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Trump won the us presidency and today voters are going to the polls in the state of virginia in a closely watched governor s race now virginia is an east coast state that s located just south of the capital washington d.c. it is almost evenly divided between democrats and republicans donald trump narrowly lost virginia to hillary clinton so what can the virginia governor s race tell us about the state of u.s. politics since trump took office debby s washington correspondent alex hunter from naaman went to find out. this is the most important governor s election inone let s turn it over really yes everywhere meet at kill us be a republican loyalist and lobbyist who wants to become virginius next governor we ve got a secular growth and job creation and wage growth for junior should be first in the country and we can do the right policy economy education health care issues that matter in this race is key challenge however has been to maintain ....
Alexander fun naaman alexander let s start with you how did gabrielle speech go down there in the assembly what was the reception. well i would say from what are still pretty well as you know germany is seen here as a very trusted were see and reliable partner a partner that is perspectives by many members of the u.n. general assembly and many of them were quite astonished and happy to see the german foreign minister here only a few days before the german election so the speech went down pretty well and the reason for that might be what you just said that in the he s an address the german foreign minister tried to set a sort of counterpoint to mr trump s message to the you and general assembly saying that putting your country first cannot solve any problems it can only lead to more conflicts and less prosperity and stressing that germany has experienced that that ....
Our washington correspondent now constant fun naaman ed cotton of course this is a significant development but experience teaches us that the u.s. president can tear up any deal so should we treat this with some caution. absolutely i think it s more of a truce than the actual piece and also a lot of things are not clear yet this deal so far is just words for instance when it comes to so it seems it s not clear how the e.u. will actually manage to make sure that the europeans buy more soybeans because how can they force the european consumers or companies to buy that stuff with liquefied natural gas also some technical conditions have to be fulfilled first and then when it comes to the negotiations about reduced tariffs and other trade barriers this is ....
And so they point pressure on trump so in the way of course the european union did goods to stand united but also young cope was lucky that this was a good timing and trump was ready to declare victory and move on our correspondent cost and fun and naaman in washington thank you constance well the concept of free trade was fan fed in the bric summit in south africa and leaders of the brics nations signed a declaration stating that the signatories want quote an open and inclusive multilateral trading system as envisioned by the world trade organization but critics say political and economic self interest play the leaders of the five brics emerging economies immortalized their hand prints in clay they ll be put on display in south africa s creating the human kind to see him play the oldest find of human bones and also exhibit it. it s an image that says we act ....
A worldwide growth of nearly four percent that s this year and next and that would be the fastest pace since twenty eleven the u.s. economy will benefit from president trumps tax cuts which are likely to boost the country s economy through to twenty twenty growth is predicted to move up to almost three percent however those tax cuts combined with increased spending could be damaging in a few years time the i.m.f. warns the eurozone is expected to benefit from continued low interest rates the i.m.f. forecasts growth of almost two and a half percent to twenty eighteen which might slow down the year after so short term predictions are good long term not so much i spoke to washington correspondent for naaman asking him why did i.m.f. is pessimistic about the future. one the international monetary fund is concerned about what it calls geopolitical strains which could lead to trade was all real was ....