this is newsnight from germany pays tribute to the victims of a racist attack a year ago today gunman killed 9 people in the city of hama before the gun on his mother maj him self from the president from time out just the public to unite against right wing extremism. also on the program the u.s. president declares a renewed commitment to the transatlantic alliance. is back transatlantic alliance is back and we are not looking back to. addressing the munich security

conference joe biden says he'll work closely with european allies a commitment to welcome progress meters affronts. returned slowly to texas after days of rolling blackouts caused by extreme winter weather but i'm going towards a senator ted cruz bill after he flew off to sunshine as millions in his home state . i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. germany is marking a year since 9 people were killed in a racist attack that shocked the country the victims all from immigrant backgrounds were gunned down in the western city by a 43 year old german man with a to turn the gun on himself. wasn't francophile to acknowledge that authorities

had made errors and said he was deeply depressed that the state had failed to protect those who lost their lives. here a strong president from. it's a hatred racism an incitement to violence against muslims and jews white supremacy fantasies all of this is very specifically directed at certain people who want to people who live among us. to belong to our communities to our cities to our neighborhoods. go to the same schools that we do shop in the same shops do the same jobs do for you get more fact that we share so much of our daily lives with them is true from live anywhere needed that we belong together despite our differences well they doubly political correspondent hans brandt was at the ceremony and how incentives this assessment. well i think what was most notable today in fact was

the speech by the german president frank right. not only his plea for togetherness for a common fight against racism against hate speech and for a common goal in including all people in german society that in fact are part of germany that are german citizens but there was also a neg knowledge from and from the german president that there had been mistakes made by the authorities by the police by investigating or thorough te's and their questions had to be answered that there were issues that need to be cleared up needed to be cleared up that was an important i think concept or let's say an important approach to the families of the victims who have been saying for this past year and here in the ceremony today as well that they feel that the investigation has not been intense enough that they have not heard enough about what exactly happened on the night of this terrible crime and that they are still

dissatisfied about what has come out of these investigations what answers they've gotten from the german state authorities so far. bronze d.w. spoke with the brother of one of the victims and heard how the tragedy had turned his life upside down. lost his brother good con in a racist terrorist attack in hono one year ago. he basically walked in and blew our lives apart or this couple he wrecked everything nothing was left in place. by us who can go to kin was just 37 years old following his death his family fell apart 100 father died of cancer 5 weeks later his mother can no longer cope without medication. she had seen and his son matt are not able to go to work and on sick leave the diagnosis post

traumatic stress disorder it's like i mean. for me it's been a whole year of sleepless nights when it gets dark you lay your head on the pillow your head is filled with questions and the. commandant the frog. consumes you. to do to kim and his son matt on the way to the crime scene who can was shot by to b.s. at this kiosk just as he was about to finish his shift my brother was lying over there under those 2 electrical sockets in motion there were blue lights flashing and a crowd of people at 1st we didn't realize what had happened to this day many questions remain unanswered for example how was it possible that the perpetrator was in possession of the gun license even though he was mentally ill or why was the emergency number of the police apparently not sufficiently manned on the night of the crime. cheatin and the other relatives are still searching tirelessly for

answers demanding clarification and consequences to do this they founded an initiative. we call on the stage government to investigate the failures and also to imagine how they the officials acted on the night of the crime and also before and after the crime and one year on there is still no explanation and there are still many many questions as to how it could have come to that flew off in a fog these are the hopes of white collar crime quantum neither the state government and nor the hano police want to talk to us about these allegations the police union had this to say before and saying the police were responsible in the sense that it one point or another they could have done this or that and then it would not have happened i do not agree it's a little cheap to say after the fact is that the police should have known everything before him and since the attack chaitin grew to can no longer feel safe

in germany he's scared when he goes out at night or when his son is late coming home. so a year after the tunnel attack what has changed because part of research is a right wing extremism that the i'm a dog i'm tony a foundation here in germany i welcome to the interview i'd like to start with a quote from the head of the central council of jews here in germany this is joseph is just a who has said that many of those affected by the hollow shootings are still suffering the consequences of the attack he went on to say that the perpetrators did not become radicalized in a vacuum so i wonder nicholas potter what it is about german society that seems to have enabled this shooter and seems to be encouraging and increase in right wing extremism. well with regards to the earth which is not been radicalized in a vacuum i have to strip away of the found for just school sociologist who said

that really is the germ cell a nucleus of fascism i think that's a political here when we look at the attack as funny his father also has a history of racism of conspiratorial delusions so i think it's fair to say that the apple doesn't fall that far away from the tree and this is the phenomenon we was just seeing with the anti semitic attack last year and his mother that is and it is a book with regards to german society this mean i think that it's no coincidence that on the evening before the attack the attacker watched a speech by b. only hooker who is that he later in the. a.f.d. party he is the leader of the interior and as part of. this right fringe. the killers manifest are also clearly influenced by look at the rhetoric of the f.t. so in that we see that the hate has been spewed by this party surprised at the site it creates an atmosphere that people are marked as others migration is seen as an

existential threat and raises you become normalized and the result is that 9 people who call her now in germany that many of you were born in germany and now debt but here's a thing about that you talk about very very f.t.v. a.f.p.'s now germany is official opposition and to some it isn't racist attacks are i'm increasing phenomena here in germany so. how is why is the why are those views becoming so much more acceptable in the mainstream which of course means that a big screens but this is leading to extreme actions why is germany such a fertile area for these views. that is a very complicated and open question i think it's important to say that this kind of talk so the occasional debate these aren't used didn't come overnight with the a.f.p. entry into john allen has always been that i think that in many respects that there

the process of the gnostic asian after the 2nd world war. was not particularly effective and i think that this is it has a very long history of continuity. and never really was a golden age and i think that what we know seeing now is an increase in fire articulation but also an increased sensitivity that finally initiatives and you know that was that the media and politics applying to him more seriously as well. so now that germany has welcomed so many refugees is this likely to get worse. that's hard to say i mean. i mean your took referring to 2015 and i think that we saw that as a result of that the a.f.p. was able to capitalize on that we saw an expansion of the ija demonstrations but i mean i haven't seen anything within the last year or 2 that suggests that that would make this necessary at what. thank you for joining us because part of the

commodore you find antonio foundation in burma and you. i will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now dozens of opposition protesters a bit arrested in the georgian capital tbilisi of the skirmishes with police and they were backing opposition calls for fresh elections following the resignation of the prime minister on thursday georgia has faced a growing political crisis since october see elections which the opposition claimed were rigged. doctors in may and massive protester who was shot in the head with a live bullet last week has died it's the 1st confirms death of a demonstration since mass rallies broke out in february protesters are demanding the military restore a democratically elected government following. the. leaders of the group of 7 economic powers have agreed to increase their funding for the rot of vaccines in the world's poorest countries to $7500000000.00 britain's prime minister barak's

jonesy who currently holds the united to 7 presidency pledged to donate the u.k. surplus vaccines but gave no time frame for delivering them. u.s. president joe biden has used his 1st major global appearance to call on world leaders to show that democracy can still deliver he made the virtual address to the munich security conference as he said ministration begins rolling back trump administration policies such as rejoining the paris climate accord to share the stage with german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel macro who welcomes renewed u.s. participation in global diplomacy is the biden emphasized repeatedly he's a willingness to cooperate with your america is back the transatlantic alliance is back and we are not looking backward we are looking forward together you know we must prepare. for

a long term strategic competition which. how the united states europe and asia work together to screw the peace and defend our shared values and advance our prosperity across the pacific will be among the most consequential efforts remember to thank you for much you've done so multilateralism are a lot better today than 2 years ago and that has a lot to do with the fact that do biden has become president of the united states. milica let's go into this with richard walker chief international editor i welcome richard so how does joe biden achieve the reset in transatlantic relationships that both sides are looking for. well phil he certainly pushed all of the buttons and we heard a few of the quotes there really making a very clear commitment to transplanting relations to nato in particular the military alliance that's really the bedrock of the transatlantic relationship

you're talking about article 5 which is the core of nato this is part of nature that says that tack on one member of that alliance is an attack on everyone these are things that donald trump a thrown into question unlike any president before him really and biden's message on transatlantic relations was about as trumpy as you could imagine. and he even confirmed what germany had been hoping which is that he was going to do trump's threat of moving a lot of troops out of germany so certainly a lot of what the europeans were wanting to hear here and one of the main motors of the european engine the german and french leaders did bass sound like they were on the same page. yeah i mean they clearly do like a lot of what they hearing and we just heard it in the report their uncle americal actually saying to the outlook was brightening for multilateralism you know this belief that countries should work together to solve the world's problems rather

than the america 1st attitude of donald trump she said that that was brightening and that was because of joe biden but both my merkel and my core focused a lot less on this theme of biden's speech was always the biggest theme within it of a sort of a battle of the systems between democracies north or a terence with particular view towards russia and china. mark all stressed that europe still has to work with russia merkel stressed that china was needed to solve global problems so both of them sounding pretty cagey about this idea of really kind of taking a democratic fight to those of thora tarion palace because it does seem that russia and china are going to be the big issues on which the u.s. and the e.u. will have completely different approaches. yeah and i think i mean obviously these are early days administration is just getting started but if we look ahead you know what are the real potential sources of tension between the europeans and the united

states if the u.s. is moving into a more serious era of confrontation with china and with russia that puts europe in a quite difficult position because russia is on the doorstep than a few think about it with china will germany is its prosperity is really heavily dependent on china its export has export some $100000000000.00 euros worth of goods to china every year and at the same time germany is heavily dependent on america for its defense so if we do see the u.s. and china moving into a sort of cold war like scenario can germany keep that going dependent on the u.s. for its defense dependent on china for its prosperity i think that contradiction could become extremely difficult almost untenable so that is the big fear going forward in the in the months and years ahead what is going to happen with joe

biden's attitude to russia and china are we on course for some kind of new cold war could talking to you thank you for that search if international editor richard walker. well take a look at some of the world news the how china has confirmed the deaths of 4 soldiers imported clashes with indian forces of last year the 2 countries deadliest confrontation for decades this is the 1st time beijing has admitted sustaining casualties in the fighting which also killed 20 indian soldiers. the trial has begun in bella ruse of a journalist and a doctor accused of releasing a medical records of the deceased a protester the victim died from brain damage after being arrested and i'm to government demonstration last year on thursday a court jailed 2 journalists for 2 years for violating public order while reporting on those rallies. britain's prince harry and his wife meghan markle have announced they're stepping down permanently as working royals buckingham palace

said their patronage is an honorary military point which will be returned to the queen a couple who recently announced they're expecting their 2nd child. stream freezing temperature in the u.s. central and southern states has been blamed for the deaths of at least 40 people to access has been particularly hard hit and if you companies are now gradually restoring heat and electricity to households following a winter storm that the power grid crippled for days and millions of texans have been told to boil their drinking water after freezing temperatures caused damage to infrastructure and pipes. different shifts winter storm has subsided but the problems it heaped on the state have to know what the powers are consulates for we don't have any water on here to get water i've been to several different stores now and there. he stood in residence collect packs

a book called for to distributed by a christian charity to many households with running water it's still not safe to drink texas authorities told 7000000 people to boil tap water before consuming it during the coming days because the power outages have affected more to treatment plants. drenched when water pipes froze and then people are sharing videos like this one on social media. is we don't have the cleanup crews for this kind of snow for this kind of ice like they do up north i hope that from now on we have something in place. so we don't have to go through. as many texans struggle to clean up the damage to their homes texas senator ted cruz flew into a few aurora he took a trip with his family to the mexican resort of can cook. he had no heat on you

know. yesterday my daughters if they can take a trip around. here and i'm headed back towards. thenew in the word try to get the power of. many ordinary texans a few areas. i didn't think you knew so you should show them go keep your home how could you go on vacation like the ridiculous right when people are suffering you don't get a flag you don't play their phone to the plate and you say what can i do to help you right now. states authorities are promising to help they have pledged to reform the agency that manages the state's electricity supply to be better prepared for the next time texas is hit by extreme winter weather. straight.

well phil as you can see there is no snow more year there is no i as the sun is shining but it's still cold and texas has gone from that power crisis we experienced during the last days due to the winter storm to us shortage of drinking water a water crisis and this is why all these cars you can seen here i lining up already for hours in order to get some drinking water over there and i don't know we don't know if the word is going to be enough for all the cars that have to be lining up for hours as for now they're getting 2 cases of water per carry cardless of how many family members but this is now the biggest crisis here in texas and specifically here in houston where we are right i know who is most vulnerable. the minorities there are the poorest neighborhoods and suppose it is only the

a latino communities african americans and of course also the and documented immigrants that live here these are the most vulnerable and these are were also the group said that we were among the 1st to face it is a power outage during the last days and some of them still don't have electricity and now they're facing and there's a crisis of a drinking water and let's not forget these are also exactly the groups that have to be hardest hit by the pandemic so this is really the 3rd test that they have experienced and well during the last months of the last year to say so and these are going to be the groups that are most needed that really needs help what are people saying about ted cruz is mexico. well phil i have been talking to some of the people sending here about what they think of this action of ted cruz and of going to

a conclusion to mexico in the middle of the crisis and some were just laughing and others were saying and no comment on that you have to keep in mind the water heater here is being paid for by the city of houston and so a lot of people here are public workers and they don't want to say anything about that but one of the workers told me well the higher your rank is in the public position and the more the more you have to do for your people and then he ended it satan by saying i am as you know the tradition says that at the captain of which if a celestial person to leave the shed one of this is sinking right so i. expect the water. to be completely restored. it's difficult to say yeah there are already a lot of houses out that the have electricity bad air around 280000 didn't have power has up to date so let's see what happens tomorrow but the biggest problem now

is that they don't have to ring king wonder if difficult to say how long this is going to take and the 1st step as you can see is to try and help the ones who don't have water by now. and houston texas thank you. we'll take a look at some sports so with football dortmund i'm shall renew the bond this league is fierce this rivalry saturday as a clash in the dobie boston play shall desperate for a win that would give them a chance of escaping on occasion for dortmund being while 3 points with enhanced their chances of championship champions league qualification. amid an exasperating season brucia darkman were given a timely boost this week the announcement that coach michael boozer would take over next season was followed by a 32 win over severe in the champions league last 16 europe's elite competition is

where they want to be and the darby win would be a huge step in the right direction is in the league behind in the league we need points and it's a darby we won't be handing out present kind of wishing it's the 1st time. but dartmouth have been in generous mood lately they haven't kept a clean sheet since the 3rd of january and keeper marvin hits us had a torrid time as replacement for one turkey at the other end of the pitch telling holland has been a model of consistency for the black and yellows the impressive young norwegian has 15 blunders league goals to his name but as many as shelters entire squad one thing the league's bottom side hasn't been short of this season is head coaches christian goes is their 4th of the campaign the swiss says a win is more important for his team we didn't raise the we need a lot more points than daughter to do. in the sense that we're doing everything we can see in it as we know it will be relegated and. that makes the game

a real poster care gk has been uttered in a horrible results. are finally to light the royal blue touch paper they need to start scoring goals a miserable return of 3 in their last 6 games shows why don't land our heavy favorites. russia. has beaten stephanus it's a pass to settle an australian open final with novak djokovic and for medvedev proved too good for his great opponent winning in straight sets he's on a 20 much winning streak but has never won a grand slam title i mean joke of it you'll face a man who's never lost a melbourne 5 in his 8 appearances. just times a reminder to top still risk germany has been not paying tribute to the victims also last year's far right choosing in hama in which that 9 people that death president took from val touched on mine and i'm stressed families of the victims and told them he regretted little thought isn't been unable to protect our loved

ones. and us president joe biden has pledged what closely with european allies and speaking to me of munich security conference he promised close cooperation to title defense the country 19 pandemic and climate change leaders of germany and france of qualcomm's as calm. as if you're up to date some more world news at the top of the hour i'll be right back in just a moment with the. good they're. different

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