this is deja vu news live from berlin hailing a new american moment u.s. president donald trump delivers his first state of the union address the polarizing president urges a bipartisan push on key reforms but can trump live up to his own call for unity. more than two years after a bombing in the heart of istanbul killed twelve german tourists a turkish court sentences three men to life in prison we'll talk to our correspondent in istanbul to find out why others were allowed to walk free. bursted dortmund striker peer emerick obama makes his long awaited transfer to arsenal for

a reported feat of sixty four million euros. meanwhile donald trump slashes aid to palestinians but who will pick up the slack the e.u. debates extra funding to fill the gap to help stop thousands of refugees from going under. and never forget german lawmakers hold a special session to honor victims of the holocaust and that survivor has strong words for those who still deny this dark chapter in german history. i'm simply so much good to have you with us president donald trump has called on the country to unite behind him to create a new american moment during his first state of the union address trump also challenged lawmakers to support his plans for renewing the country's aging infrastructure and to overcome the impasse on immigration reform here are some of

the highlights. then. not surprisingly they gave the president a hero's welcome the big question ahead of donald trump's first state of the union address with the leader of the free world adopt a more presidential term on twitter trump or teleprompter trump a lot of change he said over the last year but one refrain from his election campaign remained constant. a new tide of optimism was already sweeping across our land each day since we have gone forward with a clear vision and a righteous mission to make america great again for all americans the of there was praise for his own administration's achievements two point four million new jobs rising wages after years of stagnation more red tape cut them by

any other administration unemployment claims at a forty five year low stock market smashing one record after another this in fact is our new american moment there has never been a better time to start living the american dream and together we can achieve absolutely anything to it wasn't all upbeat a magical moment for the world to give up nuclear weapons had not yet arrived and the u.s. would exert maximum pressure in the face of north korea's nuclear provocation in one surprise trump announced the kohen tandem obey detention center would stay open he clocked in at one hour and twenty minutes one of the longest state of union addresses in recent years as long as we have confidence in our values faith in our citizens and trust in our god we will never fail.

our families will thrive. our people will prosper and our nation will forever be safe and strong and proud and mighty and tree thank you and god bless america. it was another landmark on dummy trumps extraordinary white house journey. there was swift reaction to the state of the union speech independent senator bernie sanders said it was hypocritical for a divisive president like donald trump to make an appeal for unity the american people do not want a president who is compulsively dishonest who is a bully who actively represents the interests of the billionaire class who is empire science and it was trying to the by us all based on the color of our skin

our nation of origin our religion our gender or our sexual orientation let's get some analysis on the state of the union now with renee hobbs a professor at the harrington school of communication and media at the university of rhode island she is currently a guest at the d.w. academy in upon miss hobbs thank you very much for joining us on our program first what is said i hear it thanks for joining us what stood out to you in trump speech well to me it looked like donald trump was pretending to be a statesman and the contrast between his identity as a giving his scripted performance and his tweets they gap was overwhelming right this was in a park a president that i recognized based on the last year of his presidency. now in this first year it's been a very divisive one but in think speeches like this miss hobbs we have heard donald

trump make a point of delivering a message about unity let's listen to one clip from his speech all of us together as one team one people and one american family can do anything we all share the same hall the same heart the same destiny and the same great american flag. ok so donald trump there saying we are one to team and this was part of what the white house said was a bipartisan appeal do you think it was convinced that convincing i don't think it was convincing and i think the language he used about immigration was especially. tone deaf to the true american values we are a nation of immigrants right and his depiction of immigrants as gang gang members and criminals doesn't resonate with the american people because. eighty five

percent of americans support daca and we want to make sure that as a nation of immigrants we are sensitive to their role in our lives and i didn't get a sense that his four pillars of moving forward on immigration is going to do any have any any meaningful bipartisan support but he is speaking for some of the american people those indeed who still support him. perhaps i think if you don't watch the news and if you aren't participating in media culture fist the only time you've ever seen donald trump grabs you by the idea that he's a statesman but most of us are processing last night's speech in relation to how we've experienced him over the last year right and that's of course this this was

quite a performance but it looked like a scripted performance it looked like he was giving a republican. speech and it didn't look at all like the president we know so was the state of the union speech different from others we've seen in the past. well it had many of the familiar trademarks of a state of the union speech where he trot out various representative people the one that was most grating to me was the. the issue of the opioid epidemic you know last year sixty thousand people died of accidental drug overdose and his choice spokes person seem particularly tone deaf deaf to the many of us who have lost family and relatives in the opioid epidemic instead of choosing up the parents a mother or father of

a victim and instead chose to turn it into an adoption story. all right over in a hobbs a professor at the harrington school of communication and media at the university of rhode island thank you very much for joining us on a program my pleasure. now to some other stories making news around the world britain's prime minister theresa may has met with senior officials in china and she's there for a three day visit may's office said she's traveling with the largest business delegation britain has ever taken overseas china is key to british hopes of forging new trade deals around the world effort leaves the e.u. . the office of australian prime minister malcolm turnbull is called an urgent investigation after hundreds of top secret government documents were sold in a secondhand store the files were found locked inside filing cabinets that were sold as x. government furniture. near record rainfall and high winds have lashed australia's north west a tropical low is brought flooding to the area around the town of brew but

forecasters say the worst of the storm is now over. it has been more than two years since a suicide bombing in the heart of istanbul killed twelve german tourists now a turkish court has sentenced three syrian nationals to life sentences for their part in the attack will go to our correspondent yulia han for more but first a look back at the devastating attack of general two thousand and sixteen. a selfie in front of the will thing fia. in memory shots next to the blue mosque the sultan ahmed district is a must see for every tourist coming to istanbul each day visitors from all around the world are crowding here and it was no different on the twelfth of january twenty sixth time. city guy teachin cousin bobo will never forget that day she was then when a suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of german tourists here in the room called them and i just stood there and

couldn't move his vision a little but the little boy learned about go to me that a lot of people started to run. police and i'm guillen says came on the for a minute i thought what should i do this in the. injured were taken to the hospital and i didn't know which nationality they were so i went to the hospital as well as i thought i might be able to help about. twelve germans were killed that generally morning the bomber died as well on the same day the turkish government set the islamic state group was behind the attack this is where the suicide bomber carried out his deadly attack two years ago in the historic hearts of istanbul right at the center of turkey's world heritage site very close to the famous blue mosque the fact that a terrorist was able to strike here shocked many and changed this city.

the most visible change police and all of the calls are now everywhere the number of security forces around major touristic sites has increased drastically. security analyst asked me a ton says the sultan at an attack was like a wake up call for turkish authorities. at the farm different to the priorities were not set properly. this was the trip that was long agenda and. turkish security forces were not. prioritizing it it has been a wake up call definitely the security forces are now. a better prioritizing be collecting better intelligence same thing much more rigorous own judge the stakes for interests tourism numbers have declined dramatically after the attack the year twenty sixteen has been

a catastrophe for istanbul's economy but now tourists are returning. from living we came to istanbul i was a little worried but there are police around so i feel safe we should worry about something that happened two years ago with a crazy guy so go where you want to go do what you want to do and don't be frightened for this mission if i didn't feel safe here i wouldn't come here in. the city gaieties in custom google is showing round a group of chinese visitors to insult announcement today. that a lot she hopes she will never have to victimise an attack again and wants to show tourists her city helped them find the best spots for the beautiful memories shot. that report from our turkey correspondent yulia han and she joins us from istanbul for more on the story hi yulia we heard that a turkish court has sentenced three people to life in jail over this attack in two thousand and sixteen but a number of others were acquitted what was the court's the reasoning for its ruling

today. well first of all this is probably an important day for the victims' families since they have been waiting for word ached for more than two years now today three syrian nationals were sentenced to a lifetime in prison for having helped the suicide bomber carry out his deadly attack for example logistically getting him and the bomb from syria to the turkish southeast and then all the way to istanbul but yes as you rightly mentioned there were when you. go home and most of them were acquitted today due to a lack of evidence that's what we hear from the court others were not even detained in the first place one major suspect for example was reportedly able to escape to iraq and the turkish government while the turkish government was very quick back down to blame this attack on the so-called islamic state group the group itself has never officially claimed this attack so there are many open questions and i am

afraid they will remain open questions even after today one of those questions really is what was to blame was a poor security. well that's what some experts here say i mean this was an attack in a series of attacks here in turkey since mitt twenty fifteen but this one really hit the touristic heart of istanbul and it killed many foreigners. well since the war in syria started in twenty eleven and the islamic state group was growing more powerful many have accused the turkish government off turning a blind eye to this specific terrorism threats not controlling the borders enough some even say the government actively supported islamist isis affiliated groups inside syria of course denies such claims but yes many experts here say this this threat was not speaking taken seriously enough and you'll hear just briefly if you

can we saw in your report you know images of more police but how how security in istanbul changed since then. yes well now you see much more police military around major touristic sites in malls in the metro because that attack really was a blast to not only the tourism industry here but many locals were also shocked and terrified off towards but of course the fact that you would see more security around doesn't necessarily mean that the threat level has changed or the threat is not there anymore w.'s yulia reporting from istanbul you are going to talk to you. you foreign ministers are holding talks today on whether to provide emergency funding to palestinian refugees this comes after u.s. president trump drastically cut financial aid to them now some five million people are urgently in need of support and the u.n. agency responsible for them says it is running out of money let's take

a closer look at what the agency for palestinian refugees is doing the united nations relief and works agency has provided essential aid for palestinian refugees and their descendants first seven decades many of them were displaced during the arab israeli war in one thousand nine hundred forty eight and the six day war in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven today more than five million palestinians are registered in camps in jordan syria lebanon the occupied west bank and the gaza strip donations from u.n. member states make up nearly all of the agency's budget of over one billion dollars the united states gave three hundred sixty four million u.s. dollars in two thousand and seventeen four hundred forty one million dollars came from the e.u. and its member states. earlier this month the u.s. froze some sixty five million dollars of its aid for the un refugee agency during the world economic forum in davos president trump threatened to cut off u.s.

aid to the palestinians altogether unless they resume peace talks with israel the cut in funds could hit the most vulnerable palestinians across the region the un r w a provides them with basic care education health social services and food distribution emergency aid also supports palestinian refugees in war torn syria and in gaza the cut comes at a critical time for the organization and it's now urgently looking for a way to make up the shortfall. to sustain it by force and brussels covering the e.u. foreign ministers talks hikari any outcome so far on this financial crisis a foreign policy chief federico more greenies will be made right at the beginning of this extraordinary session an announcement that raised a couple of eyebrows let's hear what she had to say and i'm glad today to announce that we have just adopted

a new package of forty two point five million euros including activities in east jerusalem and support to the building of a democratic and accountable palestinian state. now this upfront announcement of an aid package gives you a feeling for how important the u. takes this financial crisis but i checked with the un agency and they make clear to me that this is not money going into their budget instead what they have received so far is promises that they will receive early payments of the usual money they will receive anyways and for instance germany and norway have paid their annual contributions in advance right so have there been any common e.u. reactions on washington's decision to withhold aid. federico. was not tight lipped today regarding the u.s. she urged the united states to not to go it alone to seek a multilateral approach otherwise this could end up in failure and clearly this is

like a mantra for the e.u. use its key objective is to reach a two state solution jerusalem being the capital off both palestine and israel and to achieve that it is key frederica maurine made clear that this u.n. agency receives money that helps the people on the ground and if that help is reduced clearly that is counterproductive from the european perspective we saw in our report that the amount that the u.s. contributes is a big chunk of money what happens if that is not replaced it's a recipe for catastrophe and that is how the head of that u.n. agency put it he said this could lead to rising instability and basically saying look what this this money provides health care for three million people if it keeps the children thousand hundreds of thousand children in school if this money does not flow the entire gaza strip is on the verge of collapse did have you scared much less reporting for us from brussels i thank you garrick

you're watching d.w. news still to come a one of a kind chalo makes its debut we'll tell you why it's cool tunes are melting hearts across italy. but first business with ben and enjoyment giant that's not doing all that well right now no it's caustic that siemens key industrial power business is really sputtering along at the moment it's other segments of making up for the losses thanks to a global upturn but that's not stopping the german firm from slashing jobs worldwide c.e.o. showcase there is much to do to future proof this industrial giant now that's not busy protesters because while winding back some operations in germany is even says i'm banking on you ventures in the united states the demonstrators going to huge lengths to make their voices heard. workers from the eastern german town of gurlitz cycled hundreds of kilometers to the annual shareholders meeting in munich there

determined to fight back against plans to cut their jobs. fighting for our future and as long as we continue to do so and see a chance we're going to keep going. seaman c.e.o. joe kayser pointed to market trends in his defense of the cuts. the declining market for fossil fuels is not temporary it reflects the expectation of a dramatic development which we can and must address with structural measures. siemens is planning to shed a total of seven thousand jobs worldwide mainly at its power and gas division half of those cuts are said to be in germany. for the workers affected it's a bitter pill to swallow especially at a time when siemens is posting solid proffers overall. well there what are the protests is even headquarters in munich also outside the frankfurt stock exchange

joins us from there one of demonstrators been telling you daniel. yeah exactly you know it is planning to cut many jobs we're hearing up to three thousand here in germany a different location also here in the state of hessen where the frankfurt stock exchange is located and there are also very frustrated because they were telling me that siemens in the past used to be a company where they were really proud of their employees one woman was telling me a little bit earlier we were the ones that were making is even so strong now they don't care any more about us and i have to be scared to lose my job they also told me that the climate inside of the company has been very bad already for quite some time and there could be other jobs they could be doing for the company and they don't understand that yeah they might really lose their job at the end and when it

comes to forecasts it's quite cautious why when we've got so many economies on around the world so many of its markets actually recover it. yeah exactly that's very interesting. saying that there is lots of uncertainty when you for example talk about the political situation with also a president in the united states donald trump who is very unpredictable just last night he was making again very strong comments towards north korea then on the other hand the company is also really struggling with a very strong europe that we are seeing the marines as a company that is heavily depending also on the export business so they have two options in order to pretty much keep the business still running on the one hand they can make their products more expensive that at the end maybe could make investors not being any more interested in they keep it at the same level but then

their profit margin is going down so yeah lots of decision that siemens will have to do in this year very tricky business busy for us in frankfurt. twenty seventeen was the best year for german retailers since official records began the statistics office says an expanding economy and growing online business so retail sales surged by over four percent but it wasn't all good news to send but turnover fell almost two percent compared to the same month in twenty six days analysts say that could be because there were fewer shopping days internet sales were also slightly down. i think back to a one of a kind so you saw this kind of i think you may see a one of a kind challenge one of the concho thank you for the company. or this is a child that was sculpted from ice on top of a nearby glacier it's made its debut at a concert in northern italy its beauty and fragility are part of its sound and its origins are high in the alps. this is how ice can sound when you give

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part in the attack. and a special session today the german bundestag poss to honor the victims of the holocaust the ceremony was led by the parliament's president. and german president . its key moments was an address by. one of the last known surviving members of the women's organization that's the orchestra perform for high level officials they also played at the concentration camp gates for prisoners as they went in and out for work. and we have our political correspondent with us here in studio to talk more about this simon what did you make of the speeches that we saw today in the stock was that these were both strong and affecting speeches you're both. calling for society to be society to be attentive to the problem of exclusion as you called it you know the tendency to shut people out because they're somehow different and he linked that to hate speech in

particular and those sort of. vicious attacks that you see on the internet nowadays not just the semitic ones by the way but also. muslim ones he said there's an increasing tendency for people to be attacked just because they look different than almost every day you know not just on the internet but in real life attacks are happening like that it's unacceptable. anita fish a very very moving speech and i thought her objective and sort of straight way of telling her story without pay thoughts was more affecting actually than it would otherwise have been you know she she talked about her luck as she put it which was to be arrested by the nazis as a criminal rather than a jew because she had been falsifying documents and that was why she was picked up by view authorities as a result she was given a trial and that meant that although she eventually came to us that she came in

a different way was treated slightly differently and of course she also had the luck to to refight her sister there who was in the german parliament today listening to her telling that story both of them alternately survived a very moving story and she said at the end you know she never has regretted or doesn't now regret her decision to come back to germany for many years she didn't she returned to germany but she now comes back to talk to school children and young people telling them her story and i think as she did today affecting each of her listeners with just the reality of the unimaginable horror of the holocaust and simon she also spoke about how germany has changed since the holocaust about how she is not a regretted coming back as you said out let's listen to what she had to say. now that. after the catastrophe germany behaved in an exemplary manner no one lied about the holocaust anti-semitism was no longer in vogue. now times

have changed the world is full of refugees. back then the borders were hermetically sealed and not open as they are today thanks to the unbelievably generous courageous and humane gesture that with made here. so simon how does the responsibility for the holocaust is just part of the collective conscious of this country how does that play into german politics today well of course the holocaust as as a fact is this is the sort of central fact of german history from many people's point of view and i think it sort of stands alone i personally i would resist the tendency to say that it's affecting the way that politics works but of course what we have seen is the rise of the far right in particular this alternative for germany a.f.d. party which now sits for the first time in the parliament and they have come to

prominence it's fair to say have been fishing on the on the far right with utterances from some of their people not all of that has to be said but some of them who said things like you know the culture of memory in this country needs to have one hundred eighty degree degree reversal one of their people said that the holocaust memorial here in berlin was a monument of shame and he meant that he was more ashamed of the monument than of the holocaust itself so some pretty shocking things which have been criticized from other people in the party so you're seeing you're seeing a change perhaps in the way people have talked about the holocaust in recent years and in the context of rising anti semitism in germany the mainstream of politicians are saying you know we must remember the lesson of his. three this rising anti-semitism that you just mentioned how big of a problem is it today in germany well i think it's a serious and rising problem anglo-american said that just the other day she finds

it incredible that you know in this day and age no jewish institution in germany even schools even kindergartens they all have to have police station downside that hurries on imaginable the government did a survey of just a couple of months ago i can give you some figures from that i think quite interesting eight percent of germans say that jews have too much influence in the world well that's a small but significant number twenty six percent say the jews seek to derive some advantage from the holocaust and the history and forty percent say that israeli policies lead to negative attitudes to judaism so you can see there is a basis for anti semitism i mean there's a core of anti-semitism that has not yet been eradicated there are attacks on rabbis in broad daylight around germany every year there are often attacks against synagogues and jewish cemeteries so it is a problem and some say many say it's a growing problem all right our political correspondent simon young with us here in

studio thank you simon. in football news i've been to see a club or see a dortmund have agreed to sell star striker pierre emerick obama on top arsenal of the english premier league for a reported sixty four million euros make up on international is not a twenty one goals in twenty four games this season for dark meant with his natural born instinct in front of goal and a flamboyant character obama young was one of the bundesliga us true superstars. pierre emerick obama young made an instant impact when he signed for dortmund twenty third team an impressive couple of seasons at french side sign a t.n. had brought him to the attention of the german club. the striker quickly became a central cog in the dortmund attack with his speed and touch making scoring look easy. came the ball in this league is top goal scorer in the two thousand and

sixteen two thousand and seventeen season. but it wasn't just his performances on the pitch that made headlines. international has never been far from controversy. known for his flamboyant style and free spirit making trips abroad without permission on more than one occasion. or donning a mosque as part of a marketing guy obama young alston landed himself in hot water with club bosses but the spices sometimes questionable behavior managed to silence his critics on the playing field with his leadership and hunger for gold in the current campaign dortmund haven't managed to win a match without him and his departure is sure to leave a gaping hole in the squad but pastures new await the twenty eight year old after years of speculation that he would be leaving dortmund the inevitable has happened and arsenal have lord the star to london. a new beginning awaits one of the world's

top striker. we have only were talking here from didn't have a use for its highly mobile heard there this is been years in the making but this is also one of the been as it is biggest stars was it the right moves i see at the end it was i mean well in one way obviously if you use a strike of his quality to always going to be of no it doesn't matter what your team is but you know this is a player who has mesmerized the bundesliga for the past five years he's scored one hundred forty one goals in over two hundred games so yes that will be a big miss but it is a positive because if he's estimated to be on sixty four million euros that's obviously money that dortmund can use to invest in the youth in other players so but for all the fear that my own brought to the pitch we also know that he is a character so we're going to miss him as a goal threat in front of goal and front of net but i don't think anybody's going to miss the shenanigans that he had off the pitch so tell me about the shenanigans

he is a character does that mean he's a better fit for the premier league. honestly speaking like this fight the shenanigans on the on unlike off the pitch obama young he's one of those players that he would be a great fit in any leaks so you know he has pace he has amazing exceptional finishing ability and he's full of confidence and the premier league let's also not forget that this is a leak that types in itself in saying that you know what we're the most exciting and into taining leak and that's exactly what you're going to get in over my. and you're going to get a big a big personality and let's not forget that obama young will also be joining tatty and one of his former teammates a daughter meant so i think if you an os not a fan of course you want to see how those two are going to link up all the likes of obama young and old so what about for dortmund who's going to help fire them into the champions league very good questions we've seen photos of chelsea striker. back . undergoing a medical issue indoor mind but there's been no official confirmation yet the reports are saying that this will be alone until the end of the season and that day

is not going to be a by option at the end so perhaps it looks like thought might have other plans but let's talk a little bit about this man's abilities so he's a twenty four year old belgian striker he's physical he has pace but at chelsea is not really the right fit at the moment he wasn't really favored under contests and there is really a lot of playing time so if you ask me i'm going to give you an honest answer he has a lot of potential but obviously he is a downgrade to open my young all right we'll have to see where things go for dortmund from here doc you for being obvious for thank you lima. british prime minister it's reason may is in china hashing out new trade arrangements for troops part of efforts to bolster the british economy for when it leaves the european union joining major in her meeting with chinese premier league chang fifty british business leaders the nation's exports to china have grown sixty percent since two thousand and ten and china is now one of the biggest foreign

investors in britain may is keen to keep up that momentum after briggs it. another new low just five point four percent of workers were jobless in germany this month officials say the labor market has entered the new year with a lot of momentum but how much longer for with the rise of the robots. intelligent machines such as this one can already do a lot like here a technology bosh where they play a key role in production there are kind of specialized skilled workers so to speak although someone has to keep an eye on them but nowadays it's the machines doing the dirty work. fourteen percent of workers in industry are afraid that their jobs will be replaced by automation according to the institute for the future this concern is especially prevalent among information and communication technology workers at seventeen point two percent in the finance and insurance sector that

number is thirteen percent however in education and other social fields it's only seven point seven percent. that's not surprising because empathy and social skills are difficult to program it's unlikely robots will be looking after toddlers any time soon there are some things they simply can't do at least not yet . the world's biggest toy fair takes place in europe. it started back in nineteen fifty since then it's become a platform for the latest trends in kids' toys all around the world back then hula hoops the visitors then electric train sets now high tech is taking over here at the top trends. robots are gradually rolling their way into kids' rooms new technology is the norm for today's children and it's becoming an increasingly important feature of how they play the little machines can even be

programmed instead using apps it's the adult world in miniature. even traditional toys are getting a high tech make over like diggers for the sand pits and even board games where you a smartphone or tablet instructs each special agent what to do next or skew towards why is a day there are two worlds classical toys and electronic toys they're developing side by side and as they do they're creating new possibilities for toys all of which is bringing exciting changes here to mrs server because i think gaming generation has long enjoyed bringing a virtual edge to real world fun like teaming up to play laser tag and linking up to sixteen players with smart phones and wife try. but there comes a point where kids just need to get moving no matter how old school that might be. bold brash and brilliant this summer not talking about me ben we're talking about

china versus actually of course the opulent collections on the supermodels who wore them made his label world famous now the largest ever retrospective on restock his work has opened in berlin just over twenty years after the designer was shot dead in front of his florida home a tragic end for a man revered as a fashion god. mesmerizes even today decades on. it represents beauty eternal youth and a life lived in the spotlight. gianni versace created these pieces. they were later collected by his devoted alexandra's the funny. this shark was the first my first but it was so freaking expensive one fifth i was living in france and i got it like

fifteen years after that and i was like a dream that came true. steffanie is one of five such a collectors who are exhibiting at the berlin show. hundreds of colorful and extravagant works are on display. i think that this is advantage here now or that i don't i don't afraid to pretend but i like i will have at it if i was very fun it was funny it was fun for enjoy i don't be afraid of being sexy. jennifer as such it was shy not garish or outgoing he wanted all eyes to be on his fashion. his creations took on a life of their own on the catwalks they became synonymous with the area's top supermodels like cloudier shifa campbell. linda evangelist.

and carla bruni. they helped make a worldwide sensation long before the emergence of social media. even without instagram he very quickly found the following. influence he was hugely influential because he broke the boundaries of the tally in fashion. in the. aged fifty his life was violently ended she was shot outside his miami home in one thousand nine hundred seven the berlin retrospective ends in that moment it's a showcase of his creativity which was so abruptly snuffed out gianni versace is fashioned tells a story a dramatic tale that's lost none of its allure perhaps because the best. she was a man before his time. and. now every year two cities in europe are designated as european capitals of

culture so last week we talked about the capital today we are putting the dutch city of in the spotlight the city with its one hundred eight thousand inhabitants is looking forward to a year of cultural events discussion and debates and our culture editor karen help that is here with us to talk more about it karen why this designation from the ok so this started back in one thousand nine hundred five when the ministers of culture from greece and france came up with the idea to sort of you know bring europeans closer together to have them open up their cultures views of you one another and essentially just sort of celebrate the richness and the diversity of the continent started in africa is actually had the honor east and west back in one thousand nine hundred eight and they started out with larger cities at first but then they started to diversify to include smaller communities and now it's pretty much it's always at least two cities a year so tell us more about li of arden ok so a little farm is the capital of the northwestern province of peace lands in the netherlands and that province also gets billing with this cultural capital title and includes

a number of the west friesian islands so they're putting the accent on idiosyncrasy for this year due to their what they see as their special position with within the netherlands because they kept their own language when they joined the kingdom back in the one nine hundred sent in the early nineteenth century so they speak dutch and western it's a former royal residence a very picturesque and with an interest for its center similar to amsterdam with all the canals for those who don't know itself they might be familiar with some of the. daughters so let's have a quick look at the town and see how they're celebrating. yes that europe's new culture capital launched its official opening with music fanfare and a spectacular light show. this year woden's motto for the year is leaping minsky meaning open community. feeling of being connected connected with other people of us other parts of europe because you see

also some doors are closing and some countries are closing and i just hope that they realize well today as an aid and we need to work together listen to each other and not to be afraid of. the picturesque town also known as little lambs to dam has big plans for itchy as culture capital what we want to discuss with the rest of europe is all common problems that we have in europe about biodiversity climate change their poverty unemployment. multi-language. over three hundred events. and the surrounding area. arts and culture is the backbone of society and we're showing that by the people through the people. leo martin is celebrating its most famous citizen masha hari big saucy dancer style icon cortisone and spy was born in a friesian town in eight hundred seventy six the daughter of a hat maker. everybody knows the name of the harry thought never knew she was

also a child growing openly were then had to cope with a deforest after her marriage she was a mother and we tried to explain that story all. the exhibition matter how our remit from the made in branson till april famous starch artist mc escher is also from leo the museum of present will showcase eschews journey a large scale exhibition of his work the all inspiring giants of reality laughs will be parading through the culture cap. streets come august with hundreds of events planned. special. the twenty. you know syria one of the other things famous things that i want to tell you about is the legendary ice skating right race called the stage. that's called the eleven cities tour and it starts and ends in the dates back to the beginning of the

twentieth century but what's interesting so typically thousands of skaters will get together when the canals are frozen and they skate a two hundred kilometers circular route we can maybe have some pictures here all in the space of one day in the tour goes past all eleven historic cities in this land but seeing as the weather of course you know doesn't always play along it's actually only happened fifteen times since one thousand and nine which is really interesting of the last time it happened was brace yourself twenty one years ago and so the reason for that is that the ice has to reach a fickle state to take all those people i mean it's going to be supporting up to sixteen seventeen thousand people it needs to reach the fifteen centimeters minimum and it has to be literally uniform along entire canal system so obviously in times of global warming that is happening very often anymore so the dutch who are in love with outdoor skating obviously if you've ever read brinker i don't know but they've

been waiting fervently for for over two decades now and. hopes are pretty slim again this year obviously with the kind of winter we're having but you know another that's another reason also has a very ambitious sustainability agenda. for instance made the goal to become the european capital for water technology so there's there's always a lot going on over there well it is an honor to be selected as european capital of culture so for their garden a big deal but what kind of lasting effect does this have for the cities that are selected some towns and cities where the years especially with the focus on smaller communities have really managed to sort of brush up their image and. put themselves on the map so to speak just to just to you know kind of catch the attention of tourists who are coming to the region that might have overlooked them definitely one of the positive most positive examples from glasgow in scotland back in i think it was one nine hundred ninety and that that really sort of brushed up the image of an industrial city in two thousand and sixteen you might remember we talked about in poland where people literally just flocked to and that was interesting because

first of all economically it's great for tourism but it was also also a really good chance for that city to to put kind of european openness and diversity on its agenda in the face of an increasingly populist political movement and climate in poland so i think that was that was really important votes they did what they did a lot of work there so i have to ask have you been i actually have not been to i love i love the netherlands but i have been to the letter which is this year's other cultural capital and that is definitely worth a trip on my list european capitals of culture that are worth visiting karen that our culture editor thank you very much for bringing us that story. right for all the stargazers out there the moon is putting out a rare celestial light show for some lucky today and for the first time in decades a blue moon has coincided with a blood and a super moon during a lunar eclipse resulting in. blue blood moon the u.s.

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