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President donald trump passed delivered his much anticipated Closing Remarks to the World Economic forum in davos switzerland trump said that america is open for business and that America First doesnt mean america alone the president says that he supports free trade but it needs to be fair and reciprocal trump said americas immigration system is quote stuck in the past but he announced a change on his immigration position saying republicans will accept a path to citizenship for almost two million socalled dreamers those are young immigrants abroad illegally into the u. S. As children. And there were going to discuss present time speech in greater detail and bring you analysis of it in just a mobile first lets take a listen to one of the sound bites that stood out i believe in america as president of the United States i will always put America First just like the leaders of other countries should put their Country First also but america for us does not mean america alone when the United States grows so does the world. U. S. President addressing davos there a little earlier on now im joined by professor Erwin Collier hes a professor at of economics at berlins at john f. Kennedy institute were so glad to have you here with us to discuss in greater detail what we just heard the president say America First does not mean america alone as long as its in americas interest as long as america remains number one this is fairly clear hes talking about trading rules he wants fair trade everybody wants fair trade but the devils in the detail what are the rules how do you enforce the rules who enforces the rules and how do you leave something and its fairly clear he is not a multilateral davos maam so he really does appear to believe that america can determine the rules of trade thank you enforce the rules of trade rather than trust its fate in the hands of multilateral is a negotiated agreement which is a system that america actually before him has put in place absolutely you know that was much of the legacy of Bretton Woods institutions and. Experience from the Great Depression that we need each other badly right but he seems up and that lets talk about his presence at davos i mean he was this star of the show what do you make of the fact that hes the first u. S. President in almost two decades to make an appearance at the World Economic forum i think whats also important is you know the last time when bill clinton came it was kind of a last last tour of a great rock star here its the beginning of his minutes administration its also for him its very important to be accepted by the elites one of the grudges donald trump has carried with him is that he was not accepted by the manhattan elite by the great financial elite and here he is now center stage which is a place that he certainly likes to be he loves the limelight indeed. Whats interesting is that he did not very off script it wasnt you know according if you go by some of his past features a very subdued speech a lot of people expected him to be combative why do you think it was so subdued i think part of it here when he speaks freely to his people his crowds he is fed by the energy in the room and i think here he was quite aware that he was not exactly going to be getting a lot of echo from the people hes talking to and so i think that helped him stay on script and i think this was also he had been briefed and there are times when what else is he going to do when he reads the speech and perhaps someone also convinced him that any deviation could get him into complications that he doesnt want down the road perhaps hes learning speaking about complications while hes meeting World Leaders in davos switzerland domestic politics are hanging like a dark cloud over him talk to slip it about that well you know its one of those things that this miller investigation to find out you know from the New York Times right before the president is about to speak that in fact he tried to fire Robert Mueller the special counsel investigating the russian affair so thats continuing the weve just come out of the United States voting a shutdown. Very few short fuse to the next crisis i think thats also why we heard any words about immigration at all that thats a topic he wanted to signal to the democrats theres a possible concession our lots going on when hes already had every turning home as we speak thank you so much professor irvin john f. Kennedy institute pleasure talking to you. All right lets get the business angle now with the i get us because the president or his salesman had a davos thats right and he has claimed many times that hes really good at sales now dont trump face as we just heard what has already been called a globalist elite at davos and we know that not everyone shares his views here is the president leaving the Mountain Resort of davos after delivering a highly anticipated speech as expected he presented the u. S. As the best place in the world for business and investment he also took the opportunity to praise the achievements of his economic policies so far especially his massive tax cut the record performance of the stock markets and low unemployment. He told us Helen Humphrey has been covering the events in davos for us hi helen its good to see you again all term speeches over it was as we just said highly anticipated but we really didnt hear anything new so is there disappointment there or rather relief. And the excessive both have yeah there was nothing much new in that speech but it wasnt inflammatory it certainly was overhyped and the davos elite decided it didnt contain much of use for them he instead he used it to talk about domestic policy he vaunted what he sees as his successes for one year in office in terms of that Corporate Tax reform going from thirty five percent down to twenty one percent the falling Unemployment Rate as well as stock market record off the store stock market record now he called for fair trade as well as free trade and he said that he wanted the end of intellectual property theft as well in industrial subsidies so although he didnt criticize china using the name of the country he certainly looked it squarely in the i think the reality of this World Economic forum is that president on the trump certainly had the spotlight here but whilst he was in the spotlight he just proved the fact that he stands for everything that the global elite here sounds very sensitive against it firmly in terms of his protectionist sentiments his tendency to you know use populist rhetoric and hes great yeah still as he leaves us now hes left with the global elite. Oh now you already mentioned that trump was in the spotlight but it was only one point on the agenda there was a lot more in the form has actually ended for this year what are the take a worse. A stronger europe. Came out very strongly making the case for a stronger europe the french president Emmanuel Michel really a merge the davos dolling here it was also a lot of talk about growth whether its sustainable whether it could last the i. M. F. Raise the growth for cost upwards for this year and the next to three point eight percent but is growth a valuable way of really measuring the World Economy oxfam pointed out that there are more billion as last year than ever before that eighty two percent of wealth grown last year remains in the hands of the one percent that inequality in closing that gap really should be a priority and those are just some of the main takeaways from a packed meeting here in switzerland Helen Humphrey thank you very much for freezing for us and for the excellent coverage from davos. Back to the trump speech we know were talking about one of the most polarizing voices in the International Stage so of course there were mixed opinions about what trump had to say today is the u. S. Truly doing better than ever before World EconomicForum Participants mostly disagreed and not only for political reasons. I walked out of his speech because i do not believe that this is a forum for people who use the kind of language that he is were talking about creating unity in a fractured world here and his statements over the last month about haiti where i live and work and many other countries in the world only deepen those fractures i mean i came in with very low expectations and i have to say he met them. You know it was a speech really about America First and i think to understand these issues in the context of a global internationalist community it just rang very odd you know i think the audience sat there and listened there were no claps it fell flat it was really selling a story of America Donald trump has given a speech today in which has been reaching all due to a little bit of multilateral trade on. T. V. People are saying hes out walls something which was you statistics are all wrong in his favor of course they are not accurate as an africanamerican myself living in america i do know the impact of what his presidency has done to the Africanamerican Community in terms of the division of the country i dont know what it has in terms of the division im sorry and just to be where where is the community and you know weapons so supportive of our work a social enterprise i think there was a huge disconnect with the information that the president of the United States of america delivered. A lot of the attention focused on the World Economic forum but of course theres many other issues including geopolitical conflicts of want to talk about that too right thank you so much javier because turkeys a president wretch of tyburn want has revealed plans to expand operation all of branch thats despite Widespread International criticism today you know also that Turkish Forces will head east from the enclave in syria to the iraqi border ancora wants to drive kurdish fighters out of the region but there is the risk of confrontation with u. S. Troops stationed in the town of members who are allied with the turks now the United States has raised concern over the operation saying they have asked turkey to limit their military actions but turkeys president appeared to brush aside the objections from washington and take a listen to what he said. You know we will continue Operation Olive Branch which is in its seventh day today until all our goals are achieved. We will then rid money beach of terrorists. No one should take issue with this because the real owners of these terrorists theyre our arab brothers their. Order to keep afterwards we will continue to fight up to the iraqi border until no terrorist is left. To the us so could nato allies turkey and the United States and the facing off in syria teri schultz in brussels put that very question to nato as number two that the secretary general rose gottemoeller. Madam deputy secretary general youve just returned from turkey where tensions are rising in northwestern syria between two allies of nato are you concerned that this could move from a pill the political clash to a military clash i am not worried ive been watching very closely what has been said both in washington and then on crow the two countries seem to be closely communicating with each other they seem to be paying attention to deconstruction they seem to be paying attention to making sure that the other is informed so im not worried of course in general nato is always worried when lives are being lost and that goes for syria turkey that goes for afghanistan iraq anywhere in the world so in that sense we are worried about the conflict the German Foreign minister is calling for nato to take a stronger role to sort of facilitate more dialogue between turkey and the u. S. So clearly allies are worried what more can nato do first of all nato is already active on the ground in turkey we are not operating in syria but were active on the ground in turkey providing for air defense for airborne morning and control for surveillance we are doing what we can as a nato ally to help turkey in their fight against terrorism which has been going on for a long time but in addition to that we have been hearing from the turks here at nato headquarters weve been getting briefings theres a lot of information flow and allies have the opportunity to ask the questions they need to ask so i do think that that will continue and there will be great interest in this matter in the coming days but its one thing if the opponent is Bashar Al Assad or terrorist the p. K. K. Its another thing if the United States is on the other end of this operation well i think we need to continue to bear in mind that the two countries have been operating closely together in the fight against in syria and iraq for now many many months and so they are accustomed to paying attention to deconstruction on their custom to to really staying in close communication so that there are actions are transparent to the other and i i only see that continuing thank you very much thank you. Rose gottemoeller natos deputy secretary general speaking there to do teri schultz in brussels want to tell you about some of the some of the other stories making news around the world. In south korea at least thirty seven people have died in a fire in a hospital in the city of near young fire broke out in the emergency room of the hospital which also operates as a home for the elderly its not yet known what calls the blaze voters in the Czech Republic have begun casting ballots in the countrys two day president ial runoff pro russia anti immigrant incumbents me last salmon had been favored to win a second term but the latest opinion polls who it was point to a neck and neck race with challenge or jury draw as was me. German chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservatives have begun a formal Coalition Talks with this social democrats the two sides stressed the need for speeding negotiations and set a deadline of february the fourth for wrapping up talks to form a government while any Coalition Deal will still have to be voted on by s. P. D. Party members. And were going to stick with that theme german politics but when a move away from the ongoing Coalition Talks to another issue many young politicians in germany claim theyre facing discrimination because of their age while now hundreds of them are taking to social media to share their stories and forget about your former social media does is more to tell us what is going on explain to us why are they so upset so this started with kevin can you not thats him just behind us hes twenty eight and he is the leader of the social democrats youth wing here in germany hes all over german media at the moment because hes heading a fierce campaign against a new grand coalition between he spotted the s. P. D. And. The c. D. U. Potty but he says hes been given a hard time by both journalists and colleagues because of his age he gave some examples he said recently a reporter during an interview asked him whether he lives in a shared flat and then during a talk show a very famous moderator asked him whether he calls his parents sometimes for advice so you know he gets asked questions that older colleagues would never be asked and that theyre not theyre not just demeaning but theyre also most of the times completely off topic right so theyre undermining him basically hes twenty eight years old so hes speaking up right now hes speaking up and hes not alone because theres a complaint online now launched by a german magazine theres a hash tag does a youre going to lie to which means these a young people and young politicians in germany have been urged to come forward with their stories and a lot of them are doing that now youll be surprised some young green politicians for example they shared their stories we have their voice here take a listen. So. Dont you want to get a real job before entering politics but i ask myself isnt being politically engaged important its the stick of. Its coming to you youd better wait before you hit puberty before applying for the management of the young greens of yours as the repeal youre twenty four which you even know what youre talking about you cant have any life experience. And twitter is really inundated with similar stories coming from all over germany and all kinds of parties who you think i mean theyd welco