max foster in london. you saw boris johnson with his dog. he went to the polling station with it. 50,000 people tweeted about dogs at polling stations. this guy showed up. reindeer were at the polling station, a consequence of the timing, just before christmas. let's say it was a very interesting and colorful day in the u.k. >> aren't they supposed to be a-political, the reindeers? >> we don't know who they voted for. >> still. >>> avenfter months of negotiations, president trump has signed off on a phase one trade deal with china. the two have been arguing over specifics. cnn's david culver is live in beijing with the latest. hi, david. >> hey, amara. let's look at this agreement. this includes a delay on tariffs on chinese gods that were scheduled to pick in on sunday. these are consumer goods. the deal also includes reducing the existing tariffs. that's important because that's the october deal, similar to where we are now, fell apart. the chinese insisted they wanted a bigger rollback on tariffs. the chinese will go forward with that. ch

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max foster is tracking the latest developments live from london. another election over brexit, max. >> yes. there would normally be one election over five years. this is also the first december election in 100 years. the polls were open over 150 constituencies. because of that, that's all i can say. there's strict reporting rules for broadcasters in this country. we can't talk about campaign issues or the polls, any political statements or anything the candidates are saying, effecti effectively. anything we're seeing to do to sway the votes could mean one of us ends up in prison. the irony is that the same rules don't apply to newspapers. i have two newspapers here. i can show youpages. i can't show you the front of them because both of them are endorsing one side or the other. the other irony ask that the rules don't apply to social media. we can't show you the tweets because we're broadcasters. >> short and sweet. we don't want you to go to jail. we'll leave it there. max foster, thank you. >>> a would-be thief picked the wrong time to rob a conv

news live from berlin coming up shift living in the digital age i'm max foster thanks for joining us i'll be back at the top the hour with more world. was the speech of his life perhaps his best certainly his most difficult. the speech by calling dresden on december 19th 1989. shortly after the fall of the of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the mideast tense the crown climbers for german unity journalist peter lim borg was on the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the. interest and starts december 19th t w. these days more people can afford to travel than ever before i'm constantly daydreaming about my next holiday but how can you travel smart how can you help preserve the environment and sides and avoid bothering locals i want topic for they on ship. tourism is the looming 1400000000 people travel internationally every year half of them in europe but tourism doesn't only bring profit places like the broth nick. and venice struggling to handle tourist rolls some say they have been b. is pushing out local residents and turning entire cities into a giant hotels

i'm max foster thanks for joining us. the leaders of china japan and south korea have agreed to work together to promote dialogue between the united states and north korea chinese premier league atro japanese premier shinzo obey and south korean president moon j n held a summit in chengdu in china against the backdrop of increasing threats from pyongyang north korea has said it will take unspecified action if sanctions against it are not lifted by the end of the year. they called it a new era of the 3 kingdoms it's believed use of china japan and south korea met for talks but the one we just setting the agenda for summit was not at the table. north korea's kim jong il after the latest tests at the launch site earlier this month regional powers are concerned pyongyang is about to undo efforts to ease tensions. we agreed that peace on the korean peninsula was in the common interest of the 3 countries we also agreed to make efforts together to help promote north korea u.s. dialogue for denuclearization and peace. the possibi

i'm max foster thanks for joining us tens of thousands of people have gathered in rome to protest against the divisive rhetoric of far right leader met teo salvia me and his anti immigration league party the movement started just a month ago as a flash mob participants adopted the name sardines as they aim to fill public squares as tightly as little fish packed inside tin cans. many say it's a youth led movement but people of all ages showed up in rome on saturday. there calling for more humanity and less racism in italian politics it's only been a month since the saudi movement was spawned but this weekend tens of thousands assembled from around the country they gathered in piazza sanjeev ani a traditional rallying spot for leftwing demonstrations. that's what i meant to sort of alluding to we certainly have values much closer to the left than to the right but i believe that at this stage with the supremacist populist front so powerful and impetuous a progressive front is much more necessary than the left front see stuff you could see was. that concern widespread support for this man sal

foster thanks for joining us i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world. was the speech of his life perhaps his best certainly his most difficult. the speech by calling dresden on december 19th 1989. shortly after the fall of the of the chancellor addresses.

max foster outside 10 downing street, a very wet 10 downing street. thanks very much max. it's still the early hours of friday the 13th in the uk. it's 6 minutes past 6:00 in the morning. an unlucky day for britain's labour party. tabloids letting their views be known about the conservative majority. keeping the style of the season with the headline "rejoice! bors set for a thumping win." very different view showing picture of boris johnson with a headline "the nightmare before christmas" and "the guardian" says "labour in meltdown." major changes across various parties. anna stewart takes a look for us. >> as soon as the initial exit polanded, it was clear the party were heading for a significant victory. and i want to show you the map of the uk after the 2017 election because this shows you the seat that is the conservative party were after. the labour red wall that goes north through wales and into northeast england. take a look at 2017 and take a look at what happened in this election. many of those seats turning blue. these are seats that have voted for labour for gen

max foster, cnn, london. >>> a programming note now as you make your new year's eve plans. ring in 2020 with anderson cooper and andy cohen. new year's eve live begins right here on 8:00 p.m. on cnn. erica hill fills in for jake tapper on "the lead." it starts right now. >>> keep throwing haymakers on boxing day. "the lead" starts right now. >>> hours after christmas message about understanding and respect, president trump unloads on speaker pelosi, as the battle over what, when and how of the senate trial continues. information warfare. a new report details a military's plan to launch a counter cyber attack, a brush of messes with 2020 as it did. >>> how benjamin netanyahu is trying to pull a trump to hang on. welcome to "the lead." i'm

particularly over international fighting networks. >> max foster, thank you so much. good to see you, as always, president trump has been a disrupter of nato, since taking office as he promised he would be. you have said that president trump was a wakeup call for a complacent alliance. do you ever think he's gone too far? >> i think president trump's leadership of the nato alliance has been effective. if you look at defense spending among all nato partners. they have increased spending over the past three years. and even nato has been effusive in his praise actually of president trump's leadership of the nato alliance. i say you really have to look at the big picture here. are more u.s. troops on the ground than under president obama. you have a far bigger presence on eastern europe, and i think president trump's pressure certainly has increased the willingness of nato allies too spend more on defense. a lot more needs to be done on that front. but we are making progress, i would argue that trump's no nonsense approach has been overall pretty effective in raising the

max foster, cnn, london. >>> with me now is royal commentator, richard fits williams. i want to start with prison andrew there. he's kept a low profile. he did attend a private christmas service with other members of the family. what do you know about his standing within the royal family right now? >> i think it couldn't be worse, quite frankly. i mean, we've had max's pointed this out, an interview so ghastly that i don't even know the age ektives in the english language with which to adequately describe it. his step back showed me and i think that that will be permanent. remember also that 230 charities and personages some of which are distancing themselves from him. there's also the problem of a lot of scrutiny, these allegations in the british press, about the lifestyle that he and his ex, who wouldn't know the meaning of the word restraint and dignity, have carried on for years. and there is his daughter princess betris marrying. that ought to be low-key. the prish public and press will scrutinize how this is handled. >> they're under a spotlight. the duke and duc

max foster, cnn, london. >> max is not kidding. that was a bumpy year. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu rushed off the stage at a campaign event last night after a rocket was fired from gaza into southern israel. this is almost identical to what happened just before the september election. netanyahu is vowing to hold on to power in his third campaign in 12 months. despite being the first sitting prime minister to face bribery, fraud and breach of trust, he is favored to win today's primary election. >>> the u.s. has recalled its ambassador to zambia over comments criticizing the stance on gay rights. ambassador daniel foote criticizing the jailing of a gay couple and spoke out on corruption. zambia's president wrote to the u.s. asking for his withdrawal. >>> with six fewer days between thanksgiving and christmas this year, retailers pulled out all the stops to drive sales. and it looks like it paid off. a report from mastercard shows online sales hit a record high this holiday season making up 14.6 of total retail sale

max foster is live at the prime minister's residence in london with the breaking details. it's safe to say this is a bigger victory than many expected. >> reporter: oh, to be a fly on the wall in the palace today. the queen and boris johnson had a falling out earlier in the year when he asked her to suspend par luliament and that found to be illegal. but they got a fresh start now. he will in theory be prime minister now for the next five years. they're going to resolve things i think within that conversation there's going to be a discussion about unity. because brexit has absolutely divided this country and last night was a clear message from the british public. let's show you an ad that ran in the latter stages of the campaign. it shows boris johnson, a parity of "love actually" the movie where he has this key message of dpet brexit done. that's what resonated to the extent where labor supporting who voted for brexit switched to conservative overnight. an extraordinary achievement by boris johnson. and with that message, he now has a mandate to push ahead with brexit. a

max foster joins us from 10 downing street where johnson has begun forming a new government. enormous implications here, max. brexit is going to happen, one, but also this is a genuine threat to the united kingdom staying together, right? scotland might vote for independence, northern ireland? big implications. >> absolutely. so there is the central message that boris johnson went into this campaign with was get brexit done. and he had a resounding success on that front. we know that because there are labor constituencies, traditionally labor constituencies where they voted brexit and they switched to conservative which is a huge move. they didn't really buy in to this jeremy corbyn labor argument, a stronger public services, taxing the wealthy. they didn't buy into that broad agenda. they went for the sole brexit agenda. you're intimating there about the scottish story which is different. the scottish nationalists swept the board there. they dominate scottish politics now and they did go very big on public services. so two separate stories there. and also nicholas sturgeon,

foster reporting for us at the hague thank you very much. let's get a roundup now of some other stories making headlines around the world saudi arabian oil giant aramco has become the world's largest listed company after making its debut on the country's stock exchange the state owned energy companies $25000000000.00 and national public offering is the biggest ever of history saudi arabia is privatizing assets as a step towards reducing its reliance on oil. at least 6 people including one police officer were killed in an hour's long gun battle in the us state of new jersey the officer was shot dead near a cemetery and 2 suspects then fled to a supermarket 3 people on the 2 suspected gunmen were killed in the gunfight inside the supermarket. tens of thousands of people returned to the streets of prague to urge the czech prime minister i'm sure about this to resign the latest protest was fueled by the country's chief prosecutor's decision last week to reopen an investigation into its over allegations of fraud involving european union subsidies

max foster live in london for us. >>> after a year saying he did nothing wrong, duncan hunter will plead guilty to illegally using campaign funds. he is change his plea to avoid a trial that would be tough on his kids. his wife conspired with her husband to divert campaign funds for personal use. despite his indictment, he knorr r narrowly won re-election in 2016. >>> jimmy carter back in the hospital less than a year after he left a different hospital in atlanta, following a two-week stay. the 95-year-old carter was administered over the weekend for treatment of a urinary tract infection. he is already feeling better and looks forward to returning home soon. he was hospitalized to relieve pressure on his brain. that was the result of recent falls. he was released in time for thanksgiving. >>> the fbi says something you probably are using right now, right this moment, could be spying on you. details, next. >>> we're going to tune into the president speaking now. he's at the nato 70th anniversary meetings. let's listen in. >> doing a fantastic job. we appreciate it. the secretary-general

max foster live from london with the latest details. >> reporter: christine, last month, brits famously heard from the accused in that explosive bbc interview. now, they're hearing from the accuser. and the accuser says only one of them can be telling the truth. the allegations by virginia roberts giuffre, put prince andrew under more pressure. he knows what happened. i know what happened. and there's only one of us telling the truth and i know that's me. >> reporter: in an interview with the bbc, she lays down claims that she was trafficked to the duke of york. they made in a nightclub in 2001, with epstein and his girlfriend. >> he asked me to dance. he is the most hideous dancer. it was horrible. >> she was forced to have sexual relations with him, in london, new york and in u.s. virgin islands. buckingham palace told cnn, it emphatically denied that the duke of york had any form of sexual conduct or relationship with virginia roberts. the queen's son gave an interview to the bbc last month. >> are you saying you don't believe her? she's lying? >> that's a difficult thing to answer.

let's bring in melissa bell in brussels and london correspondent max foster standing by at 10 downing street. max, if i may start with you. we saw boris johnson already moving and ready in action. are we expecting to hear from him and what might we hear? >> well, i think we got a little indication in that clip you played. he's talking about one-nation conservatism. this is conservatism for everyone in the buuk. not just the business class, but the workers as well. he's a centrist. which is interesting because many people see him as a right-wing figure because of brexit. he's arguing once he's got brexit done, which as christiane says, is now going to happen, he can focus on such projects such as the nhs. think that's going to be in the speech a little later on. the podium is going to be coming out. boris johnson has never voted for a hard brexit. a deal with the eu at the end of japa january. there is going to be no referendum over brexit. you can't see how that's politically possibly. we've got donald trump tweeting now that a deal with the united states is almost certain. so that's

cnn's max foster live in london with the latest. what is day, max. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. the third election in five years but normally there's only one in that period. the first december election in nearly a hundred years and 650 constituencies now up and rolling now. all those polls are open in those constituencies. because of that, unfortunately, i can't tell you very much. because there are tight restrictions on broadcasters on a polling day. we can't talk about campaign issues. we can't talk about the polls. we can't even talk about the candidates and their political statements. anything that we say that may be construed as affecting the vote could result in me ending up in jail. so we're sticking to the rules. the irony is the newspapers don't have the same rules. so i've got two in front of me. both endorsing one side or the other. i can't show you the front though. even though these newspapers are available across the united kingdom. and they're also tweeting those articles. because their roles don't apply to social media either. but we're broadcasters and sticking

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max foster is live in london with a preview. what's this about? >> it's interesting, isn't it? normally a host leader would automatically request and be granted a bilateral with a visiting u.s. president. but not the case this time. i think the reality here is we're in the middle of a general election campaign. donald trump is a divisive figure. johnson has a lady in the polls and they don't want to risk that in any way with donald trump who may embarrass boris johnson. downing street saying this -- the white house though open to the opportunity of a bilateral, we're told. they're much more focused, though, on many of the issues coming up at nato. this is to be a celebration of 70 years of this great alliance. lots of splits forming. so donald trump and the u.s. very big on the china angle, chine chinese influence. also president macron very keen on rethinking the whole idea of nato as well. so there are going to be lots of splits appearing. the other element we'll come up with a isis off the back of this terror attack in london last week. >> let's talk about that, max, this is

for you, cnn newsroom with max foster is next. for u.s. viewers, congress, they're going home for the holidays, and there's no agreement on how to run an impeachment trial. the president is upset about this. "new day" continues right now. >>> the house continues to hem and haw about whether and when they intend to transact the accusations to the senate. >> this is a political stunt. it's not funny. >> frankly, i don't care what the republicans say. >> if anyone has reason to be angry with the republicans, it's me. >> candidates squaring off in the final democratic debate of the year. >> you want to talk about the capacity to win? try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office as a gay dude in mike pence's indiana. >> if you had won in indiana, that would be one thing. you tried and you lost. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >>> good morning and welcome to your "new day," friday, december 20th. 8:00 in the east. congress is done for the year. the impeached president is heading to mar-a-lago, and no on

cnn's max foster is live at buckingham palace in london with some of the exclusive details. sort of a good cop, bad cop routine here from the president? >> reporter: absolutely. but first of all before we've got that reception, we've got that amazing macron trump bilateral, everyone wanting to be a fly on the wall in that. you may remember that ahead of this meeting president macron was very concerned about the situation in turkey and syria, worried about the way america pulled troops out of northern syria, how turkey went in there and encouraged those incursions there all outside the nato realm. he wants the whole idea of the alliance to be reconsidered, which didn't go down very well with donald trump. macron effectively saying the organization is brain dead because of america's actions. donald trump saying this morning nato serves a great purpose. i think it's very insulting or surprised, it's very disrespectful. so that's the tone they're going to be going into this bilateral meeting with this afternoon. then as you say, a reception here at buckingham palace hosted by th

virginia giuffre tells the bbc that prince andrew is lying about this and max foster has more. >> the allegations made by virginia roberts giuffre put prince andrew under more measure. >> there's only one of us telling the truth and i know that's me. >> in ab interview with the bbc she doubled down on claims that she was trafficked to the duke of york at the age of 17 by jeffrey epstein. giuffre says they met at a london nightclub with epstein and his girlfriend. >> he asked me to dance. he is the most hideous dancer i've ever seen in my life. i mean, it was horrible. this guy was sweating all over me. >> she was forced to have sexual re relations with him in london, new york and the u.s. virgin islands. prince andrew denies all the allegations. buckingham palace told cnn on monday that's emphatically denied that the duke of york had any form of sexual contact or relationship with virginia roberts, any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation. the queen's son gave a now notorious interview to the bbc last month. >> are you saying you don't believe her? she's lying? >> tha

for you cnn newsroom with max foster is next. for our u.s. viewers, democrats are ramping up their demands for the senate impeachment trial. "new day" continues right now. >> newly released e-mails reveal that white house has ordered to freeze ukraine aid came roughly 90 minutes after president trump's call with president zelensky. >> this e-mail is explosive. >> the president is making the stakes. i don't know if this call was a mistake. >> they're looking for a fair trial, not a fake trial. >> this is the last episode of 2019, but if you're back, this is the first episode since i left back in 1984. if you had told me 30 years ago that i would be this boring, stay-at-home, you know, house dad and bill cosby would be in jail -- >> who is america's dad now! >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> i'm sorry we cut that off. his facial expression after that was very bill cosby also. >> classic jello pudding pops. a lot there that was epic. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day." monday, december 23rds, 8:00 in

the night in the land areas in 7 is a max would suggest that it's going to feel a little bit colder in hong kong and in shanghai we are in double figures and we're hanging around that way the cloud might increase on wednesday along this east coast largely because the typhoon on its way through the philippines is just bringing everything in his general direction but the dry picture the mainland china apart from little bit up in you know. now i just mention the philippines that's where the typhoon is ways through that wraps itself with this cloak of showers and drags them back through southern philippines but that's a line that still active otherwise back through permissiveness the southern thailand still kuala lumpur singapore still the sherry regime a good part of borneo and some of into the zipper there's a lot yes there could be a few showers and western java but it's in that story at the moment is not really a proper rainy season nor should it be quite january is more the time it gets really heavy rain this is unusual there's been flooding around chennai the shouldn't really be r

the fosters monthly contraction since march. businesses have blamed secu dimond on uncertainty brought on by the impending general election that comes on top of a global economic slowdown and the brexit crisis services has weakened because of some concerns that the new relationship between the uk and the european union will it be a dye divergent relationship the loss of the standards and also the started recognition regulation. that underpins a lot of the services based economy will start to diverge and not will introduce some friction some additional costs the u. k. companies. the industry which includes everything from retail and leisure it and financial services. to forty nine point three on the purchasing managers index. the readings on a scale of one to a hundred with anything below fifty signaling contraption. it comes off the separate figures indicated that construction and manufacturining up in the u. k. also declined last month. british firms say the holding off on new projects until the country's future becomes clara.