thank you to the citizens of berlin. [applause] than in many germans believed obama would enable the u.s. to break with the unpopular policies of george w. bush and bolster its partnership with your a -- >> many germans believed obama would enable the u.s. to break with unpopular policies of george w. bush. >> 200,000 people in berlin came to hear him speak. no one before him manage to electrify the masses like that. he was and still is to extend a very charismatic leader. that is why the germans took such a shine to him. >> at the time, german chancellor angela merkel appeared unimpressed with obama 's performance. today, the u.s. president considers merkel to be one of his closest allies. last year, obama awarded to german chancellor the presidential medal of freedom, but merkel has been remarkably silent about the u.s. elections. her lack of open support suggests her friendship with obama may not be so close after all. but talk of a meeting this summer was also shut down. the chancellor had no plans to interrupt her v

>> welcome to the "journal" from dw in berlin. >> coming up -- syrian rebels face a u.s. probe for alleged war crimes after a video appears to show mass executions of prisoners. >> president barack obama and republican challenger mitt romney go back on the attack in the final stages of the election battle. >> and seeking clarity -- german chancellor angel merkel on how to develop renewable energy. we begin in syria where the military is currently stepping up its use of airpower in an effort to defeat the rebels. >> opposition forces say at least 70 people have been killed in an air strike near the turkish border. meanwhile, a video emerges of what appears to be opposition fighters executing government soldiers. >> the un says that if the video is authenticated, the action would constitute a war crime. >> as their prisoners cower in terror, rebels celebrate. this video is said to of been recorded in northwestern syria. government forces and rebels have been fighting there for weeks. on thursday, rebels stormed several army checkpoints. they appear to have captured these go

president. >> why the reference to berlin? >> berlin is always in the background of this crisis, and really in the forefront of president kennedy's thinking, because berlin was roughly analogous to cuba. cuba is a soviet-leaning satellite very near to the united states and berlin was a west-oriented city encircled by soviet-leaning east germany. and so president kennedy was afraid throughout the cuban missile crisis that if they just invaded, that would be over in a certain amount of time. but then the soviets could very easily dot same to berlin. they could just take over berlin without much difficulty. and that would lead, if the west chose, which it probably would have, to a nuclear exchange. so the sequence of likely events in president kennedy's thinking was if cuba fell easily, which we now know it would not have, then the soviets would have taken berlin, which would have led to a conflagration in europe and really the end of the world. >> i want to go back. right around this time there was the civil rights issue at the

>> this is dw in berlin. you are watching me "journal." >> coming up in the next half- hour, the eu and imf clash over how long greece should be given to reduce its debts. >> america's commander in afghanistan under investigation after new revelations in the cia sex scandal. >> in cairo, eu foreign ministers and members of the arab league discuss the syrian crisis. the lenders in charge of patching up the eurozone have gone head to head in a very public disagreement on the best way to deal with grease. >> at a meeting in brussels, the head of the imf and -- the heads of the imf and eurozone clashed over when greece should reduce its debt. >> but they did at least agree on a few things -- above all the grece could have at least two years to cut deficit. >> it is a question of how much progress greece can realistically be expected to make in a particular amount of time. >> greece's international lenders were playing down their differences the morning after the clash over athens' debts. the imf wants greece to a

how a new performance of "the magic flute" is allowing audiences in berlin -- wowing audiences in berlin. >> the greek prime minister has welcomed the european union international monetary fund bailout deal for athens as a new dawn after months of haggling. with the country on the brink of bankruptcy, the agreement will unlock almost 44 billion euros in cash. >> but many in greece are angry that the pact will mean more austerity and job cuts. opponents say it will not solve the country's problems. >> european finance chiefs are all smiles again. a solution for greece appears in sight thanks to a new set of measures meant to plug the country's cash gap and curb debt long-term. >> i am please to announce today we reached a political agreement on the next disbursement to greece. let me first say that this is not just about money. this is the promise of a better future for the greek people and the euro area as a whole. >> the latest measure -- the latest package of measures of looks to release loans for agrees with most of it paid out by year's end. but while politicians breathed a sigh of r

>> this is dw in berlin. you are watching me "journal." >> coming up in the next half- hour, the eu and imf clash over how long greece should be given to reduce its debts. >> america's commander in afghanistan under investigation after new revelations in the cia sex scandal. >> in cairo, eu foreign ministers and members of the arab league discuss the syrian . the lenders in charge of patching up the eurozone have gone head to head in a very public disagreement on the best way to deal with grease. >> at a meeting in brussels, the head of imf and -- the heads of the imf and eurozone clashed over when greece should reduce its debt. >> but they did at least agree on a few things -- above all the grece could have at least two years to cut deficit. >> it is a question of how much progress greece can realistically be expected to make in a particular amount of time. >> greece's international lenders were playing down their differences the morning after the clash over athens' debts. the imf wants greece to achieve its

welcome to the "journal" coming to you live from dw in berlin. the u.s. president defies a fragile economy and high unemployment to win the election, telling the american people the best is yet to come. >> appeals from angela merkel to her european partners -- an end to the eurozone debt crisis will require more unity. >> and a parliamentary vote on another round of austerity cuts in greece. >> thanks for joining us. barack obama has won his second term in office as president of the united states, but his celebrations will be short-lived as the multitude of urgent issues on his desk draws him back to work without delay. >> the first order of business will be to negotiate a new budget deal in congress by the end of the year. otherwise, and harsh plan of spending cuts and tax increases are due to go into effect. we will hear more about that later on in the show, but first, a look back at how things play out on election night in the u.s. >> his face said it all -- president barack obama had to fight hard to keep his job in a tough race against his republican

. >> it was high noon at the chancellor's office in berlin. demonstrators give the environment minister a petition with 100,000 signatures calling for germany to stick to its energy policy, phasing out nuclear and boosting renewals, but the minister says the switch must not be too expensive. >> it is also true that the costs have to be affordable for the economy, for individual citizens, entrepreneurs, artisans, small business people, and the middle classes. >> one week ago, all 16 of germany's federal states pledged to support the government's federal energy strategy. the chancellor was encouraged to see politicians come together across party lines. am i think at our meeting today, everyone understood that the task ahead is huge and that everyone must do their part. >> offshore when parks was a major topic of friday's meeting of federal and state leaders -- offshore wind parks. it is a subject close to the heart of germany's coastal states. >> the tenor of the meeting is that we should organize one big plan, not 16 little ones forming a whole

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live from berlin, this is the journal. >> here's a look at what's coming up. >> the u.s. heading towards its fiscal cliff. the president reaching out to congress. >> the german parliament passes a disputed child care benefit. >> the day of the wall came down. evens that changed everything. >> in less than two months, the u.s. will enter the perfect economic storm known as the fiscal cliff. a combination of tax increases and budget cuts could send the united states back into recession. >> barack obama back at work after his election reached out with republicans today saying he wants to reach a solution but only f the ridges are asked to give more. >> i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenge, but i refuse to accept any approach that is not balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors, middle-class families, to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, are not asked to pay one dime more in taxes. i'm not going to do that. "the very clear

>> live from berlin, this is the "journal" on dw. less money for europe -- the british parliament hands a defeat to prime minister david cameron over eu funding. >> as the u.s. northeast picks up the pieces after sandy, barack obama hits the campaign trail again. >> bayern-munich rocked to victory. >> the chris parliament has made it clear the budget for the european union must be reduced. >> members of parliament delivered an embarrassing defeat to prime minister david cameron late on wednesday in what the press there is calling kamins fright night. >> cameron has been calling for an eu budget freeze, but members of his own conservative party revolted, demanding brussels trim its spending. >> we have more now on the vote and the fallout beginning in london. >> when the vote was read out, it was a stunning defeat for the government. the opposition labor party is rubbing its hands in glee. 53 of david cameron is -- cameron's own party refused to toe the line, pushing through the amendment. kamen wants to freeze the eu budget over the

and twenty three years since the fall of the berlin wall we examine the changes the years have brought to germany the details after this break. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and by train a curfew as in you can't go out of your home when the government doesn't want you to has already been in effect in the country since two thousand and eleven many of the protests which are now totally forbidden were related to members of the public demanding the release of political prisoners four people were also recently arrested for insulting the king over twitter wow a middle eastern country that has totally shut down any form of protest and holds you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me i bet nato is already fueling up ready to take action some freedom into warmer right well not really if nato really cared about spreading democracy you'd think they'd be more consistent with their targets but that's just my opinion. which was that so much of it which of course is right on it will be. obama winning decisive victor

twenty three years since the fall of the berlin wall we moved out of the changes the year is a broad to germany but he tells her just ahead. while leaving town of bani walid is still struggling to heal the scars of the siege which took place less than a month ago levy is being promoted as a new travel hotspot visited the world travel market in london to find out why two operators remain silent on the tragedy. we're here at the world travel market a trade show a taking place in london where people can consulates their holiday inspiration or that scout exotic spot for a honey one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist destination and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting the site is a political sideshow it's a completely safe i can recommend list of libya for anybody to come there i can guarantee you that's going to be safe more than even towns big towns like london or new york but there's somewhere there's not mentioned in the guide burke bani walid a desert town this remain loyal to formally to colonel gadhafi it's just a few hours try s

twenty three years since the fall of the berlin wall week zammit the changes the years have brought to germany the details after this break. i never thought i could earn a living that's my. natalee issue of oil is the norm or should test small arms so those photos to machine building cloned not obvious lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans cells here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for hoffa's century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory bush's number one truck made for girls a look at how well the workplace is o

he kept bringing up berlin. we're going to bring it up in november at the united nations after the midterm election. he been broadcasting this through the summer. kennedy had been reading about this and reading the reports. they conditioned going to the crisis to believe that crew sheaf is going to force the issue. that's the issue that kennedy keeps coming back to cuba. if you ask kennedy what is crew sheaf up to. and kennedy was talking about this. kennedy would say west berlin. he would not say defense of cuba. the defense of cuba angle doesn't come through a lot for the american. not really thinking this through. it doesn't make sense to them. it doesn't sound like the way you defend cuba. the way from the american perspective in 1962 to do a mutual treaty or send lots of cop vengessal weapons which is what they were doing. but not send long range missile to threaten the united states. it's funny khrushchev accept the tactical battle field weapon. i think kennedy would have had a harder time convincing the w

he does jump to, he looks halfway around the world to what he feels most vulnerable, which is west berlin. and he thinks i'm khrushchev has been trying to force the issue since 1958 at dates back to stalin tried to push them. this is a festering cold war flashpoint. kennedy feels very probable there, as eisenhower had, as true when it. so kinky things, perhaps this is about -- so kennedy thinks, perhaps he is trying to leverage something in some way, to solve the west berlin problem. he wasn't without some evidence. this chap had been giving him some evidence that this might in fact be happening through the summer, khrushchev kept talking to american visitors and west german visitors who visited moscow, and khrushchev kept bringing out berlin, that we're going to bring this up in november at the united nations after the midterm elections. and so he had been broadcasting this to the summer. kennedy had been reading about this, and so they condition going into this process to believe that khrushchev will force the berlin issue. that's the issue kennedy keeps coming back to cuba. so if you a

>> this is dw in berlin. you are watching me "journal -- the "journal." watching the gauzes skyline -- a cease-fire between israel and hamas is due to begin right now -- watching the gaza skyline. >> germany signals it will support a request for patriot missiles and their crews. >> they will need a win tonight. >> israel and hamas have agreed to a truce after just over a week of violence. it was due to come into effect just moments ago. >> that's right. the deal was announced in cairo by the egyptian foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state. the truce calls for an immediate halt to the fighting and reportedly aims to work towards a longer-term solution as well. >> the latest escalation in violence began just over a week ago. since then, some 140 palestinians and five israelis have been killed in air strikes and rocket attacks. >> we will be trying to go live to cairo and also to gauze in a moment, but first, let's get back to evens earlier in it -- earlier in the day that threatens to derail the talks -- we will be trying to go live to cairo and a

"the berlin goddess" -- also up close and online. the german digital library is a fine tune search engine. users type in search terms, and the library displays photos, videos, and some recordings related to them. more than 5.6 million books, pictures, films, and pieces of music are available. >> if you use other search engines, you will get information, but some of it might be unreliable. that means you need a good level of knowledge yourself to be able to fill to the information you need. in the german digital library, everything is reliable and qualified. >> the goal of the portal is to make people want to find out more and perhaps even visit a museum. >> some sports now, and the rebel team have a arrive back at their base in britain. >> there were given a warm welcome before sitting down to sign autographs for fans. teammate mark weber also put his pen to paper as the rebel squad celebrated winning the constructors championship as well. rebel has meanwhile denied rumors of extended contracts. and middle earth has come to our world

and it was irving berlin's "god bless america." and he hated it. it was like, how can you say that aboutyou know, it was still the depression. in the 1940s, the depression hadn't ended in the united states of america. it was only the second world war that we ended the depression. and he sat down, and he wrote this song called "god blessed america for you and me," and which later became "this land was made for you and me." so, woody was thehe was the first punk rocker, and the last elizabethan balladeer. he was many, many things, woody. amy goodman: so talk about some of the lyrics that you found. billy bragg: wethe album that we made, mermaid avenue, myself and wilco in the late '90s, we actually recorded a lot more material that has never been released. and next year, we're hoping to release that whole full thirda whole third album, another 16-, 17-track stuff. but woody's original songs, the songs that he wrote back in the 1930syou know, i mean, the one that i'm going to play for you now, which is one of his classic songs, with these images of pe

air berlin is not alone in going through some turbulence. this is not a great time for europe's airlines. >> many are struggling to stay in business. here's a look at the litany of problems they face. >> scandinavian airline sas is fighting for survival. the carrier has not turned a profit in five years. it is not alone. just last week, spain's flagship carrier said it would cut nearly a quarter of its work force in an effort to remain competitive. sas alone plans to cut more than 1/3 of its 15,000 employees. air france is looking to reduce staff to 45,000 workers. and germany's lufthansa is also in the midst of a painful cost- cutting program. earlier this week, the airline struck a deal with unions to raise cabin crew pay in exchange for no strikes over the christmas holidays. >> coming up, we've got some sports news for you. >> first, some other stories making news around the world. three demonstrators have vented their anger at a german consul. he was heading for a meeting with local officials when a crowd of protesters began shouting at

that topic, berlin wall next. [cheers and applause] stuart: that was wonderful. 23 years ago today began the demolition of the berlin wall. for those of us who spent their adult lives feeling the impact it was an extraordinary event. back then, america was a leader of the world, accomplishing big things, great things. quick comment, gerri? >> this was the power of personality. this wasn't a big spending program. this was ronald reagan saying tear down this wall. that is exactly what happened. >> the irony it was symbol for decades of division and idealogical antagonism. when it camed down ushered in policy of detente and constructive engagement. this is symbolic day for congress. should listen to what happened in the aftermath of the berlin wall. stuart: this is symbolic day for president obama. what ajor thing will he accomplish? what major statement to our enemies and rivals overseas. >> you, president obama and congress tear down the wall between you two. stuart: oh. >> you really that is going to happen? i'm n

our correspondent in berlin now. >> we know contract or maybe more than one contract was given to the east german government. we also know that former prisoners of the secret police, in other words the political prisoners, say that they recognize that furniture. people escaped from east germany in those years and then wrote to ikea saying i was making your furniture. what we don't know is whether ikea -- we don't know how much ikea knew about the contracts. but that could be a minefield. >> and it could spread out to many parts of the world and many companies. >> thank you very much. for much -- thanks very much . two at tel aviv in the past hour or so. one of them fell into the sea and the other was intercepted. very much a hot issue for us on gmt. that's all for the moment. stay with us on bbc world news. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in gl

air berlin is not alone in going through some turbulence. this is not a great time for europe's airlines. >> many are struggling to stay in business. here's a look at the litany of problems they face. >> scandinavian airline sas is fighting for survival. the carrier has not turned a profit in five years. it is not alone. just last week, spain's flagship carrier said it would cut nearly a quarter of its work force in an effort to remain competitive. sas alone plans to cut more than 1/3 of its 15,000 employees. air france is looking to reduce staff to 45,000 workers. and germany's lufthansa is also in the midst of a painft- cutting program. earlier this week, the airline struck a deal with unions to raise cabin crew pay in exchange for no strikes over the christmas holidays. >> coming up, we've got some sports news for you. >> first, some other stories making news around the world. three demonstrators have vented their anger at a german consul. he was heading for a meeting with local officials when a crowd of protesters began shouting at him a

bbc news, berlin. >> the state of the ice sheets is getting wide attention. the biggest collaboration yet between scientific experts is revealing that melting is much worse in the northern hemisphere that in the south. david schlecker and has more on what this means in the debate about global warming. >> the crash of ice and ocean. this is green land, the great forces at work here are incredibly hard to measure. and for years, scientists have disagreed about how fast the ice is melting. now different research teams have joined forces to assess the latest data. in greenland, if on the fastest rate of change. the red areas are where the immelt has accelerated in the past 20 years. the blue areas are where the ice is getting thicker. is the red of rapid melting that dominates. >researchers have also combined their debt on antarctica. little has changed here. but one region to the red -- to the west is melting fast. and the leading scientists all agree. >> people have been confused in the past because there have been different messages over different time frames.

it, berlin sat where at that time? >> here's -- i'll do it -- here's germany and it's divided in half roughly, this is west germany and here's east germany, berlin, which was divided, is right in the middle of east germany. there's hundreds of miles between the east german border and berlin. they cut off all rail travel. they cut off all travel on the ground. the only way that the allies and primarily the americans but the brits helped, too, could get from -- supply from west germany into berlin was by plane. >> you talk -- you start out by saying that there was, 10, 15 minutes before each flight, at one point i think you got down to a minute between each flight? >> they were just -- they literally would come in, land, fly back out, land in west germany, as quickly as they could reload the plane. i think at some point -- it was months before they -- they had a certain amount that they had to be able to bring in. i think it was 4,000 tons a day to be able to feed these 2.5 million people . to have coal to get them throu

the mood is almost meditative at the christmas markets in berlin. stand owners to play with figures like these to accent the rustic look. christmas market trend this year seems to be a return to nature. another trend -- and increased focus on the origin of the food served. the recipe for this buckwheat pancakes is from france. the organic eggs sourced locally. regionalization and globalization at the same time. the finished mulled wine index is steadily climbing. more sophisticated, source will feel right at home here. the one-euro entry price will not be much of a financial setback to anyone dining here. a one-star chef serves gourmet specialties, and the dancers are a far cry from a traditional manger scene. not to mention the products. this necklace costs 480 euros. or how about an ivory tusk from an extinct mammoth? the specialty products for sale make the markets popular with international customers. >> a lot of things are handmade and not chinese. >> we have one in manchester. i wanted to see what the difference was. much better. >> christmas

but if syrian refugees come here to germany what will they get people in this camp in central berlin or role immigrants and they're angry they've come here to protest against harsh german laws that force refugees to remain at whichever camp the state sends them to that's after a twenty eight day march across the country which involved them breaking these very same laws if you want to go out you go with as ice big games you can all. something like a mission you go if you come and then you don't show them you cannot enter even these small planes and then i say ok now i have nowhere to go is it is please i'm ok famous people here are from africa the middle east and asia they've been seeking a better life in a better place but it seems what they found here turned out to be yet another fight in their hopes in the way. the people we are meeting here have been running away from atrocities and violence and dictatorship in their homelands forced to give up their homes and their lives there just to survive they actually had nowhere to go and they've come here in what may be their last hope but

he never came back because even twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall the east is still locked in the dark past. soviet era infrastructure derailed never really adapting to the capitalist reality reunification it turns out was more annexation what happened politically and in the way of international laws that west germany became bigger if they would have taken the chance in that time to say we abolish both germany's we abolished the west of germany and we abolished the eastern region in the east germany and we make something new we make a new germany this might have been much better the forging of one nation was the end of another this is all that remains from a once large power plant in the village of men that stein in eastern germany it used to generate electricity for railroads and trams shortly after reunification the plant was shut down as happened with most industry in the former g.d.r. abandoned buildings like this and deliberate dated are still scattered all across the east here silence reminders of the former republics power the two decades following the reunification

said thank you so much that's professor and dr michael walden that he's the director of open europe berlin think tank thank you. right well coming up don't go away an angry anniversary in london for the third year running for the reasons the students marched to protest skyrocketing tuition fees which are making it ever harder to get a degree and a job. bahrain puts dozens of medics behind bars for keeping to the hippocratic oath and treating protesters that's after a damning report by amnesty international reveals the for human rights situation is getting worse in that ten. plus a look at india's tourist hot spots where holiday makers get the best conditions while locals have to pay for it with the most basic comforts this and a lot more for you in just a. british lib dem minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power such a children are a setback for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the

by coming up later this hour all forking out to go green look at how berlin siple a new class shutdown and the accompanying shift towards renewable energy is the literary painful blow to family budget and. also a magnet media scandal continues to unfold. yet another report of his points away full dressed in the government with an alarming expose on the country's disintegrating economy this story in detail and many will just say hey. what's the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because swords are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who was shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and on any given day you could be shot dead so i get it when after a long police chase someone

he never came back because even twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall the east is still locked in the dark past. soviet era infrastructure derailed never really adapting to the capitalist reality reunification it turns out was more annexation what happened politically and in the way of international laws that west germany became bigger if they would have taken the chance and it's time to say we abolish both germany's we abolish the west of germany and we abolish the eastern regime that is germany and we make something new we make a new germany this might have been much better the forging of one nation was the end of another this is all that remains from a once large power plant in the village of men that stein in eastern germany it used to generate electricity for railroads and trams shortly after reunification the plant was shut down as happened with most industry in the former g.d.r. abandoned buildings like this and deliberate dated are still scattered all across the east here silence reminders of the former republics power the two decades following the reunification so a mi

they should be cut loose you know political rumblings indeed artie's piece all of the reporting from berlin thank you. now the world's most famous whistleblower during the sun is again in the headlines as a media speculates on the state of his health meanwhile asuncion self is promising more sensational classified disclosures he spoke to r.t. is laura smith at the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up for almost six months now. as any journalist working in london now is i'm pretty familiar with standing outside the ecuadorian embassy waiting for julian assange to come out and talk from the balcony just to my right here but this evening i've been inside that resort embassy to talk to judy and i saw he's recently written a book called cypherpunks freedom and the future of the internet and that's what he really wants to talk about at the moment and we did talk about that we talked about how he sees this increase in state surveillance is hugely damaging for the entire fabric of society how companies and governments can minute the internet for data that is placed there willingly

i would also be concerned because there is rising competition particularly in europe between berlin and washington well another world news a military jet has crashed in southeast turkey killing all seventeen military personnel on board bad weather has been blamed for the accident the military helicopter was being deployed into the country's search province which has recently seen a surge of kurdish rebel attacks over forty thousand people have died in the conflict between turkey and kurdish insurgents we've been demanding autonomy for almost three decades. budget talks have collapsed after member states failed to agree on extra funds demanded for the rest of the year there's also a huge gap in what's been known as. the emergency funding aimed at covering education infrastructure and research projects one point five billion euros were used to pay for part of me were used to pay italy poland as well as spain but ordered to help victims of flooding as well as job cuts the row casts a shadow over the long term budget plan for the next decade which is up for discussion later this month.

i would also be concerned because there is rising competition particularly in europe between berlin and washington. now take a look at some other stories from around the world syrian state t.v. reports twin explosions in the country's southern city of draw the two car bombs are said to have killed several civilians and damaged buildings activists claim the blast went off near the country's military intelligence headquarters in the city it's not immediately clear who is behind the attacks. though she asians over the e.u. budget for next year have collapsed after a member states failed to agree on extra funds for the rest of two thousand and twelve there was a huge gap in so-called emergency funding aimed at covering education infrastructure and research projects one point five billion euros were to be paid to italy poland and spain to help victims of flooding and job cuts the lack of agreement casts a shadow over another long term budget plan for the next decade which is up for discussion later this month. there were huge police search at a sri lanka prison has erupted into violent c

palestinians or abstain and one of the countries set to uphold it say it's jim and let's discuss this berlin's decision i would like to rein astin a m.p. and foreign policy spokesman for the free democratic party dr stan i thank you for your time firstly jimmy says it supports the idea of a palestinian state how is abstaining today going to help be creation of that palestinian state. well we have to look after our ultimate political goal our ultimate political goal is definitely is two state solution and we are trying to make our decisions according to this ultimate political goal and i think everybody in the world knows that germany has a special relationship to israel everybody in the world knows the security of israel is of major concern to us and just having lived through a period of tremendous. bad events in israel and gaza we could see that is that that israel has a size of a job instead of has here has been attacked by war more than one thousand five hundred rockets we can understand security concerns that's why we have a special relationship and that's why we are very concerned about t

he never came back because even twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall the east is still locked in the dark past soviet era infrastructure derailed never really adapting to the capitalist reality greenough occasionally turns out was more annexation what happened politically in the way of international laws that west germany became bigger if they would have taken the chance in that time to say we abolish both germany as we abolish the west of germany and we abolish the eastern regimes that use germany and we make something new we make a new germany this might have been much better the forging of one nation was the end of another this is all that remains from a once large power plant in the village of moon that stein in eastern germany it used to generate electricity for railroads and trams shortly after reunification the plant was shut down as happened with most industry in the form idea abandoned buildings like this and delivered dated are still scattered all across the east here silent reminders of the former republics power the two decades following the reunification so a mill

i would also be concerned because there is rising competition particularly in europe between berlin and washington more top stories not in brief military helicopters crashed in southeast turkey has killed all seventeen military personnel on board but whether that accident the aircraft has been deployed into the country province which is recently seen a surge of kurdish rebel attacks over forty thousand people have died in the conflict between turkey and kurdish insurgents been demanding autonomy for almost three decades now. another headline survive twenty one minutes past nine moscow time e e u budget talks have collapsed after member states of failed to agree on extra funds demanded for the rest of the year there's a huge gap now in what's known as the emergency funding and recovering education infrastructure and research projects one point five billion euros word to be paid to italy poland and spain to help victims of flooding and job cuts this route casts a shadow over the long term budget plan for the next decade which is up for discussion later this month. a train has derailed

chairman while it's our feeling the pinch from soaring electricity bills patted by berlin's objective to rid the country of nuclear energy security and environment is behind the bed seemed to be perfectly valid but as peter all of our reports its ultimate implications could hit germans hard. it was a resoundingly no new clear from the german chancellor abandon you can power completely step by step until the end of twenty twenty two as a country within that we can become pioneers on the way to create an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is the security concerns a very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin reduction of nuclear energy in germany it will make energy accounted for just under eighteen percent of jim. electricity in two thousand and eleven can renewable take up the slack government figures show that for every wind farm built to generate three thousand megawatts the amount needed t

and iran and call it an aggressor along with turkey and germany she thinks guilt could be motivating berlin. germany's military forces have been pretty big thing in many conflicts around the world so they're partially responsible for the wars and as people are running away it means they're responsible for the refugees but if syrian refugees come here to germany what will they get people in this camp in central berlin are all immigrants and they're angry they've come here to protest against harsh german laws that force refugees to remain at whichever camp the state sends them to that's after a twenty eight day march across the country which involved them breaking these very same laws if you want to. would you go with the al face big if you can or something. you go or if you come and then you don't show them you cannot enter even these small please and then i say ok now i have nowhere to go is it is please i'm ok finished people here are from africa the middle east and asia they've been seeking a better life in a better place but it seems what they found here turned out to be another fight bl

i would also be concerned because there is rising competition particularly in europe between berlin and washington so well reaction you say we're going to get from moscow and how's it going to complicate things with relations between the u.s. poland poland russia. the whole circle. it will. be very much concerned right now russia is a very powerful neighbor it has many allies across the globe it's a military power as well as an economic power in that part of the world and quite frankly doesn't make that much sense for warsaw to come its nose at such a powerful neighbor and i would hope and imagine that there would be a reconsideration of their foreign policy sooner rather than later. he will see that.

but then they immigrate here and so brussels or berlin or indonesia suddenly lacks the top -- >> you don't want to engineer their decision on where they want to build their business. >> i agree with that as well. i agree that we shouldn't force them to stay in indonesia. but that's not what i'm saying. i think that we also want to see great ecosystems emerge in the different markets around the world because more people will come online in indonesia than in any other place overt next three years. so they're getting smartphones with internet access. why shouldn't there be a thriving ecosystem in indonesia? >> and you're teaching them with classes in indonesia. john swartz. >> so what do you look for in an entrepreneur? i think scott mentioned earlier sometimes they're tall. >> you say you actually have a formula. >> so we test for entrepreneurship and we can look at attributes. so the tall thing comes up. i'm a tall guy, but that doesn't mean that i'm a basketball player. but it means i could most likely be a basketball player. so some of the traits that we look for in an entrepreneur

but if syrian refugees come here to germany what will they get people in this camp in central berlin or all immigrants and they're angry they've come here to protest against harsh german laws that force refugees to remain at whichever camp the state sends them to that's after a twenty eight day march across the country which involved them breaking these very same laws if you want to. as far as big if you can or something. you go or if you come and then you don't show them you cannot enter even these small please then i say ok now i have nowhere to go if it is please are not there famous people here are from africa the middle east and asia they've been seeking a better life in a better place but it seems what they found here turned out to be yet another fight their hopes and we. the people we are missing here have been running away from atrocities and violence and dictatorship in their homelands forced to give up their homes and their lives there just to survive they actually had nowhere to go and they've come here in what may be their last hope but other welcome here enough with the

now the fall of the berlin wall on of amber of the ninth exactly twenty three years ago symbolize the and the cold war the day will be marked by memorial ceremonies across germany but as are you now reports even two decades after the fall divisions still remain. made in love a ballet produced in western germany by a choreographer from the former d.d.r. in the eighty's when one nation was riven into stuff and fled what he saw as a prison for the promise of freedom this is when artists who needed inspiration who didn't have a chance to see the outside world were going to were telling us you know awaits roots in the west where we were different but emotional journey was on the album that enrich himself though. he never came back because even twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall the east is still locked in the dark past. soviet era infrastructure derailed never really adapting to the capitalist reality reunification it turns out was more annexation what happened politically in the way of international law is that west germany became bigger if they would have taken the chance in