to germany. i have an employment with to find out. 'd how to. start moving toward. he's been guiding visitors through the book for many years 500 years ago protestant performer martin luther translated the bible into german here until then there were countless dialects only in the bible created the basis for a common german language. he tortured her to the language the german speak today was born in this room created by martin luther small itself which was good to start here 200 years later he said only through did we become one people one nation did we find a common language par. the nother milestone in the history of germany took place in the book. in 1917 students and fraternities from the many small states and principalities gathered in this chamber. they demanded a common german nation with civil democratic basic rights. under law for the un a fraternity invited people to the vote book festival the other and their colors are black red and gold the black here in. middle the red purple back th

that's a big question mark germany's very much adrift ever since the elections in 2017 germany has been extremely inward looking this called the so-called grand coalition was a very unhappy marriage from the get go only born out of the failure of the negotiations of the so-called jamaica coalition that then failed to come into existence its german is the current government doesn't show any path forward germans are divided still on issues of migration climate change and. we're wasting precious time actually to invest in a stronger europe a stronger europe that can defend itself also against an ever more aggressive china and we're investing we're failing to invest in our all in the strength of. our own industrial base germany had a fantastic economic development for the most part over the past 10 to 15 years we've had a good run but it's very unclear whether germany is well prepared for kind of ensuring prosperity of our economy in the future we should be investing and discussing this right now but rather we are in the kind of dealing with this kind of petty internal domestic political tu

when turkish migrant workers held we built germany's economy as your family made germany venue home. music played for several local clubs but soon impress cows from bundesliga side shaka. and in 2006 he even caught the eye of germany national team coach you are going to live a day you told him and. it's i think right now i want to play for germany turkey later in the war will be the turkey and germany were competing for it. it wasn't easy for him to give up his turkish citizen quick about it at the consulate they were not accepting his desire to become german look if they have to shop twice in the gym and if i did their part of because he was one of the most talented players of youth age group in europe you don't know. which shock is youth team who's a well the german under 19 championship and he quickly made a name for himself among the pros through his performances he soon made his way into the 1st team that shot. when the music came from the youth squad you could already see what a great footballer he is even in training it was scoring goals for fun you could tell this kid is goin

here and germany the curs are you your company's going down investments you. well we don't want to talk about unhedged eggs but absolutely not to be quite honest our intention is to continue growing globally and to continue growing strongly in europe and in germany and as i said previously for many companies germany's the 2nd important market and that is true for u.p.s. we have over 20000 employees here we're very happy with our success here and we view this as an absolutely essential market for a company that truly wants to be global germany is a big player. compared to the u.s. growth is so large is in germany of the money at the moment roughly half as much as in the u.s. are u.s. companies better off investing at home well interestingly the u.s. companies seem to be able to outgrow the german market and we saw that again in this survey where the u.s. economy of the world's largest is extremely vibrant and it's an extremely attractive market and you know don't forget a lot of our members are the german companies that invest in the u.s. and they're increasing

west germany in this development. of president gorbachev reacted very negatively to the 10 point plan speech. when the west german foreign minister hans de twit kensho was in moscow gorbachev said very clearly that he opposed it he started to include that it was a dictate he couldn't accept it's important to see what if you look at the plan there was no timeframe it was basically just an attempt to create a road map not against the others but with them. call had 1st gone around trying to shore up support for what he had in mind both on the domestic and the international stage nothing would have ever happened nothing i think it was very brave of him to have shouldered the responsibility by himself. on the 11th of december the ambassadors of before and i powers came together in berlin for the 1st time in 18 years they made it abundantly clear that german reunification could only happen with their approval. that they wouldn't this alarmed the west german government they couldn't believe that the allies were discussing ge

the people of east germany. turned. clamors for a german. journalist for kusa to see. 30 years later it looks back on the. interest. starts december 19th d.w. . u.s. lawmakers agree on a bill to strengthen companies building north stream to the controversial pipeline is said to transport natural gas from russia to germany the bill has yet to be signed by president donald trump also coming up well will the new european central bank chief take europe's most powerful financial institutions to take a closer look at god. and the bad news keeps coming from boeing a former employee he testifies about production problems at a boeing plant that may have been behind the 2 deadly crashes of 2 ill fated 77. i want to get jones in this business live from berlin thanks for joining us. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill imposing sanctions on the russian led gas pipeline project north stream to the new sanctions target companies that own the ships needed to lay the massive pipes the project depends on the bill has the potential to stop cons

who says germany hasn't stood up. for months and stripped it of its political autonomy me it back to normal to me it is for me to. welcome. it's good to have you with us it's the largest in town mint of minorities since world war 2 more than 1000000 ethnic we good muslims locked up in specially set up prisons in china northwestern region of. recent weeks cell phone up even more evidence of these camps leaked communist party papers reveal amongst other things instructions from the top on showing absolutely no must see. yet the camps continue the question is why there's been lots of condemnation but little action the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill to impose sanctions against chinese officials. duckie has denounced what china calls reeducation camps as a quote great shame for humanity but is that enough in a moment i'll be asking a german m.p. if germany should be doing mall but 1st this report looks back at the anatomy of a cultural genocide. for thousands of years they've been here toxic readers washin

gave a speech today in which he stressed germany's guilty germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it is a. thomas sparrow there in auschwitz well we can talk more about this now with political correspondent emmanuel shaz good to see a man who you know many people are asking why it took medical so long to visit in an official capacity i mean she's been chance for 14 years and this was her 1st visit to auschwitz and in fact it has been even 24 years since chancellor a german chancellor visited auschwitz so it was a long and a long of a jew visit and america is no stranger to such ceremonies though she visited a concentration camp in germany of how. i haven't spoke so federer a president of germany i find by this time i was in poland for to come immigrations of the beginning of world war 2 earlier on. in september but has turned out th

and the end of the division of germany. look a state is still it has to answer the lin at the moment park this is the board of the to the east and west and once ran. in 989 it was transformed into a local day creation and. today i ride along the former border between east and west berlin on this bike following the line of the berlin wall i would like to see what remains of the history of the division of the europe germany and berlin so i'm starting here in moa park going through the brandenburg gate and then all the way to the east side gallery let's go. my 1st stop on the bergen war trail is the memorial site on burma washed ass and. it's the 1st stop for anybody wanting to learn more about the city's division rust colored poles and sections of the wall mark the location of the former border. 2 here a section of the wall has been reconstructed as it was during the division. the viewing platform provides the best view of the border fortifications true dimensions this is how that you peered up to 989 the main inner walls wit

while germany. was also present he explained his decision to join the photo on the other hand quite they were both booed and whistled by their own fans. at the 2800 world cup they crashed out with germany in the group stages i i i think i was to go home to. visit to zele became the scapegoat for many right wing politicians in germany attacked him for weeks some media outlets criticized him harshly even the german f.a. singled him out. i think i can understand a bit how he felt mistreated but everyone had really turned him into one of the scapegoats. and the new book about august. one week after the world cup. back with a statement on twitter. he quotes international football and that of a national team has cited racism as the reason for this he is very critical of the german media in particular he's also critical of the german football association and one person in particular of course that is the president of the german football association they released this one today because of recent events i wi

to open house and we have a funding for more than 40000000 euros to celebrate peter from germany germany why and i think it gives the national attention and it's shows that we look at it as a as a as a festival of national importance did you can be too often has long been the world's most often performed classical composer and never more than no beatle when mania is widespread and easier in africa to its has melted because there are gaps that still need to be filled in because only little of this composers music is familiar to most people we invited it's people in germany to open their houses to to private beethoven related concerts and events to celebrate beethoven in their living rooms or in their kitchens and it's a big birthday bash. and it brings back to all comes from the house concerts the chamber music was written not for the concert halls but for the private homes on the big beethoven weekend a special exhibition opens at the buddhist clinched the national art gallery in bonn including your story. instrument's. peering into a hole you can look back into betokens time. there's a

germany's history. but what about the future of the us nuclear program this is the facility in the nevada desert at which the pentagon develops and test weapons. right now experts are working on these 61 mob 12 the latest version of a tactical and strategic nuclear weapon. it's an expensive project. the budget for 2019 alone is estimated to be about $254000000.00. to be 61 can be deployed with a number of military aircraft including german tornado fighter bombers adaptation of those aircraft was scheduled for 2019 ph you 100 integration refers to the tranny though a 200. in about 58 years there will be a new type of weapon more advanced that's going to be coming back to germany and be deployed here at google. but aircraft have to be configured for that type of aircraft for that type of weapon it's called the b. $6112.00. the tornado is right now undergoing flight test in the united states to be able to deliver this weapon. german tornadoes on a u.s. facility but you're a military aircraft being outfitte

which is germany but in. if you look to germany and the other european country which is also in the top 10 list russia those are the 2 countries for review c o 2 emissions by roughly 30 percent since 1990 while all the other countries on a top 10 list china us increase it significantly so it doesn't really have a really big effect the situation is that even even europe the european union to reduce c o 2 emissions significantly by 50 percent by 80 percent. on the worldwide scale it does not have an effect it does not know effect 3000000000000 euro for no effect that's the that's the reason i went to the f.d.a. stands on the proposal. you have it's really ridiculous to use all that money to destroy environment to destroy 100000 millions of drops in the european union and. in danger energy security because the situation which we are facing due to more and more wind energy in the system means that we have will have a very in stable electricity supply in germany and in europe and what we already seen i mean if you

network here in germany. is that decision in your opinion is that a decision that should raise national security concerns i think absolutely we should be more resilient in terms of what critical infrastructure. requirements are for the for the future we should not be naïve nephew isn't about that i'm not sure the last word is spoken on that and we may have to define potentially very different layers or different elements of systems. there who have a hand is in the german market which are not banned yet but when you come to the physical network infrastructure you make it to a different conclusion. but i am not. overly happy about the fact that this issue is seems to be used as a part of a campaign in germany which suggests that at the end we should divide the world into different spheres of interest and you either in the americans feel on the. i think that is not the way we as germans or europeans well look at the world and we're looking at the world going forward and this is therefore not necessarily a helpf

germany's interior minister. told reporters the investigation was ongoing. in germany there was a criminal process that deals with this kind of thing and in the case of a crime of this magnitude and with this background i can only thank the attorney general that he has taken it on that say something about the significance of this crime including his political background it was the be told the. with moscow still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia in the west is getting louder. i'm joined now here at the table by our political correspondent months in the young and coaching studio see you again and we have to tell people that this this crime is very unusual for berlin or for germany this former chechen commander was shot twice in the head broad daylight in a park that almost never happens here and now 3 months later we've got diplomats being expelled why so the reasoning that the foreign office and the general federal prosecutor have given for these steps is that of course investigation has been taking a while and one of the reasons

calls it a tool of coercion for russia but companies in germany call for countermeasures against the u.s. . moscow expels to german diplomats it is linked to the apparent assassination of a former chechen commander in a berlin park last summer germany ordered 2 russian diplomats to leave the country last week. and prime minister boris johnson votes in the u.k.'s general election his conservative party's lead over the opposition labor party narrowed in the final week of the campaign. i'm so he's almost gone but it's good to have you with us it is an issue that has been causing friction between germany and the us for years and now it has escalated the north stream to pipeline is being built to transport gas from russia to germany but the u.s. says it is a national security risk because it increases europe's dependence on russia as a result the u.s. house of representatives has now approved sanctions on the pipeline a move that has angered many here in germany the sanctions target of the specialist ships that lay the pipes. only a few companies in the world possess the technology to lam

nord stream to has the potential to double the amount of russian gas imported by germany the country needs more gas as a stable source of energy when it stops using coal and nuclear power. democrat and republican lawmakers in the u.s. fear that pipeline could give moscow greater political leverage over germany and the entire european union which the u.s. senate is expected to approve the bill by the end of the week and president trump said on wednesday that he will sign it into law this soon as possible. and our political correspondent simon young is covering this story for us he joins us for more hi simon tell us what some of the reactions here in berlin have been so far. see me there's been some political reaction we've had a tweet from michael moss the foreign minister he says that europe's energy policy is decided in europe not in the u.s. and we reject interference from outside that's pretty clear it's in line with what we heard from the economics ministry. he was saying that they regret the decision by the u.s. house of representatives and you know they don't want into foreign

could potentially do you said germany has not stood up why has germany not stood up. well at 1st i think we need to think about the chronology of these camps also we are just things to great journalists and we know about these scams for certain now and china has lied so far about the existence now they cannot do that anymore and since then i i suppose that germany wanted to wait until their certainty now that we have certainty and now we need to also talk to. well to the companies in the province of change around to you think maybe they have values if there is any linkage between the profit and of economic profit and the. being detained there in the camps and this point in time where germany can only wait and say well we're waiting for the certainty that is over and i hope that miss machall will step up and we have an upcoming session week in parliament next week and maybe the parliament will also be able to to focus on that because we have the human rights international human rights day coming right so i hope that the parliament will step up there there's a lot of ho

guilt germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it isn't. well hans christian yosh joins me now and he is the director of the house of the vans a conference that's a memorial site for the prosecution of european and jews welcome thank you very much for coming in to discuss this important issue we are dealing with iraq as of anti-semitism in germany as well as in europe has something going to rai with the cult show off remembrance here in germany. i think the question of and to semitones need somehow has to be detached from the question of memory of culture because there has been and to semitism in germany society well almost almost all the time at a certain level even after the war even after the holocaust became known we know from research that there's a certain percentage of the population continue to embrace and to semitic just even

that's a sure not for instance were to germany to be. the cause. because you're not in germany. all the patients in germany go north macedonia's naming dispute with greece may have been resolved but it resulted in years of stagnation nepotism flourishes like nowhere else in europe according to generalist sasha said casca recently she tells me a friend of the health minister was named hospital director despite his criminal background and lack of experience if you talk with some within the government they will say 'd oh but it's so difficult to change every day and overnight you can know this again of the bird actually it's not i mean why is it so difficult not to put the school you know. in charge in the hospital. like a wheel and nepotism is widespread doctors like nicola resign of a fed up the surgeon has founded and association in an attempt to keep young doctors in the country so that they can fight corruption together. a controversial. ottis collective head of the is apologized for its latest campaign it set up a symbolic memorial to victims of the holocaust outside the germ

well germany has hit back at u.s. plans to penalize construction companies that are working on a controversial gas project the nord stream pipeline will carry russian natural gas to germany washington says that's a security risk because it makes europe more dependent on russia berlin insists the 10000000000 euro pipeline is vital to its energy needs german foreign minister eichel moscow says european energy policy is decided in europe not the u.s. . the u.s. plans to impose sanctions on companies and individuals involved in the pipeline project that includes german as well as other european companies the penalties include travel bans and asset freezes companies continuing with north stream to could find themselves cut off from doing business in the u.s. u.s. lawmakers fear the pipeline could give moscow a greater leverage over the german and e.u. energy markets german politicians disagree we in europe think we can decide. for ourselves about our own energy security and their city and i personally do not buy the argume

she gave a speech today in which she stressed germany's guilt, germany's historic responsive building, and how that response building is an important part of germany's identity as a nation. she also stressed the nest lessons that can be drawn from the past, in particular the lessons for today's context. the context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in anti-semitism. helena: thomas sparrow in auschwitz. we can talk about this now with the demo political correspondent. good to seo. many people are asking why it took merkel so long to visit in an official capacity. she has been chancellor for 14 years and this was her first visit to auschwitz. >> in fact it has been 24 years since a german chancellor visited auschwitz. so it was long overdue. angela merkel is no stranger to such ceremonies. she visited concentration camps in germany of dachau, buchenwald, also the federal presidents of germany was in poland for the commemoration of the beginning of world war ii earlier this year, in september. but it is true that this visit was long overdue. it comes at a time where the aus

that germany faces a die earlier shortage and has to act quickly. among those countries that germany is actively targeting for recruitment of skilled workers are for example india and vietnam boss in singapore vietnam is experiencing a shortage of skilled workers as well and it's not the only economy in the region so how are these noises that are coming from berlin receive the round asia. so it's it's receiving a lot of mixed signals from the vietnamese people on the one hand yes these opportunities these jobs rather will open up more opportunities for the vietnamese people in terms of spending in terms of increased earning power and stability to bring back their families and the vietnamese economy as well but on the other hand there is a labor shortage in vietnam itself or sectors like i t digital media and finance and a lot of vietnamese people are complaining that the education system in vietnam is to blame for not having prepared them for these kinds of jobs that the country now needs well certainly in germany i believe but with this is so much

since 2017 germany's trade surplus with the u.s. has actually widened. exports to china have also risen all of which means germany exported goods worth almost $120000000000.00 euros in october that's an increase of 1.2 percent month on month. imports on the other hand decreased slightly to 98000000000 euros that means that goods sold abroad weighed imports by more than 20000000000 euros. but all is not rosy exports to the united kingdom for example fell in october companies on both sides of the channel are concerned about the potential effects of bragg's it on business nonetheless analysts say these latest figures are the 1st positive results for the final quarter of the year with disappointing domestic consumption but encouraging trade data europe's largest economy looks set to continue meandering between contraction stagnation and meager growth. to talk us through these figures that speak to that year's chelsea delaney and frankfurt chelsea that's an expected increase 1.2 percent. why were we not expecting this. so the consensus expectation was for a s

germany's interior minister. told reporters the investigation was ongoing. in germany there was a criminal process that deals with this kind of thing and in the case of a crime of this magnitude and with this background i can only thank the attorney general that he has taken it on that say something about the significance of this crime including his political background the. users. with moscow still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia and the west is getting louder. i'm joined now by our correspondents political correspondents here in berlin and with the show and. respondent in moscow. to both of you let me start with you kids are fed bits of information has emerged overnight tell us why does blood and believe that russia is involved in this assassination where this all comes off the back of the decision by the prosecution the federal prosecution to take on this case and these often cases where the prosecution consider the crime to be a crime against the states and german prosecution so if so far said that they have sufficient evid

is going to back that up i mean what did germany do if the u.s. indeed on slabs sink sions on companies that are building this pipeline well these companies are not only come from germany but also for example from italy and we've heard it so far for example one of those pipeline contributes to us coming from italy say that they don't think there will actually be his by their sanctions by the time the sanctions imposed so proposed by the united states the time they would come into place the work by a lot of those contributors to the north korean pipe and would already have been done so far 90 percent of or even finished and 110 kilometers of the north stream to tom piper have to be finished and that will be done in the next month before the proposed sanctions would even come into place all right thanks leon a concert from our problem introduce here in berlin thank you. well russia and germany are working together on the nord stream 2 projects but both countries are also mired in an escalating diplomatic row over the murder of a georgian citizen her

shortly after the fall of the of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the mideast tense the crown clamors for the german unity journalist peter lim borg was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the time interest or. stores december 19th. w. i t change happen people just don't believe in the church the catholic church is not the moment it broke new rules this year on the holocaust hurndall sexual abuse in the catholic church have failed to satisfy victims' groups which still insist that the innocent are at risk from predatory clergy my guest this week period is the jesuit priest father hans solo or is an leading expert on sexual abuse among the clergy is the vatican serious about real change or will it continue to provide opportunity and capa to priests to come.

to defeat germany. they did not want the united states to have to fight in the war to make that happen. over the course of the two years of this debate, nothing that happened really changed those two points of view. there will be changes in american opinion, but those two fundamental views remain the same. even on the eve of pearl harbor, most americans still wanted to avoid direct american involvement as a belligerent in world war ii. the great debate moved the american public in the direction of risking war, but never fully convinced most americans that the united states should declare war against germany. only germany's declaration of war against the united states after pearl harbor convinced americans to declare war on germany. that is one thing. the debate is about, on the surface, how much aid should the united states give to the allies to help them defeat nazi germany? below the surface, there's a much more important and fundamental debate going on. what role should the united states play in the

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and meanwhile germany's a largest opposition posses far right alternative to germany has also elected 2 new leader is one is no true calla the 44 year old house painter turned politician from eastern germany to pallor is seen as a compromise candidate who is backed by right wing as well as extreme right wing supporters the other is more than an incumbent he was reelected code into conference today large crowds of protesters outside of the meeting. while the man who carried out friday's stabbing attack on london bridge has served time in prison for terrorism but had been released that from british counterterrorism officials as a result prime minister boris johnson says that he will review the country's criminal sentencing system 28 year old this man can kill 2 people before police shot him dead. police are at the site of friday's attack one of the victims has been named as jack merritt he was attending a conference on prison rehabilitation at the time. on 250 kilometers away extensive searches at the home of the attacker 28 year old as mankind he served time for terror fences but was r

from germany brian from the u.s. they all have different mother tongues but the main language that connects them is music. their new album the one is out. the architect and. the graphic design a bridge. back in 2003 and founded the interior design label the studio meanwhile the love vintage combined with textile design between. the world we met up with them in the studio and. a number of most sought after designers together they're known as the demo to studio. their trademark is interiors combining elements from different. designs are much like colorful and luxurious journey through time. we always want our interiors to take on a kind of pattern from the furniture and elements we choose. we mix together as many things as we can so the apartment doesn't look new but gives the impression that the owners live there for some time in. the. present. but it's. more of the market so that. they display their ideas in an expansive apartment in the artists. they collect. with the. passion and use them to create their particular

came to germany in the mid 1980 s. during the iran iraq war. there was a time when a lot of families were trying to get their kids out of the country. because war is only cool when you see it in the movies it's not fun. if someday there's nothing left of it makes life worth living there's still enough music you can listen to to stay alive that's what i thought when i was 14. i made sure as he made it through these difficult units and went on to study electronic composition. i've always wanted to play an instrument really well that's why i built an instrument where i would start a player in the world. what looks like a space a guitar is a kind of mixing console that controls sounds and visual effects electronically this is true this is free here you've got different ways just play with chord and mix sounds absolutely. astounding the cigs and i can overlay that with effects. on the indian woman who is often and when i'm playing on stage and i think i've had a really good groove to that i can push this. and record on a. little 3 this is the smalle

this is news live from but i live in germany's chancellor remembers the victims of one of the worst crimes against humanity and makes her 1st official visit to the auschwitz death count. being from a slogan work makes you free the nazis murdered more than a 1000000 people in the hospital most of them jews also on the program. celebrations after police in india shoot dead 4 men suspected of raping and killing a young woman the offices of being hailed as heroes but did they take the law into their own. desist the dynamic duo who could topple a chance of that much germany's social democratic party confirms its 2 new leaders not challenging that posses coalition deal with the chance of us conservatives. champions pirated music prepared to take on this season's league leaders bunch of back in a battle of the hopefuls i ploughed back of taken the lead by stole my roses side up 4 points ahead. with a view to extending. i'm still gal welcome to the program. germany's chancellor is on her 1st official visit to the former auschwitz the death count the site in poland was the nazis not just that come