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i am. sure this is the only news line from girl in israel remembers the victims of its struggle for statehood. jerusalem comes to a standstill to commemorate slain soldiers and civilians killed by terrorism this many years after israel first declared independence we'll hear more on the anniversary from israel's ambassador to germany. meanwhile the ugly specter of anti semitism rears its head here in girl and police investigate after men shouting
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abuse attacked two young men in jewish chippewas. plus a secret meeting between a superpower and a pariah u.s. president donald trump confirms via twitter a meet up with between cia director mike pompei o and kim jong il and in north korea what does this mean for peace on the korean peninsula. i mean. i'm loyal iraq a great to have you with us israel today is celebrating seventy years of independence let's take a look at some of the key events that led to its creation while this man that you see right behind me is theodore herself he is considered the father of modern day is zionism he increased recognition for the need of a jewish state and promoted jewish immigrants. into palestine in nineteen seventeen
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british foreign secretary arthur ball for made a declaration of support for the creation of a jewish home in the middle east the first world war saw the defeat of the ottoman empire and its partition between the european powers and in one nine hundred twenty two the league of nations granted the british a mandate over powerless time and trans jordan from nine hundred thirty three when the nazis came to power in germany more and more jews from europe migrated to palestine in the aftermath of the holocaust many survivors followed them and then on november twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred forty seven the united nations proposed a partition of palestine into separate jewish and palestinian states in one thousand forty eight david ben-gurion declared israel's independence to the joy of many jews around the world to the palestinians however the occasion is known as the nakba the day of the catastrophe which symbolizes the displacement of hundreds of thousands
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of their people israel commemorated the day by remembering those slain in the country's birth and in its struggle to survive. sirens sounded across israel on wednesday to mark the annual memorial day at eleven o'clock the country came to a standstill for two minutes people stop to remember fallen soldiers victims of terrorism and other israelis killed in hostile acts more than twenty four thousand israelis have been killed since the establishment of the state seven decades ago. she knew it seems like it was yesterday that been gobion proclaimed the state of israel in tel aviv. it was just fourteen at the time his parents had fled nazi germany and come to palestine in the early one nine hundred thirty s. for him it was a moment to stay there was of the chlorination at the television museum at the time
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. roach of the boulevard in tel aviv and everybody listened to the liberation and then we were all members of a youth movement of. we broke out into the streets than sing and then sing and singing all all night long. celebrations broke out after the radio broadcast in the in another fourteen year old was also listening to ben-gurion stick curation palestinian sophie macaca she lived with her family in jerusalem where her father ran a photography studio their reaction was very different. my father was upset and they were just clean air hearing the news that's going to happen and if it took very short time that they'd just. troubling the people feeling the people
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so we had to leave not. because we couldn't stay in our home. violence quickly escalated after the declaration of independence a military alliance of arab countries started a war against a new state of. the year of nine hundred forty a world war really what i remember. very lively is the bombardments from be a of the egyptians who would love you. there was also have the fighting in to goose a limb and sophie suddenly had to leave their home and state with gravitas but soon they all had to flee to be jolly near bethlehem pursue feasted lives today when mother was very upset by their well known. it's something difficult is facing us we didn't expect what happened because we were living safe with. no
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problems at all. when moved to bethlehem it's good that we had people to accept us a village when two camps there was a problem again though that if you are just two weeks you will be back but the family was never able to return home they became refugees like hundreds of thousands of other palestinians in the west bank gaza and other arab countries some those state in israel. in one thousand nine hundred forty nine an armistice formally ended the war israel had gained additional territory including west jerusalem. it started to bit a nation a melting pot of nationalities cultures and languages many jewish refugees expelled from arab countries moved to the new state and so did survivors of the holocaust this was only three years after the holocaust my parents were on the. cloud
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or the time on the one hand on the other hand there was this quality of thing that we were out of it we are safe we are now in our own state and there was. a euphoria a feeling of. we have made it we've made it we have a state of our. first sophie macaca it wasn't a new beginning button and she and her family had to put their past lives behind them and just in longing for a palestinian state of their own. here to talk to us about this significant event is there israel's ambassador to germany a german jeremy issacharoff are very honored to have you here with us and mr ambassador a very warm welcome founding of israel a story of undeniable success it's also a story of explosive war and violence what are your feelings about the festivities today marking this historic event well today as you said in your piece before and
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we commemorate the three people who have died in the wars of israel. people almost twenty four thousand people have been killed in terrorist soldiering the wars and it's a very sad day day in which we remember the price that we paid in order to establish the state of israel and tomorrow and this evening will begin the celebration of the independence day and from our point of view the sadness of the loss of our people is the project we paid for our independence and we cannot appreciate the independence without. appreciating the process well well let's talk a little bit about the establishment of israel did any of your relatives share with you what it was like seven decades ago yes my mother was living in jerusalem my father was living in jerusalem at the time they lived with an arab family in a house in jerusalem they were. under siege times the war
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broke out once the state had been declared it was a time of very great time of very tough struggles tragedy many people were killed in the war of independence but it was a time when the state was the clear the time of the lation a time of of like coming to a point in history that we've waited for for two thousand years to be able to return home to our homeland understand mission state and sensually. house for the jewish people to live in do you now currently twenty eighteen do you feel there's still a possibility because the conflict between israel and the palestinians seems to be so for tracked it and there seems to be no solution in sight do you still believe that there might be a palestinian state in the near future i'm fairly convinced that there is a vast majority of israelis want a peaceful negotiated settlement with the palestinians i still believe that this
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can happen and i still believe that that we can find a solution that can address the national aspirations of both parties not to mistake though. i'm always optimistic and i believe one of the things that i think is also important to note it's not just about how we can one time have formal talks but i come from jerusalem and i live in jerusalem and there's a lot of coexistence between the various communities already and i would like to see that elements of coexistence transported into the political arena so that we can have a more formalized political settlement on a day like this we should also remember the positive things. there are a lot of positive elements of coexistence between jews and jews in living in israel are now absolutely in israel and the whole range of different communities is that of a country all right well on that positive note let's pick up on that because earlier this month the saudi crown prince went on record saying it is or has the right to
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exist it made international headlines do you first see a normalization of relations between your two nations in the immediate future and what would that mean i would like to say that would be a very welcome development we see any. attempt to bring the relations between israel and the moderate arab countries in the area closer together i think this would be a positive developments and i also think it reflects the growing convergence of interests between israel and the arab countries that are concerned of threats to them and to us like the those i've been eating from iran and also have been a scene from isis as we've seen in the pas in the general instability the wheels will have to deal with in the middle east so i so i think there is a greater convergence of interest which i think could be the beginnings of a new conciliation between arabs and israelis right now many let's bring our focus
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back to german israeli relations many germans politicians especially are celebrating with you the year foundation israel how would you today describe bilateral relations between germany and israel well first of all i tomorrow will be having a very major celebration in berlin i will be happy to host many senior germans from all walks of life from the government the bundestag federal and from the states our relations they spend many areas of cooperation we have a very energetic strategic dialogue with germany we have a very deep security relationship. intelligence relationship we have many ties in the areas of cyber security cooperation cultural exchanges economic exchanges a new growing. set of synergise that are happening between many different sectors in israeli and german society so i would say that at this time our relationship and
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as i look back to. say the troubled past in israeli german relations i'm always amazed of how we've been able to take the tough and convert it into a very dynamic presence and a very strong partnership and that is a pretty amazing lot of work i went into that to mr ambassador will you please stay with us because i'd like to get your take on unfortunately very disturbing incident that took place here in berlin. because there in berlin the police are investigating a suspected anti a semitic attack as after a man assaulted two friends wearing jewish style skulk out skullcaps excuse me for the first time one of the victims told to w. news that the pair wanted to show an israeli friend it was safe to wear the key in berlin but the attack on tuesday evening has raised concerns for the safety of jews in the german capital. the victim recorded the incident with his smartphone that
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didn't stop his attacker. the attacker repeatedly shouted. which means do and of his victims a twenty one year old israeli just twenty four year old german moroccan friend. and the attacker was led away by his companion there were no further attacks. the two victims spoke with d.w. and explained that they are not even jewish that the yarmulke was a bit of a game an experiment to find out how dangerous it would be to walk around berlin as a jew the result of. i could not sleep all last night. my body in various places. and i must say i just feel less safe. the incident took place a trendy middle class prince lower back district not a high crime neighborhood it's an area where residents rarely encounter violent
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altercation. monday damn i did seem to always think it takes place in the city's outskirts of the districts you think are violent anyway but this year i don't get to hear this. come on you. have to do something about this from the very standard schools training centers and have more reports from people who experience this kind of thing. jewish community has been growing in recent years many have been moving here from russia but also many young israelis see berlin s affordable livable and less as the place where the whole cost originated but it seems to have become risky again. in public. view we've recently experienced increasing anti-semitic incidents seen here they include physical threats and injuries so we have to say that the security situation for people who were clearly identifiable as jews has worsened from.
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firstly that the german government appointed its first commissioner to combat anti-semitism just a few days ago. and we have to prepare the schools equip the teachers with learning materials maybe also with additional training in order to respond to these things and to make people aware of what's happening and. adam has sustained some minor injuries but nothing is known about his attacker police investigating. well with the still israeli ambassador to germany mr jermyn and joining us now is mr felix klein first anti-semitism commissioner mr vest i'd like to start off with you very disturbing incident what do you make of. all. of this video in the morning and i immediately reacted i think it's incredibly. regretting regret
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i think it's very describable the way this person related to the person who he regarded and slowed as a jew. and i think that it would be very appropriate for this guy to be arrested and prosecuted with the full force of the law having not only been abusive but also being physical and attacking this person so i am very disturbed by what has happened this is a hate crime that we're witnessing here mr crime we're able to talk to the victims or find out more what happened here i haven't personally not talked to the because i also saw the video which i found talking as well. and i hope that now police and prosecution do their work and. put these people. to court and that the state is reacting so mystically put this into context for us for
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international viewers especially how common it is are these acts in germany today. unfortunately we have. to see an increase of these this kind of cases crime statistics on the whole is is stable has so far which means one thousand five hundred. semitic attacks are registered by by police every year but these cases that are. under. stress they are not not. real crimes yet shahr are increasing very much but of course the video. showed clearly a crime attack mr ambassador do you feel germany is doing enough should it be doing more well first of all i think it's done a very important step by pointing my good friend. to be the federal commission to combat anti semitism i know philip sees a very professional highly professional and very serious person in relations of
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this particular subject i think he's got a very important track record in this regard and i and i think there there is clearly a problem i think it's a problem that the moans a range of responses in different areas in terms of enforcement in terms of education in terms of zero tolerance in terms of these type of let's ask mr klein how do you plan to tackle this problem the prevention is of course the key and there i think we have to start with education we have to enable schools to deal with the problem. we'll enough we need to teacher training how do you do that i mean how do you concretely do that is that just teaching people that i mean i've done this it's wrong to do. that how do you do it well first of all i think it's the directors of the schools they have to create a climate where an anti-semitic attack is possible is being seen as
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a problem for the whole school community and not only for the jewish my. we're going to everybody's problem everybody's films are that's the first step mr klein thank you so very much for some bass or thank you very much thank you i've. all right that's a conversation was recorded earlier now live with me is carl now is one our social media editor who has been tracking the reactions to this disturbing video of the attack which has been shared wailea on the line karl what have you been saying i mean this is really one of those incidences where you see that it's getting the attention it deserves because it was caught on camera of course right and that footage quickly made it online there's a big discussion taking place in germany right now about this video and even though we now know that the victims themselves were not jewish there's a big discussion happening within the jewish community here in germany that they're quite shaken by this as we've heard and the video is being posted on facebook groups and twitter pages of jewish communities here in germany many saying look it's time to confront the rising and the semitism here in the german capital and
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one particular member of the german community mike. he was one of the first actually to post this video on facebook and here's what he writes he says as a berliner i'm shocked and ashamed despite sustained public debate the steps that have been taken to date seem ineffective regarding anti-semitism if we do not start resolutely now then we are heading for a future much jews in germany will no longer dare to venture out on the streets interestingly the video has also been picked up by members of the syrian community here in germany as well and one popular syrian facebook group has been discussing this video two on one hand some here arguing that the video doesn't show what prompted the attack so coverage is one sided many others though are speaking out in support of the victims one here writing when did being jewish become a crime it's and abrahamic religion if you don't believe in it you're not muslim most people just don't know the difference between being jewish and zionists another writes here he referring to the attacker has to be punished germany is
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a country with laws it's not. jungle and if there are people who think like him they cannot live in germany we're also seeing even arab facebook groups groups as well discussing this and condemning the attacks a lot of discussion online lots of discussion online have we heard from german politicians pretty much immediately after this video surfaced we saw german politicians really speaking out on social media and condemning the attack and among the strongest words we saw were from germany's foreign minister and this is what he wrote on twitter today he says it's unacceptable for young men to be attacked simply because they're wearing a kippah the traditional jewish head covering jewish people should never feel threatened again we are responsible for standing up to protect jewish lives the far right alternative for germany party which is of course strongly anti refugee they were quick to link the incidents to islam one of their leaders here this vital and she writes not only in berlin is islamic anti-semitism becoming an ever greater
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problem passers by are attacked in the open because they wear a kippa neither anti-semitism nor those who spread it belong in our society but maybe the final words here we give to the chancellor herself she also spoke out today through her spokesperson stephanie and here's what she says and she has a good point here she writes this was a terrible incident the battle against anti-semitism must be rigorously fought and won regardless of whether the perpetrators are of german or of arab origin of course as a thing it doesn't matter who's to blame for individual instances this is a problem and needs to be addressed in germany and i think this video despite of course the victim not being jewish it doesn't matter this is brought to bear a big debate and a lot of attention now being placed on this within germany that's a heinous acts regardless all right colonel nason thank you so very much. for it want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. international weapons inspectors say
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a united nations security team came under fire at the site of an alleged poison gas attack in syria the security team was trying to pave the way for the inspectors to enter the town of duma well as investigators want to establish whether the attack actually took place and what chemicals may have been used. turkish person. one has announced plans to hold early elections on june twenty fourth the early polls will hasten turkey's switch from a parliamentary system to a presidential one that will strengthen everyone's power the announcement came just before turkey's parliament voted to extend the country's state of emergency which grants the government's sweeping powers. u.s. president donald trump has confirmed that cia director and incoming secretary of state might travel to north korea and has met with leader kim jong il and it tweeted that the secret trip went very smoothly the u.s.
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leaders currently at his mar-a lago resort in florida oh sting another key stakeholder in the north korean nuclear arms race japanese prime minister shinzo ave. after welcoming shinzo abbe and his wife donald trump wasted no time in addressing one of the main issues on their agenda north korea the us president revealing a breakthrough in relations between washington and pyongyang. we will see the story talking to north korea directly we have had direct talks at very high levels remain high levels with north korea. and i really believe there's a lot of goodwill a lot of good things are happening we'll see what happens as i always say we'll see what the response ramp has now confirmed that cia director and secretary of state nominee mike pan pail met with north korean leader kim jong un last week. a stunning turnaround just three months ago trump and kim were engaged in
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a war of words sparked by p.r. yang's nuclear program and long range missile launches but the new year marked a new direction for the isolated country there was a thaw in relations with south korea with the north participating in the winter olympics and a joint korean talks moved to and hostilities as well as talks of denuclearization . in early march kim offered to hold talks with washington to the shock of many observers trump except it. peo secret trip to pyongyang is further evidence that those talks could go ahead five different locations are reportedly under discussion with trump adding that he's expecting to meet kim in late may or early june. and staying in the u.s. former first lady barbara bush has died than any two year old was one of only two women in american history to bear the title of first lady and first mother. wife to
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one president mother to another barbara bush was a stoic silver has matriarch behind an american political dynasty she rose to prominence in the one nine hundred eighty s. when her husband george h.w. bush became vice president and later won the oval office the poll necklace she wore at his inauguration briefly turned into a fashion icon. just eight years after leaving the white house barbara bush watched as her son george w. moved in. to trouble when i was married to the president and now to see that same fellow that i used to drive around in little league car pools and i used to snell at the police pick up his room to see him as president is truly amazing the bushes had six children across seventy three years of marriage another son jeb became governor of florida. though never herself active in politics barbara bush
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raised millions of dollars for literacy programs president trump said one of her greatest achievements was recognizing the importance of literacy as a fundamental family value that requires nurturing and protection. our will be right back with more news. may the fourteenth one thousand nine hundred forty eight the state of israel is founded. for the jews it's the end of two thousand years of exile. for the palestinians it's the day they lost that last. forty eight jewish dream arab night creation of israel. in forty five minutes on t.w. . time for an upgrade.
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from the church grows all by. close with. design highlights you can make yourself. tricks that will turn your home into something special. a great yourself. with g. w.'s interior design channel on you tube. hijacking the news. we're arguing from the news it is being hijacked journalism and still has become the script is reality show it's not just good versus evil about us versus them why and why. because reese like russia china churchy people are told it's that simple and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond that you are facing scare tactics intimidation and i wonder is that we're we're headed newsworld. my
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responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond just smoking mirrors it's not just about being clear and balanced or being neutral it's about being truthful. chinese court golf and i were you know. welcome back we want to tell you about the top stories that we're following for you right now u.s. president has confirmed that cia chief mike pompei has met with north korean leader kim jong un the secret trip was reportedly to lay the groundwork for a planned talks between trump and kim. and israel has held a memorial for soldiers and civilians killed declared independence a country celebrating seventy years of statehood. and today
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we've been talking a lot here at the w. news about seventy years of israel and we've spoken to the israeli ambassador to germany and other israeli government officials but for palestinians the founding of the state of israel has meant the beginning of a history of expulsion and war i'm now joined by elaine barghouti from the palestinian mission here and berlin a very good evening with my good see what does this day represent for. the palestinian people the day represents the beginning of the disposition of the palestinians and the forced expulsion from their homes however it is also important to remember that. they not but did not start on the fifteenth of may nine hundred forty eight which is also the date of the foundation of israel but it actually began beforehand almost about two hundred twenty villages were already destroyed prior to that date and it is still an ongoing phenomenon till this day the palestinian refugee is to live the longest ongoing refugee crisis in today in
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today's world and there is still no resolution so far to the to the refugee question and they have been expelled several times not only in one thousand forty eight but also nine hundred sixty seven until now they are also fleeing from wars as is the case with the syrian crisis mr was i also want to talk to you about this may fifteenth which is a very significant date there are plans to hold a very big march on that day as well how worried are you that it will spiral out of control and lead to another cycle of deadly violence. well it is important to remember that they wash marchers are still nonviolent it is a it is the palestinian it is the only tool that the palestinians have now nonviolent protest so far in the last three weeks we are seeing. thousands and thousands of people under a blockade under military occupation marching towards the borders which by the way
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it is a state of as of the five to demand that their plight to be recognized for their right of return to be implemented which is also in try and in the international law and especially in the un resolution of one thousand nine hundred four do before may fifteenth the u.s. government will move. it's embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem you are yourself originally from jerusalem how does this decision impact the region and also your aspirations as palestinians for jerusalem to be the capital of your state well last december in two thousand and seventeen when the administration declared jerusalem as the capital. they basically took off the question of jerusalem off the table from the from the negotiation process and of course
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jerusalem is not only a. should not only be recognized as a couple that is what it is also the capital of palestine especially east jerusalem as it is and many many many previous u.n. resolutions but this is not keeping the u.s. from moving its embassy there brings me to my next question at the beginning of this month the saudi crown prince on his tour through the u.s. has gone on the record saying we have a lot of things in common with israel do you feel i wonder that the dynamics in the region are changing in such a way that is leaving the palestinians out in the cold. it does seem like that and it is not necessarily only regarding the changing relationships with israel and the arab states but also it is because israel has not has not stopped at settlement construction in fact now we have leaders in the israeli government
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talking about an accession of several territories in the west bank occupied territories so of course that leaves us the question that we are actually heading into a one state reality this is a very crucial time and i've got to be a better solution to have a one state. but with the sense defacto we're going of course but with the reality that. we're heading is not necessarily a one state democratic. state that is equal for all citizens and for equal there is equality for all citizens but we are going into a reality where there is two systems for diff two different people one where the jewish israelis enjoy full rights for political and civil rights and the other one where palestinians are under a defacto apartheid where they do not where there are under a military occupation from the palestinian mission here in berlin thank you for speaking to us thank you very much. you're watching the news we saw
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a lot more to tell you about including a new documentary explores the legacy of elvis presley by taking a road trip through trump's america in the stars very own will destroy. i wouldn't mind taking a direct. route to the real. power in our lingering stink resubmission we don't know about the dark side what happens over the automotive sector now german police raiding properties linked to three top executives at the sports car maker porsche it's part of a food probe linked to the diesel emissions scandal investigated ten sites linked to one board member another member of upper management and a third person who no longer works for the company is owned by fox five in which in twenty fifteen admitted to using cheating software in diesel engines to possum mission tests financial correspondent daniel copes in following the story for us from the front but stock exchange here's what he told us. this rate is actually
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difference to others we have seen it seems that for the first time active management board members could be part of the still ongoing investigation in many cases before investigators were looking or questioning board members not anymore working for the company and we have not learned who they were exactly looking for porsche has seven active board members but it seems to see all of porsche all of a rumor was not among the ones they were looking for this was a big investigation more than one hundred and sixty police officers and more than thirty eight federal prosecutors were part of the raid which was happening at different locations and bavaria and also in the federal states of pardon for back. our financial correspondent daniel a call that now germany's health care system is often hailed as top class so it's no surprise that hordes of tourists come here every year not just to check out a hilltop fairytale castle but also to get medical treatment germany sees one
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hundred thousand medical tourists in total and that earns the health care system an extra twelve billion euros. mohammed al-harbi from kuwait is doing just fine but his mother who doesn't want to appear on t.v. needs back surgery they travel to germany to get treatment. here we get progressive medicine professionalism and special treatment some complicated surgery can only be done here the doctors are also better qualified than. any. other hobby and his mother are no exception up to twelve thousand so-called medical tourists from arab speaking countries get treated in germany every year your religious doctor your kamila sees about two hundred of them his employers the biggest hospital operator and berlin and it's owned by the city but it also caters to patients from the gulf states offering translators or
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a lot of food for example. this is sawdust not a lot of. patients naturally pay their bills here. and the money they pay for treatment stays of course here in the clinics where it is reinvested and benefits every patient who comes here with investment one. rich patients from the gulf states that's good business for german health care providers the german air of health forum that takes place annually in berlin with the idea of cross promoting resources in the field of medical care. and they go to the distance and we get the u.a.e. center doing five thousand and six thousand patients every year to germany for medical treatment was the total costs over four hundred million euros. i mean at a million euros in a week but the number of medical tourists in germany from arab countries this already stagnating and will probably drop sharply the emirates health care market for example is expected to grow by sixty percent over the next five years meaning
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that soon patients might be up against a long journey and foreign doctors and instead to seek treatment back home. we're noticing that people from the gulf states are putting a lot of thought into prioritizing for the financial resources it's so naturally they're considering whether it's necessary to send patients to germany torch or whether they can be treated at home and save the expenses for the trip one hundred or. a hobby will have to stay in berlin for three more months for some of us treatment and he says he would recommend the experience of being a medical tourist in germany. and he where the country's national assembly is expected to name a successor all thursday to president raul castro who steps down in twenty twenty one and next leader is likely to be mcguinty as canal a long time member of the communist party and opinions are divided when he'll bring
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great change to the country. this modest home is where cuba's next likely president grew up it's in the roughest neighborhood of the provincial capital santa clara may go out yes canal is from a younger generation of leaders and advocates modernization he caught found more critical national media and defied the party's mainstream by backing an alternative cultural center. he was very visionary because well to support the you know at the time. he came with a lot of innovative ideas like giving space to the l g b t community. it was rather marginalized. despite these efforts their concerns over how much the u.s. canal kind of complication many expect him to put an emphasis on continuity.
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that we know that is intelligence and his willingness to try to when you arrive from the principles he learned from fidel and grow your defense them and therefore will continue. cuba's opposition is calling for stronger reforms to lift the majority of the population out of poverty row castro's modernization efforts have borne mixed results so far the cuban government reorganized thousands of state companies in twenty eleven to make them more competitive despite those good intentions production quotas centralized planning and the government's monopoly on foreign trade still prevent true autonomy. i agree culture reform so loosened regulations on farmers and prices however the state dominated system was later restored because speculation inflated prices. many reforms remain a work in progress i have yet to begin well the ass canal approached him head on.
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you want me to find out in twenty twenty one when it will be his turn to wear to boot. a speck of it today an hour later the struggle for health care in west africa is cute especially in togo where poor equipment little pay and a lack of doctors is weighing on the public health care system government spending on health care is almost nonexistent doctors and other medical workers are demanding that the government invest more in health care and are striking regularly to drive home their demands it is a difficult situation for the citizens of togo our west africa correspondent if you increase she managed to covertly film in the largest hospital in togo's capital low may. this child was diagnosed with malaria but his high fever won't go away. he's been in the hospital for two weeks and now his mother has run out of money for medicine.
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i don't have the funds so i went to a private clinic but i soon run out of money and we had to leave. without money they can't do anything that's what they tell you. the only way i can buy medicine because if someone gives me money as a gift. i haven't eaten anything since this morning. i did son raphael needs to see a specialist but the staff its biggest hospital is on strike only emergency treatment is available. david stasi is one of the strike leaders and has already been there rested twice as a result the doctor says he has no choice he refuses to support a health care policy that he says is deplorable. a pyramid we've been trained in
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a profession that's meant to cure people of disease. but at the moment we can save any lives. because it's difficult. is simple we are on strike to change the situation which is very bad says you. don't have enough staff or enough equipment. most of the equipment in the state run hospitals are antiquated and be air conditioning doesn't want. the bad shape of the country's health system is not only visible in the capitals biggest hospital it's also visible in the statistics. on average there's only three health care workers for about ten thousand residents in talk with this is almost four times less than in neighboring ghana and ways below the international standard . opposition groups teachers and doctors have been taking to the streets for months
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. to confront ration erupted over the weekend following a recent protest bad. with according to the communication minister a commission has been appointed to deal with the health care crisis. shutdown we hope we can bring all sides together on this issue. the government has to take the overall economic situation into consideration. and then decide which problems to address first. that's something dr david d'arcy says he has heard all too often annoyingly clear. it's clear that this is the government's strategy to delay the process problem. communication what it communicates doesn't reflect reality that's
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a shame i don't get the impression that the government has different priorities than the concrete problems of the population and in a population that's why dr darcy and many of his colleagues say they have no other option than to earn their living in private clinics instead of the state run hospitals. and it's those very clinics that offer treatment that's an affordable to most to lease including alice idea and her son rafael. there reporting from togo now to one of the biggest problems facing our planet today plastic pollution you can see it right here in this video what that was filmed off the in the nation island of bali by a free diver julie wheeler scientists and britain and the us are now saying that they've engineered a plastic eating enzyme and they actually made the discovery by accident.
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the world is choking on mountains of plastic waste. one of the most popular plastics is p t used to make drinks bottles and synthetic fibers. it takes hundreds of years to degrade naturally. but now scientists have stumbled onto a mutant enzyme that's hungry for p.t. it's produced by bacteria discoveries the enzymes amazing something that can eat plastic would normally take four hundred years to degrade the bacteria are starting to eat this in a matter of days we've done is called a that and same from my bacteria in grown up and i know we can actually digest p.t. within days much quicker in the environment research as fast found an enzyme that had naturally evolved to slowly digest plastic and the japanese dumped two years ago. scientists called it p.
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tastes. professor mcgeehan and his team set out to investigate the crystal structure of p. takes when they tweaked it they realized they accidentally created a far more powerful new version. we are can actually see what it capable of doing in terms of the breaking down of the plastic itself. this is a microscopic view of the enzyme eating away at a piece of plastic researchers hope it can one day be used on an industrial scale. the discovery is already a major step forward in dealing with the plastic bottles littering the world's land and ocean. well it's a one call the morning before the show but there are pictures from
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a new documentary that explores the legacy of elvis presley one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century also known as the king of rock n roll with. named the king the film by director eugene i'm sure recchi hits theaters this week and also has a darker side i'm told i can house that for our culture this is going to tell us more about it this starts in dallas this is car so we're in for a road trip it's being billed as a wild ride through a doomed america in the elvis presley of car and that is indeed his nine hundred sixty three rolls royce that's the director managed not only to appropriate but also then had fitted with cameras so it is indeed a road trip. also to tip right from elvis's birth place into people mississippi all the way to las vegas and beyond and it's also taking place during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election campaign so you can probably just imagine where we're going with this let's have a quick clip first. that was president rolls royce on
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a road trip through trump's america this sacred relic of the king of rock n roll was the perfect catalyst for an exploration of elvis and the american dream. when you drive around with this is car everyone comes out of their office to look everyone leaves the ice cream parlor to come and look through the windows and it was extraordinary how many times we would enter a city no way no one and within a day we knew everybody among the celebrity guests record chuck d. there was a time when i was growing up when you turn on a movie and you get over this movie and you turn on the radio you get out of the song so it was just like he was the right person to sell and market to a white country. much of the film. spills the debates on elvis and the cultural appropriation of african american music. it's important to recognize that elvis as he wrote does not rest
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comfortably in the bowels of all america. it's just. push if you want to. feel his presence great county hit town joke was written and originally recorded by big mama. there's a lot of talk nowadays about cultural appropriation listen to tire american experiences cultural progress. as a black kid seeing a white man take black music and become famous and not do anything for black people with a horrible a sense. i think it's very hard to express sometimes the frustration that black people feel having given so much to the culture and that great value which really helps define america both. the film was made against the backdrop of the u.s. elections that donald trump to power the documentary suggests the elvis presley is
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the perfect metaphor for the rise and fall of america. interesting comparison yeah it is and i mean this film is jam packed obviously elvis was many things to many people but it all comes together as a really interesting portion portrait of a nation on one hand and of from the point of view of this director obviously a very sobering statement on how america got to where it is today i'd like to bring the conversation back to the whole cultural appropriation because that really jumped out at me didn't the african community african-american community excuse me love him back in those days you know they were they really did and that there's of course a lot of conflicting opinions as to what extent as to what extent actually stole from black music i think elvis himself saw himself as situated within. kind of a musical continuum. and he certainly acknowledge the inspiration that he took from
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the great black musicians like ray charles and b.b. king or rufus thomas of memphis he prided himself on not sounding like anybody else you know i mean he was able to to mix blues and r. and b. and gospel but also a lot of country and he was really quite indifferent on a daily basis to those usual sort of social distinctions and he was criticized about as well the b.b. king once that about elvis that elvis knew. learned from him and knew that music was like water it wasn't exclusively for black or white or for any color it belonged to everyone so much of the resentment that i think we've we heard there in the film is is directed at the music industry which of course to this day really has very racist structures and the fact that all that elvis and a lot of white marketers and managers that's after all profited and didn't necessarily let the the trickle down effect is not having that's that you're sure for the people who are inspiring in the background but apparently he even rejected
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the title king of rock n roll when it was first applied to him in sixty nine and he just sort of said you know nobody certainly not me i can never sing like fats domino but they still find a rock n roll thank you he's the other king because b.b. king's the other day. now he was very much a democrat and his didn't which makes his downfall a little bit tragic yeah he had he had this sort of very sort of you would mix amongst the people i mean he had this he was obviously as we all know in a really sad state at the end and that this incredible voice an ability to connect with the people it all became unfortunately a bit too heavy for him i think today's stars are a little better versed with the fame game thank goodness thank you so much karen greatly appreciate it. presley still alive in. our mind and now the stars that we're following for you right now israel has held a memorial for soldiers and. civilians killed since a cleric in the path of the country is celebrating seventy years of statehood and
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police in berlin are investigating an alleged anti semitic attack after two men filmed a man assaulting them while hurling abuse the german government to call the incident in tolerable. all right only a herat can fill in on behalf of the entire team thank you so much for spending part of your day with us sprint cup is up next and i think it's a lot. of
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. good. may the fourteenth one thousand nine hundred forty eight the state of israel is founded. for the jews it's the end of two thousand years of exile. for the palestinians it's the day they lost their love. nineteen forty eight jewish dream arab nightmare the creation of israel. fifteen minutes. yeah. and i think one day this war will be
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considered cruel and unjust war. and certainly all citizens of ukraine every man woman and child will be from their homeland if the enemy invades. no one wants russia here which is the. rebel against the mighty global news that matters. d.w. made for mines. the seventieth anniversary of israel's founding. peak on deja news. featuring eyewitness accounts. contra poets. independence day seventy in jerusalem. israel seventeen to date on each other you mean.
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look at climate change you know i think the evidence very clear and pretty everyday person of the question is what can they do about it so it's failed to simply walk when i think you can and don't take little or elevators i do i do that every time i think about an elevator or lift and this is still way to about i take the stairs. and i try and walk through it wherever i can instead of going in a car or even in public transport it's just going to do things that i think will be very common we just got out of the habit as it became great museum quick to take automobiles that actually it's not very hard to change the springs encourage individuals to i think you know people you need to be making a difference. this
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is g w news while i go from berlin tonight israel remembering the lives lost and take it in its struggle to gain and maintain statehood. jerusalem comes to a standstill to commemorate slain soldiers and civilians killed by terrorists and this sub in the years after israel first declared independence also coming up the ugly specter of anti-semitism rears its head here in.

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