berlin the rush hard to germany's parliament it was right here the final flight of world war two took place. there ever fewer surviving witnesses to the events of those days soviet veterans will never forget what happened sixty five years ago you show us the gun fire corpses plane that's how the reichstag looked by the end of april one thousand nine hundred forty one. german soldiers fought for every piece of land didn't really try to stand to the last man against soviet troops. to more than fifty thousand soldiers and officers died over russian polish and german each of us fought for our own model and you know for the russians for theirs you get one twenty four hours. battle lasted for two weeks the red flag was raised on the top of the lifestyle game a nine hundred forty five. became the symbol of victory of soviet people over fascism. in one thousand nine hundred five vassily used to go off was an anti-tank gun platoon commander he still keeps them out that he got before assaulting berlin get there got the rhythm of going to this is a map they gave out before the dawn get them away

britain was aiming to see germany destroy on the other hand it wanted the soviet union weakened as much as possible i mean by their real concern was to all the appearance of a new arrival on the concert of the. continued. in early april before most u.s. troops were about one hundred kilometers west of berlin there were almost no battle ready german army facing them all of them had been moved to eastern front to repulse the soviet offensive. horizon ours known to have asked general simpson whether u.s. troops could take berlin if i was lost as he expected in that case simpson said he expected some thirty thousand an. hour said that wouldn't do for us troops were to hold their positions at the russians do the fighting. on april first stalin called a meeting of his supreme command where he decided that the berlin operation should start in mid april. i think that if roosevelt hadn't signed on april the twelfth and would have agreed to the participation of the western allies forces in the assault on a limb. as a kind of toll would prevent the allies from stabbing him in the. roosevelt the so

some estimates say one in seven workers in germany are directly dependent on the auto industry. more than two million muslims converged on mounarafat as the hajj pilgrimag hh point on monday. they believe that is where the ofit mohamd delired his final sermon. >> on monday, mount arafat was - robed pilgrims. a seemingly endless stream of men and women converged on the riteohammed is believed to have delivered his final sermon. during their stay on mount arafathmountajj pilgrims -- on mount arafat hajj pray for forgiveness for their sins. s a good feeling. i wish every muslim could be here today. it is a great day. >> i am looking for god's mercy, his forgiveness, and great reward. >> every muslim who is healthy nfo i is duty-bound to make the pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime. the annual event creates a huge authorities in saudi arabia. past pilgrages havbeen marred by a deadly stampede, fi a oer disasters. this year, there have been no major problems. after prayers on mount arafat, pilgrim's move on to their neby ai to spend the night. they collect the stones that will

and then a big decision has to be made by germany. should we cross the 30th parallel and try to achieve, as it is later described in the 1952 campaign, as liberation will back? truman is under tremendous political pressure it seems to me to cross the parallel. .. >> will be able to mop up the north korean forces in a very short time. and he predicts the chinese will not come into the fighting. he said he had seen the chinese fight in world war ii. of course, what he had seen was chiang kai-shek. he said if they come into the fighting, they will be the greatest. we will decimate them. he was dead wrong. because the chinese do come into the fighting. they drive the americans and south koreans back down the peninsula. we surge again as we did in the initial fighting, drive back to the 30th parallel, and, of course, this was where both sides are to this day. all of these years, all of these years later. three million koreans perish in that conflict. 900,000 chinese lose their lives. over 35,000 american troops lose their lives. what was t

germany and their article which is called russia and europe from learning the crisis lessons to a new agenda in partnership it reads i quote in a few years we will have worn interest to share and a deficit of energy resources that means high prices for european consumers and quote what exactly makes russia and probably gazprom so unhappy about the new nepean engine rooms this topic was a serious subject of a recent celebration meeting in brussels well instead of just looking for work it was at the u.s. history of russia european union dialogue we concentrated i was thinking and while it was a serious ones is introduction as asserting as you make it should be imitation of which is spoiled for being called next year and there's a reason of our concern that if this package will be implemented. it will means or the interest of serious players to invest in infrastructure will be substantially duty or egypt and if it will happen. it will be no investment to solve the lack of capacity this was in upstream in midstream and there's a result supply demand rules will play and. customers will be

market in germany you. will also be region in underground storage supply and go across the most was a guess which you up i'm convinced the ground storage is in the u.k. where were you close though a customer to see the retail sector i was joking was it nowhere in the position to feed as a gives of the pretty beautiful it was because most of what i was one history of. then we even had a couple of majors there and the british premier league mr medvedev speaking of the liberal marxist that you were mentioning a minute ago. norway and qatar are giving more flexible terms to today you can point to what can gas problem do to make russian gas more competitive are you ready to compromise on prices and what about the other as egypt has very often presented one of the easier forces because we know like it from inside. of a joint venture sort of a subsidy it is close to the cost those would would do know how the system works and it's acquired. exaggerations that now you could buy gas was a guaranteed supply on the spo

there was just one day left before the capitulation of germany. for your convenience our comfortable shuttle bus will take you to the. just a few hours of searching virgin forest and scary times current affairs and you're directly. on the move. scorching soil. there are included. with the wild lunar rover for free. the typical german town of toronto on the elbow river like in many provincial cities the pace of life is slow here. might never have been known to the world if not for the events of april twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred forty five. more calm or calm on the day an american patrol came to door go and climb to dob as sixteenth century castle zaandam there they saw a bridge over the albert river it was blown out by the germans and they saw the soviet soldiers on the eastern of the commander left an unwilling robertson indeed took a battle in and drew an american flag on it. climbs to the castle settings on more promise and looked outside and threw the flag out of the window and that very moment he heard the whistle of a shell coming

in late 1942, the first reports came in from sis agents who visited germany. they were not british nationals, of course. they couldn't visit germany, but they were agents working for other country nationalities, particularly from scanned knave ya, and that was the first indication we had something was up, and that was during 1943, and in april of 1943 a volunteer came to the embassy in switzerland, a mutual country, and left a detailed report of the main center for the b1 and be-weapons. -- b-weapons. initially, they didn't take this report seriously. they sent it back to london thinking they will not be interested in this, and bang, a message came back saying this is interesting stuff. get what you can. in august 1943, substantially, not entirely on the basis of that reporting, significantly on that basis, the raf on the 19th of august launched a raid and had substantial damage causing much of the work to be transferred else where and delay the work for two to three months at least. there were subsequent raids and a fairly large number of intelligence reports

can muster support from economic heavyweights like germany and other countries in europe for that matter i think what it means is that the u.s. will be on the defensive this g. twenty meeting it will have very few friends willing to support the position that it's taken on its own domestic policies but i would not expect the u.s. to change its policy in response to these international pressures because mr bernanke the federal reserve mr guy i know the treasury secretary see themselves as making policy only for the benefit of the u.s. economy not for the world as a whole they believe that what's good for the u.s. economy will eventually be good for the rest of us. but why do you think washington is doing that i mean what are what is it aiming to achieve what are its long term goals i mean if this move is so unpopular why is washington doing that well we have to understand the policymakers in the us that are on the a lot of pressure from the u.s. population to do something to alleviate the rising unemployment and the troubles in the housing sector and so there's going to be a tendency for p

as germany grappled with how the media energy needs. surprisingly green solution details coming your way in just a few minutes. in switzerland people are heading to the polls for a referendum on whether foreign criminals should be expelled from the country nationwide ballot was initiated by a right wing party their proposed measures have raised the question of whether discriminating against immigrants. for. just a year after the swiss voted in favor of a controversial law banning the building of new minarets and mosques they're going back to the polls for another yes or no decision now this time it's in relation to the mandatory expulsion of foreign criminals who have committed serious offenses such as murder or rape the proposal for the slaughter was put forward by the a swiss people's party people with. heavy current courier there is no place for them in switzerland that is the idea they are getting a lot of support actually from people according to initial surveys because of all these stories of swiss nationals being attacked by fore

on the victory over nazi germany. the follow. on r.g.p. . joins us for business updates and good news for the management at google next year we have and i yesterday says it would increase that pay by thirty percent a possible. suspect defecting to the likes of facebook places in the program but first this hour russian prime minister vadim infusion is to hold talks with his ball garion counterparts work up a result from six fia topping the agenda is energy cooperation and primarily the construction of the south stream gas pipeline intended to pump russian gas to europe under the black sea and agreement to allow the creation of a joint stock company to oversee the production of the bow garion section by the end of the year at exxon's and desire of a senior gas analyst metropole i.f.c. gave azzi his views on the if that. well gary sickie contrail for it deciding which park plan will be old and probably which pipeline will be the first one in the book stream. pretty important contra for the spy plans for the book is essential basically for all o

the show is their first exclusive exhibition in germany. cracks -- >> they are in a very special position, not just nationally, but internationally. the connect things onion and unique way. on one hand, they have the spaces and architecture. there's also the performance space displayed on in these rooms. >> a graffiti artist was invited to add to their work. and visitors are likewise encouraged to become directly involved. >> and here, they are allowed to spy on their neighbors. >> there is underlying humor and irony in the art. [unintelligible] >> there is just as much mellon collie. >> the artists are a perfect team and have also been a couple in private for 15 years. does that help with their creativity? >> it is good for the working relationship at some point. >> they have become stars in their own right in the art world. >> just before we go, a reminder of our website -- www.dw- world.de/english/euromaxx. that is all for now then. goodbye. xxñww

and in that respect russia is not doing as well as it might and for that matter france and germany and some other countries with very distinguished academic traditions like this country are also not doing as well however in most of those countries in japan in hong kong in mainland china in singapore for as examples their universities are come. thing up and russia needs to worry about not only the americans and the canadians and the australians but the universities in those emerging countries to which are investing very heavily i think one of the problems in russia is that there isn't enough sustained investment in the higher education sector particularly those are the top class universities the well known the new national research university vestment as you mention is one of the factors that's also also rated yes yes well we now may add a chance to see if moscow think that there are enough skilled professionals in their country spotlights eladio on that has the details on that. i there today i'll try to find out if muscovites think that there are more than enough people in this country

in a moment, the stuff before communism in parts of germany. but first, business news. >> temple of capitalism? i kind of like that. let's talk about it because there is a shift in strategy at the world's biggest mobile operator. it is moving out of japan to focus on india, africa, and europe. it is selling its stake in the carrier softbank 4 $5 billion. it also hinted at other sales, saying it wants to concentrate on what it believes are its most valuable growth opportunities. one company watchers said there are speculations that it may offload its stake in -- that it depends on how aggressive they will be with the strategy -- >> it depends on how aggressive they will be with the strategy. the announcement this morning -- they did say that they were of looking to offload any assets that were not a major part of the business, but it generated revenue, but not significant revenue. they will be selling the stake on verizon at some point in the next couple of years or so. but that will happen fairly soon. >> is this the right strategy? you said it

this can lead to great some stability in the markets among all the leading critics of germany the world's fourth largest economy its finance minister calling the us helpless i don't think the us is making its case any stronger through the measures that is taking through printing dollars to weaken its own currency because that looks far too much like a competitive devaluations one hundred european countries see it as a dangerous move because what it could do is increase the capital control around the world but that's not what barack obama wants to hear the president's call for germany along with china and japan to rely last fall bad dominant export markets and spend more to its all of death is the truth is that no one is happy with today's international monetary system especially the dominance of the dollar as a reserve currency and america's management of it and what business leaders want the g twenty to realize is that nations will have to fight their natural urge to try and protect their own countries trade and should boost foreign investment i listed it r.t. seoul south korea. well joi

at the g-20 summit, germany gave a firm and no to any caps on trade exports. it is no wonder germany's economy is growing and is depending on orders from abroad. gdp grew in the third quarter by 0.7%. that was a slowdown compared to the 2.3% in the spring. that was the strongest quarterly expansion in two decades. economists forecast gdp will continue to expand as demand for exports and domestic consumer spending both remain robust. >> there's still uncertainty surrounding the safety of the engines that the airbus jumbo passenger jet a380 has following the emergency landing of a qantas of jack last week in singapore. eads reported earnings in the first nine months of the year plummeted. >> airbus he' latest near disaster has just come july. in august, screams and the cockpit of an airbus a380 went blank in mid flight -- screens went blank. for a short while, there was no way of maneuvering the plane. an electrical defect was to blame for the failure and a global said the warning has been issued. the manufacturer has plenty of problems. deliveries of the super

so they've got to remain am informed germany travel to sweden northern ireland post war off the republic of ireland welcome to norway portugal host and iberian battle with world and european champions spain. meanwhile ahead of all those matches fever has released a new world rankings where russia have slipped down three places drop out of the top ten into certain spots there are no other changes of the top ten in the world and european champions spain are still in the list of top runners up the netherlands on second with brazil in a place that followed by germany argentina england you're quite going to go to a shelter not egypt but there's one place to capture ten spots. greece and no one is there ahead of russia occupying eleven and twelve spots respectively the capitals men are high up in two thousand and six world cup winners italy and also russia euro twenty nine campaign croupy rival slovakia orating. meanwhile russia's bid to host the twenty eighteen world cup has been given a boost after fifo described it as a low risk for officials visited all the bidding nations in the summer an

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big three older nazi germany. the fall of the. wealthy british. holds. the. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy in. india in the movie. the gateway to the grand imperial trilogy to tell us to. read this and the hotel retreat. two thirty am in the russian capital good to have you with us here on our team using your headlights leaders of the g. twenty nations agreed to try and avoid deliberate currency devaluations an all out warfare but doubts remain over whether they'll stay true to their word washington has accused beijing of artificially keeping the water weak to gain a global trade advantage and. a leading newspaper and. ames a senior russian intelligence chief moose and we did says blew the cover of a lot of balls in the biggest spy scandal since the end of a cold war publication claims the man was a double agent and helped washington with intelligence gathering. and israel forces pro palestinian charities underground after accusing a number of them of having terrorist links the israeli interior ministry stopped issuing permits to many

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germany is basking in the limelight as one of this year's capitals of culture. we went to one house that brings a spot of color. >> curved and straight. it is a striking building with a simple structure located next to a fully functional steel works. ♪ >> welcome to the blue house. please come in. >> the photographer has lifted for six years with her daughter -- lived here for six years with her daughter. her partner has built a house next door. they stumbled upon it back in the 1980's. it took her a long time to warm up to the industrial landscape. in the year 2000, the couple finally decided to buy the land. ♪ >> i had an architect. he decided that because i am a photographer, he would design the house as a classic camera for journalism. the proportions are different the can see the rounded and long straight lines. that was the regional idea. -- that was the of original idea. >> large windows provide great views of the landscape in the living and dining areas. the view is almost like a painting. >> it is a bit like a gateway to the outside world. light is

in germany an export giant defends its right not to surrender its strength by spending more abroad to appease u.s. calls to help economic recovery much of europe seems to be sitting back and watching how this will all play out no one is willing to budge on the fundamentals not china not germany not the united states most certainly the group also agreed to develop early warning indicators to prevent economic turmoil but the question now is that enough to prevent this cast class from getting out of control and he's now a r t from seoul south korea. the us had that wanted to use the g twenty to pressure china but ended up having to explain his own actions instead that's what leading global currency. go to mommy told us in the week the us was really looking for the g twenty to be a forum to continue to pressure china and to have you know more unified front against china asian currencies current account surplus countries. from from the rest of the world and what it actually ended up turning into was that the u.s. had to go in there and do the tables were turned that the u.s. actually had t

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energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business visit to germany you can stay with us for those details that story coming up a little later. but first the people of switzerland approve the proposed law to expel foreign criminals from the country the nationwide ban it was initiated by a right wing party the measures had raised questions over whether the swiss are discriminating against immigrants is in zurich for us. so today in a referendum the swiss people have decided in favor of a new law making it mandatory for foreign criminals convicted of serious crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country now this has been a very controversial issue since the proposal was initially passed and today the decision has been made the swiss are in favor of this law and a change of mentality but this we know what the population wants and they will become stricter towards criminals it doesn't have anything to do with nationalism if you say hundreds of thousands can come and the few hundred because they are criminals that doesn't have anything to do with nationals.

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energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business visit to germany stay with us for the details. but first the people of switzerland have voted in a proposal to expel foreigners convicted of serious crimes from the country and nationwide battle was initiated by the same right wing party behind last year's vote to ban the building of a new minarets ad in a country famous for its democracy the proposals have been criticized as an attack on immigrants or his tests are silly as more from zurich so today in a referendum the swiss people have decided in favor of a new law making it mandatory for foreign criminals convicted of serious crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country now this has been a very controversial issue since the proposal was initially passed and today the decision has been made the swiss are in favor of the slow. change of mentality but the swiss authorities know what the population once and they will become stricter towards criminals it doesn't have anything to do with nationalism if you say hundreds of thousands comes and a few hundr

and the victory over nazi germany. the fall of. two thirty am in moscow good to have you with us and we look back at the week's news here on our team president obama reaffirms america's commitment to ratify the start nuclear weapons treaty and talks with president medvedev on the sidelines of the asia pacific summit in japan obama also reiterated u.s. support for moscow's made to join the world trade organization. also this week leaders of the g twenty group of nations agreed to try and avoid deliberate currency devaluations but the sole summit failed to come up with detailed measures to sort out global trade imbalance. arrest suddenly. seven people in kosovo on charges of organ trafficking and fuel theories of alleged organised theft by the kosovo liberation army during the war in the late ninety's details of the case are due to be made public at the end of the month. when a russian newspaper appeals the man who it claims exposed ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. this summer they were reportedly betrayed by their own balls

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rates of growth wise germany booming and. in great difficulty it is the single market which are just a comparative advantage and therefore you don't see that in the united states or you don't see that in india that. is decaying and dying and in bad crop and growing you don't say oh california is doing very well but probably days down the drain. but in europe you say that so even the single market doesn't work well. that trying to construct is incapable of meeting the challenges of the twenty first century it was a construct constructed after the war churchill's empires of the mind in a single european space. it was constructed to prevent ever again a major war in continental europe by locking in germany and france and all the other countries into a single space but to seeing with a set of values which democratic pluralistic diverse but a culture to values that structure to see the end of soviet communism and the destruction of. soviet marxism now it needs a new construct to be able to work in cooperation with russia. one of o

late 1942 the first report came in from agents who visited germany. there were nine british nationals of course, but to other countries nationalities particularly from scandinavia but that was the first indication and that i had something was up a bug in april 1943 a volunteer and left a detailed report the station came from a fourth labor and then came back a message at this is fantastic and get what you can. substantially not entirely on the basis significantly reporting there was substantial damage much of the work had to be transferred elsewhere and it was delayed two or three months at least 10 there were subsequent raids the leaders of those groups and the overall effort and they both constant attacks those are critical -- critical if the wind was launched against london before d-day instead of one month after words would be a profound effect on the timing of the invasion of europe to put it mildly. >> host: we can talk forever because it is full of extraordinary stories. but i think we want to give you an opportunity to ask your questions. >> t

germany is on edge at the moment. it does seem to be a credibility threat coming from al qaeda in pakistan. some sort of mumbai-style attack directed at germany, programs targets in berlin we understand. they're very concerned about this right now. yeah, it is a credible threat from al qaeda to germany, brooke. >> let's talk about the al qaeda online magazine called "inspire." over the weekend they released all kinds of details of the yemen parcel bomb incident. why would they publish these details? talking specific of previous operations, future operations. in releasing this information, what's in it for them? >> it's for propaganda effect. like you were saying to make people afraid, to terrify people. they're releasing a lot of detail about this attack, pictures of the devices, clearly showing it was them responsible. they're saying by launching smaller attacks not necessarily killing a lot of people they can change the american economy. it's death by a thousand cuts as they put it in their statement and they say mo

japan was and germany were special cases. incidentally not a single gi was killed in the occupation of germany or the occupation of japan by hostile germans or hostile japanese. not one. we look back on that now and it's just unbelievable. but we said at the time, look, people like myself but many of these people in the government, they did terrific work. they just couldn't be heard. japan -- iraq is not japan and, in fact, what you see that made japan successful or germany but particularly japan -- japan was a great image because it was nonwestern. you see iraq can be like japan. that's not western. it's non-christian. everything that made the occupation a success in japan is absent in iraq. the occupation will not be legitimate. there will be no existing government to take over. we're going to go in and decapitate the government. who's going to take over? what's going to -- who's going to take over? there was no real tradition of civil society to keep going. there was all sorts of things -- in japan, everything carried on i

the european union is not a state european union is a system of sovereign states and in that context germany as the major contributor to the european union and the major economic powerful powerful union has a legitimate reason or denied that it was illegal but it has to be exercised in them and there are. solutions to be with interest. in union also e.u. has a free regime with russia but the details are still they know on the ground what do you think would be a good step the first good step in this direction but i think we need political determination first i think we need to change the political awareness about these things but india. has it they should and i think this has a patient has to be overcome freedom of movement is a human right we should never forget that russia is part of europe well certainly in a cultural sense in the political sense yes but i see certainly russia as a part of european space it has been so for centuries it's are precisely you've called for a multilateral framework to consolidate energy supplies to the e.u. markets as of today not much has been done in that per