afro germany starting december tenth d.w. . this is d.w. news live from berlin a massive attack in egypt's sinai peninsula state media say at least one hundred

eighty four people are dead after militants bombed a mosque near the city of el out each day then opened fire on worshippers as they stood praying we'll go live to cairo. also coming up a fresh chapter for zimbabwe as the nation and auguries a new president and. part i will do for myself. where he calls the book and its. soul to go. president emerson and god what takes the oath of office amid jubilant scenes at the national sports stadium in harare. and our germany social democrats bowing to pressure their leader is no longer ruling out a possible coalition government with america's conservatives.

i'm sumi so much got to thank you for joining us we start with breaking news from egypt militants. attacked a crowded mosque in the northern sinai peninsula with guns and bombs state media put the death toll at one hundred eighty four people with a further one hundred twenty injured now the attack took place west of the provincial capital elevation no one has yet claimed responsibility but for the past three years egyptian security forces have battled an insurgency backed by the so-called islamic state in the region media reports say president of the fatah r.c.c. convened an emergency security meeting soon after the attack and let's go speak to a journalist karim aga her in the egyptian capital cairo he joins us on the line hi karim what more can you tell us at this point. yeah right sara the death toll is really basically rising by the minute a lot of this is just sort of more than one hundred eighty people killed one

hundred twenty injured apparently there was never bones that were planted in the most given when there were four recruits for we drive vehicles through a plate in front of the most an open every fire on to do over shippers. which is of course nobody yet responsibility for that to post a good walk this way because it's a crack on the most they want most. known to be used by supporters of disability forces in your sinai who of course small scale war games you can see from this through for several years now the other possibility we. should be most ruthless of course the right opposite of what the more rigid walk is calling for which the militant islamists are following most are not karim this is a developing story we're waiting for more details but this area this region of the

sinai peninsula has seen attacks before what more can you tell us about that. if the only attacks were attacks against to cure the forces. like the station since you to be headquarters when. we had all to series of attacks on christians in the city of. but that is the first time i see you have faults i don't. try this rule of course like the country does being shocked because such high numbers are reminding everyone it's more like two situation in iraq. or a journalist karim bihari joining us from the egyptian capital cairo karim thank you for that update and we'll continue to bring you more details on that story as they come in to us moving on now though it's been a landmark day for exam bob way anderson magog what has been sworn in as president

to tens of thousands of people in v.i.p.'s from across africa gathered at a stadium in the capital harare to witness the ceremony and cheer on the new president he vowed to uphold the constitution and protect the rights of all zimbabweans replaces the former president robert mugabe who held power for nearly four decades. whatever it was clues or moves not much to soon but good. reliable for in this regard oh that simple. knowledge. no one who's islam is. a leader of us christine one who has been following all of this for us from harare and she joins us now for more hi christine good to see you so essentially what i'm a synagogue what was saying there is let bygones be bygones what do you make of that and what do you think it means for how he will treat robert mugabe's legacy

going forward. sunni innocent goble also went on to say that mugabe robert mugabe he is still his his father his eighty's my mantle and my comrade in arms we did expect that by and large him and none of what has been very careful when referencing robert mugabe he's made it very clear that he's going to pursue a policy of free consultation to take not sunni that the that the grudge and the fallout that resulted in the relationship it resulting into what it became when he was forced out of this country fearing for his life really much of that was attributed to the former first lady grace mugabe many people see mugabe as having been a victim of his wife's green age and hunger for power and so we can expect that robert mugabe is going to live a fairly good life the rest of his days here in zimbabwe he's been guaranteed military protection he's been granted immunity he's not going to be prosecuted and

he's going to have a very comfortable lycia he's legacy is going to be preserved and i suspect in a cinema not god why is that a good great lengths to make sure that that stays the way it is chris and you've been talking to a lot of people over the past week who are looking forward very much today celebration anticipating the speech from the new president do you think he struck the right tone. he did i mean he said he said the right things you know those involved ins of course the land reform issue was very controversial in this country but by and large people feel that it is something that needed to be done at some point they might not agree about how it was done so we need to say it that it's not going to be reversed of course that that struck a chord with people he talked about for instance that he's going to be a president of all people he talked about how humble he was to people so certainly he's using the right the language sumi talked about the fact that he is going to do he's but to get the economy growing he talked about the fact that he's got it hit the ground running so to say so he does communicates the understanding of the

urgency that this economy needs so judging him by what he said i'm not as involved . based on what he said say yes this is this these are the right things that he needs to be saying how if i might add that there is still a healthy sense of skepticism in this and not what is yet to prove himself to the people of zimbabwe he has to show that he is a different man he's awesome nation for forgiveness that it see if he has changed and that's what remains to be seen i also have spoken to a few people who said we're going to go to the stadium today and listen to this speech because we're not quite convinced that any real change has actually come there waiting to see it not just in woods but in actions me so christine a healthy dose of skepticism what are the top priorities for zimbabweans going forward. it's the economy sumi conservative estimates will say eighty percent of zimbabweans on a poll some goes further as saying ninety percent i've been speaking to two young people in this country who hold university qualifications who are sending tomatoes

on the side of the road and those tomatoes don't even belong to them by the way it's a difficult country to live in people have been struggling it's virtually just a whole big informal sector subsistence farm is people living hand to mouth industries closing down businesses closing down there's no cash in this economy so the media challenge is to is to revitalize above his economy to open up this country to investment that had been hampered by the policies of robert mugabe's time in office what he needs to do is signal to the international community that zimbabwe is open for business and he needs to show that he's going to clamp down on corruption these are some of the things that international investors would shy away from zimbabwe for him to say this is a corrupt government talking about politicians owning much of this country and benefiting from the gambles state taking place under the table so he's got to address the economic challenges that this country is facing immediately sumi. as christine moon was covering what's been a historic week in zimbabwe christine thank you very much.

fire berlin the german president has made a new move to resolve the coalition crisis president. has invited chancellor angela merkel and of the social democrats to talks next week on forming a coalition government now there is still a big gap to close the s.p.d. had previously been strictly opposed to joining a coalition but a meeting with the president yesterday appears to have produced a change of heart as p.p. party leader martin schultz is slowly backpedaling at a party had called a press conference he says because germany is in a complicated situation this is the answer his party will not refuse to talk about forming a new government. just keep kind and. there is no fixed course in any specific direction but one thing is clear if talks show that we could consider taking part in a new government constellation. then the party members will vote on this.

option when the s.p.d. is facing a crucial test at a meeting with s.p.d. leader martin schulz german president. reportedly pressed the social democrat to reconsider forming another grand coalition with the conservatives but with shows us party leader coalition talks seem difficult he had rejected the idea of taking on the responsibility of government twice while the rumor is headed that schultz might step down as party chief members of the conservative c.d.u. show optimism that it is moon as president and the president's appeal that every party has to make sure that there can be a stable government in germany has some impact we have to stop talking with the s.p.d. as soon as they are ready and form a new government soon. and i think. it's a tough choice for s.p.d. leader martin schulz cooperate with a break his promise or put the political stability of germany at risk

a tough choice indeed let's bring in our political correspondent thomas sparrow with the latest on the story hi thomas good to see you so the s.p.d. party had martin schulz he has promised to let his party members vote on a possible coalition what do you make of that because the party does seem to be pretty divided. well it is a way sue me of saying that the s.p.d. is open to discussing possible solutions to this situation but obviously that decision will not only be made by s.p.d. leaders but that by s.p.d. members as a whole in other words it's a way of saying that they will not continue their strictly opposition in their strict opposition to forming a new government a new coalition with angela merkel's conservatives but as you say that's right not everyone in the party agrees with this move whereas there are those who say that

another grand coalition would harm the party even more after the elections on september twenty four there are those who have said on various occasions that the party can and can't simply stick to one position without considering future options for the party and also for the country what are these divisions mean for the future of martin short as the head of the party there were those rumors are circulating just yesterday that he had threatened to step down while it essentially means that he's under increasing pressure he has been under increasing pressure since those coalition talks collapsed a few days ago he has been one of the ones who has on various occasions said that the s.p.d. prefers that role in opposition so he's obviously facing a big dilemma dilemma that was mentioned in our piece to what extent they will continue with that course or to what extent they will put other priorities first

and maybe then work with angela merkel although that is something that not everyone favors within the party thomas if the social democrats do enter into negotiations what would it then take what would they demand from chancellor merkel's conservatives. well they can certainly demand a few aspects because they could say well we are helping to form a government we are helping to break this deadlock so certainly they will be in a position to demand certain aspects for example when it comes to social justice policies that was something that the social democrats favored also during the election campaign a few months ago at the same time they would still be a junior member of the coalition so it is unclear to what extent they could pass those proposals but again a grand coalition is only one of the options on the table it is not necessarily obvious although it is indeed possible that this will be the case thomas it has been a tumultuous week for chancellor angela merkel as well what do you think this means

for her good news then if there is the possibility of voiding new elections for example or a minority government. certainly because this is something that i'm going to call was not very happy about the possibility of a minority government to the possibility of of a new election the possibility that another door opens even if it's a door that not everyone favors is certainly one that she can view favorably although that still means that she's in a very difficult position because nothing has been decided yet it is only another step in the long negotiations that we have ahead of us. political correspondent thomas sparrow bringing us up to date thank you thomas now to some other stories making headlines around the world south africa's top appeals court has more than doubled oscar pistorius is murder sentence the olympic athlete was jailed last year for the two thousand and thirteen murder of his girlfriend prosecutors called his six year sentence shockingly lenient will now serve the minimum fifteen years for

murder minus time already served. and several hundred asylum seekers who had refused to leave and australia run detention center on man a silent have been a victim from the facility one of the asylum seekers posted a video showing authorities violently clearing people out some former detainees claim they were beaten with sticks. are all retailers a wait all year for those helena black friday absolutely see now this is the crucial run for retailers when they hope to rake in some of the profit which will bump up their full year results in the united states black friday is officially kicking off the holiday shopping spree now the philadelphia police cordoned the phrase black friday back in the one nine hundred sixty s. when the deals on the friday off to thanksgiving created traffic jams and drew so many unruly shoppers that it darkened their work day and much of that hype still goes on well in new york city macy's started its black friday discounts

a day early as a flood of shoppers rushed into the department store on thursday night in many places people camped out all night in front of department stores to be the first to be let in. well let's bring in our financial correspondent don you're cool who is in frankfurt daniel you were out and about a little earlier testing the retail sentiment in the city did you bump into a lot of bargain hunters. yeah i was outside just a few meters away from here on the side of the biggest shopping street here in frankfurt and though we are not seeing those lines as we are seeing them in the united states black friday here in germany seems to be more something for the equal mirza business but when you talk to investors are telling me that they're expecting actually that today another one point one billion euros of revenue for retailers will be created and of course this is a quite a big number what they actually tell me what is more interesting for them that they

are really seeing that consumer behavior has changed christmas presents used to be bored and the first two weeks off december all this now has shifted because of this black friday hype to the end of november and now daniel the new business climate index for germany has been released tell us more about it and how investors are reacting to it and this can kind of came a surprise today because investors were actually expecting that because of those problems that we're having right now to form a government in germany that the business climate index would be actually down it's actually now reaching and the other record with one hundred seventeen point five points and even though we're having a very strong euro currency at the moment with about one and nine and teen the blue chip index stocks has really benefited today from this business climate index it's right now up with about one percent. frank good to talk to you thanks.

now every german car maker has plans for electric cars they're all trying to keep up with the likes of tesla which of course is surged ahead with the technology b.m.w. is already building prototypes for the electric engines of the future the luxury car makers are already planning to mass produce nine electric car models in the coming two years and it's building what it calls a knowledge help for battery technology within the company but for the forseeable future batteries will continue to be supplied by an external supply. well we can cross to our correspondent. that b.m.w. research center for batteries in munich good to see you know batteries for electric cars has been a touristy tricky to develop so why does b.m.w. want to get into the battery game. batteries are really one of the key components of electric vehicles and will be in

the future. if you have a a bad battery battery a crappy boundary you won't have a long range for an electric vehicle it's one of the key components. but what here at the prototyping production in w. in munich happens is the building off the battery cells that self for prototyping it will not happen in mass production though so b.m.w. isn't exactly entering the game yet i mean it's b.m.w. and indeed the german car industry not a little bit late to the party when it comes to immobility because tesla for example has long had its gigafactory. exactly you know have it has it in a bottle where there's lots of sunshine lots of energy and the advantage that tesla has of course is it's a smart. small and quick company you can react quickly you can develop things you

know very fast the german car industry in general is more of the the massive type you know developments take longer new cars than are brought out they take years and years but companies like b.m.w. have been they've been working on electric mobility for as much as ten years now. and it's not the only one as well i mean diamonds go it's battery factory which went up it may be investing thirty four billion in the segment it's called makers do not take this step but they essentially making themselves irrelevant. well. definitely ema billet he is going to be part of the future but we're not going to see a crazy revolution any anytime soon the speed is picking up yes definitely but in the near term middle term future we're still going to see a lot of combustion engines. you know ability is a market they need to enter they need to be part of this specially in countries

like china where there is actually a quota now if you don't sell a minimum of electric cars percentage wise you don't sell at all but it won't be just electric cars in the future so there's still money to be made in the other other of the vehicles a correspondent. in munich thank you. german compositional storage fees are investigating allegations of illegal ticket price hikes at no time so the move follows a string of complaints from consumers since rival at butlins collapse prices on a some routes have a risen by thirty percent it's also left of time so the only carrier operating certain routes within germany evidence to my stars created an additional demand her around sixty thousand tickets a day that of town so wants to take over the majority of at butlins plains but needs you approval before it can do so. zimbabwe's freshly inaugurated president will have to get to work fast

a top priority. is the economy estimates say only one in ten people has a job to go to every day the currencies collapse on foreign investment has bled out of the country as a long reign comes to an end most of the people the belief things can only get better. selling tomatoes and onions because that's the only way to scrape up enough money to get by but those days finally over right you would collect more remote is a trained engineer and feels cheated out of his future he used to own his own company but the economic crisis in zimbabwe through business into a tailspin now he sells shoes. had to do this to you know order to supplement my income you know business hasn't been good. for the companies. in the biz basically trying to put food on the table for my family.

there are a few jobs and zimbabwe some estimates but the unemployment rate did over ninety percent and businesses conducted in dollars you won or south african rand the country's currency doesn't exist anymore the government here only issues a kind of promissory note that no one wants there's plenty of homegrown ambition and talent the founder of this online platform returned to zimbabwe from britain and has so far hired twelve staff but there are hopes things will now finally change for the better. there's some economic fundamentals that need to be addressed and i expect and i hope that the new government will address those things i also. hope that we have a better economy with a bit economy its impacts us directly so advertisers which is how that's how we survive. zimbabwe has infrastructure a relatively well educated population fertile soil and plenty of mineral resources

and many now hope that with mugabe gone the country will finally be able to reach its full potential. aswell as can be a great way of bringing people together but sometimes it doesn't always work out. that's right helena certainly the story of the german football association has postponed all friendly's between the chinese under twenty national team and german fourth division teams until two thousand and eighteen and the friendlies were supposed to be a helpful tool to develop the chinese game but they took a turn for the worse after last weekend's match was interrupted when demonstrators on veiled tibetan flags in protest against china the chinese team walked off midway through the first half and only agreed to complete the match when the flags were rolled up they had been due to play again tomorrow but more protests were planned. let's get more of the story with public fully aaliyah's from d.w. sports explain first of all why these chinese under twenty why this team was in

germany right well there was an agreement made between the chinese government and the german football association back in two thousand and sixteen and it's essentially part of the whole plan in china to develop the game quite rapidly the chinese government has been investing a huge amount of money in football building big facilities there's also been a big massive cash injection for a lot of the teams there so but there's a big problem in that they're lacking in will say skill so there was an agreement made that they would send over there on their twenty's team to europe and in particular here to germany with the intention that in the twenty twenty olympics they would actually the chinese team would go on and win it so they've got big plans so the bonus league essentially was going to be a sort of training ground almost for this team and that's why they reached this agreement there were supposed to be another match tomorrow the football authorities here called that off there were more approached to about protests planned is that the official reason given or well we were told that this earlier in the weekend and we were just saying well it will be interesting to see whether more protests

actually take place because at the end of the day the protests that we saw in minds there and the images were not talking about a huge number of people but what happened was the story was taken up by a lot of the media here in germany and it turned into something quite big so there was a fear. this would sort of grow into something a lot bigger and it looks like it did so to avoid any sort of issues we'll say because this is becoming almost like a political issue at this stage they said ok well that's not been that's not the official reasons but we can almost sort of jump to the conclusion that this is why they've decided to cancel the games and table to to next year at the exactly now will be interesting is to see whether those games actually do take place in two thousand and eighteen and i'm not really sure if they will go ahead all right. thank you very much thanks. you're watching news still to come ukraine is marking four years since the mind on protest that swept away the regime

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in the country's sinai peninsula have bombed a mosque near the city of el irish killing at least one hundred eighty four people more than one hundred others are wounded these are archived photos of the mosque there it is the worst attack to date in the rest of region. and a short while ago we spoke to karim hari in the egyptian capital cairo he gave us this update. apparently there was several bones that were planted in the most given when there were four vehicles four we drive through a pit in front of the most an open heavy fire on to where she first. of course nobody yet responsibility for that is to post a good walk this way because this attack on the mosque they want from us that we've known to be used by supporters of disability forces in your sinai who of course

even a small scale war against militant islamists in several years now the other possibility we. should be most. glamorous of course the right opposite of what the more rigid what is calling for which the militant islamists are following most on a korean this is a developing story we're waiting for more details but this area this region of the sinai peninsula has seen attacks before what more can you tell us about that. yes normally there are attacks where attacks against the security forces very often like police station since you choose the headquarters and troops like that are tech we had also series of attacks on christians in the city of. but that is the first time i see as far as i know was attacked and there was this high this role of course like the country does the shock because such high numbers

are reminding everyone as more like to a situation in iraq. journalist karim hari joining us from the egyptian capital cairo karim thank you for that update. now earlier today six former soviet countries signed a declaration on moving closer to the e.u. members of the so-called eastern partnership met european leaders at a summit today for talks on fostering stronger economics economies rather and governance small devalue crain georgia armenia and azerbaijan and ukraine is marking four years since the orange revolution that swept away the regime of viktor ghana coach and it has high hopes of moving towards you membership. walking the streets of kiev you could be forgiven for thinking that ukraine was already a fully signed up member of the european union this week ukraine marks four years since protests here on my down square where president viktor yanukovych from office

but before he left for exile in russia his crackdown on protesters claimed the lives of at least one hundred people. that ignited those protests because europe under pressure from russia president yannick of it shocked many when he refused to sign along the way to dissociation deal with the e.u. the man who called people out into the square was mystified i am then a journalist for the ukraine the newspaper is angry facebook posts the ball rolling and brought hundreds out to protest four years on and i am is now on the inside trying to make his mark on ukraine's politics as a member of parliament but has all the people ukraine has seen really been worth it . i think that it was only one chance to escape the. destiny of the russia for example to skate in to void this soviet style governance no country for the future

but does he think his country's journey leads to e.u. membership i would say that now we are much closer to europe. in real life but informal life juridical of course we see the old those obstacles do you believe that there will be an e.u. member of ukraine at some point i hope so i think that it should be happening in my age. ukraine has already moved closer to the union on a number of fronts. with new biometric passports ukrainians can now finally travel to europe without needing a visa but what does o.c.a. shin with the european union mean for ukraine is this the end of the line or just a step on the path to full membership brussels it seems can't make up its mind while the commission refuses to give any promises the european parliament says that mere association cannot be the final goal one thing though is clear as britain prepares to leave the union a large majority of ukrainians would be more than happy to take their place. i saw

an economy there in kiev he has now returned to berlin and joins us here in the studio for more heinecke this is the fifty eastern partnership summit are we actually going to see concrete measures here or is it simply to bring all of these players together so this important is very is very much a big tent includes very different countries ukraine on the one hand that really sees its future at least the current government in the e.u. and then comes like belarus that are effectively and confederation with russia and who turned out basically out of politeness but don't really seem to be doing much in the way of actually concrete steps towards meeting you standards on anything from economics to human rights so that is a very big tent there isn't much in the way of concrete steps but among those six countries there are three you now have association deals and they do actually mean something they have brought tangible results free trade that's visa free travel so the things that the people in ukraine in moldova and in georgia really have seen happen in the last few years there are a few countries under this tent as you put it to are not seeking the same type of closeness with the e.u.

as ukraine is tell us more about that. i think the only thing these countries really share is their soviet past and location between the european union or russia beyond that they've all developed on very different trajectories you have better routes which some held very large scale military exercise with the russians on the nato nato is border you have azerbaijan a country that has been ruled by the same family for the last two decades since independence so i think it's not recent prizing to see that given their very different legal traditions they're really not all interest in the same things from the european union how is moscow reacting to this partnership is it seen by the kremlin as a threat i think definitely has been seen as an encroachment on moscow's backyard as it were and we've seen a whole variety of responses from economic pressure. countries have tried to get closer to seeing their ability to export to russia reduced military pressure i mean i think the clearest example of the being done by. the russians support for

progress in separate is there as a response to kiev attempts to get closer to the west and beyond that they've tried to sort of turn up their own alternatives to provide initiatives to economic integration that hasn't really in practice turned many results yet but they definitely are trying to respond and to counter any way they can but on the other side of this partnership the european union is dealing with crises of its own and the break that talks looming how is all of this talk of exception being dealt with there i think is a very divided picture you have on the one hand many eastern european members who have consistently pushed for further accession of these countries to the european union then you have the western european countries on on average who have been a lot more cautious remember in the netherlands there was a referendum even on the association deal with ukraine and a large majority a majority of votes saying they didn't want to station agreement because they were scared that it would lead to fool you membership for ukraine off that referendum

the e.u. . basically the fudge and said association doesn't mean a guarantee of future membership and that's the way they were able to get this association agreement through and you have the e.u. parliament that's very pro rewarding these countries for the progress they've made the commission is a bit more cautious i think the most important remember here is we don't have a roadmap for these countries to membership so that really does seem to suggest that the cautious more critical position seems to winning out for now what about ukraine where you just returned from we saw in your report one lawmaker think he does hope that your membership is on the horizon how widely held of that you pretty clean parliament. those people you talk to say they need this roadmap they need this perspective of joining the european union to deal with a whole range of problems without that structure they feel that the reforms that ukraine's already carried out the last few years will come off track and they need that discipline of living up to these issues down and to really be able to make change happen the polls suggest that at least sixty percent of ukrainians

a very significant jordi are in favor of membership and that actually is also higher among the younger generation of young people under twenty five and thirty the pro who votes for membership are up to about eighty percent so it's definitely seems to be an idea that's very popular these younger generation alrighty to these new calmly reporting on the fifty eastern partnership summit thank you nick. now facebook says it is working on a new tool to combat fake news it will let users know if they had like any of the now deleted pages that allegedly pushed russian propaganda during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election earlier this month facebook handed over to the u.s. congress three thousand examples of russian bought ads well these ads featured a range of hot button issues like police violence liberal causes and islamophobia according to the company some one hundred forty six million americans were exposed to such posts. and we here at g.w.

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triggering and actually it was just a stunt by. india so there's only the a lot of control it's online and they can even create more confusion on incidents so if you are a user or a viewer how do you know what is real and what is not real so we did the view social media this we're dealing every day with user generated content and to. make our life easier we created cation platform this is culturally media so. this platform allows strong ai was to work together and media content and what it basically does it helps us to answer the form a question when it comes to where for cation so first question do the images show what they claim to show a second can we trust the user. if the incident really take place where this user claims it did and also when he claims that it so another queer thing about this

tool which we developed together with a creek company called a.t.c. is that i can team up with my colleagues and i can also work and collaborate and verification with other organisations and one of them is and the c. international who are also using it to human rights violations so if our users don't have access to truly media what can they do so there are some easy steps what they can do before not showing force information so one step is to do a so-called we were so much search to check if a picture of us used in another context before so let me show you in this example it. here you see a treat from mandalay shooter claims to show him underlay sugar from last month's shooting in las vegas and when you do on this picture right click and you select search google for him which he will see in the google decides that this is actually a fake and it's showing the comedian sam hi to you so always then you see this guy

after a mass shooting be aware that this is not the shooter. and to sum it up for the user. before you share something always ask yourself if this is too good to be true if so it probably is right some very good tips there are julia buyer from our social media desk telling us about verification tool truly media thank you very much alina thank you. now to a long running the scandal that has shaken spain stealing babies and selling them to childless couples it started during the franco dictatorship and continued into the early one nine hundred ninety s. shortly after birth doctors would falsely declare the baby's dead then sell them the catholic church is accused of facilitating the adoption of tens of thousands of babies they're now adults and they want to find out who their birth parents were but the destruction of documents is making their search difficult remembering her

childhood makes mercedes sad her parents lied to her all her life only on his deathbed ten years ago did her father admit to her what she had long suspected he and his wife were not her biological parents. they raised me to be honest and upright and to always tell the truth. but then they did this to me. after they died mercedes began researching and found conflicting documents two birth certificates one from moloch and one from seville and two baptismal certificates she knows these documents must be forged and so the sixty year old has a devastating suspicion. i think i was stolen when i was

a baby these documents are like those of other stolen children. from the one nine hundred thirty s. through the one nine hundred ninety s. up to three hundred thousand children were taken away from their parents who were told that the children had died the newborn infants of political opponents or unwed mothers were sold to childless couples who supported franco. genetic tests have proven that birth certificates were forged to conceal these dealings. mari cruz is convinced that she too was a victim of such schemes she gave birth to a premature baby in madrid in one nine hundred eighty six days after his birth the incubator was empty and she was told her son had died marie cruz and her husband wanted to see their dead baby and take it right above the knee and. they refused to show us the baby they said it was so deformed that they didn't want to upset us.

when we insisted they asked whether we had two hundred thousand for the burial. in the one nine hundred eighty s. that was a lot of money. mari cruz let herself be intimidated but now she's looking for her son whom she is sure was stolen from her. she works in a self-help group for other victims mothers fathers and children and attorney as representing the victims in court finally one of the people involved in this mass crime kind of college just edoardo of a lot has been accused of child abduction and document forgery. the eighty five year old defendant refuses to give interviews but in two thousand and ten some victims questioned him with a hidden camera he claimed that distressed mothers had given their children up voluntarily though there were no documents to show this. show. us

the archive with the mother's documents has been burned because. i personally burned the obstetric records and the parents declarations of agreement to adoption. it just makes me sick it infuriates me that this man might die before he's convicted. the attorney says the parents did not agree to give these children up for adoption it was a systematic political and business measure with government and church complicity. i don't know where they said this is not the idea of one doctor alone. he needed officials who knew about and covered up these irregularities. every day and. the scandal involves all of spain children for money. the justice department refuses to comment. mercedes is tormented by so many questions why

is she sold if so then how much did the couple who adopted her pay for her she can't imagine that the people who brought her up with so much love could have known about the crimes underlying the adoption. i think that they too were deceived i don't think they acted maliciously. sadie's has taken a genetic test and not in the result to a database she hopes to find blood relatives siblings nieces or nephews maybe even her biological parents and to learn what happened to her after her birth. the german company that made film history with fritz lang's that metropolis turns one hundred this year in the history of berlin oh fuck film studio read my history

of germany itself. and we have did i use film expert scott roxboro with us here in studio hi scott a hundred years that's pretty impressive almost as old as hollywood itself yeah pretty much i mean there's only two hollywood studios that are older paramount universal they were found in one nine hundred twelve. one nine hundred seventy five years later of course was the silent film era a lot people forget but that time germany was as much a center of cinema as america was of course a lot of a lot changed over over the years the history whole history of turns out that this year. german film museum here in berlin as done a big exhibit i mean it's interesting to look at because it really shows the the history which is a bit like i don't like the old clint eastwood movies the good the bad the ugly. terms of the good they're sort of glory days were in the soften period when they had movies like metropolis the blue angel and. talent the time where international celebrity of course that changed with the rise of the nazis and became a sensually

a propaganda machine for hitler after the second world war enters what i call the ugly period where they made most of their money with the quite bad t.v. movies and and stately soaps it's only very very recently the rufus sort of come back again and it's been quite interesting stuff particularly for television back to the glory days though how important you think of it were in the history of cinema i think incredibly important i mean they had directors like like fritz long who created whole genres i mean he he had a series of films a doctor mobutu's which many people consider the first mystery thrillers and it's also the first franchise of films because he made three a. mystery thrillers that sort of set the pace there's on are they also used but the time we're really cutting edge special back i think you can see some of them here check this out move . it of course when even further with his classic metropolis which at the time cost

five million rice marks which is equal to a million dollars today one of the last of this period of films was the blue angel that they need just before the rise of the nazis and that of course introduced the world to my lady twenty i think you can hear her sing it right now. on. what's really interesting about that film is they shot it in english and german simultaneously because they knew they were going to release a worldwide that became a hit really worldwide it was one the last great films from before the the nazi period where you're touching on the nothing period tell us more about how over reacted to the rise of hitler yeah i mean basically they collaborated the a lot of the great german directors left the country of course the majority of the great jewish writers and directors went to hollywood the ones who stayed to directors who stayed like holland collaborated with the nazis. and they

made propaganda movies or incorporated the nazi ideology into their movies of course most the tory asli lenny leaf install that we see here an amazing director but she end up making straight up nazi propaganda films including most notoriously the triumph of the will the nazi propaganda movie it was really the sort of the darkest period of history what does it feel like today yeah there it's interesting as i said they had sort of ugly period making a lot of t.v. soaps reality t.v. sort of entertainment shows but just recently last couple of years they've they've gone on and they've sort of discovered quality television that made interesting series i think it starred what three or four years ago there was a series called generation war and i think we have a clip from that series let's take a look. after all found another planet because they're getting kind of then you got that going from not. you know this is a it's a mini series set in the second world war we're told from the german perspective

it's sort of a german band of brothers really really impressive series of very very harrowing another series that was made recently that's got a lot of attention is eighty three which is a cold war spy thriller seventy eighty s. it's become an international head and it was actually the first german language series to air in the united states and one of em he won an international emmy for best series so it looks like the full could be entering into a new period new sort of glory time though definitely on the t.v. side they don't really make films much anymore they're still one of the biggest production companies in germany but mostly on the television side television is just important and on day three especially has been perhaps paving the way for a serious number of new german series right definitely definitely sort of the first now we're seeing a number of interesting series coming out of germany and a lot to do with that that they've really sort of broken new ground and maybe are connecting back to that you know old tradition back to the one thousand nine hundred twenty s.

when they really were cutting edge in terms of also creative output all right well more on off on our website you know we've got a great gallery of throughout the years and also a link if you're in german speaking territories set up a streaming service where you can for thirty days look for free all their old movies they put up the whole old catalogs you want to go back and check out some of the really classic movies from the twenty's maybe early thirty's some amazing stuff up there definitely check it out traffic right w. is a film expert scott roxboro with us here in the studio scott thank you very much you got. and we just have time for a minder of our top stories this hour state media in egypt say the death toll from an attack on a mosque in the country's of sinai peninsula has now risen to two hundred well over one hundred others are wounded officials say militants opened fire and bomb to the mosque during friday prayers there so far been no claim of responsibility. and a new chapter has begun in zimbabwe with the swearing in of president i'm assuming

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