bridge. to try exclusive report starts nov seventeenth w. this is deja vu news live from berlin one hundred years since the end of the first world war the french president and german chancellor make history with a joint visit to the sites where one of the bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century was officially forced to run it. by engulfs entire communities in california at least nine people have been killed

and hundreds of thousands of residents have been forced to flee their homes including us serious he's giving advice. and russian facts say persistent eastern ukraine for page will hold you make shin's and what critics describe as a move to cement base bit from the rest of the country. also coming up in football dortmund and by munich's clash went to the wire station to see who came off on top into a classic in the sure. i'm christine one welcome to the program europe mocks the moment hundred years ago when the battlefields fell silent at the end of world war one ending the conflict that drew around forty nations the leaders of france and germany came together in a highly symbolic ceremony honoring the seventeen million people who died president

emmanuel mccraw of france and german chancellor again a magical laid a wreath and unveiled of paulk in the forest at the armistice caring in cold bay area the moment highlights the special alliance at the hotshoe of your. the culmination of a decades long process of reconciliation this was the first visit to campian year by a german leader in decades and a manual micron greeted chancellor merkel with demonstrative warmth. reviewing the troops of the euro corps franco german brigade the two leaders cross the clearing that there is testimony to a defining moment in european diplomacy. it was here that germany capitulated to france and its allies on november eleventh one thousand nine hundred ending more than four years of carnage on the western front. mccrone americal unveiled a plaque in both languages reaffirming the value of franco german reconciliation in

the service of europe and peace then another warm exchange before the pair later wreaths in tribute to the victims of the great war. they then moved on to the museum that houses a replica of the carriage used by the french general marshall founded on force as its headquarters at the site it was inside this wagon that fosse received the german delegation for the signing of the armistice they agreed the truce would come into effect on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at exactly eleven o'clock twenty two years later in an act of revenge at all fittler dictated the terms of france's capital ation to the nazis in the very same wagon. america mccrone signed the visitors book french officials underlined there would be the last signatures. and act that literally closes the book on the animosities of the past. for more

on this i'm joined now by french journalist pascal civil he is the bird and correspondent for radio france international just. been here today so there's been a lot of discussion looking at these two leaders michael and michael and across strong echoes of their predecessors helmut kohl and francois michelle han yeah i think when you were when you meet that plays in compiegne where two french tranquil german humiliations took place one hundred eighteen one hundred forty when you go there after the handshakes between need to honk or nineteen eighty-four and after order big big speeches from example from the former german president in france four years ago it's i mean you have all these is story you have the is true of the world and you have also what your predecessors did and you have to you have to invent or

i don't know new something new and maybe also to to have a look to the future reckon that's important to know only to commemorate the past but also to look to the future that's the goal of this conference from own parents i mean when we talk about the predecessors when we talk about helmut kohl and when we talk about france only to haunt they lived through world war two and so when when they talk about european unity it's essentially the difference between peace and war is that the same lens that these two leaders would see it through of course situation for them is different because they never experience a war. council american experience the cold war but it's another one. but i think they are very aware about. all these historian about the very very complicated history france and germany had in the last centuries but especially in the last one with the two world wars and with all what the predecessors did after

after nine hundred forty five history is very important mark or as well as we have already seen in the last eighteen months with a big with a lot of symbols with great mall from him for a history sort of sort of sort of history of france in europe but also in africa the former colonies i think it's a very important chapter because you can also build a bridge between the past. and the future and just talking about french president manual on he he's engaged very strongly with this anniversary has. of course i mean there's a day is an important point is that the memory of these were of the great war as we say in france is much more important than it in germany. should mean morial week one week ago during the last week with the german prince and.

and today there where he was with. tomorrow there will be a summit in paris with a lot of polygynous from all over the world so it was a very important week for for him for the french history but also it was an it was an occasion for him to meet a lot of french people in a period where he's popularity is. not what he would like to be and be sweet with a good occasion it was not always simple. some dialogue show you had with with french people during this week but. that's the way he wanted to do it all right. and correspondent at radio france international thank you for your time thank you. u.s. president donald trump had planned to visit a military symmetry in france to pay respects to the american soldiers who died

while one but the white house scrapped the plans due to bad where the president had held at a cordial meeting at the end is a paris palace this off of the u.s. president described french coals for a defense force as quote very insulting on twitter and demanded that hey it's fish . in california at least eleven people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced as wildfires continue to rage in multiple locations on thursday flames engulf the parrot's eyes and northern california driven by a strong winds and fed by a posh landscape the blaze destroyed thousands of homes separate fires have forced two hundred thousand people from their homes and thousand oaks friday the entire city also has to be evacuated malibu home to the rich and famous but its wealthy residents have been ordered to leave for their own

safety as residents took to the highways and fled a wall of fire swept towards the pacific ocean emergency services are struggling to contain the wildfires more than two hundred thousand people have been evacuated from their homes and the thirty's warned there could be worse ahead. on the other one sunday so there's not going to be really. brought here until you there are. first responders. to protect lives. eight hundred kilometers to the north another wildfire is raging flames have already consumed the town of paradise more than six thousand seven hundred homes have been burned here making it the most destructive blazing california history nine people died trying to escape and many of those who survived left with nothing. no i was just climbing up the street in my neighbors and again i didn't realize my

old nodes. are as a lot of our business in a matter of suckers only thing we got our credit cards and our bank cards we had virtually nothing when we started over president trump is blaming california for poor forest management and he's threatening to hold back some federal aid payments right now the residents of california have more pressing concerns. say any system you claimed russian backed separatist sausage to hold elections in two self-proclaimed republics on sunday it's an apparent bid to cement base that on the rest of the country the self-styled donetsk and luhansk people's republics known collectively as the donbass region have been outside of control since two thousand and fourteen fame actions have been strongly condemned by key if and the

european union. for a donbass region with a russian heart proclaimed these election posters the acting leader of the donetsk people's republic dennys pushilin makes no bones about the territories reliance on moscow. but of course russia supports us but that's just temporary assistance until we're better placed to use our own resources despite the complicated situation that we're currently in the moment that we need. this simmering conflict has torn open wounds in eastern ukraine and around two million people live daily with the danger of mines and unexploded munitions fidgeted laurie may have checked into the mind about a third of the affected territories when he was a mobile that we would have the capacity to clear more areas but that's just not possible because they are too close to the front line is almost impossible because nina. the line of fire separates the self-proclaimed people's republic from the

ukrainian controlled territory it also runs past what's left of tonight's port the scene of bitter fighting in twenty fifteen for eager this is home in the garden he shows us where his father was killed by a grenade the fifty five year old is pinning his hopes on russia cream and they've already taken crimea and a dumbass region to europe that will probably be a bit too much but one day the dumbass will surely be part of russia again just like we used to be it like many here in donetsk igal can see no way back to life until ukrainian rule. there may be more than six months to go before elections to the european parliament their say for may two thousand and nineteen but electioneering is already getting underway here in germany the country's green party has named its two main candidates for the race one male one female both while the politicians at the european level well the general drift to the right in much

of europe and rejection of mainstream parties the greens have seen a surge in support in germany and many see it as a natural home for young same to lift pro-u. e.u. . yes to europe and yes to closer cooperation that's the tried and tested strategy for germany's green party going into next year's european elections the greens main candidates gar keller sees the european union as under threat from nationalist governments like hungary and italy who do that is not the right way nationalists want to destroy europe because it stands in their way as the last bastion of freedom and human rights that's why they're already rallying their troops for the e.u. elections but we will never let europe fall into the hands of top of the greens agenda climate protection and the transition to renewable energy sources a ban on single use plastic and a minimum wage in all e.u. countries the greens are also sticking to their liberal immigration policy

including opening the doors to europe for any future refugees fleeing climate change the greens party's second lead candidate sven gold says that investing in europe is in germany's own self interest. george learned is germany's not losing out it's the biggest winner from the european union and we need to keep that first and foremost in our minds dear friends don't fall into doing more for europe while others are calling the e.u. into question that's what the greens are waving the flag for. ok football fans don't fret because chris harrington will be here after the break all the goals from match day eleven states shooting for highlights from day testing as dortmund and by force a tough match for what does need a supremacy that's add more action from match day they've been coming up in just a couple of minutes time. and just a reminder of the top story we're following for you german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel across half mark one hundred years since the end of

the conflict once described as the war to end all wars they unveiled a clock at the side way of the armistice that ended the war one was signed. you're watching it every music live from berlin stay tuned for more at the top of the hour and in the meantime you can check us out on twitter we're acting or our websites that's dot com see later. we'll have a look at the. volume . and in the end you're not a lot of the rules and you. are you familiar with this. new smugglers were liars. which.