think this is. a matter of the polish coast after being stopped on stage as a charity fundraiser out of mogadishu as a popular opposition leader whose death is being investigated a suspected murder also on the program. that story someone vultures i last played called britain's parliament to back that agreement the prime minister says a no deal exit from new york could bring could break up the country and she has to

give the deal what you call the second before they vote tomorrow. on protests in thailand to ask the military government looks likely to postpone the elections again just a month before they weren't shy jools. was writing in symbolic way after fuel prices doubled protesters have barricaded roads and burns tiles in the capital and there are reports of people with gunshot wounds and bring you the latest from our correspondent in. kabul take you to the ancient city of peaceful coexistence amongst christians catholics jews armenians. love to be a smaller issues european couples of culture. welcome to the program. we start in poland where the man of the city of good dance has died after being stabbed at a fundraising event on sunday night pavel adam overage was also

a leading figure in the country's opposition movement he was taken to hospital in critical condition after being attacked on stage and succumb to his injuries earlier today. doctors at the get done skin diversity hospital were not able to save pavel adamo vich. health minister luke usher musky announced this afternoon that the injuries following a stabbing attack were too severe told that kids should go to the moments before the attack the mayor of key downs praising the fund raising effort for children in need. yet have a dam of it looked out at thousands of people and men lunged at him with a knife he said you don't usually get the attacker then remained on stage shouting that he plame to mayors form a party for wrongfully imprisoning him before he was tackled to the ground.

he was holding a knife in his right hand and yelled that he'd spent five years in jail because of the mayor's old party says he said his name that he'd been in prison in was tortured we don't know how he managed to get on the stage. police have arrested the suspect who they said was a twenty seven year old with a record of violent crime. there. was no one. priority is fighting to get her the pair to treat her could get so close to the mirror we knew he used to pass that said press on it. down the vix was rushed to a hospital in critical condition with wounds to his heart and acting on her. but despite hours of surgery and hundreds of polish blood donors coming to us aid the mayor's life could not be saved he had. to move to. a demo

vich served as mayor of condensed for twenty years his s.s.c. nation has stunned the people of poland. is that more or less from. because you monthly from d.w. a pony show welcome to the studio version of tell us more then about adam overture because his political. significance extended beyond get around oh yes indeed well let me start with the fact that because one of the biggest polish cities a city with a big political significance and a demo because we had been ruling this city for more than twenty years which is quite extraordinary in poland but above that he was one of the symbols he was one of the faces of this liberal poland opposing this national conservative party that's been ruling the country for the last three years we had this local elections in poland last fall and the national conservative party was hoping to win in the

diocese but they didn't manage a dime of each one and gave wind to opposition in poland so yes he was way more than just the mayor of a big polish city he was one of the faces one of the leaders of this a liberal opposition in poland and what is being said about the suspect is now in custody and indeed his motivation well it's a twenty seven years old man who has a long criminal record he had been imprisoned already for robberies after stabbing a dime of each yesterday stabbing him to death as we know now he shouted that it was his revenge for being imprisoned he claimed he was used to be imprisoned wrongfully he claimed that the political party that used to rule in poland tortured him in prison but there are some serious doubts about the mental

condition psychological condition of this man you mention the political polarization in. country since this the law and justice party was elected how has the news of mr at the movies his death been received by the political establishment well poland is so shocked really the country hasn't seen a crime like this in its recent recent history in polls haven't seen something like that so everybody every political force condemn what what has happened politicians are asking to come down to calm down a little bit asking not to make police ticks of this tragedy that has happened but as you said the country is very very polarized to does the year two thousand and nineteen is a very hot political year we are going to have parliamentary election this

fall the european elections are coming so i guess that this calm down phase will not really last very long as you're speaking there we're looking at pictures of. the scene there in good hands with people laying down a tribute to the four men so over the coming days then once people have taken this in hours out people like me then to react to this death because of course it's going to there's going to need to be a replacement there's going to be at some stage politics as normal will have to kick back and. yes as we see poland poles are reacting quite spontaneously there are these marches today all around you so interested just just i was one of the things that surprised me greatly altered way with only people rushing to donate blood this is where you can be a political leader is a very good because one thing to say yes very good deserving to say yes help me so

well polls are they really can keep together when they are facing some tragedies but as i said at i'm afraid that after a couple of days this regular politics will. it will come back we are seeing marches across the country everywhere it's not only guys tonight it's not only we're so in many many cities there are marshes people are asking for not so much aggressive politics but. i'm sorry to say that but i guess in couple of days this political fight may get even worse than before thank you for your insights. even did a b. polish i thank you. well to announce or some of the other stories making news around the world at least four people have been killed and more than the ninety others injured in a car bombing in afghanistan the blast struck near a compound housing foreign workers in the capital kabul there's been no claim of responsibility though taliban militants have carried out similar attacks.

indonesian authorities say they have found the cockpit voice recorder from the lion a jet that crashed into the java say in october killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board the broken into the recorder may still be useful in shedding light on the cause of the crash of the boeing seven seven three. a man in austria has died after falling from a booth ones clearing snow two others were hospitalized the country's been struggling days of heavy snowfall it's way back right after all forty is issued avalanche warnings it's the worst blizzard in the region for twenty years. now britain's prime minister has made a last ditch appeal to parliament to approve the deal she negotiated with the european union. lawmakers to give the deal a second warning of dire consequences if part of projects it is may said it was the best possible arrangement for britain since leaving e.u.

lawmakers are due to vote tomorrow the u.k. is set to leave the block at the end of march a date the prime minister said should not be delayed she's worn better no deal bret's could threaten the country's integrity. and to those who think we should reject this deal in favor of no deal because we cannot get every assurance we want i ask what would a no deal bricks it do to strengthen the hand of those campaigning for scottish independence or indeed those demanding a border poll in northern ireland surely this is the real threat to our union. mr speaker mr speaker with just seventy four days until the twenty ninth of march the consequences of sochi against this deal tomorrow are becoming clearer with no deal we would have no implementation period no security partnership no guarantees for u.k. citizens overseas and no certainty that this isn't workers like those i met in stoke this morning and we would see changes to everyday life in northern ireland

that would put the future of our union at risk well let's get more from d.w. correspondent barbara vai's all who's actually outside houses of parliament in london welcome. appealed to lawmakers is to think again before they reject her deal tomorrow are they likely to follow her instruction. then not likely but she was quite impressive to reason may for the first time since months was her with this particular speech in parliament because she struck a more rational tone she appeals to the sort of the good sense the common sense of calm and terence and she was mostly of course speaking to her own conservative benches to agree to this deal because what she says how she sums it up is that everything else is worse and of course she reiterated her ultimate stretch that if the government and the parliament to end parliament were pushed into

a corner over the brakes it it mine to end up the country might and that was no wrecks it all in the end and that of course should strike taro tara into the hearts of the hard line breaks the cheers in her own rose however of course everybody knows the the lines have been drawn in the sand and palm and people have made up their minds there we've heard some little changes from one side or the other but nothing to really remedy the defeat that she is supposed to to experience tomorrow and it is a large defeat that's what this is not latest survey say if they do vote against the prime minister tomorrow then what happens. what happens is that she will have to come back to parliament within three working days that means at the latest next monday and she will have to present some sort of pledge and be now the most likely turn of events is still that she says ok if you want it i will go

back to brussels and i will ask again whether they will give me more than the assurances that they sort of put out in the letter that brussels sends today but as she also over already in her speech today acknowledged that it's not very likely that in every was draw agreement there is always going to be some sort of backstop so she might try again but she has already acknowledged that she would probably not be successful so everything from to resume a side to sort of richard up the pressure pot she might still be considering what she could really do because the avenues for her the ways out are narrowing from one day to the next so what hell can she expect from brussels. she can't really expect anything more at the moment brussels has also offered in this letter off further assurances that was received in london here today that

there could be an extension off the time that might take off a bit of pressure however on the other side for to reason may that might not play in her favor because the more time sort of goes the more times runs down the more it parliamentarians will say oh bill think we could probably get our best outcome we could probably get norway or we could spring still get a no deal breaks and it is not going to be a great help so she sort of needs to keep up the time pressure in order to keep people together it is still seen from today a very difficult situation we know no real no real change no real gripe outcome can be foreseen at the moment and profits are really hard to come by here in london today pub reversal in london thank you. well speaking of profits business lobby gets a no deal breaks it would be disastrous for british

a manufacturing benefit so then the for the business desk until a small yes and a survey by the british business lobby group c.b.i. shows demand for britain's financial services sector has dropped for the first time in five years uncertainty over breaks of cited as the reason only last week the head of the city of london corporation which runs london's financial district said a no deal breaks it could spot chaos in the stock markets and cost london up to twelve thousand jobs another survey from the us young so consultancy known as in why says money manages a planning to move one trillion dollars worth of assets from the u.k. to other parts of europe. ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary vote on the break the deal my colleague spoke to stephen phipps and c.e.o. of the british manufacturers organization e.f. ifs and says he doesn't see any long term advantage in britain leaving the e.u. in fact we've been pressing the government on on two issues one is

a long term future arrangements with the e.u. must be one with frictionless trade we spent forty years integrating our supply chains together and it's very difficult to try and change course very quickly with the investments we've got so we really need to see a comprehensive agreement that maintains those frictions borders and secondly in common with many other sectors no deal with be a disaster if you can manufacturing we're just not ready to exit on the twenty ninth of march with no arrangements in place particularly around the borders in the exchange of goods and the free movement of people that's absolutely critical for the manufacturing sector in this country see the heavy industry lobby organization shouldn't people like you all the c.b.i. have used their influence to stop brigs it altogether or at least get a deal that's actually good for the bridge economy and goes through parliament do you think you've done enough. well we work very closely with government and i must say we've spent many many months together with the c.b.i. actually we're part of

a group that actually meets every week with ministers describing to them in great detail what is required to make sure our businesses can sustain their position going forward so a lot of our points have been reflected in the agreements that have been negotiated so far so we are pressing very hard for parliament to approve the deal the trees amazed actually negotiated with the commission because it sets forward a sensible transition period during which we can adapt to changes are you happy with that electorate that's on the table right now and it's not it's not perfect in some respects but it does give us a transition period it gives us time to negotiate and very mind it's only the exit from the e.u. and it gives us time then to negotiate what is comprehensive new free trade deal will be between the u.k. and the year what's your main concern about tomorrow's vote is it in order to break that. there are no deal breakers it would be a disaster now main worry is that we've been out in the press we've been speaking

very publicly over the last few weeks together with many other organizations that we are a not ready for it and b. the level of integration particularly around manufacturers and bear in mind we've got two point seven million people employed in the manufacturing sector in this country has been one that's really difficult swung around very quickly so if so that would cause the difficulty we think very briefly what's your prediction for tomorrow's vote it's very hard to predict politics in the u.k. at the moment i hope i hope really that the promises there can get through if it doesn't i hope that they can convince m.p.'s in a second vote perhaps to get it through but really we need to get to a resolution very quickly because this uncertainty is causing as we know lots of issues like lack of investment and difficulty with customer orders and we need to resolve as ricky as we can. see of british manufacturers organization thank you very much for joining us on the. thank you thank you american european and asian stocks all headed south this monday

a shock drop in chinese exports has reignited fears of a global economic slowdown and china's trade surplus with the u.s. . it's a major source of president. once upon a time china's economic performance wasn't global news those days are well and truly gone whether it's consumers losing their appetite for i phones or turning away from luxury brands what happens in china now happens to the world. there are two reasons the countries latest trade figures are having an impact on the markets the first is that they offer an insight into the overall pace of economic growth and to second is that they revealed a state of trade ties with the united states. in the month of december chinese exports unexpectedly dropped by four point four percent compared to the year before analysts are interpret this as a delayed impact of the billions of dollars worth of tire of c united states

imposed last year but imports were also down by well over seven per cent. taken together these thinkers are fueling concerns that chinese growth could slow down even further this year there are domestic causes for this like falling car sales and a sluggish housing market. but without naming the u.s. directly beijing made it clear where it believes the gracious risk lies. in twenty nineteen the biggest worry for china's foreign trade is still the complex and grim xterm the environment. uncertain that unstable factors are still numerous protectionism and you know lateral ism from certain countries are rearing their heads the growth of the global economy may slow some international trade and investment may drag. last week u.s. and chinese officials met with the aim of resolving their trade dispute concessions

were made but a deal wasn't struck if that remains the case washington will impose a further set of tariffs on china in march after all despite december surprise drop in exports china's trade surplus with the u.s. still has a record high in twenty eighteen. to come including. politics and business and. felt fine thank you it's been nearly five years since control of the country following a political crisis. been promising a return to civilian rule. but now they're poised to postpone the election again just a month before. to take place that's brought people out onto the streets of the capital bangkok. is that. they've had enough enough of thailand's military rulers enough of seeing their rights curtailed enough of promised elections being pushed back time and time again. now these protesters

in the heart of bangkok say they won't back down until the government makes good on its promise to let the people have their say we're living with a parliament that has no opposition opposition by the last five years without any you know good governance are. no opposition working in the parliament so this election is very important for thailand not only to go back to democracy but also reduced on the country back again after five years and to get their rights as citizens back in the past five years the military government has used its powers to stop critics from speaking out. until recently protests like this one. now that law has been lifted. but in spite of that demonstrators are still telling me that they're being harassed by the authorities. if i can do that in my. life.

if i am. not but he. can't do it. like that but. the funny thing is but these tactics aren't keeping the activists away they're afraid the government could play for time until the election deadline. constitution expires then there would be no telling when thais would get to vote again. now to some egg splits if news from the world of social media just two weeks into the new year of the queen of instagram kind of each other in case you're wondering partly she's been dethroned after a gear writing a popular platform the reality t.v. star has lost her social media crown to an unexpected challenger who is not just a dream but can tell us more about it welcome at all well every feel every now and

then i get to comment talk with you about stuff that's sweeping the internet and it makes absolutely no sense at all today's one of those days as we were saying this post from cali jenner until today was the most liked person on instagram it was when she announced a year ago that she'd had a baby since it was posted a year ago this post has received eighteen million likes quite a lot of likes still it's quite. a baby. so those records are made to be broken yes especially the weird world of social media that's right and i'm really excited to avoid a problem today something else is cracked that's what it was a ground zero in your lap it's an egg an egg has cracked instagram it's smashed it scrambled this eighteen million threshold it was the first or. of a plain old chicken egg posted to instagram under the title world record eg ten

days ago we see explicit purpose of trying to beat the instagram record of eighteen million likes how many do you think is gosh it's nineteen million. this is strange people are twenty million i just checked my phone before coming on thirty point one million likes people have nothing better to do with their lives thirty point one million likes for a plain old chicken egg and it's not one of those is no it's not they say it's still there it's not the only record to have been broken this year only a few weeks into twenty nineteen and a japanese billionaire took the world record for the most read tweeted tweet let's see if we can get that up he here it is this was shed over five million times and he's a billionaire so he got that record because he in offered money as an incentive to one hundred people randomly selected and they got about ten thousand yen for doing out. the record that he overtook was this one

a teenager last year. wendy's to give him free she can not go it's a no. no i don't know what that meant so which comes first the chicken nuggets or the egg very good. well yeah. so what does all this made yes good question i mean an explanation i saw is that people like a bit of a jargon they like to disrupt things so maybe people wanted to not cali general for thrown we asked the person behind the. account they wrote to us and said i guess it's a comment on celebrity culture and how fragile and easily cracked it is so her it's also money making because if you can gain that many likes and that much influence you stand to make a lot of money so there's that aspect of it was well ok with the egg but i have a pretty good. followup otherwise it's of something of a one hit wonder. you don't there's no one you can i want to thank you but so

great you can go. over about and maroon five has been out as they had lied actually this year's super bowl halftime show rappers big boy and travis scott will also perform it'll be the first time the revival played its most iconic of concerts at the super bowl is on the fabric of the third in atlanta the kansas city chiefs and the new orleans saints are the favorites to bridge the american football showpiece . of those high drama in tennis on the first day of the australian open former world number one andy murray a lost in what could be his final match before retiring he truly gave it his all coming from two sets down in a five set loss to spain's roberta back to set but it is still artist or a good murray has said that the injury will force him to retire from said is this year possibly a soon as after this australian open. this is w.'s life about that still to come

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responsibility. is to get beyond the smoking mirrors it's not just about the. truth. this is the. top story this. is also a leading figure in the country's opposition movement. soldiers and police have been deployed in zimbabwe capital after. after the president announced a doubling of fuel prices protesters in harare barricaded roads are. some reports

suggest police fired live ammunition. as association says it's received widespread reports of people with. privilege. who's on the line from harare welcome privilege let's start with those reports of police firing live ammunition at protesters what are you seeing and hearing. at the place where i visited where i was waking from from morning where food for to says were clashing with the police yes their situation gotten out of the end and as for to says with throwing stones and the riot police was planning to disperse them there was. shooting you know using live ammunition we actually weakness some about three or four protesters we had been short one woman. completely knocked the

leg she was short. around the sides and she lost your right leg and the other gentlemen that we saw had been short behind the back and could not walk or rise from from the ground so. probably was viewed from four to says what they did was such a when they started bending tires in the boat or step with him he's he's been busy since i do this c.t. they wanted to move towards the police to him. earlier on broken down the a police checkpoint in defense don't attend everything so there were fears that's maybe probably they were also wanted to move into the police station and destroy property so police then. retaliated and then just fit them in the process i think that's when life on the scene was relief let's look at the why of all this privilege that this happened to present men and god was

announced a doubling of fuel prices why. what has been happening is that the fuel prices in zimbabwe because of the distortions that are there between the us dollar and the board not you find that the government you mention is to say the board not he should tread that one hundred to one with the dollar has gone in the order of the scum board therefore the issue he is fit government does not have foreign countries to extend to important there's no more detail so that one does not or that federal markets e.g. is trading three times more. than what the government is spending and therefore then you will price the government he's saying that he wanted to cut down when he leaves his views that we're now i've been in this your six where before we have using the exchange rates so government then so it's wise to you kreis the price of

fuel but this is not. for god willing to sell it for the ordinary person because of the increase of the fuel price is also triggered to increase or fry says such a killer transport costs. me votes prevent us from hit in or out of thank you for that. well business news from. thank you very much phil washington's embassador to berlin as issued a stark warning to german companies over a controversial pipeline it supply russian gas to break lead to germany bypassing eastern europe richard grinnell reportedly wrote to several companies involved in the construction of the north streams from pipeline reminding them of u.n. sanctions on the russian energy sector but also criticized the project on social media the us has long opposed an old stream claiming it undermines european security. threat of sanctions has the media listening closely but what about all

the companies that are already deeply involved in this huge european project like its full run a north stream one the new pipeline will supply europe with gas right from russia directly to germany around a third has been built and it's focused to be up and running by the end of the year russian gas corp gazprom is a key contributor with several european companies at least two german firms received the ambassador's letter the interest which is based or owned by b a s if and you took her offshoot of german energy company on it also involved is france's n g and british company world of shell as well as austria's m.v. so far none of the companies has responded to the threat the u.s. is not an important market for unit the same company said for the parent company of interest b a s if the chemicals company employs over eighteen thousand people in north america and rakes in fifteen billion euros annually the company refuses to

comment on the later well here's what some of germany's political leaders think about the contentious energy project. on the one hand you must say that it's a form of diplomacy that is unusual but not totally new we experienced this when he took office and the german economy has already given a clear answer. mr grinnell's recent comments are indeed rather unusual for diplomatic customs. i assume he will turn this into a positive. but. there are good reasons to criticize nord stream too and to look at a critically. on the other hand it can't be that mr grinnell operates as a mouthpiece for one of mr trump's political agendas instead he should restrict himself to maintaining diplomatic conventions but he's had a problem with this since his arrival in germany. mr grinnell doesn't otherwise

a tear to diplomatic conventions and that's why it is not really surprising and i think this must be rejected even if it really is possible to devise the concepts we also believe that not stray into is not useful and energy policy and isn't acceptable in few of our eastern european partners. about. daniel what would be the likelihood of sanctions. when mr grinnell the u.s. ambassador to germany is really known to be a man with this strong rhetoric and he's also a close buddy of the us president if these sanctions are really going to happen that's really difficult to say investors here are also little bit divided about this issue according to the u.s. congress is already working behind closed doors on a possible draft if this would be really the case companies and you just said it

not just here in germany but also around europe could be hit very hard to be already received a statement from heiko mass the german foreign minister he says that he also does not appreciate these kind of commons and says that this pipeline project is very crucial for the european energy sector it's not the first time though that the u.s. ambassador has tried intervening. yeah you're right it's not the first time this is happening last year grinnell was also very clear in an interview and stated that german companies which would continue to do business with iran could face sanctions as well and just like last year investors are shaking their head here and are saying that they don't think that this is the job offer top u.s. diplomat to basically threaten companies here in germany and around europe you called your job in frankfurt thank you very much. and hundreds of flights to and from germany will be canceled on tuesday security personnel in frankfurt germany as

biggest hub and some regional airports staging strikes to protest low wages the work stoppage will be for several hundred thousand passengers stranded. the people living in south africa's townships are at high risk of drug abuse and crime one place notorious for its gangs and drug related violence is eldorado. of johannesburg but a local engineer sports to try to reverse the destructive trend in eldorado park even the children have been ravaged by drugs this is a community we only four in ten people have a job substance abuse is rife but some have already started the fight back to help kids here beat their odds the plan to empower young people through saka office boards we offer epidemic support and we offer character development programs to

reach teach them how to become good people with good choices understand what they stand for living with and the life lessons on just told on the field but in group sessions like this one where young people can talk through their issues with a trusted pm one like delano am a former gangster and reformed drug addict can. we unlock it. and it's almost like picking the lock never know when it's going to open but what many of these things with many. clinton ministers will have to believing in myself in there to give up in value believing in the people and by making sport an alternative to drugs. to senegal where it's a question of a matter of muscle mass fisherman from the northern city of san luis a fight it out in the traditional annual rowing regatta three teams for girls that you don't buy

exuberant crowds. and then suddenly. the leading boat overturns but no one surprise because it's all part of the game the fisherman do this to show they have no fear of the sea. and that's where the social shift is underway increasing numbers of men are leaving their families to work in russia since they only managed to visit home once or twice a year women forced to take on more responsibilities as a result of their growing increasingly confident and self-reliant. to back families farmyard. twelve year old i cross helps with the housekeeping the output has to be heated flour for bread dough costs money which i can and science has been sans he works thousands of kilometers away in russia her

husband has lived with her eldest daughter in a catheter in book for eight years i care and sorrow also worked there for a time the fact that she has to take care of the family on her own in the village has made her more self-reliant. how can this be good nothing about it is good if only everything were normal if we lived together. the children are already grown. how many years have they spent without their father . they only talk on the phone with him they miss him so. every day she tries to see her husband on the internet often in vain. you know in connection with the connection is weak because they're surrounded by mountains.

when she can get a video connection i can't and sar shows her husband the children as well. her husband works as a caretaker in russia he earns much more than he can in coke a star like him many relatives and neighbors have moved to russia they eat when they're all together they make everything themselves bread vegetable hard part stewed fruit tea. without a father in this patriarchal influences citing the fifteen year old daughter beck has to act as man of the house. when we still live together with papa we went hunting in the mountains and worked in the fields we did everything together the initiative also though he had to say that i care and sa go shopping when her eldest daughter visits her they shop together. in the village she meets her friends here mansour author whose husband also works in russia like so many men

from the surrounding villages today they going shopping together. if you know any ways out rice for her asking how many kilos she needs i've had in sorrow and software leave the shop i karen's our remarks on how cold it is and says she's going home. it was all fair invites her to come over and drink a cup of tea with her and her family before she dies. his office husband went to work in russia six months ago she has six children. i need money we have to pay off the loan every quarter we have to pay thirteen thousand and some about two hundred euros right now everything's good a normal four of my children live in town and go to school there everything's fine with us we can't complain there's always. the next morning she travels to batak and

the nearest town the trip takes more than two hours she wants to buy winter clothes for her baby at the bazaar. and. the bazaar is the only place far and wide where people from the surrounding villages can buy fabric clothing and shoes that suit them. my husband and i used to come here in our car and buy food and other things. now it's harder with the baby so much. in the end she finds what she was looking for and sets out for home again. one hundred years ago this week two icons of german communism match the brutal party leader. rosa luxemburg died at the hands of military groups and the chaos that followed the end of the first world war but for the communist movement.

in death on the other her story of the left wing activists have gathered to remember them. came over to meet them. for these marchers rosa look simberg and carly are real heroes though since turned out to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the deaths of the communist leaders trudging fifteen kilometers in the rain to the couple's memorial on historic here. looks and book and who murdered a hundred years ago the struggle still counts we can see that in the rise of militarism the problems that we have with racism in germany the swing to the far right those are all reasons why we're here. no doubt karl and throws there are the big ideals they believe they have to continue the struggle the socialists and communists started more than one hundred years ago. that's when the tradition began

more than one hundred thousand followers flanked the coffins of the two revolutionary leaders look simberg and leap connect were captured and shot by right wing paramilitaries their deaths are still controversial today. julian take this a target studying physics in better than he's active in leftwing student politics and an ardent admirer of rousseau looks and barrack. rosa luxemburg she was important to get because she was a revolutionary she was also a very strong feminist and one of the first women to to find her voice and make make a powerful stand in a time where even revolutionary discussion was dominated by men the marchers make their way to barry lynn central cemetery it's a place of pilgrimage for the left in what was once communist east berlin wreaths and carnations are laid. tecla finds it encouraging that these historical

figures remain so significant for us as they represents how our fights to to improve conditions for all workers around the world and the society that we live in we still face the same conditions work is students. families are still exploited in the same way we have to worry about our rent having our job or becoming homeless and this has impacts all over the world. nearby stans another memorial this one to the victims of communism it's often ignored but for this visitor it's important to lay flowers here. if think of both the default. i think there's always a risk of the two of them being romanticized throughout the film these do this it's important to remember the other side of the story. that's if we want the whole

truth to be told it's. your own plots food and roots. it's debatable whether karl liebknecht and rosa luxemburg were responsible for the crimes committed later in the name of communism but there's no doubt that the one hundredth anniversary of their deaths is being used for political purposes. every year the european union designates a couple of cities as murphy and capitals of culture this past weekend so if there's a launch of this cultural get in there in full gather the idea is to raise the profile of cities off the beaten track with an array of told really bad throughout the year that here you're looking at some traditional of both gary and carriage and . car and helps out from the database culture that is here to tell us what welcome

carol thanks for so what did we just say so that there was the last ones especially was a procession of what we call the so those are men and women dressed up in really outlandish costumes they can be colorful like the ones we saw that they can also be long and furry go to shape for or even made of feathers and traditionally those characters parade or even dance through the towns and villages and they collect their bells and they do this around new year or just before lent clanking all their bells to scare off the evil spirits and so the kookery is actually a divinity that personifies to come to tea so obviously a visit is going to mean hopefully a good harvest and there are similar traditions all over the balkans ok so this is a bogus. very much so i'm so proud of the of the city what more what tell us what makes it so special well it's the first time first of all that gary and city has ever had the title european capital of culture which is interesting our prophet said to be one of the oldest cities in the world it can trace its first inhabitants

back to over eight thousand years ago which is pretty incredible older than rome. it has incredible ancient ruins namely were a room for a roman amphitheater to mention one of the most the tackler it's bulgaria's second largest city after the capital sofia and historically it's really very much a crossroads between sort of western europe and the middle east. a cultural melting pot like you've never seen and that's exactly what the city wants to emphasize is this diversity. very very colorful as we saw there in the opening of the of the show the opening show was actually called we are all colors all of a quick look. it was a spectacular outdoor show in the center of plastic the centerpiece was a thirty meter high and multimedia stage it featured more than fifteen hundred artists representing the country's many cultural facets and traditions from the thracians to the romans on ottomans to modern day paul gary it's tough to vibrancy

comes from these historical contrasts it's one of europe's oldest cities where orthodox and catholic christians jews armenians roma and turks live together peacefully encouraging this unity is the main goal of the city's stint as european capital of culture which has taken the word together as its slogan. musicians such as bloody near village cove see that as the real benefit of this year he says that during the preparations bulgarians grew closer not just in terms of culture but also on an interpersonal level. was not to have has developed a very special spirit of innovation you can really feel that when you walk through the neighbors. hoods and look into people's faces to protect the. preparations for the year have included many construction projects with long neglected neighborhoods being given new life one such project has renovated the city's dilapidated old

tobacco warehouses which will now host exhibitions and cultural events. more than five hundred events are planned for the coming year along with performances on small stages in the city's narrow streets there will be music theater fine arts and photography with a focus on the city's people and their ethnic diversity the organizers want every resident of positive to feel that they are a part of this year as european capital of culture. looks like there's a lot going on that should be put on our to do list for this year i would think you should it's interesting that it has been included on a number of the really high ranking travel lists for twenty nineteen year times the guardian of all named as a place to go and this is because of the city of culture yes of course because they're expecting up to two million visitors this year which would which would be a real achievement that part of the goal of this cultural year is of course as we saw there you know to kind of revive certain neighborhoods old buildings around

dilapidated infrastructure but it's very interesting that the organizers and positive also wanted to put a real accent on how culture can achieve social change there's great diversity there as i mentioned that has caused some friction in the past and they're hoping that a number of the initiatives for this cultural year are going to sort of further further inclusion particularly for communities like the roma there will also be other events in the capital sofia and and in the surrounding area around positive so lots to see and do so anything in particular we should be looking out for later when you live in berlin it's kind of interesting this is one that i wanted to point out because there's an exhibition called art liberty from the berlin wall to street art and it is actually. the only traveling collection of original fragments of the berlin wall that's currently on in plovdiv you can see the pieces there that's to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall later this year in november and it includes works from lots of great international street artists from that

generation at the time of of the berlin wall but also to the present day so that's pretty exciting for people who've never been to berlin for instance so european culture capitals of culture have better to open a business. another world my teta yes exactly and this coming weekend will see the celebrations kick off for that one of it's a really interesting one because it's the first southern italian city to becoming european capital of culture it's very famous for its limestone grottos which were dwellings in the time they date back to prehistoric times and it's also quite famous now for its dramatic transformation over the last seventy years or so from absolute destitute poverty to a tourist destination that's really quite up and coming so stay tuned for that next week they're. open future and they've got lots of stuff going on there. it's. slash culture said thank you pleasure phil. just undermined our top story

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