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signature policies is facing a delay. he s now said he s willing to delay trying to secure us federal funds to build his wall along part of the border with mexico until september. the president has until the end of the week to agree federal spending plans with congress, or risk marking his hundredth day in office with a government shutdown. our north america editor jon sopel has more details. reporter: mr president, are you going to insist on border funding? donald trump made his fortune as a builder. now the president is staking a huge amount of political capital on the most controversial construction project of his life, a 2,000 mile long wall to separate the us from its southern neighbour, mexico. and no one can say it has come out of the blue. it was almost his campaign theme tune. we re going to do the wall, and by the way, who s going to pay for the wall? crowd: mexico! who is going to pay for the wall? mexico! who? mexico! but the mexicans have been blunt in thei ....
i m stephen sackur. today i m in rural northern germany. stable, prosperous, 21st century germany. but i m here to talk about the past and its relationship to the present. my guest is the writer, journalist and son, niklas frank. now, his father was appointed by hitler to be the governor general of nazi occupied poland. he was intimately involved in the murder of millions of people. so, how has this german son dealt with the terrible crimes of his father? niklas, i m wondering why you have chosen to make your life in the very far north of germany. is it because you wanted to get as far away as possible from yourfamily background in bavaria? no, i still love bavaria. and every year we have about many weeks in bavaria, in the same village where i grew up. but it was my profession as a journalist at stern magazine, which i worked for 23 years, was based in hamburg. so, i had to lure my wife, she was attached to munich, because she is a big gardener, to her house with a big ....
which brought down that country s president. hello, and welcome to bbc world news. one of president trump s signature policies has hit the buffers. his plan to build a wall along the mexican border. mr trump says he accepts he ll have to wait until at least september to get the taxpayers‘ money he needs to start construction. that cash was part of federal spending plans which democrats in congress are blocking. if it s not removed from the draft budget, that may lead to a government shutdown, coinciding with his 100th day in office. our north america editor jon sopel has more details. reporter: mr president, are you going to insist on border funding? donald trump made his fortune as a builder. now the president is staking a huge amount of political capital on the most controversial construction project of his life, a 2,000 mile long wall to separate the us from its southern neighbour, mexico. and no one can say it has come out of the blue. it was almost his campaign t ....
chelsea manning and edward up euro,arried courageous acts. they fulfilled the responsibility of some who takes citizenship seriously. that is, who believe people of the country ought to know something about amy: professor noam chomsky for the hour in a public conversation i had with him earlier this week in cambridge, massachusetts. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. president trump is slated to announce his tax plan today. the plan proposes to slash the corporate tax rate from 35% to a mere 15%. the plan would also grant the 15% tax rate to companies known as s corporations, which include both small family businesses and massive corporations, such as hedge funds and real estate empires, such as trump s own companies. the washington post reports that some of the biggest winners of trump s proposed tax cuts would be construction and retail companies. the tax plan would sharply increase ....
fine. no tents. it is four out of 10 today but i m sure we will be at least a nine or 10 by thursday meanwhile it is national telephone day so bus stop buddy got mom and dad s giant early, cell phone when they were the size of the brick. grab rain gear today, that is real message with buddy, and, and, another round just entering delaware, so it will be raining again before too long, 53 degrees right now at 16 miles an hour wind, out of the east northeast that will keep us cloudy. maybe sun will burn through a little bit but 58 is all we can expect today. two word to remember bob kelly , rainy, windy, on and off, hold on. hold on, sueby. all day long. are you talking about national telephone day, okay. ready for a flash back. i m ready what color phone do you have in the kitchen growing up. avocado green. the mustard, avocado green, had the beige, the orange. now remember the phone had to match the appliances. yes. the greenery fridge rate or , yellow ....