this is t w news coming to you live from berlin german government computer networks come under attack by hackers cyber criminals from russia are alleged to have stolen data from both the defense and foreign ministries the hackers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the twenty sixteen u.s. election. also coming up the international olympic committee that lifts its doping ban on russia for the rest of the country's athletes of the show in china winter olympics test negative so does this draw

a line under moscow's massive state run doping scandal. and staying out in the cold to our mosco correspondent travels through the year olds to get some information about the russian mercenaries fighting in syria we'll find out why few people in this town are willing to tell. us the afghan president appeals to the taliban to m. sixteen years of civil war by entering peace talks could this be a turning point in the conflict. and the silence revolution is a film set in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. germany that tells the story of school kids and their silent protest that led to unexpected consequences robin merrill from our culture desk join me for more on that. hello i'm terry martin thanks. joining us. packing group has infiltrated germany's

foreign to and defense ministries and may have stolen sensitive data sources say a hacking group with alleged links to the russian government broke into the government network here in germany it tax were apparently discovered in december but were only made public today philip for more all of it the german government has confirmed that an attack took place that the federal i.t. system has been attacked but the d.p.a. news agency goes further it quotes unnamed sources who say that the german foreign ministry in the ministry of defense have been targeted what sort of attacks are we talking about here that's right the german interior ministry just confirmed these attacks that were carried out by the way during the whole year or maybe even a year ago they were just. discovered in december and published only today by the german news agency that you just quoted it's unclear helping the damage

really is the fear is of course that certain networks off the government are infiltrated here what we do know is that malware was uploaded to the government servers here of the interior ministry and probably all the foreign ministry as well and that data will stolen now the d.p.a. story suggests that a group calling itself the a p t twenty eight was behind the attack what can you tell us about this group. well the so-called a.p.t groups are among the most powerful hacker groups worldwide and security experts believe that there are around one hundred fifty of these groups operating on a very highly professional level they're very well equipped with time money and know how personnel as well and for that very reason experts believe that they're either run by state actors or at least supported by them simply because otherwise they would not be able to to operate on such a professional level now with

a p t twenty eight the hacker group that is held accountable for this recent attack in particular this group is also known as fancied the air and that my during a bell to many people because they're also held accountable for an attack on the server of the us democratic party in the run up to the two thousand and sixteen election and the german government also holds them accountable for an attack on the servers of the german bunds talk so it might be russia being behind these attacks what can you tell us about the data or the systems that have back surely been compromised here how dangerous do you think this attack one of them. well if the if if that if that happens what security experts are fearing right now that it might be the case that many that the whole network of the government basically is infiltrated this is the biggest fear of course in that case that would involve the

german chancellor rhee the different ministries the german parliament the bundestag and although all forty's and of course as you can imagine there is some very sensitive information on these servers but this is to be examined right now all over thank you very much political correspondent. now the international olympic committee has confirmed that russia's olympic ban has been lifted with quote immediate effect despite to russia failing doping tests the pill in china winter olympics the country was reinstated after all remaining tests came back negative. they competed as neutrals the welcomes back is russians now the country's elim peak reinstatement means the russian flag absent from pyong chance to fly again she gains in total the ban lost in less than three months the i.o.c. is moved and surprisingly welcomed by russia's and pick committee. none the less

than yours to share with that issue today's decision of the i.o.c. is one of the most important for us because the russian olympic committee is once again completely reinstated in its rights and is now a completely full fledged member of the olympic family. the speech before it was revelations from this man gregory rowe chen calls that it helped lead to the ban the former moscow director of the whistle on a state backed plot to cheat doping tests at the twenty fourteen sochi games as a result green athletes from russia were only allowed to take part in pyongyang under the olympic flag the red white and blue kept firmly out of sight. and to though two of them including alexander crucial mid-scale failed drug tests while in south korea the i.o.c. agreed on sunday to lift a ban if no where the athletes tested positive they didn't and russia's reinstatement was completed. well for more on this development let's bring in

jonathan crane from d.w. sports hey jonathan does this decision come as a surprise to be honest terry not really i think when the i.o.c. decided on sunday that it wasn't going to lift the ban for now to have russian athletes marching on their own flag at the closing ceremony it was always going to be a temporary thing because they did say that if they were not for the drug tests failed strike test then russia would be reinstated and i think they would have reinstated russia for the closing ceremony if it hadn't been for the two failed contests that you mentioned there a cutter and a bobsled because ever since the i.o.c. decided in december that they would allow one hundred sixty eight russian athletes to compete as neutrals. from the pics it's always kind of already paved the way for this decision to bring russia back in from colds ok so you've got a bunch of russian athletes competing in pilling chang and they're apparently cleaning is that really enough for the international olympic committee to say ok russia doesn't have

a state sponsored doping program anymore from the outset the i.c. has tried to balance punishing an entire country russia with allowing clean athletes to participate and that was really at the heart of that decision for the i.c. in december but you have to remember that this state sponsored. scandal revelations about that have been dragging on for years it overshadowed the build up to the reality is it overshadowed the build up to p.r. machine we had three investigations two thousand wada one from the i.o.c. into state sponsored and it was only when we had the mclaren report the second while the investigations aided by the whistleblower grigory were chunk of the really revealed the scale of it all thirty sports one thousand athletes apparently involved in this program we had about holes in the wallet pools being swept clean ones and see one's really really big program and undermines the i.c. said the integrity of the sports ok but they have now said that the ban is lifted. what's been the reaction so far the reaction is still filtering through in fact

when we spoke to the i.c. trying to get this. they still couldn't really confirm it they weren't in a position to confirm it immediately it was russia there was saying the ban has now been lifted i think a lot of people are going to be unhappy about this a lot of advocates for clean sport because they will say well for starters russia should have been allowed to complete out the winter olympics they should've been a blanket ban and the speed at which this is happening russia has been brought back in from the cold far too quickly for that the russians are concerned i mean they've welcomed the decision today we've had an immediate reaction from them they felt hard done by from the from the very stuff and as far as what happens next terry the winter olympics the para winter olympics take place in march on the international parity paralympic committee has this ban on russian athletes only have about thirty thirty five competing as neutrals if you get the idea that the athletics federation also still has a ban on russia so russian athletes won't be competing in the indoor championships

in birmingham next month what happens next all depends on what russia does next whether they actually accept state sponsored involvement in this program because until now they've just blamed a few individuals that's the crucial question for them now very interesting jonathan crane from v.w. sports thanks. now some other stories making headlines around the world today at least ten people have been killed in sectarian violence in northern nigeria locals have reportedly fled a conflict between christian farmers and muslim herders the army says its soldiers killed ten herdsman who were responsible for an attack on a village on tuesday. tokyo has unveiled two official mascots for the twenty twenty summer olympic games elementary school students from across the country voted to select the winning designs illustrator rio taniguchi crafted the figures in tokyo organizers praised the designs as cutting edge while reflecting japanese tradition. now the syrian government has stepped up its airstrikes on the

rebel held enclave in eastern guta after the ending of temporary truce at least six hundred people are feared to have been killed there in the last week including many children earlier russian president vladimir putin said his troops had managed to evacuate some civilians but he meant to tarry and workers say people are still too afraid to leave. the so called humanity in kota door and eastern ghouta house yet seemingly empty of actual humans to stand ready to cheat the wounded and provisions that aid stations are apparently plentiful. those who want to leave can do so after a month for twenty days or they can stay even for two years because there is a school and everything they need is here to get new supplies every sixty days. but people seem too scared to risk the journey airstrikes were reported during the first five hour ceasefire and observers say that syrian government warplanes

resumed their bombing almost as soon as it ended but russian president vladimir putin claims that one group did make it through. we have managed to get out quite a big group of those who wanted to leave from there but the second group that was prepared could not leave because the militants just did not give them an opportunity to do that. putin's face haunts these ghostly aid stations he blamed rebel groups on the groan for not respecting the ceasefire but france today said that the syrian government was to blame. the syrian regime didn't feel worried about it and moreover is continuing to reach and large scale military operations with dramatic consequences on the three billion population. needless to say in complete violation of resolution twenty one. the un has been in talks with russia aimed that's accelerating and heedless to the resolution on all sides perhaps then some of the people whose lives have been shattered by the conflict and start to

stream than these empty roads to get the aid they so desperately need. at the end of last year russian president vladimir putin announced that he would start withdrawing troops from syria while russian airstrikes like those from the air base in the country's north played a major role in turning the tide in favor of bashar al assad's government forces the total number of russian troops who have served in syria remains unclear but in december russia's defense minister said that forty eight thousand soldiers had gained combat experience there since the beginning of the mission now the total number of russians who've fought in syria could be much higher because russian mercenaries are thought to be fighting alongside pro syrian forces our correspondent emily short when traveled to a small town in the year olds were a number of locals have joined our set of joint private military companies.

it's about as far as you can get from syria and yet here in the russian town of kid people are waiting for news about seven locals who reportedly went to fight in syria they allegedly worked as mercenaries which is illegal in russia the topic is sensitive many people here say they know nothing about the man who. in fact we are repeatedly met with rejection and kids this building is home to the mother of one of the fighters she had agreed to speak to us about her son but canceled the interview after being told her son had been killed. a local gives us the address of the wife of another mercenary when we tried to speak to her she insists she is someone else but she also warns none of us is going to talk to you. just like the relatives of the mercenaries the russian government has largely kept silent about them and even denied their existence the foreign ministry took over a week to respond after

a recent airstrike reportedly killed up to two hundred russians which. reports about the death of dozens and hundreds of russian citizens it's a classic case of dissent from ation according to preliminary data we could be talking about the death of five people presumably russian citizens as a result of an armed clash the causes of which we are currently investigating. and i see. analyst yon but i need ski thinks the russian government is using mercenary groups to keep official military losses low. which you want to look at because this strategy is beneficial for the russian government because it can show it's doing its job and it would just like the americans and the british russia can say those aren't our soldiers no soldiers have died but yet we don't know who these people are what you ask whoever sent them there are. in the run up to the presidential elections news about the death of russian soldiers is inconvenient for the

government here even from kid they're all over this small town in the year olds seven men reportedly joined a private russian military company to fight in syria the town's population is just over two thousand although no relatives wanted to talk on camera other residents were willing to speak about the man but. he was a good boy he wasn't a thug who didn't care about anything he was a good boy maybe he wanted to earn money towards an apartment there's not much work here with the. by you i think the government is behind all of this it's not like these guys just decided to go there themselves that just went someone must have sent them. but. it's not clear when and if the man in syria will return ticket they're all there for now the town and the government are both keeping their silence. well for

more on this story let's bring in alexei more of your fees what the higher school of economics in st petersburg and joins us from moscow first thanks for talking with us what can you tell us about these reports that russian mercenaries are fighting alongside regime forces in syria. well. actually russian per military groups all russian private military companies are active in syria since the the wall the the beginning of the active phase along with the russian air forces bases the right they said. this is a way to to diminish military losses and it is a worldwide practice which is hugely. used

after the big was when there a lot of man participate in big conflicts this was the case with the. american soldiers off to vietnam and russian soldiers off to afghanistan and chechnya. that have big of a quite serious military prepare a proper practice and. so they use there and that the quite a normal situation in the days was ok you say this is a normal situation and you're right of course they're worse private security companies operating in a dentist and of the united states for example but in this case who is recruiting and paying the mercenaries are these private companies or is the russian government involved. it's as if about to say because it's all covered with total silence modes.

well i guess that the the the the. the the the money come somehow from the states a botts not directly i'm not sure that the state directly pays these private companies probably they are paid by some private foundations where russian state certainly is a part of it now officially mercenary soldiers are prohibited in russia but there's talk that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov would like to see them legalized are you aware of any such plans. i don't i didn't i don't know about such really such plans while they are. officially proclaimed or announce it but to

change this you should change the constitution actually in the. a couple of laws. i think that it can be that can be done theoretically but i have never heard about practical some practical advances in this direction professor monroe feel thank you so much for talking with us that was alexei morocco there of russia's higher school of economics and he joins us from moscow. well here in germany one of the country's best known corporate entities has got some bad news have is here to tell us about it thanks very much terry it's indeed buyer the creators of aspirin that have their very own headaches right now their shares of the german life science company tumbled more than three percent after it announced disappointing financial results for twenty seventeen bear faces multiple challenges and different fronts and some of them are out of its control. if by

investors were hoping for good news on wednesday they didn't get much as if multiple delays in the approval of a sixty two billion euro tie up with monsanto weren't enough twenty seventeen's consumer drug sales were stagnant. system and consumer. we're not satisfied with the development of consumer health. on the one hand competitive forces in the usa require extra investment in our brands. and then in twenty seven teens the unusual situation in china where several over the counter drugs became prescription only products. and. bias problems are stacking up it's now willing to sell more parts of its business that's to convince authorities to wade through the purchase of months santo the u.s. food and drug administration is threatening to take buy

a product off the shelves of a quality control issues and bracks it could force pharma firms to do the splits in europe doubling up on regulatory approval on both sides of the channel. buyers executives putting on a brave face at the results press conference but perhaps they have at least one reason to be cheerful sources quoted by news agency reuters say the e.u. will soon approve the monsanto deal still analysts putting by are under the microscope expect the life science companies of the headaches of twenty seventeen to continue this year germany is about to see the first privatization of a regional bank the states of. and hamburg are selling its struggling h s h north bank to investors for around one billion euros the deal was approved today u.s. firms cerebro is and j.c. flowers will take over most of the shares age as age north bank was once a leader in shipping finance before suffering significant losses twenty sixteen the

european commission approved state aid on the condition that the bank would be sold by today. and earlier we asked our financial correspondent in frankfurt daniel called how the deal is seen in germany's financial capital well let's talk about the employees first it seems that the deal for them could have rather negative effect than a first statement the work council of ages they stated that they feel that hundreds of jobs could be on the edge but for the private investors it seems to be a very good deal during the financial crisis has a bank receive from the government so from the taxpayers basically an amount of thirteen billion euros so various n.g.c. flowers now get ninety five percent off the lender for just one billion so that sounds like a deal the president of the federal state of chile is fake hurt stein stated that for taxpayers it's a rather bad day today. there was the new pope in frankfurt i'll have more business stories later in the show back to you terry thanks avia. police in iran have

announced a broad crackdown on women who refuse to wear a headscarf in public weekly protests against a requirement wearing headscarves gained strength in recent months thanks in part to social media well joining me here to talk about all this is d w social media editor carla karp so what's behind this movement called double in iran women are required by law to follow this dress code that does include wearing a headscarf there's now this growing movement a really strong movement against those rules and this is called white wednesdays and this is a social media based movement began last summer every wednesday women in iran take to the streets there wearing white some of them even removing their head scarves in public which is against the law and then they post videos and photos the social media with that hash tag white wednesdays but as you mentioned these protests are now becoming a lot riskier just yesterday tehran's chief of police released this statement

saying that wearing a headscarf is obligatory for women in iran and violators will be dealt with strictly from now on he goes on to say it wouldn't be good if women could start doing anything they wanted in fact activists face fines and jail sentences of up to many weeks for moving there has been public there in iran so protests against wearing about the men dettori wearing of head scarves have been growing why are police cracking down no it's really interesting because back in december we heard the opposite from police there in tehran they said they wouldn't be arresting women who broke the dress codes so this seems to be changing really abruptly many people think this might be because of those anti-government protests the broad protests in iran that was on january perhaps the government now backtracking a bit perhaps more concerned with with law and order and we solve the results of. new policy just last week and how dramatic and drastic this can be this video went

viral of a young woman protester in tehran you see her there standing on top of a utility box on a busy street in tehran to watch what happened she's holding a wrist headscarf she was actually then pushed off by a police officer you'll see it right there she actually broke her leg and was later taken into custody she's still in jail so not a safe situation the iranian president has called for an inquiry into this incident around thirty women since that since december or so since they said they wouldn't arrest people who actually been detained what impact is the crackdown having all the protest movement we've seen this movement grow it's become very strong it will be difficult to stop in fact some authorities are going to some drastic kind of silly measures to try to crack down on this movement take a look at this photo of authorities and what they're trying to do with these utility boxes they're welding on this triangular shape on top to try to keep people from standing there that's how far they're going but look this is a growing movement as we mentioned in fact take

a look at this men now getting into the act as well alongside women with that same pose holding out the head scarf standing on top of a utility box this was in tehran and even internationally as well we can show you an image from the city center in amsterdam another iranian man joining in these protests so shocking that it's not just a woman's issue you know this this protest really began more privately women taking off their head scarves in public but really not in a place with many people we're seeing just now very emboldened women on a busy streets removing their headscarf so we'll see if this fraud or crackdown has any effect on the way this movement has been shaping up karl thank you so much for our social media task. you're watching d.w. news still to come. the afghan president uphills to the tell about sixteen years of civil war by entering peace talks could this be a turning point in the conflict. and thousands of fans say farewell to the bollywood actress should there be who died this week at age fifty four.

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tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance. this city's war starting march tenth d.w. . welcome back. you're watching news our top stories. foreign and defense ministries in stolen data. allege. to the russian group accused of attacking the democratic national committee ahead of the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen. the international olympic committee the i.o.c. has reinstated russia's olympic membership the move comes after the remaining tests of the country's. winter olympics turned up negative russia had its membership suspended for evidence of mercy of a huge state run though being scandalous. afghan president.

has offered peace talks to the taliban during a conference aimed at bringing stability to the region it's part of his attempts to end an insurgency that began after the u.s. led the taliban in two thousand and one though the taliban are not taking part in today's conference on the offer the militant group the possibility of political recognition if it did his peace offer and afghan constitution president also reached out to neighboring pakistan which has been accused of providing a safe haven for taliban militants. although reports that pakistani officials are preparing the forced return of millions of afghans who have sought refuge there some have lived in pakistan all of their lives. sent us this exclusive report. shavar pakistan more than a million of hundred fiji's have crowded into the city close to the afghan border

many of them have fled the war plaguing the country for decades. is one of them he was born in pakistan and has lived in this camp his whole life he's university educated and used to work as a teacher last five children are all in school being forced to leave is the last thing he wants what he says i'm up to my parents and grandparents are buried here and i can visit their graves whenever i want to. my friends from school and university are all here my life is here and i wonder how can i just leave everything in a few months if the government just allowed us to stay to continue our jobs we could live in peace there are nearly one and a half million registered afghan refugees in pakistan and many more living here illegally. all of them have been told they have to leave the country by march thirty first previously the government had assured their legal status for at least a year this most recent that line has come amid increasingly hostile relations

between kabul and islamabad pakistan says the presence of under fiji's is not only a drain on resources but is also a way for terrorists to infiltrate the country from across the border there of farms who are living as aliens here in oregon to about thirty percent of them going to the cops seventy percent of the outside that live in suburbs of bridges cities adult ships with guns will become is a tool which we should be able to check as to who is who owns them and the aliens they have no statistical fistula behind so we will start over the numbers of the late point four million right when pushed about whatever method could we use we would lose that i've learned fund has recently seen a wave of deadly attacks even c.-span for the safety of those who returned u.n. officials also say the repatriation of so many refugees is an unrealistic toss to undertake by this latest deadline they're hoping talks with the government may help them buy time any large scale returns from pakistan. will have significant military

impact. here are challenges. in some places there are a lot of situation reaches more satisfactorily than there are issues like education and livelihood challenges in afghanistan and so these are the challenges. which needs to be address and the international community should try targeted development assistance you know one side. some political commentators suggest that holding the fate of refugees in the balance is one of pakistan's bargaining chips when dealing with diplomatic pressure and while many refugees like nuts are now fear they are being used as political pawns they have no choice but to accept their life in limbo as another deadline ticks down. europe is currently in the grip of a big freeze and around twenty seven people are thought to have died so far

a cold front dubbed the beast from the east is sweeping across the continent from siberia one of the worst affected countries is croatia were almost two meters of snow has fallen in some areas even in spain thirty eight provinces are affected the canary islands off the northwest coast of africa are being lashed by strong winds and in britain hundreds of trains have been cancelled and many schools closed in ireland which doesn't often see so much the panic buying of bread has left supermarket shelves empty. like the rest of europe germany is being hit by a flu epidemic authorities have registered more than one hundred twenty thousand cases and more than two hundred people have died so far this winter doctors here in berlin say they're dealing with three times as the number of patients usually affected this time of year they wus linda few reports from the front line. it's

crowded in dr frank practice these days many turn up suspecting the flu he has to take a swap to confirm it but says he's learned to recognise few patients by sight. there are lots of them the odds he comes on suddenly from one day to the next with contacts they suddenly. a fever fly zone and people's temperature shoots up as high as forty degrees in patients of headaches and joint amounts of close little doubt now there is about what the diagnosis was height fast. this year the flu has been hitting people in the prime of their life aged thirty five to sixty and there are nearly three times as many people visiting the doctor as in a normal winter. scientists say germany is facing a few epidemic they have been running the numbers on how many people are suffering from the flu and how many dying from it two hundred sixteen have perished so far

they see you as are more hands on you have a chronic illness if you are only pregnant or haven't had your flu shot kind you need to be concerned you should still think about getting vaccinated tonight it will take two weeks to build up the meanest but it's worth it this flu season and in the next two weeks. of whom. there's been more than one hundred twenty thousand flu cases in germany this winter and experts say the epidemic might continue through to april. two officials close to slovakia's prime minister have resigned they were linked to organized crime in a report by the investigative journalist young who was found dead over the weekend a news website founded by published his unfinished final story today it investigates ties between an alleged italian mafia group operating in slovakia and

the two top officials they are a former model who was appointed chief state adviser at the government office and the secretary of slovakia security council the to deny any links to the killings for for more now we're joined from slovakia's couple process. she's the editor in chief of the country's biggest daily newspaper smear spargo why exactly have these officials resigned. they resigned due to a story that the other media published after the death of mr sack and we felt that this way we can complete his or her and there was in most public pressure and and though they keep denying any links to the massiah they resigned and they all see shows lineis that they don't want to harm the prime minister that feat so mean and i asked of the culture minister monica maggoty to resign today he

announced that he's going to step down and he said that he's reason ease that killing a journalist in this country it will still much to absorb politically and so he's leaving and these the bar chairs really shake the government especially the departure of the culture minister because the first response of robert feet so was that he doesn't see any reason for anyone to resign as a consequence of the murder because he said that it needs to be investigated but now after the resignation of the culture there it's obvious that that he feels political responsibility for you know the developments. tell us more if you can about the story of the young could seok was working on and the allegations in that story when he and his girlfriend or killed. young actually

was exploring the links between are these the government office shells and the italian mafia which set up companies in eastern slovakia and these companies allegedly they're also drawing evil fund being and we are soaking about considerable sums mostly through our agricultural funds the ad now also looking at this line of story line and we'll keep you know exploring all all these links we are also hoping questions on the table for the police we keep asking but there b. are investigating like all these allegations and and basically the facts that that very disclosed by the story which is also interesting that one of the people there in who was indicated having links to the mafia he's actually working worked at the top state security body and he received these high stakes clearing for

for you know being able to access confidential data so that that's a really opens up a question about about state security i don't comment of the government these that that you know we cannot be sure that the murder is linked to the story but what we are saying what i am saying is that the regardless of the murder he worked on the story and this is a relevant story and the government needs to give answers to the questions that journalists keep asking and also on that behalf of mr zak was killed ok mama governor thank you very much for talking with us that was be out obama go over she's the editor in chief of the countries of. stalking us biggest newspaper smurf thank you so much. thank you. well the e.u. has unveiled a long awaited draft bragg's a treaty that has triggered a new dispute with britain over the issue of the irish border the chief brags

a negotiator presented the one hundred twenty page document that puts down in legal terms the commitments made by britain and the e.u. last december but its inclusion of a legal provision that could effectively keep northern ireland inside the block single market and customs union has provoked an angry reaction from british prime minister theresa may. the draft legal tax the commission has published good if implemented it undermined the u.k. common market and threaten the constitution integrity of the u.k. by creating a customs and regulator reported c and no u.k. prime minister could agree to it. i will be making it crystal clear to president and others that we will never do so. there was theresa may there of course well did i was barbara bizzle told me the renewed friction has come about due to a lack of input from britain's border options because in december

there was the political will and a certain eagerness to get done was the point to sort of say ok let's progress let's go on with talks we agree in principle however some things were left on resolved among those ireland and so what happened in the meantime is nothing because since then we've had hardly any formal political negotiations at all that was run very short little round david davis was in brussels for maybe two hours and then he left again so nothing moved and the problems have been lying there for two months been festering and the result we see today. barbara bizzle there talking to us from brussels a short while ago well the e.u. might get new members if the countries meet tough requirements how the guidance from our business desk is more thank you very much area some get out some want to get in for sure with bricks and economic inequality and internal struggles we know that the e.u. has had some bad publicity in recent years and still many countries would like to

join the block the head of the european commission young claude he is currently visiting countries that have been given the prospect of becoming e.u. members like macedonia or serbia and montenegro one challenge they are facing is bringing their economies up to speed which is difficult when many of their brightest minds prefer to leave this is no simple change of address from their marina stefano the twenty five year old isn't just moving down the road she's heading approach to austria she's finished training as a vascular surgeon now she wants to turn have qualification in to money. first i want to bring america. first from. grads so they are free to come back when i finish my studies graduate marina's packing her portrait along with her german dictionary it's a past tens of thousands in the region of taking unable to find work at home they

go abroad once working there they support their families back home their remittances are responding lehi making up as much as ten percent of g.d.p. it's similar in neighboring bosnia highly qualified young people are attending german classes here they want to head out as well two thirds of under twenty four year olds have no job tens of thousands leave each year to the disappointment of bosnian companies. many companies complain because their best people are going abroad. look at the r t sector adopt a good workers etc people simply feel this is not an environment where they can see themselves with their families in the long term. this is something that worries me especially. even if there were jobs available here students know they get more pay and recognition abroad oh yeah there are simply no opportunities for me to

show my knowledge. i finished university but i can't find a job in my profession. so i decided to requalify and live in a society that appreciates my hard work and performance. and. that's why the d.n.a. reggie applied to the bosnian labor agency for assistance to move abroad to germany is desperate for nurses so now the qualified lawyer has trained to do that instead . in croatia many commemorate their departure in the bus station one in serbia the journey into a new life often starts by train south eastern european countries aren't just losing a few young people they're losing pretty much an entire generation. approving or prohibiting pesticides as always controversial substances that are useful for farmers often harm the environment so called neonate cotton oit's have long been

thought to kill be and now it has been confirmed by a recent study as a result of european union ban of the substance is more likely. near nixon noids dangerous of bees that's according to the european food safety authority a new study has found that the insecticide is harmful to both honeybees and wild bees it's bad news for a year which is time to five hundred species of wild bees. in the past to know it's broadly used to protect us like corn and canola against different paths but in two thousand and thirteen the e.u. for strict its application due to a collapse in the b population insufficient data proving the insecticides negative impacts meant that a ban could not be implemented but now the food safety authority has provided the on says e.u. nations could now be poised for a complete ban on the use of nanny to know its out dualist discussion starting next

month and it's not just about animal welfare these are important pollinators and without them the yields of vital crops like fruit and canary could full shop me. that's all for business back to terry and a country in tears thank you javier that's right crowds of mourners have lined the streets of mumbai in india to say farewell to bollywood superstar truth day about who died at the weekend the actress known as one of india's biggest female superstars was cremated with state alters a post-mortem said the fifty four year old drowned accidentally. there was a huge outpouring of grief in mumbai as treat every arrived home her death in dubai of just fifty four had been a shock to everyone the hearse bearing her coffin made only slow progress through the streets of the celebration sports club the biggest stars of mumbai's movie galaxy gathered to pay their last respects in the streets people remembered her with affection is if you get what i was

a big fan of sridevi i danced to every song of hers i'm feeling really said today really said. you know what she is one of the greatest actors bollywood as. she's mean how contribution to indian cinema is it's really you can't fathom it is that much it's hard to overestimate the sheer glamour of sridevi in the movie worlds dominated by leading men she was one of the few female superstars she began her career as a child performer at the age of four going on to appear in almost three hundred films over five decades she married producer boney kapoor and spent fifteen years away from the public eye raising a family her return to the big screen in the lead role of a shy and middle aged woman trying to learn english to keep up with her family was critically acclaimed a fellow bollywood star at the funeral summed up sridevi like this she was the queen of downs of romance she was by herself a whole school of acting. well

here in germany the film the silent revolution hits cinemas this week the film is set in one thousand nine hundred fifty six which for many is a significant year in european post-war history rather merril for our culture desk is here to talk about it so robin lots of things changed in nineteen fifty six in europe yeah they did it was the leaven is off the wall and the germany was divided into the sort of communist east eastern half and the capitalist west an awful lot but the burn in more was not yet but a more one being built but the russians were imposing their brand of socialism on a lot of eastern europe and there was a lot going on there first of all in one hundred fifty six beginning of the year there's a bit of an uprising in potent but the really significant one was the hungary and reformation in october of nine hundred fifty six and thousands all over the country were protesting against the soviet imposed policies this archive which is actually

shows protest is ripping the russian hammer and sickle logo of the hunger in flag and as we know the uprising op rising was very ruthlessly crushed just a month later in november but beginning of the uprising this class of students at a school in east berlin decided that they would show solidarity with their hunger arion friends for. the next downs communist east germany in one nine hundred fifty six students dance to rock music and secretly listen to western radio their star not most. of them come from freiheit going to do all sorts of bizarre times my god is reduced to. one of. them you know everything. on the in an architect. but not so not much of. this sort of flying with the.

that crass hold a minute's silence for those killed in the hunk area an uprising. you don't want to stop. after the silent protest things for the class would never be the sane. carsten curly experienced it first hand and is back at his old school the simple act of solidarity was a bigger challenge to the communist or thirties than he and his classmates ever realized as one of an occultist it was purely a protest we just wanted to document that we would not just accept anything but

there was no room for dissent in the communist authorities world the matter was taken up at the highest level. you can as good. if america as large a bigger. member who. does here is unaccountable really a stroll through it is through wasn't it. if you do something then you have to stand by its even when things get difficult the story is about civil courage that's the important aspect for me about the state apparatus put the students under enormous pressure but in the film as in real life they held together despite the consequences. so there were consequences for these students and their silent revolution tell us about that yeah well they they were expelled from

school they were in their final year they didn't couldn't take their final exams at school and they refused to reveal the ringleaders they really did stick together and that's what really upset the sort of east german authorities we have to remember and they all started to move westward there was nobody more as i said and what happened was you could go over there was a sort of border god checks as you go we see a scene here from the film why two of them are going out and they say they're going to have one of the grandmothers grave and he's got a bunch of flowers with him and he says you're going to visit him but actually of course he stayed there and all except for of the class actually moved to the west before the baltimore was built says that till he said it to be historically accurate well yeah the cost incurred one of the class roommates who we saw in the film has actually said it is really off and he's right she praised the film himself we did hear in the report about france pushed cusses death when you think well

that's not authentic but it actually was reported that he had been killed by a french news agency at the time so that was all and take course it was true but at all the signs are very good and as i say the the man himself said it's a very authentic and outstanding film and how's it going down is it being received well it has been received well by critics hasn't come out yet and ignition we're only talking about german speaking critics or will have to wait is going to come out in english so look out for it the silent revolution more on the website deed every dot com slash culture looking forward to that the silent revolution robin merrill from our culture desk thanks so much. and you are watching news just a reminder of our top story that we're following for you packers have attacked germany's foreign and defense ministries and stolen data the hackers are alleged to belong to the russian group accused of attacking the democratic national committee ahead of the u.s. election and twenty six teams. so you know years from now more

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