we need a young man who entered germany with a student visa. for the birth of i just wanted a better future and the only country that accepted syrians of the time was germany . and a colleague told me that he knew a man who could obtain a visa for me who lived in germany in the city of liked it so i contacted him and he said that he could give me papers proving i had a place at the university of like this for fifteen hundred euros. but of. the only rights this is. the young man paid the one thousand five hundred euros and four months later he received just document that confirmation of an application to study medicine and leipsic and that even though his grades do not meet the university's requirements for this course. he says he's not the only one who received a document like that from the university of leipsic. i know more than ten people who got to germany through that guy and there are probably more of them that i don't know. the whole thing works like this the syrians go over the documents from leipzig to the german consulate in lebanon an

but the marriages registered there are recognized in germany. she wasn't paid to get married that is the law that if this is the stuff the young that she comes here also will know i wasn't that's what i'm telling you he wanted me and i thought well i'm alone here anyway why shouldn't i take advantage of that. the yearly up to the wedding she and her pakistani husband registered but the registration office for foreigners in sit out in eastern germany. as well as a rental contract for an apartment and level she also produces an employment contract with a clothing company another western city of frankfurt. you know what that for the people smugglers of organized proof of employment for the eastern european bride so that she can produce this document. thing was a pretense and the registration at the relevant office was also faked by the through to the big old are needed if you want to get an e.u. residence permit because. the european union residence card also allows the newly wed men from india and pakistan to live completely legally in germany. wa

our to germany back to germany actually a reason to trust watchdog is cracking down on facebook moving to restrict the social media giants ability to collect data in the country authorities say cannot gather information from third party sites without user account without user consent excuse me well more evidence that facebook's business model fifty four could be under sarette. it is a long awaited decision three years that's how long it took germany's federal cartel office to decide to clamp down on facebook's data collection the question was whether obtaining data from activity on social media widgets on third party sites could be considered anti-competitive behavior is being used as a given is. the whole conclusion is that facebook can still collect data on its platform invited. facebook facebook can also continue to gather data on its other services like what's up or instagram or on third party sites. but they may in the future collect such days out only with a user's explicit consent. dustin. indy's it's. very clear minded. like in most countries facebook is the leading social medi

his homelands to come back to germany and to just to have. a as a trial in germany search for survivors in other words he's telling you he wants to come back to germany and he wants the court system he wants his human rights to be respected here despite having left and gone to fight for a system that would not respect those rights this is one of the things that really make me read this especially on his on his goal why he want to come back because you know he's a war criminal and there is a videos of him in this that would say two thousand and sixteen and he has been less that in the united nation a list of war criminals and he told us that i yes i did that bad things but in the end of the interview they tell us he would like to go back to germany if he has to choose he would like to come to germany to have his rights as a human being so i'm authorities here in germany they hear these stories that mir is telling and it has to influence their thinking are they ready to take these people back. well as you said we are talking about forty faithfu

especially germany. but we are committed to the two percent target is already going to sleep and just as the german government has confirmed to nato and just as it had been laid down in our coalition agreement the o.p.o. and europe to know is has to do more months of the invasion and we have embarked on a towards a european defense union. finally we have found ways and means. to overcome the fragmentation in horrible ways we are now harmonies english planning clear mint and operational readiness this creates new common in european abilities but is a few of these capabilities also directly and some needed benefit because if we. are more evocation us not to act united asked you about in the case of a crisis then this directly contributes to transplanting burden sharing manty function in order to be able to carry more weight. you don't have to resolve some contradiction this will be exhausting. many is in favor of adopting the majority principle in european foreign policy that is correct and that is also go

of one of germany's largest mobile carriers. i'm stephen beers in berlin thanks for joining us it was recently the darling of the german business press now it's fighting for its reputation wire car the payment services provider has growing business propelled it into germany's blue chip dax index last fall has been the focus of a series of news articles claiming fraud at the company singapore branch and among seniors it executives the fallout so far the stock in freefall and a major media company under investigation. he was brought in to strike fear into the hearts of the major established banks marcus brown has been the head of the financial services group wire card for seventeen years and has overseen rapid growth of the company during his time at the helm. card offer solutions for electronic payments such as online payments and credit cards the company's profits hugely from the rise in online payments and this visa master card how to pay and pay among its partners over half of its business is in asia mostly in mainland china f

need trying to ministration has to germany we look at nato spending germany is spending one point two one point three percent far short of the two percent that it's required to by its own agreements to spend it's the richest country in europe a concert me afford to do this so trump is right about that he might not express it in the way that i like it you know in terms of berating them constantly but germany is not playing it's not really you know throwing its weight around as it should on the issue of north stream too this is a fundamental betrayal of germany's own allies in eastern europe which are fellow e.u. and nato members there throwing them under the bus in order to you know extend economic relations with an adversary russia there's no excuse for north stream to no matter how many times the german government tries to make excuses for it. and so these are some really crucial yeah sorry about that we have a little delay there in the audio you also wrote in i'm not going to quote you here as well j.b. you said that berlin has the gall to complain about trump's hasty retreat from s

germany will expand its gas terminals with regard to liquefied gas. is that means that we don't want to make ourselves dependent on russia and that in these circumstances. but russia was a source of gas during the cold war and it will remain so today without us entering into one sided dependence. is that enough to. reassure critics of this deal i don't think it will be enough to quieten down that criticism right now based defense of old in this project i don't think they are going to go away overnight if anything since donald trump became that the us president that those complaints over this project have been getting louder and louder from washington so i think there would have to be an awful lot of opposition making if maybe even from the a year as you were discussing with barbara that it would take a lot of opposition to bring this project to a halt and of course a lot has also been invested in it and there are also already been huge environmental impacts i keep brady here the big table with me and barbara vessel in brussels to both of you thank you

and since germany's imports have increased they helped to reduce germany's long standing trade surplus for years germany has been exporting more than it imports something the country's trading partners including u.s. president donald trump have criticized in recent years. let's get out a u.s. court our financial correspondent new york yes as mentioned there in that piece lower growth projections for germany for the e.u. what does that mean if anything to wall street investors. well first of all germany is the biggest economy in europe and the european union so far is still the bigger trading partner to the u.s. then china is still it is important in that respect and then especially if you look at the this week because of the chinese new year festivities there was no trading in china so therefore investors here on wall street paid even closer attention to what is going on in europe and there are some economists saying that the global economy could derail in twenty and nineteen when you look at the u.s. so far we get mostly still solid numbers from the u.s. economy but one trader actuall

and germany's skilled workers are getting older we'll show you a device that could help keep them fit to work even longer. i'm stephen beard sambolin thanks for joining us. german carmakers are insisting imports of their products are not a threat to u.s. national security this after the u.s. commerce department submitted a report to president trump that is believed to make the case for much higher tariffs on vehicles from the e.u. on the grounds of national security germany's powerful vehicle lobby to a point out that german car makers have created more than one hundred thousand jobs in the u.s. in the recent years the german chancellor angela merkel has also dismissed suggestions that the industry threatens america. so how would a fresh set of tariffs affect countries that export cars the u.s. and germany institute ran the numbers and their conclusions are dramatic let's look first the biggest current parts exports of the us canada and mexico would not be affected due to their current trade agreements with the us so let's zoom in on another huge exporter germany the study found that

part of germany's energy strategy under threat. construction of the north stream two pipeline is a ready well underway but the face of the project lies in the balance e.u. members have not yet agreed on how to proceed and germany and france in particular appear to be at odds over regulation this is what's at stake the pipeline will transport gas from russia to germany via the baltic sea the project in its current form is operated by russian state energy company. and that's exactly what critics including the united states and seemingly france object to. the dependency from russian gas will increase dress achille with us near a pipeline and that's the reason why they construct that. contradicts obviously the european goals not on the of the energy union but in the future we will see less gas demand because of climate policy and there's a reason why this pipeline is completely on the economic hole and friday european lawmakers will decide whether to extend the block's energy rules to gazprom if they do so the company would no longer b

now as we all know context matters so why did germany and the u.s. put on a show of unity and talks over importing liquefied natural gas well because at a different front both sides are engaged in nasty spat over a pipeline project that the u.s. says will deepen europe's energy dependence on russia so germany agreeing to buying more u.s. gas can be seen as an attempt to gloss over these differences. the controversial north stream two pipeline is being built here to bring cheap gas from russia to germany but now berlin looks to be eyeing other suppliers. economy minister picture of meyer says two german terminals could soon be receiving shipments of u.s. liquefied natural gas a move he said was not in response to u.s. criticism of the pipeline. now and this could be about the no there's absolutely no deal involved germany has its own interest in diversifying its gas supplies and gospel to divest if you'd see them and we also have an interest in developing our trade relations with the u.s. in such a way that we can achieve not higher but lower tariffs

news live from berlin and anti semitic crimes on the rise in germany now statistics show that hate crimes against jews are at their highest level in a decade sparking alarm among the country's jewish community. also coming up the girl whose pains moved to the worlds and strengthens the movement to end the vietnam war now unesco goodwill ambassador and a peace activist she is receiving the peace prize awarded by the german city of dresden. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the number of anti-semitic crimes committed in germany has risen by almost ten percent over the past year the highest level in a decade figures released today are causing alarm in jewish communities violence attacks are up by more than sixty percent this has prompted germany's central council of jews to call for stronger action from police and politicians the signboards of a jewish restaurant smashed a pig headed marked with a star of david dumped by a door swastikas and stars of david on a wall. this was the aftermath of an anti semitic attack in the eastern german city of chemists in august twenty eighth. it was j

especially germany and russia. we're german football is taking a hard look at itself today to address anti-semitism in and outside the stadiums across the country incidents provoked by football fans have reportedly been on the increase a conference today in frankfurt called you'll never walk alone is looking for solutions and to talk about that i'm drawing here at the big table by caress there we go from our sports desk chris good to see you first of all for people who may not know what is happening ant football games here in germany will unfortunately brit anti-semitic it is in football are happening again and again and i'll just highlight a few incidents and use the table leaders bruce you don't mean to do so and there was a time when far right ideologies were commonplace among men supporters this was an eight hundred nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's you know last october. dortmund far right extremists used and frank in a sticker and put her in their rivals jersey shellac and this started on social media outra

ambassador to germany has urged germany to ditch the nordstrom to project and now france says that it could hold the construction process by subjecting the russian company building it to tougher gura peen union rules critics say that the pipeline due to start pumping later this year will make germany dependent on moscow and undermined european security that leaves a key part of germany's energy strategy under threat. construction of the north stream to pipeline is a ready well underway but the face of the project lies in the balance e.u. members have not yet agreed on how to proceed and germany and france in particular appear to be at odds over regulation this is what's at stake the pipeline would transport gas from russia to germany via the baltic sea the project in its current form is operated by russian state energy company problem. and that's exactly what critics including the united states and seemingly france object to. the dependency from russian gas will increase jessica lee with us near a pipeline and that's the reason why they construct that. contradicts obviously the europe

and germany have never been so clear is this the point when germany and europe have to admit that the historic alliance isn't sustainable anymore and that they need to strike a more independent course. well certainly chancellor merkel hasn't got to vax place yet in that speech yesterday that you saw there she was talking trying to answer the question that this conference is posed who will pick up the pieces if the global multilateral system somehow falls apart will her answer at the end very clearly only all of us together can do that and she was talking to this audience of europeans of americans but also chinese are very global perspective that she presented and she said you know well look at the nuclear missile treaty that the doubts have been raised about you know america the russians are pulling back from that but who picks up the pieces is the europeans so interconnectedness if the united states pulls its troops out of afghanistan other nato allies will be forced to pull out early perhaps as well and they don't want to do that so that the nexus is what she emphasized and she also

of diverting arms to militia in yemen arms supplied by western states like germany so are germany's arms sales and directly fueling the conflict there. well i think we've long argued that all states including germany to this line almost to the coalition including the last arab emirates are complicit. in a conflict that in this particular this is were we looked at as a a series of militias. that trained equipped by the generals and we see certain patterns of us that has used of. that miss america for the sake of this conversation i'm just going to play devil's advocate for a second if i go to a store and i buy a panetta was rising there were weapons he paused and two groups. or very briefly mr o. welcome the fact that countries like germany are reluctant to stop or suspend arms sales to the u.a.e. is that the real problem. i think that is the core problem and it's a problem that will be a policy and. we've seen a very serious human rights violations committed by all parties to this conflict all coalition members who she's and and the militias that associated with the coalition and as we s

germany up its game well it's interesting to see because germany seems to have always quiet sort of suspect role is not that seems not that proactive but when it comes to actual security masses looking back to the ukraine crisis for example in two thousand and fourteen german chancellor angela merkel was in fact being very proactive she was the one fostering the normandy talks together with france to bring russia and ukraine together at one table and try to solve the crisis resulting effectively into the minsk agreement and i think this is the role we can and should expect more from germany and from the german government to kind of be a broker in security issues and topics for example like the i.n.f. treaty to bring people back to the table to bring and foster negotiations when those concerns. ok so we're actually seeing live pictures right now of chancellor merkel approaching the. stage and we will be crossing to her as soon as she starts speaking in the meantime million we will continue with our conversation here you mentioned the i.n.f. treaty the intermediate range nuclear force

to russian gas to europe and to germany was transported. through land based lines one going through poland and one through ukraine and in two thousand and nine mr putin the was conflicting with ukraine once again and he turned down the livery of gas in general mon and to punish ukraine to punish ukraine yes but fortunately. or unfortunately you could feel that stop in germany as well and your chancellor immediately complained and putin must. force to open again with the new gas pipeline in the baltics directly from russia to germany he could. he could promise to deliver all the gas needed to to germany and he could punish his enemies in poland and ukraine and in the baltic. gas will increasingly repays very important for germany gas while it could easily replace coal to make electricity to help reduce the c o two targets was it a wise move to get out of nuclear or did that make us more dependent on russia briefly please it really made you dependent on russia and on the other hand signing that contract with russia not free will also why a la

the main population in germany just heard about jewish society in germany but never spoke to any person from this community and that brings people together and develops a dialogue all right and is to see a petition or think you so very much for being with us today thank you now one year ago today a nineteen year old student shot his way through a high school in parkland in the u.s. state of florida killing seventeen people and like so many times before the nation was gripped by shock and grief but what happened next was different students at the high school started a movement called march for our lives their goal the tightening of gun laws our next report looks at how far they've come and one of them in particular cameron cascade. today he's a guest of the u.s. capital washington but his life could have easily ended a year ago with the high school shooting in parkland cameron caskey is now eighteen and with the help of a democrat congressman he's pushing for tighter gun controls in the u.s. . well i think everyone in the country can get behind understanding that people who cannot pass a

live from berlin europe response to american demands to take back their job as fighters from syria germany france and britain saying don't work together to deal with some eight hundred fighters and their families join the ranks of so-called islamic state but they are angry at twitter ultimatum on the issue from president trump also coming up. five years after the protests on chance mind on square that toppled ukraine's government we ask as a country change for the better since that. and all you need to know about this weekend's fun this league of not just frankfurt faced clawed back again featuring not just great goals but great goalkeeping. i'm dr thomas thanks so much for being with us what to do with european nationals captured fighting for so-called islamic state in syria is causing new frictions in transatlantic relations germany says it will work with france and britain in response to american demands to repatriate some eight hundred european jihad ists now that after a twitter broadside from president trump threatening to roll. the scattered fires unless europe puts them on trial fo

to know that their sporting world police in austria and germany make several arrests facing the world of nordic skiing. until girl welcome to the program. donald trump's former a fixer and personal lawyer has made a string of explosive allegations about the u.s. president michael cohen told a congressional committee that mr trump prior knowledge of leaked e-mails from the democratic party during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign he also said the president instructed him to break camp campaign finance laws mr kohut said only is the beginning of the process not the end ladies and gentleman the days of this committee for taking the president at all costs over the democratic controlled house flex this muscle with michael cohen's live testimony and they couldn't have chosen a more colorful witness to kick off their public oversight hearings i am ashamed because i know what mr trump is he is a racist he is a con man and he is a cheat cohen was president trump's personal lawyer for a decade before he was caught up in the probe of russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential

and only of us survive the journey from hungary to germany. police checks rarely find trucks with illegal migrants on board the people smuggling rings are very flexible and to tap their behavior to avoid being caught. in the throes of it is that sort of the human smugglers check whether the coast is clear by sending scout vehicles out ahead and they avoid the risk of being caught by continually changing the smuggling routes. that used to be more trucks taking illegal migrants from austria and across the german border into the area. with them then it shifted to the german czech border and subsequently into the border area with poland by the photo in the. sense of. the investigator accompanies us to the outskirts of dresden. we're heading out of dresden in the direction of map it's a truck run by people smugglers was detected here and close as. it was a chance to sky in august two thousand and seventeen police discovered a trunk with illegal migrants close to the a four interstate a total of thirteen syrians and iraqis were picked up the turkish

reports that teenage kids are among the dead too real for the latest coming up reports that france and germany compromise of the controversial pipeline paris has tried to pull the brakes on gaffney with russia to look at a new charm for the project at the back you broke the deadlock. plus the law of the richest man claims he's been. checked is those accusing the american tabloids the national enquirer of trying to blackmail intimate photos. of international film festival kicks off direct to a normally shared things the kindness of strangers the event the first of several. directors in this year's competition. to. other unwelcome. we begin with some breaking news in brazil ten people have died in a fire at the soccer club flamengo in rio de janeiro at least three others were injured. the blaze broke on before dawn on friday in a training facility at a club there unconfirmed reports that some victims may have been teenagers from the flamengo youth team was sleeping at the center at the time now the expensively busy training center had opened just two months ago the cause of the fire is still not

take a tour of germany state by state on d. w. dot com. i was here when i arrived here i slept with six people in a room. it was hard i was fit. i even got white hair. benjamin language nothing on this gets me a little bunch maybe two in trouble let's say you want to know their story my parents are fighting and reliable information for margaret. this is due to other news coming up in the program the royal who wants to be prime minister up princess thailand and hope for a into the module actions and decades of pulitzer practice why did she do it. made the chinese screenwriter who's become a symbol for a country's fledgling me to movement. is determined to take down what many have described as china. shop. and from the hills to the high advisers.

about half of people in employment in germany will be retiring and the second factor of course is that in the years after that after the baby boom has not as many children were born so they are matched much fewer people sort of moving into the employment then they are moving out of employment it's this gap that needs to be filled ok so stagnant birthrate aging population got a problem now the study's authors says that this country urgently needs a comprehensive immigration law how soon can we expect to actually see that all passed when in fact a law was only approved by cabinet by the political parties late last year and it's going for its first reading in parliament only in march next month in other words it will take some time for this law in fact to come into force but it can be expected by next year shell the best fun foundation which commissioned that study it says that germany's demographic problem can't be fixed with laws alone what else does it say is needed well basically germany has to change the way society welcomes people foreigners that come into the country and live here

now on to germany germany's federal cartel office has ruled that facebook's ability to to rake in personal information outside of its namesake platform that is across the internet and its various other apps represented and competitive behavior and that's one more blow for the tech giant. the focus was on the day shift facebook collects from third party websites examples include the like and share buttons under news articles similar functions are enabled on it instagram and what's up platforms according to the ruling these data streams give facebook an overwhelming advantage in the digital advertising market is this officials argue requires users consent. is being used. for financing the whole conclusion is that facebook. on its platform. of facebook facebook can also continue to gather data on its other services. or instagram third party sites. they may in the future. only with the user's explicit consent of the. indies or. very. like in most countries facebook is the leading social media network in germany it has more than thirty million users it also owns the second most popular social n

it even affects the lower leagues in germany. in their youth club, two coaches were taking a photo with the nazi salute with a group of 16-year-olds in the club, condemned that action as well and fired the coaches. >> what is attracting that? do people talk about where the idea comes from to associate and frank -- and frank -- anne frank with soccer? >> you are taught, and it is passed down this cultural ideology, unfortunately, but teams are doing things to combat it. dortmund have really gotten ahead of the curve. they issued a pr video called the fan project dortmund. along with assistance from the state. this is one thing because they are doing all they can to expel that right-wing support that in the past was limited. they have about 2% of a far right vote, and that allows around 1000 to 1500 participants to come e in those games on a weekly basis. >brent: you have covered a lot f soccer or football games in your career. have you seen an increase in anti-semitic gestures or cheers or the kind of thing? chris: it is more comm

as long as germany and france stick. this construction of this pipeline which is for me useful for the future of relationship russia europe as a think very dangerous cripps russia should do in the effort to let's say to tranquilize a bit decide therefore it was a proposal of the table to move remember well when to create. a junction. from drug over this pipeline in order to tranquilize to some extent for produce oil i remember in response to the speculation on your problem ok i just want to ask you a question about your foreign minister because around here in response to the speculation on sanctions. mr masse recently sat that questions of european energy policy must be decided and europe not in the united states i mean i can agree with him or that can really really stop washington imposing i'll handle this on whoever they choose. we have never been succeeding in this in the last years we had a series of cases we've you americans where we complain the extent. of american there's lation for us it's not acceptable. and the

russian gas has been flowing directly to germany since twenty eleven. through north stream one now the second pipeline is being built the north stream two is scared to come online by the end of this year europe believes it needs the gas to meet its growing energy needs but the united states fears europe is growing too dependent on gas from russia. and the government of. the last week u.s. president mike pence even discussed the issue and america's opposition to the project with a chance to machall saying we cannot strengthen the west by becoming dependent on the east with me the studio now is the host gotten the best of journalist from denmark who has written a book on this pipeline project called gas greed and money yes why is everybody so up in arms about north north stream be buying gas from the russians they pump it to us how does it make us more and more dependent first of all i think that giving allowing mr putin to choose to step is a pipeline that's giving him very best achieved with it in his hands at the moment german is deploying soldiers in

germany will much pay will depend on how much germany can pay. the commission would meet to look at those issues. they came up with a real fudge. there was a certain amount that germany had to pay immediately in gold and kind. size -- sliceger would be paid in bonds. and the third portion would not be required until the first two pieces were hugely important, the germans felt they were being ground down and paying too much and that they were being punished for the war. in the 1930's, increasingly, the origins of the war came under scrutiny. the german foreign office selectively released documents and cultivated historians giving the impression that the war had not been started by anyone. increasingly, that feel became the view, it least in the english-speaking countries, that no one was responsible. and if no one was responsible, why should germany pay? providestice helped ammunition to undermine german acceptance of the treaty. the peas conference it self did what it could. up with was imperfect in difficult circumstances. and the germans themse

opens a big debate over who should do what it's syria afghanistan yemen and other global hotspots posed germany says that it wants to see increased a multilateral cooperation plus ahead of saturday's hotly contested presidential vote in nigeria we tag along with the country's youngest ever candidate. you may surprise the pollsters because his focus on telling people is in a country where the majority of the population is under twenty five. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency to free up funds to build a wall of long the mexican border that emergency declaration allows the president access to budgets usually meant for other purposes. now mr trump says that he needs about eight billion dollars and he's confident that his administration will defeat expected court challenges. donald trump southern border wall was a key promise in his presidential campaign and one that he seems keen to keep. i'm going to be signing a national emergency we're talking about an invasion of our country with drugs with human traffickers with all types of cri

ambassador to germany also richard grenell said that the north stream essentially makes germany dependent on russia the german chancellor angela merkel responded to that and here's what she had to say let's have a listen. and i not think it could well be become dependent on russia because of this gas pipeline which i say no if we diversify at the same time. gemini will expand its gas terminals with regard to liquefied gas this that means that we don't want to make ourselves depended on russia and that any circumstances. but russia was a source of gas during the cold war and it will remain so today without as entering into one sided dependence. so that is how the german chancellor is responding to her critics hons is that enough. i think in the end not i think that does not really address the concerns of many people we have to see behind this there's some commercial interest from the side of the united states a lot of gases being produced and the united states is hoping to make europe a major client full of selling that gas but behind that is also a geo. geo strategic thoughts consideratio

that it's illegal in germany the woman to say i wouldn't change me . abortion is in fact permitted in germany but only in the early stages of pregnancy it can only be carried out later in cases of rape or on medical grounds otherwise the law states abortions are only legal within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy if the woman attends mandatory counseling and then waits another three days before the abortion. but the debate has focused on the tiny article two hundred nineteen any of germany's criminal code it dated back to the nazi era and made it a crime for doctors to publicly advertise abortions gabrielle holder is one of the hundreds of doctors who are accused of violating the article in her case it was due to information on the clinic website stating that she carries out abortions so many doctors say they feel they've been targeted just for doing their job since two thousand and three the number of doctors carrying out abortions has fallen by forty percent. these activists these activists who stop women on the sidewalk from going to the counselin

germany would not have to pay for the sins of the old germany. and so the very way in which the armistice was made, and i think the way in which the high command, who had effectively been running germany, not just running the german war, but running germany itself, the way in which they were able to avoid taking responsibility for the armistice, and for the defeat was to be very damaging in the long run for germany. and so we have two things that are going to come together with the peace talks, we have a sense in germany, only just beginning to grow, but a sense in germany they were promised something, they were promised they would be treat different, fairly treated. and why some people in germany actually thought with self determination, we might become a bigger country because the german parts of the oet australia-hungarian empire might be able to join us. so you have a set of unrealistic expectations and myths growing in germany, that somehow they had changed, they were different, they had been offered something by woodrow wilson and they were

need trying to ministration has to germany we look at nato spending germany is spending one point two one point three percent far short of the two percent that it's required to by its own agreements to spend it's the richest country in europe a concert me afford to do this so trump is right about that he might not express it in the way that i like it you know in terms of berating them constantly but germany is not playing it's not really you know throwing its weight around as it should on the issue of north stream too this is a fundamental betrayal of germany's own allies in eastern europe which are fellow e.u. and nato members there throwing them under the bus in order to you know extend economic relations with an adversary russia there's no excuse for north stream to no matter how many times the german government tries to make excuses for it. and so these are some really crucial yeah sorry about that we have a little delay there in the audience you were also wrote in i'm not going to quote you here as well j.b. you said that berlin has the gall to complain about trump's hasty retrea

just imagine three generations we use nuclear power in germany. generation. everyone who says nuclear is a cheap form of energy should be this place. engineers want to go completely new shaft to bring the nuclear waste to deal with the old mine is failing it could collapse then the bet awards will be crushed it will take years until the barrels can be salvaged at the moment new covenants like this one are being excavated to accommodate huge machines. waiting for the whistle as they do when the by woods are brought to live they should be taken away as far as possible. need to be stored somewhere in germany i think not due to sending them to africa or to shoot them into space or whatever. nobody wants nuclear waste in their backyard about a billion euros being spent on dealing with the left over nuclear power in addition cleaning up the mine. five billion euros. one person who knows a lot about this story is sylvia courting green party parliamentarian who heads up the environment committee in the german thank you so much for being with us today. first of all wh

ambassadors to germany to denmark and to the e.u. are said to have been pushing pressure on nations to actually oppose this project but so far that hasn't worked as we know there's been a compromise and north stream to project will be going ahead it seems like the pressure from the u.s. has resulted in one thing only and that's go. the reporting from paris. chinese telecoms giant huawei has hit back at its critics in the west flatly dismissing claims it's used for beijing's spying purposes. recently who always been under constant attack by some countries and politicians were shocked or sometimes feel amused by those ungrounded and senseless allegations chinese telecom from slam the united states after receiving another blow in the five g. race the feel shocked an amused of how the united states is lobbying the european governments against the firm the united states envoy to the european union has threatened its western allies that if the huge chinese equipment in their infrastructure projects they will face consequences and they will

when i've been in the major museum venue is one of the most hotly debated construction projects in germany my callie david leavitt's has been following the story welcome david first of all. tell us about the controversy surrounding the building it's ok robin brace yourself for a little bit of time travel here because the home board form is partially a reconstruction of the size of the baroque city palace of the german emperor is located at the heart of berlin now the allies did bomb it in world war two it could have been saved but no socialist east germany had other plans they tore it down and put up the palace of the republic and its place that's their parliament and cultural center hideous yes but also kind of great in its own way i think. you are right with hideous well you know a lot of people were still yes it is but still a lot of people were sad that it got torn down to put up this new version of the city palace because the point is why create a historical replica. of a building instead of maintaining an actual historic building ok but about it's all done and dusted this forum is we

out of germany it is i think germany and america or if you want to personalize a little medical and donald trump some kind of and two posts ok so and that explains a lot of mistrust between them so what do you think a lot of thunder and bluster tory is when it comes down to it'll be like china which apparently there's a deal in the works right now i was reading in the press today that there might be an end to the possible trade war between trust china in the us there's a this is just bluster but just like with the border security conversation it's not necessarily the arguments being made but the process by which. and trump is trying to get things done does the united states have an interest in renegotiating trade deals reworking some of its agreements with china and germany and the european union yes but is the best way to do that to threaten twenty five percent tariffs on . the car imports into the united states probably not. and again to merkel's point that she did in munich are german cars manufactured in the united states a threat to u.s. national security i think that that is a

you're watching news coming up after a short break out documentary the failure of germany's first democracy you know to get you can get all the information on our web site at state every dot com i'm rebecca reese's thanks for joining me. her first day of school and. the first clue less. than bandar's grand moment arrives joint direct attack on her journey. in our interest to touch him in shoot or on the writing returns home. to live in is a monica's to try to rescue democracy. the peace that was nothing of the kind was. the first german democracy was on the edge of bankruptcy and of civil war. he had to assert himself against the enemies of democracy and above all i guess one of them golf good luck with talking about the russian chancellor gustaf strays him on. november nineteenth twenty three the leader of the national socialists tried to topple the government in berlin. the nationality of job search dollars. that very same night chancellor strays a man called a crisis meeting yeah. but whatever you think if you look at the conflict between. the president has to. deal if you want to talk a