this. gives the green light for the next. leaders meeting in brussels seed me. and britain and the e.u. could now move on to talking about their future relations with the focus on. live

to the summit. and political crisis could be inside the social democrats agree to begin talks in forming a government. in the us the government. but some users fear access to information. in the next sixty minutes the feet of young european women. linda blair is awaiting a trial it's the first time the judge has seen her. group. and the woman who's taking on drug. addicts in the capital. uses a own money to rescue. them.

my. hundred one will continue i'm on the detail of the e.u. summit in brussels on a breakthrough on gregg said either council president donald tusk says even it isn't agreed on guidelines to send the negotiators into talks with the vet ish over the transitional phase this means that for now the ministers of the leaders can move on to the second phase in talks on britain's departure from the bloc it's a big boost for british prime minister to raise the main the clock is ticking down on her country's exit due for march two thousand and eighteen. and a corresponding of much is at the somebody joins me live from their guild you've been listening to final comments at the summit merican and mccraw have been talking about the euro zone what did they have to say. both are rather upbeat on return about the progress that has been made in these informal talks about the eurozone

german chancellor angela merkel said there's a large consensus that the banking union a firewall if you want that should defend europe against future financial crisis is should be completed and she even went as far as to say that she hopes an action plan until march next year can be put forward a roadmap if you want how to further integrate the euro zone it's not the finance minister the european finance minister other european budgets that her counterpart to my core dreamt about but it's a step forward and he was also rather happy a basically saying let's agree on what we can agree and not talk about what we can't agree as yet and also deal a step forward in bragg's it what does mean agree tell us what it means that what they've actually agreed on endorsing an agreement that last week's agreement. well finally we have a green light from the european council to move into the second phase of the brics negotiations our new america

a very clear that these these will be difficult talks at the second phase is crucial now because we will focus on trade talks and on the transition period until the trade agreement can be hammered out that needs to be a sort of a transition phase and the be gauche ations how that can be structured are starting now but on one issue this still haven't been able to reach any agreement and that's the refugee issue what low can you tell us about that it's the old route over whether refugees should be relocated in other words whether it's of refugees should be taken from italy or greece and then taken to other parts of the european union you have countries in the east of europe the former communist countries you member states that have said we don't want to take in any refugees so far what the european union can agree on and i'm glad that that's a good sign but that's not enough is that stronger extra no borders are needed in

order to stem the flow of refugees let us in brussels thank you very much for that live update from there. here in germany the head of the social democrats martin shows is now recommending that is spotty begin exploratory talks which owns an american as conservatives and forming a governing coalition he said the talks would likely begin in early january ahead of a party congress in the middle of the month the s.p.d. has been under pressure to reconsider joining a new grand coalition government off the chance that mechelle failed to get another three we're going to off the ground. joining me now is our political correspondent simon young at a parliamentary studios some of the s.p.d. modern shirts has just been talking tell us more about what he had to say. yami to martin schultz says that he's recommended to the s.p.d. leadership that they should move forward now and begin full exploratory talks with angle americal and the conservatives on the possibility of forming

a government indeed he says that he's already identified his twelve person team to take part in those talks as he said they're expected to begin soon after the new year and he pretty optimistic lisa jested they might only take a couple of weeks he said that on the fourteenth of january the party membership could have the opportunity to vote and say whether they think it's there is a basis for moving forward to full coalition talks but given that the two sides are really not keen on a grand coalition to start with how difficult will it is if there are three talks the. well i think they are going to be very difficult as you say there's lots of people particularly in the s.p.d. who are very unhappy about the idea of a new edition of the grand coalition with the conservatives they think that social

democrat policies get lost any small victories for them are claimed by the other side and they get blamed in turn by their own supporters for things that go wrong so there's quite a few people saying it be much better to have some limited cooperation government or even just leave the conservatives to form a minority government or even possibly return to new elections but so there's not a lot of appetite particularly within the grassroots membership of the s.p.d. for this but first of all martin schultz says he's taking his team into initial soundings to see if it can be done and you know the he says the result of those initial talks is open and someone briefly when can we actually see a new government in germany after elections took place in september indeed i think nobody here believes that there could be a new government in place before march of next year and if these talks drag on and

become very difficult it could even be later than that some younger bottom interested yes thank you. now ben joins me now on where would be without the internet in the u.s. some changes up plan causing a lot of controversy ben the democrats are basically saying that the republicans handing the keys to the internet to a handful of multi billion dollar corporations the u.s. communications regulator has ditched the long time principle that all web traffic must be treated equally on the internet highway small websites haven't had to compete with the likes of facebook you tube or netflix until now everyone's been treated the same but the net neutrality overhaul means providers could begin charging websites and online services for their down to volumes which could lead to preferential treatment meaning a fast lane basically and a slow lane for the internet and for internet traffic you start ups for example without the resources of big companies would feel the pain and be knocked out of

the race that of result in fewer choices for consumers and the major corporations could simply pass on the added costs to customers in other words streaming movies or music could be said to get more expensive now too. the move is part of u.s. president or drums push to do broker obama's work and scale back regulation in several economic sectors now back to everyday with more international years thank you very much spend less on take a look at some other stories making news around the bond allison demonstrators have clashed with israeli forces during protests over u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital in the west bank it's true still is that israeli troops who responded material gas trumps announcement stood anger across the arab and muslim world and they also protests in many other cities in the world. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has accused iran of supplying results

to rebels in yemen breaching the u.n. resolutions displaying what she said were venemous of an iranian made a misanthrope wanted to yemeni rebels kaley called on the international community to hold iran accountable. britain's prince harry and his american feel see megan meghan markle will marry on may the nineteenth next year kensington palace announced the date and confirmed the seventy will take place in st george's chapel at windsor castle and last month the couple announcing went after a sixteen month. romance. retelling of the story of net neutrality that ben was talking about but the fight over this continues to rage online for more the story rejoined all before from our social media desk welcomes that because of what has been the reactions to this in the us

so i'm retired the debate is simply huge and the net neutrality defenders are clearly not willing to give up on this not just companies but also lawmakers they are vowing to fight back and we were actually hard pressed to find supporters. of the decision. ted cruz american republican politician did have this to say however he wrote this a caustic tweet saying oh my god net neutrality the internet is gone and then saying you know the f.c.c. issued that ruling twenty fifteen the internet to grew up wonderfully free from government regulation and this restores the status quo ante but many more lawmakers oppose the movement and the move sorry democratic senator ed markey for instance he announced plans to introduce legislation to reverse the f.c.c. is this isn't and he calls his decision a historic mistake adding the fight is far from over and then america the debate

also revolves a lot of around democracy and how this move could affect it many fear that it could further deepen the divide between the rich and the poor and here is a youtube star appears tweeting i haven't i can't even begin to explain how devastated i am by the loss of net neutrality today the internet is the only bridge that successfully connects people of low income to those of high income with the tremendous opportunity to have near equally weighted voices so the obviously little fears of this could have a lot of. repercussions a democratic democratically speaking yeah there's that and there's another issue as we saw for to two thousand and sixteen presidential election in this case two it looks like there have been attempts to influence the commission's decision from the outside both by supporters and opposers of the move in fact before the decision was made to the f.c.c. created a website used to get

a gist of the public opinion on this matter so they asked they tried to collect views from a regular americans and ask people send us your your opinion what you think about it but think tanks have been looking into the matter and. they found that hundreds of thousands of those messages were actually not posted by real humans but by bots so they were automated messages and let me show you some examples of that this is a comment that was allegedly sent to the f.c.c. by a man called jayson abbruzzese expressing support for repealing net neutrality but the actual jayson abbruzzese later tweeted this message saying he never sent that e-mail and we have another example. again the exact same message same warding allegedly sent by a woman called monica chin but real money kitchen who is

a tech journalist she has now written an entire article about how she never sent that support message so and there's more studies also show that a lot of these these messages were actually sent from russian e-mail addresses about five hundred thousand of those messages according to bloomberg so this is really an other example of technology being misused to try and to try to influence political decision making in the u.s. and russia apparently getting involved predict a budget for muscle needed to ask thank you. for a net neutrality goes in the rules being wound back. quite a lot of explosive. reaction online and here in the german business world a lot of corporations here are concerned about what exactly will happen let's take a look at this piece first of all. this. is the same.

thing that if you. didn't fit the. nets neutrality rules banned internet providers from giving preferential treatment to certain websites after the f.c.c. vote that seems to be a thing of the past. the ending of net neutrality has been met with fury by millions of internet users both online through social media and offline at this protest outside the f.c.c. headquarters they say consumers will be forced to stump up the costs of say paying for faster access to their favorite sites or even paying to access certain websites and all. web firms say it will saddle content platforms with costs that they will be forced to pass on to their consumers the chairman of the f.c.c.

saying it's not the role of the regulator to dictate to business models to the market it is not the job of the government to be in the business of picking winners and losers in the internet economy we should have a level playing field and let consumers decide who prevails actually but for democrat commissioner minion cliburn it signals a dereliction of duty to the public can plainly see that a soon to be toothless of c.c. is handing the keys to the internet the internet one of the most remarkable empowering enabling inventions of our lifetime over to a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations the companies argue they need the money internet users are demanding faster connections for ever more devices and that infrastructure will add to billions in costs to their balance sheets that has already been legal opposition to the ruling. but for now it's a victory of light touch regulation over big government of corporate america over

the average internet user. yulian jarosz is a political advisor for the german and geo. union let me know is this really the death sentence for a fair and free internet well they media consequences as of yet uncertain but there is a clear past that the concern materializes that the two tier internet will develop where certain. software or certain content on the internet is made more expensive or is blocked off together and that would create disadvantages for consumers the democrat senator bernie sanders had an interesting quote he said the internet will be for sale to the highest bidder basically others fearing it could further deepen the divide between rich and poor also this tweet is quite interesting you troops in the p. is tweeting that she's devastated writing the internet is the only bridge that

successfully connects people of low income to those of high income giving voice equal weight basically what happens when that bridge disappears well i don't want to comment on one specific tweet but to make an overall general point is that there's a longstanding concern that some people who are for one reason or another disenfranchised or can't afford more expensive internet or can't go through the whole maze of different package that might develop i put a disadvantage and that is exactly the fear if curbing our abolishing happens it's only telcos had lobbied extremely haad. ogling the the rules under obama were heavy handed and also that they discovered the basement of broadband networks is a truth to that well there is definitely two sides to the argument and one is very much supported by exactly these big companies and their their lobbying so that would be one sided argument the other side is that if you have net neutrality you

encourage innovative and competitive start up companies to offer new services and they cannot afford to negotiate for or pay for a fast lane internet access and so in that way innovations actually stifle it in this case what are some of the big companies against that though those who could probably afford it what why have they been against it well i think the has been a shift between the companies because the you tube and the facebook and amazons of the past have grown now so also the interest have changed but it is also interesting to note that there has been brought bipartisan popular and also corporate. support for net neutrality so it's really the internet service providers versus the content providers that have shaped the debate in this case and we're just talking about the u.s. here how is this going to carry over to germany to europe the rest of the world what for now we're just talking about the s. for sure but there is the clear concern that all this lobbying pressure that we

noticed and experience in the u.s. is also going to happen in germany in the e.u. so that the same concerns that are now at present in the u.s. could also be here that innovation is stifled that startups can't afford to provide innovative services which in the end also hurts consume us because their access to a variety of services in fact a variety of news opinions might be. ok you and we'll leave it there thank you very much for coming in today very interesting to. and let's go over now to frankfurt where our financial correspondent of course is standing by to give us his take on this story then you do you agree with our guest the we're going to see you stifling a bit of a should in germany or europe. what i think this is this can really mean that there would be a sort of a first class internet and

a second class internet i was just wondering about myself i have a website because you know i'm a freelance journalist and i was wondering you know if i would be based in the united states does this now mean that i would have to pay now even more to my provider in order to get more traffic you know to the websites i mean there are already lots of question marks and i was talking also here to one senior trader a little bit earlier and even he was telling me because you know investors and traders they want to make a lot of money but at the same time they also believe that everybody should be you know at the same level that you know everybody has the right you know to make very good business so he was also telling me that he really thinks it's going to be much harder from now on for a smaller companies and yeah this is really going to be interesting how all of this is now going to unfold them spic the same sort of path incurring here in europe that the companies will start lobbying brussels to try to change laws to try

to water down the laws basically like like what's happened in the u.s. yeah i was also talking with this trade up about this of course you know companies for example like one of the biggest internet providers here in germany of course they would have an interest to do something like this but i don't think with is regulation that we are having here in the european union we would get something similar like we are getting right now in the united states that you cope in frankfurt for us. and back to area. thank you been getting to russia over a quarter cent does for my economy minister alexei all you have to eight years in jail for accepting a two million dollars bribe from an oil boss close to present that to me putin well you have the highest ranking official arrested and put hundred seventy seventeen years in a file was also find more than two million dollars the sentence was harsher than observers had expected the circumstances of the case of ignited speculation that it

will u.k. and might have been framed as part of a kremlin power play. let me now draw in a meal drug store a shocker is found in moscow meal like in the form of economy minister is accused of accepting a two million dollar bribe in cash during a late night meeting something he's or rez denied to tell us more well it's like in a bad holiday old hollywood movie the former a con a minister an economic liberal all kind of had to approve the sale of a state controlled all company called button after to ross nifty that was invited by the c.e.o. of ross and as eager search into his office and searching as a close friend of president putin they have been together since the eighty's both worked for the k.g.b. so is really a close buddy of president putin well this say chin handed. luck back.

put the back into his car and when he left his car was stopped by security agents and surprise surprise they found two million dollars in the back and a look i've said well he thought there were a bottle of wine so frail wines awaiting sausages of that back he doesn't know where the money is coming from so that's how economic liberal and conservative hawks how they fight for money and influence and power in moscow and it really eight years in prison sounds quite tough does this sentence come as a surprise briefly. yes it's a surprise i think this is not expected at least see vere penalty imposed on even think of himself didn't expect that but what may happen is that all kind of is an old and sick man that maybe the court but now but maybe in a couple weeks or months may say i've may be allowed to stay at home and not go to prison. in moscow thank you very much for that live update.

jim and present from pakistan my has been attending celebrations at the israeli embassy in berlin it's the middle of hanukkah the jewish festival of lights and israel is beginning months of celebrations to mark the anniversary of its foundation in one hundred forty eight but the festivities come days after arab protesters chanted anti semitic silly slogans and burned israeli flags in berlin something but course shock across germany. two countries standing united not only during hanukkah israel and germany the countries are kicking off celebrations for the seventieth anniversary of israel and the german president doesn't shy away from the topic of the week and he israeli demonstrations in germany. as off dorchin those who the israeli flag in germany are not

only showing an unacceptable hatred of israel they also do not understand all respect what it means to be german but this has. leaves no doubt about a non-negotiable german principle germany always stands behind israel kind and out in germany we do not condone the semitism whether it be loud quiet old or new separatism it will not be accepted at all in this republic and these are the over to the israeli ambassador to germany praises the current german israeli relationship and reminds of the past. while the memory of the posco knowlton should not be forgotten will define a future i believe that the relationship between israel and germany has been transformed into a forward looking dynamic and vibrant relationship. a relationship that is

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a few change is uncertain. it was a cautious reunion with a family who travelled from germany to baghdad to see the seventeen year old who's in custody awaiting trial. pictures of her arrest in mosul in july were beamed around the world. identified only as linda w. she left her home in eastern germany to join the so-called islamic state now she regrets or has this vision only vehicle i don't know how i came up with such a dumb idea i've completely ruined my life yet. linda says she didn't take part in any fighting she says after the death of the i.a.s. member she married she stayed in various women's shelters and almost never stepped outside hundreds of women have left europe to join i.a.s. many of them are now in custody in iraq according to research by german media at least seven germans are among them until now german women who were not in combat

but married to i.a.s. militants were rarely prosecuted back home now a different legal approach is likely. where of the opinion that these women are guilty of membership of a foreign terrorist organization because they helped to strengthen the internal structure of the so-called islamic state but this question will ultimately have to be clarified by germany its federal court of justice. but. it's not clear whether linda w. would be prosecuted if and when she returns an investigation is underway but there's no warrant for her arrest in germany. joining me now in the studio is janice who's met for an interview in iraq welcome. tell me first under what circumstances did you meet the person we're describing only as being for all it is the second time that i met her in baghdad it's quite different from the first she's. still living with two or three women in the

prison. she got more healthy. become better but she's still wishing to go back to germany. this is what was the difference between your first interview and your second interview in the way she came across to you well i have the impression in the first interview that she did not understood what she is for her what is going to be happening. the last tribute that i got with her was more stay. able to happen she also has what a dick circumstances that says she's going to face and especially the second time we've been joined with her mother and her sister visiting her in baghdad that was somehow quite different more family she got more she began to speak more explaining

her situation why she joined the islamic state she we got more answers from many questions that we have in all she was more open and more emotionally absolutely ok so did she tell you about why she decided to join islamic state well that's the main question that i must solve but when she met her mother the first time two years after she left from home the first sentence is that she told her mother why you are coming here because of you i left my hope that means this is the question of the conflict inside the family and with the will of gulf of teen years old and she wanted to go outside from home and she just want to go without coming back and maybe she could join the the rights of the nazis or something but the business was somehow quicker now that she that's that she didn't join the right wing parties or groups within germany she actually decided to go you know to baghdad i did to join

islamics it was then you know i did article component to her decision definitely she was a rocket article ised through internet she got access for a girl muslim girl from cheney and she talked with her internet and she convinced her to join the islam and then she connect her with islamic fighters the state fighters are from serbia speak also german and he asked do you want to leave germany and said yes or no and she said yes i want to go outside and he give her the instruction how she can travel to turkey house. and she crossed the border to syria and so on and so on and they got money through it through a telephone through skype gosh did she tell you more about this man she'd madge was an islamic state fighter his name he called muhammad i don't know whether it is right. he's a cheney and have you seen in the story and he got he got killed through the

fighting and they got just small short time to the women and the men together right because i mean this is a fascinating story and of course the faces of a uncertain future as you mentioned the past thank you very much for sharing your personal insights off linda debbie after you met her i mean listen we thank you very much. to find his son now where more than three million people in the country are addicted to drunks one in ten of guns many of the addicts live in the capital in desperate circumstances there's almost no support available to them the big meet one woman who's using their own money to rescue and rehabilitate them. twice a week hidari goes down under this bridge in kabul a grim sight awaits her this is by far the most horrific spot of the afghan capital the city's drug addicts are holed up here thousands of them just trying to survive this dark hell the stench of excrement urine and vomit is unbearable rats scurry

along the walls every morning between five and ten dead bodies are carried out lie low haidari is the angel of kabul's drug afflicted. so if one of you wants to come with me you should stand up. a voice from the group shouts everyone here wants to go with you. do you really want to come say it. the drug addicts are irritable and aggressive we are only able to film because we came with lyla the local police haven't dared to set foot under the bridge for ages. twelve men respond to lines offer this morning the last one deciding at the last minute. lie low puts them and the bus she had arranged ahead of time. they are driven to a house at the edge of the city. i.

married but are there more why do i do this my brother was a drug addict i had to watch him slowly lose everything first his job then his family in the end he gave up and died. for me than. for those who arrive here the first step is to scrub the dirt from their bodies then everyone's head gets shaved those who decide to leave behind the hell under the bridge should mark a new beginning also physically. laila often lends a hand she is forty two years old and an unusually strong willed independent woman in this deeply conservative country. laila owns a restaurant not far from the city center it's popular with couples upper middle class the money she earns here pays for the drug addicts rehabilitation program. a place to stay meals a few medical tests lightless therapy program does have

a limit. i have not forced any of you to come here you're all here of your own free will i don't care if you speak pashtoon or dari and to whom you pray you can stay for one month after five days you will begin to do some light exercise then you'll be given a few tasks. for seven years laila has been trying to help men like these get off drugs without any medication she tells them to drink as much water as possible and that should be enough the. prater alaric's thousand times to show me the path away from drugs to give me another chance perhaps it will happen today. just a few streets away along has come out from under the bridge he's been begging searching through garbage and when necessary also stealing needs money for drugs a bag of heroin costs around two euros it doesn't sound like much but by afghan

standards it's a lot still there are more than three million drug addicts in afghanistan around ten percent of the population. there's no were people just hang around without any prospects that's why people in afghanistan turn to heroin i managed to get clean once for more than a year but then i started again for. this hill is another gathering spot for campbell's drug addicts they consume drugs here in the open. they are young and old some are even children the afghan police gave up a long time ago some cash in on the problem rummy's ahmed is a plainclothes narcotics agent. we haven't been able to do anything about addiction for a long time the only thing we still tries to go off to the drug dealers but the shop they always find other ways. the afflicted are on their own with their addiction

and the dealers brutality the afghan government has no money to fund rehab programs and the number of addicts is expected to grow afghanistan is flooded with drugs production has increased by forty percent in recent years this hill is a place of desolation afghanistan the world's biggest producer of drugs is now suffering from the drugs curse within its own borders. i've been attacked and beaten twice i drug dealers who were afraid they would lose customers because of me that's absurd there are thousands of addicts in kabul alone and the dealers don't frighten me. but there is a bright spot in the story mohammed ali zada also lived under the bridge for many years but he's been drunk free for two years now he's stayed with laila and helps out with a new arrivals learn to make rugs these are then sold to support the program.

i used to be a policeman during my shift i often came across alcohol and drugs based around i took heroin on a regular basis. and what would have happened if he hadn't escaped from under the bridge. i'd be dead today. the men have started singing love songs again for laila that's a good sign the withdrawal process is extremely difficult of all of them and laila takes in only around a quarter of them manage it and stay clean her dream is to have a proper clinic with experienced doctors so she can rescue many more drug addicts from the hell beneath the bridge. a commission investigating

chance sexually abuse in australia has called on the catholic church to end compulsory celibacy for priests it said that although celibacy didn't cause sex abuse it was a contribution in fact it also said religious leaders should be prosecuted for feeling to report child sexual abuse including preschool hear about crimes during confession the five you a probe found many australian institutions including the church had seriously preached to protect children with tens of thousands abused over decades. responded to the report of prime minister malcolm turnbull pang to those who had come forward to tell this tories he said that coverage had led to a national tragedy being exposed to. top of the catholic church as i mentioned is singled out for particular criticism in this report to talk more about that i'm joined by religious affairs correspondent martin guthrie martin welcome you know one of the things that this report is saying this is this compulsory celibacy for

catholic clergy going to be it's to child sex abuse is how do they make that link well the journal position is that a very repressive sexual environment in salou a sea of chords being essential the prohibition of any sexual encounter sexual activity contributes essentially to putting those who are more in more precarious positions children are. in a kind of environment in which they become the only said target of sexual of sexual activity and of course this contributes to this contributes to abuse this is something that the church has flatly flatly rejected exactly those traditions this flatly rejected any kind of idea of making celibacy one into really why are they so opposed to changing this rule given that this seeing what is happening in the church well i mean it's first of all because it's not clear that the link is quite as strong as a report claims in general it's very important to underline that sort of the rate of sexual abuse within the church is actually quite similar to the rate of sexual

abuse in the journal population and it has been pointed out repeatedly included including this morning report came out that as a matter of fact if one goes into the general population looks at children abuse among families among sort of institutions one will find that actually these are not institutions or families which actually are respectively were seen on the list the rates are actually somewhat similar they should particular for the churches that this is actually the principle the very principle if they do of purity for the people that are. or in charge of the clergy or one of the elements of it because reality i mean and this is something that the church i would venture to say that will simply not give up but they didn't want to also recommends that if priests but sexual abuse in confession is that they should report it because it's a crime but the church is completely against that as well even though it amounts to actually kind of you know protecting a cry well one of the groans that you have with the church it's not so i think that this very important to underline is not only that they have actually

a very very large load of cases but they're also a close institution so it's not just that they're being accused of sexual abuse they're also being accused circuitous lee of a cover up of a massive cover up in of course what gets said in confession is basically one of the privileged place of the transfer of this information the problem is that in confession it is understood that what he's being said is of an absolute intimate and private nature a nice in some sense between the mouth of the birds and giving the confession and the year of the priest who intercedes with god so this goes to say that this kind of privilege is one that of course the church would not want to give up in the other hand there is really the question as to whether if this were given up the confession space would be one in which priests would be willing to talk about sexual abuse and the gentleman's i mean one can sort of understand that that probably would not be the case as a matter of fact many of these cases would simply disappear now at least at least even if not effectively with more awareness we have priests and clergy that are

actually forced to intervene or have at least the capacity to intervene if we stop talking about what they're doing in confession and then this actually all together this appears right got thank you very much for shedding light on a very difficult and complex issue my pleasure. breaks another record today experts warn the crypto currency is a highly speculative investment and yet some minutes while a currency is highly inflated or rather parked the little money they have in the virtual world it's difficult to overstate the depth of venezuela's economic crisis every day hundreds of families cross into neighboring brazil in the hope of escaping the misery daily food and medicine shortages have left them with little option but to leave. elsewhere at the border some try to trade their worthless wads

of bolivar are illegally inflation in venezuela is projected to surpass two thousand percent next year that fact has prompted many of those still in the country to convert their rapidly depreciation fall of our into crypto currencies software engineer john with a large recently bought medicine and even booked a holiday using bit coin. at the travel agency they told me i won't say which travel agency it is because i don't want to get them into trouble but they told me it's either dollars or dollars i said look i'm a venezuelan like any other i can't be more homegrown going white from iran and here i don't have foreign bank accounts nothing like what i do have to pay for his ticket today or is point. they accepted us. but bitcoin is not the crypto currency of choice for embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro earlier this month he announced the launch of an alternative digital

currency that petro he says will be backed by the country's oil reserves. but venezuelans don't appear to view the prospects of the petro too favorably those who have set their sights on cryptic currencies tend to favor bitcoin itself of course notoriously volatile and for now you'll still need hard cash to buy food on the street. and just briefly irish budget carrier ryanair says it's prepared to recognize pilot unions for the first time in the airline's thirty two year history it's a move would avoid a strike this holiday season chief executive michael carey once famously said he'd rather cut off his own hands than sign a deal with the union to bring wages up to your industry standards now in a major u. turn these two invite representatives for talks for years ryanair pilots in several countries have been demanding recognition of their you get.

to the cape it is the culture multimedia project telling the stories of six artists who had to flee their home countries and try to find a new home in a different land. jodi we know is the initiator of the project suzanne schroeder welcome suzanne so what was the idea behind this project trustful well when we started to work on the project two years ago and then in the middle of the so-called refugee crisis we were wondering what happens after the for the u.s. cape so that's the title of the project and we wanted to know how people integrate in a foreign country and if they do if they can find a new home then we were looking for people who did so as artists because artists and we found them for the project because these artists express their finding

a new home or not finding a new home in their pieces so far it's in their music and their books and their films that's what the project basically is about of how to find a new home or how to fail in finding a new home in exile and you've got a report on that let's take a look at that. a concert in castle with a special pianist a refugee from the war in syria with a song about returning home. fled from the bombs the terror and the hunger he wrote a book about his experiences the title and the birds will sing it begins with a sheltered childhood in peace time syria then comes the uprising. and the perilous journey to germany where he tries to make a new home. in this refugee story music plays a special role you tube videos of playing in the ruins of

a syrian town went viral making him known worldwide as the syrian piano man. and here we have. to get here and all. the trauma that remains is always present in his new home. judith karr had to leave her homeland more than eighty years ago she was just turning ten when the nazis seized power in germany in one thousand nine hundred thirty three. family jewish father for the car was a famous theater critic and an opponent of the nazis. across europe and in england. told her family's story in the illustrated book when hitler

stole pink rabbit. judith and her brother were initially resented as germans in england but they became more and more rooted in british culture. end of the war it was clear to me these that this was my home just. not for parents. they did not belong anywhere. that. after the stories of people who arrived in a new country but only sometimes find a new home. so two very different stories this is and what did you learn after working on this project yes well this story is illustrate a perfectly because there is a sort of generation gaffe when refugees come to a foreign country and are very young children and young people it's really very

easy for them to adapt and i was released because you think well children are are younger and must suffer more but it's not like that is just the other way around. car for example is the perfect example for a person who came as a child to england when she was only ten years old and she became british so and was easy for her to learn the language first they went to france and she learned french and within a year and then she came to great britain but her parents never fell to tell me that's what we were said in the film so and that was really well one of the most stunning experience because it was interesting to see that one person comes in as a refugee and a german who becomes a refugee. goes elsewhere and there were other protagonists in your documentary tell us about them yes right we've got five percent going to the documentary and another protagonist. who fled from to lead and nine hundred seventy three after the

putsch the pin that said coach because we wanted to show that it's a global phenomenon so this is not new and another protagonist is a german writer who came from bosnia when he was fourteen and nine hundred ninety two and he didn't speak more german than. soccer and. write and the third example which is very very impressive to a nigerian turman singer her name is nick. well let's listen to her fabulous song. live fascinating to look forward to seeing more of this documentary on the project thank you very much suzanne spoiler for coming in telling us about your project. thank you. you're watching the news here is a recap of our top story leaders meeting in brussels have agreed to move to the

second phase of told some of britain's departure from the bloc european council president down to seven new phase would be even more challenging the decision to move on is a major boost for british prime minister. this is. cool .

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the system to entice current ios came to jersey or dealing with an eon at the i killed many civilians. coming including my father while. i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became elish kind of zob. providing insights global news that matters d. w. made for minds. of freedom of expression. a value that always has to be defended and new. all over the world. are to a freedom freedom of art. a multimedia project about artists and their rights to express their views freely. d w dot com to freedom.

whatever we begin to do the day will effect get out of c o two in the atmosphere and the increase of the temperature. twenty fifty we have to start down by starting to decrease the amount of c o two for them so now this is actually not a hard problem that just takes will however there are very important economic interests. all in all a lot of coal who own a lot of oil that are doing everything possible to make sure this doesn't happen we have to fight them by twenty fifty we'll be well on the way to a reliable renewable solar wind i'm optimistic that. we're not totally it's a space of. this

is. britain finally gets a yes from brussels the e.u. gives the green light for the next phase of negotiations european leaders say major hurdles have been overcome on the button on the euro. to talk about their future relations with a focus. we can progress.