this is news coming to you live from berlin the leaders of turkey iran and russia meet for a critical summit on syria they say they'll focus on their common interests in the country and the talks coincide with big changes all the ground in the seven year war as rebels are forced to leave their last bastion. also coming up. it's fifty years since the assassination of martin luther king in memphis tennessee

a look at his legacy and how it still inspires activists in the u.s. plus the music of protest in nigeria help them he could teach some of the legendary who is using his music to speak out about the catastrophic living conditions of many of his fellow nigerians. and in sports we'll bring you up to date with last night's champions league action including a moment. from who else but. as real madrid took on in a repeat of last year's final. and why is this painting upside down one of the world's most successful living artists explains the thinking behind the usual technique. tell. so i'm terry martin welcome to the program the presidents of iran turkey and

a russia are meeting for their second summit in six months to discuss the crisis in syria is thought today's meeting could have an impact on developments in the country it comes as u.s. influence appears to be waning with president calling for american troops to be withdrawn the rebels are also facing what could be a game chasing a game changing set back the loss of the last bastion. duma a syrian state media and media close to the government reported that the first fighters from the army of islam started leaving the city with their families on monday it is the last and largest rebel force in eastern guta should the army of islam withdraw without resistance then government troops would be able to take complete control of the area. but the army of islam leadership is clearly divided some factions deny that the withdrawal agreement has been wrapped up but that's

caused a delay in the withdrawal of both fighters and civilians from devastated duma meaning that they can't be given humanitarian help for the time being. water food medication electricity and fuel are scarce while infrastructure is practically nonexistent. only a few have been able to leave for no sick children like those seen here would have to two weeks ago the army of islam has only ever load a tiny number of people to leave the city. it has been accused of using civilians as human shields the u.n. estimates that ten thousand people remain in duma and are in urgent need of aid. on the outskirts of duma buses await the army of islam fighters for days no russian envoys have been negotiating a withdrawal agreement with the rebels as long as the fighters remain in place it will remain near impossible for civilians to flee east. good to.

go back to those talks between the presidents of turkey russia they all have large but also conflicting interests in syria we'll have more from our correspondent crew in a moment but first let's take a closer look at the roles being played by those countries in the syrian conflict. syria early two thousand and eighteen seven years of civil war and still no end in sight there are too many interests involved this war goes beyond the assad regime fighting rebel groups major foreign actors are playing their part to these other main ones. they regularly supply weaponry and personnel to those they believe can help the meet their own geo political ends. russian president vladimir putin is one of president assad's closest allies russia has provided military support to assad since two thousand and fifteen since then the syrian government has managed to

recover lost temperate sri with the age of russian air strikes putin wants to strengthen russia's military presence in the region reduce american influence and keep radical islamists out of power the russian air station near latakia is now a permanent fixture on the ta to smithereens base russia's only such base in the mediterranean is being enlarged. president hassan rouhani of iran is another assad supporter afterall iran has no intention of losing its one ally in the arab world from day one terran has supported damascus with advisors weapons and troops syria in return grants iran a much needed route to the hezbollah militia in lebanon. this man on the other hand would like to see assad out of power turkey has supported various radical rebel groups from the start and since january has had its own troops in syria one of

president to one's goals is to push back kaddish groups that gained influence in parts of syria by supporting u.s. operations against the so-called islamic state. of spring in our correspondent. in ankara he's covering the three way summit between russia and turkey that's happening there today during the summit brings together three nations with very different interests in syria's future what they want out of these talks what i think they are looking for and achieving an endgame in syria there is realisation even though they are all from rival sides that they do have to work together on the ground to bring these warring parties together to achieve some sort of end to this seven year civil war and also to help them achieve their own regional goals given the fact that many of those goals are contradicted by this makes this process extremely fault with difficulties and many of the talks so they

will be focused on those different goals and the contradictory goals and also the fact that they are all backing rival proxy fighters in syria further complicates the matter but it's still recognized at this meeting today and part of this wider stand up process which these three countries have been working to solve the civil war in syria is seen as the best chance for ending this conflict. iran turkey and russia met six months ago dorian for peace talks has anything changed since then to bring the conflict closer to an end. while progress certainly has been slow but there have been these creation of these the conflict zones across syria and this is where the syrian rebels all be moved to and they would benefit from a cease fire now it is a very slow and extremely controversial practice because given the fact that neither side seems to agree on who are legitimate rebels and who will what deemed islamist terrorists who do not benefit from this ceasefire this is a major point of rivalry an argument between moscow and tehran there will be big

arguments and discussions today all on that particularly over this enclave in italy where many of the rebel fighters in ghouta are being sent to that is a key point of discussion but this conflict zones in many ways is seen as a way of ending the syrian civil war it will be the final settlement where supporters and opponents of the regime will be ultimately place and that is where a lot of the focus of these talks today will be on the conflict zones u.s. president donald trump recently announced withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria he is obviously not at those talks today what influence if any does washington still have there. well washington still to house one major carter played is backing the syrian kurdish militia which controls up to us third of syria and in many ways saudi seen as one the main factors why washington has continued to support its kurdish militia even

though nato ally considers them terrorists and in fact even though trump has announced that we've thought we are getting reports of the pentagon is reinforcing its support of this kurdish militia possibly a warning to those attending the summit today that while washington is excluded it still remains a player but it has to be said that all the three leaders attending today that's one thing they agree on they believe the u.s. has no role to play in the syrian conflict dorian thank you very much for bringing us up to date their story in jones there in ankara. commemorations are set to take place in the u.s. today to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of the u.s. civil rights leader martin luther king known for his i have a dream speech king was killed by a white supremacist in memphis tennessee the fight for equal rights for african-americans has come a long way since that fateful day but as xandra phenomena reports the struggle for

justice is far from over. remembering dorian harris a teen killed in memphis a few days ago because he reportedly stole a can of beer the store clerk chased him all this shop and fired several shots. now harris relatives keep watch outside to prevent the shop from opening again. i was highly upset. because he's young he's almost seventy years old he had a bright future. you know he was a normal teenager. but thank god it out was a demand they had to get his life price is what he was going through he should know when this that. her nephew was shot but no one called the police his body was found two days later behind a new york by house oh yeah you're. right on the man

who shot harris has been charged with murder but for many in the community this case once again proves that the life of a black man counts little in today's america i don't think this would have happened this was a young i don't think would be discussing the worth of having to prove that his what his life was of more value within a beer i'm out of that we would even be having discussions of beer or or anything else is that we would have been you know he was gunned down and left there for two days i definitely think this is a matter issue in a racial issue while harris families grieving in this neighborhood memphis commemorates the fifty s. and the very serious martin luther king jr assassination with many vance plans to on are the iconic civil rights leader who was fatally shot on the balcony of this motel activists say they are proud that so much has been achieved in the last fifty

years but there is still a long way to go. change they say but too often there are not implemented properly . stated if it's not ok for you to kill somebody over a beer so we're not fighting to get the legislation what we're right fighting to get is the law to become to be used equitably and to include black people in black now so we continue to think about what we must do after eight before and how we must continue to build community members. family the political power to really change hearts and minds right. and that still seems an uphill struggle just like in the days of king. and we will have more on the anniversary of the assassination of martin luther king and his legacy later in this program russia has hit back at westminster in the latest round of the diplomatic

spat over the poisoned russian spy the russian foreign ministry says britain's failure to track down the source of a nerve agent used to poison the expo shows that accusations against russia have been based on baseless and baseless suspicion britain has never claimed it has conclusive proof that the nerve agent came from russia although foreign secretary boris johnson came close to it in an exclusive interview with. a couple weeks ago. you argue that their source. is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly that's driven samples look at the evidence from the people from porton the the. they have the samples and they they they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said. that was boris johnson there

talking about the ports and laboratory the identify the nerve agent used in the attack on soviet script and his daughter did he mean that the scientists had no doubts that the nerve agent was or no doubt that it came from russia the chief executive of portland laboratory has now spoken he says his scientists only identify the nerve agent and not where it came from but he says the british government had other evidence we and terms of our rule were able to identify it as an overture to identify that it was a military greet near feature. we know verify the precise source but we provided the scientific information to the government who have then use that number of other sources to piece together the conclusions that they've come to. well let's hope you're not trying to catch

a train in france today france is facing a second day of transport chaos as rail workers continue to strike crystal terry more trouble ahead for france's four and a half million daily train passengers yesterday's industrial action saw three quarters of train drivers joining the walkout causing massive disruptions now unions called on rail workers garbage collectors and air france staff to protest president amala macross labor market reforms the french government argues the heavily indebted rail service and c.f. in particular needs deep reforms not despite the current dispute france's job market has been improving as has the overall employment situation in europe that's also so things to better conditions in southern european countries where the economic crisis has hit particularly hard there are some clouds on the horizon. germany is the star of the european job market over seventy five percent of those

of working age have jobs and the unemployment rate is that a record low. germany's economic boom is being led by domestic consumption germans have more money in their pockets they're out there spending it and that's helped spur on the economy. too in neighboring france president manuel microphones reforms loosening employment restrictions are just starting to come into force the employment rate is on the increase and the jobless rate is edging downwards but unions bitterly opposed to change could torpedo the reforms currently a strike protesting the reforms is crippling rail travel the government is hoping to strike will fail to turn into a movement. lack of long term work is the major concern in italy on the surface hiring is growing like a beast as the head of one employment agency put it and unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in five years but despite government incentives for open ended

contracts almost six out of ten new jobs are preparing according to bloomberg news . the populist party likely to occupy a key role in the next government campaigned on slashing the number of short term work contracts and pouring an extra two billion euros into the labor market it's unclear if these policies will get adopted. now let's get some more insight into the european labor market with mark as well he's a senior economist at the university of south gal in switzerland thank you for coming in this morning marcus the overall employment in the european union has been on a steady rise in the last five years now with new political leadership in france and italy do you think that the divide between the better performing north and the underperforming south is a thing of the past. well whether it's a thing of the past i don't know but it's clearly not any more the north and south was starvation far the more reform or not reform distinguishment you see france

which is doing a lot of reforms you see italy which doesn't do any reforms at the moment now i want to talk about france in just a second and let's focus on italy or first you say there are no reforms being done there but the unemployment rate in italy has fallen to its lowest level in five years yeah but they're still at the very end of the labor market situation in europe and if you take the g.d.p. to debt ratio it's one hundred thirty five percent at the moment that's actually the moment when we started to rescue greece a few years ago so italy might become the new and even larger greece do you think more investment into the labor market will help is on the report the five star movement wants to spend up to two billion euros yes of course investment would help but you need to do investment into the structural reforms of the labor market and you could look at two fronts which is doing exactly that the right thing to reform correctly but the french president is facing heavy opposition and growing

resistance to these reforms as we've also seen well the jury is still out for him whether he will succeed in the end but for the moment he's doing the right things he has undertaken the labor market reform he's now taking up the fight against the unions as n.c.f. you just mentioned it was the state own the railway system so he is actually doing something which in germany would have been called the again twenty ten i mean do you see that there is some common ground between the plans of the government and the demands of the unions and france would seem to be quite far apart no i don't see too much common ground and the good thing if you take microphones perspective is that it is almost movement is not really a party we just need to take a consideration the fiefdoms left or right so he can do whatever he thinks is right or wrong. and whether he will succeed we will see probably next year and france might become actually the motor of the european economic system which germany has

been so far and employment figures and germany's are at a record high and there are some people that argue well taking these record figures into account wages should also be higher in germany what is your take on that. germany is doing very well and it's a reflection as i mentioned of the agenda twenty ten but we need to do more we know have the budget to do we need to invest into the infrastructure mess if we invest into germany's infrastructure and obviously wages should be at least some point higher than at the moment so that we can do something from the demand side of the economy for the improvement of german situation after two thousand and eighteen two thousand and eighteen won't be the problem anything beyond that is the issue mark as well senior economist at the university of south gallant thank you for your insight and your visit this morning here on the w. . music streaming service spotify decided to forgo a big advertising campaign in the tradition of ringing the opening bell at its

flotation on tuesday but it still caught investors' attention they waited at the stock market dubuque with a mix of insight excitement and caution. spotify has not earned a sense since it was founded in two thousand and six but losses of almost a billion euros didn't seem to put off investors. at the new york stock exchange hopes run high for the swedish company. do you think tomorrow is going to be strong for spotify it's you know it's quite a sexy stock it's quite a sexy industry. the way that they've done it's all the asli may mean that indexes are going to come through a lot of trade just a lot of a lot of funds the ones i have spots five. the share price underlines that if i open it almost one hundred sixty six dollars per share that values the company it twenty nine point five billion dollars the timing for its i.p.o. is not ideal though. following facebook's data scandal the tech sectors reputation

has been severely turn ish to what is going to do. the us president donald trump's verbal attacks on amazon came is that additional setback. still investors have high hopes for music streaming providers. more people are now talking about streaming it's easy to forget that just three years ago even in the us streaming was really saying it was downloading songs so this helps educate the market and that's equally true across the world spotify and its competitors account for sixty percent of all buzy revenues and countries like germany offer them a lot of potential for further growth that creates optimism and self confidence at spotify and among investors. soccer now there were two big champions league games last night with me here in the

studio to talk about all the action is cambridge from d.w. sports. let's start with munich they faced a tough test in spain didn't well they did. up against of a i don't think there was is this was ever going to be an easy time for them they've done very well against manchester united in the previous round so i know what they're doing in europe so fine turned up they they they went behind early on a published sarabia open the scoring it was very well deserved as well but back as they always do any plan is league of final tell you you know it's not so easy to believe be forced to haze us now go and then thiago alcantara the winner in two away goals and a very satisfying night football i mean you can you point us aside and tell us about that other game it would seem to be a bit of a repeat of last season's champions league final it was indeed and it was just as one sided this time but the game was all about one man and one moment chris the other one all those scored an absolutely ridiculous go it was like something from a from

a kid's computer game we can see it there now it was it was just crazy fantastic oh and marcello then rounded off the score in the brazilian wind back. to madrid injury in and is going to be a very tough event is the comeback i think. tonight we have another big clash an all english one here's a short preview. city's march to this season's premier league title is nearly complete they lead the table in england by a country mile and single season records for points wins and goal difference are well within reach the only team to get the better of them liverpool in a high scoring thriller of a loss but city's coach seems to remember with some fondness. well i think. their game i'd much is third in the game here with us for three years so we cannot deny the both teams try to play so we got to both teams more schools more goals are scored in the premier league this season so far and by far liverpool forward

mohamed salah has been the team's goal machine this season and the fans at anfield know that they'll need him and the other boys in red to be at the top of their game to get past city that's it it's a big game against. one of the best teams in europe if not the best team in europe in a moment so. that's nice too but honestly we are not coincidently in the qualifiers we qualified for that too so. we are there and yes the beat man city. few weeks months ago. but we knew before the game that it's possible it's only i believe it difficult to do it. city have heard a lot of praise this season mostly from vanquished opponents they'll want to turn liverpool back into one on wednesday. so no lack of confidence there among the

coaches what's your pick guardiola or clock well i think the fact that the last time these two teams faced off in those four three tells you everything you need to know there will be goals it's going to be a lot of fun i'm going to give the edge they they won that last game he's got a great record against gaudio on it and i'm just looking forward to the tights going to be great thanks so much ed mccambridge from devious sports. you're watching news still to come the u.s. is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king cop a century after his life was cut short when you look at his legacy and the state of race relations in the u.s. today. and thailand is a popular tourist destination in some states so stay there for good a growing number of families are sending elderly relatives to thailand poor and old age care that they say money can't buy in their home country it's.

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no stopping them. starting april seventh on d w. welcome back to news i'm terry martin our top story the presidents of iran turkey and russia are meeting for their second summit in six months to discuss the crisis in syria they're expected to focus all the speeding up the peace process and strengthening their employment in the country. on this day fifty years ago april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight u.s. civil rights leader martin luther king was gunned down outside his memphis hotel room as the front of the civil rights movement king knew he was the target of hate

but he didn't buy from leading the fight for racial equality in america in recognition of king's call to national life in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the u.s. government made his january birthday a national holiday today the anniversary of things death will be observed with special events around the country will examine his legacy in a moment but first this look back on his life. activist dissident troublemaker icon martin luther king jr as a towering figure in american history his life his work and his death forever changed the way the us review race civil rights and equality. king was born into an america where slavery was a recent memory segregation was the law of the land and poverty gripped most of the african-american community. on december first one hundred fifty five police arrested activist rosa parks for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to

a white man in montgomery alabama as was the law her actions spurred king to lead a boycott of public buses in the city which lasted for over a year. he continued to organize and lead marches for voting rights labor rights and desegregation across the u.s. championing nonviolent tactics inspired by mahatma gandhi in india. this culminated in august one thousand nine hundred eighty three when king led the famous march on washington and delivered his iconic i have a dream speech. by. the speech and the march propelled the civil rights movement forward in one thousand nine hundred sixty four the u.s. congress passed the civil rights act which outlawed discrimination based on race religion sex or national origin in the united states the same year king was awarded

the nobel peace prize but he wasn't done yet he continued to organize peaceful protests and marches which are often met with violence from authorities and pro segregationists. in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight king was helping organize sit ins against economic inequality when he was shot and killed in a hotel room in memphis tennessee he was only thirty nine years old. king's legacy still reigns over civil rights debates from the south african anti-apartheid movements to the modern day black lives matter and pro-gun control marches political change makers all over the world use king's teachings and writings as inspiration even fifty years after his death. or for more i'm joined here in the studio by sebastian york she's a professor of american history of the john f. kennedy institute of free anniversary thanks for being with us this morning as we

just heard in our report there martin luther king and grew up in a segregated america give us an idea of what relations between blacks and whites were like in the us back then before the civil rights movement when martin luther king grew up especially in the u.s. . discrimination and racism and white supremacy or the logics that ruled society and especially on an everyday level it was institutionalized segregation was institutionalized so you had separate bathrooms separate schools churches down to water fountains that each kind of jim crow laws were on the one hand challenged and courts repeatedly by african-american civil rights organizations and slowed down after world war two were challenged in courts at the same time. laws were designed exactly to keep african-americans from voting

and participating in the process like literacy tests and that was is what dr king was fighting against to give them for african-americans a voice in political processes it's really hard for many to imagine what that was like in the united states of that time after the second world war where black or african-american served in the second world war also valiantly how did african-americans continue to face institutionalized racism if you will discrimination even after the end of slavery in the u.s. how was that possible threat you mention their contribution to the world wars because african-american served in segregated units with white leaders so there was not an integrated on me until one thousand nine hundred eighty eight in the united states but after the civil war after the end of slavery there were three constitutional amendments that were aimed to end slavery give citizenship and voting rights for african-americans but people in the south in order to maintain

that order of white supremacy found ways and legal provisions to carve african-americans to keep them out of political processes and the above mentioned legal contributions of segregation and found every day ways of violence against black people the infamous lynchings where many african-american men were killed by self just as mobs can we know that the civil rights movement was successful to a degree in the united states it succeeded in getting rid of these jim crow laws you described as separate but equal regime particularly in the south when you look at all that was achieved in the u.s. civil rights movement can you identify specific achievements that are attributable to martin luther king and so that we could say today without him this probably never would have happened. i mean as a historian it's always hard to say that this is the one figure responsible for

certain processes but one of the most prominent and most important contributions of martin luther king obviously is that. human idea to african-americans as a political movement or he contributed to that he was an integrated in she will figure in even more became that after his death and i think one cannot overestimate the effect of and educate a target teacher late intelligence a black man who defied the stereotypes of the average black man very important for the visibility of black movement of the black movement and martin luther king had a lot of enemies as we know some more suspicious of his motives he was even investigated by the f.b.i. and tell us more about the i think despite his message of nonviolent protests with his idea of social equality and his later criticism of the vietnam

war i think to some in post mccarthy america to some cold war is he sounded like old soviet operative so it's no surprise that the f.b.i. counterintelligence unit investigated him trying to for gathering incriminating information wiretapping his phone and i think some of the skepticism he met was also among parts of the of northern white political establishment because he was radical in questioning their faces and the values of american society at a time and working with king celebrated as as a hero around the world not just in the united states give us a sense of how is assassination was received here in europe. he was celebrated throughout the world he received the nobel peace prize in one thousand nine hundred sixty four so all over the world people reacted in shock to

the assassination especially in europe to hold comparison to the possibility that the soviet press a lot of his purity but also put it into context of imperial attitudes of the united states during the with vietnam war and in germany and west germany call them and observed a moment of silence and shame berlin city king had visited in one thousand nine hundred eighty four incidentally both parts of the city he visited the mayor lot of him for service to all mankind so celebrate hugo it is ok well today's anniversary of king's assassination comes at a time of heightened racial tension in the u.s. as we know let's have a listen to some to how some african-americans see the state of race relations there today so i think what we are experiencing i think fifty years after after among the king is actually quite similar to what the king was see during the last few years of his large in which in one nine hundred sixty seven he talked about

that he is witnessing this american might rear its own we contrast this dream with this nightmare we begin to see in america that really have to do with history of history of racial progress in races progress races progress that he was challenging during the last few months of his life we have to be concerned about losing rights that we thought we had fought for thought with one of the oath there were rights leaders and he was saying that if my grandchildren have to fight the same fights that i had to fight and why did i why did i do what. has my livin been in thing and that was so slate to me i feel like king would be very alarmed and i think that he might feel like many of your struggles were in vain because the masses of black people in america remain educationally politically and. many ways in terms of this one franchise so we went through a period where thing car separation rate for african-american males in particular

but it's also been creasing for women as well and that not only means that these individuals come out of prison with a record that makes it hard for them to provide economically for their families poverty is a significant problem in the united states for all poor americans but it disproportionately affects african-americans so that's an area where we haven't made progress and we face a crisis in the states and that's a crisis that's unique because for the first time in fifty years we have people in office particularly the presidency in the congress and senate that have a different view of where america should be and they have an idealized view that america would be best off if it were more euro centric and of course that's hostile to the whole business of equality and advancement which dr king gave his life.

different voices on martin luther king's legacy in the state of race relations in the u.s. today now with us in the studio still sebastian europe's a professor of american history here in berlin we just heard some rather pessimistic statements there and it's sessoms from african-americans yet it was only ten years ago that the united states elected its first black president what's gone wrong in recent years. those are troubling comments we just heard but i think as a historian i'm professionally obliged to say that's not new this kind of criticism and the implicit and explicit race is and has been part of american political rhetoric even after the civil rights movement if you think about it richard nixon or ronald reagan. the dog whistle in politics but you're absolutely right ten years ago when barack obama was elected president there was

a great moment of hope it was a great symbol especially among the political left about liberals in america in the united states that this would be a and and two races but i think there are two factors that have come into effect since that first of all the financial crisis hit african-americans disapprove disproportionately harder and the housing crisis and the rest of the population and secondly what i think what we see is the use of social media churning the spotlight on the issue of race both on the side of people fighting discrimination movements like like like life metta but also giving an echo chamber to racist views on the right and i think this is a global phenomenon that we see now you've lived in the united states as part of your studies and part of your teaching you observed life there and race relations

up close what's your take on the snow modern day race relations. in the us right now. i mean i mean the lived in urban areas in the united states. in university towns so i just have a very partial and focused look but let me just say one thing it is disheartening to see how still in the united states issues of race and the phenomenon and to talk about race is directly connected to poverty the lack of social mobility the lack of access to education and this is my impression that as an impression that you get when you live in the united states first of europe's thank you very much for talking with us today on d.w. news those professors of us in europe from berlin for university thanks for having me. to a problem affecting many countries around the world an aging population democrat demographic trends are set to challenge the way we adapt to and care for

a growing number of senior citizens our next report is from thailand where there's been a boom in luxury nursing homes for wealthy western arrows is exporting the elderly the way of the future take a look. this beach on to cat is a popular tourist destination on thailand's largest island. while most visitors return home after a couple of weeks most of these european pensioners are here to stay. now in the senior citizens are spending their sunset years under the palm trees at this nursing home it's called bunch you adore me which means house of health and care zone your from switzerland has joined other residents for breakfast. so you're from basel sonia who has dementia has lived here for two years. and what are you doing here. in real time on vacation. that's

nice he's only had a career as a flight attendant thailand is her final stop but she doesn't realize it. but you live here now. yes but just for a few days. sonia's caregiver can help her cope with life far from home. oh. yeah they have to mention. they can't remember things so we tell them they're on vacation here so they don't get upset. when suddenly it does get homesick she can come and sit in this band bus shelter complete with transit maps from far away switzerland sunny is happy to sit here and wait for the bus even though it never rides. it costs between seven hundred and three thousand euros a month to stay here fifty four carers look after around twenty two residents an unheard of ratio in many european countries the physical therapy is

a key element of daily life here the concept of caregiving is well regarded in the predominantly buddhist country which prides itself on helping people in need another motivator for staff here is a good salary between two hundred ninety and six hundred fifty euros a month. helga hails from germany's wineland her son dinah has come for a visit. who also suffers from dementia says she feels comfortable here. but what's your favorite food. a good brat forest i wouldn't mind box. and. i was unhappy with elderly care conditions in germany that held its health insurance wouldn't cover care here so we had to sell our house to finance it. there for leadership as there were about twenty patients for each caregiver the staff were very nice to the seniors and the atmosphere was good but

patients had to wait twenty minutes in the bathroom for assistance. that there's just not enough staff there. and not. another peaceful day on the beach completely german sausage a little taste of home some one thousand kilometers away sending elders far from home is a hard decision but good care in a heavenly setting makes it easier for everyone involved. i mean on tonight syria where the musician fiddler cuttin was a national legend he pioneered the afrobeat which influenced music beyond nigeria's borders it was also known for his political activism and song a traditional style being carried on in the next generation his son uses his music to speak out about the poor living conditions for many of his fellow nigerians are west africa correspondent every increase caught up with me in lagos.

and in his family and. life and we continue to read in his new shrine for peace in the hands. of the spirit. it is given to some people that wall icon students into mood music being free for most. roles and even called is in their lives become almost entirely good that's a positive impact. it's very amazing if that is if the young people standing up to. embrace the opera believe it's really really beautiful and to motional i must tell you it's a pretty. good music.

corruption is to do with when. the politicians will be people still the thief finds a bit of money pollute the system and use big english words to. confuse the population. and the use always was crying and before we know it is he or she is walking free and this is really the same school i mean since i can remember. it will do what i feel is important for me to do in nigeria this is about i want to seventy million you think we're going to solve this problem with a snap of the finger and always going to take ages. we have to keep on emphasizing on talking about these issues i'm a generous i do believe

a generation will come when. they rule on less than that it's things after we don't in this way on. it's very important to. people. in nigeria. in the very early eighty's. this is. this is.

a report there by. another artist and one who also uses his work to express opposition but he does it. as one of the world's most successful contemporary artists he recently celebrated his eightieth birthday and to celebrate this milestone in a number of museums have dedicated exhibitions. prince. meet works. in dresden. prince. with works from the sixteenth century.

i don't want to say i'm wonderful but it works wonderfully well it looks very good . it's a belated birthday present to basel it's from the dresden art collections the artist born in deutsch posited saxony refused to be a realist painter in communist east germany once in the west he refused to be abstract instead he turned his paintings upside down old oh really his graphic works bartlett's is one of the most successful painters alive today he always believed in artistic rebellion and provocation. is the one person voices up position that's enough i think you have to do that as an artist but who else is going to do with guns were not elected we don't need a majority we don't do anything people want us to do we don't do what the government wants we don't do what the church ones we do only what are the ones with

the goods. today basil it's lives in austria but he often comes back to saxony is the superstar of the art scene hung sick. as you know of i'm often here and as you grow older you get more weepy in a sentimental and sure if i can exhibit in dresden it's a great honor but this is a truth because. through the lens of the old masters we get a fresh take on an artist that we otherwise know is a painting of oil on canvas. but it's himself seems to be pleased with his confrontation with the immortals of art history. you're watching the news from we have more coming up for you at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's t w dot com well you know what these pictures from st petersburg where russians are merging from the long winter ready for some sunlight

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this is news coming to you live from berlin the leaders of turkey around and russia meet for a crucial summit on syria they say they'll focus on their common interests in the country the talks coincide with the big challenges on the ground in this seven year war as rebels are forced to leave their last bastion. also coming up. it's fifty years since the assassination of martin luther.