destroyed by that attack. also on the show, republicans in the u.s. house of representatives passed donald trump tax reform bill. the first rewrite of tax law in three decades is now set for a senate showdown. and yemen to do rebels are apolitical rocket at saudi arabia. saudi forces say they intercepted it that is this a sign that the carnage in yemen is spreading? we will ask an expert for his analysis. >> i'm brent goff, it is good to have you with us. here in the german capital, people have been remembering the lives lost in a night of terror. one year ago, a rejected assignment drove a truck into a berlin christmas market, killing 12 people. tonight, the country and the world cast their eyes on the scene of that attack. the bell tolls 12 times for the 12 victims of the terror attack one year ago. the names of the victims marketplace where and islamist attacker rammed a truck into a christmas market in the heart of bolan. -- berlin. many people gathered to mark the anniversary and people are injured in the attack and first responders are all still feeling the shock of what happened here a year ago. >> the attacker tore loved ones from our lives who we bitterly miss. his actions affected everybody, they struck at the core of humanity and freedom which is the foundation of life lived in case. chancellor angela merkel but the first candle. she has been accused of indifferent and neglect. it took her a year to officially invite the relatives to the chancellery. today, she ate knowledged that mistakes had been made and cheap that she would provide materials and support for the victims. >> this showed the floors in our government. this is the scene of the attack and it was completely cornered off, snipers were positioned on top of the nearby buildings, the annual christmas market was temporarily closed and access to the public denied. any passersby stopped on the outskirts to us the ceremony. >> we were here last year exactly a week before the attack, it is very moving. i am very sad, the whole world should be sad. there is more fear, you are afraid when you go to a christmas market where places were lots of people are. after the ceremony, the memorial was open to the public. many berliners brought flowers and candles to express their grief and the christmas market will open again on wednesday, things will go back to normal. this is one year after the terror attack. brent: normal peers to be a relative where tonight, we want to go to oliver, he was one of the first reporters on the scene a year ago and tonight he joins us again from that christmas market, good evening to you oliver, it has been a day full of emotions for everyone involved, particularly the people, they are at the christmas market at the side of the attack, talk to me about what has been like for you being back one year later. >> it was quite an uncomfortable feeling, an uncomfortable silence that we have witnessed here during the whole day, we had just heard in the report about the area being courted off and that reminded me of how it was a year ago when i arrived here when all area was cornered off when this whole neighborhood that is usually one of the busiest shopping districts of berlin was crowded with people at this time of the year, they are doing their christmas shopping but this area was really cornered off and it felt like being in a ghost town during the holiday and the situation changed later tonight when people came to commemorate and i'm standing right from the place where people put down flowers and candles to commemorate the victims. the moment that struck me the most was not being of the day after the attack was coming here when this christmas market reopened to the public when i accidentally met the only surviving vendor, the only victim of the vendors here. his dog run down by the truck and the way he talked about it and explain to me the suffering he is going through gave me a very clear impression of how difficult this might be for many people that have lost friends and family here or that are among the victims themselves. >> that is an interesting point, the vendor there, have you suffered in the last 12 months. it is similar to what the relatives of the people who died -- what they said they suffered and they criticized the german chancellor saying that she has been callous and that she has been reluctant to say that i feel your pain. is today the commemorative ceremony -- is that a chance to turn the page for everyone? >> the speech that angela merkel delivered on the sidelines of that ceremony was -- that was an appearance that i've never seen before that way, it was a very somber speech full of humility and a very emotional appearance that she made, she is known for not being very emotional and we also know it took her a year to invite the victims into the chancellery to speak to them that happened yesterday, we spoke about three hours, we don't know anything about the content of these talks other than she wants to reinvent these people and what she said today is that this is a day of grief but also a day to look forward and to see what the government can change in order to take wishes and feelings of the victims families better into consideration and this is basically the outcome that is on the victims to accept this apology came across very credible in a way that is not very typical for our -- angela merkel. brent: people around the world may be asking why this chancellor took a year to center condolences to the relatives of the victims, do you have any idea? i know people around the world are asking why it took so long. >> the government focused on a lot of things after this attack, there was a big debate on legal issues and how to make -- how to deal with the many migrants they came to the country, a kind of legal measures have been taken, how law has to be changed in order to prevent such attacks from happening and there is talk a lot in place but what they apparently forgot is to think about how to deal with the victims families here and this is exactly the criticism they put forward and that is why it took them so long, angela merkel and the government said this was not the first time such a terror attack happened and that they simply were not prepared. brent: that is our correspondent, oliver. returning, he later to read a took place, thank you, oliver. here are some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world, uganda parliament has adjourned a debate on extending president plastic it and power. that is after soldiers stormed the building and scuffled with police, it was unclear what triggered the confrontation but it follows a similar incident back in september. south africa is oscar pistorius will have increased jet terms after murdering his government. they argued that his six-year sentence for fatally shooting his girlfriend was tooling it. they had it increased to 13.5 years. in other countries constitutional court will make a final ruling. thailand's ruling junta will use a special order to allow political parties to prepare for elections. the prime minister made the announcement on tuesday, a ban on political activity has been in place for the country since a 2014 to ousted the civilian government. time to talk taxes, but easier to do that. >> donald trump is poised for his first major legislative success after 11 months in office. the house of representatives has just passed the most sweeping rewrite of nations tax laws in more than three decades. the mostly partyline vote was 203 against, 274 in favor. this provides steep tax cuts for the wealthy and more modest ones for the middle-class class families. it will go to the senate for an expected boat on early wednesday. let's bring in our correspondent in washington. they are standing by in new york, hello to both of you. subsection form made it through the house, what about the senate russian mark i do any doubts it will be approved there as well? >> not really, everybody expects that the senate will also approved the bill even though the majority there is very tight, there is no doubt. >> what is the guest u.s. economy expecting to get out of this, be it had a lot of positive news when it comes to investors, who will benefit, >> the republicans say that this means that money will go back to middle-class families and companies who will invest the money which in turn will then create more jobs and raise wages, the democrats say this is just a handout for the rich and basically this trickle-down effect the republicans are hoping for never materialize, for me, there are three main points here. first of all, yes, there have been a few improvements for the middle class and the final version of the bill, most of the tax cuts still go to corporations and to very wealthy americans. et and in a", the republicans have now already announced that they will look into cutting welfare programs to address the budget deficit so tax cuts for some people and less money for welfare projects and the third point is that there is a provision in this bill which addresses the so-called individual mandate, it is mandate is gone, if people no longer requested to have health insurance, many young people and how they people will not have health insurance, premiums will go up for many others and millions of americans may not be of -- able to afford health insurance. >> the rich were going to a benefit, what is the atmosphere on wall street? >> wall street, in anticipation of this bill has been on a sugar high for weeks if not or months, just yesterday, the dow jones finished the day on the seventh biggest high of this year. as has never happened before, within one year, the dow jones was set records today, the market has been in a good mood even if stocks are falling a little bit. we have been on quite a run in the past couple of months. >> back to carson, what about the trump boaters? -- voters? are they disappointed? carson: no, interestingly, many are not, they seem to believe president trump and the republicans in congress that this plan will ultimately benefit them by providing more jobs and higher wages, it is quite interesting. but most opinion polls show that this plan is very unpopular in the general population,, 70% of republicans believe that this will benefit the middle class while at the same time, and i percent of democrats think it does not. once again, we see how divided this country is and the way people see the world depends on who they believe and where they get their news from. >> this tax reform may be to further division in washington dc, thank you both. on a different story, -- european companies are closely watching developments in washington, a lot of them trade with the u.s. or have subsidiaries or factories there. other countries may follow suit, lowering corporate taxes to try to attract business as well. >> trade between european union and the u.s. is booming. it will continue to do so? much of donald trump's tax reform package remains unclear. for example, it includes a 20% tax on companies purchased from foreign subsidiaries. that is aimed at discouraging american firms from producing abroad. if it also heard german carmakers with factories in the u.s. that import their components from germany. >> now there is another threat of higher duties on imports. that frightens us, they are unpredictable, they don't comply with wto rules. so nobody knows what effect they will have. >> there are no concerns tt his reform could trigger a global race to lower corporate taxes. the eu average is around 20 2%. slightly higher than in the u.s. after his legislation takes effect. in many cases, rates are much higher including in germany where it is around 30%. that could lead to german investment. one thing that trump is successful at his stimulative the american economy and if he pushes through massive tax cut, that will lead to german companies investing them. as a result, their profits and jobs could ship to the u.s. as well. america first, trumps favorite slogan may get a boost from the tax reform package. >> we are staying with donald trump because this will be music to transfuse, u.s. trade deficit fell by 90% in the third quarter to just over $100 billion. it is the smallest imbalance in the past two years. more goods traded in a bigger surplus in services and income from overseas investments, will it help shrink the current account? president donald trump has promised to reduce the trade deficit by attacking unfair trade practices and many doubt that it would spark trade was. that is your business update for now, too bad with names. >> we will turn to saudi arabia now, the kingdom says it has intercepted a ballistic rocket which was fired by humans rebel group toward riyadh. the rebels say they were targeting the royal palace in the saudi capital and this is the second time in two months that a rebel rocket has managed to reach as far as riyadh. there is going on here and to talk about the situation in yemen and saudi arabia, i am joined by my correspondent. let's talk about this latest missile fire. how much has it escalated the situation in the region? this one missile being fired? >> i don't think is one missile is causing this, it is much more the timing and the message that it is sending to saudi arabia and to the u.s. and what the u.s. and saudi arabia are making out of it. >> what is the message it is sending to them? >> two days ago, the american ambassador to the one presented evidence that the missiles that are being fired by the hutu at the saudi arabia are iranian. of course, this one missile will be understood in this contest with saudi arabia and also the u.s. are putting pressure on iran. also, this is really bored to understand, when you follow mainstream media you might get the impression that there has been one or two or three missiles fired toward saudi arabia, if you believe what the duties have been reporting, they have been sending missiles very frequently across the border. saudi arabia seems to choose which missiles it reports on and which ones it does not. >> do think that is part of the narrative? that what we are hearing in terms of rebel rockets is only part of the story, there have been more than fired? >> it appears that there have been more missiles fired. >> it is hard to verify. >> divinities are reporting this missile test fired, of course it makes sense that they would have fired more missiles and saudi arabia of course when it does make sense for them to shed light on the missile, it might make him look weak in the conflict, they will cover it up. in this case, it is of course adding to the pressure that they can put on iran because the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has opened evidence and they are clearly creating a case that iran is behind the cooties and that is only partially true. >> what we have is -- is yemen part of this proxy were between saudi arabia and iran and judging what we are seeing and reporting today, the hopes of any type of production in hostilities and improvement for the civilians there, that hope is --, do you see any change anytime soon? >> no, i don't see a plutko solution being possible, i think saudi arabia wi push back toward -- against the duties and was they feel they are in a stronger position they might be read should talk. >> we will have to see when that happens. thank you very much. brent: germany's defense minister is criticizing the withdrawal of international troops from afghanistan. she says the reduction in troop numbers is happening to quickly -- to quico quickly. >> just under a thousand personnel are serving in the hindu kush region. most of them at the cap in mazar-e-sharif. they held talks with the general's at the cap. she also spoke to ordinary soldiers -- they are making progress in securing the area but also a knowledge and setbacks. >> on the plus side, afghan security forces and the government control two thirds of the country and protect two thirds of the population. that comes at a heavy price. the taliban orchestrates spectacular attacks in the capital kabul. also in places where the international community is active. the taliban kn that that is how they will get global news coverage. >> the main task is to train the afghan security forces. not only instructors are able to do that job because there aren't enough staff to protect them. the so-called guardian angels. >> the soldiers, especially those were trained in the local instructors tell me they can do a lot more if they had more security personnel to protect them. at the moment, they can complete their assignments and the regret that. >> until now, the german government has refused to expand its mandate in afghanistan. she hosted a will to persuade parliament to look again at the harsh reality on the ground. already, 56 german soldiers have been killed on duty in the end of this region. 16 years after the start of the afghanistan mission, there is still no end in site. we have stressed time and time again that they must agree to the afghan forces are able to provide 100% security. she wants more german soldiers to fulfill the mission but it is very unlikely that the parliament will grant her quest anytime soon. brent: a court in turkey has released a turkish, german journalist pending trial for terrorism. his case has tested the artist regulations between berlin and there. he was arrested earlier this year in what human rights organizations have called a targeted crackdown on free speech in turkey. >> she can finally embrace her families again, she has been in it woman's prison since april. her three-year-old son spent time with her behind bars. >> i am very happy but also very exhausted, this has been a huge circus i still have to process. i believe in the coming days that i will get a clearer idea of what actually happened and the able to say more. >> the new freedom only go so far. turkish authorities have refused to return her passport. the charges against her, membership in a left-wing group, turkey considers a terrorist organization remain, her trial is set for spring. for the german government, the release is a good sign but not a final resolution. >> we are not at a place where we can say everything has been solved. definitely not, there are still many existing difficulties. this is a clear signal toward the easing of tensions. a step in the right direction. we are very happy for her. >> this is one of several german journalist or human rights activists arrested in turkey this year. the german government considers them political hostages. the release comes on the heels of another turkish court ruling in a german detainees favor, sociologist is now free to return to germany after nearly two years attention. that leaves a german nationals still behind bars injured -- turkey. >> to sports news now, they have -- madrid has been reported to keep over illegal contact from the start forward. the frenchman has been late with a host of top european clubs but only barcelona are the subject of the complaint. the club is accused of directly approaching his family members who also represent him. that would break people's roles. barcelona currently leads the spanish league by six points with athletic out there occurred -- closest challengers. anti-doping authorities have launched an investigation after an undercover sting from britain's daily telegraph newspaper called world 100 meter champion into question. the american sprinters agent at the time robert wagner offered testosterone and human growth hormone for a fictional client, the undercover reporters were represented. the meetings were secretly recorded on tape, the american sprinter insisted he was clean. he has been banned twice in the past in 2001 and 2006 as a result of the undercover interview, he fired wagner who now says he was just playing along with the reporters. >> is here a reminder of the top store we are following, berlin has been marking the anniversary of a terror attack on a christmas market that killed while people and injured dozens more. church does began ringing out at the exact moment that it failed asylum seeker rammed his truck into a truck -- crowded business market one year ago today. after the show break, i will take you through the day. is made possible by..." croplife america. and it's member companies and associations in the crop protection industry including: the american farm bureau foundation for agriculture. more information at: agfoundation.org. sacramento's proud to be america's farm to fork capital visit: farmtofork.com >>hi, i' jason shoultz. we'll take you to michigan where floriculture is big business. it' one of the top 5 commodities in the great lakes sta.e >>it' a very competitive industry now. there's lots of product out there for people to buy plants and work in their gardens and things like that. >>we'll visit a greenhouse operation with an eye toward protecting 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