player. play. this is d w news live from our lead explosion and heavy gunfire reported in nairobi and upscale hotel and office complex under attack in the kenyan capital at this hour we will go along to our correspondent who is on the scene. also coming up judgment day for british prime minister to receive bank after weeks of waiting

lawmakers vote today on whether to accept or reject her controversial drugs a deal with the e.u. may has warned of dire consequences if the parliament throws it out because she and the people of poland more of the slain mayor of good dogs public other volvic she was stabbed on stage at a charity event in front of thousands. and it is the largest gathering of human beings on the power planet in virtual bathing in india known as the cool mela is a unique symbol of spirituality tourism and politics it starts today. from sarah kelly welcome to the program we begin with breaking news out of kenya where explosions and gunfire have been reported at a hotel complex in the capital nairobi witnesses and police are calling it a terror attack firefighters and six. the forces are at the scene and we know that

people are being evacuated the complex includes the upscale dusit hotel as well as banks and offices. and our correspondent there is just making her way to the scene and we hope to catch up with her a little bit later in the program it is a moving breaking story but first we'd like to turn to some other developments today because it is also a historic day full of britain as it counts the hours to the moment when lawmakers accept or reject prime minister to resign made steel for leaving the european union and the house of commons may urged lawmakers to support the agreement warning that rejecting it would be catastrophic for the country but observers say that most m.p.'s remain determined to throw out the hard won deal which has split the nation . and if that's the outcome of tonight's vote britain could end up crashing out of the e.u. with no agreement at all so the government is taking steps to minimize the temporal disruption to trade at ports on the english channel one of those ports is rahm's

gate although it will need an upgrade if it is to handle the big ferries used for cross channel trade. its glory days are long gone a channel resort once frequented by queen victoria ramsey today is sleepy and rundown only its mayor appears to be advancing energetically into the future. a brigadier like the majority in this harbor town. here's trevor shock points proudly to what he calls a working harbor that's ready for all the investment needed to turn it into a hub that can accommodate large vessels and commercial traffic. and. ramsgate has not operated a regular cross-channel service since two thousand and thirteen the ferry to ostend was a loss making business now there are plans to revive it in the event of a no deal brags that it's slated as an alternative route to avert bottlenecks amid

customs chaos in nearby dover but the plan by transport secretary chris grayling has been sharply criticized the harbor is too shallow to accommodate freight ships of five to see it is what's odd because the improved new port the emperor in question is crisscrossing he cannot see that this port is completely naked of all the facilities you might need to be in international. the harbor is as ill prepared for the freight service as the company awarded the contract to run it not only has it never operated a ferry service it doesn't have ships steve coombs and his action group discovered that some time ago as the transport secretary insists that's not a problem the government is testing other no deal scenarios alive rehearsal last week this time at ramsgate defunct airport but only eighty nine trucks took part in the trial of an emergency traffic system to avoid congestion in dover a fraction of daily traffic ramsgate has already borne the brunt of jokes ridiculed

as the town of failed preparations. i think that we're just being a bit used their i think right right right wing groups who are trying to push for and for this no deal in the way they are the only people that seem to be at peace and everybody else just instituted a job hotel owners in ramsgate want clarity on what awaits their town amid breck's of uncertainty their earnings have been dropping for months. but the mayor isn't rattled by the prospect of impending chaos he'd be fine with a disorderly. because that would catapult the sleepy town of ramsgate into the headlines as the no deal harper town. of bring in our london correspondent back of mass who is outside of the u.k. houses of parliament and we know that their parliament lawmakers they're already debating bragg's ahead of tonight's vote what is the mood in which direction is

this likely to go today. the mood is intense i have to say here outside parliament we've got many hundred protesters and it's really been heating up throughout the day there are those who are protesting to stay within the european union risi behind me a lot of european flags also a lot of british flags and we see peacefully side by side i have to say leave protesters those are people who are fearing that bret's it might in the end actually not happen and they are fearing that m.p.'s are going to somehow drag it out and might come to a second referendum so there are really strong feelings each either side and the same is true for the houses of parliament it's a matter of conviction for many politicians and i have spoken to two one who have said how deep it is asian this is for them and here it is sort of feels the weight of history on his shoulders and i think that seems true for many of the m.p.'s now as of parliament they don't seem to be in

a mood to compromise it doesn't look like many of them are going to support trees amazed you which is effectively a compromise between the two sides if they do not support the deal if they do indeed projected what is may's plan b. what happens next. if only we knew we don't really she hasn't said anything about a plan b. maybe her inner circle knows what she intends to do she has said that she's not going to us for article fifty to be extended so to. for these that line moved from the end of march to too late supposedly into the summer that she's not going to do that that's what she's said now but we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow if she really does lose by a large margin if mitt is maybe hundreds over over an m.p.'s are not behind her she will face criticism she will face also people who are calling on her to resign she has been extraordinarily resilient and it seems that she is determined to to push

this through for her is the will of the people and she sees us up as the woman who needs to execute the results of president to make sure that britain actually does leave but we also know that she doesn't want to crash out without studio so the question is what's going to happen if she loses by a big margin maybe a vote of no confidence that the opposition labor party might table as soon as tomorrow they're good mass with the latest from london ahead of this vote thank you so much. one of the issues that delayed the approval of the steel by the european union and continues to be controversial with u.k. lawmakers it's the so-called irish backstop that's a measure designed to avoid a physical border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland opponents of the may deal says that they say that the irish backstop would put an artificial border in the i receive between two parts of the u.k. and that would violate british sovereignty. now. visited

one town that is particularly worried about a hard irish border for the simple reason that it straddles both sides of the frontier. when terry hughes entrance his gas station he's in the republic of ireland. but walking past some groceries. and out the back door takes them across a national border straight into the united kingdom i cross the border if i'm going to grab a kiss of drinks or. at the back doors and in the u.k. i'm in the front here with we have the republic of ireland so. i would probably think maybe when the region the thirty forty times a day across the border living and working on the other side of the border is a daily routine for many in these irish communities the small town of petty go with its six hundred inhabitants has been divided ever since island gained independence

from britain people across the border to post letters and get milk and when they die they cross it to be buried behind me is the republic of ireland and right here is northern ireland and no deal breaks it would mean a hard to border and that means fences walls and checkpoints and all that right here in the center of this town. urban johnson runs a little repair shop right by a crossing point he remembers what life was like when there was a heart border during the early seventy's violence was almost a daily occurrence for him and his neighbors. forge and they all have businesses in the northern side of had to go or. sharni wouldn't make. the same thing again. but tensions are already running high

republican hardliners such as patty gallagher who's the spokes person for a small political group are warning that a fixed border could quickly become a target if there is. border infrastructure put in place again a concrete structure to mention that there would be attacks for a greater than an army are all rocked if they're there within our communities. from what i hear they are very capable or turn to violence due to breaks to a nightmare scenario for a gas station owner terry hughes. twenty years or so of peace in this country i've never seen the culprits poor raised so you're you're in the paper kick and you're just waiting for the mission heading home to the north again across the border terry is hoping for a breakfast solution that won't close crossings and open old wounds. and we are joined now by professor federico fabry me director of the birds that

institute at dublin city university in the republic of ireland welcome to the program thanks for joining us a lot of stake there as we've seen for the people living close to the border area how about the rest of ireland. well indeed brax it represents a major challenge for the republic of ireland among the twenty seven member states of the european union the republic of ireland is certainly the one who has more to lose as a result of the decision to eve. i do you could treat the european union with the exit date approaching in few weeks the irish government has been planning to prepare contingency measures to deal with that no deal scenario but of course the hope there probably of ireland certainly that at the deal will go through and that the border problem will be sold within the framework of an order

the withdrawal of the u.k. from the european union what do you think happened though if the british parliament votes no today what happens next. well it's very hard to to make a prediction i think it's very likely that today westminster will not support the bracks deal neko shaded by prime minister three days i may and if dobson is indeed going to happen i think there are three scenarios effectively on the table the default scenario is. no deal for the simple fact that the clock is ticking and we are meet january and the exit date in march is really be behind a corner a second scenario is one where the u.k. government asks for an extension under article fifty four keeping the u.k. with the in the e.u. beyond march that of course would require that u.k.

to ask for it and the european union unanimously to accords that extension and i think in principle that could happen but of course we have european parliament elections at the end of may constrain quite significantly the european union in the next standing membership of the u.k. for too long and the or sorry no sorry then therefore i think a third option is also still possible which is a new vote on the same deal i don't think we can rule that out ok we have to leave it there professor federico fabry need to rector of the bag that institute at dublin city university in the republic of ireland thank you so much thank you. well it's over to christophe kober now and british businesses are bracing themselves for the bribes and stare of the concerns only seem to be growing grist to reason may's breaks

a deal said to be rejected by parliament later today many british businesses are preparing for months of chaos many have been stockpiling shifting investments relocating jobs though no one knows what the true extent of the damage could be and the european union certainly won't escape scot free either by the end of two thousand and twenty the union could see a budget deficit of around sixteen billion euros with germany expected to foot about a quarter of that the german chambers of industry and commerce warns the german businesses may have to fork out three billion euros each year just to pay the new export tariffs on goods headed to britain. all of that doesn't really appealing for a quick market update before this crucial vote let's cross over to our financial correspondent dana cope in frankfurt daniel the decision will be made investments later tonight how nervous are markets before that. you had there chris i can tell you that the traders here on the trading floor they are nervous i can see many of them they are

having a very close eye on what is happening there at the moment and we have to remember that the crucial vote will be taking place at around eight pm the german time by that time the markets here in frankfurt will be already closed but at the moment it seems that every outcome is possible and that is making investors certainly in overs they want clarification of what is going to happen when we take a look at the market at the moment the blue chip index stocks is in the red at the moment down with a volunteer zero point two five per cent this was happening even though the signs from asia looked pretty promising at this morning the footsie one hundred in london pretty much unchanged the power. won't it sound at the moment daniel prime minister of tourism a made a last ditch effort to persuade lawmakers offer plenty of the less a heavy defeat for the prime minister is expected is this the most likely outcome

that investors are going with and what do they think will be the impact. while investors are pretty sure that there is no way that she's going to get this through parliament to night so the fear off a hot breakfast that is certainly coming up again and if there's something that investors certainly don't want is a hard break said because as you said this would most likely create a lot of chaos in the u.k. and also around europe so they are hoping that there could be possibly a new or referendum maybe even with the result that at the end we won't even see that this scenario would certainly be appreciated by investors then you're hoping for thank you. your consumer products drying procter and gamble is in hot water for allegedly trashing their old customer base that story in a short while for now but to sell so much great stuff. we're going to get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world a member of the german armed forces has been arrested on suspicion of spying for

the iranian secret service officials say the suspect is a fifty year old german of afghan descent but suspect reportedly had access to sensitive material including information about the german army's mission in afghanistan. judges that the international criminal court have acquitted former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo as war crimes allegedly committed following disputed elections in two thousand and ten judges ordered the immediate release of both babo and codefendant chavez leg a day. case had been seen as a milestone in efforts to bring justice to even high ranking leaders accused of atrocities. hundreds of central american migrants have set out from on the us to try and reach the united states the new caravan hopes to succeed even as thousands of migrants from the previous wave of caravans have been largely marooned at the mexican u.s. border since november. the people of poland are paying their

respects to the murdered mayor of don's pavol. he was stabbed in front of thousands of spectators at a fund raising event on sunday night and he died on monday the mayor was leading was a leading figure in the country's opposition and. a city in mourning and flags at half mast for the slain man. polls have been turning out to pay public tribute to the man who led the city for two decades. inside city hall many of those who knew him personally bit deaf as well in a condolence book. e.u. council president to ask. his hometown to honor his friend. i want to promise you today your problem on behalf of all of us. holds an europeans. for you and for all of us we will defend our good our poland

and our europe against hatred and contempt we promise you this so well. his death has shocked local residents. for me it's terrible meters especially since we went to great school together just over there and i thought he would survive. because it'll be. physically devastated and very sad because i saw the mayor very often. part of the item over which was attending a charity event for children in need on sunday. as the man looked out at thousands of people a man lunged at him with a knife. the attacker remained on stage shouting that he blamed the mass form a party for what he called wrongful imprisonment then he was tackled to the ground

. prosecutors are charging the twenty seven year old suspect with murder. just before his death at the most rich called the most wonderful city in the world a lasting message to the people he served. one of the more now i'm joined by my colleague monthly from d.w. polish he's with us here in the studio and we just have the government in warsaw that they've actually held a moment of silence. how is the political establishment reacting to his death what do you make of that reaction well unfortunately i i'm afraid is kind of a silence before de silence before the storm will the politicians in warsaw in poland they know it's simply too early to bring out some heavy political action the man was killed yesterday so they are know being very cautious they don't want

to bring this heavy political a political action but there are some voices indicating already that a big political kalash is coming well polish politics is extremely polarized it's very aggressive verbally. ruling the law and justice party uses a very aggressive tongue could the media supporting this party also uses very degrading language so the opposition has really a lot of fuel to attack maybe in couple of days maybe a couple of weeks but the government is also blaming the opposition for being aggressive and for making this tragedy happen how about wider society though i mean how are they seeing this as a one off incident or do they also. see this is a problem perhaps with the fabric of politics in the country i guess this was cited to seize there is there is a there is some there is some issue i think there is a question being asked right now haven't we really gone too far shouldn't we change the way we report about politics that the media reports of both politics should we

change the way we talk we discuss some things with each other so polish society needs cooling down needs some other temperature of discussion and hopefully it will it will come but i don't know if it's going to last but i mean this is not only about politics we're beginning to learn a little bit more about the suspect he seems like he was a deeply disturbed individual what more do we know about him well it's a man with a long criminal record who has been imprisoned for robberies armed robberies. prosecutors say say well he has some mental problems mental disorders however this aggressive atmosphere in poland could have some impact of course and want to hear what he has done and he said actually that what he did was in revenge for as he claimed a wrongful imprisonment. thank you so much for joining us to tell us

a little bit more about it fresh action on ski as we appreciate it thank you. hugh some other news now and a fresh blast of winter weather has hit central europe making many regions treacherous and the austrian ski region of botha left authorities are urging people to avoid wooded areas because of the risk of trees collapsing under the weight of the snow they have been avalanches no deaths have been recorded however the extreme weather has killed more than twenty people in the last ten days. and i mean s.f. is in austria and reports now on the toll that the heavy snow is taking. local news in austria today is dominated by announcements of road closures over one hundred fifty roadways are blocked due to the danger of avalanches and falling trees this could turn a ten minute drive into a two hour detour and about a dozen villages in austria are completely inaccessible they're blocked off from the outside world no sun and warmer weather is predicted for today and tomorrow but

this only increases the chances of avalanches because heavy wet snow can trigger an avalanche but the break in the weather will allow them urgency services to kick into full gear helicopter pilots can fly again to go survey for avalanches and also deliver much needed goods and services to the snowed in villages and of course many austrians will just be glad to see the sun again after so many days of blinding snow that was on s.f. joining us from australia let's get back to our top story now explosions gunfire have been reported at an upscale hotel and office complex in the kenyan kenyan capital nairobi firefighters and security forces are at the scene and people are being evacuated it is not yet known who is responsible for the attack but our correspondent catherine on one thought is at the scene she is joining us now on the line catherine what's going on. ok so i have. was you can see who are trying to connect there with our

correspondent catherine a month of standing by in nairobi in kenya where as we mentioned there is this attack underway at this hotel complex in the capital nairobi we haven't been able to reach or actually on the lines of going to turn to some other news now will try and get her again a little later on the show australia sweltering through temperatures of forty degrees celsius as yet another extreme heat wave bakes the country records may be broken if the mercury climbs of a forty six degrees in australia's most populous state yourself wales the extreme heat has killed a million fish in mass die offs since december now officials have announced desperate measures to save the remaining fish stocks. an ecological disaster is unfolding in the waterways of southeastern australia. the country has been in the grip of a record breaking heat wave and it's having a devastating effect on lakes and rivers. drought conditions have been compounded

by algal blooms which is starving the water of oxygen fish a dying by the thousands like here on the darling river. this species one hundred years old is coming back this is what he described to me lately absolutely now the regional government has announced it's deploying battery operated aerators to mechanically pump oxygen back into the water. other trucks will arrive in the next twenty four hours from western australia will start installing. solution we admit that nothing will stop this unless we get. rid of flowers and dams back up to normal. but returning water levels to normal looks unlikely to happen any time soon forecast as a warning the record temperatures in many parts of australia are set to linger and even rise over the coming days. and watching g.w.

news still to come on the program it is a unique mix of spirituality tourism and politics we're taking you to india where more than one hundred million hindus will take part in a virtual bathing and starting today and forty years ago u.s. television series not only changed the way that history saw hitler's final solution it also gave it a name we'll take a look at holocaust. all that and more you're watching t w i'm sara kelley in for glenn beck a few minutes. bringing the night. john detroit is transforming people's lives i'm stalling so you're powerless in winter mountain communities he's bringing in extra city to places that have never had to pay for the last concert morrocco is energy revolution for the residents of these villages. the sun can also morocco.

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shark. bay news analyst. expects a full on single. call to take up to this kind of oversight by the first. player. people who put big dreams on the big story. playing. the movie magazine on d w. welcome back here in the united i'm sara kelley in berlin our top stories also a somali islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an upscale hotel an office complex in the kenyan capital nairobi firefighters and

security forces are at the people are being evacuated. but it's judgment day for british prime minister to receive a plan for the leading figures in the union may has called on lawmakers to back up break the deal but all indications are things will overwhelmingly vote against. it let's turn now to a growing diplomatic dispute over the fate of a canadian man sentenced to death in china for drug smuggling canada's prime minister justin trudeau has condemned the sentence as quote arbitrary now china is hitting back accusing today of making quote irresponsible remarks relations were already frosty after canada arrested a top chinese telecom executive at the request of the united states his name is robert lloyd schellenberg. a canadian national in chinese custody since two thousand and fourteen originally he had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for masterminding a drug smuggling plot a charge he continues to deny but in

a surprise move in appeals court allowed chinese prosecutors to retry him the result. well the defendant is guilty of smuggling drugs and his sentence today if all of his personal assets will be confiscated they say that. canada's embassy has urged its citizens to be cautious when traveling to china. and the prime minister has also expressed his misgivings. it is of extreme concern to us as a government as it should be to all our international friends and allies that china has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply death penalty in cases facing it as in this case a face in canadian the verdict represents a new escalation in the diplomatic spat between beijing and auto. observers have link schoenberg's fresh conviction to canada's arrest of this woman. she's

a senior executive at telecommunications giant huawei and the daughter of its founder she's accused of helping the company by pass u.s. sanctions and american authorities are seeking her extradition. schoenberg's retrial was boxed through just weeks after one was taken into custody and now it seems her fate as well as that of schoenberg and two other comedians in chinese custody might not be decided in a court of law but rather on the international stage. and correspondent mathias all insurance covering the story for us from beijing china has been gauging this kind of hosted diplomacy before but it has never done so in such an open and assertive way officially the government keeps denying any link between the case of man one joe in canada and chen banks and the two other canadian detainees cases in china but through an official channels it has been very clear about what it expects

it expects the release of mrs munt in canada. the tabloid global times newspaper with close links to the top ranks of the communist party has recently warned that china might be doing more than just detaining canadians and this verdict is what it meant at the time and the government has organized a reporting trip for foreign reporters to the court hearing this is something china does very rarely it rarely admits foreign reporters to court hearings so it wanted to make sure the message gets across and the message to any government that engages in a conflict with china is your citizens might be at risk that was our correspondent in china meantime the world's biggest religious festival kicks off today in india for the next eight weeks up to one hundred fifty million hindus are expected to take part in the ritual of bathing known as the comella now the actual pilgrimage

rotates between four sites this year it isn't the top pradesh at the confluence of the ganges and the union of rivers. the curve is a mix of spirituality tours and also politics it is the largest gathering of human beings on the planet and a mega event with its own mega challenges. they are the first of many to come. at holy men heading towards a special part of the ganges river to perform a deeply spiritual ritual and waters they consider holy. the sunrise marks the official beginning of the kumara and more pilgrims arrive hindus believe that bathing here during this time will wash away their sins and help them reach hinduism ultimate spiritual goal salvation from the cycle of life and death. it is said that if you base at the

confluence of these rivers during the time of calm you retain nirvana received blessings and all your wishes are fulfilled. the camilla draws on centuries of hindu tradition but even among young people today the ancient ritual is hugely popular. but one theory since my childhood i used to hear stories about the come from my grandparents this is the land of meditation of millions of sages and holy men i feel privileged to have braved in this confluence of rivers today. managing the crowds is a mammoth task portable toilets lined the dusty roads and a special tented city has been set up to accommodate the pilgrims festival officials say india's hindu nationalist government has made it a priority to make the festival a success. the unity government was to make sure that the indian heritage the

indian culture the. reject any for you what india is is shown today and i would. have a good experience. prime minister narendra modi his party's up for re-election is expected to join the pilgrims during the eight week festival. now germany's domestic intelligence agency is set to investigate the right wing populist alternative for germany you aren't a f.t. it wants to determine the extent of the party's right wing extremist motives this will not involve full on surveillance of the f.t. but the party's youth wing will be observed more closely and public statements made by a.f.p. members as well as the party's links to the far right identity tarried movement will be monitored when germany's constitution contains strict safeguards against extreme. let's get more now we are trying to buy

a group of you know votes from our politics department so why has the same message intelligence agency decided to do this now i mean what did the head of the service say. the the president of the office for the protection of the constitution that's the official name of germany's domestic intelligence service thomas hide among he gave a press conference just half an hour ago and what had to say. is a quite a blow for the dean said that there are indications that the represents a policy that contradicts the constitutional order of germany that would make it possible that this party can be treated as a test case that's the rather official name of what the office or for the protection of the constitution is going to do right now they're going to look close into this party they're going to look at the remarks officials of these parties are doing they're going to look at the of manifestos are going to look at all the

public information they can get a hold on trying to find out if this party in its soul is an extremist party or not what does this decision on a practical level now because i mean what sort of information coming intelligence service actually collect about the f.d.a. legally. well on the if he has a party as a whole as i just said it's more or less just public information information that they give out by themselves it's a party manifestos interviews remarks and social media speeches on party conventions or speeches in parliament but on the other hand and that's the even was part of some parts of the party going to be treated as targets of suspicion and here it is possible to gather some information that is nonpublic so to talk to informants to. look at some of the stuff to look at databases by the police for instance and which is very bad for the party is that they are going to

look not only as a party at the party as a whole but also some movements within the party that as already mentioned and the piece we've seen before talk the youth organization the j. the young and the t.v. and there's the movement within the party the far right movement the wing the flugel it is called in german and the head of the nixon the government who's also how do the parliamentary party here the bundestag is also one of the members of this wing he has signed the founding manifesto of this movement within the party and that means that surveillance matters could be used on the head of the parliamentary party of the a of d. what the biggest opposition party here in german parliament of the vid about thank you you're welcome. is back now with what is next

and we're talking about two automotive giants forming an alliance sara german car maker fox wagon and u.s. competitor ford have announced a much anticipated plan to team up the two companies will work together to develop commercial vans and medium size pick ups while exploring corp on electric and self driving cars the announcement came against the backdrop of the motor show in detroit company officials said the first vehicles from the effort could hit markets as early as twenty twenty two the corporation comes as international trade conflicts are triggering carmakers to rethink where they build their vehicles as a way of warning terrorists the german auto giant can also said it wanted to invest eight hundred million dollars in a new plant in chattanooga in the u.s. state of tennessee. u.s. consumer products giant procter and gamble is in hot water over their latest ad in a social media campaign razor company gillette which is

a procter and gamble subsidiary seems to bandon its traditional celebration of macho role models this time around hunted called for men to shift their behavior and reject patriarchal ideas and concepts the commercial says today's men should question their all old male ness in the wake of the me too movement chauvinists and macho simply no longer have a place in society the spot implies. this. now so far so good but there has been some backlash from the target audience gerri from our social media desk is here to tell me all about it what's the issue well i guess jill it is deliberately being provocative and it's attracted a lot of attention good attention people are saying they're supportive of the message that men need to call out other men for bad behavior because sexual violence is a problem but there are lots of people saying look we don't need politics without

shaving joe on you tube the ad has had around two million views but two hundred thousand dislikes which is quite a loss lots of comments there from people known as men's rights activists one uses saying the ad emasculates men apparently they've done engineering raises now it's time to engineer society and reprogram men conservative t.v. personality piers morgan has called it. p.c. guff and that's fueling the current pathetic global assault on masculinity he writes let boys be boys and he's going to take his business elsewhere and many men appear to be following his lead dozens of videos of being posted on social media people are just throwing the products in the trash gillette says it wants to promote healthy versions of what it means to be a man and it's

a very clever campaign i guess but one that is designed to to be provocative. certainly in the wake of the me too movement has become somewhat of a questionable claim let me hit you with some numbers here advertising and social media has become a major part of ad budgets in the u.s. alone company invests around thirty two billion dollars each year on social marketing now these can backfire though why is it so hard to predict it will look sometimes it works and sometimes. doesn't it just really depends on what they're latching on to one example of something that didn't work came from pepsi in twenty seventeen they tried to align themselves with the black lives movement and that was met with an outcry with. kendall jenner who is a. the company was accused of trying to make a mockery of the movement and she. pulled the ad in the face of calls for a boycott another more recent example of nike teaming up with

a football player. he's become something of a lightning rod for taking in need during the national anthem to protest police brutality that cooperation angered a lot of people and americans some americans saw that even burning then nike shoes bought was a bit risky but it seemed to have worked out in nike's favor because one estimate. went up by thirty percent so sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work how much damage can such a complaint actually do well in the case of pepsi if we look at pepsi you can have severe reputational damage and you are. the target of campaigns the internet never forgets basically so this is something that will hang over pepsi and in the case of nike sometimes it does go very well so you just really depends on your message and how you react to the backlash to. shaving cream. from our social media thank you so much. back to sara now and tennis fans a melbourne doing everything to stay in the shade getting those portable fans ready

christophe because it is really steaming hot there in melbourne where tennis players and fans are enduring high temperatures and humidity at the australian open organizers have put new measures in place this year to try and ensure player safety during extreme heat waves the women's top seed simona halep just about managed to cope with the high temperatures but she had to battle her way past instilling in better and canopy six seven six four six two twenty seventeen australian open champion serena williams had less trouble in her match she cruised to victory beating germany's tatyana maria six love six two and in the men's tournament top seed novak djokovic started his bid for a record seventh men's australian open title on the right foot u.s. qualifier michel kruger in straight sets. meantime other news the head of japan's limbic committee has denied the two payments made shortly before tokyo was selected to host the twenty twenty games were in any way corrupt. today cost to k.

that. has been indicted by french prosecutors as they investigate two million dollars in payments made just with what took you know chosen to host the olympics the affair is a concern for organizers who have been praised for running ahead of schedule japan's olympics minister says that the country must now overcome a bad image decade and maintains his innocence. but i am very sorry that this trouble could possibly affect the olympic movement the organizing committee and all the people involved in steadfast and smooth preparations toward hosting the twenty twenty games. very much very much a group and in football the round in the asian cup group stage has begun with heartbreak for india they have crashed out of the tournament after opponents bahrain scored in stoppage time to take in one nil victory and the other game united arab emirates confirmed their place in the round of sixteen major one all

with thailand who also progressed to the next round despite firing their coach early in the tournament. well with their incredible output of sirius streaming services like into the go netflix amazon prime have for ever changed the way that we consume television but forty years ago it was a four part american miniseries that changed the way that germans think about their own history now this mini series back in one nine hundred seventy eight was a production called holocaust starring meryl streep which aired in west germany the following year and was watched by nearly half of the population and unprecedented viewership that effectively brought the crimes committed by now to germany and their aftermath into the realm of public discussion now three years later the series is being asked among with a new documentary about the impact that it had. and he was very on karen

homesteaders joining us from culture to talk a little bit more about it tell us about the reception of holocaust the serious at the time over starters it was a huge success it was watched by some seven hundred million people worldwide and as you very correctly said nearly half of the west german population a back in one nine hundred seventy nine world war two and the holocaust had only been consigned to the history books for just over three decades and there was still very little public consciousness for what had really happened in germany very little knowledge about what went on in the jewish ghettos in the death camps and the heinous crimes that had been committed so people were really shocked by what they saw from the cosiness of their living rooms and there were considerably fewer books on the subject in those days many hadn't even been translated into german. so this series really introduced the word holocaust itself and its naming of the period of nazi genocide against european jews into our collective of kavya

larrys the producers thought that was very important in this series to have the top level nazis played by english speaking actors which from today's perspective can seem a bit funny but they wanted to show that this kind of collective hatred can happen everywhere so before we go on let's have a quick recap of the story. holocaust tells the into woven story of two berlin families the series opens with the wedding celebrations of color vice a jew and his christian bride in the helms. meanwhile eric doff is looking for work his father a social democrat took his own life after being driven into poverty. graduate so eric doff signs up with s.s. senior group leader reinhardt hydration watch and i made a job. that is fresh. this series uses some historical footage to illustrate the rise of the nazis.

despite their rise and numerous warnings berta vice doesn't want to leave germany again no use we are going nowhere now the kind i'm always has your way. but then in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight christan knocks changes everything but his husband will suffice is deported to poland and the family falls apart. in one nine hundred forty two the run secret france decides on the so-called final solution to the jewish problem policy review and eric doff is that heinrich side the use of them to pass. on joseph ice a murdered while the present at the auschwitz concentration camp. the series holocaust shows how prisoners were sent to the gas chambers.

and never before had a film or television series made use of such dramatic images to illustrate nazi crimes yet some critics still accuse the series of playing down the horrors of the holocaust. after the war the us army confronts erik dorf with evidence of his involvement in nazi atrocities. he kills himself with a cyanide capsule. you know about it. so very sobering stuff there sara i should add that with this rebroadcast that's happening on german television there's a new documentary being aired this week about how the series made it to television and in it we learned that michael moriarty who we just saw there at the end had real psychological trouble with this role he was so intensely disgusted by his character the s.s.

officer erik door who climbs the ranks of nazi hierarchy and here's how the head of production remembers some of what went on. there our economy the american actor who played a door for the main role started having real psychological problems and he was unable to sleep he was awake half the night and played the piano and i had to get a psychiatry to help him get through it all so the actor who played him in whole got and it sounds so ridiculous but he came down with the measles clean and i was afraid that a measles epidemic would break out. break. up. eric character was a really tough one to play obviously as moriarty says but it was in very important because he represented the normal guy who just wanted to get ahead and followed his

own ambition and through his own lack of questioning became one of the biggest monsters in the whole nazi system so the quintessential portrayal of the banality of evil if you will and it's interesting because at the time there was a lot of shock in the german public but there was also a lot of controversy you know after after each episode of holocaust when it was aired at the time there was a follow up companion show in which the public could phone in with questions to a panel of historians now that was really unprecedented and after the very first episode ten thousand people phoned in the panel was completely overwhelmed by all these thousands of calls from shocked and angry germans on a much more sinister level there was also violent protest for instance when a group of right wing terrorists actually tried to blow up the transmission towers of the transmitters. in western germany they actually wanted to prevent

the series from being broadcast on german television but of course. very luckily they failed so tell us a little bit more about the larger impact this has had well it's very interesting because in addition to all this really really heavy discussion that was going on amongst the public there was sharp criticism on the part of some holocaust survivors some prominent ones like. who felt that for instance this series was making a soap opera of the holocaust it was trivializing it it was historically inaccurate it was overblown and that it was commercializing one of history's greatest tragedies many of those criticisms you could argue were very well founded. and many historical dramas as we know get are guilty of trying to pack in too much to make their point but on the other hand the holocaust or holocaust was the first. i'm that many germans and many americans at the time of its first broadcast in seventy eight. were confronted with the dramatize ation of these events and actually made to engage emotionally with victims as with perpetrators. when they were portrayed

as characters the series was even talk of discussion in the german bundestag in the parliament. and it was hotly discussed in school so it really marked a turning point in germany as culture and if for all to remember links from front to what actually happened in a way that was really tangible indeed. from g.w. culture thank you so much for that that you're up to date and you know you news i'm sarah kelly in for land thanks for.

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