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this is deja vu news live from berlin volcano one hundred years since the end of world war one. more than sixteen vulgate is attend the ceremony in paris a century off the guns fall silent in the great fall of the bloody conflicts that claimed millions of lives. hundreds of thousands take to the streets off walsall to mock one hundred years of polish independence but many members off nationalist groups joined disintegrations. and thousands of firefighters continue to battle
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three large wildfires in northern and southern california strong winds are making it difficult to contain the blazes which has killed more than two dozen people. i'm christine one welcome to the program. europe has been marking one hundred years since fighting stopped on the battlefields. earlier today in paris heads of state from around the world gathered for a somber ceremony around nine million soldiers and millions more civilians lost their lives in the conflict. was it was a moment that had been a century in the making played out against the spectacular backdrop of the uk to triumph in paris running late in the rain world leaders missed the exact moment
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when one hundred years earlier at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns finally fell silent. but the message was clear never again the location adding extra resonance the tomb of the unknown soldier quiet symbol of the sacrifice of the millions killed in the conflict. french president emmanuel macron spoke of the tragedy of war and urged the world to work together for the future. at this you're known as this let us build our hopes rather than our fears against each other. together we can avert threats because all of the specter of global warming poverty hunger disease inequality and ignorance we've engaged in this fight and we can win it. let us pursue it for victory is possible but. to live it well i perceive it.
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there were readings from the time of the armistice drawing on the wars rich literary and poetic tradition words read by one of today's young students recalling the day a century ago when the great war ended. there. is over. i understand in an hour we will leave. never have to come back here. later german chancellor angela merkel opened a new global peace forum hosted by the french president the world she said must remain vigilant against the dangers of nationalism that he commits and then was in this war that senseless bloodshed shows what national vainglorious ness and military arrogance can lead to it makes us aware of the devastating consequences of lack of communication and willingness to compromise in politics and diplomacy. in
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politico. us president donald trump chose not to attend the peace forum visiting instead an american military cemetery. but the abiding images will be the poignant scenes at the arc de triomphe the french capital food over in the first and later the second world war now uniting old enemies remembering together. all right let's take a step back now and look at the big picture i'm joined now by. he's a professor of modern history at freight university mr malcolm thank you so much for being here with us today we heard from. off the dangers of nationalism and of the sort of fanatical nationalism that preceded it will all one how do you weigh the risks well i don't think there will be returning to the pre-war
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nationalism the national extreme nationalism in the years before nine hundred fourteen before the first world war but there are of course indications that nationalism is on the rise again i mean if you look at some states such as hungry poland and in particular the us america first i mean the writing is on the war and so we should be considered. what lessons should we learn from the mistakes of people. well i think first of course the first world will point and highlights the dangers of nationalism extreme nationalism and imperialism. and second if you look at the at the outbreak of the first world war. you can ruin that what what impact misconceptions misunderstandings between the governments of major powers can have so what you can learn is we need more empathy we need
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openness we need open diplomacy we need talk we need negotiations we need to understand any of them. you know it's been a century of course since the end of world war one this is a conflict that stirred hatred like you were referring to some of the some argue that it made little to almost inevitable has europe we've gone from the sort of twentieth century. where the second world war was not inevitable of course it was indirectly related to the first world war in particular it was strongly related to diversify treaty with left major powers dissatisfied and this was one of the roots of the second world war i think we have learned. some lessons i mean if you look at the franco german a law arms since the late forty's and early fifty's. europe as a whole i think has. has improved their relationships and the european powers have moved on the path towards we conciliation rapprochement all frizzed in the west
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and then after the fall of the war in these two even before in the seventy's and eighty's and to these two dettol. so i think we we have learned some lessons and we should keep them in mind this is would be should really observe the first war is not me history you know we heard the jim chancellor angela merkel talk about the international institutions and how they're important and we're talking about one hundred years ago when we saw a deadly conflict that claimed millions of lives how important are international institutions to preventing something like that ever happening i mean they are very they are very important because i mean they bring people together they bring major powers together they have a they opened their offer a platform of negotiations for a platform of understanding of talks and pressed form of nationalism i
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mean we created with win situations not seeing the other nation as the enemy the citizens of the of the nation as the enemy but trying at least to understand the other and this is what i mean the major institutions modulator institutions like the united nations or the european union are good for. all right. thank you. poland has been marking its hundredth anniversary of independence more than two hundred thousand people took to the streets of the capital walsall including a number of national groups that joined this integrations president at the march after presiding over a state ceremony. can and salute in honor of the fallen. polish president and jay due to his the flag and laid a wreath at the tomb of the on known soldier the history of poland's last hundred
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years as one of much sacrifice and a heavy loss of life is up on your. these are our heroes we will not forget them in the coming hundred years. then came the controversial march through warsaw with senior politicians including duda at its head far right nationalist groups were out in numbers they had organized the marches in previous years making headlines with recent slogans the government took over the planning for the latest event. well that it must this is a general march for you poland for polish independence. the national anthem was sung the nationalists set off flares. everything disappeared in smoke. after a while they took to the streets accompanied by right wing sympathizers from italy and estimated two hundred thousand people took part in the march. here in germany
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a major shake up at the top of the government could be underway interior minister. the head of the christian social union has faced increasing pressure to step down now multiple german media sources say is able to intends to step aside soon as c. . and to resign his post as interior minister within the current lead to such a theory is as leader of the c.s.u. the sister party of i'm going to battles christian democrats he repeatedly challenge him at all and forced a showdown that made it to the collapse of the coalition government he's rubik resignation follows a poor showing in last month's the varian state elections. residents of the eastern ukraine regions controlled by russia back separatists have voted for local governments they went to the polls to choose heads of government and in a just such a in the self-proclaimed donetsk and luhansk people's republics separatists have
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battled ukrainian forces since two thousand and fourteen kids and the west say the bush is an achievement because it's conducted way ukraine has no control. giant wildfires continue to rage at both ends of california at least twenty five people have died in the blazes most of them in the northern mountain town of paradise which was almost entirely consumed by flames now of a one hundred people are still missing there more than eight thousand and five battling the fires and seven kind of phony thousands of homes have been evacuated officials say strong winds could worsen the situation in the coming days for the latest on those fires we're joined now by jason kept in ridge on the beach at los angeles and jason you're on the beach in los angeles tell us about the fi is near you. i'm about forty minutes or so south of the fires and as you can see
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behind me the smoke is completely engulfed the south day down here in southern california the helicopters are up the airplanes are up and they're dropping massive amounts of water on the flames the problem that they're running into is people are not evacuating when they're being told to evacuate and about one hundred fifty one hundred fifty homes have been destroyed but that number is expected to climb firefighters just can't get into neighborhoods it's still too it's still too dangerous jason what about the weather conditions it sounds as though they are feeling the fire is. it's absolutely correct the winds are expected to gust of about seventy miles an hour today later on this afternoon and that's exactly what's happening is now firefighters have to chase this fire towards the coast and they can't catch up it's just bringing embers from a fire in one area and they can carry the winds can carry the embers about three
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miles and then you've got another fire there right now the fire here near malibu is standing at about one hundred thirty square miles and it's a massive massive blaze and firefighters are doing all that they can those winds are expected to continue through tuesday. and what is the situation in northern california. it's complete devastation where the fire the burns own the camp fire has destroyed in incinerated hundreds of homes and thousands of homes actually and people are had to evacuate and they were told to get out at a moment's notice people left behind their cell phone they left behind their i.d.'s their money and people are now stuck in shelters hoping for the best and hoping that at some point firefighters can get a handle on that fire and they can see if their homes still standing jason can be down here reporting for us in los angeles thank you sport now and will champion
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lewis hamilton has won the penultimate grand prix off the two thousand and eighteen season he took the lead in brazil just ahead of red bulls next to stop him and ferrari's kimmie right couldn't handle since victory means that miss sadie's kynge the constructs this title for the fifth season in a row off to the britain had already sealed his fate for you know one championship in the last race ferrari and red bull will finish the season in second and third respectively. now stay tuned for the after the break chris harrington will be joined by hoffenheim steve scott that's the most fun and still to wrap up match day eleven they'll be tackling this weekend's talking points including of course top men's big win in saturday's clash of five munich also be looking at those clubs the speeches and perspective signings that's coming up after the news. and you're watching the news live from berlin stay tuned for more of the top of the hour you can also check out our web site that's where i'm to. see you at the top of the next
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