to steal your news live from berlin 2000000 dead as the coronavirus pandemic defines the efforts of governments to halt rising infection with the world's 2nd highest death toll brazil is among the countries hardest hit we take you to the city of menow where life saving oxygen has become thrown out also on the program u.s. drugmaker pfizer cuts back deliveries of its covert 900 baxi to europe to allow it to increase production later in the year. and german chancellor angela merkel's

conservatives choose their next party leader and possibly germany's next leader. welcome to the show it's a milestone nobody wanted to reach 2000000 people have died from cope at 19 in the year since the outbreak began this by governments around the world racing to vaccinate their populations most of them have so far failed to stem the relentless rise in deaths and infections brazil has the world's 2nd highest death toll was more than 200000 covert fatalities lockdowns haven't been able to turn the tide and authorities and one city in central brazil are now admitting that its health care system has collapsed. the ambulances keep on coming they bring a relentless stream of coronavirus patients to the hospitals in the brazilian city

of. menow this is the capital of amazonas a state hit particularly hard by the pandemic overburdened hospitals are now running out of their most vital supply oxygen this growing shortage is costing lives. never more here was my grandmother died today because of lack of oxygen there were 21 patients in the intensive care unit and my grandmother who is 84 years old didn't survive she needed 15 leaders of oxygen and didn't get it. the. protesters are blocking roads and picketing hospitals they're angry at the government and demand answers. summer i've been here since 9 am and seem just how desperate people are i don't even know how to explain what's happening in our country and in our state it's unacceptable for there to be

a lack of oxygen. and there is absolutely no explanation for this. safe because all the government has responded by flying in additional supplies to the embattled state the shortage has given rise to a new type of crime. police footage shows oxygen cylinders that had been illegally withheld to drive up the price. amazonas has been here before last year's dramatic images of mass graves carved into the rain forest shocked the world. brazil's health minister blames local authorities for the crisis. no one knows did not have an effective action plan for early treatment with clinical diagnosis basic care and that has greatly impacted on the severity of the virus also the specialist care hospital infrastructure in manaos is quite small in

percentage terms. by the more modern. wall but as the ambulances keep coming in a country 2nd only to the us in corona virus deaths there is plenty of blame to go around and he was vaccine manufacturer of fines or has told the european commission it will not be able to fulfill all of its promise to livery in the coming weeks that's because of building work intended to boost production and its plant and belgium where the e.u. member states dependent on the pfizer back scene for the vaccination programs that's a major setback and europe's battle against the pandemic. pfizer's plan where it's from here that every country in the world except the us will be supplied with its vaccine it's a complicated manufacturing process doses have to be kept at ultra low temperatures

and the united some of the deliveries could be delayed a complete surprise to the e.u. . these are all of course a question that pfizer company has to answer i think it is very important that immediately we make clear that there is a guarantee of. that have to be delivered in the 1st quarter just a week ago the european commission was in talks with pfizer about delivery arrangements there was no mention of. the company wants to carry out works its plan to adopt the manufacturing process and that it says would significantly boost production in the coming months several e.u. countries have urged the commission to peer pressure on pfizer they've described the delay as unacceptable and see it will have a profound impact on the credibility of the whole vaccination campaign. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world

a powerful earthquake in indonesia has killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds of others and struck on the island of damaging buildings and around the district capital. authorities fear more victims are trapped in the rubble. the government of the netherlands has resigned dutch prime minister monti handed his government's resignation to the king his coalition has taken political responsibility for a scandal involving childcare welfare payments in which thousands of parents were wrongly investigated as fraudsters the resignation is largely symbolic coming just weeks ahead of planned elections. president elect joe biden has called the current vaccine rollout in the u.s. a dismal failure and announced a new $20000000000.00 immunization program the plan which still requires congressional approval would set up new community vaccination centers around the united states. the national rifle association the united states gun lobby

has filed for bankruptcy the n.r.a. has been in financial trouble for years after it was sued for misappropriating funds find new york state despite the filing the group claims its finances are still strong. a ring of steel has been erected to protect washington d.c. as america prepares for next week's handover of power from the ongoing trump administration to the new team under president elect joe biden where than 20000 troops are standing by the f.b.i. is warning that pro trump extremists are planning violent protests and all 50 state capitols. has this special report from washington where residents have mixed feelings about the unprecedented security operation. you shall not pass that seems to be the message all around the capitol soldiers from the national guard to have flooded this. first came the fence then the barricades

were expecting our own 20000 soldiers from the national guard in washington d.c. on a number a state some have already lined up behind me this city has never seen something like that and people there is. scared of the city is a completely. on inauguration day while dangerous too dangerous scary you're supposed to keep it all you know sort of it is very good marker. group called the. club so i disagree that they've done since wednesday is definitely needed and i do feel better about it but i think that the threat is still there at the current is shaky i just want to make sure that this time that they're actually doing their job to protect the city as opposed to you know they have a fair like lester. behind the fence it's all hands on deck. and soldiers from 11 states have arrived in washington d.c.

they are organizing their equipment checking their weapons and getting ready in case violence returns to the city. they still don't know for how long they will stay deployed here. but the ones who spoke to us say they are proud to be here and to defend their democracy. but it's also a logistical challenge. for now they're waiting this might look like a military base but we're actually in the heart of the capitol building the soldiers are resting here they're having lunch and they're getting prepared for generally trying to inauguration day. nobody knows what awaits them. the holds still bears signs of last week's riots.

or. progress. and now they are here to fix. his car alina choices here in germany chancellor merkel c.d.u. party is about to elect a new leader it's a key vote that will shape the party's future direction and could potentially represent a 1st step towards determining the next chancellor after more than 15 years in the top job chancer america is not seeking another term and 2018 she was replaced as c.d.u. leader by i'm going to come calvin vala has failed to stamp her authority on the party and announced last year that she would step aside. the race for the leadership appears to be wide open with 3 very different candidates on the all male ballot the winner won't necessarily become the next german chancellor but what

about the incumbent does she have a preference. yes and that america does have a favorite to succeed her watch her try not to show it when asked months ago whether the man next to her has what it takes to become tonnesen. that the middle of always said that i won't interfere in the succession of the position i have had and you see do you party leader will be elected in life said is a candidate and a state premier of north rhine-westphalia he brings many qualifications to the table. by medical standards that's strong praise i'm unless it stands for post machall continuity something he demonstrated in the candidate debates playing in it i bring to the table experience in government as leader of a large state balancing our interests and it might come in handy that i've actually

already won an election as these next elections are just sizes. maps wants to turn the c.d.u. back to its conservative roots he wants left politics after losing a vote to anger machall a man keen to see the end of machall style centrist politics. we need is competition for the best ideas to define the political center to put it more bluntly i believe that in politics nothing and nobody is irreplaceable know about what ministerial career was also once dented by machall political dominance still the underdog he has carved out a chance at the leadership by pushing his vision of a germany asked her to tick global player. strength is the answer and strength only comes through unity so we need european china strategy and that also means that germany has to stop simply seeing china as just one of its most important markets also market and that's what. the next party leader will

also be in pole position to run as chancellor the latest polls suggest it will be a close call when the 1001 party delegates vote on saturday with mouth slightly in the lead but when seaview supporters were asked who would be most able to win the federal elections in september and become next chancellor a stunning 80 percent named someone not even on the list marco sudha healy the c.d.u. sister party and bavaria. and there's another dark horse with potential germany's health minister yet spawn is leaving his options open to so the answer who will succeed chancellor may still be months away yet saturday's vote for a new party leader will decide how her c.d.u. defines conservative politics in the future. now earlier we spoke to our chief

political editor michelle a coup for the and i asked her what the 1st task of the new cd there would be it's uniting the party because there was a bit a contest over the party leadership in the past we've almost forgotten that anecdotes come congo where the woman handing over the office was supposed to take over as party leader and eventually become chancellor that's not happening there were bits of divisions in the party and that's what the party is now afraid of with those looming elections in september that whoever wins needs to demonstrate that they can bring everybody behind them and really live up to the title of the big tent party that's also what we heard from under the merkel addressing that gathering this evening that this is a big tent party that has to unite different opinions rather than divide. and before we go here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you global coverage 19 deaths top 2000000 as government struggle to cope and hospitals and many countries are

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as ugandans awaits the final results of the election the internet remains cattle will be talking to an expert about the impacts of. the 50th anniversary of the us one dam a massive feat of construction that shaped the course of modern day egypt. hello i'm christine it's good to have your company bobbie wine has claimed victory in uganda's presidential election the final result is expected on saturday but early tallies released by the electoral commission showed a strong lead for president you where it was 70 now bobbie y. whose real name is rob it has rejected the election calling it a complete sham he claims ballot boxes was stuffed and that he's party agents were

beaten and chased away from some polling stations they head of the electoral commission say it should provide evidence of his claims now the largely peaceful election followed one of the most violent campaign in he is with harassment interests of the opposition attacks on the media and scores of deaths. has this report from kampala. the preliminary results house putting come back into you were 70 in an early lead but with less than half the votes tallied by friday afternoon his main challenger bobi wine is already a challenging that he's citing fall play here in kampala where the opus's sion enjoys strong support there is a lot of anxiety the police and the military have deployed heavily and the government has maintained the internet shuts down your enemy 7 wants to lead uganda

for 40 years but bubby one thinks that's too much but now that ugandans have decided the entire country awaits their final results on saturday and as eunice was just saying the internet access remains cut off in uganda the government shut it down and banned all social media platforms and messaging apps the day before the election i'll be talking to an internet policy expert author this report. it was an election campaign marked by a heavy handed police and military presence and then uganda's government shut down all social media president you where iemma 70 said it was unnecessary because facebook close several accounts belonging to ugandan government officials facebook says the accounts were trying to manipulate public debate ahead of the elections there's no norway in a wood who can come and play around with. our

country to say that was good was but we stopped this war that we cannot accept. then a day later ugandan or thirty's shut down the entire internet making online communication almost impossible the internet upload it brings up each other and we'll be getting information from near. the end of that it would ease and it would ease the communication and. the counting and then updates but if end of that visit a trophy effect maybe by the government i would say the main opposition candidate bobby wine has vowed to detail election irregularities by the ruling policy once the internet is restored and even before the poll called on his supporters to help so please use your phones your phone is a very powerful report that government that you have on your phone please use it

use it most importantly recorded that particular moment when the presiding of the south is declaring their results on their polling station we need every kind of evidence with the internet still down provisional results show bobby wind trailing far behind president was 70 the opposition is rejecting the results as a complete sham. and for more on this i'm joined by on duncombe i don't he's an internet policy researcher in nairobi hi good to see you firstly what do you make of uganda's government shutting down the internet and social media head of the election. i think it's a completely deplorable act and i think one of them was interesting things is how it's now the 4th quarter to go home and to do when they wish to stifle if you don't with the expression of this it isn't so you know it's a it's a very much a low point for democracy in uganda and bit in my shop across the entire continent

as he is saying these internet shutdowns and social media bans all common on the continent how is it possible for full governments in africa to do this so the most likely that usually happens is that the given all the telecommunications companies that exist within their. jurisdiction to shut down the internet or to directed to revoke their licenses if they use data if used to do so oftentimes this also has to happen in steps where they would. provide to 1st of all . switch off access to a certain number of websites mostly our own media and social media websites and then of course in the extreme case they said most of the time they decided to shut down the entire internet oh damn that how powerful have the internet and social media become in african politics i would say very powerful is specially across

because when you look at the attempts by governments to actually try and lot of it try and persuade their citizens by using these specific platforms of both local and before them i would say that these companies have become very powerful in terms of how the sway in the local politics within regions within the within the continent so definitely or other the how will it become powerful and that ball is actually only said to increase with the data as the guns gain access to the internet smartphones and other devices that allow them to access and communicate with each other so how they know down to do we save god and then the internet from a policy perspective from from the othera terror and regimes on the continent who ban the internet and social media when it when it's convenient for them. i think when it comes to protections of course number one i think we need to develop strong institutions and you know sort of legislate protections into our own constitutions

as africans so that at least there is some protection for citizens in the case where by the end of been there in a place where the authority and the genes able to perform such acts now number 2 we also need a lot of interventions from from international communities to condemn such kind of flat such as the internet shutdowns because one thing that we've noticed is a notorious thing is that uganda shutdown has not been the only shutdown that has happened in africa and as you said past there have been plenty and i think the funny thing is that we have rarely seen condemnation coming from you know the international community for this kind of for this kind of what i would consider to be a helios act so we definitely need to you know to pull on the allies that we have and also to develop our own internal protections and it's and it's you do sions as africans in order to protect ourselves from these kind of things all right that is on dengue i don't here's an internet policy recession talking to us from nairobi

kenya thank you dan. it took with his like these guys you see behind me more than 10 year is to build egypt's us one high dam was inaugurated 50 years of the today the river nile had always been egypt's lifeblood bringing water and food to miti to the country as it flowed northwards the dam taint the nile which used to flood regularly and for months at a time now the us one down controls the bourses best they could soon be at risk further upstream the grand ethiopian renee's on stem all get is an extension cairo if you began filling the dam last year and it is expected to take to fill egypt is worried that want to kept in the blue nile could mean the nile running dry

. is that good is crucial to supply electrical power to its people exactly the reasoning egypt used for the us one. half a century ago president anwar sadat you know great egypt's biggest ever infrastructure project it's 117 times as much sun and stone as a great pyramid he say and it brought a revolution for farmers like us inside eat badly. after the dam was built stopped reaching this area and the land so that you speak of it with water it's all farms now and everyone took a piece of land to cultivate. the os one high dam made the devastating yearly floods a thing of the past. it boosted tourism on the river nile it also supplied almost the entire nation with electricity and water for irrigation massively expanding egyptian agriculture bad ensure regularly after the inauguration of the high dam

the egyptian farmlands increased by around 1500000 acres in the following year. also regarding the generation of electricity the high dam covered around 80 to 90 percent after its inauguration. but the barrels upset the rivers delicate ecosystems which relied on the annual floods. and rising waters meant forced relocations for people living in newby in villages along the shores behind the river dwellers for generations they were sent to the desert nubian activists say that their right of return is guaranteed and they don't want compensation. well did the store why was the constitution is clear and the article is clear it does not provide for compensation but rather stipulates the resettlement of the nubians in their original areas around the banks of the lake. but for most egyptians the

benefits of the dam far outweigh the disadvantages. said the high damage changed the lives of egyptians and it is in fact the greatest egyptian project ever since the age of the pharaohs to this day. and that has a fall program this week be sure to check out our other stories on dot com forward slash africa also on facebook and on twitter that today will leave you with pictures off the construction of the ass one hideout which took more than a decade to build and so was rewarded by of soviet back is as that 8th wonder of the world we'll see you next time i'm back.

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business i'm craig ferguson thanks for joining me lesson no week before his inauguration u.s. president elect joe biden has rolled out his plan to prop up the american economy so what does it involve central to the stimulus package is a direct payment of $1400.00 for every american citizen added to the $600.00 checks already agreed it equals the 2000 daughter checks i had going president trump had wanted also in the rescue package $400.00 more per week in unemployment pay target of millions who have lost their jobs in recent months the minimum wage is set to rise to $15.00 per hour they'll also be additional money for states schools and for a national vaccination program as well as expanded testing to combat cof it 19 the price tag for the whole plan $1.00 trillion dollars an amount joe biden says needs

to be invested in order to ward off further economic disaster. i just described is not cheap. but still you do so cost has to. the consensus among leading economists is we simply can not afford not to do what i'm proposing for more let's bring in financial correspondent caught in new york oh yes what's the reaction been to this plan well i mean wall street was a bit dim hesitant but my guess is it's important to point out that there's this rescue apec kitchen to not a stimulus program it's really good to get the country from here to there until things get a bit better especially when it comes to the virus situation in the united states and therefore joe biden wants to as you mentioned make chile have still some extra fuel him and benefits till the end of september the same is true with dictions that

should be put on hold all till till the end of september but as you mentioned $1.00 trillion dollars it's quite some money and that comes on top of the 9 $100000000000.00 that congress has just a pos as an aid package in december so the question on wall street really is if that might eventually drive inflation higher it's the whole thing will be financed by higher texas so we don't know when that's going to happen but sooner or later it's probably unavoidable and so we did have a wall street ending on a lower and old for the week the market is down by a little less than one percent ok it really is a staggering amount we're talking about here i want to talk abut the minimum wage this pond would see it right rise from $725.00 to $15.00 that is a huge chunk what without mean for the labor market. well i mean it's definitely quite a game changer when it comes to the workforce here and in the united states

adjusted for inflation the minimum wage in the united states is about 3rd lower than it used to be in the late sixty's and you have millions of people being among the so-called working poor meaning people have a job but they do not make enough money to support their families so that is clearly a big game changer economists it's also always a big debate so if you increase minimum wage might that actually be a drag on the labor market so that come some companies might shy away for employing more people even if there hasn't been really a lot of evidence towards that and we've seen that was a couple of states here in the united states like new york for instance they already have said they're going to have the minimum wage at 15 dollars an hour and we have not seen a big drag on the labor market having that said for mid-size and bigger companies it's definitely less of a problem with the higher minimum wage than it might be for small companies was a few employees so that could be a bit of

a challenge but overall it might be actually a big boost and it would be the 1st increase of the minimum wage since 2009 so in more than a decade definitely a momentous move against quite to thank you very much. the face of the new and strange to pipeline that is to bring russian gas to germany via the baltic sea life in the balance the project is highly controversial to united states argues it will leave europe dangerously reliant on russia environmentalist say it will ruin it natural maritime habitats the german government says it will provide affordable energy while coal and nuclear energy are being face to use those involved in the project have no idea if or when the pipeline will become patient. about 150 kilometers to go just before the end of the year the north stream 2 consortium said it had completed laying pipes for the project in german waters work is to

continue in danish territory but the project has turned into much more than an engineering challenge. a 1200 kilometer underwater dual pipeline north stream one has been delivering natural gas from russia to germany since 2011 north stream 2 was to start operating last year it's nearly completed but construction work has been disrupted in recent months. that's a no small part due to harsh criticism by the us government the trump administration insists north stream to undermines europe's overall energy security and provides russia with a dangerous amount of leverage. also the us is eager to increase its own natural gas sales as a result washington has been threatening to impose sanctions on companies that are involved in north stream 2. in germany the state government of mecca and burke western pomerania has created a foundation to promote natural gas as an environmentally friendly bridging

technology. but the foundation will also purchase essential equipment from north stream to aiming to guard companies that are part of it from sanctions. earlier i spoke to thomas o'donnell energy expert at the hershey school of governments and berlin he says north stream too has turned into a highly geo political issue one that is especially important for russian president vladimir putin as we all know putin has designs and ukraine and designs and bella ruse and these pipelines all 80 percent of the gas that germany russia sense europe goes through these countries and this is a this is a problem because putin has started wars and so forth in these countries so germany has skin in the game that it doesn't want to have skin in the game to put it sort of bluntly they agree with putin he also does not want the guest to anymore go through those countries instead of something that he can use for corruption and control for elite capture and that kind of thing because of the resistance in both these countries he wants to get them out because if he's going to proceed to

suppress these countries he doesn't want to risk his business with europe and the german leadership has decided that they're not going to take a risk either they agree with them and they'll get out. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news a top french railway executive says you're a star is the next stage following an 85 percent drop in travel between britain and the european continent last year here a star is currently operating just one service a day between paris and london before the pandemic it offered 2 trains per hour it during peak times. germany's health ministry says deliveries of the vaccine developed by ion tech and pfizer will be delayed in the coming weeks as pfizer modify its plans and poor's belgian the company is changing its manufacturing processes so it can bolster vaccine production by mid february its aiming to produce 2000000 doses this year. the french government says it will not agree to

a nearly 16000000000 euro takeover of supermarket giant cough or by canadian company. french economy minister bruno in america said it could. the country's food security for has more than 12000 stores in 30 countries. the global smartphone market is dominated by large asian and american companies that often have complications supply chains and less than sustainable business practices but there are other options i think are in our next report will meet 2 german brothers who have set up a company focused on a small but solid growth. silicon valley it isn't but the little german village of cumbered is home to high and sustainable mobile phone technology brothers karsten and samuel of all that are media designers who are unhappy with the big smartphone makers and so shift was born. in some few dimension . people said we were crazy when we started shipping. they said it won't work and

it can't you can't make smart phones in such small numbers designed in germany and made on a small very production line in china it's not possible to go and. skate on this new well it's been possible for 6 years now with investors and so far the 2 brothers have sold 60000 mobile phones mainly in german speaking countries you design. we use repair statistics design our gadgets and that's important because we want to make sure our devices last as long as possible shifts battery and components are easily replaced that makes the phones long lasting on top of that shift buys back used phones and sells them on this stain of a model helps the company's 40 employees generate 7000000 euros in sales last year . well i'm going to. move toward not interested in making

a stack of money we want healthy growth and if that means operating in his needs then that's fine but we do see that we're gathering a considerable following our outsider sustainability bubble and. that could perhaps be because shifter impairs a well with other brands and it's set up right collects far less data than standard google android gadgets. and. that's why we've got shift o. s. lately it's basically the same operating system but without google services. the real consumer protection agent philip held has come across shift phones a few times the same with fair phone even if the 2 companies are small operations he says they're important. it's really great we've got these 2 phone makers they prove it can be done sustainably that the things can be easily repaired that you don't have to rely on androids market dominance that you can impact their

sales. of all the brothers have other projects in mind a touch pad with an innovative keyboard hits the market this year and they want to turn their village into a tech hub. this house will soon be converted into co-working spaces and the shop. enough it for me thanks so much for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the co the special monday to friday on w. 2 children

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welcome to the show unofficial addict from the year 321 issued by the roman emperor constantine the great gave permission for a jew to be appointed to the city council in cologne the 1st written evidence of jewish life in the area that we now call germany and important evidence of the coexistence of different religions at that time 700 years later an anniversary year aims to let jewish culture in all its diversity shine. come to some. installation of the jewish museum in berlin that's. the big anniversary is being celebrated with events throughout the year here there's

a new permanent exhibition focusing on 700 years of jewish life in germany. you might say the central theme is the relationship between jews and jewish society and the dynamic between belonging and exclusion. in the 18th century radical change prompted by the enlightenment stimulated a life of the exchange of ideas between rights and philosophers and known jews in business science and culture painter max and physicist albert einstein just 2 examples of jews who had a major impact on german society. if you look at world war one lots of jews as soldiers at the time that was a sign that they had become part of society because they really felt german.

food. but from the beginning of the nazi dictatorship jews were systematically excluded from society disenfranchised persecuted forced into exile and murdered before 933 around half a 1000000 jews lived in germany after 945 there were only a few 1000 and it remains a blight on german society. the holocaust the holocaust a very important point in jewish history in germany and you know all of europe but what's new in the current exhibition is that it's no longer presented as the of that history and. that's because of a resurgence of jewish life in germany since 1900. 4. and even israel today there are more than 200000 jews living in germany.

and joining me now from cologne is underway she's a pianist and entrepreneur and currently managing director of the association 700 years of jewish life in germany and co organizer of this anniversary year welcome mr corvet. we just heard over 200000 jews in germany but sadly they are facing increasing levels of anti semitism with that synagogue shooting and then 2900 glaring example how significant or crucial even is a celebration like this in this context. yes this is very crucial specially after these events i mean if you look at it and he said his i'm. older than 1. 1700 years it's like a pandemic virus it existed before it existed after the terrible attack on holland

. and the jewish people here in germany we felt that. his and all the time i mean i personally grew up here was always there and obviously you know we saw how this. thinking some of his and the minds can turn into actually kind of physical violence so now it's very very important to work on that 1700 years of jewish life here in germany and yet many jewish customs are still not very well known here how do you hope with this anniversary year to make jewish life and for and jewish intellectual history really more tangible to german. this is a very complex issue it is just 76 years after the shah and germany still has a kind of a theatrical culture of remember owns and memorial. and people here naturally i'm all aware of dead and alive jews. and this is not so

surprising because many people never talked to a jew here in germany in person and it's also very out they meet one on the street . and for many the only way to learn about this is in schools and what you mostly learn in schools lacking is about the jewish religion is about how to use well of course murdered in the shi'a which is very very important to learn and also about the growing and silent semite as and in the society but it is very important but you cannot reduce the reduce jewish life to that shines and i go. and this is why we have a new approach actually. which we're trying to roll out this year and what is that new approach you spoke earlier about empathy. yes that's very important because if i mean we have now it will set 200000 some estimate 150000 jews actually living here in germany around 100000 are registers to jewish to the jewish community this

is like them terry come later that we have and we are all different we have it we have doubts and we want to be part of the society now. most people as i said don't know us and if you want to get to know your neighbor it's one way to go and to say you read the c.v. and to learn about him but i don't think this is enough to develop this and get them to these are very important because otherwise you will never get rid of the serial types in your head is our approach actually yet very sensitive issues there but obviously a lot of joy to impart give us a quickly an idea of the international context for this anniversary are you hoping it will resonate with jews outside of germany and how they perceive jewish life here yes i think the shock i mean. brutally said germany is the inventor of the shying away of the systematic killing of jews we have to face and a lot of jews like you know of my surroundings of personal things of all look at

them how jews and non jews live together in job and i think it is an international importance and most of the jewish people here in germany a family outside of the country so i think of for us it's very important but also for the jos asyut itself and i think and he summoned him is not a german problem and so european problem is a worldwide problem. as i said append i mean exciting it's very important to see what it doesn't say thank you very much for joining us celebrating 1700 years of jewish life in germany undertake in cologne. thank you. well the harp is an instrument that comes with some strong associations not only is it difficult to lug around but its delicate music has long been synonymous with angelic nymphs or young girls with long flowing hair and in the romantic period it even became a salon instrument but remained strongly gendered which is why french harpist exempted domestica is credited with revolutionising its repertoire.

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other culture news that was making headlines at the end of the week includes the most expensive batman comic ever the comic dating from the 1940 set a world record for batman comics when it sold at auction in the us for more than $2200000.00. the comic originally sold for just 10. the most expensive comic ever however remains an original copy of the action comics number one that raked in an incredible $3200000.00 back in $24.00. and a rather bizarre anniversary coming up this weekend the 100th anniversary of the sawing a person in half illusion performed here to great effect by the world famous american magician david copperfield 100 years ago on january 17th the illusionist p.t. celibate put a woman in

a box in london and sold right through the board creating a classic magic trick from around the world will get together online they some day to celebrate the centenary of that landmark performance. and on that note let's keep ourselves all together this weekend and beyond and until we meet again face thanks and all the best.

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