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when. when. this is deed of using live from birth land china rolls out the pomp and pageantry for president trump truck lavishes praise and public pressure china's president pointing to boortz korea weapons pushed as problems as they solve together now the
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two leaders also signaled progress on trade talks despite trump's past barks also coming up. a new finance commissioner pierre most of you see he says that these stupendous tax advantages offered to publish and at the super rich were built on the paradise papers are probably legal but not moral he tells us what he plans to do about it. and another high profile british cabinet secretary resigns this is time over on offer arised meetings in israel after this latest shockwave prime minister tulisa may maintain her shaky hold on power we will go live to london. and a traumatic night in german history nov ninth and marks the anniversary of kristallnacht when nazi thugs destroyed businesses and beat and imprisoned thousands of jews across europe a dark prelude of the genocide to come. plus kenya as one of the more than one hundred. ninety countries here in germany for the u.n.
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climate summit and that african country is picking up steam on the path to cleaner energy. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us u.s. president donald trump has called on china to pressure north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program he's been to his chinese counterpart paying in beijing part of a marathon tour of asia trump received a red carpet welcome arriving for talks on a range of thorny issues with trade and north korea at the top of the agenda president xi pledged that china would persist with the goal of denuclearizing the korean peninsula tromp urging him to act fast let's listen in to what trump had to say the united states is committed to the complete and permanent
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denuclearization of north korea so important china can fix this problem easily and quickly and i am calling on china and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard i know one thing about your prose is that if he works on it hard it will happen there's no doubt about it let's get more now on the statements from these two world leaders we are joined from beijing by do vary on mathias bollinger so much tell us the first press statements after nearly two days of informal talks and formal talks we also have to mention from these two leaders what should we make of what they have to say. well what we have seen is that atmospherically this visit has been extremely friendly both have been very cautious towards each other both have emphasized their common interests their common ground
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their personal sympathy. substantially we have not seen and the big progress in the topic neither in the north korea issue nor in the trade which i want to drill down a little bit deeper talking about that north korea issue because we're going to talk about trade a little bit later when it comes to north korea the united states obviously wants china to do more to pressure north korea in order to resolve the conflict there can you tell us a little bit more about the methods and the strategies the translight of use this time around and what the results might have been. well. the u.s. is convinced that china has the key to the solution of the north korean crisis and that enough pressure from china boards leads to a change in policy to the start of the nuclear program on the korean peninsula china on the other hand is first of all. not interested in establishing the reason
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and secondly it's probably not cvs itself as much as influential as a one would like to be towards the north korean regime so what we have is that both sides repeated yes stance on this. issue and. now with. us is pressuring china to work and. sources you know china has. ok our correspondent there mathias ballinger joining us from beijing and mathias we actually can't really hear you very well at the moment of so we're going to try and get that line back up in order to communicate with you further as we're seeing there u.s. president onil tromp and chinese president xi jinping basically walking there during a ceremony and as we just mentioned a short while ago they they had made
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a number of statements to the press mathias was telling us a little bit more about that. radhika jones is joining us here in the studio now getting more on the business side of all of this because of course you know the trade balance always an issue especially for the united states this is something the trouble also there are certainly since donald trump is u.s. president you remember the times when we talked about a possible looming trade war they're. paying of course and donald trump they've just announced a twenty two hundred fifty billion u s dollar deal business deal a further sign off the relationship the of the two men that they have possibly struck now certainly since their first meeting at strom's mar a lago resort in florida that was back in april now things have not always been so rosy the u.s. president has accused beijing in the past of unfair trading practices and he has
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threatened to china with tariffs let's take a look at this last year the united states exported goods worth only one hundred sixteen billion u.s. dollars to china however because many u.s. companies now manufacture there the u.s. imported about four times that value of goods from china situation is different with regards to china's direct investment in the united states though chinese foreign direct investment in the u.s. has grown rapidly in recent years and hit forty six billion dollars in two thousand and sixteen but this year investment by chinese companies dropped significantly down sixty seven percent in the first three quarters compared to two south thousand and sixteen now we were hoping to talk to my ts in beijing i don't know if we still have him on the line and we do so much. standing by beijing good to have you here with us does this deal this business deal mean that the days of
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a looming trade war between the u.s. and china over. not at all these kind of trade deals these signatures of contracts in the presence of presidents this is part of the protocol of chinese state visits so what we can see is just. there has been there's this this is a symbolic signature some of these are just memorandums of understanding we don't know whether these deals will ever happen some of them are trade years that happen anyway but that have spoken the signature has been postponed there was no whatsoever substantial agreement on the structural issues of the trade that's what i mean there is this the apec summit taking place in vietnam this week on a trunkful attended as well as give a speech there tomorrow and now he pulled the u.s.
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out of the transpacific partnership pacific rim nations however still interested in going ahead with it how does this let's call it new a better relationship between washington and beijing impact d.p.p. . well the idea is to to to conclude the agreement even without the u.s. it was see how attractive this will be to smaller nations that of course. the u.s. was a major effect it's a major market would have convinced people to join this whether this was still be the case without the u.s. we would see we don't know at all i wouldn't see substantial change just due to this visit. as as none of these these structural issues between the u.s. and china right spilling over there via skype from beijing thank you so much for this. now eighteen t.'s plan to takeover offer time
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warner has been held up by the u.s. justice department raising speculation of political payback from washington eighty and t.v. and time warner had hoped to conclude the eighty five billion dollars deal by the end of the year but some lawmakers are concerned about a concentrating or concentrating too much power in the hands of the telecom giant so authorities house reportedly told to the company must sell some assets before the deal goes through including the c n n news channel which is owned by time warner u.s. president on a trump is a fierce critic of c.n.n. and its coverage of course of his administration and a new owner might not be able to finance its reporting resources a t.n.t. says it remains confident the takeover will go through as planned. well back to the story of the paradise paper's e.u. commission
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a scoby chief says that member states can and will do much more to fight tax havens a top priority is the creation of a blacklist to name and shame jurisdictions that cater to wealthy firms and individuals yet the e.u. has been working for two years on similar measures with limited success consensus remains a challenge especially among members with low tax rates of their own the head of the european commission joint clergy younker is himself accused of aiding tax avoidance that was as at this time as luxembourg prime minister and my colleague daniel venter put it to mr musgrave h.-e. that this gives the commission zero credibility in fighting tax dodging. absolutely false this commission has done more on fighting back through the tax evasion than all the commissions in the previous twenty years you know if you employ you don't think it had waited minutes it's not due to the fact that this or that person ids
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here due to the fact that we are in the new when the new area new period which is a period of transparency i have proposed that i am the tax commissioner and i have got full trust of them could you i act in these name i have proposed eleven proposals directives among them six have been adopted which is not that easy if you consider what is the rule of unanimity inside the e.u. we have the best three thing ever for a commission chose to commissioners michael did not go to this tiger and myself who are really i think a team which is did he get into that text of massive tax avoidance you know you can say that in two thousand and three he encouraged amazon to put its tax base in knox and i'm talking about the president of the commission and president of the commission and this commission we are i can say that quietly but very confident
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keep the champions of fighting tax fraud and tax evasion we talked about this is a commission proposal i will mention two other proposals to one is the first one is is that i think that the activity of those intermediaries legal advisers. or fiscal advisors banks it must be made transparent to the next administration and this one is that we have already established a country by country reporting this is one of the six directives i mentioned but between tax administrations i would like it to become public i think there is no a position between investment which we want to protect the event you want to look at her and say yes because transparency if you want. burnsy is the only way to tackle with those phenomena if we can reach our goal but when you are addressing what you are looking for how will this affect the average person in europe who is
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watching this right now if you do manage to get what you want and close these tax loopholes and blacklist these tax havens i think that what we are attending now with those paradise papers which is a scandal but probably those practices are mostly legal but they are not moral this cannot be possible why because it exists only because it is even and certainly it is revealed if it is transparent if it is public it is not possible anymore you know all those people all the structures all those companies all those states which today named and shamed after the brothers paper if their activity would be immediately made public then they would be much much more for that's why transparency is the massive destruction weapon against tax evasion against tax aggressive tax planning and that's why this commission is so so strong on france broke the you could commission right and you mentioned the threat the potential
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threat of sanctions what are we talking about here are we talking about fines directly for a few who try and squirrel away their money in tax havens are we all it's ok because unless there's a significant legal threat they're going to continue to say tax avoidance is a misdemeanor we're not talking about firms we're talking about the states when you have a blacklist of tax even you are talking about the states or territories revanche and some of them are into the ground but there are those states will be which will be listed and i hope that we will have a very. strong list strong by pleased the sanctions must be linked to our own capacity to their own linkage with the union i would mention for example a world create deals or multilateral or bilateral agreements that we have got with them that can be suspended but the best thing should the strongest action is the name and shame ok release me nobody nobody would like to be
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there and in one word are we now finally going to see significant change and cracking down on tax havens under your leadership in this case it's not up to me to decide that you know the commission as a prominent role because we have the monopoly of the initiative and we have taken so many just as i mentioned three of them and believe me if they become decisions that would be different but but the ball is in the camp of the member states it's up to them to decide they have to decide they have to deliver and it will have a vision and it really has to deliver but i hold the end of this year two thousand and seventeen is the year of easy thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us today and i was commissioned up you must be she talking to my colleague daniel with a little bit. that was a frenchman talking to a brit british politics currently going through a pretty rough time another shake up for tourism is government check this out monica the hits just keep on coming because u.k.
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international development secretary pretty tell has resigned it is the second high profile departure from prime minister teresa mayes cabinet in just a week but tell admitted to holding at least twelve on authorized leavings with israeli politicians including prime minister benjamin netanyahu during what was supposed to be a vacation in israel but tell has apologized for her actions this is yet another major blow for teresa mayes government which is facing several crises including sexual harassment allegations and a stalled brags that. let's get more now from london we are joined by data is very unfair good master so good just walk us through the reasons behind patel's resignation well left effectively being the sport of freelance foreign policy that's reason may you nothing about as you said it was on a holiday on a family holiday that the pretty patel met several israeli officials behind
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to resume a spec but it's not just that she did that but also the way she went about it because she has initially when the revelations were on earth by british media she had said that the foreign secretary bros junction knew about it but then later she withdrew that claim also there were fresh revelations that she was checking out the possibility of sending aid money to the occupant golan heights so there were there was just sort of a trickle of further revelations that eventually had to lead to her resignation her departure what is this likely to mean ultimately for the government of prime minister theresa may how important to it was she. well it's in every cabinet it's like a balance so you're trying to balance man and women she was a woman she was also the only woman in the cabinet of ethnic minority also she was
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a bricks a tear she is a bricks a tear and pretty much on the right of the comes out of party and as such of course it is feared and possibly also the reason why to reason may didn't force her to resign straight away that there is the fear that she could cause trouble from the backbenches now she's somebody who is known to be extremely ambitious and political commentators here are sure that she is going to come back that she's not just going to all of a sudden vanish from political life but that she's still planning her career and she said to have leadership ambitions even for the conservative party but the question is for two reason may issue you going to do that in a constructive way or is she going to do that in a way that could cause further trouble for tourism may by just plotting at the back benches and maybe plotting. reason is demise who knows they're going to mass with
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the latest from london thank you. you're watching news still to come on the program syria's prisons have become symbols of wartime cruelty here in germany more than a dozen syrians who suffered in those cells are taking action against the assad regime. but first let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the united nations says that yemen is facing the largest famine the world has seen for many decades a saudi led coalition has blocked all of the country's ports and cut off the flow of arms to hoofy rebels this move also cut off all international aid the saudis are backing the sunni yemeni government against an uprising by shia who the rebels in the north of the country. colombia's police have seized twelve tons of cocaine president juan manuel santos on wednesday announced the hall which he said is the
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largest signal drug seizure in the history of the country's forty years long fight against drug trafficking. former u.s. president barack obama showed up for jury duty this week obama currently lives in washington d.c. but was required to check in in chicago where he and former first lady michelle still own a house obama gave his fellow chicagoans a good old presidential handshake and signed a few autographs and then was swiftly dismissed from jury duty. germany could become the first european country to allow for a third gender on birth certificates the country's top court ruled that present laws discriminate against intersex people those who have a mixture of male and female sexual traits the court said the official document should either recognize a third gender or remove gender entries altogether the change is expected to take effect next year. when you can hardly believe it. the years of fighting
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for a third gender have finally been rewarded as contestants forms forms there are lots of places in society where there's a split between the sexes. so i have to ask myself again and again how do i define myself do i try to fit in or do i trust myself not to do so and how are people going to react and. it's an issue that directly affects van year and around one hundred sixty thousand other intersex people in germany people who were born with male and female features and whose gender can't be identified and that's where the problem starts so far it's only been possible to enter a male or female on the birth register or leave it open finally has campaigned for a third category a third gender like into and the diverse the court has opened the door to that although they've left the exact description open there's a basic personal rights also protect the sexual identity of those people who don't define themselves as male or female. the current law on civil status or infringes
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on the prohibition of discrimination. just because it's not possible to enter anything other than male or female would have by plea he used the court has given lawmakers until the end of december twenty eighth seen to draft new rules. syrian jails have become notorious for humiliation torture and mass executions now more than a dozen syrians who suffered such treatment are fighting for justice here in germany they have filed complaints with german federal prosecutors against seventeen alleged perpetrators for war crimes yes an award is witness twenty four the engineer was an anti us and protester who gave supplies to detainees in november two thousand and eleven he was sent to him as a prison run by syrian air force intelligence. you can't know if it's now day or night you know if you will eat after two or four hours or you are allowed to sleep
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different you are not allowed to speak. have to focus on the amount of the oxygen in the in the room because if maybe even if you are like seventy or eighty people in a small room if ten of us of us cried order or laugh they would. use a lot of want of maybe the other day some some of us would. like. is witness sixteen the kurdish physical therapist was also involved in activism against the assad regime he was arrested in september two thousand and eleven and sent to the notorious side niamh military prison where he was held for sixteen months and that finished you weren't allowed to put on clothes and you had to be without clothes and not sit instead you had to stay on your knees all day. of course we had no clock around eleven pm when the police said you all have to go to
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sleep it was only for three or four hours. only north of i would have and then we had to take off our clothes again and stand. in. the sinai a prison is thirty kilometers from damascus and has been used by the assad family to cement their power for decades thanks to many eyewitnesses amnesty international has been able to build a model of the prison thousands of detainees were hanged in mass executions thousands horrifically tortured often in the presence of high ranking security officials. since two thousand and ten german federal prosecutors have been investigating two syrian war crimes cases so far only low ranking perpetrators have been indicted. but human rights lawyer involved con comic wants the high ranking officials behind all this to be held accountable. must be
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a door to the store shut your money plays a key role in securing evidence and intends to file charges that could then be taken up by other european prosecutors or even international tribunals these are very important preparations. and as the guns boss is all about syrian human rights lawyers. and muslim darwish both of whom have been held in a sense torture prisons have faith and germany's justice system they hope that the murderers will no longer feel safe anywhere as long as they are not pursued and it rested with international warrants if you syrian refugees will want to return home as they fear their former torturers will be waiting for them there. in football news byron munich striker robert lavan has taken time out from training with world cup about poland to discuss life with the german champions and the star forward had some choice words for buyers hierarchy and former coach carlo agility.
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poland to meet year ago i know friendly on friday having already qualified for june's world cup. with the pressure of strike a robot live in dusky decided to cast a night back to club side by munich and hail new coach you'll find kids. in i think the coach will focus more on day tales on stabilizing the team we knew we had a good team we had good players who could play football but something was not working now we can say that the puzzle has been put back together because they were . the bye and man has been linked in the media with a move to real madrid the forward said he wanted the german champions to show more ambition in the transfer market with other european clubs splashing their cash. looking at race and transfers and how much some clubs pay for players if i want to fight for the best players they have to be more creative they have to come up with something else we should not delude ourselves and each club needs to sign
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a top player every two or three years to refresh the tame to bring in some new blood and some new quality. craft and i want. my own bosses have been loaned spent big to try to win the champions league or your top striker won't be happy. you're watching news still to come on the program a tale of two cities we look at all sides of a controversial wall dividing rich and poor and it will be in capital. and a small dutch town that is drawing tourists from around the world to see we are back in a few minutes i'm sorry kelly. and business safe the climate question that the u.n. climate change conference plan to tour syria can you discuss this leaves you with a distinguished panel of experts is a continue to do we have solutions we have capital we have the technology we can be
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second high profile departure from prime minister teresa mayes cabinet in just a week. u.s. president donald trump has urged his chinese counterpart and to work hard to contain a nuclear north korea's nuclear threat trump also criticized chinese trade practices but said that he didn't blame china for taking past advantage of the u.s. he is in china as part of his first asian tour. today is a unique day here in germany one that marks a number of important anniversaries in the country's history it was on november ninth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine that the berlin wall fell which eventually led to germany's reunification so this should be a day to celebrate but here in germany november. there's also the anniversary of darker events following germany's defeat in world war one on november ninth one thousand eight hundred political leaders to clear the country a republic but germany's first experiment with democracy came to be associated with
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economic hardship and street battles between the far left and the far right we know how the history goes after hitler came to power democracy was abolished on this day november ninth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight the nazi regime orchestrated a massive program against the country's jewish population as synagogues and businesses were attacked police did nothing here's a closer look at what happened. on the evening of nov ninth one thousand thirty eight synagogues in europe were set aflame they burned in germany austria and in czechoslovakia organized gangs of nazi and brownshirt funks abused imprisoned or murdered thousands of jews amid the cheers of countless gone seven thousand jewish owned shops were destroyed and the mob then looted the shops that night was the start of the biggest genocide in human history. and joining us here in the
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studio to put it into perspective is she works with the house of the once he conference of a long while site just outside of berlin that is where the nazis plot of the systematic genocide of europe's jews welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us on this somber anniversary as we've mentioned today i'm seventy nine years since the nazis in one nine hundred thirty eight this program against the jews since then we've seen berlin's jewish population growing how do they feel in the city are they confident that this will never happen again here. well i think what is for them and important now is that due to social media for example anti-semitic attitudes are much more on the table although the real numbers have been rising so but due to this hate speech on facebook for example there are many members of the jewish community you feel more threatened than some
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years ago which does not mean that all of them think that it will happen again that is i would say there is more confidence that the dramatic aspects will not happen but still we have to be alert and aware of their fears and one of the things that many people are aware of is the rise of the far right a.f.d. a party here in germany which we know is entering the parliament following the most recent elections they have some within this party have spoken out against the culture of remembrance in terms of germany's nazi past if you had to put that into context how important would you say is that culture of remembrance i think the culture of remembrance is absolutely important first of all to remember the dimension of the crimes that were committed and secondly also there are many many aspects in our democracy that relate to this history and so in order to understand and fight for our democracy we have to be aware of the past. and we're going to get
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some more perspective on the past in fact i'm going to stay with us but first we want to look at another element to the story because we're going to show you a report now about the persistence of anti-semitism and racism right wing rhetoric played a big role in germany's national elections in september as we just heard with the far right alternative for germany party taking thirteen percent of the vote this past week the jewish community honored one german schoolgirl who chose to speak out against bigotry. fifteen year old a millionaire is visiting the memorial to the murder jews of europe in central berlin with her mother. at school she has seen how hate speech and anti-semitism are on the rise again she says it started slowly. this. when people would come into the classroom others would raise their right arm in a deliberate nazi salute sometimes there shouted heil hitler you are cool if you
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did that. amount of them afterwards at first she didn't speak up then she saw an online chat group with upsetting images so. there was one picture of a cloud of smoke and the caption said jewish family portrait and that wasn't the only one in the class chart group so i wrote that this guy should stop behaving like he's a nazi and he wrote back saying i should emigrate to poland if i don't like it he asked if i hadn't held too many dead jews. and million reported her classmate for incitement to hatred which is a crime in germany she had to contend with a lot of other classmates giving her strange looks but now the civil courage she demonstrated has been recognized with this award from the friends of the holocaust memorial and berlin's jewish community. and lee says she didn't get much support from her teachers and classmates but she did have backing from her friends and
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family and she says in the future she'll act much sooner against racism and anti-semitism. let's get more now on that racism and anti-semitism we are very joined by from the house of the wannsee conference for morial thanks so much for staying with us here and i want to talk especially about young people here in berlin because you work with them how widespread is and his i mean tism. well anti-semitism i would say is much more a problem amongst adults and you've mentioned the f.d.a. and i think. that due to speeches from i have to members many people old and young have the feeling that now we are allowed to say things again that weren't on the table before so. i would say that amongst young people there is more anti-semitic stereotypes but not the whole anti-semitic world view. based on. conspiracy. theories so i would say that
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with young people it's much easier to work with than with adults who are convinced of what they're saying where are they getting those stereotypes from what you say and you mention that you work with them in order to to change that mindset what do you do well i would say without you know it doesn't it might strong sound very strong but i don't mean to be so strong but i think in the german culture anti semitic views or pictures belong to the culture in a way like there are old pictures that come from the middle age alongside and that many serial types that were put into the society during the nazi period are not gone away so. it's important to work again and again and again that these are images that they don't have to do anything with the reality but as long as we have petitioned who. spread these opinions in public and it's
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like you know the as de says something the next day they say oh i didn't mean it this way but then it's already on the in the in the environment people repeated and repeated and repeated and that makes it difficult and new dialogue a new conversation that is happening one which is alarming to many people and i want to talk a little bit more because we know that you have also worked with germany as an immigrant population you've written about young immigrants and their attitude toward germany's nazi past i want to ask you specifically because here in germany there's also a relatively large muslim immigrant population how do they tend tend to view the past well as long as we're not speaking about newcomers or refugees most young people with a muslim background have been socialized in the german school system so in fact most of them are not met much different to their white german school neighbors you have many who are very interested you have some who think it's boring and others
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who don't want to deal with the topic the only difference i would say is that they want to be accepted with their family backgrounds that means as in the moment that you appreciate their family backgrounds and that they're having family histories that they bring along then they're very open to deal with the history that they also understand as there's german history is also there's. a history that we were member today on nov ninth that we thank you so much for telling us a little bit more about your work and what you are doing to combat anti-semitic attitudes. working with the house of the wannsee conference from oil side just outside of berlin that is of course where the nazis plotted the systematic genocide of europe's jews thank you. well germany may have done away with the berlin wall but in many parts of the world walls of division still stand and there are calls to build new ones one such barrier you may not have heard of as in the frozen
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capital lima there the structure divides rich and poor. grey dusty and depressing wooden huts hardly any have electricity or running water on the other side of the mountain an exclusive neighborhood with a sports field and luxury villain's two different worlds separated by a ten kilometer long wall made of stone and barbed wire. some retaught as lives on the poor side of the wall it's one of the poorest neighborhoods on the edge of the peruvian capital lima. the area is called pump lonna alta and it's continually expanding people constantly arrive from the countries parity between the two sides have grown. it makes people aggressive because a situation like this one shouldn't exist today it's a form of discrimination other people might see it differently but for me it's
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a clear separation of the pool and on one side and the rich on the other. song or runs a canteen in her neighborhood she offers good food at a good price which her customers certainly appreciate her meager earnings help the forty nine year old to just scrape by she offers meals from early morning into the evening during the day she takes time to go out shopping or even to go home for a short rest. she lives alone in her heart she divorced her husband who she says was violent. there are many conflicts here but one in particular is creating tension in the neighborhood people are building more and more illegal houses which is producing a variety of problems in the slums. we're living in a zone with lots of health risks. there's animal feces everywhere. that
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raises the risk of infection. there's plenty of filth and smoke here and the poor neighborhood is in the valley. the air is always smoky from the garbage being burned lots of children have briefing problems and i just have disturbances and there's never enough water. on this side of the wall the stench of burning garbage is always present but there's fire burning on the other side to the villas fireplaces provide warmth and comfort for both workers and owners here in the suburb of los kos what a nice life is good the wall provides peace of mind for those on the rich side or must you not see where you are now from a few words even if my work makes me successful i believe everyone who want success should do well and. we have to work together and give each other chances.
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in my opinion the wall provides protection but the door is always open so that we can be together and. sebastian hired victoria years ago victoria lives on the other side of the wall he accepts it he doesn't see it as a travesty separating people. use with yes yes i'm one of the per people i'm from the village and that's where i'll die. but there's no reason not to be friends with people on the other side. it's not a border i wouldn't call it a wall of shame like other people do such people only want to heart other people see. barbed wire along the mountain stretching for ten kilometers it's supposed to protect the rich from criminals and encroachment of the shanty town the wall was built by the city at the request of the wealthy neighborhoods. sebastian says it's
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a structure meant to increase security not discrimination. and. the years there were always rumors that my mountain thieves were penetrating our neighborhood. broadly they weren't residents of the poor neighborhood many who live there work here with us and we get along fine. but there were some people who tried to come over to us through the slum men order to steal from us. and it's been snowing they were the catalyst for the construction of the wall. it was built for more security this for you. but first the wall symbolizes injustice. it is a wall that separates peruvians from other peruvians it's a form of confinement that she will never accept.
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it also. you can see two different lifestyles that have been deliberately separated. you can see two different worlds from up here. the lives of the rich and the poor. it's very sad that there is such a wall of cement built to separate people. the need for security and separation is an indication of social disparity studies show that this tendency is growing. at this wall through lima that tendency has already become concrete. all this week we have been taking a look at revolutionary events one hundred years ago when russia's communists seized power and berlin also played
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a role in that story in the spring of one nine hundred seventeen the bolshevik revolutionary vladimir lenin was living in exile in zurich switzerland he was given permission to travel by train across german territory on his way back via scandinavia and st petersburg he was welcomed by jubilant crowds. and en route lenin passed through the german capital it's just one of the many ways that berlin was touched by the rough russian revolution as our reporter found out one hundred years ago the magnificent custom a train stations to them the sports the carriage was not even living on board stopped here in the spring of one thousand seventeen named wanted to return to russia you want to travel. it was the imperial authorities who loved living in strong's it through germany during world war one. the original documents that put this faithful alliance of convenience in the fact on display in the audience german historical museum a german diplomat sent
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a telegram to believe the threat learned in the last century in russia he's doing just what you want. oct it says here ten million german marks for political propaganda in russia and someone corrected it to say fifteen million we found a lot of documents. there were huge sums involved. as many as two million russians fled their homeland after the nine hundred seventeen revolution this caved in few of civil war taro and starvation it was mainly the intellectual elite who were squandered by the bush weeks doctors and write us officers and our restock rats their lives in exile were shaped by few of an unknown future. might have been michael was born to a russian noble family her father at the asking was a cadet in the marin the cademy of st petersburg he fled russia a few months after the revolution at the age of sixteen if you ask me where my home
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is or i have no home. i have no because i feel at home nearly everywhere i mean i've been to many places and. i can adjust. after many detours through being in germany from north because family settled in the us as did many other russians who fled after the revolution you had . the highest the record i restore christian who was working in factories and doing work which brought in pay and the pay was your could live on something. and if was very very difficult. for many exiled russians believe it was the first stop here they couldn't buy a new car from the carol spec home and getting visas to enter germany was
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a relatively simple process of the border my new russian way futures were granted political asylum charlottenburg at a district where most of the three hundred thousand russian settled was nicknamed shall not rot. when i was in my comments to the russian that intensely the reasons might sound from a. torrent and the best sense and different. deployed to underbelly praise berlin's easygoing atmosphere with passages such as night cocaine that. it was here that led him in a book of what he's most famous novelists and russian and the celebrated author boyce pasternak lived in the same area. it was a city within a city in a corner gives guided tours about the russian exiles in berlin in the twenty's. and through the fear of i had people who came here enjoyed a lot of freedom. there were eighty seven russian language publishing houses. there
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were plenty of russian restaurants russian orthodox churches and workers associations so for the people who fled hunger there was plenty to eat it wasn't just about waiting to see what would happen in russia people have a good life here. but my new russian state only a short time before heading to paris or new york. most of the exiled russians like money from north because father never saw their homelands again he left his diary to you and read it a lot for his native language and russian culture. climate talks are underway in the german city of bonn this and next week delegates from more than one hundred ninety countries are discussing how to implement a landmark paris agreement to curb global warming one country at the forefront of the fight against climate change is kenya the country already meets thirty percent
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of its energy needs from geothermal power which doesn't generate any carbon emissions kenyans are also adjusting their farming practices in response to changing weather patterns have a look. and list distances stretch out before us in the great rift valley in kenya and here in lies the hope for the country's energy supply. we take a ride to a geothermal power plant in all caria two hours by car north west of the capital nairobi. steam rises through the over four hundred drill holes in pipes it's an ideal location for geothermal energy here the engineers tell us they only have to drill about two thousand meters to reach the crucial steam just to compare in germany drill holes can reach ten thousand meters the. resource in kenya is up to ten thousand men or what but so far we've been able. to do.
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more than six hundred. expensive yeah there was all we need to be observing that we we're still learning we we don't want to well use it almost thirty percent of the energy used in kenya is produced by geothermal plants and this number is set to rise without dangerous emissions. there's even a public swimming pool featuring sulfuric water plumbed from the depths but geothermal energy is expensive and not every attempt at drilling is successful that's why germany has decided to invest over one hundred million euros in kenya's geothermal energy. deals have to be developed drilling is risky though and someone will have to take on at least part of that risk can you can't do this on its own with us. we drive back to nairobi to visit the ministry of the environment while outside a traffic jam stretches across the city. inside pacifica gola tells us that her
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country is counting on renewable energy sources such as geothermal power and their hopes are high for the bond climate conference. we are the ones who are experiencing mega impact on climate change when it comes to issues like drought and floods so we expect the while to actually make the bold move that steps and we expect to maintain the political momentum to make sure that we are able to retain the momentum and to be able to deliver bankable projects with a low carbon intensity of beyond twenty fifty. at the foot of mount kenya for example climate change is becoming more and more apparent the farmers here have been taking part in an irrigation project for the past four years growing bananas they used to be able to count on rainwater but that is a thing of the past. anything. being. and it was leading us. back to these
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bananas giving us money. despite the lack of rain there's still enough water here numerous rivers flow down mount kenya dams catch the water and channel to the fields the german development bank has invested about five million euros in this project. is it invest kenya here in west kenya we are actually in a very fertile region the problem is that our rainfall is becoming more regular and the farmers can't count on it anymore because of this project the farmers have water twenty four hours a day they can plant throughout the year and are no longer dependent on the effects the climate has on rainfall. climate change requires adjustment like the farmers planting bananas or the use of environmentally friendly power using geothermal energy kenya is bracing for the future. you're watching
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