this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin trying his new role in the world president xi jinping sets out his vision for his country at the start of the communist party congress he says his dream is to turn china into a global superpower also coming up the ruins of iraq oh it was the epicenter of

islamic states brutal regime now the city has fallen to us by syrian forces but does the loss of the city mean it's finished. people in parts of northeastern nigeria do not have enough to eat because of an islamist insurgency we report on the difficulties faced by farmers in areas threatened by militant the militant group boko haram. plus the transformer the power of music and dance. now a new project in the german city of hamburg is bringing young refugees and locals together and giving them a new lease on life. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. chinese president xi jinping says his

country is facing a bright future but also severe challenges he was speaking at the start of the communist party congress in beijing which takes place every five years he said problems such as the widening gap between rich and poor and corruption needed to be tackled he also said the communist party should take on a more forceful role in society. it's a meeting on the grandest of scales nearly twenty three hundred delegates representing the eighty nine million members of china's communist party and that the focus of it all one man president paying he is looking to cement his position in the party securing at least another five years at the helm of asia's economic powerhouse she praised china's achievements during his stewardship but he said the country couldn't stand still.

our country is at an important point of strategic opportunity in its development. the future is extremely bright. but the challenges are also extremely serious. party comrades must set their sights far and high and think of danger in times of safety you would be willing to change and innovate. be willing not to become stiff or stop. he listed some of the films that innovation should take a clean and clear internet space more openness to the world he promised to protect the rights of foreign investors but he left no doubt what the guarantee of prosperity would be socialism chinese style on the party rule thank you let's cross straight over to beijing and our correspondent

mathias bulling is standing by there for a summit is what's expected to happen during this closed door session today what should we be looking out for there in beijing there is no doubt that he will consolidate his power in this congress and what we should be looking out for is how much that means how many of the people in the senate call me t. the party leading group will be his people will be considered his people and also how he would be able to get his ideas to the party constitutional common it they will see. well in his address president xi jinping said that china has zero tolerance for corruption within the ruling communist party hell successful has his anti corruption drive been in recent years if we take the

numbers it has been very successful one point three million officials have urged you to corruption if we see it as an element in power struggle it has been extremely successful he has been able to get rid of most of the people who will challenge is power i q's ing them off corruption or by. proving that they have corrupt it has let the less successful in establishing an independent draft already that would function this week regardless of. the affiliations of our team members not of his clothes and he's even subject to investigation. now the communist party in china of course is concerned about dissent understand that tough security measures have been imposed during the congress tell us more about that well it's almost

impossible to get even close and even close i mean within its own interest so off the side of the great hall of the people all the roads are closed. and. the people who want to enter the city even on the roads they will be controlled troublemakers which are registered in just series or people might say don't demonstrate or something they would not even get into the city it's ok mathias stay with us for a while we're going to take a look at the chinese president xi jinping will come back to just a minute from building china up as a global superpower to cracking down on corruption chinese president xi jinping first five years in office have transformed the world's most populous nation she is expected to elevate his status by enshrining his political philosophy she jingping thought into the party constitution if his philosophy is added along with his name

it would place him on a par with melted dung who founded modern china. his rise to power in the party was a long time in the making. at the end of two thousand and twelve the still relatively unknown season paying was elected general secretary of china's communist party and in a unanimous votes. a few months later in early twenty thirty he succeeded shushan tao as china's president. his election was a compromise solution she emerged from political infighting and intrigue as the victor he was barely enough this before he announced his fight against corruption billions of un disappear from public coffers each year. but this historian john lee from notes doesn't win him only friends. how the chair

way corruption is very widespread in the system every official has to fear being caught and punished and the she is therefore feared to love. she likes to portray himself as a man of the people and she arguably is although he grew up privileged his father a high ranking party official fell into disgrace in the one nine hundred sixty s. during the cultural revolution this or she banished to the countryside in shan she province where he lives in this simple cave dwelling. as a teen he became party secretary in the village and was eventually allowed to study in beijing. you know. we had a very high opinion of his father and we were all therefore under the illusion that the son of a reform must also be a reform argue that. she. she has improved

relations with russia and let china to increasingly take on the role of the superpower he is sticking by its ally north korea but now adopt a more critical time about its dictator. the usa wants china to exercise more pressure on north korea but she is cautious for the west china's human rights violations remain a big problem under siege critics even more harshly persecuted than before the most recent example despite suffering from advanced terminal cancer dissident a nobel prize winner. was forced to remain in jail until shortly before his death. she obviously enjoys being on the world stage especially with his wife the famous singer penley un with she at the helm china appears to be more martin but that's only partly true ultimately she stands above all for one thing the survival of the

party that puts him where he is. all of a correspondent still standing by with us there in beijing mathias in a speech is to she listed china's recent achievements saying that socialism with chinese characteristics meant that china had become a great power in the world what exactly is he referring to there. but in the recent years he's he's foreign policy has been much more assertive than his predecessors and there was a sentence in this issue day where he sat china after the period of standing up which refers to moloch saddam's revolution and the period of becoming rich china is now becoming powerful so she g.p.d. is clearly on his way to be more active on the on the international scene and is more assertive towards his neighbors i think within these five years there's not

one neighboring country there are few but most neighboring countries have seen conflicts and he has had if you can pains against foreign countries against japan against france at the time and against south korea there was the border conflict with india and there is this plan to expand chinese infrastructure and with this chinese power to huge parts of the wood in this one project so china is going to create play a greater role on the international stage and it wants to play it by its own rules until spring up in beijing thank you so much. you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a federal judge in the u.s. state of hawaii has a block to present donald trump's third attempt at a travel ban just hours before it was set to go into effect judge said trump's order discriminated based on nationality and fail to show that people coming from

the listed countries would be detrimental to u.s. interests. in spain tens of thousands of protesters took the streets of barcelona on tuesday night to call for the release of two leaders of the catalan separatist movement there being a best get it for sedition in connection with the independence referendum earlier this month spain's constitutional court ruled the referendum illegal. and american author george saunders has won the prestigious man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo the book is tells the story of abraham lincoln's grief after the death of his son saunders is the second american author ever to win the award worth more than fifty five thousand euro in a strange. syrian our residents of rock are taking stock of their

devastated city a day after it was declared liberated from the so-called islamic state u.s. backed syrian forces took control of almost all the city from on tuesday syrian city was the capital of the islamist groups supposed caliphate after an assault lasting for months they finally taste victory syrian fighters raise their flock in reckons main square. it's almost over we knew the main roundabout and we haven't seen any i as fine as we haven't seen any need the stadium either i think the city will be fully cleared in the next two days. but you know how do i feel i'm flying look at me i'm so happy. jubilation on the spot known as the roundabout of hell over the past three years my ass used for public beheadings and crucifixions shoring the terror that characterized the militants reign. in twenty

fourteen it was here that i celebrated its push into the city rocca was declared the defacto capital of itself styled culliford it became home to thousands of jihadists from around the world after a call by the i.r.s. leader. to migrate to the syrian city it's sort of was where they plan terror attacks across the globe this is rockers municipal stadium the militant sets up a prison here torturing people who oppose their rule it's where many of the foreign jihadists were killed making a last stand after refusing an offer of safe passage. small pockets of i asked militants still thought to be holed up in the city but there's another danger to be faced in these ruins booby traps and mines. the u.n.

says there has already been staggering loss of civilian life and rocca well over a thousand were killed in the battle for the city with hundreds more bodies feared buried in the rubble. you're watching the news still to come with new coach your pint kiss on the hot seat we look at how byan are preparing for their champions league clash with. celtic. well we are now able to cross over to to the turkish syrian border where we're going to get more on the the taking of the city of iraq where the islamic state had

their stronghold in syria crossing to on ha dad he runs a radio that's a non-state station broadcasting on air and online in syria he joins us now from the town of ghazi intent on the turkish syrian border thanks for talking with us this morning and now your radio station and its website have contact with all sorts of people around syria what are you hearing from people still inside rocco. well basically the situation has been you know evolving over the past few months that he quickly. some settlements would reached in order for some militants that would have left in the city some isis militants to actually leave but up and go to bed is good and this is why it would also thousands of civilians trapped into these areas that's what a city controlled by says so the news that we're hearing is basically that these

people out in a very dire situation they have. very difficult and scary moments. they have not had access to i think out of communications the food resources would have any scars so they would have pretty. you know roots allies than them shape when they were liberated that they would finally. you know dillies them and able to have access to those services again. as we understand sorry i just was wondering what's going on again in rock and particularly what it means for the so-called islamic state will rock as last be the beginning of the end for islamic state. i think it's all to do the end for the islamic state slotnick state . you know all but a couple of months has expanded that he quickly took all the territories from the

you know simi and. from different. you know groups and syria and had ak and then they found it so they have significantly. the international coalition has launched its open ation to take all that up the most and so i think it's auditee the end for them isis is no longer. it's not i think more than twenty percent. of it's you know people follow it over a couple of years ago so yeah this is that so-called caliphate it is now taking all but from. there the militant side of fleeing bad and out to out in a video the smaller towns that had not a significant does more sort of ducked but some of them much. of it controlled but i think yeah this is this is the end that i would expect a couple of months before it isss it's completely. you know he moved from

c.b.s. and that out the secretaries are taken back by either the seat in the gmo aren't. you know followed or other groups ok. there he's with the syrian media group and her opposition radio he talked to us from gaza in tampa on the turkish syrian border thank you very much thank. well let's get some business news and there have been some new developments in the negotiations on the north american free trade agreement helena well terry i'm afraid the new developments all the fact that those talks between the us mexico and canada have hit a snag the three parties saying that there are still significant gaps left to wrangle over so they've set a date for the next round of talks and that is the first quarter of twenty eighteen now the u.s. is threatening to leave the table but that would create more problems than it would solve and in that case the rules of the world trade organization would kick in now

that would hit us reduces especially hard and it's not just the three countries that a feeling nervous many foreign firms are hoping that a deal is reached as soon as possible. meanwhile president trump's efforts to reduce immigration of prompt countries to step up recruiting of tech talent that might want to found a home in the united states at the beginning of the year and was in opened a new engineering office in mexico city facebook has partnered up with local groups to develop technical talent in the region and oracle plans to hire thousands of additional employees at its offices in mexico as well. wise line is a sense francisco tech firm with two hundred sixty employees based in mexico city and guadalajara it is invited so-called dreamers who could face deportation from the u.s. to apply for jobs in mexico but it's not just america's dreamers that are moving

their tech talent from around the world is now flocking to mexico for work the fact that nearing is a globalized profession that many of the things you need years learn in do share a common language which is and was allowed us to bring people from egypt from brazil from many parts of the wall and it's very good for a while in mexico in general and wise line one of the key benefits of operating in mexico has been the ability to attract and relocate foreign workers with us since opening offices there in twenty fourteen the company has brought in workers from france india and china among other countries finitely mexico it's a country willing to embrace every single talented person that my when i return or actually if it's coming from a different country to be part of this ticket in this story we will welcome them and we want to raise them. mexico's tech sector is enjoyed healthy job growth in recent years from mexico though there is

a special urgency more than six hundred thousand undocumented immigrants of mexican origin may soon have to look for work abroad as a result of the trumpet ministrations decision to let dhaka policy expire. now australia will be paying close attention to statements coming out of the communist party congress in beijing off china is all straight is largest export market the past signed a free trade agreement back in twenty fifteen and i'm going to be talking to the australian minister a finance in just a moment but first let's take a closer look at the state of the australian economy now it has set a world record for going without a recession for the last twenty six yes since ninety nine. one the country's economy has been growing something that most finance ministers can only dream of and that's largely thanks to an unparalleled who is materials it's just got thousands of tons of minerals coal gas and precious metals most of which are

exported to china so as we mentioned the australian economy is very much dependent on china's now the inclusion of australia in the trans-pacific partnership set certainly suffered a major setback when the us president donald trump referred to the agreement as a potential disaster withdrawing his country from negotiations and as a result australia's economic ties with the e.u. and its largest economy germany but came even more interesting for the world's twelfth largest economy the land down under is now a springboard for european investors targeting the pacific region but australia certainly needs new stimulus for growth in major cities like melbourne now their real estate is going on to the hammer every weekend housing prices are going through the roof and many are warning of a bubble many australians are also in debt so it is so australia's economic luck running out lets off the country's minister for finance coleman who joins us

from canberra this morning very nice to see you thank you for joining us mr coleman . now u.s. president donald trump has killed the trans-pacific partnership when it comes to thank you when it comes to exports you're dependent on china china says it's looking for more global trade so is australia looking to europe for more trade. well. globally focused outward looking open try to economy i mean you're right china is our most important trying part now but europe as a bloc is actually our second largest trading partner to die europe the european union as a bloc largest source of foreign direct investment and of course you know we are keen to strengthen and you know broad and deep and strengthen the opportunities to do business all around the world i mean we've been pursuing

a very ambitious free try to gender entering into free try to agreements yes with china but also with japan and south korea singapore the united states we are pursuing a free trade agreement with the european union and we've been very grateful for the very constructive engagement that we fight with europe and in particular with the german government mr coleman of course the industrial revolution is something that's facing us here in europe australia as well all around the while yet australia still faces challenges when it comes to things like power outages slow internet how are you going to close that gap to remain competitive. well we're very focused on all of these things i mean you're quite right as an open try to economy it's very important that we're internationally competitive and across the board across all of the area of public policy we are pursuing a pro growth agenda we are investing of course and all of the necessary

infrastructure to ensure that we can participate competitively in the opportunities of a digital economy we work closely with germany for example on the industry four point zero. standard and pursuing opportunities between germany and australia to closer together to offer opportunity for business in a strip business is in australia to become part of advanced manufacturing value china around the world so when this does all things that focus on that we are working on and we've continued to work on that look at the situation for the average australian then there are high levels of per capita day it's the banking system for example the commonwealth bank of australia didn't report over fifty thousand cases of money laundering how can you clean up that sector to make sure that risks of a banking crisis are not passed on to the average person that. well

we have a strong and well regulated banking system banks are very profitable a very strong a very stable home and if you look at the situation around the world opposed to the global financial crisis by any standards banks in australia came out of that very very well compared to banks and other positive all prudential regulation you know it's very effective and always specific issues that arise from time to time and when that dude have got to be properly addressed and we've always got to consider carefully you know what improvements can continue to be my two regulatory settings but in an overall sense you know we've got a very strong very effective internationally very competitive banking system and you know compared to europe compared to the united states banks in australia performed very well when this would stress this happened in the context of the global financial crisis mathias cormann australia's minister of finance thank you

for being with us hey on. and terry have some sports news for you now that's right helena some european football is a mixed night for the german teams in the champions league on tuesday already leipsic secure their first ever win in european football they beat porto three two to move up to second place in their group but it was not such a good evening for dortmund they struggled to a disappointing one all draw away to upwell nicosia and face an uphill struggle to qualify for the second round. you're watching news more coming up in just a. bull's new compact s.u.v.s as a judgment body and the french touch the ground on exports technology from pushing . a new device to

help drive a stance through traffic jams new self driving technology from. driving in sixty minutes to. forty million people in east africa threatened by starvation what are the causes of the situation. we focus on five specific problem areas. as human journalistic project tries to find the answers white africa goes hungry our topic this week long dylan song line. they make a commitment. they find solutions. they inspire. africa among. stories about people making a difference shaping their nation. and their continent. his new

multimedia series for africa. dot com africa on the move. when history books are brought to life. maybe the stories therein get a rewrite. the story of the russian revolution. from the perspective of writers thinkers and covent garden just what did it feel like to live in times over the revolution of the. one nine hundred seventy nine. real october starting over twenty. dollars. welcome back to watching t w news i'm terry martin our top story president xi jinping sets out his vision for his china at the start of a communist party congress he says his dream is to turn china into

a global superpower. offer more on the chinese meeting that is taking place the chinese communist party congress would join here in the studio by dr. she's from the think tank the european council on foreign relations thanks so much for being with us this morning angela now some analysts are saying that she jingping is now the world's most powerful leader do you share that assessment not quiet i would probably call him the most powerful leader i don't believe. he's president of the united states but also. i think the rationale behind the that analysis that president she is now the most powerful leader is that the u.s. is withdrawing from the world stage to some degree that president trump in the u.s. is pursuing a more isolationist policy while can while china continues to expand its global influence how is an emboldened china projecting its power internationally.

regionally and internationally i would say regionally we see it in particular because often china's interests in. the east china sea its territorial interests and also in terms of trade in fact because ofttimes withdrawal from the p.p.a. the trans-pacific partnership agreement china is trying already now to step into that vacuum globally i believe china will use its increased power everywhere it can and everywhere where it will serve its interests starting from latin america. africa and even talk to euro so china is very global stage economically getting involved in all parts of the world we're right in its in its neighborhood in its region is as you say we're looking at a selfie at a north korea that is a huge problem particularly for the united states but also for north korea's

neighbors including china could china as north korea's most important trading partner solve the north korean crisis if it wanted too. if it wonder tour especially the west believes china can solve that problem the problem though is that china does not want to solve the same problem us a west us meaning for china the. nuclear threat is of course they are but it is not its primary interest to get rid of new nuclear weapons its primary interest is to keep stability on the korean peninsula and father needs to support the north korean regime at least to some degree so that the regime would not collapse for china north korea is not least also a buffer zone between china and the u.s. so these these are china's primary interest even though we have seen now china becoming much tougher on north korea so there is a shift in what can be seen as china losing its patience with with can young girls

school president xi and what's happening inside china in the communist party which present she took over five years ago the respect elation the communist party was beginning to lose its grip on power to some degree has that changed in the person five years yes it has definitely changed in the past five years and she has been the main reason for that how much power he eventually has remains to be seen and the party congress that happen is happening now is actually a key event to show how much power you have people always said he's as powerful as mounds of dong. we will see now whether he will be called he will be named a leader. of dong was we will see if. thought as his own thoughts will be included in the party constitution we will see if he can place his allies into the highest position of government and so on and so forth so these

couple of days will be quite crucial in order to answer that question so president xi is clearly putting his stamp on party the communist. he as it were now china is facing a number of challenges as he mentioned president xi in his speech slowing economic growth one thing but he focused very much also on growing social economic inequality within china how is she going to address those challenges he has to address these challenges because they have been a presence and he took all the pot actually five years ago quest said no the problem is how fast will reforms. implemented and how deep will they call the biggest problem in and implementing a comic reforms is so reduce the cantarell off the state namely and state owned enterprises and he you know we know that he has been most reluctant to let go.

i'm a little bit skeptical off any kind of breakthrough in terms of economic reforms. stansell from the european council on foreign relations thank you very much thank you. turning now to northeastern nigeria where eight years of islamist insurgency has left tens of thousands dead and more than two million people displaced the nigerian army has claimed a series of victories against the militants of boko haram but security is park area and the humanitarian situation remains dire as part of our special series on hunger in africa our correspondent adrian creech traveled to the city of run in borno state it's one of the region's most severely affected by the ongoing conflict. it's the rainy season here in northeastern nigeria former gold has come out dispraise fields in preparation for planting the new seed crop. i think when i'm.

gone he has to be careful not to stray too far out. he always stays within sight of the town of ron. we've had to abandon our out of fields because of course it's safer here but there's not enough land. it's been a while since gone he has been able to plant anything at all. last year he lost count of how many days his family had nothing to eat and he's not optimistic about the coming year either. you know. this will be a poultry harvest i have two wives and nine children to feed normally i need at least forty sacks of millet to make ends meet but look at this country now i was lucky that my grandfather left me this land my own fields are too far away. and.

militias keep watch over a roughly five kilometer span around iran. but the poorly equipped local troops can only provide limited protection for farmers like goni. we've patrolled the area day and night. with up on. when we run into boko haram we fight. either we kill them or they'll kill us wonder how to build so i'm not afraid of them even at night if we see lights will go out to inspect. the consequences afoul of fields are visible across the area. malnourishment. people dying from diseases that could normally be treated quite easily. and in the rainy season washed out roads limiting the amount of help aid organizations can

provide. this is a protection crisis which has gradually turned into a food security and a nutrition crisis so very fragile situation we are at the very peak of the lean season waiting and hoping that their livelihood inputs and the agriculture support providing farmers with seeds and tools and fertilizers starting in june is going to lead to a harvest that is going to have an impact on the overall situation on the ground. but not everyone is optimistic agricultural expert gumbos critical of the government's inadequate response he's calling for more support for farmers as well as sustainable food supplies. you might give the people the seed but then if you do not give them food the seed you are given to them will ultimately be used

for food because when you give hungry money for example ten kilograms of millet. go to your farm lands and then in the house he has two wives are now about seventeen grand and that's a crime for hunger. tell me the money that will have the hot not to give that ten kilograms of millet to be crowned it immediately to be met in to put it to give to the boys and then he for goes the farm. as long as the fighting continues farmer goni alba is certain food scarcity will continue. most of his neighbors don't have the means to prepare their fields during the rainy season this means yet another year of being dependent on food donations. goni is lucky to at least have enough money for fertilizer all he wants is to be able to provide for his family again.

forty years ago this month left wing militants force militant forces height forced a high checked an aircraft to land at the mogadishu airport the terrorists had links to the german red army faction also known as the bottom mind off group throughout the nine hundred seventy is the bottom line haul waged a war against the west german state takes a look back at that moment in history. october thirteenth one thousand nine hundred seventy seven west germany watched the actions of leftwing terrorist group the red army faction in horror weeks earlier the r.a.f. had kidnapped business executive hans. hoping to blackmail the government into trading his release for terrorists and last bada and gudrun and slain. on that october day they received some assistance a four person palestinian commando two women and two men hijacked a live tons of passenger plane called the luns huet their demand the release of eleven arre of terrorist imprisoned in west germany for the eighty hostages

a five day odyssey began their journey including to rome monaco dubai and aden. in south yemen the hostage takers shot lufthansa pilot. the last stop on the horror trip was the mogadishu airport in somalia no other country in the world would allow the hijacked plane to land then west german chancellor helmut schmidt was forced to make the most difficult decision of his political career west germany refused to cave in to blackmail how many people would have to pay for this with their lives at that point in time he didn't know he gave the go ahead for the elite commando team g s g nine to free the hostages the rescue operation was on october eighteenth at midnight and lasted seven minutes three hijackers were killed one female kidnapper

injured and all hostages survived. that same night the r.a.f. terrorists committed suicide in stuttgart saddam heim prison and godmamma survived her suicide attempt with heavy injuries. one day later the murdered body of hans ma . was found. the hijacked jet the lone two it flew until two thousand and eight when it retired at the brazilian airport. in two thousand and seventeen germany bought the jet at scrap value and brought it back this was a meaningful gesture for the former hostages. had been. i don't only have negative feelings and association with alonso you have to remember what that plane achieved during the five days of the abduction it flew up and down again and again even though it was on its last drops of fuel don't forget that alonso had also made

an extreme emergency landing. the fact that the restored airplane will be placed in a museum also means a lot to the former lance and copilot you're going feet or and stewardess company. it is a symbol of the german state's first test of strength against a terrorist group and the state one. or more on the story i'm joined now by and full of inc oh she's from the center for contemporary history thanks for being with us this morning in a oh it's been forty years since the murder of. the suicides of most of the remaining members of the bottom line whole gang what is this debate about that chapter in history still so polarizing in germany today well i guess actually in order to understand this episode in history you have to go a bit back further back because actually at the roots of all this is the student movement off nine hundred sixty eight which was not a german at the saw it but action international event or development so some people

took their radicalization which was which actually ended in the ari if doing the hijacking and another terrorist attacks and others chose to follow parties like the green party which is now a negotiating about into the government so i get this this was kind of a crossroads in german history and that's why it's still so important if we look back it was a militant movement was it was regarded as terrorism and still is in retrospect we're now dealing with terrorism in a slightly different form do you see any parallels between the terrorism forty years ago the germany experience and the terrorism we're experiencing today well i see two parallel one of course is hijacking airplanes which was repeated in a way in a different way but at the same time repeated and in the september eleventh attacks because we know all of us working in the media you probably know better than i do that any episode in an airplane in the in air fare always causes maximum attention

by media so it's the airplane and then of course. it's media attention terrorists always gaining as much as attention as they can get the german president. he's due to give address later on today marking the fortieth anniversary of the events. rounding the bob hope line a gang what can he say to make those events for decades ago relevant to a modern audience well i can't imagine what he's going to say which is that he is going to still have a story of success which is that german authorities failed when they had this attack on the munich olympics in one hundred seventy two and they had a great success ending the hijacking additional in september nine hundred seventy seven so he will probably tell us that that we took the right way in fighting

a heart fight against terrorism and that this is what we can endure and still learn from from him which meant today you know report we saw that the aircraft from that hijacking mogadishu is being brought back does it strike you as appropriate to bring back an old aircraft to act as well morial to a terrorist incident so long ago why is that needed i personally think that it's a good idea to bring the plane back because. it would be a waste not having it here when we can just. return it to germany at this point but there were you know the decisive question is what are we going to do with it we can't just leave it as it is obviously but we also can turn it into exactly what it was in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven so the question is what are we going to do there are we going to have for you next months which i think is rather difficult because it would bring people in situations that are not really. that

don't well there but it's hard to say whether they will learn anything. but i guess it's an open question and we will see what happens controversy continues and metaphorical from the center for contemporary history thank you so much. well this week t w is inviting international journalists who've been given refuge in germany to speak their minds about their host country today we hear from a pakistani journalist we won't name him because of security concerns. there gentleman three years i don't own the corner since i came to do many and it's difficult. what will happen to my feet so no ranking combination of mind boggling to be. and gluteus of not knowing whether this country will allow me to stay out of . this is driving me crazy. i'm a journalist from pakistan i had to leave my country because i face persecution

from taliban and militant groups. regularly i deceived death threats. i won't say my name because i want to protect my family back home and i'm also afraid that my playing course would affect my asylum case. and real not only talking about my asylum case you have talking about my identity who i am where i belong to. i don't know how to describe the good and awful situation happening with me by saying that i was lucky to save my life but the next moment i found myself in yet another battle to retain my identity i was an influential writer back in pakistan for this job i just everything i even have a master's degree in journalism and mass communication. but i feel like i'm losing my abilities my skills because i'm not working in my profession anymore.

but. that one's brought me here. now i have to earn my money in a fast food restaurant and i'm proud that i'm not dependent on state's money but although i got my own job. i'm still at risk of being deported. anything i can see many among us who want to contribute to this country in many ways. we are not given a proper turn. kind regards. bringing young germans and young refugees closer together a musical in the german city of hamburg has an international cast it's all part of a project called welcome voices. the last rehearsal before opening night flying high is turning these teens into singers actors and friends.

i've made new friends. that was really great for me. i didn't really know anyone before. we were hers just once a week. and when i'm here i forget the whole world i'm just here with my friends. my hair is eighteen zina is seventeen two years ago maharaj in germany alone from syria xena is german and has lived in berlin for eight years for her the musical provides a creative balance to her preparations for high school graduation exams. the teens have been rehearsing together for half a year they developed a musical from their own ideas the plot a peaceful people is attacked hostages are taken and adventures and soon. director todd jonathan fletcher wrote the script based on the teen's ideas and

composed the songs he's been working with youth for thirty years. my aims are to show the kids that they're capable of more than they ever imagined possible these people who have ended up in europe from who've come from somewhere else can contribute not just be here not just be integrated in the sense is a sense of the word integrative but contribute which is beyond integration and i think that's what people want to do. even at break time the teams learn each other's language and. i have trouble if i've never had anything to do with refugees before and it was interesting to get to know another side of them . and see what kind of people they really are. and.

then a quick cost of check the performers even so dare own outfits. i have to fight. i did in a few things to creeps before so this was like more training for me. and. not in my case i'm doing all of this for the first time. acting and singing are now my main hobbies. he's. not here he's playing the lead role in the musical he emerges as the hero of the story. i told my parents about it and they were pleased they're proud of me. it starts. my hair and xena like the others are doing all this in their free time and often

for the first time. for this particular project the art is a means to an end and so we've strangely achieved that goal. of integration and bringing people together and we now have to still keep working on the means because of course the musical would be nice if the musical works out and i'm sure it will but it's not really about that. for todd fletcher this project is much more about bringing teenagers together helping them discover new perspectives and sharing them with the wider world. of all now and by and host celtic in the champions league tonight the very end seem to be in a crisis just a few weeks ago but the return of club legend you pinter's has studied the ship and

now they're looking to push on with a win against the scottish. this has only been back at buy in for one game but already it feels like things have returned to normal the team trained ahead of the celtic match fresh from thrashing freiburg at the weekend. five goals including this cheeky back heel from yoshua kimmie and should a successful start to hide his latest spell in munich now the coach is urging his players to keep up the good work. a message said the players put on a very good performance because. i hope that we can now build on up a full months on saturday. said but we know that celtic are a very strong and aggressive team and i can see them on shift is the mood among the players seems to have improved but the pressure is still on for bion in the champions league after a heavy defeat to p.s.g.

on the last match they left them trailing the french powerhouse in group. very slow but i think the pressure is always there for us of course tomorrow is an important match after a defeat in the champions league you obviously want to follow it up with a victory. and a win against celtic is a must if the high and his honeymoon is to continue. just run or minder of our main story president xi jinping is setting out his vision for china at the start of the communist party congress in beijing thanks for watching.

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