we're. putting a rope there's a morning when for accepting money from the new superpower will become dependent on . the middle of the state. the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal a little and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status in position in the world that. china is gateway to europe. starts feb 19th w. . this is news and these are our top stories. police have clashed with thousands of protesters in spain during demonstrations in support of this problem. he was jailed for insulting the monarchy and glorifying terrorism in his lyrics protesters in madrid and barcelona have been demanding his release officers deployed tear gas and

fired rubber bullets in an attempt to break up the protests. nato defense ministers have begun a 2 day virtual summit to consider the alliances future in afghanistan it's the 1st such gathering since the u.s. election i'll discuss whether to continue the fight against the taliban or withdraw their troops even as the taliban increases its attacks against afghan police and civilians. the united nations and britain are calling for evidence that the missing jubei princess is alive concerns for the daughter of the leader of the united arab emirates is growing after her friend said secret video recordings in which she claims she's being held hostage in a barricaded villa. this is state of the news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at news or visit our website to be found at www dot com.

what is the military in myanmar doing to its own people 2 weeks ago generals sent in soldiers to overthrow the democratically elected government now they reportedly sent in soldiers it's feared to overwhelm the crowds marching against the coup a country in open revolt its democracy denied its rightful leader deposed song suchi she could be silenced and she could be sent away a decision for the generals a decision they've taken once before on board golf in berlin this is the day. they know from experience what it's like to have freedom we have to resist that we won't live under a military dictatorship everyone is unified in opposition to this good life before

that they'd hold an election back in 1988 even if there's no special reason to protest we don't want to be seen as weak we've already learned our lesson from not teaching history the world is watching closely and any form of petty handed response is likely to have severe consequences. also coming up the u.s. congress is urging president biden to punish companies constructing the nord stream to natural gas projects connecting russia to germany could sanctions be in the pipeline at president biden has made clear that north stream too is a bad deal to bad deal because it divides europe and portly sanctions are only one of many important tools to ensure energy security and what course will do this all in partnership with our allies and partners but our position has not changed on that on the deal. to our viewers on p.b.s.

in the united states in 2. all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the military in me and mark 2 weeks have passed since the army overthrew the country's democratically elected government the generals justify the takeover saying of embers national election was rigged although they provided no evidence well since the coup the country has been open revolt demonstrations were getting larger by the day until early this week when soldiers were reportedly sent into silence peaceful protesters in me and mars largest city yang gone and deposed leader aung san suu kyi her future is as uncertain as her country's she appeared in court this week on charges that could land her in prison it is difficult to know exactly what is happening however 3 days ago the military blocked all access to the internet for the entire country. a battle cry for democracy tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of young gone

stepping up their open revolt against a military takeover car she says road blocks to keep security forces from moving around the commercial capital. in this cat and mouse game it appears to for now it's the mice who have the upper hand. internet shutdowns and the other attempts to disrupt the demonstrations have largely proved futile even though john says assurances of free and fair elections have been met with deep skepticism exacerbated by fresh criminal charges against sons who cheat. i know the young people of this generation don't have to believe the military is promises they lied before that they'd hold an election back in 1908 so we've already learned our lesson from not page of history. there's growing concern that myanmar's bloody history could be about to repeat itself the un says it's received reports of

soldiers being ready for crackdown in young dawn sparking fears that scenes like this are merely a taste of what's to come. but i do know that but is this activist told the daily news they're not backing down no i'm not afraid i'm not afraid we've seen that we have been and i think it's a rehearsal for years so this is that we have to finish this guy we we we we went oh what shall we give a crazy when your uncle was very early and. asked the world watches with bated breath for many here myanmar there's only one way out of this. forward with their fists high even if no one knows where the world will beat them. and for more tonight i want to bring in mr moms aren't you amy and more academic in human rights activists he joins me tonight from london mr zandi

it's good to see you again the u.n. warns that me and mars military is on a precipice just how close is the country tonight to a crackdown by the army. well it appears that the army is no longer using the pastrana as. you do which would have been you know cracking down on protests across the country using combat troops and killing thousands and that's what happened in 1988 and that's what happened in 2007 against the saffron you know months or the months revolting the military seems to be a bit more sophisticated and also they seem to be in it a big dilemma because here we are not looking at just simply people on the street you know most a lot of young and old people out on the street protesting across the country in

different cities and towns and even villages they know that they are basically. in deep conflict with this is side t.f. blog you know 50000000 people staring you down you know however well quipped and well trained and well organized you off they've got to have a 2nd thought about resorting to the old streets but know that they are using sleek shorts and they're using all kinds of terror methods and turning a shutting down internet from 18 am to 9 am but this is a night raid yes and the military junta the they know that the international community is not presenting a united front against them china for example preventing any measures at the u.n. security council. yes absolutely i mean they can counter china you know also pressure for the veto protection if u.s.

or other west and into the 3 west and veto powers on the security council decided to table any binding motion that the hunter has to have back cover however estherville you know like me live in a very ideologically diverse and said you know what kind of climate even in the united states we don't trump and said the hunter has been emboldened but this symbol lighting in all of this is that said you know the young generation who came of age having tasted real limits of political intellectual and cultural freedoms over the last 10 years they are not afraid you know of course that they are afraid to do what the military is capable of doing it that they're not prepared to beat back under soviet style dictatorship which burma left them during their parents' times well how much faith do they have in

a western front led by the united states and its sanctions against the military. well i think we need to understand that the brevis new generation have been helped by you know into the hackers from every round the world like an anonymous a central. regional democratic deadhorse from hong kong to taiwan city make still tiny bit but they're not been flying all around the united states or north event own sense since you do does it hurt them from this repressive state they are self-reliant then you can add you know mission wind to civil disobedience movement and you know not just put testy on the street but civil servants working out of their departments and gridley and bringing the state and ministration to

a halt that is their strategy they are not looking for saved from anywhere else all right mr zandi joining us tonight from the u.k. mr zandi as always we appreciate your time and your insights very valuable tonight thank you will still to come on the day of lung cancer has claimed the wife of one of the most influential and loudest voices of america's conservative right radio host rush limbaugh has a doll and i wish i didn't have to tell you this and i thought about telling anybody i thought about trying to. i do this without anybody knowing because i don't like making things about me. because for germany to scrap the nord stream to gas pipeline with russia well they have gotten louder and that has everything to do with the kremlin critic alexina of all

for the us and france russia crossed a red line their opposition to the project it goes back to the a bomb an administration when the us labeled nord stream 8 threat to european energy security and there is bipartisan support in the us congress for sentients against companies building the pipeline nord stream to is an underwater pipeline running through the baltic sea that would transport natural gas directly from russia to germany work on the pipeline is nearing completion and supporters say the nord stream pipeline will provide affordable energy to germany as it phases out nuclear power and coal power opponents warn that will make germany too dependent on gas from an unreliable country. are for more i want to pull in mr andree it's nick he's a member of the german parliament from chancellor angela merkel's c.d.u. party he is also

a member of parliament foreign affairs committee mr nick it's good to see you again you and i. we spoke what a few weeks ago about nord stream to you and the german government's position were firmly yes to the project no to us ancients at the time where do you stand tonight . i think there are separate dimension to this discussion i think as you mentioned one of them is question whether unilateral sanctions instrument that is appropriate in the relationship between close allies in this context i think in over 30 year old book secretary of state at a new clinton has recently got a lot of attention in berlin and it shows he's convinced that unit actual sanctions against allies are not a good idea or that this should be taken back and we we trust that the secretary of state will be able to deliver on that position and if that's

the case in this context i think we can hopefully come closer to a unified position on how to deal with energy relationships with russia going forward you know let's talk about that book we understand that you and others here in berlin in the foreign policy world you're reading a book written back in 1987 the title of that book and we can pull it up on screen to show folks there it is ally versus ally the author a certain anthony blinken who happens to be the new u.s. secretary of state and his book addresses a soviet american raul over a different pipeline and his conclusion is don't force allies to do something against their will leave that for the policy with the soviet union are you betting mr nick that 34 years later his thinking has not changed. well i'm convinced a good academic education pays off in foreign policy and i have no reason not to

believe that mr blinken is continuing to sink what he very eloquently laid out in this analysis many years ago i think we know him we trust him we think he's representing foreign policy that is absolutely interested to align policies and interests with close allies we understand the administration is under a lot of pressure from congress that i think 2nd level is very important intro's whether we can find a common strategy a common ground on how to define and address energy relationships with russia going forward i think that would have to have an all in composite discussion it is not about imposing certain policies on one particular country but it would be for example a discussion whether we would in general in the west agree that we want to backtrack from energy relationships with russia which would also include just $30000000000.00

of oil purchases by the united states in russia that is a discussion that administration may have to have was its own congress and if we if we go on on a common policy that is a different different starting point for discussion but imposing unilateral sanctions on an ally is unacceptable and takes the attention away from the fundamentals of this discussion yet let's listen to what the german foreign minister hike a mass what he had to say this week take a listen. melissa predicts drive russia and china closer and closer together and they form the largest economic and military alliance there is one nation i don't think that should be the strategy of the west in this just in that. and therefore i am against burning all bridges to russia i'm just does and says are our burning bridges to russia mr naik that that sounds like he thinks russia has the leverage here and that europe and germany do not or am i reading that wrong. no i

think absolutely not we i think do not simply do not support the idea that the discussion on how we deal with russia given its unacceptable behavior internationally and domestically was an avanti case should be rich used to bilateral issue between russia and germany i think we have today seen that interim measure by the european court of human rights again in the council of europe demanding the immediate release of this and a lot of need to have ongoing investigations in that context and i think we should put the whole scale of options on the table that should include as it freezes that should include travel bans that should include applying magnitsky law within the european union to do with human rights perpetrated that he the whole menu needs to be set up to speed to be on the menu we have categorically refused to test this issue by electrolyze as a german russian issue it is

a very fundamental issue on human rights and the rule of law and we should also not bilateral eyes the question whether energy relations with russia are acceptable or not in this context i think again as i said if there is an all in composite consensus i think this is different this is a different story but it would be very difficult to explain to the german public why. gas that comes to a certain pipeline is more problematic than gas or that is delivered other channels to other countries i mean that that is a valid point what about the idea of using the pipeline as a political circuit breaker if russia misbehaves then you would turn off the pipeline can you imagine germany turning off the gas with russia if in that situation i mean is that threat is that leverage credible. i think we have to look at 2 different scenarios as county talking about a construction project that has basically all permits to be completed i think if we

were to stop that now that i think would be a substantial risk of billions of dollars of compensation payments and damages a thing no one could seriously want to trigger that but this is just a one off and a decision whether to complete the construction or not if there is an ongoing supply this could substantially always be subject to sanctions depending on the development i think that is something that would be decided on the e.u. level in a context that would also affect other e.u. members that would be a very different story line and i think it would be we would we want i think is a is 1st of all that unilateral sanctions are taken off the table and that we have an honest and open debate on whether we would use sentients in the energy sector against russia but that would then would have to be true for everyone and not only for one particular project and for one particular country mr under us nick we see why you're on the foreign affairs committee in parliament and it's good to have you on the show tonight as always we appreciate your insights and your experience thank

you thank spent but. here tonight is a special man be loved by millions of americans who just received a stage for advantage cancer diagnosis this is not good news but what is good news is that it is the greatest fighter in winter that you will ever meet rush limbaugh thank you. former president donald trump there on a ring the firebrand conservative radio host rush limbaugh with the medal of freedom news came today that limbaugh has died from lung cancer he was 70 for decades going back to the reagan era limbaugh was a staple on the american airwaves and one of the most influential voices on the

right the rush limbaugh show went on the air in 1988 and within years it gained a loyal following of millions of listeners its hosts in cindy airy rhetoric against former president barack obama women and minorities triggered countless controversies his detractors say that he helped some of the division that paved the way for the election of donald trump to the white house are the talk about this man i'm joined by ethan berman he is a us political commentator and a nationally syndicated talk radio host he joins me tonight from the great state of california is it is good to see you again for people watching us around the world to tell us how much of an icon rush limbaugh was for american conservatives aim was he reportedly responsible for the election of donald trump. well i mean he there is no overstating his influence in radio and right wing politics here in the

united states. as you point out since 1988 and that really is ronald reagan removing what was called the fairness doctrine in 1907 that allowed rush limbaugh to happen but let's not forget the fact that rush really did carry on the legacy of the southern strategy and that racist roots of that portion of the right wing here in the united states but there is you know there is no denying his peak tens of millions of americans on a daily basis listen to his show. alternately i do believe that he paved the way for the syrup a lens the tea party the donald trump's in the united states he actually did make that happen there's no denying it it is just what harm did he cause in the process with those racist statements playing to people's fears in

a rush limbaugh was for a while the defacto leader of the conservative movement in america here he is speaking at sea-tac the conservative political action committee back in 2009 take a listen. we believe that the preamble constitution contains any unarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights among them life liberty freedom was in the pursuit of happiness. now that was a very tame sample of rush limbaugh what you say. had definitely i mean he repeatedly throughout his career and let me preface this by saying look i've studied rush limbaugh as a talk radio host there there was nobody better i mean he absolutely put on the number one show in the united states i would study his show he made racist

statements whether they were couched whether they were little little pieces of red meat to the base that he would hide the language in a way to couch it to make it more palatable to the audience or sometimes being more out like right racist in his statements regarding the n.f.l. for example but to your point this guy led the conservative movement he led on everything from fox news to see pac to any republican gathering to that culmination in the medal of honor which which many of us really rejected that that should go to a talk radio host here in the united states if a highly controversial figure who reviews that contribution verse eat and and use this preying on people's fears to build up oil audience to make himself hundreds of millions of dollars over his career yet he was a man and he was

a man who had his own personal demons did he not absolutely i mean while he would rant and rave on the radio about people with addiction he himself apparently suffered from his own opioid addiction causing some of his hearing loss requiring surgery and hearing aids among other things so he was also a hypocrite on that standpoint i'm always pointing the finger at others yet suffering from those same things himself and having no compassion in that process and i found that really sad to not read more on those issues and instead love to blame. talk radio host ethan berman joining us tonight from california talking about the late rush limbaugh even as always it's good to talk with you we appreciate your insights thank you thanks brant. finally we report every day on many world leaders who demand attention by the

volume of their voice by the severity of their statements but last night when an 8 year old girl asked us president biden should she be afraid of catching the coronavirus the response he gave the gentle reply of a gentle man well that certainly got our attention as you as your school but have you been in school honey. no no see that's that's kind of a scary thing to you don't get to go to school and don't get to see your friends and so with a lot of kids and i mean and big people to older people they just their whole lives is sort of changed like when it used to be used to be this go outside and play with your friends and get in the school bus and go to school and everything was normal and now when things change people get really worries scared but don't be scared on don't be scared you're going to be fine and we're going to make sure mommy is fine too. u.s. president joe biden there speaking with an 8 year old speaking the language that an

8 year old can understand and we adults as well well the day is almost gone but the conversation is continues online you'll find us on twitter either at g.w. news or you can follow me a golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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