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the a.f.d. the alternative for germany is the leading opposition political party in the german parliament it is a political force to be reckoned with it is also apparently a threat to democracy germany's domestic intelligence agency has placed the a.f.p. under official observation the secret police making no secret about the danger or the dilemma how do you police a party that is popular with the people i'm bored often berlin this is the day. hitler and the nazis adjust the peace of 3rd pulpit now successful 1000 year history as experience promoted history we know that in a democracy. and in youth of the democracy that can be voted into office

site if you're not defamed as a right wing extremist you're doing something wrong with. your voice and we don't want this of violence as a way for you to this is the of this until i see the point of no return because the moderates are getting fewer and fewer i don't see any way of saving it to the fullest and i guess the signal is that this team of democracy is to defend itself against the enemies. also coming up she made headlines when she donated $1000000.00 for corona virus vaccine research well that was money well spent now dolly parton is getting a dose of her own medicine is that seeing that scene that scene that see i'm vegan and everything he still has it in the boxing exene that scene there to see which ones should be. in that to.

but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states into all of your around the world welcome we begin the day with germany's new biggest open secret the country's domestic intelligence agency the secret service is now officially observing the main opposition party in parliament this is a green light for an investigation that could end with the secret service declaring the a.f.d. an extremist party the news was made public today and it should be no surprise 2 years ago domestic intelligence began scrutinizing much that the a.f.p. was offering for public consumption speeches and social media that often targeted foreigners and questioned the legitimacy of liberal democracy last year intelligence classified the youth wing of the party as an extremist group the move to watch the entire party has outraged its leadership today some of its most prominent politicians accuse the secret service of a political hit job and attempt to weaken the party just before state and national

elections are scheduled to take place this year in a moment i'll speak with a founding member of the a.f.p. about today's news but 1st we have this report. the right wing populist a.f.d.c. flushed major triumph in 2017 when it entered the jam in pala meant becoming the largest opposition party ever since the f.t. has offended relishing in islamophobia racism and the glorification of geminis past . and the nazis a just a piece of bird poop and now successful 1000 year history some a.f.p. members openly support the xenophobic movement. among them extreme right to enough . heat the potties loudest and most aggressive anti emigrant rabble rosa. in this one for when a nation accepts that the children and youth in their own country regard school as

a nightmare because they have bullied beaten until meant by my going to. be i'm. funded the parties in town to group the wing which jam and security authority flagged as right wing extremist and response the wing was dissolved however its leader and supporters remain active in the party but no gemini's intelligence service says the entire party is under surveillance. well more now i'm joined by frank christiane hons who he is a founding member of the alternative for germany party here in berlin it's good to have you on the show mr domestic intelligence here in germany has reason to suspect that your party is becoming or is already is an extremist party or you. of course not i mean what we do what we have to do as a position is to criticize the government and we have reasons you have to your rescue policy which which is

a big problem we have the no interest policy which is really a danger for pension is we have an income of elite image migrants and this is bought to the majority of the people who do not want we had several reasons also seeing the european union some politicians and the eli trying to make it a super state we want to remain as france spain italy and the other european countries and that's the state doing policy for our country but mr argent to get it was allies but it is we're not a nationalist movement we're just a democratic party criticizing our government when it's necessary but a bunch of discrete you're criticising the government is not the same thing as becoming an extremist party last year the secret service here in germany that began watching the youth wing of your party where it says radicalization is believed to already be taking place i mean the fear here is that the far right in germany has

failed in your party a place to organize it's a unified. yes i know this is what is sad but it's not true and you have to see that in no other western democracy or western country there is a central intelligence interior for own parties and i mean this is very a very strange situation and you know the old the government parties like the s.p. the city you they force the secret service in order to to get a bonus and try to get as under surveillance because they want a real competitor just out of the out of the competition and that's all we have and we have a general elections in september and that's what they're for it from because we have now the corona crisis we have the economic crisis and there's certain points in the actual policy which the population will write in. the major major.

person difference population don't want so they still want to stop this let me go beyond the 5 percent and in order that the majority of the center right people which we actually want us to vote we consider as a center right party and they want us out of competition that's a problem and they're trying to do that mr you say that germany is the only country where you have a domestic secret service surveillance possibilities but but that's all transparent i mean we know that it's happening isn't that a strength of german democracy that you know that you're being surveilled but it's being done out in the open there there isn't any secrecy. now you know we have we have. several intends to control this by by justice we had several trials against the office of the central intelligence and this is a process where officially it's not been this event does not get official because

it is the central intelligence office may not say so it's a stock by several courts to do so to blandness and because of this neutrality the half and the competition rule. of course in the media get close to them and they says oh this is outed today under surveillance but i can assure you and your spectators that we are right wing center right wing party like the tories like the other parties where we are in identity and freedom. and there is no danger of any one of us in indirection tooth overthrow the government or to overthrow the system of course this is correct that you that see this interim central intelligence may put parties under surveillance if they are really against the system and want to overthrow dick but there's nothing within our party neither the program and nothing like that and we want to do we want to read establish

a democracy a democracy. where the people get more power to decide like more and i can switzerland but there's no danger at all in this respect you know there are numerous state elections this year and there's the national election coming up in september about a month ago at the f.t. party convention in dresden you said that we don't want these surveillance because it discourages voters are you afraid that the news today is that going to damage you at the ballot box. you know the problem is that. since the beginning actually of the party in the when we when we were founded in 2013 actually the media and the government. that already then said that we are right wing and the extremists i think this narrative as has come to an end does not disturb the voters from us

because we have a certain 10 percent in all of these. and all the hard to say qualities of this and they will not be able to get us below 5 percent when we would get out of parliament and so i think this intend will fail because there is a demand for our party because mrs merkel says this former central as a center right party c.d.u. to the left and even to the green left side and there is a lack of representation as some scientists say and this is actually the gap we feel and what we will find out what the voters are thinking with as these regional elections begin to take place across germany mr frank christiane hands over the alternative for germany party we appreciate your time tonight thank you for the pleasure thank you very much indeed. in the dr seuss children's book if iran does it there is

a line that reads this zookeeper new keepers simply astounding he travels so far that you think he draw when do you suppose this young fellow will stop. well the answer is now 6 books by dr seuss one of the world's best loved children's authors are being pulled from publication because of illustrations viewed as racist and insensitive the 6 titles include if i ran the zoo. dr seuss's books emphasize the weird and wacky the author's use of simple rhyme and wordplay has entertained and educated children for generations but his use of caricature of asian and black people in several stories has been criticized as being racist now in the business that preserves dr seuss legacy dr seuss enterprises is pulling 6 of his titles the move has angered many who claim it's just another example of so-called cancell culture. what people need to realize is

if dr seuss king get cancelled what can be i mean really this is a kids' book to me i think everyone should be sensitized you know. i didn't i'm not i'm not a guy who gets offended easily and i think this whole society is way off. but dr seuss enterprises says the books to try people in ways which are hurtful and wrong the business made the decision after months of consultation with panels of educators an expert's many of whom have applauded the. they were very very thoughtful about the way they did this and i think they recognize that you know these 6 books really don't fit with the way we think today about to picton people and so i appreciate their decision and i think that they've done it in

a way that still recognizes the vast works that dr seuss's provided to many of us among the 6 titles discontinued if i ran the scrambled eggs. ellie gets pulled and beyond zebra but with dr seuss's catalog including more than 60 classic titles it seems hard to believe that his stories are going to disappear from the pages of history any time soon. there are 87000000 europeans who have some form of disability within the e.u. our goal is to bring positive change in the lives of persons with disabilities in the e.u. and beyond we must ensure their rights and achieve a union of equality that was held in the dalai there the european union's commissioner for equality speaking about what the e.u.

wants to do for people with disabilities over the next 10 years. she joins me now from brussels she has been looking into the situation for disabled people here in the e.u. . the e.u. has a 10 year plan to achieve equality for people with disabilities in all member countries where are the biggest gaps in rights between people with disabilities. well brant this is the 2nd 10 year plan so clearly the 1st one didn't achieve everything and it's probably good that everyone acknowledged that because when you look across the block despite the fact that laws exist saying there shouldn't be any barriers to transportation education health care they're very much are when it comes down to it in daily life for example you can't guarantee that a ramp is going to appear outside every door way or that there are elevators in every metro station or or that there's a school nearby your home if you have a child that needs help with learning disabilities so it's one thing for laws to be

on the books it's another one for them to be implemented throughout the member state i mean down to every little village and there's a lot of work to do on that but brant perhaps even slower to change is the mindset helena dolly said today that one out of 2 people with disabilities feels discriminated against their day or how 50 percent of them live in poverty and there are twice as likely to leave school early so there are a lot of challenges faced by them and i think you'll be a bit shocked to hear some of the things that i heard from a german green european parliamentarians country in london 7 who let me tag along on part of her work day at the european parliament. someone like you can't do that country and was told as a teenager who dreams of being a t.v. reporter nobody would like to see a person with the disability in front of the camera no don't even think about this

like flying to the moon instead of long in deep and was told to be grateful for the offer of an office job in an institution for people with disabilities hidden away from the public. no i don't. go i. when super angry and you will never find a job somewhere else she managed to find one fed up with the last. of options available to people with disabilities langan's even became a politician and now a member of the european parliament i decided ok or what can i do where's the place in society for me and there was no place so i created my own space it was like if nobody cares what you're doing you're totally free to do what you want what she wants is equal rights and opportunities sometimes even she can't predict practical obstacles at 1st she couldn't even vote she couldn't push the buttons on the

electronic box her mailbox was too high since i said please be aware it would be nice to put my mail up in the highest box off. she says she was told the system simply had to go alphabetically long as you can was one of the driving forces behind the european parliament 2020 resolution laying out its priorities for the e.u. commission's new disability strategy and access to opportunity of inclusion and participation of basic human rights among lawmakers demands an issue just to improve the rights of people with disabilities in all policy areas to guarantee access to health care employment transport and housing and to make sure the pen demick doesn't make things worse long and is confident things are slowly moving in the right direction there's an openness. and. so i'm always positive otherwise i couldn't do that job you have to be positive. even though it's

a tiny step it's a step and although it's not the rules she dreamed of as a child catherine long inside been it is in front of the camera and making news. indeed she hers is a story shared by many i would assume i did have checking today the european parliament has 705 members out of those 705 people from 26 countries she is the only woman with a visible disability that surprises me i expected there to be more. well if you consider that one in 4 people in the european union and this is true in the united states as well probably worldwide has a disability do the math that means that out of these smaller than 700 lawmakers you'd have well over $150.00 people with disabilities being represented in the parliament instead culturing is the only female and there are 2 male lawmakers also

with disabilities so that's 3 total clearly they are not represented but when you hear this statistic brant 2800 study found that literally not one e.u. member state could guarantee the right to vote for people with disabilities 18 of them a blind person can't vote unassisted and 9 of them you have to write the ballot you have to write on the ballot so if you've got trouble writing you can't vote so when you hear that maybe it's not so surprising that more people with disabilities don't get elected in the united states many of our viewers maybe remember 9090 the american with civil disabilities act became law that was 31 years ago is the european union legging behind here well it's a bit behind in legislation if you compare it to the united states but it did have this 1st disability strategy on paper from 2010 however brant even the united nations only passed the convention on the rights of people with disabilities in

2006 so clearly legislation is far behind but as i said and as i learned from cutting lengthy been it's also the mindset of everyone that needs to change along with the laws to be used herschel joining us tonight from brussels excellent reporting terry as always thank you. thank you. u.s. president joe biden says there will be enough corona virus vaccines to immunize all adults in the country by the end of may that's 2 months earlier than initially forecast many states are now announcing plans to ease restrictions texas is lifting its mask mandate in an attempt to return to a pre and demick normal as early as next week but public health officials are warning it is still much too early. one shot and the worry is gone several states have begun rolling out the single dose johnson and johnson vaccine the 3rd now approved in the country with the world's worst coronavirus death toll

on that sign is good do it because it just takes so much pressure off of you worrying about yearning. for one thing the biden administration is now asking states to prioritize vaccinating teachers in hopes of reopening schools quickly but the president says it will be some time before the pandemic is over why do i think you're back to the. caution given the nature of that because we don't know for sure but my hope is by this time next year we're going to be back to normal. but one very big city is pushing to reopen a lot sooner texas governor wants to put an end to the pandemics economic damage. but the active next wednesday. all businesses of any type are allowed to open 100 percent also i mean in doing the stay wide

mask mandate. one houston restaurant owner welcome to the news but said most customers supported keeping the existing safety measures. we had all of our table spot on the park. at a certain distance which makes them feel comfortable and everyone likes the idea that we require people to wear masks texas isn't the only state easing restrictions in spite of health experts warnings about new variants spreading. governments will be watching closely to see what happens as more of the u.s. reopens. me finally going to get mad vaccine i'm so excited they didn't wait while i'm old enough to get it and are smart enough to keep it so i'm very happy that i'm going to get done the shot and i want to live let me think if they want their due to that was the 75 year old american country singer dolly parton about to receive

a 1st dose of the corona virus vaccine she did it for all the world to see because she wants all the world to be vaccinated and she puts her money where her heart is vaccine was developed in part thanks to a $1000000.00 donation from. that scene vexing that scene they don't see i'm dead you know if you please do his duty to x e x e that scene there to see what should they did in that to really. know john to be phony now but i'm good serious about the vaccine i think we all want to get back to normal whatever that is so i just want to say to all of you pal words out there do these chicken squat their kitchen up anyway that's my message to you so i'm going to call on my free and after not run he's

going to pop me in my own room and so on one cause you mean i'm going to mask up there still get my hair back the rooms were good you don't. get them they're not even here in the real shop how are you how are you my life i even had a little cut out of my shirt i messed it over here cause i'm sure you can just reach down in there sure if on the muscle or go. well if you take this long to feel now on the phone it was. well i've been waiting since the samberg removed for you here. to get it i got it ok fine during our mess up my beauty more ok i'm just going to do it together to do that i will be no more clouds. handy and.

that was only part and say don't be a chicken squawk get out there. if you didn't love dolly now you well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter. t.v. and remember one. what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody.

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a. car culture. car hair. superman. superfood stylish style icon to let those. lifestyle go. on. there's a tendency to think that to bigger is better consider diamonds houses cars but it's often the little things that really makes a difference some so small you can't even see them from nanotechnology to micro

homes and amateur traders they're all making a splash and demonstrating that size is actually relative. when small is big that's our topic today welcome to maid monica jones in berlin it's good to have you with us now back in grammar school i had a teacher who wasn't actually told he was a powerhouse he used to say i'm not small i'm concentrated his lessons were very intense and successful even i had excellent grades in mass and physics small and concentrated could also apply to nano particles they are found in lots of modern everyday products to make things water repellent for example but what do we actually know about those super tiny nano particles and their interplay with our lives many are dismissed reports. this is a song to lotion with particles. what

does the nanotechnology have to do with me. which drug issue polish containing nano particles was supposed to make the polish absorbent. it didn't help that much. but it seems there is something new for me after all in the wonderful world of minuscule artificial particles. i have a broken model of which has to be replaced with a dental implant until now there was a risk the bacteria would attack the implant and it would have to come out again but a none of coating of silver can protect against bacteria in the future. precocious neither from german company arias has developed a coating for dental implants. tekton daughter of element takes a few years if it happens at all. and then there's the certification process to prove the whole thing is safe. that it often takes years at least

a decade. because the hurdles are high. they want to avoid putting the consumer at risk in any way and that's a big challenge for a small company like ours. the stringent demands are also slowing innovation. you can see 1st in the us and whenever i contact the medical equipment makers 9 out of 10 of them say they don't want to pursue it because the regulations have become stricter or they have become too vague leaving no planning certainty. actually it's not a particle can also be found in many foods such as chewing gum and baking powder where they make the whites appear even brighter it's basically just a coloring effect. critics are worried about the use of tiny particles in food though. we know that certain nanomaterials cause inflammatory reactions in

the gastrointestinal tract that's a precursor to cancer and the kind of thing we must prevent is so why is it that something like that gets a license when it can cause inflammatory reactions. the reasoning was there is a labeling requirement for nanomaterials in food but you won't see any foods labeled contains nano products that's because we're still arguing with the various industry associations about whether it still has to be declared as such because they say they haven't used it as a nanomaterial but there are all was some nano components in the product itself. ok honestly i go. through doing. none of the technology is uncharted territory rich in potential. i would like it either but then not everything that's useful is also edible so that

shouldn't be a criterion when deciding whether new technology is worthwhile and when it comes to nanotechnology there's still so much to explore in recent decades scientists and engineers have learned to make and manipulate nano particles and nano structures and deploy them in products and processes the range of applications is enormous and expanding fast see for yourself. small smaller smallest nanotechnology. a human head has a diameter of 50000 nanometers one nanometer is just 150000 of the diameter of a hair. here's another way to visualize it one nanometer is 2 a meter what a hazelnut is to earth. nanostructures are fascinated scientists for decades now they're even able to make some of those structures themselves they can

manipulate matter at the atomic and molecular level so that the matter takes on new properties. industry has discovered the virtues of various nano particles many sunscreens now contain ones that block u.v. radiation. silicon nano particles are used in smart coatings that make fabrics water repellent that's a novel way to waterproof clothes and upholstery. and super sticky glue tennis balls that keep their bombs and unbelievably tiny computer chips all thanks to nanotechnology. it's become big business sales of nanotechnology have been growing at an ever faster rate. one estimate put the global market value in 2020 at 63000000000 euros. nanotechnology is said to revolutionize many sectors in the field of medicine

research is intense and wide ranging. it's also contributing to environmental and climate protection. nano scientists even working on self healing materials imagine a crack in an airplane wing that repairs itself with nano particles going where they're needed for now that still pie in the sky but perhaps for not much long. nanotechnology is really taking off. now severe lack of space has led to a shortage of fordable housing in many big cities try finding a flat in berlin a nightmare as a result some people are setting their sights on something smaller a tiny house unconventional lodgings are ready popular with holiday makers and 2018 air b.n. b. so a roughly 125 percent increase in worldwide bookings over the previous year the figure for barnes was 110 percent and shepherd's hut came in at 93 percent plenty of people are also looking to downsize permanently so we met

a successful tiny house builder in germany and an architect in hong kong says small homes are key to overcoming homelessness. an eco factor is a product design and has built herself the house of the tree. ish we live in a tiny house i live in a tiny house. i used to build which is quite different. when i left the film industry and travelled for a while everything i needed was in my backpack i went to tiny house is a lot like that everything you need fits into one room and there are lots of places to start stuff away everything is multi-functional. she books for stefan. he started building tiny houses 5 years ago and now he's one of the biggest manufacturers in germany. he builds foresee

a year none of them larger than 25 square meters. and child 1st saw them in canada. i spent some time there and saw how they were building micro houses though they weren't mobile homes on wheels the idea really fascinated me. from the trend reach europe from north america we picked up on it relatively quickly and decided to build a prototype and see how it goes through bone off more important to me because my almost. this starting price is 45000 euros for a house like this some customers want to live in theirs full time others just for holidays by the way you can't cram much stuff in here. many minutes many people have come to appreciate minimalism downsizing lean living we know that because we see lots of people here who think that way. if. not if you're living in

a small space is just one aspect of minimalism more generally it's about reducing your c o 2 footprint oh i don't know i mean apart from to my minimalist most so choosing to live in 20 square metres rather than 60 square metres could be part of that it secret me type of woman behind so no further north runs a credit meter in hong kong for example 20 square meters is quite stand it and still very expensive lots of people very close courses they can't afford more space james lowe is an architect based in hong kong he's designed micro homes in segments of concrete water pipes he calls them oh parts so i came up with the idea when on one day i was at my construction sites and i saw some of these very large concrete water pipes being laid into the ground and i walked into one of them and

they were big enough for me to go inside and suddenly i felt that this instant architecture this is like an instant shelter which with a bit of design and a bit of creativity could be quickly made into a small house. he says these low cost units can help eradicate homelessness and ease the shortage of affordable housing $120.00 units are set to be built in hong kong this year more are to go up in canada. lost says the world needs to rethink housing as the population source. homes will have to get smaller and. the cities asked so. so expensive to live in space is so tough to get and so many people are chasing after that space so that you know wait the architecture we build it's no longer so affordable for people so maybe this idea will become necessary in some form in every urbanized area in the well because we realize that

we cannot always just build iconic and expensive projects for a symbol of our city we also need to really take care of people otherwise the people will be the exception. hung kang is the only one of many cities where housing is very expensive and in short supply. stephan dyckman says the market for tiny houses is going to be here to. tell but if i thought i think people have become more flexible nowadays they're not so bound just staying in one place with a lot. well that's another reason for choosing the trainee house what i'm about is for the untidy house dyckman plans to open a tiny house hotel once the pandemic is over that is the pint sized units are ready to go each one is different. i think our focus doesn't need to be convinced she's already a fan and says her tiny house gives her everything she needs. it should

be easy to keep clean moving on to the world of stock markets more and more amateur investors are trying their luck these days and they're even sending some stock prices soaring but in this very risky business the stakes can be high is my colleague to delay any with the lowdown on day trading. the beating heart of germany's financial industry the frankfurt stock exchange but it's a little more down east. trading has moved from stock exchange floors like these to our phones and laptops deals are done while waiting for a friend or for a coffee and by people like you and me even my mom's doing it amateur investors have flocked to stock markets like never before since the crown of iris endemic began well it has devastated many people's lives and jobs other people have found themselves with extra time and money during lockdowns and this record breaking

rally we've seen in global markets has made many people already very rich. that's and p. 500 in the u.s. was up 16 percent and 2020 but that's nothing compared to this day trader favor at tesla more than 700 percent i've been covering stocks as a journalist for years but i'm ready to get off the sidelines and try my hand at being a pandemic do you trader. the one to 2 platform when a lot of people think about trading stocks their mind conjures up a scene like this. thank you. and while you still can trade stocks by calling up a broker trading has increasingly gone digital setting up an account as easy as downloading and now there are dozens of free or low fi options out there to choose from step 2 choose your stocks. hard day traders make hundreds of transactions every day others like me have day jobs and only so much time for writing market

swings so i have to make my investments count. oliver wrote as a trader here in frankfurt he says we should all be trading stocks because ultra low interest rates mean more traditional investments like savings accounts no longer pay. there's no real turn the 2 of the 2 stock investments when you look at the interest rates they are so low it's not possible to save money on the account or somewhere else so this is just without in the term that if therefore even the private people the private investor retail investor is very interested in stocks even in germany which is not very popular on the on the stock side today is the 1st day of my experiment as a pandemic do you trader what advice he had for me as a newbie from a professional like you know. well 1st of all if you go to the stock exchange you have to be very disciplined and that's very important because you need to think

about where you want to invest why you want to invest and then you have to be disciplined by saying this is where i go.