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down roads with no names we feel asleep to live a relentless you know promise to make every did every special. not just next day but every day. thousands of children still waiting for that delivery sponsor of books today so together we can deliver changes. wall street regulators look at the game stop trading frenzy but did amateur traders really do anything wrong we'll talk to our financial correspondent and we'll look at how game stop and other targeted stocks are fairing. also on the show germany's coplin their post its 1st annual profit in 6 years look at whether the door is

finally emerging from its hard times and that another german bank is still firmly stuck in them. and tens of thousands of checks workers cross into germany every day now the pentagon is adding new scrutiny to their commute. load welcome to the show i'm susan beardsley in berlin it's good to have you with us u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen was set to meet financial regulators thursday to discuss the game stop trading frenzy yellen has said that she wants to deeply understand the surge when shares in the videogame retailer skyrocketed more than 600 percent last week as users of a reddit forum banded together to drive the stock higher the resulting short squeeze left hedge funds that had bet against the stock with huge losses and it spurred complaints of stock manipulation game stop shares lost more than 40 percent on thursday. are for more on this let's go to our financial correspondent in new york yen scored a good to see you does this meeting involving yellen and these financial regulators

does that suggest that these traders have done something wrong. we don't know that sexually what janet yellen and a lot of other high ranking people from the oversight boards and to regulators try to figure out and you already mentioned it engendered yellen in an interview before this meeting said it quite quite clearly we have to understand the whole thing deeply and then we can make decisions by the way there are more penalties more called medias to follow so we won't see any decision anytime soon there was a separate report by the way by bloomberg that the f.c.c. so the curious securities and exchange commission is also having a deeper look if if there are any fraudulent activities was the shows for the media posts and their guess we also have to understand who is clearly behind it so. it's a no fraudulent activity peter took when is saying

a trader from the reporter did so but degenerate yellen and her colleagues there will figure that out as well. colleagues there one other question is this game stop hype is it really over we've seen that they've lost today pretty considerably it well i mean it might be over for game stop at this point and i mean if you see what happened here on thursday the stock was down another good to 45 percent the stock now is down at around 50 bucks a share just 12 weeks ago at game stop trading at around 400 but that does not mean that this whole movement is over that we won't see other companies other commodities for instance being targeted by those a trader so i would definitely not say at this point that the hype and the party is done and over with but maybe for a game stop that might be a game for at this point. but actual correspondent in new york thank you.

earlier today i spoke with evan keegan he's one of the amateur traders who bought and later sold game stop shares i asked him what motivated his trading decisions. you know for me and i saw this really purely like i said as what it as really what it was as an opportunity for a short squeeze an opportunity to make out to make money quickly you know for me it was less so and i know for a lot of people it's sort of this opportunity it's it's a quote unquote stick it to wall street you know and certainly there are there are conversations important conversations about that need to be. you know about how that how hedge funds work how people are investing and democratizing investing things like doctors that are important conversation but i think for me it really was exactly you know what i said it really was just a short squeeze out which to do that i took advantage of all right i think he can there he was one of those amateur traders behind that game stop search let's take

a look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. brazilian mining giant valley has agreed to pay $7000000000.00 in damages over the collapse of a mining waste dam that unleashed a flood of toxic sludge in $21000.00 killing $270.00 people folly said it would provide what it called socio economic and socio environmental reparations to affected families. thousands of workers and french cities including paris took to the streets thursday to demand higher wages and more job protection picking up from a wave of protests in january many sectors have suffered closures and lock downs since the start of the pandemic prompted prompting calls for greater state support . or plans to split itself into the stood guard automaker says it will spin off its truck and bus operations into a new company to be listed on the frankfurt stock exchange remaining business will house its car operations and be renamed for saying he spends. well speaking of

german companies in the news deutsche bank investors have long been waiting to hear germany's top lender ended the year with profit propelled by a strong performance from its investment side and low credit losses the question now whether that performance is a pandemic year one off or the result of his recent recent overhauls as a city under lockdown frankfurt had hoped for some good news but its major banks have delivered mixed messages this results season one of the bright spots bank its $113000000.00 euro net profit for the year 2020 is a sign of light at the end of the tunnel after years of struggling with failing divisions litigation and i t troubles well i think they're going full gain from the pandemic as well so all the client have to restructure the financing situation in much need for capital

a lot actually loans they need their over to mr jasper response fall into situation and all this is good for the larger budget because there come provided full service argument on that far fewer pandemic loans are going sour than expected that's good news for the bank the outbreak of the pandemic may even help the bank to cut costs many off its employees are working from home a trend the bank wants to keep up. well they have of course they have really been quite successful in their investment banking units and with the ongoing volatility on the financial markets with high trading volumes it's likely that investment banking will remain. pretty profitable for the bank for quite a while the outlook for core mats germany's 2nd biggest lender is not as rosy the bank is said to cut 10000 jobs about 20 percent of the workforce no wonder that in

an internal. employees only 20 percent say they're optimistic about their future. every day tens of thousands of people from the czech republic cross the border into germany for work many of them are employed in industry or in the health care hospitality sectors but coronavirus restrictions are making the crossing a bit more complicated. 7 in the morning in fulton violet on the czech german border yuri burma is on his way to work in germany to enter the country he has to show a negative coronavirus test every 48 hours his appointments are made online the tests done in a former customs house we're not allowed to film inside there a doctor takes a nasal sample to see if you're is dealing with a corona virus infection. after

a 20 minute wait relief comes in the form of a text message on his phone. i opened it up and. i'm negative now i can get into germany it's part of. the czech republic as much china corona virus infection rates than germany the rapid tests for commuters are aimed at keeping the border open and lowering infections. 10 minutes later uribe burma is at work in the printed circuit plant of his employer deltec. a qualified electrician is responsible for several production lines which make printed circuit boards for the auto industry. his wife and their 2 small children live in the czech republic a mere 15 minutes away from the plant but he still doesn't feel like relocating to germany. i've bought a house there i've got mortgages and needs renovating the situation is too difficult to stay in germany right now it's not. over 2 thirds of the

company's staff commute to work from the czech republic deltec couldn't function without them. most of them are well trained in electronics. and we're grateful we can employ people like bees. $4500.00 cross border commuters come to the district of. many of the highly qualified specialists who are in high demand the district chief administrator wants to keep the border open for commuters otherwise a lot of local businesses would go bankrupt that's why the state of bavaria is paying for the tests. they pay their income taxes here painter our social security systems. and that's what justifies the free state of bavaria to pay $18.00 euro's for a fast antigen test just 18 euro's the same thing we do for the local german

population as well. with almost $25000.00 commuters in the area alone that adds up to quite a sum of closing the border down would be far more expensive and the tests don't bother you re burma too much he just doesn't want to lose his job it pays him a 3rd more than he done back across the border. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following. secretary janet yellen was set to meet with financial market regulators to discuss the game stop trading frenzy shares in the videogame retailer skyrocketed more than 1600 percent last week as users of a reddit for a banded together to drive the stock higher prompting allegations of market manipulation now the stock is on a downward trajectory losing more than 30 percent thursday. germany's top lender georgia bank and the 2020 with a 113000000 euro net profit propelled by

a strong performance from its investment. credit losses but analysts question whether that performance is a pandemic year anomaly or the results of its recent overhauls. that's it for me and the business team here you find out more about these and other business stories online dot com. also check us out on facebook on twitter m c as always it's rushed. into the conflict zone to suggest. many coaches are watching anxiously to see how the new u.s. administration will we set relations with them my guest this week from jerusalem is the community affairs minister. how will his government react to joe biden's new policy on the road and his way to tolerance for these functions. conflicts.

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slaves. and there are many stories of. live play make up your. place. made for mines. this is state of the nice epitaph on the program today one of the olds resistance song is most notorious c'mon this is convicted at the hague domini own way it has been found for atrocities he added soldiers to miss it when he commanded the ugandan rebel group. which therefore can defeat the legal control flow 61 crimes compromising both crimes against humanity. now they allow for

a transformed thousands of young boys and girls into child soldiers in its 30 year brand of terror i'll be talking to one of them. live. hello i'm christine one but it's good to have your company. a former commander in the notorious ugandan rebel group molds resistance army has been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the international criminal court dominic unwin was found guilty of $61.00 charges of a reign of terror in the early 2000 his crimes include murder rape sexual enslavement and the conscription of child soldiers he had denied all the charges in some brenda's to u.s. special forces who were hunting and always found in the 2015 he will be sentenced

at a later date he faces a maximum punishment off life imprisonment you have noticed that i skipped various is dominick on where from is this trial has been years in the making with thousands of witnesses providing testimony us on when was a senior commander in joseph's kearney's lord's resistance army after having been abducted himself by the group in his youth kone founded the group in the 1988 amid widespread ethnic fighting in uganda. the group committed rape mutilation torture and murder as it moved across uganda the democratic republic of congo the central african republic as well as south sudan. the international criminal court also heard hours of recordings of commanders ordering atrocities. by laura leader joseph coney is still at large but the group is just

a shadow of its former self now trial has been a chance for victims to confront an ongoing trauma the effects of which are still felt today. and my 1st guest today is a former child soldier in the n.r.a. and has since become an activist in a sense a poignant joins me from here in germany welcome to day to be in his africa innocent i just want set to begin by asking you how you were recruited by the little its resistance army yeah thank you so much for having me. i was abducted like did you do a lot of people say nobody gonna to come in the middle of the night with you at gunpoint to join the man so i was force at gunpoint with my shirt to move to walk with them besides my dad the same night it was said that it exists in my mind it was at that unfortunate if we need would it make it it was killed us that night

i was forced to move with them to such a down where i joined rescue by the chancellor of the u.s. other sort of yes i can but i am. in a sense became. it tell us about some of the atrocities that you saw in your time with the n.r.a. . or your nightmares everything you kind of much happened in the end that it comes. from people being stepped on desk in atlanta with a sword yes stepping on one child or one test idea we disobeyed a commodity dice to light bullets in that office door kind of beating on punishing men when they find you listening to revues and on this keyboard costing program so that day what was i sure you were going to ask if you listen to these programs so it was really almost every kind of punishment you find. but it was that that it was our day they saw many young ghosts that we well as just sort of us to adopt and

that it was true and used as that with the wife's. and domenicali way and he's just been convicted at the hague at the crimes he committed as as come on to off the n.r.a. how would you like to see the justice system deal with people like him. you know i would i would be an evil create if i tell you that i would judge you must be because i want choice jazz idea myself and the community well company bought it in judge me i don't think will dominate was adopted at the age of 14 as i know it was you for the war that it was a dentist comedy it was what i mean is this weird so that is a point where few people even know where i would say it is off forgiveness imagine this deep that i was give them when it was ready. it grew bored and at deputy to escape it. but instead of escaping the choice to lead the sword yes the n.r.a.

one must must i am given cops like england related to the way to keep 15 people right one eye. and inequality look what it appeared in 2004 to keep 69 people in one night in depressed times using much it bumming a life interest apps and doing only one of captivities and that is what it is whence they keep all the people right in a sense what have you done to cope with your pasta. i skip the l.a. war i enjoyed it way beyond rehabilitation center well if i didn't like it because i was forced to go there and that i was the most important thing that happened in my life because today we have the additional sat that was started by your life the meaning of forgiving and moving forward the fact that it was to do more in my life and since then i bore no to keep quiet not to speak with eventual grand was the event it was that they don't understand and that's why i've grown strong to be up

to this but it was less mostly children in war yes so what helped me moss was sharing with people coming out and sharing the past that i really you know want to visit. and not just getting into reality i'm making peace with my house and through that i realize yes some people judge me when i started doing it and some people there sort of for me but both of them were not what i was seeking for i was seeking for was that speech will be seen where i kept what we now say describe him and i have to be quick i should make sure it doesn't happen to him not a technical. right that is in a central point he's a former l.r. a child soldier who's now in gates an exorcism as he's been telling us we appreciate you coming on to the program thank you in a sense you're gonna thank you. now when pled not guilty his defense argued that he himself was a victim because he had been abducted by the lord's resistance army as

a young boy and suffered psychological damage as a result the judges' rejects of this defense this of innocence to the presiding judge. that the overwhelming evidence paints a picture of the only grown woman as a person in full possession of his mental abilities he's described by his subordinates as an extremely capable fighter and commander. whom they love to follow he planted attacks carefully and assess the risks together with his officers the evidence also shows that when he was not in a situation of complete subordination reserve he sort of corny but frequently acted independently and even contested orders received from joseph koni he was not a puppet on a string i'm now joined by henri and nicole he's

a human rights watch africa research based in iraq welcome to the program it's great to have you here what do you make off the judge's dismissing dominic wayne's defense that he himself was a victim because he was once a child soldier. well what i took from that was the. idea that. she the the evidence that was presented during the trial that he was on when i was very calculating and made decisions that he should be held accountable for are to commit some of the pieces that his brigade and he himself individual individually committed. my interpretation was that it wasn't so much about him being. formally abducted himself but about the fact that he made those decisions as an adult who had was fully aware of what was going on. right i mean

what we have to point out that this is the 1st time that the crime of forced pregnancy is considered by the i.c.c. how significant is that i think it's very significant because it takes cognizance of the impact of sexual and gender based violence in conflict and that was one of. the big factors of what they did during the 20 years in which the the conflict raged we heard innocent talking about girls as young as 12 being forced into marriage and forced to have children and this is something that really characterize that one it's obviously hugely important that people be held account to account for those kinds of crimes. the the founder of the lord's resistance army joseph cohen he remains at large dominick and when is really the only one to have been convicted in a court of law would just say that justice is far from being served.

i think justice as far as the conflict in northern uganda is concerned is very complex thing is many different dimensions to it criminal liability is one aspect of it but there's also questions of reparations on truth telling of army conciliation which these are really important facets of the culture of of not then of the people of northern uganda and all that some of those things haven't been addressed and of which it is the responsibility of the ugandan government really to provide for so 'd i would say this is a very significant step towards choosing some aspect of justice but it's it's in no way i think. in possession of the full spectrum of what justice can and should be for the terms of of that war all right that is or am miracle he is human rights watch africa researcher coming to us from nairobi appreciate you being on the

program thank you so much thanks. and that is it for now be sure to check out of the stories on forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter today will leave you with pictures of innocent of war no he's the child soldier who ran away from the lord's resistance army and that he's engaged in activism today he has one aim that is to prevent what happened to him ever happening to the child will see an extra.

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every journey begins with the 1st differ. language but the 1st word illegal nico is in germany. why not learn with him. it's simple mine on your mobile and free. w z e learning course. german made easy. welcome to our culture we'll be talking to t.c. boyle about his brand new novel in a minute it's also coming up how does she do it these look like photos but there are actually paintings by dutch. to lay. out in these trying times a simple walk in the park and get those creative juices going.

american writer t.c. barlow off to bases the extraordinary characters in his books on real people and his latest novel talk to me is no exception it's about a professor who does the talk shows with his chimpanzee that understands language my colleague sabina keys the box spoke to paul about the book but also about the threat and limitations of the pandemic which is particularly rampant in california where he lives. the bestselling all 13 sea boyle lives in montecito california where unlike in most of the world right now the vaccination rollout is moving at a painfully slow pace. we caught up with him via video cool and often how he's coping. there are at all times not only the political terror that's inflicted but there's

biologicals there are. i am of the age group who is vulnerable and i'm further vulnerable because i'm a pessimist now i haven't gone anywhere or done anything. since this began. the last 10 months fortunately at least he's already received his 1st vaccination he lives in a house between the mountains and the ocean as a writer he's used to working at home my inside. wolf in that respect lockdown wasn't too hard to adjust to you know all. that horrible people and misanthropic people 'd as well and i'm one of them yeah we don't want to be bothered by anybody or anything we want to live in our minds however there's another side to life and that's a social side which i really enjoy going to my village i live in a little village i know everybody part of my life is social and being with all of those people in the village. that has been somewhat difficult.

t.c. boyle has published more than 20 novels and short story collections if it weren't for the pandemic could be in germany right now promoting his new novel talk to me it tells at least in part the true story of an unusual experiment in the 1970 s. that tended chimpanzee into a media star. and columbia university scientists placed a baby chimpanzee in a human household in order to study when the nim chimpsky as they called him could learn to communicate with sign language the experiment failed tragically and the chimp died young effectively of a broken heart the failed research project was the subject of a documentary released a few years ago. t.c. boyle has often explored the biographies and work of scientists in his writing so

it comes as no surprise that boyle was fascinated by this almost 50 year old story he says this experiment was an attempt to find out what distinguishes man from beast a question that has long preoccupied us. how do you know who you are will you have language and you can talk well the deaf language is different it's a general language how does that work but yes i did all the way back to those days of the research seventies eighties the cross for string bands used in human households raise and just as you raise your child. to see how language is developed in us but also how it is generally developed it's just really fascinating we work in words we are words where they come from why are we different from. t.c. boyle might be a felt prickly named pessimist but he's a hugely prolific one and not even

a global pandemic is likely to dampen his extraordinary creativity. and you can see a longer version of that report on our 21 program this weekend that there are so many things we cannot do and enjoy juge this terrible worldwide pandemic but looking on the bright side there are one or 2 things that have improved our lives environment is one with less c o 2 emissions being recorded all over the world then there is the joy of getting out in the fresh air discovering the simple beauty of nature with a walk in the poc. sweet was the walk poets and writers like william wordsworth have always found the right words while on the move. around 800 the philosopher emmanuel kant took daily walks outside could expect he went in order to think. it was the advent of the coronavirus pandemic much of our everyday world has come to a standstill but the rule has experienced

a startling granny songs sometimes with a companion sometimes alone strolling aimlessly through the countryside but maybe there is a deeper purpose science says slowing down heightens our senses the fast pace of modern life has destroyed our awareness of our immediate surroundings says secure lalage's to martin schmitz a man who's dedicated his life to the science of walking. in love in my job wherever you are you can of course always ask yourself the question what is it nice here if you can put all your preconceived ideas aside and just look at what's in front of you. and walking is beneficial from a purely medical point of view to get healthy and it costs nothing. the general director of munich's i take museum to get to the outside world and strolls through a landscape that's shaped his life the genesis of sterling is depicted in many of

the artworks here in the museum. there was a few months and landscape painting of the 16th century do you see many travelers but they trade people usually they go into the market driving cattle chopping wood in the forest all this changes in the 18th century the more prosperous venture into nature not just to make a living and then now just going for a walk in spurts here. and so we come full circle. thanks to a pandemic. because nothing else. maybe you. will continue. to walk the walk. a strong. yes he is strong he is part of cultural studies and it was founded by swiss

sociologists. caught. up. in the absence of other leisure time and cultural activities after many of the people we had been the subject of countless editorials and. video. taken on a little walk why not keep. the radius of my town walks and learning more about my environment. district. and i've discovered for example the great eve. the german cinema and the stage the 1st film screening to a paying audience he also lived in my neighborhood in this house. now the discovery a little further afield discovered the soviet war memorial

a great place to unwind and contemplate and here. strolling traditionally is. taking in i'm actually a bit of a power struggle because i like the exercise benefit that you get we can take a look at my. countryside last sunday you quickly become immersed in the landscape . reading the signs and being read to by not thinking consciously but actually letting the thoughts on forward i find this to be amazingly therapeutic and did you actually get close to those did get very close there they were eating out of my hand as are my age. was always

a pleasure thank you very much for being with us. thank you. now this artists often require a 2nd look before you realize they're actually paintings and not photographs paint . is able to create art works like this with little oil pipe and an airbrush and a lot of patients. deceptively real and detail done for the last. none of these portraits are photographs they are painted by marisa. using her sophisticated techniques the artist from the dutch town of cats like is evil to capture scenes as if for real rights on canvas. she calls her contemporary real ism. means that you have the power to confine someone what they're looking at so you can literally

create your own world where your own reality in order to create her own world as convincingly as possible the 39 year old appears templi to do this she hires. often leading the men whose for hours making sketches and. she works on a large format her 3 to 3 months. in the likes best of combining different techniques. and oil painting. she never studied. she worked as an illustrator for years and taught herself everything she knew through many visits to museums among other things. huge library books i mean those folks they often describe techniques describe this the parents i know where the picking coming from i know how to make my own. in the beginning she concentrated on. realistically as possible c.

since then she's further developed her style and likes to use additional elements. needs. washing away my soul rues. the artificial suman this picture focuses on one of her greatest concerns the pollution of the seas. we took a lot of time to see it gave us our job it gave us our pressure and i think it's time to give back so it my paintings nowadays i feel like i owe something to the nature to deceive because it's so glued dead. finally we remember the genius of film production design a can adam who was born 100 years ago the new bond film keeps being delayed but we can enjoy the ingenuity of can out of those designs in many of the james bond movies in 1960 s. and seventy's i leave you with some classic examples.

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through the conflict zone is to sebastian many countries a watching a just need to see how the new u.s. administration will reset relations with them my guest this week from jerusalem is the community affairs minister yitzhak he has made me how will his government reacts to joe biden's new policy on the road and his way new tolerates moves financial lives jewish settlements conflict so for a few feet in 30 minutes w. for. most. of. the finding against the coronavirus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing it. measures are being taken. what

does the latest research say. information and context. coronavirus of the coalition special monday to friday on g.w. . 100 small fields in my hands. where i come from raj your remains an important new soft transmitting new and for mission and when i was young my country was drawing when. the war throbbing people more. people would cause them. to see. if one's mind to go to in one of the not just say so thought everyone in the calm cool and nice and tools of games. nothing has been

printed in my unknown into not more of them. not by us i was into it and from. my choice to discard because given their way to transmit patrols. and in the grass my match and i. did. this is news and these are our top stories u.s. president joe biden is pushing ahead with plans to change the direction of u.s. foreign policy is announced he will halt the withdrawal of thousands of american troops from germany and support for saudi arabia's military offensive in the long running war in yemen. the international criminal court has

convicted a former ugandan rebel commander of war crimes and crimes against humanity.