this is t w news coming to you live from berlin performing for peace some of south korea's best known bands play a rare concert in showing yet the north korean leader kim jong un tells state media he was deeply moved by the experience so what does it mean for diplomacy but also coming up in syria rebel fighters are reported to have agreed to a deal to give up a key stronghold near damascus but the plight of civilians trapped there remains unclear. their response to u.s. president trumps punitive terrorists china imposes levies on the u.s.

problem. also in the program what does it what goes up must come down a chinese space station crashes to earth we'll tell you where it landed and how beijing lost control of the craft in the first place. and life as an immigrant worker in saudi arabia dubbed the w.'s funny. reports on how reforms in the kingdom are making life more difficult for some foreign labor. flow i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. north korean leader kim jong un says his heart swelled after attending a rare concert in pyongyang by musicians from south korea it's the first such performance in more than a decade and some say a sign of improving to. highs between the two countries and also coincided with the

start of an annual military drill between the u.s. and south korea we'll have more on that in a moment for us this report. south korea's k. pop girl bands red velvet and girls' generation as well as others played the kind of music that's been to do in the north i. thought north korean leader kim jong un was in the audience in the capital pyongyang and fearing the groove. over one hundred south korean musical artists came to perform in north korea for the first time in thirteen years a possible thaw in what has mainly been a chilly relationship between the two koreas things got really interesting at a theater in pyongyang when south korean performers sang about reunification the crowd didn't seem to mind. meanwhile a south korean taekwondo team gave its first performance in pyongyang since two

thousand and two. on the political stage south korea's leader in a scheduled to meet with his north korean counterparts on april twenty seventh to discuss the north's possible to nuclearization working for the us president donald trump is also planning to meet in the near future with the north's kim jong. trump has also scaled back military exercises between the u.s. and the south korean military. sunday's concert was held under the title spring is coming many koreans by thing in the south and north that means peace is on its way . well let's move on to seoul in south korea now where reuters correspondent josh smith is standing by poor joe also a south korean pop concert in the north korean capital with kim jong il in attendance the south korean north korean regime rather usually frowns upon western

style music what's going on here. that was certainly a quite a striking scene especially after so many north korean defectors have reported to kim jong un has actually personally overseeing sure crackdown one media. i mean his personal involvement and camera group on these kind of ongoing cultural exchanges. indicate how strongly you believe the current outreach. programs. the joint military exercises between the united states and south korean troops are under way again on the peninsula these are usually seen by north korea as a provocation what's the reaction this year. but so far it's been far more muted than in the past the last year north korea launched several ballistic missiles in response to these. drills and we haven't seen anything like

that or even their state media have also toned down some of their typical complaints over the six rules which they in the past they have complained are a prelude to war and so this toned down rhetoric does seem to be again part of the north's overall effort to reduce tensions. now. tell us just how optimistic can we be given all of these things you mention optimistic can we be that the fall in relations with north korea will actually continue. that is still very hard to tell many people all over the world are holding their breath this point because there have been periods in the past where there have been increased coordination between north and south some of these similar kind of the time has happened before and obviously that has not resulted in

a resolution to the conflict so many people are still waiting to see whether you know a lot of this more cultural kind of exchanges leads to real political progress and we've already seen kim jong un the north korean leader in beijing meeting with leaders there we also have a couple of other summits coming up what exactly is all this heading toward george . well again that's one of those big unanswered questions obviously these summits will will grab most of the headlines a lot of people are worried that there will be not much more than political theater so far there's been a lot of these talks with without much resolution on the underlying issues including for example north korea's nuclear weapons program which is kind of at the heart of use. you know. so many people will be watching to see whether all can make some kind of real progress and whether they're willing to give ground on

issues that they haven't been in the. in finally john so just briefly if you can often these summits that are coming up are described as being aimed at denuclearizing north korea does north korea see it that way. well north korea has reportedly said that it is willing to consider denuclearizing however as they've stated it so far that usually comes with several colleagues including for example the thrall of american troops from south korea in the past it has been a nonstarter and so we'll have to wait and see whether during the summits can. overcome some of those commie icing conditions undermine the situation the past just thanks so much for talking with us that was reuters correspondent josh smith there talking to us from seoul south korea take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today in costa rica the center left carlos. has decisively won the presidential election

with nearly all the votes counted the electoral commission announced his head taken almost two thirds of the vote he defeated a conservative evangelical preacher who opposed same sex marriage this huge protests have erupted in indian controlled kashmir after at least thirteen suspected militants were killed in fighting with indian security forces tens of thousands of demonstrators marched demanding an end to indian rule some protesters tried to reach the sites of gun battles to help trapped rebels escape. in tel aviv israeli peace activists and members of arab israeli political parties demonstrated against friday's deadly clashes at the gaza border as really horses killed at least fifteen the most indians wounded more than seven hundred during mass protests there israel has rejected calls for an independent investigation in to the violent. iraq has turned over the bodies of thirty eight indian construction

workers killed by the so-called islamic state in two thousand and fourteen the remains were put on an indian air force transport plane in baghdad iraqi forces found the bodies in a mass grave last year after recapturing the city of moves. opposition fighters have started evacuating the town of duma the last rebel held stronghold in the suburbs of damascus pro assad forces say they've reached an agreement with the largest rebel group there to pull out of the territory and sources have told the w that fighters from a smaller rebel group are also participating in the back to ation fighting in eastern guta in recent weeks has killed hundreds now regime forces are poised to take control at a terrible human cost. the road to eastern ghouta passers by ruined buildings and abandoned lifeless villages. on the roadside corpses rebels that nobody has

stopped to bury displaying victory signs assad soldiers approach the center of eastern go to the offensive has lasted more than a month with russian warplanes carrying out crucial air strikes. and. the rebel terrorists finally over the syrian army has been able to free eastern gota we thank our president. and the people of the sort of. the last rebels are leaving the area the conditions of their withdrawal were negotiated late into the evening many are now trying to get to the city of idlib in the north one of their last remaining strongholds. and her children were taking prisoner by the rebels for four weeks and held as hostages. oh i see that in the end my son was ready to kill my daughter and me so they couldn't violate us say any more. but only

a couple. they beat them with rifle butts and stomped on them with their heavy boots. then they grabbed my daughter and screamed that she was now married to one of the revolutionaries if she refused they would cut off her head and give it to me. said they were monsters so you know. more and more refugees are making their way through the card or out of eastern ghouta more than four hundred thousand people were caught in the crossfire essentially held hostage by rival groups with a common goal overthrowing the assad regime. many are now in the custody of the syrian army apparently the lesser of two evils. eastern ghouta now just a collection of ruins a region without people after the recapture of the region moscow and damascus

bursting with self-confidence and washington after announcing it would freeze millions of dollars in reconstruction aid is on the back foot what's left of the dead the homeless and many displaced eight years after the civil war began with a few isolated protests against the assad regime the president has almost finished bringing the country back under his eye and grip. in his traditional easter message pope francis urged an end to the quote carnage in syria the part of lead the eastern celebrations in the batek and well christians around the world have been marking easter sunday the day they believe that jesus christ rose from the dead. if the pope's during trout eager to hear his traditional easter message in it pope francis called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict. he voiced hope for the korean peninsula

discussed parts of africa affected by hunger and demick conflicts and terrorism. and spoke of the wounds of ongoing conflict in the middle east will. occur in china today we beg for the fruits of peace for the entire world beginning with the beloved and long suffering land of syria whose people are worn down by a seemingly endless war. in sunny jerusalem hundreds of christians gathered in the city's church of the holy settler to mark the research action of jesus christ. it is belief that he was crucified and buried where the church now stands in his easter address the pontiff called for become silly ation in the holy land two days after more than a dozen palestinians were killed by israeli troops during protests in gaza but. it. it. he also implored politicians all

over the world to always respect human dignity and devote themselves to the common good. catch up on some business news now monica is here to tell us about deteriorating top relations between china and the united states all right terry and it doesn't come as a surprise what's happened now china has imposed terrorists of up to twenty five percent on one hundred twenty eight u.s. imports including pork and why now the terrorist kick in today basing is that the move was to safeguard china's interests and to balance losses caused by new u.s. terrorists u.s. president donald trump recently announced terrorism steel and many other imports and then suspended them for mexico canada the e.u. and a few other countries. u.s. president trump blames the collapse of the economy in the rust belt a region that relied heavily on the steel and auto industries on foreign

competition he believes the u.s. has been cheated by other countries in global trade so far the main target of trump's tariffs are chinese products who recently announced plans for punitive terrace worth up to sixty billion dollars a year on imports from the world's second largest economy the chinese have responded with three billion dollars in tariffs on u.s. products like port wine and. much like china and europe also wants to prevent a trade war while the e.u. has not been hit with new tariffs on steel and aluminum for the moment that could change trump gave the block until may first to finalize a deal on trade the us president wants concessions from europe and that's a major concern for europe's largest exporter germany it has a huge trade surplus with the u.s. where it sells many cars much remains at stake. and that's why we're talking

a little bit more now on this looming trade war and what it means full global trade punishing bellew joins me in the studio. but let's look at china and in particular this tit for tat terrorist china imposes tears affecting some three billion dollars off u.s. goods the united states imposes terrace was some sixty billion dollars of chinese goods that's all very even while china well i mean obviously the chinese are trying to show that they are open to discuss this i think while the u.s. obviously. has started with has made you know make america great again and america first policies he is basically on the attack he wants to put the chinese in a position where they can. discuss this maybe find a way to concede something and so the chinese are showing that they are. and they they don't want to fight back on the same level because they want to show that they are open so at this point it looks like that and they did say that they are open to

discussing even with the terrorist going to into effect today the mentioned that they want to discuss things with washington d.c. and that's that's why they flex their muscles a little bit but say listen we're open for talks don't push it which means what the next steps i mean i know that the u.s. is already planning the next terrorist the next round of terror exactly until up to six the u.s. trade secretary will be actually releasing a list of products of the chinese products that could be affected by further tariffs so we will know hopefully in the coming days what more could happen and then we'll see where things go from bad because obviously the chinese will react on that basis is low so that's the next step and then of course there's the may first deadline for the e.u. but that's the whole other story let's not get into that just now i mean just looking at those tariffs right now it's a bit like david versus goliath when you look at the markets though you definitely

have two equals here and when you talk about may first and the u.s. response to washington i mean we have germany germany is export champion the u.s. market is very important we had that piece for the chinese market is also very important if germany one has to take side i mean which side should exactly which side should germany take that's a very good question that i'm sure the german leaders and you know everybody in the government is asking themselves as well and also people on the european level have been asking themselves because obviously the u.s. market is extremely important for germany and so with the chinese market it looks as though the chinese may end up being a little bit alone in this case because based on what we've heard from the minister for economy of germany peter. it looks like at this. point germany may end up siding with the rest of europe as well with the u.s. we also had talks last week between try. and merkel and he also spoke with the

french president manuel separately and judging by what was said it looks like the e.u. will be siding with a u.s. ship on the just very briefly to take it down one of two notches and look at new consumers what's that mean well if there's more tariffs on certain goods it means they become more expensive so if someone is sitting in china wind is going to be more expensive u.s. wind that is and of course if there's less tariffs on u.s. cards then in europe it means that we could maybe you know buy fords or seven cards much cheaper so we so you think like a cheaper and that's what you're planning on doing and that's good news. business thank you so much for this the gulf nation of bahrain has discovered to the biggest oil field in the country's history the field which is located off the

country's west code will dwarf the reins current reserves that's according to the bahraini government details about size and extraction viability to be released by the oil ministry at a news conference later this week a rain isn't a major oil producer it's only right fifty seventh when it comes to give the oil production. that ever since the financial crisis struck ten years ago austerity has been the name of the game for many cash strapped countries in europe portugal has opted for a different approach and twenty fifteen people voted in a new government which since then has been opposing cops to public spending for example by lifting the minimum wage it seems to off wept last year portugal's economy grew by two point seven percent is small business is going pretty well for even oldest. his co-operative has been making wine since nine hundred fifty seven but sales haven't been this good for years.

in the beginning there were only this part and then you have to upgrade it to increase the capacity then we. will double the capacity we put. just side by side because we are in the maximum capacity of production and we have more demand and with what can you produce around thirty people work in the cover where a cooperative. working conditions have improved for most portuguese in the past two years thanks to a raft of reforms including a higher minimum wage instead of stifling economic growth it's accelerated it at least that's how the portuguese finance minister sees it we have done some increases especially for the most poor. people for the pensions but we have done this in the. correct way by complaining the gross of the spending with the growth

of the g.d.p. portugal is also trying to stimulate the tourism industry regulations have been eased for hotels and restaurants and as well as cutting spending the government has also cut taxes and the gamble is paid off millions of tourists are now visiting portugal especially lisbon to izmir the important thing back in recovering of our cities but now is having an important impact on the developing our rural areas the cover where a cooperative is sixty kilometers from lisbon but the wind produced here bears the name of the capital it simply sells better to the increase of tourism in porto this one's really trendy the labels are really important nowadays. but not everyone is profiting from the new wave of tourism rising property values are changing neighborhoods low income locals are being forced out like fernando tex era he grew up in boulder on the banks of the river he can only afford to keep the studio as

the new bars and restaurants drive up the prices who want a new one going to school there are no portuguese people that can afford to pay rent in this area not one i was born here and i was thrown out so a hotel could be built and i have to move way back down if we prolly even all those things the government should make sure everyone benefits from the economic upswing but he remains optimistic that portugal can find prosperity without the need for steroids he arrived it was an action packed weekend certainly for football fans here in germany terry that's right a big bonus legal weekend monic frankfurt travelled to bremen in search of three points that could push them into the champions league slaughter but they never expected it to be easy that we're unbeaten at home since october had lost their last three games away from home and evenly matched clash was in store. bradman's

florian co-found has been working to emulate the kind of success nico kovac has had in frankfurt unlike the former croatia international though cosell builds his team around attack thomas delaney with a pinpoint cross just not to use of its. one mil to brain in the twenty eighth minute a high quality goal in a high tempo game. in the second half frankfurt struck back with some style as well . kevin prince boating with a snappy back heel assist for a look at your watch. three minutes later the eagles nearly soared into the early your bitch threw on the republican who pulled a crucial kicks in how crucial this crucial use of it is cross deflected high into the air by davida for him. and into the nets i look this way that's to try and fail to control the ball perhaps dazzled by the sun. frame and walked off

to one winners the trend under cofield just keeps going up. well after a run of just one win in their last eight games minds are stuck third from the bottom in the standings and were desperate for a win against. the folds are a side in similarly poor form that's all they've given up playing european football next season and see if either club could stop the rot. mines and glass bottle windless throughout the month of march and the shots like this in the first time it didn't look like that would be changing in april. at least the second period had more to offer when the host briefly thought they'd taken the lead for alex on the hock but younes almost dealt with the situation supposedly to stop the ball from crossing the line. the last few minutes so the visit is almost breakthrough but the game ended in a school a stroll the last thing either side really needed. well

technically it may be spring here in europe but winter was not about to let go of northeastern germany with one last blast of snow for easter many people delighted in the unusual april weather others were less appreciative not a snowman but a snow easter bunny people in northern germany try to make the best of the weather as they enjoyed a white easter. the snow cause problems especially for motorists there were hundreds of accidents across northeastern germany many could only walk as buses got stuck in the east the snow trains were also delayed or didn't drown a hole that left many travelers struggling to get to their families for the holidays. i want to go to see my children but there's no train the overhead electrical line is damaged i called them and now they're picking me up with a call. this popular but sunni of the baltic coast was his hoss by the winter

weather more than thirty centimeters a fresh snow destroyed the cages at about fifty butts went missing. this is major damage been working here for almost twenty years at never before has it been this bad a large number of animals is gone that's the stubbing we're responsible for them and now they're gone it's really hard. in the snow like people on this baltic pier and some even celebrated who went to beach party with a wall. you're watching d.w. news still to come life as an immigrant in saudi arabia some foreign workers are facing new hardships because of the country's ambitious reform program. rubric a report from the kingdom on the cost of change. in the world's first museum devoted

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but i was a woman in egypt some things turned out differently forced marriage genital mutilation humiliation. so i know all else and our we rebelled against the written word to stand up for women's rights. no one answer dawi the free voice of egypt starting a blade on t w. welcome back here at the w. news i'm terry margin our top story some of south korea's best known bats have played at a rare concert in pyongyang the north korean leader kim jong un said he was deeply moved by the experience seems a sign of efforts to improve ties between the two countries ahead of a summit later this month and syrian state media say rebel fighters have agreed through a deal to give up their last stronghold near damascus. he has been in rebel hands

since the start of the conflict. a defunct chinese space station has reentered the earth's atmosphere several years after scientists lost contact with it astronomers say the gong one spacecraft mostly disintegrated upon re-entry but that some debris appeared to have landed in the south pacific the vessel was launched in twenty eleven and served as china's first space station scientists had planned a controlled reentry but lost contact with the station in two thousand and sixteen and were unable to fire the engines remotely. well young verna is the director general of the european space agency and he joins us now from paris saw thank you so much for talking with us this morning this out of control chinese space station it crashed and burned over uninhabited territory it seems or should we consider ourselves lucky i think yes we are very lucky because when you look

through the obits. there are about eight in all of base so we were very lucky that the disintegration happened and. see if they closed american samoa why was it so difficult for us to calculate exactly where the spacecraft would reenter the earth's atmosphere. the atmosphere is laid out which is not constant layout which is always at the same height but it is influenced by the activity of the sun and the side and made these days some changes so some decided some basic go to have to learn to have less activity and they have thoughts of the atmosphere was different then what is a strong influence of this on so therefore up i would expect a shark a collation

a little bit wrong because of the changing of the sound so this is nature we cannot change that. there was a lot of interest in this space station and where it was going to crash into earth many people are wondering well could this be happening again in the near future how often does an object the size of chon gong one crash into our planet i'm sincerity yes i'm obviously you know i want to have something like you did remove the activity because we have more than four so i wouldn't try from that set of lights and all of it only bansal if i found that i knew was that means we have seen he saw an object of bigger size which made later harder to you know its way into into the atmosphere and i think we have to say so we have each year we have several pots doing the earth's atmosphere but normally it's smaller pots burning one hundred percent. of the atmosphere but the bigger ones can sort my thoughts and. now this particular craft belong to china china is trying to develop its space

program hoping one day to rival that of the united states or russia or the european union. what are the implications of this particular event for china's space program . just in case kids party time he said it's going to very successful they tested whether they can do a lot of wood and docking and on and resetting it as a station so from the chinese perspective it by that very successful mission over oh for me personally i will always looking to have more global cooperation between east and west between europeans and the other ones so from that perspective it's of course very special may china is going to be have to accept that but. is for success for china ok you say this is a very successful at least for china what does it tell us about twenty first century space science when and eight tons playstation can crash and burn in

a completely uncontrolled manner of course the picnic it systems and they can fail so all of this is very very novel again where's the logic and systems and therefore i am always having a second system on bought which is really working even in case the primary system is failing so we have to see into the future you cannot accept a system like this just for a dollar and i'm composed and there are five think we have to do something step on a thank you for talking with us i was young bernard now the director general of the european space agency speaking to us from parents. now moving on to saudi arabia it's known as one of the world's most conservative societies things may be changing though the reason is or oil falling price of oil that's hit the oil rich kingdom hard crown prince mohammed bin saddam on has

unveiled an ambitious program of reforms known as vision twenty thirty eight now that's and transforming the kingdom's economy in a post era these reforms include diversifying the economy and reducing its dependence on oil of course creating new jobs and making the country less reliant on foreign workers saudi arabia also wants or tracked more foreign investment of course it has also taken a few steps toward social reform it so it's made. a start in lifting some of the oppressive restrictions on women for example for driving a ban for women will finally be removed later this year our reporter has been in saudi arabia in the capital riyadh and in jeddah looking at what this vision for the future really means for the country she sent us this report. riyadh is an international city third of the population comes from abroad many of them manual workers they helped to build the saudi capital but the wall come they once enjoyed

is starting to fade. saudis first know that the saudi government's plan to reduce unemployment among native saudis employer so high are non-self they have to pay higher fees and jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example would be restricted to saudis only. for a nurse will be banned from at least shops they smear stores selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only be looking for a salesperson may. well what. does asian is a good idea but there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. and a lot of saudis return from the u.s. and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners and their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should benefit from

saudis. we are in a neighborhood in the south pacific it's a tough area most of the people here are foreign to. want to here is from bangladesh derives a month ago to work in this shop learning how to assemble picture frames yes everything is getting more expensive and the salary isn't enough for everyone is how to act if they had to survive for the person's. life or mangled work course was never easy in saudi arabia just as in many parts of the world affording prices help maybe more difficult and if your prices doubled in a year pushing up prices and recently new taxes and basic goods added an extra boot it's even if you had just finished his shift how many hours did you work today i swear words sixteen. hours that's a lot. maybe it's a lot but i need to do that for the salary he makes one thousand three hundred

saudi ryall a months that's about three hundred fifty u.s. dollars on the way home he tells me he used to have a good life until his father got very sick. you know we lost our almost all of our money and his treatment so i just thought that i should come here to. keep them alive being the eldest in the family he border responsibility he dropped out of engineering studies and came to saudi arabia to earn money she said it wasn't as easy as he expected life is becoming more difficult for. most of the people of other countries a losing their job and even hiv the callers are leaving so the area because you know there are now just and they can't live like that. maybe my boss gave me a place to live. like that even some of people don't have a day sometimes the slaves. they don't have time money to buy food

i want to hear chooses not to show me the room he lives in the three of us he doesn't want to get into trouble and be sent home he wants to stay as long as he can to make money for he's found he's just one of millions of foreign workers is saudi arabia they are realizing that the future is here belongs to the sounds. are there from d.w. is funny. from saudi arabia to the kingdom's main rival in the region iran which is facing its own calls for change late last year protests broke out in many cities over the government's economic policies in recent weeks women have been protesting the mandatory wearing of headscarves all the authorities succeeded in quality in the public demonstrations many iranians remain unhappy with the direction of their government. somewhere in iran we can't disclose the exact location our source hammad siri is in hiding siri used to run

a business that produced office furniture it failed then he packed up his machines and he did a series says the problem was that his best client the state stopped paying its bills apparently the state coffers were empty and then his taxes went up. as kids we used to play a computer game called pepsi man you were always being chased by a road ruler the pepsi man always had to drink pepsi to run faster and escape it that's what life is like now because well it sounded a sure thing. sciri says if you don't know the right people you have no chance here in iran even if you're creating jobs siri was forced to let all of his employees go to one thousand cares why fifty four people just lost their jobs. when you count their family members it actually means that one hundred fifty people are now

without income and that in a province with high unemployment. because. many iranians have fled the provinces for the capital to run hoping to find work. arounds economy is in decline and the number of people living below the poverty line is rapidly growing. the government's response is mostly symbolic. this poster says the future is hard. but many have already lost hope in iran even among those attending revolution day celebrations. the organizers of the thirty ninth anniversary of the islamic republic wanted this celebration to have a modern flair and be one where even criticism was welcome. at this stage and people were invited to write down their thoughts and put them in

a personalized box the specific politicians president rouhani in particular was the subject of a lot of criticism. i don't know why this government doesn't stop itself to the west we do not need a nuclear deal or anything like that. and i would like the judiciary to explain why the corruption trials are not taking place and why there are no reports about them why they are not giving the money back to the people. and there is money to be had after sanctions were lifted or oil and gas revenues raised economic growth by five point six percent but for most here. there has been no change in their daily lives which the truth is that money is not passed on to the people here we no longer have any hope for this country. the problems here are deeply rooted. we're not talking about a couple of days or a couple of years. it's an old problem. and people

here really want to feel change if nothing changes how can they be satisfied after so much discontent. am i really supposed to be happy about not having to work. that i no longer have a company with so many employees. how should i be happy about that. out of sheer desperation this otherwise proud man gets emotional in front of the camera. discontent extends beyond those struggling financially some women are removing their headscarves as a new way of protesting against the regime but few of them are willing to risk going to jail for their actions despite having widespread support locking people up is the islamic republic's response to their desire for freedom. fries so we ask a well known reformer about this sensitive issue on revolution day his response to

what he has not yet. said sure does there are just three or four women out of the fifty million. so you can see that fifty million wanted. by think what they're doing is wrong. but no more than. who knows. and this the answer of a so-called reform. we meet up with a man who participated in the occupation of the american embassy in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine since then abraham ask has become pretty. of the revolution. we do something needs to be done so that there is a respect for different mindsets in this country that president rouhani has very little time left if he doesn't hurry up it is possible that another ahmadinejad will become president by making promises to the masses that in my opinion president

rouhani has very little time left thinking what i was not wanted to tell you that if. this older man tells us the regime should heed the alarm bell then security offices tell us to stop filming. today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of a traumatic chapter in germany's post-war history on april second one nine hundred sixty eight balms went off into frankfurt department stores one of the perpetrators was under u.s. baba and went on to found a leftwing terrorist group known in germany as the red army faction also known as the bottom line hall gang after carrying out deadly attacks spanning three decades the organization disbanded in one thousand nine hundred eight the red army faction may have broken up but police believe that three suspected former members are still active police is searching for this trio in hiding for two decades they were last

seen by surveillance cameras just in a robbery in northern germany in twenty sixteen they thought to be the remaining members of the so-called red army faction and stop. and. they belong to the factions third generation that pretty says has sparked a national crisis in the one nine hundred seventy s. with attacks government blackmail murders and kidnappings terrorist activities peaked in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven with the murders of germany's federal prosecutor general secret blueback bank manager yogen ponto and the kidnapping of the president of the german employers association hands martin the terrorist shot him dead germans clearly remember that wave of terror. is really the main topic on t.v. and in the newspapers it was as distressing as the islamic state activities are now the fashion it was a shock you just didn't think they would become as radicalized as they did. the

student protests of nine hundred sixty eight defined germany's political climate at the time extreme left wing violence also took shape that year two department stores in frankfurt was set ablaze symbolic acts to protest against capitalism and dress but and could written ensley in took part in the crime they would later found and lead the red army faction hans christian strobel it was an active member of the student movement who upon a back then a.p.o. the non-governmental opposition students movement wasn't just a movement for revolutionary change in germany i also wanted that it was an international movement. and the left at the time saw itself in that context. but some people a minute percentage should that we should not simply accept things that we had to take up arms them and a myth. the but

a mind health group officially disbanded twenty years ago it's believed the trio's recent robberies were more likely carried out for the money than for political reasons discussions about the factions still divide germany today form a conservative parliamentarian vote going bust pot worries that they may still hold a fascination for some up to us and no one can seriously claim that the end of the red army faction would also be the end of all if we need stream of lift to six trimix who are prepared to be violent so you should never say that chapter is closed forever. crippen it pleads for a moat differentiates a discussion. it would help us work through this history and the discussion about it today if people debated these incidents more calmly without blinders and without prejudice it's a. good laugh and discontinued the red army factions wave of terror

a shocked germany during that era the country was on edge and ideologically divided even now the group's actions of the subject of passionate debate throughout the country over more now are joined by its fear boy she's a professor who specializes in red army faction history and she's currently teaching the united states and joins us from cincinnati ohio thanks for being with us today professor now the red army faction struck terror into the hearts of the german establishment and the population in general but many people also sympathized with their cause how much tacit support did the red army faction in germany. well i think it's a little bit hard to say oh i think there were clearly people who supported them but also quite as many people who are quite opposed to that as i think you also heard in the statement you just actually played for the audience so. i think in

general it actually had to do with the talk that the attacks focused very much on these prominent pieces and so on and up way it was easier for some of the people to actually focus on some of the political ideas that were so see that was left wing terrorism and that were maybe shared by some even though they might not share at the violence ok what about things today how is the red army faction remembered now as are they remembered as a group of misguided fighters for a just cause or simply as murderers. well i think you can actually have both of these images but i would also insist that they are images and that i think we've come to the point where it is really very much about different fears fascinations fantasies that are associated was the r.a.s and summed up way they've become kind of appropriate actually it's great for quite a lot of other things but i do also think that something is changing where in two

thousand and seven we still have very few verse to base about whether or not to form our a.f. member split in one up interest should be released from prison i mean to date these robberies that are taking place most people are pretty quick to notice that you know this is not an act of terrorism but really more is used to finance life underground so i think we can actually see a shift in the debate there but you've described the red army faction in current debates as terms of being a projection screen and about fueling a very heated debates why do you think this episode of german history remained so difficult for the country to deal with. well i think it has to do with secular actually that there are too many true magic histories that are all coming together in less than terrorism and especially in the r.a.s and those histories have to do

with national socialism the holocaust what were two and in a way you can say that the bombs that exploded and nine hundred seventy s. kind of reminded people of the earlier bombs that have to do with well we're to end this previous history so i think that is one very important aspect and the other aspect it has to do with assad. there's a certain melancholy in morny sort of shale revolution and i see that revolution does not necessarily apply to the arias but more to student movement and to the kind of political struggles they stood for in the kind of changes they want put forward in regard to pose for german society ok thank you so much for that that was professors feet up on a professor specializing in red army faction history talking to us from cincinnati ohio well thank you so much for having me. the bavarian city of possible in the southeastern corner of germany is set to

experience a first today the world's first museum devoted to the docks whole and better known as the sausage dog opens its doors to the public the museum's founder says it's about time that sausage dog fans had a shrine dedicated to the beloved and. excitement has been growing out of the museum's opening. man's best friend has already been having a sniff around the premises which is filled with some two thousand objects inspired by the sausage dog. museum founder and director is that we could go back a proud but very and can hardly believe no one came up with the idea before him. but often the world needs a selfish dog museum captured the essence of bavaria you know the dog in the world enjoys the same kind of recognition or popularity here as the sausage told by.

some of the pieces on display might be considered kitsch by most people but probably not for ducks and lovers. one of the more serious exhibits pays tribute to famous sausage dog lovers among them know both physicist albert einstein and actor leonard nimoy better known as spock from star trek. there's even a drawing of the sausage dog sketched by none other than pablo picasso. and of course no museum would be complete without a gift shop visitors searching for the perfect souvenir for themselves or others and purchase a gift box that's sure to bring a smile to any sausage dog lover. don't forget you can always get t.w. news on the go just download from google player from the apple store and it will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news also used to send us any of those or videos you

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