i'm michelle henery. thanks for joining us.oday's show -- terror in turkey, another extremist slips across borders. denmark tightening its borders -- a crisis for the united states of europe? and, a somalian refugee's cinderella story in germany. europe is in a state of alarm

i'm michelle henery. thanks for joining us. on today's show -- german soul searching over new year's eve attacks on women. campaigners in britain demand action for "the forgotten thalidomide." and the young albanians reversing the tide of brain drain to brain gain. when you hear stories about women feeling unsafe to walk through a crowded city centre, fearing sexual assault, images of tahrir square in egypt may come to mind. during the 2011 arab spring protests and other public

i'm michelle henery. thanks for joining us. on today's show -- german soul searching over new year's eve attacks on women. campaigners in britain demand action for "the forgotten thalidomide." and the young albanians reversing the tide of brain drain to brain gain. when you hear stories about women feeling unsafe to walk through a crowded city centre, fearing sexual assault, images of tahrir square in egypt may come to mind. during the 2011 arab spring protests and other public gatherings that took place there, hundreds of women were subjected to mob sexual assaults. such scenes were impossible to imagine here in germany. but that is exactly what happened to many women across the country on new year's eve. hundreds of women were attacked just in cologne. recently arrived migrants are alleged to have carried out most of the assaults. during the end of 2015, germany enthusiastically welcomed more than a million migrants seeking refuge from unrest across the middle east and africa. now that mood is changing. the country is asking

i'm michelle henery. thanks for joining us. on today's show -- terror in turkey, another extremist slips across borders. denmark tightening its borders -- a crisis for the united states of europe? and, a somalian refugee's cinderella story in germany. europe is in a state of alarm once again after a suicide bomber killed a group of tourists in istanbul last week. and like some of the terrorists who carried out last november's paris attacks, the bomber had registered as a syrian refugee. this latest attack has fueled fears that is terrorists are using the migrant crisis to cross borders undetected. turkish newspapers have repeatedly warned of the presence of an i.s. terrorist cell, causing some to question just how effective the country's intelligence operations are. reporter: the hagia sophia -- a cathedral,then a mosque and now a museum. and nearby, another famous istanbul landmark, the blue mosque. this is istanbul at its most majestic. and it was here on sultanahmet square that a suicide bomber killed 10 tourists on january