats what this community in particular is taking away from the week is theyve got to stand up in advance this week dance the world through if its not you arent and were going to leave it there had a Global Operations for edelman and throw back to indo as here in davos expectations are high for Donald Trumps closing statement closing address in a couple of hours time town hall i first novice john i think you and us president has given his First International interview since taking office more than a year ago trump was questioned by britains i. T. V. About his retreating anti Muslim Videos last year and november trump shared three inflammatory videos from the far right group of britain first he was condemned by u. K. Prime minister to resign me for doing so morgan asked trump to say he was sorry for the post but he fell short of giving a categorical apology heres the exchange. I got an apology out of you just for the reach weeks of well if youre telling me theyre going to go along with them heres whats fair if you are telling me the horrible people horrible racist people i would certainly apologize if youd like me to do that i know nothing about them and you would disavow you so the people that i dont want to be involved would be brought to you telling me about these people because i know nothing about these people turkeys president has promised to clear out kurdish fighters along the length of its border with syria it may extend its offensive as far as iraq or just have heard a line says the operation in a frame will continue to the east including the town of. Turkey regards the kurdish y p g fighters as terrorists and wants them removed so it can create a buffer zone the u. S. Has called on turkey to exercise restraint and focus on defeating eisel instead its concerned about u. S. Forces operating in month. Particularly in a frame off or a chanst turkish operations in a frame and all operations in a frame that have the effect of or inducing friction into the equation of making it hard to focus on why were in syria which is the defeat of isis in the afraid to rally or negative fighting fire in a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses internet intensive care unit firefighters in the Southern City where yang managed to rescue dozens of other peoples trapped by the flames critically injured survivors have been taken to other hospitals in the city the countrys president is calling for an investigation. Into the president in held an emergency meeting of his chief a short while ago to discuss the fire at a marion hospital he expressed regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out at sage Long Hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after the fire in session in december an overage death toll that could still increase president moon says the government must prioritize minimizing additional deaths by taking the necessary medical measures for the rescued victims. Observers kathy novak has more. This fire broke out at about seven thirty am local time at the at a hospital in mere young in the south of south korea it was extinguished by about ten thirty am local time but not before dozens of lives were lost and dozens more people were injured and were told there are about one hundred people in the hospital there was also a nursing hospital next door ninety six people were evacuated from that building president in is taking the situation extremely seriously he called an emergency meeting and said this is extremely regrettable and is sad investigations are ongoing into the cause of this fire local Authorities Say the majority of people who died suffered from suffocation it was not attributed to the burns that caused those deaths but in fact i did the suggestion is that those people inhaled toxic fumes this fire is the second in as many months twenty nine people were killed last month when a fire broke out in a Fitness Center in another city in the south of the country but im ahead of the news hour including brazils former leader is named parties official president ial candidate despite a corruption conviction african nations look to develop a global gateway to bolster economic trade with the rest of the world. And in sport tiger woods launches his latest comeback car will have all the details coming up later in the program. And he celebrated its sixty ninth republic day with a military parade attended by leaders from ten south east and South East Asian nations its the first time this many foreign leaders have attended the event are being hosted by the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi today marks the adoption of the Indian Constitution in one nine hundred fifty nearly sixty thousand security personnel were deployed in new delhi for that grade. But his decision to invite leaders some ten southeast nations that make up the as young group is being seen as a bold move to try and isolate china as part of its act east strategy new delhi is hoping to strengthen political and economic ties with Southeast Asian nations and is trade without the honest horse by that with china in the past two years chinas business was Southeast Asia was more than six times that of india and he has also moved to counter chinas influence in the region by signing a maritime agreement with nations blocks been alarmed by chinese chinas building of artificial islands on disputed territory in the South China Sea kundera pythia go to is a nonresident fellow in asia middle east relations at the Brookings Doha Center he joins us from london we appreciate your time very much so this guest list of these ten ten nations how would you characterize that list you think its very strategically important guest list as you mentioned india has an act east policy where its trying to focus building ties with Southeast Asian countries and i think the indian policymakers have a very long term perspective when they see Southeast Asia as part of indias future sphere of influence and they often highlight that indian religions like hinduism and buddhism have actually influenced the cultures of Southeast Asia does india see china is as a competition or a threat. India certainly does and this is i guess part of its way in dealing with the threat it sees from china so india tries to exclude external great powers from its own region which is south asia and china has been building ties with countries all around in these borders so by building its own ties with Southeast Asian countries india sees this is a way to counter china. If you go back last year you see that the two countries also had a territorial standoff so theres a number of factors of tension in that relationship and i guess this is just another way of india pushing back against china so how does china view india or china views india in a slightly different way it sees more india more as a conditional threat where india is only problematic to china to the degree that india aligns with the u. S. And japan and some of chinas of the rivals in an attempt to isolate china it also sees india is problematic in terms of India Building ties with countries like v