leading figure because that's where the far right the migration if he is very strong but with something so gripping that could actually change the. certainly is shiny and gripping we are looking still at those images from the commencement ceremony where waiting for the chancellor to begin her speech. is it too early at this point to start talking about chancellor michael's legacy is something we started to do already as soon as she announced that she was stepping down as the head of her party but she she is still chancellor and plans to be until the end of 2021 yes but i guess as soon as you announce or that there will be an end to you political career people start talking about your legacy and with 14 years in office yes she has a lot of time to look back upon also a lot of benchmark moments the financial crisis in europe where basically. open was and finance minister singlehandedly kept the salt together kept the euro currency together here and many so there were quite

a few historic moments and these are very complex times and we don't know how much longer or how durable governing coalition is that this very moment in time so i don't think it's too early to talk about that but i still am quite proud actually that i'm not amongst the john the suit declare that it's basically over because this is this is becoming rather inflationary here in germany and internationally where everybody wants to be the 1st to say well this you know she's basically in her final days and weeks and. i don't think we've heard that many environmentalists are indeed ok we are of course there looking at those pictures waiting for the chancellor to take the stage she did receive as we said her honorary degree a little bit earlier. we have some pictures of that and also a short clip let's take a look once a chemist turn stalwart states. resolution resolute in devotion to democratic values

a wall came down and she rose leading her nation with strength and savvy in guiding europe through challenge and change. dorothy americal dr of laws thank you i thought through thank you thanks thanks thanks. thanks thought thank you interesting to see that heard or drop something pick it up complete somehow almost itself somewhere and house a business and all i ever see will then make so it's

a pick up to say 5.5 and we heard him say guiding europe through challenges and through change do you think the chancellor sees herself very much in that role of being this person who is guiding europe through one of its most difficult faces. yes but i think she thinks that the most difficult times are still ahead and. also you know her being labeled one of the most influential states people of our time i don't think she would perceive yourself as that i think she was things in terms of what coalitions she can do what kind of compromises she could reach and she certainly is very different for instance from him on a macall the french president where she got a lot of criticism for being too slow to respond to his vision for the future of europe she's very much somebody who responds to crises and challenges she doesn't feel that terribly comfortable and we've seen very little of actually defining where she europe said head having a greater vision of what the europe of the future should be and that's

a lot of criticism that she received within europe particularly from women in mccall who states time time again that he loves germany he loves the germans but the 2 leaders are pretty much at loggerheads right now about how to go about finding the next commission president here after this european elections and that is proof that relations between germany and france are also a bit tricky right now but nowhere near as bad and as rocky as transatlantic relations we should say that chancellor merkel is not known for being a big performer particularly visionary her speeches but we have seen her now over the course of the year is touching more and happen more into emotion and to deliver a more emotional speeches that we saw than we saw in the beginning for example do you think that you relishes these types of opportunities. i think she really appreciates the opportunity to 1st will be in harvard and to engage particularly with young people i mean i've traveled with her several times and every time she will if at all possible try to make sure to have

a discussion with students wherever she goes so she really appreciates those opportunities to hear unfiltered comments from young people and what their ideas about the future. course she doesn't have children but she. he comes across as naughty as mother referred to here in germany the connotation here of course being that mom will take care of everything everything's fine you don't have to think about the crises of the present and the future but also when she's around young people even if she's had a really stressful day she gets very interested and is interested to hear what they talk about most recently i was with her in africa and they're also in. one of the poorest countries in africa and she's always interested to hear that she visited a project a celta for women and she's interested to hear the nitty gritty kind of things that that move people and that concern people to then divide ways of how to feed that into big politics and that is also something where she will then make the odd

comment that you wouldn't expect from her when she responds spontaneously to students asking the question they won't get the opportunity here but they will certainly try and get the odd quotes and reference that they can take away in terms of wisdom for their own future we might actually learn something yeah sure hope the harvard president larry backhoes currently speaking we're waiting for him to introduce the chance or i presume will be taking the stage shortly but you know looking at this speech that we're expecting you know he said that we don't expect it to be a political speech this she's more likely to talk about her own life experiences but it is also a platform i mean are there political messages you think we're going to be able to take away from this yes but i don't think there will be new political messages i don't think she will come and use this platform to say something completely new i think she will once again reinforce her determination to uphold international corporation to believe in international institutions hold the rule of law and to foster. compromise basically i mean her big concern certainly drives is that

compromise has become almost a dirty word in many context that's also very much a key she believes to the rise of populism and it's also a key issue when you talk to. about brecht's that for instance you know where there are maximum positions and no will for real compromise this is something she feels very strongly about this is something where she certainly is has kind of run out of concepts in dealing with us president donald trump who likes to let's tweets speak who likes to threaten sanctions then say that they will be delayed by a couple of weeks and just basically keep the other side guessing this is simply not how she operates politically she actually received the presidential medal of freedom from barack obama who she didn't have such an easy time with to begin with but in the end they really really worked well together they released so i to i and they really believed in the common values but also common concepts of how to go

about international leadership now this certainly isn't possible simply with the current president donald trump and that's also what we saw infamously come back from that visit in the united states where she told europe basically from a big tent in bavaria that those times are simply over where the united states would take care of everything and that europe needs to grow up and basically take more responsibility and she has been kind of fleshing that out ever since michelle and what we are still waiting for the chancellor to speak we're going to be going to that live in a moment when she does but you stay with us we're going to take a look at some some other news now while we're waiting and then we'll come back to the story now rescuers in budapest i think we're heading to that story now rescuers in budapest have been. all right we're just pulling up that story in

a moment right don't have it in front of us ok we bear with us your patience ok. all right rescuers in budapest say there is a minimal chance of finding more survivors after a tourist boat capsized and sank on the dental late on wednesday a sightseeing vessel carrying more than 30 south korean tourists was hit by a larger river cruise ship in bad weather 7 people were pulled from the river alive but 7 more are confirmed dead and 21 are missing. hope is fading that anyone else will be found alive survivors recounting what happened say help came too late and have asked why the cruise was allowed to go ahead in such bad weather police have opened a criminal investigation sean here unfortunately we find 7 dead bodies their identification is in progress ice of the 7 day 2 of them have been fully

identified 21 people are still missing you want to get assurance. it began as a night on the river for a group of south korean tourists and ended in tragedy their boat the mayor made is clipped by the viking sick in a river cruise ship 5 times its length the merriment capsizes and then in a matter of seconds it sinks. korea's president chaired an american c. meeting in the ira's after the incident. hungry. government will work closely with the hungaroring government to investigate the cause of the accident. child's correlate to departments to do their best to support the victims and their families. relatives are already on their way accompanied by south korea's foreign minister the country is sending its own team to help with the

rescue effort hoping however slim the chances are to find survivors. now at some other stories making news around the world austria's president aleksander vender bolland has named a constitutional judge. as the country's interim chancellor just be aligned will lead a caretaker government until snap elections scheduled for september issue of places conservative and courts who lost the confidence vote after the collapse of his coalition. and algerian men charged with setting off a package bomb in the french city has told investigators he had pledged allegiance to the islamic state she hottest group he was arrested along with other family members in what is being treated as a terrorist attack the explosion last week wounded 13 people. and japan has condemned what it called russia's increasing military presence on the islands claimed by both countries since world war 2 the comments came during talks in tokyo between senior japanese and russian ministers russian foreign minister sergei

lavrov insisted his country had a right to conduct military activities in the archipelago. neuron promoting has been sworn in for a 2nd term as india's prime minister his party the b j p made history by increasing its majority in parliament after a 2nd consecutive landslide win most he took the oath of office in the gardens of the presidential palace in front of 8000 people including south asian leaders and bollywood stars his cabinet was sworn in at the same ceremony. has been following the ceremony for us in delhi india as prime minister and the dream of the high as been sworn in today for his 2nd home in office as the prime minister of india vs deacon is all in front of the president of the country and along with him his council of ministers has a scab on it have all taken or not this government has been charged with dealing with several critical issue was also follows price is the highest unemployment that

the country has seen in 45 years but with the massive manby of the have been awarded it looks like the. he trusts the prime minister as well as the bar peers on the beach to deliver on the promises they made in that on up to the election another interesting thing about this wedding in 70 odd the guests invited the foreign dignities invited from other countries now at the last sweating and back in 2014 prime ministers 2 and leaders of the so our 2 nations the south asia regional cooperation group invited that actually somehow become the fund because it actually has boxed on as a member and it was back in 2016 the last time a summit was attempted in get rejected going to that summit because also a terror attack that had happened back in $216.00 now this time and $29.00 members off the beam instead groups have been invited this is basically another view to the cooperation group that centers around the big deal to the east of india and these

leaders have been invited to a focus not only on matter and security interests but on india's neighborhood 1st look east policies are clear indications being made about national policy as well as foreign policy and as ready with its new government for the next 5 years and primus in order to more the is at the helm once again. un secretary general on tony harris has been awarded the annual charlemagne prize which recognizes work done in the service of european unity the jury in the west german city of austin said they selected the secretary general for his work in reviving global cooperation past recipients of the honor known in germany as the cross have included french president and the home across the german chancellor angela merkel and pope francis . one week it's vienna the other fun to watch too as u.n. secretary general antonio terrace has

a punishing schedule meeting world leaders and market traders alike the 70 year old is a mediator in some of the toughest issues facing the world tires political career took off in 1995 when he run for prime minister in his native portugal and former university lecturer and devout catholic he was an unusual choice for the socialist party found after winning the election he continued to break the mold seeking dialogue with all sections of society to this day he remains one of portugal's most popular political figures. in 2005 the un named him its high commissioner for refugees outspoken and passionate he managed to win hollywood actress angelina jolie as his special envoy he focused on iraq and syria criticizing european countries over their handling of the mediterranean

refugee crisis in 2015 the international community has failed twice these large number of refugees failed 1st because it was not able to prevent conflicts we solve them. and fail a 2nd time because it is not providing the resources necessary to assist them to guarantee their human dignity in october 26th the un chose him to succeed ban ki moon as its top diplomat because he took office at the same time as the new us president donald trump the multilateralist has often been at odds with the unilateralist trump not least on climate change. and says all countries must work together to fight it. if you don't go.

so it's better to make it achievable than to face of these us a constant campaigner who often appears the eternal optimist in troubling times. all right if you're just joining us so we are watching the harbor and commencement ceremony that's taking place right now in cambridge massachusetts because the german chancellor i'm going arko is about to deliver that commencement address and we can listen in to a student introducing her right now thank you and open your country to over 1000000 refugees from the wars of the middle east with than they were in and giving them a chance to restart their lives in german society she is one of our most widely respected global leaders with formidable intellect and as i've also recently

learned formidable wit. moral courage empathy and commitment to shaping not just her own nation but our world as a whole all please join me a welcoming chancellor angela merkel. thank you the thought. in thank you thank you i think that start. pres president pecl photos of the corporation members of the board of overseers members of the alumni board members of the fed cutey

proud parents and graduates today is a day of joy. it's your day. many congratulations. i am delighted to be here today and would like to tell you about some of my own experiences this ceremony marks the end of an intensive and probably also hardship the in your lives now all of the door to a new life is opening that's exciting and inspiring the german writer hellman has a had some wonderful words for such a situation in life i'd like to quote him and then continue in my native language hellman has a sleepy them and funk of want. he wrote their own spiritual magic in every

beginning would you protect me and which helps. in all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live. because of all the how many heavens have me here in spirit. on my own physics studio. these words by how man has inspired me when i completed my physics degree at the age of 24. as follows the are no one thing when that are the ones you see that was back in 1978 don't forget tied in austin to this the world was divided into east and west that's what it. is and it was in the grips of the cold war it's been an all star. in the media. in the most on fire. learn this in an addict or 2 or i grew up in east germany and the g.d.r. the part of my country which was not free at that time in

a dictatorship. mentioned bordered on drugs hooked on to above are what people were oppressed and under state surveillance well it is a big novelty for foot political dissidents were persecuted to give them their due they are hard to understand the thoughts poke their clothes i hate the is german government was afraid that the people would flee to freedom there's a pulse of evil you know more about the vase but tone and style and that's why they built the berlin wall a wall made of concrete and steel they have been polluted and they will do the above in one water for half that. anyone caught trying to overcome it was arrested or shot dead. does a moment and does believe in total in folk. to 5000000 of my in a familiar archetype that this wall which cut perlin in half divided

a people and it divided families my family was also divided by asked all the children knocking studio. going on the last 39 the arc of the media business of my 1st job after college was as a physicist at the academy of sciences in east berlin is one thing in the near w. no more i lived near the berlin wall of them i am very calm i am institute. of the 2 i walk towards it every day on my way home from my institute the hinterland best if i had behind it late west berlin freedom when he didn't talk manage their motion dance now. was the humility moment. so many of will and every day when i was very close to the wall i had to turn away at the last minute in order to head towards my apartment. he didn't talk most the calls for delphi had been every day

i had to turn away from freedom at the last minute. the office tabish could just hold the hours as full steel and i don't know how often i thought that i just couldn't take it anymore it was so frustrating it struck i did this event and now i was not a decision has been issued given the mo i knew of and i didn't run up and bang against the wall about how was the only school oid in it then it's worth it to me. nor how ever did i deny its existence for i didn't want to lie to myself. devalue no more big events the mind of nuclear the burning more limited my opportunities the stipulation big it quite literally stood in my way about i know as does shaft of these i'm all in i on the east however there was one thing which this war

couldn't do during all of those years near my. in the oven didn't stand for it's a given it couldn't impose limits on my inner thoughts when it wasn't good my life on top of the mind. i dust constant for. the good and my personality my imagination my dreams and desires prohibitions of coercion couldn't limit any of that. don't come let's hear on the uncertain arts and then came 989 we were either in the water that's the bigger mine from a village so if i had only globally sick have to fly a common desire for freedom unleashed incredible forces throughout europe in poland only in the changes of archive you went over there did. not thousands of the stars and poland and hungary and czechoslovakia as well as in east germany hundreds of

thousands of people that take to the streets dimension demonstrated on par with the more watts of the people demonstrated and brought down the wall. because he'll mention it to murder. as will the reality that something which many people including myself would not have believed possible became reality double who either don't close bond. plates and it to where there's was once only a war a top suddenly opened often if not a moment to come in the wish to plead for me to the moment had come to walk through that door it was nish inlets moment for death i had a piece i no longer had to turn away from freedom at the last minute if quantities against bush. went inside often again i was able to cross this border and venture out into the great wide open. these men were not in for the listening devices on.

posing literally it does. this is during these months 30 years ago i experienced firsthand that nothing has to stay the way it is. these appalled me because i do year to wish the even for evil to come 1st it's mine and yes you get done with this experience graduates is the 1st thought i want to share with you today for your future process cooked on fire in the loo shy and does. anything that seems to be set in stone or in alterable can indeed change. well the. thank

you. pm client. and much as bill's large and small yet a fire in the world think them cops and it holds true that every change begins in the mind to get a lot so in my life most of us all smells like my parents' generation discovered this in a most painful way my thoughts on my own and what of all the nonstop sex since one second often sponsors could born my father and mother were born in 192-6928. so i found the demise of fun in your home to. see if it is that soon sport there sure are on that site of a clique of other 4 by when they were as old as most of you here today that the trail of all civilized well values that was to show up and world war 2 had just ended. my learned deutschland have to enforce the overall slight. that my country germany had brought unimaginable suffering on europe and the world

the last chinese really has given the us this is the go on busy to feel longer tied . in the victors and the defeated could easily have remained irreconcilable for many years. i watched that this new government open longer conflict but instead europe overcame centuries old conflicts isn't started on the freedoms of long the of combines i'm quite boat starts of shyamalan not. a peaceful older based on common values rather than suppose that national strength which i don't discuss all non-solutions i'd listen were actually just about soy the over oil here isn't look and despite all the discussions and temporary setbacks i firmly believe that we europeans have united for the basher.

thank you of those photos which unfortunately i'm of a column typed feels creaks when the vote and the relationship between germans and americans to demonstrate our form a wartime anime's can become friends can't visit thanks to the isn't very thought out so would be a plum for george marshall by the talking in a. commencement speech fuck'n that it was george marshall who gave a crucial contribution to this so the plan he announced at the commencement ceremonies in 1947 in this very place. thank

you tons of law and the supporters of madonna's one very open forum to makati on mention racial. side for you but. this reasons want to dance pre-shared on the isle of profiteers on the transatlantic partnership based on values such as democracy and human rights has given us an era of peace and prosperity of benefit to all sides which has lasted for more than 70 years and no. thanks one toy took and today it's nothing very long at all on the political unknown political might argue number 2 on. this causes exercising leadership.