well. germany is divided as ministers demand deportation and tougher asylum laws after a shocking attack by migrants. should be honored to be able to be here and to commit a crime and if they do so they have to go back they they deserve a second chance we have our laws we don't have to change the laws. search and rescue operation comes to and following the tower block collapse in the russian city of miami to that after the body of the final victim was recovered in the tragedy that killed thirteen. plus looking back at last year's mainstream media coverage we look at why twenty team could be considered the year of trouble.

getting the thanks for joining us this is r.t. and tonight. germany's interior minister is demanding tougher laws on asylum seekers after a migrant gang went on a brutal spree against passers by including children top politicians are warning that current laws do not allow deportation even a violent criminals if existing laws are not sufficiently must be changed the events in a very troubling. which we cannot tolerate. a person who randomly attacks innocent passers by demonstrates that he does not seek the protection of our society the perpetrators can expect no understanding in our country but only the full force of the law currently deportation is not legally possible but we're working hard to change that for following the incident that took

place on saturday evening which left twelve people injured in a seemingly random attack in the town of place have four main suspects in custody they range from seventeen to nineteen years in age and come from afghanistan and iran well this is prompted ministers to call for a change in the laws as it stands at the moment you can be deported back to a home country if your applying for asylum and your a minor or the country that you would be returned to is deemed to be dangerous now the christian social union i'm going to merkel's coalition partners in bavaria they've come out and said they want this law changed now the green party and the mayor of the town of umberger have accused the christian social union and interior minister horse and see hoffa of playing politics with this issue i do understand the anger which i see in some of the reaction to amberg but this hate and the threats of violence now coming from all over the republic have gone too far the

hard for is using the amber consistent f. actively to tighten asylum legislation such proposals have next to zero impact when it comes to fighting crime and only helping extremism politicians split over what to do over to porting asylum applications certainly seems people are also equally as spliffs i spoke to people on the streets of berlin and they gave me their reaction to the story they should be honored to be able to be here and. yeah should . they have to do a note to commit a crime and if they do thorough they have to go back to tenser. it's their mind this is ok they're for. been through a lot so in the war in afghanistan they need help i think we have our laws we don't have to change the laws they think we are right doing it. right now they deserve a second chance while the center for european reform says that one third of those

migrants and refugees that came to germany since twenty fifteen currently in full time employment or an apprenticeship scheme however it's what to do with those other two thirds especially those among them who would commit crime well that's causing headaches for legislators across the country i'll turn to for germany party member your compound believes that the lure alone won't be able to help solve the issue. we don't need only to change of the law so they can be sent back into the home countries we need also the state which is signed forcing this law and there so many people in germany who shouldn't leave germany who have there was a lawsuit and the court said guy has to leave germany but is still living here still living here and be making problems because we have the a police force this week our courts so for the work to do can't we're not all the

country is dangerous on so. truly no reason no we know it's reasonable to let him live here out to live by welfare so they live from the work of german people or. the recovery of the body of the thirty ninth victim from the collapse of the partment block in the russian city of i need to go brought the search and rescue operation out to a close that's according to the emergency services it's not a gas explosion was to blame for the disaster a correspondent on your hawkins's been following the aftermath of the tragedy thirty nine bodies appears to be the final casualty count from this building collapse that the recovery works went on for around seventy two hours in total almost nonstop throughout the day and night pausing only for safety as you can see behind me some of the balconies and the roofs are in a state of total destruction and we're not allowed to go any closer for fear they may collapse as well but residents fled this disaster scene with only the clothes

on their back perhaps a few documents or cash they didn't have time simply to grab anything else today they were allowed intermittently to go back to the scene to pick up any other possessions they may have left behind but not keen on the quickie hugh a smart and this is the point when they are innocent of all i see what they also see you know just a chance. did you condone bush. wanted to be sure to just let you have it when you're could you were sure what the and as you spoke to these people more and more stories emerged over the last twenty four hours that one shots example the family a mother and daughter who slept just as a one off in a different room they would have stayed normally the father stayed on the couch tragically that was the first part of the building to collapse she managed to get away with her daughter the father tragically was not so lucky another story to come out over the last few days an infant boy who was buried in the rubble here just

behind me he was heard crying by emergency workers who rushed to the scene managed to get him out after more than twenty four hours in these freezing temperatures he's since been taken to moscow and now despite his multiple serious injuries his condition is described as stable for many of the people we've spoken to today the witnesses at the scene those who were directly affected by this tragedy but they are saying they're also pleasantly surprised by how people have come together offering their support for the political news in. the squad to. give them the need to so much that he is with. them. he would just took over the schools in a minute told me. most of the prison i think marco did a little bit one of the sons you know children inversion covering for them and then we saw as we have worked here today the pile of flowers of candles soft toys and

icons getting bigger and bigger well wishes many of them quite emotional in tears coming here today to express their condolences there simply is offer support to those affected by this and of course preparing for the large number tragically of funerals that will take place tomorrow in this city of magnitogorsk. with most of the debris now cleared and the rescue operation of fish. really over many pet owners have been reunited with their animals as seen in this video one woman rushing her dog to a vets after a spent almost four days in isolation in the towers ruins the dog is no rex and is reported to be shaken but by. taiwan has expressed anger after china's president warned all necessary means would be used to ensure reunification and reserve the right to use force tensions have been rising since the election of a pro independence candidate as president of taiwan in twenty sixteen. actually the

chinese do fight chinese we're willing to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the utmost sincerity and the greatest efforts because peaceful reunification is in the best interests of the comparator it's across the street and the chinese nation but we may no promise to renounce the use of force or i'll tell you one will definitely not accept one country two systems china has to respect the twenty three million taiwanese peoples persistence on freedom and democracy instead of interfering with. democracy they polarize in taiwan society and lure in talents . or tensions between china and taiwan have existed since the people's republic of china was founded back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine in one thousand nine hundred two both sides agreed on the so-called ninety two consensus with this one country two governments policy however both china and taiwan have different interpretations of third agreement and the concept itself and it's not the only thing currently dividing the opinions of both governments on the thirty first

president trump signed the asia reassurance initiative act that allocates one and a half billion dollars for increased u.s. engagement across the indo-pacific region the act itself is also and improving political economic and security ties between taiwan and america and includes additional u.s. arms sales to the island meant to counter a potential threat from mainland china china has strongly condemned washington's actions may follow this trail of weapons by the united states to taiwan is a serious violation of international law and the basic principles of international relations which songs of what the real of an x. seriously violates the one china principle and grossly interference in china's internal affairs charlie strong a disservice fired and opposed to the us insisting on signing used into law and we have made solemn complaints with the us. as you pacific policy experts sort of group to think that taiwan would be more open to working with china if it wasn't receiving hefty military assistance china would ideally like that the u.s.

does not sell arms to taiwan law or the level of diplomatic support because it believes in that in those circumstances that the taiwanese would be more forthcoming in taking a more constructive attitude in deepening relations with beijing the threat that the u.s. sees is primarily in the maritime theater as the chinese navy becomes more modernized and has to do to push the u.s. navy back and create an. an empty access bubble in its spirit free. with twenty thousand all wrapped up now we've been taking a look back at the mainstream media's coverage for highlights but as a leap to trying to found out that cories look pretty much the same all through the year. i know way too much about your news watching experience last year how come easy you don't need superpowers for that look.

this president could be impeached i do not think the president will serve out his term resignation resignation a huge incentive for president trump to resign it would be the beginning of the end of the term presidency at the beginning of the end they need to say exactly the same thing last year. walls closing in the walls closing you know this is going to be the achilles heel dykeman's could lead to trump's impeachment is still there may get america great again prompts impeachment . on this. this which is scurrilous i tried to put a hex on president literally multiple times donald trump has plenty to be scared. and so he is running scared yeah right probably another beginning of the or speech

bit. i bet at some point a friend called you and they were like. i know. it's crazy. you know bro but i have a look now. stone trump is cost control to see with several of these statements on the wildfires the president confuses there the number of missing people he visited the town of paradise california calling up pleasure a couple of times we put in those tweets at the worst possible time when people's lives are being compromised he was playing politics and elected officials say he doesn't really understand what's causing the fire when america lost two very dear and important people for the nation here's some of what you must have heard on the news president krug is not invited trump is facing backlash for his tweet on senator mccain president who had repeatedly marked and diminished mccain during his life was initially unable to offer up a single kind word to send it really well this is no night for name calling it's

been well established that donald trump is no friend of the bushes president opposite to attend the state funeral for president george h.w. bush on wednesday but does the forty fifth president feel like he's really part of the president's. ok that's really what you want to talk about. so it's been a year of all kind of scoops from news on trump to news on trump well at least there are other shows on the box. the beginning maybe honestly want to do this again some nightmare no problem with the president switching out about a month before everything's falling apart sometimes i wish i had never been president. who are you would never president. i think we can arrange that. are you kidding me so me. me.

sincerely jay yes why didn't i get my book. can you explain to me why working for holidays going on insidious name did you do that you know i actually wouldn't be surprised if one of you out there have been trumpet ties to buy a dream of being sucked into the matrix of trump t.v. . you are going. down with. your own talk about. a very warm welcome back to all our viewers time for a quick recap of our top stories today. veteran porn star describes donald trump's janet taylor in great detail. having a total of two thousand four hundred thirty calories worth of food for dinner makes

trump fill a president. and newly discovered ten centimeter long shiny blonde to worm speech is named to do more fairs donald trump after the u.s. leader. be sure to stay with us for some of your favorite donald trump classics that's coming up next. sees me. down the hall to the. samantha cosmopolitan and donald trump you just don't get more new york. you're fired you're fired you're all fired. you should've put more stress so much also to trump the. world anti-doping agency is facing strong pressure to punish russia for missing a crucial deadline details after this break. join

me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

different fantastic all the drill down into twenty nineteen predictions. team will be celebrating ten years of the kaiser report. welcome back and over the next few days we're going to be taking a look back at some of the best stories we brought you in twenty eight. i want to kill a story that caught the eye copywriting of a catchphrase in

a disney classic last year which led to accusations of imperialism and cultural appropriation. yet forget that phrase that made famous by the ninety four film the lion king a new version of which by the way is being released this year zimbabwean activists that was launched a petition to remove the trademark from disney he claims the phrase belongs to african culture and that it can't be owned by any particular company the petition was launched in late december almost one hundred eighty thousand people have already signed it could have a tartar comes from swahili means no worries it was trademarked by disney though in two thousand and three they've been using it for clothing and footwear disney never denied the origin of the phrase the company however still hasn't commented on the petition back in december we discussed the issue with our guests. so i we're seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this as another as you alluded to

manifestation of cultural appropriation and it continues a capitalism entrepreneur africa and specifically africa a continent representing everything that capitalist wants everything capitalist need but everything capitalists don't want to pay for that's used to be looked at and i'm not necessarily anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out in sydney that you're driving a jeep cherokee let me just leave it at that obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of only outreach people are just looking for reasons to be offended i don't think this is a case about offending people right i mean everyone will find a way to get up to be offended i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sharing the one thing that does the did do is davey the investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs did these made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa and causes it in africa last year two thousand and seventeen they donated over three hundred forty million dollars not everything is meant to be commodified and culture

is one of those things especially when the culture does not belong to the corporation that is trying to appropriate and make money off of it at the end of the dade disease a global company so to that's to say that they can appropriate or use phrases from other cultures let me say something right now where are we going to go with this next is taco bell going to be under attack is the tilted kill franchise i think it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like recruitment tata disney also tried this with dia de los went though so they also tried some copyright the day of the dead which is also something that is culturally sacre to people specifically in mexico you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is like cultural appropriation. the will done. doping agency's vice president has called on the organization to consider whether it should once again ban the russian

anti-doping agency or some other water representatives arrived in russia in december but weren't able to obtain important data from a moscow lab before a monday night deadline i'm extremely disappointed the trash didn't believe up within the more than three month time frame they had at their disposal to extract the date haven't sad that i'm not surprised this process has unfortunately been going on for years or sixteen national anti doping organizations have urged the world anti-doping agency to acknowledge the gravity of that failure to obtain the data and have demanded action against russia the sixteen nations include many from europe along with the us canada australia singapore and japan russia's anti-doping agency rosado was banned in twenty fifteen after claims that it was part of a state run doping program resolder was restored though to the antelope unfold in september on condition it gave wada access to moscow lab data by the end of the year but water reps couldn't gain access to the lab because their equipment was

said to be not certified according to russian law nevertheless russia sports minister has stated both sides have reached an understanding and that all remaining technical issues will be resolved we support the position of border you know our common interests and for the benefit of russian athletes and all clean athletes we must move forward and immediately resolve all remaining issues the technical details being coordinated with the russian investigative committee we currently discussing the date of the next visit we spoke to russia based sports journalist alan moore who thinks the focus of anti doping efforts on moscow misses the mark. this whole outbreak of nonsense to deliberately confusing the public and whipping up this anti russian forever just seems extremely unfair to people who are pushing this as you know are from the usa so. they have very very little to be doing with themselves at the moment deal wardo i think is under attack because there's a battle for control all this huge amount of money that is spent or wasted on anti

doping money money of the agencies organizations feel like this constant beating of the drama that russia is is setting back the fight against my money many years high schoolers dying in america from using drugs from playing american football in baseball you have the players that are living in france dogging folman from doping as well it's into water need to just you know believe in what they need to do they need to continue helping russia to fight against scores of gold being put. out as a whole sporting community we need to kind of look at what it needs to be done to wipe doping worldwide because it's only getting worse and worse and worse and i've been just at me at the top of the hour.

it's hard to imagine but decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active rich in the nineteen seventies current al had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company growing until it develops a little mite a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy and it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but all you know she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that i've not only want the money i want the revenge. seemed wrong. but also just don't call. me the world yet to shape

out this day to come out again and engage me because betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart. just in the for common ground. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population a problem for conviction if you had any interrogations out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make them one comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said there are ways to cooperate sad statement that i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in

misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. happy new year and a very special welcome to alex i mean should we hope you've had oh oh wonderful time over the festive peace and today of my special welcome to the shoots alex and alex is talking to well of course some give my foozle noting there's a little new year the celebrated the cross the planet when it boils right down to it it's a scottish celebration indeed and so we thought as a special for today show the first of twenty nine hundred we look back at some of our favorite moments from last year at the bus let's have a look at the scene some last few days for people in scotland was celebrating my

birthday on hogmanay. well that's some of the sights of people of edinburgh over the last couple of days but over the last few days everybody across the planet has been saying in his masterpiece old lying site that told inside it that that's only the thought for some song and the english will not case the scots language well they'll love to i will has it again. that happy birthday might be out there that's one one to go and i suppose one that sudden most likely on occasions everyone enjoys. clearly maybe the one that follows that for he's a jolly good fellow. over there you know what i do believe incidentally but robert

hawkins how did we celebrate robert burton says but the last year we did our barn special which is fantastic lots of people involved but we started off the show some of the statues of friends around the world that led to chop and billy's leave the street and defeat neighbors neighbors meet as many days are we have been late to get into a tight lipped gate well we set. not be getting through another happy. welcome to the show and the opening lines are robert barnes epic poem and scott's shanter a tale of witches and warlocks ghosts of girlies some reflections of life from the afterlife thrown in for good measure this is barnes night and today all scots and friends of scotland worldwide are celebrating the work of caledonia us bob robert barnes scottish nationalist under internationals the poet of the common man whose

vastness of love songs have been an inspiration for people as diverse as abraham lincoln to bob dylan there are more statues to robert burdensome to any non-religious figure with the sole exception is a queen victoria and christopher columbus this one here in victoria embankment gobblers in london is absolutely splendid but if you're watching down under like this one in victoria still year or a new york this one in central park meanwhile back home in the resists impressive monument and that's where thomas shanta barely survived his encounter with the devil's legions. as no budget for the celebration of scottishness is not just confined to the robert byrd's is puffed well indeed it has and i knew appreciate your what you had the pleasure of attending just left to hit the top and the parade which takes place neither saturday to the sixth of april is one of the highlights of scott will be since its inception twenty years ago

celebrate the events and spread the united.