berlin. germany pays tribute to the victims of a racist attack. a far-right gunman killed nine people before turning the gun on his mother and himself. urging the public to unite against right wing extremism. also on the program, the u.s. president declares a renewed commitment to the transatlantic alliance. press. biden: america is back.

the transatlantic alliance is back and we are not looking backward. >> joe biden says he will work closely with european allies, a commitment welcome to buy france and germany. -- welcomed by france and germany. power return slowly to texas after days of rolling blackouts, but anger towards senator ted cruz's bills after he flew off to mexican sunshine as millions in his home states shivered. ♪ >> welcome to the program. germany is marking a year since nine people were killed in a racist attack that shot the country. the victims were gunned down in the western city by a 43-year-old german man who later turned the gun on himself.

the german president acknowledged that authorities had made errors, and said he was deeply depressed the state had failed to protect those who lost their lives. here is the german president. >> hatred, racism, incitement to violence against muslims and jews, all of this is specifically directed at certain people, people who live among us. who belong to our communities, to our cities, to our neighborhoods. who go to the same schools that we do, shop in the same shops, and do the same jobs. the fact that we share so much of our daily lives with them is proof that we belong together, despite our differences. phil: dw correspondent was at the ceremony and sent us this.

reporter: what was most notable was the speech by the german president. not only his plea for forget -- togetherness for the common fight against racism, and for a common goal in including all people in german society that are a part of germany, the are german citizens, but there was also an acknowledgment that there had been mistakes made by authorities, by police, by investigating authorities, and questions had to be answered at that there were issues that need to -- needed to be cleared up. that was an important approach to the families of the victims wh have been saying for this past year and in the ceremony today as well that they feel that the investigation has not been intense, that they have not heard enough about exactly what

happened on the night of this crime, and that they are dissatisfied about what has come out of these investigations, what answers they have gotten from the german state authority so far. phil: dw spoke with the brother of one of the victims and heard how the tragedy had turned his life upside down. >> he lost his brother in a racist, terrorist attack one year ago. >>s he basically walked in and blew our lives apart for you he wrecked everything. nothing was left in place. reporter: he was just 37 years old. following hi death, his family fell apart. hi father died ofancer five weeks later and his mother can no longer cope without medication. he and his son are not ae to

go to work and are on sick leave. the diagnosis, post-traumati stress dorder. >> for me, it has been a year of sleepless nights. whent gets dark, you lay your head on the pillow, your heais filled with questions. it consumes you. reporter: he and his son matt are on the way to the crime scene. he was shot at this kiosk just s he was about to finish his shift. >> my brother was lying under those two electrical sockets. there were blue lights flashing and a crowd. we did not realize what had happened. reporter: many questions remain unanswered. how was it possible the perpetrator was in possession of a gun license even though he was mentally ill, or why was the emergency number of the police not sufficient the --

sufficiently met on the night of th crime? the relatives are still searing tirelessly for answer demanding consequences. to do this, they found it an initiative. >> we call on the state government to investigate the failures and also to admit how they, t officials acted on the night of the crime and before d aftethe crime. there was still no explanation and there is still many, many questions as to how it could have come to that. >> neither the state government nor the hannah police want to talk to us about these allegations. the police union had this to say. >> saying there police -- the police were responsible, i do not agree. it is cheap to say after the fact that the police should have known everything before hand. reporter: since the attack, he

no longer feel safe in germany. he is scared when he goes out at night or when his son is late coming home. phil: a year after that attack, what has changed? nicholas potter researches white wing extremism in germany. welcome to dw. i would like to start with a quote from the central council of jews in germany," many of those affected by the shootings are still suffering the consequences of the attack. the perpetrator did not become radicalized in a vacuum." i wonder, what it is about german society that seems to have enabled this shooter and seems to be encouraging an increase in right wing extremism. nicholas: with regards to the

perpetrator not being radicalized in a vacuum, i have to think of e frankfurter school sociologist that said that the family is a germ cell of the nuclear fascism. when we look at the attacker's family, his father has a history of racism, conspiratorial delusions, so it is fair to say that the apple is not far from the tree. this is also what we have seen from the anti-semitic attack last year and his mother's anti-semitism. with regards to the german society, it is no coincence that on the evening before the attack, the attacker watched a speech by a key player in the far right afd party, and he is a leader and partf the party's furthest right fringe. the killer's manifesto is also influenced by rhetoric from the afd. at hatred has been spewed by

this party, creates a atmosphere where people are marked as others, and raci becomesormalize and the result is at nine people that called this city home are now dead. phil: you talk about the afd, and it is now germany's official opposition. an increasing phenomenon in germany is hate speech and racist attacks. why are those views becoming so much more acceptable in the mainstream, which of course, means the extremes that this is leading to extreme actions? why is germany such a fertile area for these views? nicholas: that is a very complicated and open question. thisind of toxic location did not come over -- toxification,

they have always been there. in many respects, the process after the second world war was notarticularly eective, and it has a very long history of contuity in germany. there never was a golden age. what we seen now is an increase in far-right radicalization, b also increased sensitivity that finally initiatives and the media are taking it seriously. phil: now that germany has welcomed so many refugees, is it likely to get worse? nicholas: that is hard to say. you are referring to 2015. we saw as a result of that, t afd was able to capitalize on that. i have not seen athing within the last year or two that suggested that that would make

this problem get worse. phil: thankou for joining, nicholas potter, of the antonio foundation in berlin. nicholas: thank you. phil: we will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. dozens of opposition protesters have been arrested in the jordan capital after skirmishes with police. they were backing opposition calls for fresh elections following the resignation of the prime minister. it has faced a growing crisis which the opposition claims were arrayed. a protester that was shot in the head last week has died. it is the first confirmed the death of a demonstrator since mass rallies broke out. protesters are demanding the military restore democratic government following a coup. leaders of the group of seven economic powers have agreed to increase their funding for the rollout of vaccines in the

world's poorest companies. -- countries. u.k. prime minister boris johnson pledged to donate the uk's surplus vaccines but gave no timeframe. u.s. president joe biden has used his first major global appearance to call on world leaders to show that democracy can deliver. he made the virtual address to the munich security conference as his administration begins rolling back trump administration policies such as rejoining the paris climate accord. he shared the stage with german chancellor and french president, who welcome to renewed u.s. participation. mr. biden emphasized his willingness to cooperate with europe. president biden: america is back. the transatlantic alliance is back, and we are not looking backward. we are looking forward to together.

we must prepare together for a long-term strategic competitions with china. how the united states, europe, and asia work together to secure the peace and defend shared values, and advance our prosperity will be among the most consequential efforts we undertake. >> the signs for multilateralism are a lot better today than two years ago and that has a lot to do with the fact that joe biden has become president of the u.s. phil: let's go into this with richard walker, dw's chief international editor. has joe biden achieved at the reset that both sides are looking for? richard: he said he pushed all of the buttons. we heard a few of the quotes, really making a clear commitment to transatlantic relations, to nato in particular.

the military alliance that is the bedrock of the transatlantic relationship, and talking about the core of nato, the part of nato with the attack on one member of that alliance with an attack on everyone. these are things that donald trump had thrown into question, unlike any other president before him. biden's message was about as a un-trumpy as you can imagine. he even confirmed what germany had been hoping which is that he would undo trump's threat of moving a lot of troops out of germany. certainly a lot of what the europeans were wanting to hear. phil: what of the main motives of the european engine, the german and french leaders, did they sound like they were on the same page? richard: they clearly do like a lot of what they are hearing. we heard in the report there that angela merkel saying that the outlook was brightening for multilateralism.

this belief that countries should work together to solve the world's problems, rather than the america first attitude of donald trump. she said that outlook was brightening because of joe biden. both merkel and macron focused a lot less on biden's speech, and more of a battle of the systems between democracies and authoritarians of russia and china. macron stressed at that europe still has to work with russia. merkel stressed that china was needed to solve global problems. both of them sounding cagey about this idea of taking a democratic fight to those authoritarian powers. phil: it does seem that russia and china are going to be big issues on which the u.s. anti-e.u. will have -- and the eu will have different approaches. richard: obviously, these are early days in the administration is just getting started.

if we look ahead at the real potential sources of tension between the europeans and the u.s., if the u.s. is moving into a more serious era of confrontation with china and russia, that puts europe in a difficult position, because russia is on their doorstep. with china, germany is its prosperity is heavily dependent on china. it's germany that is heavily dependent on america for its defense. if we see the u.s.-china move into a cold war like scenario, can germany keep that going, dependent on the u.s. for its defense, dependent on china for its prosperity? that contradiction could become untenable. that is the big fear going

forward 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? phil: thank you. chief international editor, richard walker. we will take a look at some of the world news now. china has confirmed the deaths of four soldiers in border clashes of indian forces last year. this is the first time beijing has admitted to sustaining casualties in the fighting which also killed a 20 indian soldiers. the trial has begun of a journalist and a doctor accused of releasing the medical records of a deceased protester. he died of brain damage after being arrested last year. britain's prince harry and his wife have announced, they

are stepping down permanently as working royals. the palace said their patronage is and honorary military appointments will be returned to the queen. they announced they are expecting their second child. from extreme freezing temperature in u.s. central and southern states have been blamed for the deaths of 40 people. texas has been particularly hard-hit. energy companies are gradually restoring heat and electricity to households following the winter storm that left the power grid crippled. millions of texans have been told to boil their drinking water after freezing temperatures cause the damage to infrastructure and pipes. >> the ferocious winter storm has subsided, but the problems on the state have-nots. >> the power is back on, but we do not have any water. i am here to get water, i have been to several different stores and no one has water. >> houston residents create

packs of bottle water distribute it by a christian charity. for many households with running water, it is still not safe to drink. texas authorities told 7 million people to boil tapwater before consuming it. the power outages have affected water treatment plants. drenched when water pipes froze and then burst, people are sharing videos like this one on social media. >> we do not have the cleanup crews for this kind of snow or ice. i hope from now on, we have something in place so we don't have to go through this again. reporter: as many texans struggled to clean up the damage to their homes, texas senator ted cruz flew and took a trip with his family to the mexican resort of cancun. >> we had no heat and no power,

and yesterday, my daughters asked if they could take a trip with some friends, so i flew down with them last night,, drop them off here, and i am heading back to texas, to continue to work to try to get the power. >> many ordinary texans are furious. >> i just think he needs to show up and act like he cares. how could he go on vacation like this, this is ridiculous. >> when people are suffering, you don't the on a plane. you step up to the plate and say, what can i do to help you. reporter: state 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 weather . phil: we join dw correspondent cara -- carolina, welcome.

what is going on there? carolina: there is no snow and no ice, the sun is shining, but it is still cold, and texas has gone from the power crisis we experienced during the last days to a shortage of drinking water, a water crisis. this is why all of these cars, you can see here, are running up in order to get some drinking water. we don't know if it is going to be enough for all the cars that have been lining up. as for now, they are getting two cases of water per car, regardless of how many family members, but this is now the biggest crisis here in texas, and pacifically here in houston where we are. phil: who is most vulnerable at the moment? carolina: the minorities.

the poorest neighborhoods and specifically the latino communities, african-americans, and the undocumented immigrants that live here, these are the most vulnerable. these were also the groups that were among the first to face this power outage during the last days. some of them still do not have electricity, and now they are facing this crisis of drinking water. let's not forget, these are also exactly the groups that have been hardest hit by the pandemic. this is the third hit they have experienced while the last month , and year. these are the groups that are most needed, that really need help. phil: what are people saying about ted cruz's mexican jaunt? carolina: i have been talking to some of the people standing here about what they think of

this action of ted cruz of going to cancun in the middle of the crisis. some were laughing, others were saying, no comment on that. you have to keep in mind, the water here is being paid by the city of houston. a lot of people here are public workers and they do not want to say anything about that. one of the workers told me, the higher you rank in public position, the more you have to do for your people. he ended his statement by saying, tradition says that the captainf the ship is the last person to leave the ship while it is sinking. phil: how long before authorities expect the water and electricity to be completely restored? carolina: it is difficult to say. there are already a lot of houses that have electricity, but around 180,000 did not have

power as of today. let's see what happens tomorrow. the biggest problem now is that they do not have drinking water. it is difficult to say how long this is going to take. the first step is to try and help the ones who do not have water by now. phil: thank you. we will take a look at some sports. football, renewing the bond is to league's fiercest rivalry as they clash. the bottom place is desperate for a win. three points will enhance their chances of championship league qualifications. reporter: made an exasperating season, they were given a timely boost this week. the announcement that the coach would take over next season was followed by a three-to win.

europe's elite competition is where they want to be an a derby win would be a huge step in the right direction. >> we are behind in the league. we need points and that is a darby. we will not be handing out presents. reporter: but they have been in a generous mood. they have not kept a clean sheet since the third of january, and there is a replacement player. at the other end, holland has been a model of consistency for the black and yellows. the norwegian has 15 goals to his name and that is as many as the entire squad. one thing the league's has not been sure of is head coaches. this is the fourth of the campaign. the swiss said a win is more important. >> we need a lot more points. in this sense, that we are doing everything we can not to be relegated, that makes the game

of real powdereg. >> it is finally to light the royal blue touch paper, a miserable return of three in the last six games shows how document is heavy favorites. phil: in tennis, a russian player has beaten another player for an australian open final with njokivic. he is on a 20 match winning streak but has never won a gm slam title. just turning to remind you of our top stories. germany has been paying tribute to the victims of last year's far-right shooting in which nine people were left dead. the german president addressed

families of the victims and told him that he regretted the authorities have been unable to protect left ones. u.s. president joe biden has pledged to work closely with european allies. he promised close cooperation to tackle defense, the pandemic, and climate change. leaders of germany and france have welcomed his comments. more world news at the top of the hour, and i will be right back with "the day." have a good day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪

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