新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/02/08（在线收听）

德国历时五月终组阁；叙利亚政府军与反动派酣战

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Zhaoying

Coming up：

--State Councilor Yang Jiechi is on his trip to Washington

--Germany reaches breakthrough in coalition deal, paving the way for a new government

--Death toll mounts in Syria siege enclave

--China's foreign trade exceeded 2.5 trillion yuan last month

For more on this, CRI's Zhaoying now joined on the line by Tao Wenzhao, senior research fellow of Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science；Mr. Christoph Pohlmann Resident representative for China Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung；Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran, early spoke to my colleague Su Yi；Michael R. Powers, Zurich Insurance Group Professor of risk and finance at Tsinghua university, and victor Gao, current affairs commentator, earlier spoke with my colleague Zhao Yang.