this is literally news live from berlin in search of the truth international weapons inspectors enter the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria after days of waiting and diplomatic wrangling syrian state media says international experts have been allowed into the duma but accusations are rice that key evidence may have been removed and the site tampered with also coming up rallying cry a french president said money when my call makes the case for a democratic europe in an emotionally charged address to the european parliament's

my comp urges europeans to reject populism and defend democracy. also it's the cold war but not as we know it in a rare joint statement the us britain and australia accuse russia of cyber espionage and planning to solve the taj western infrastructure. pussies known as astro alex but channel surf over to the first to call him that germany's ambassador to space well now astronaut alexander garrett is preparing his next big step as commander of the international space station. and the buyer in munich have already celebrated a one trophy this season but can they make it two or even three with the german cup within reach should they face the semifinals test hedley for clues in tonight's.

thanks so much for your company everyone. after days of delay and a global power struggle syrian state media now says international weapons inspectors have entered the town of duma the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack while the inspectors have been in damascus since saturday but until now they were denied access to the site the delay has prompted the u.s. to accuse syria and its ally russia of attempting to cover up evidence of the alleged attack. the destroyed town of doom areas where syria's ill fated revolutionaries are now after seven years of fighting and with the last of the rebels gone damascus is trying to win back its people meeting their most basic needs first. you know at the loop when the rebels left we found in the depo stuff that could satisfy duma's residents for a year they were not offering as anything but only hunger and starvation and. the

media made it here before u.n. chemical weapons inspectors only on tuesday ten days after the alleged poison gas attack but they allowed to get near the site where dozens were reportedly killed a day earlier an emergency meeting of the international watchdog at the hague was cool to demand an explanation for the delay but ended with frustrations and hostilities running high this was also our opportunity for us and for allies to settle a case in the organization that is designed to uphold the chemical weapons convention to make very very clear that the russians have blocked diplomatic channels for us. russia accuses the u.k. of faking these pictures of the alleged attacks which show you victims apparently suffering and struggling for breath. all the. missiles. in britain says

that's textbook russian fake news. for more let's bring in journalist stephan borg he is the foreign correspondent for t.v. for sweden he just returned from a trip to doom and joyce's and now on the line from damascus a very good evening stephan to set the scene for us if you will what the situation well the international weapons inspectors be confronted with in do. well i think it's well first to start with it's eleven days since the attack happened which means that a lot of the evidence could be destroyed or may be removed of course and the longer you wait to hear witnesses that. you don't have the quality that you would have if you if you do it shortly after and so the it's really troublesome to i think if they lost one of the good opportunity to good to do is a good job if they would have been there earlier doesn't do you think it's still possible for the weapons inspectors to to uncover the truth of what happened.

well it's certainly a lot more difficult than it would have been if they would have come there just a few days after it happened but hopefully there will be some samples that could be collected and some witnesses that could be heard and maybe some some. other evidence also that that could still be found there but of course it's much much more difficult when you have to wait this long before before they get their rights or precious time has been lost i mean this is quite an extraordinary situation and you as a journalist were granted access to do a well the international weapons inspectors were denied entry. yeah that's really that's really surprising actually we were not there was a group of some thirteen vehicles of the international media that was allowed to enter dumas we lost three on the way but ten made it and there was that we were not

brought to that actual site we just made a stop not far away from there a few hundred meters but nobody told it's where this building was so we had to found that out of four for four hours for ourselves which we did took some ten minutes and then we got there so. we didn't get help from the ministry of information through to find out the actual building but say that with they were not stopped from from going there either and they didn't really be there all the time to listen and what what we did and who we talked to and so on and seven as you're speaking with and showing your pictures and also pictures of your well walking around there in duma i mean as we see the footage it's just i mean everything has been practically annihilated describe to us what it was like to be in duma and to witness the destruction. well i've seen destruction other parts of syria before so i wasn't really surprised about it but it's of course it surprised me there was so many civilians still in in this in duma so short time after the

liberation or the actually the when when the syrian army really recaptured the city . but it was different compared to for example aleppo or or or homs where there was a lot more destruction and the cities were almost totally at the circuit no people there at all but here there was quite a few people right and what did what was it possible for you to talk to some of those citizens who are still there i mean how did they strike you. we could talk to anybody who was still there but the lots of people who of course had left been evacuated to to the source and that you could expect that those people who were basically those who was sympathizing with the rebel side and those who stayed were either. more pro government or decided to stay anyway for other reasons were they relieved. well of course they are because there was no fighting anymore

and the children were playing in the streets and people were were quite happy actually to be even more relaxed than you had been before. stephan borg in damascus thank you so very much second borg is the international correspondent for t.v. for sweden. all right well as relations between russia and the west hit rock bottom the german chancellor merkel has spoken by phone with russia's vladimir putin we'll bring you that report some time later now i want to bring you up to speed with some of the other stories making news around the world. mourners in pakistan have held a funeral for a six year old girl whose alleged rape and murder has shocked the country the girl identified only as rabiya went missing two days ago in western kharaj her body was recovered monday sparking violent protests police have been accused of negligence

in the case. a u.s. commercial jet with one hundred forty eight people on board made an emergency landing after a piece of it's left engine ripped off the plane was on route from new york to dallas when an engine cover broke loose and shattered a window several passengers have reportedly been injured. european union says it wants to launch in launch informal membership talks with macedonia and albania as part of a push to revive enthusiast for the block which is facing the departure of britain next year concerns over russian influence in eastern europe have added renewed urgency to enlargement efforts. now what should they or pin look like in the future while today a french president and many. pitched his vision for the e.u. in a speech to the european parliament he compared the divisions in europe to a civil war where democracy on the one side and nationalism on the other his speech

was impassioned in a times even angry and so was the debate that followed. three hours of no taking discussion hashing out details it might have been a grueling session for another politician but not emmanuel mccall he appealed to members of the european parliament to help make his vision a reality he entered the debate with athletic and dizzy as a. thank you ladies and gentleman with you i can still carry out a real parliamentary debate that was my favorite exercise is a minute. but it won't be a mere exercise for long back home wants to speed up the e.u. stalled reform process a return to nationalist ideals he says is no solution instead europe can be sovereign while shouldering its own responsibility. motion of the engine us from the site you know want to belong to a generation of sleep. i want to be part of a generation that stands firm in its decision to defend democracy film and know the

default of said democracy. cons backers are eager to engage with other europeans and to hear their hopes and fears. the own march party wants to reach out to people across the continent in the run up to european parliamentary elections next year. we need to be together to speak about europe directly to people who want to meet citizens in the european union and everywhere. to build to rebuild europe but not cause impetus has run into resistance to conservatives in both berlin and strasbourg disapprove of his main objective a reformed euro zone with a separate budget and monetary fund much to the regret of social democrats but i'm no. good side but i'm no in berlin has already indicated how difficult it will be to reform the euro zone there was. and her colleagues will certainly not make mr

macro work any easier. and less wish that it. appeared in industrial chef needs to a large chunk. of the french president also wants an e.u. wide asylum law which european parliamentary members support but the green party finds my cons efforts at home less than credible. what are your ingredients for your immigration and asylum laws the deportation and containment instead of welcoming people who are seeking refuge. but it was the european liberals who underscored how far off the goal of a new strong europe is especially in terms of defense. the recent military action in syria highlights that shortcoming they said because it was a french and british intervention not a european one. in my macro his ideas are both inspiring and

polarizing and bound to provoke debates but it remains questionable whether there is time enough for concrete steps in order to convince voters that the reform agenda before the european elections next year. are caught up with the chairman of germany's parliamentary foreign affairs committee about berlin's take on president and manual recounts were formed dr. missile that can the french president is expected here in berlin on thursday he's once again mapped out his vision for europe now europe is also the first chapter of the coalition agreement of anglo-american fourth term in office why does berlin still seem so hesitant in giving a response to what my course mapped out so far. i think the coalition agreement is the first answer not only to the french president but to our ambition that europe comes back to be a driving strong unified force because we are even more. facing

a dangerous environment and we have to respond in our own interest and we will do that and next thursday will be the next step where france and germany will come closer together and you've just returned from paris and there also seems to be a significant difference in leadership style is it a question of how berlin and paris view europe in terms of glass half full or half empty no i think and this is my result also from my trip yesterday to paris there is a high convergence. between france and germany that we have to do things together that we are determined to do things together and that europe is not in a good shape and that it's also not only dependent on france and germany doing things together to initiate not doing it alone but to initiate to do things together with others or in the context of the european union what is important is that when it

comes to politics policies and diplomacy we agree totally so what's your expectation for thursday's meeting between mack and the claw what to come out of it to underline that we are determined to achieve results on a range of issues that we see that there is a window of opportunity but this window is going to close the year because next year we will have european elections so we will have to come to results and that in in our times of our trick globalization. and unraveling of liberal order everywhere partly within europe that it is really of an historical importance that france and germany come together and try to turn things to the better. and so it can thank you very much for talking to you. think you. are right i'm going to hand you over to danielle now where as

a mixed outlook by the world economic forum as for a short term good long term bad is the quick summary of the international monetary fund is predicting a global slowdown in growth in the next few years that's due to aging populations lackluster productivity as well as the threat coming from protectionist trade policies in the short term though things look pretty rosy than agency predicts a worldwide growth of three point nine percent for twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen now that would be the fastest pace in twenty eleven the u.s. economy is likely to benefit from president trump's tax cuts which are likely to boost the country's economy through twenty twenty growth is predicted to be two point nine percent up from two point three percent in twenty seventeen however those tax cuts combined with increased spending could be damaging in a few years' time the i.m.f. warns the eurozone is expected to benefit from continued low rates the i.m.f. forecasts a growth of two point four percent to twenty eighteen which might however slow down in twenty nineteen well cousin fernand is following all of this for us from

washington so constant things of the moment are going fantastic so what's behind the i.m.f. pessimism beyond the next couple of years. when the international monetary fund is concerned about what it calls geopolitical strains which could lead to trade wars or real was obviously both bad for trade and the worldwide economy apart from that of course. the i.m.f. also mentions a general skepticism about economic international into gratian worldwide and towards new technologies that might trigger and you wave of protectionism around the world these kind of trade wars of course which are being discussed right now particularly between the us and china another big concern and there's also

a big danger of the i.m.f. want today that politicians might waste the opportunity that the current boom presents and a set of bringing their houses and all the financially investing in new technologies increasing productivity they might in fact just increase spending continue spending and that could mean that when the tide turns a downturn might accelerate and might be much stronger than it had to be so i guess to avoid that they have to do the opposite but let's focus in on where you are there in the u.s. the i.m.f. criticising that mix of tax cuts and planned increase in spending what's the fallout expected to be. all the faults would be increasing budget deficits looming debt which is of course something that politicians often don't care about a lot because the effects will be felt only years after they left office now in the

case of the united states the effects might be felt much earlier in only a few years. states is projected to spend as much on interest rates for or interest on debt then for its military about six hundred billion dollars and in about ten years the outstanding debt for the federal government might reach the same amount as its g.d.p. so they might approach one hundred percent of g.d.p. . is something that concerns the i.m.f. because it might trigger inflation and cause a further downturn now that the u.s. is digging yourself deeper cousin thank you very much for that and some breaking news now starbucks will close more than eight thousand u.s. stalls on the afternoon of may the twenty ninth to conduct racial bias education from please as out of the apparently racially motivated arrest of two black men and

one of its stores in philadelphia the arrest led to an apology by the c.e.o. kevin johnson and the firing of the manager who called the police made angry protests outside the starbucks location where it happened. now the u.s. britain and australia have accused russia of cyber attacks on computer networks that could be used to sabotage critical infrastructure as part of a string of hacking accusations against the country which of course russia has denied. the hacking accusations against russia came in a rare joint statement the british and u.s. cyber agency said russia could be laying the foundation for future offensive cyber attacks they warned that hackers backed by the russian government were targeting government and private computer networks the hackers aim to compromise key hardware like routers and fire walls that would give them virtual control of data flows allowing them to steal critical data and plant the ability to carry out cyber

warfare the attacks weren't limited to the two countries australia also accused kremlin backed hackers of targeting hundreds of companies. the the point. is that. the announcements come at a time of growing concern about russia's cyber activities last year the us ordered civilian government agencies to remove casper's key antivirus software from their networks amid concerns the company was sharing data with the kremlin casper's key denied the accusations and in february germany said russian hackers had breached key government networks the ongoing cyber assault raises new questions about russia's intentions a country the agency's described as their most capable hostile adversary in cyber space. and russian officials are making further moves to block people in the

country from using the popular message app telegram is one of russia's best known technology products but it has angered the government but by refusing to hand over its encryption keys that led a court last week to say telegram must be kept out of russia until it complies with suffer quest's comment from deja vu social media that's joins me now to explain all of this for us so call how is russia blocking the app now and all the moves affect it is effective it's very effective in mean imagine one day your favorite messaging app maybe it was app is just completely blocked you can use it you can text your friends your family anymore that's what's going on russia ten million russians use telegram monthly it's a very popular out there and now the battle seems to have been won by the russian government yesterday this blog officially went into effect and now today we're seeing russia's telecommunications watchdog or they're asking google and apple to

just completely take the apple out of their app stores it's gone even even further with this game of kind of cat and mouse the russian government now blocking some eighteen million ip addresses across the internet there in russian an attempt to really just wipe out all the ways the telegram was using to get around this blog so these were some other ip addresses that were hosted by google and amazon that's causing a lot of chaos in terms of local businesses that they're not able to use their their websites anymore so it's a big deal russians now having to basically rethink how they communicate what app can they use the russian government is now recommending something called i c q which was actually popular kind of in the ninety's it's only now though by a putin loyalist so likely not as secure as telegram so they could just switch to any old hat because it's just not there's not that security encryption so how are the russians reacting to this block are they outraged by it they are i mean we saw protests on the ground in moscow and of course lots of people speaking out online as well basically a big outcry there because. with telegrams founder and c.e.o.

actually had a message on telegram itself against this blockade we can show that to you he writes on telegram that privacy is not for sale and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed not just that but the russian opposition leader alexina volly also speaking out against the ban and he writes that while trying to block telegram these idiots from blocking whole chunks of the internet this is damaging business is bringing harm and discomfort to users they have to be prosecuted for that this is an abuse of power and in our beautiful future russia we will punish those jerks russians also though handling this with a pretty good sense of humor i have to say i love this comparing this entire battle to star wars essentially you see telegram founder derive their dodging the russian telecom stormtroopers who have those diamond logos in the background and other internet companies you can see kind of caught up there in the crossfire pretty good

one there and another here implying that russia is essentially heading backwards in terms of technology you see the head of russia's telecommunications watchdog and the tweet says we have the most modern means of communication have access to the latest known technologies but you can see in the background circling the lovely soviet era telephones on his desk there you know we're also seeing frustration of russia essentially going after one of its own you mentioned the beginnings as one of the big success stories in terms of russia's technology companies and now you see russia basically trying to shut it down you don't see too many russian apps making it big internationally this was one of them right common thank you very much for that. leyva cruisin has veyron munich tonight in a german cup semifinal match it's the next step on byron's path to a trouble of season ending trophies the bundesliga champs need to keep their focus

against leverkusen without looking ahead to next week's even bigger champions league match with real madrid. with the bundesliga title sealed in april seventh by in the doing a lot more than just staying alive. they rested players in saturday's league game with money she got back but still triumphed five one now they have laid the kids in their sights with triple talk sweeping the club. we have. shown is. because we relax so we we are very focused you know goes we have many many players i can play. every game so we have equal to that. sort of and that is still injured but jerome bowen saying is expected to return against a lay the couzin side who have won their last two bundesliga matches for whom they both have no ray of attacking talent and could trouble buy on given it's a one leg semifinal and they are. forward line is so stacked

stephan kiesling hardly gets a game these days but he told the w. he is desperate to face by and before he's expected retirement in may. sure it's a semifinal against biron of all teams but we've beaten them in the german cup in the past and only lost on penalties to them a few seasons ago in the cup you write your own history and we have the tools to make our own bit of history and the largest. but that is exactly what by and coach you pinter's once he's also retiring and await overlay the queues mo keep him and buy on on course for a second treble in five years. and we still have a lot more to tell you about coming up a new photo exhibit here in germany looks at black power and flower power fifty years on you will see. that and

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reform the euro zone. now here in germany hundreds of churches have discovered a new take on the biblical command to love your neighbor their granting refuge to some failed asylum seekers effectively stopping moves by the authorities to deport them churches the various denominations are allowing refugees many of the muslims to live on their premises for months at a time where the authorities don't dare to arrest them our reporter met up with one syrian student who's fled to a church. this church in cologne is protecting use keeney from deportation. the syrian student must leave germany because she came to europe via italy. german law requires her to apply for asylum in italy user is on the deportation list i hear that's all people that's to go back to italy sleep in the streets so my family leave here why i didn't have

a right to live with them. the twenty four year old asylum application has already been rejected twice but this lutheran church and its pastor are giving her temporary protection. for now she can be near her father and brother who have been granted asylum here in germany. the family was torn apart by war her mother and youngest brother are still in syria waiting for visas to germany. she gives her family together virtually with a collage she made on her mobile phone. and this is it it makes me so angry it's inhumane stage four floors of the rightful place it's awful if human rights in this fashion why can't they forbid the family to reunite. the church protects you sir but the asylum offered by the church is not official legal protection so far the state tolerates this the police doesn't

raid christian places or prayer right now about six hundred refugees are being harbored by german churches officials have a problem with this. stuff a church asylum can only be allowed to exist in exceptional cases if clever lawyers misuse of your original agreement and apply church asylum to extend the refugee stay until deadlines expire and we cannot accept that can view him for political reasons you says father left syria three years ago he doesn't want to talk about this as long as his family still is in danger the situation in syria is safe i mean. changing. minute to minute from. there is no country as. i left syria.

when she lived in syria use or had an active life she worked with the units of projects for war damaged children and was writing her bachelor's thesis on restoration of war torn palmira now she's stuck waiting in germany for an undetermined time period. so i hope that's. snowing in my mother and her brother soon and my two is going better as i didn't. use or dreams of completing her master's degree in architecture in germany one day she wants to return to syria and help rebuild it after the war is finally over. are we going to transition out to a whole nother topic because china and the us are locked in a trade war but chinese consumers aren't showing much concern that we're they don't really care and china the chinese government is trying to bring across

a different message entirely as well all the chinese economy is looking resilient officials in beijing appear to be scrambling behind the scenes to push out more promises this week of economic openness. the trade dispute with the us may be grabbing the headlines but chinese consumers don't seem to be reading the papers they just keep on shopping and real estate buyers keep on buying china's efforts to boost its domestic economy are bearing fruit world bank figures suggest exports now account for only twenty percent of economic output. you do china is well positioned to respond to whatever challenges may come along you that includes trade friction with the us we can maintain a healthy development over a condominium. but if the us did fully implement its threatened punitive tariffs that development might not be quite so healthy many companies are still heavily

dependent on exports so china is trying to blunt some of the criticism of protectionist policies by opening up its markets on tuesday it interest one of the biggest complaints announcing that foreign automakers would soon no longer have to take chinese partners on board now to reports of a breakthrough in pay talks between germany's public sector unions and employers and the agreement would still need the approval by the trade union down to eat it's been calling for a six percent pay rise for two point three million workers in line with robust economic growth the federal government and municipalities have projected the demand put pressure on employers value calls for nationwide strikes earlier in the month paralyzing airports and public facilities in many states. cuba's president raul castro steps down this week investors were expecting an economic boom from his reforms which have stalled all backfired in some cases but there are some

surprising success stories. it's never really empty on the streets of old havana crowds of tourists do their shopping there every day also visiting the smaller shops of many cubans who have become self-employed that's only been allowed for a few years in a small one side street designer it done here del rio runs her business kenda stina the brand has enjoyed success thanks to its high profile customers even appearing on the pages of fashion magazine vogue the first ever cuban clothing store to do so i see. here. and there from those car have their cuban economy. i hope. that the line that's how fast or or. establish a few years ago can be you know. it can be as they may prove man del rio knows that the opening up of the country has caused problems

for many cubans food for example has gone up in price but she's optimistic she's opened an online shop in the u.s. to sell her goods over the internet despite cooling relations and u.s. president donald trump's new sanctions. or operational are in the united states everything this is like a split totally different company. we only say. that. you know the cold and the forward of. the us is that it's possible you know is allowed is legal. is our way to go around the embargo if you don't you know del rio has no also. i heard several employees in her shop in havana and she hopes that someday she'll be able to deliver her products all over the world. it's only a business to

a city now of extreme wealth and extreme poverty you could say that again some are calling it to roost berlin wall the wall on the outskirts of the capital lima divides the city's rich from the poor while the contrast is particularly striking if you visit a pump loner also a shanty town just a stone's throw from one of the peruvian capitals most affluent districts the two areas divided but what some locals call the wall of shame. the air here is heavy with dust most of the people living in these shocks have no access to electricity and running well safer. on the other side of the mountain i well to do neighborhoods with sports facilities and luxury villas. to world separated by a ten kilometer long wall made of concrete on topped with barbed wire. sadat's morris lives on the poor side employing the situation in the outskirts of

the peruvian capital lima the population is increasing rapidly as more people arrive from the countryside to try their luck in the big city. zara has lived here for seventeen years during that time both the wall and the contrast between the two sides have got bigger. it makes people aggressive that this kind of situation shouldn't exist today it's a form of discrimination a flood of my that is getting us young all other people might see it differently. but for me it's a clear separation of the poor on one side and the rich on the other. we put us at sarah runs an ace or e in her neighborhood she offers good food at a good price. something her customers appreciates the forty nine year old earns just enough to get by she serves meals from early morning to evening during the day she takes time out to go shopping and sometimes even goes home for

a short rest. she lives alone now she says her ex-husband was violent. rapid population growth coupled with poor quality housing and lack of services have led to many problems. they've made here are a lot of health risks where we live there animal feces everywhere which raises the risk of infection. there's plenty of filth and smarm here. and our neighborhood is located in a valley the air is always smoky from the garbage being burnt any wallah but this this lots of children have asthma breathing problems and just of issues and there's never enough water. on this side of the wall the stench of burning

garbage is ever present on the other side there's a different kind of fire lift the veil of fire places provide warmth and comfort us here in the suburb of los cuz you are in oz life is good for many of those on the rich side the wall provides peace of mind. and well you know that now we're even if it's my work that makes me successful. i believe everyone who seeks success should find it we have to work together and give each other opportunities. in my opinion the wall provides protection but the door is always open so that we can be together it will be of. several years ago he hired victor who lives on the other side of the wall as home help victor has come to terms but the divide. with us with. well i'm one of the poor people. in the village and that's where i was dying. there's no

reason not to be friends with people on the other side. it's not about exclusion. i mean i wouldn't call it a wall of shame like other people do what he does people only want to hurt others. he says. ten kilometers of barbed wire designed to keep undesirables. city officials agreed to the war construction at the request of wealthy residents who hoped that it would keep crime action of their area. by boosting security not promoting discrimination. and over the years they were always rumors that mountain thieves were entering the neighborhood. but they weren't residents of the poor neighborhood. my for many who live there work here with us and we get along fine and i got and guess what he but there was some

people who tried to come over to us through the slum in order to steal the sewing it's been sewing. they were the catalyst for the construction of the wall. it was built to more security. see this jocosely and would of course it would be. but for sarah the wall symbolizes in justice. a barrier separating peruvians from each other. it's a form of confinement she'll never accept. yesterdays said but it's sad if you can see two different kinds of lives that have been deliberately separated you know that that we're not here you can see two different worlds. if he lives of the rich and the lives of the poor in which a young. it's very sad that there's a wall like this. made of cement built to separate people.

they say main. growing divide between rich and poor coupled with the increasing fears over security. the old separation to neighborhoods in is a concrete example both. now twenty eighteen work fifty years since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight a turbulent year that was marked by waves of protests and social movements across europe and the u.s. the anniversary is cause for a number of special exhibits one of which is on in cologne at the city's museum black power flower power features photographs by the american photographer bear ruth marion and barrett and perkel jones. the black panther party was formed as a response to the brutal suppression of riots in black in the city neighborhoods

the new movement supported the use of violence for self-defense members posed in black berrys leather jackets and with guns in their hands the message we are not victims for u.s. law enforcement agency f.b.i. they were the greatest threat to the internal security of the country and to be hunted down the photo exhibition at the museum in cologne is a sympathetic portrait of the movement the intimate photos at the vulnerabilities and insecurities behind the facade and of the dreams and hopes of the people who got involved. photographers. and purple jones lived in the bay area of san francisco in the one nine hundred sixty s. and were first hand witnesses of historic events they were there at protests organized by the black panther party to demand the release of founding member huey p. newton newton's manslaughter conviction in connection with the fatal shooting of a policeman was eventually overturned. very

socially aware. and he semitism and as a child jones had witnessed racism and even in the southern state of louisiana this had on him so they were very family on the side of the black panthers. the flower power movement was also blooming right on the doorstep the two photographers were fascinated by the radical new lifestyles of the hippies in the haight ashbury district the photographer captured the symbolism of the time. the exhibition continues. and carried home. from our culture desk is here to tell us more about this what looks like a really interesting exhibit what i have a bit of a difficulty to wrap my head around is matching up this flower power and black

power movement it is quite a contrast and i mean obviously they are trying to fit in a lot into this exhibition but i think the fia idea of showing how these two contrasting movements really were the basis for counter cultures that are still very much alive today so nine hundred sixty eight as you know was demonstrations and protests escalate worldwide but this is definitely focusing on events in the united states outrage at what was going on in vietnam and of course the civil rights movement was at that time really heating up with the formation of a black panther party so ruth. was really she was very much the driving force behind that particular essay and collection. and you really did it's really a priceless documentary of the time you really get a sense of her social commitment with that with those shots so lots of social unrest on so many fronts so worldwide not just in the u.s. this is such a loaded anniversary isn't it though i mean we just had the fiftieth anniversary of

the assassination of martin luther king the civil rights activist that was end of march that a real turning point in american history obviously made nine hundred sixty eight in france it's all coming up that was when student protests and strikes obviously brought the nation practically to a standstill here in germany there wasn't a nation attempt on the on the student leader. so a lot going on here prague spring erupted in czechoslovakia was brutally called by the soviets or they were young people and groups sort of rebelling everywhere to against these old oppressive structures and and they were also the different groups were reacting to one another and television of course very much contributed to a lot of that meant at the time by making it very visible yes now these are very serious. times violent struggles yeah. with the flower power that's right which it's interesting that the black power movement was

actually suppressed and criminal criminalized right away where is the flower power hippie movement was also initially a counter-cultural movement but was really almost immediately embraced by the mainstream and really found its expression in pop music and pop art in fact the cologne exhibition interesting lee has an accompanying playlist with hits by all the big greats jimi hendrix gil scott heron a lot of prophets bob dylan and many more and those ideas of of social protest and sexual revolution and psychedelic experimentation to dance a few. hundred years down was when they definitely found their expression then in art all over the globe here for instance in the one nine hundred sixty seven cared about was eventually made into a film here this version we see here this is the quintessential flower power tribute. also started a new genre of the rock music and like so many films from that period it has really . been something of a very much a cult status today and it's interesting when you look out so many of these of

these films also mix up is the point for instance. that hair and particular seems a lot more daring and almost subversive much of what we see today so it's very interesting and i mean also with the black power shots that. they could have been taken just a couple of years ago in ferguson i mean it's interesting how timely they are fifty years ago when are you timely and that year is just such a killer year that it's one of those and to really look at that exhibition turned out thank you so much. all right the european space agency astronaut alexander guest has held his final news conference today ahead of his next trip to the international space station in general this time he will take over as the commander of the station the first german to do so he says he aims to be a nice foster his crew made up of a u.s. astronaut and a russian cosmonaut and a rather unusual robot. this was the view of earth from

space that greeted alexander guest on his last mission four years ago. now he's looking forward to his second trip to the international space station or. it's not just a one person project but a huge team project and seeing that makes me feel give me a feeling of completion of ok this is going to this point of the launch and then to the mission and everybody's ready seeing that it is fascinating. on his new mission called horizons gas will be the first german commander of the i.s.a.'s chancellor merkel calls him the german ambassador to space guest uses the nickname astro alex on his last mission he conducted over one hundred scientific experiments and a space walk which is one of the greatest challenges for an astronaut. going out

the door is something that is of course a little bit more dangerous but once in a while we have to do this to install new experiments on the outside to keep the space station running and if that happens so force the astronauts don't say no because it's an amazing experience. one of the experiments gassed and his colleagues will conduct involves a so-called flying brain a robot with artificial intelligence. and a measure of humor. m r two d two just kidding my name is simon and i will support you. on this parabolic flight the robot is being tested in zero gravity as the first fully automatic robot with artificial intelligence simon is unique the robot will support alexander gas on his space mission by fulfilling routine tasks such as documenting experiments. the first subject of those experiments will be the robot itself.

life is ten percent of what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. that turns out to be a useful model for gas that he completes his intensive training. he'll be spending six months in space and gazing out the window whenever he's not carrying out assignments. when for me isn't on the in mind that when you start to mess this planet's when you gaze at earth first it doesn't really matter where you look you get the feeling that's where we live you feel the humanity that's our home you have this stark realisation that we couldn't exist anywhere else on earth is all we've gone to see feel this really strong connection. alexander gets to live just turned forty two when he takes off so he'll have a chance to celebrate this connection in space.

and we're going to stay a with the space of voyager for you because we're going to leave you with some not beautiful images from space before we go nasa has just released this a stunning virtual tour of the moon in an eye popping four cape resolution based on data provided by their lunar reconnaissance orbiter spacecraft the news continues right after we're done gone and i'll see you again tomorrow. it's just. odd. you.

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