germany has never celebrated a composer this way before the 250th anniversary of. one year ahead of the actual date and nowhere more than in bonn germany the composers hometown. director of the anniversary society and the b 2 b. house we have a funding for more than 40000000 euros to celebrate peter from germany germany why . i think it gives them. shows that we look at it as a festival of national importance. has long been the world's most often performed classical composer and never more than no. is widespread in egypt in africa too. there are gaps that need to be filled in because only little of this composer's music is familiar to most people. people in germany to open their houses to to private space often relates to concerts and events to celebrate but it's often in their living rooms or in their kitchens and it's a big birthday bash. and it brings back to all comes from the house concerts the chamber music was written not for the concert halls but for the private homes on the big beethoven weekend a special exhibition opens at the buddhist the national art gallery in bonn including historic instruments. peering into a hall one can look back into betokens time. a plaster cast of the composer's face and a bust me when he was 42 years old. symbolizing the 2 ends gradual hearing loss his e

germany germany's investment in russia hit its highest level in a decade last year however a new survey of german companies suggests something of a lottery when it comes to operating in the country a 3rd of the funds say the business climate in russia has worsened over the past year but around the same proportion say things have improved he complains i says if iraq or syria and the weak economy russia's economic growth of 1.7 percent in the 3rd quarter of this year is below what's needed to meet president putin's target of expanding faster than the global average by 2025. i know joined by but he has said he's with a german russian chambre of commas in moscow. what he has how is business in russia in generally very good. g.d.p. is slow we expect only one percent growth until the end of the year but our companies manage to grow faster and even much faster than the market so the turnaround is growing and also the profit in general. you do see this also with the high investment number last year in 18 it was 3200000000 which is the highest number for 10 years if you compare the inflow and outflow of german capital into russia and it was the 2nd biggest number since the soviet union fell apart but if you look at your. survey that you have done there's a bit of a discrepancy one 3rd of german businesses says business is great and another 3rd says it hasn't improved at all or did it it's not good does it depend on the sector why is there such a disparity we also have this there's parity as you name it in the policy concerning economics of the russian government on the one hand. we do see a clear improvement of business climate if you take the doing business service by the world bank in 2011 russia of us ranking place 124 between gun were acquired i know they are place 27 so part of the company's y.p. if they do see this other companies they see that we have again an increase in europe kristie and they see things like the biggest u.s. investor mr kelly being arrested and on the house arrest this was a man who was running around and saying hey russia is a great place to invest come here and then. spend a couple of months in jail and i was in 100 house arrest so how did russia manage to climb up from 120 something in into the top 30 in 10 years less than 10 years you can register your business extremely quick russia is now on the. top 10 worldwide they do have some improvement in difficult areas like customs where they are still lagging behind so point for point they were working on this difficult matters very briefly corruption still a problem yes as simple as that thank you very much much he said from the german russian chapter of commerce in moscow. and we stay on the subject of russia they know it's trying to pipeline designed to bring gas from russia to germany is nearing completion the project has more than a few critics the european commission the usa poland and the baltic states all opposing the project some fear that the e.u. will become too dependent on russian natural gas and others feel they are just pawns in russia's pog games. new meaning in the german state of metal in burke for parma this is where the 1200 kilometer long nord stream to pipeline reaches the german baltic sea coast soon natural gas from russia will be flowing towards western europe streaming to circumvent ukraine gas market expert says there's a very clear reason for building the pipeline. it was like naturally the russian side always insists that nord stream too wasn't built to bypass ukraine like north stream one but i believe that's exactly why dr fool and special ships they pipeline sections just a few kilometers off the german baltic sea coast resistance is coming from the us they are planning sanctions possibly to include those operating the vessels instead of

germany. only germany's declaration of war against the united states after pearl harbor convinced americans to declare war on germany. that is one thing. the debate is about, on the surface, how much aid should the united states give to the allies to help them defeat nazi germany? below the surface, there's a much more important and fundamental debate going on. what role should the united states play in the world going forward? should it, as the anti-interventionists argued, remain a hemispheric power dominating north and south america as it had done for the last century? should it try to do that in a world dominated by hostile dictatorships? or, as the interventionists argued, should it recognize that the united states was a global power and be willing to join the fight against those dictators to prevent those dictators from dominating the world? that's a big question. behind all the details, we will talk about a fair amount of detailed arguments, that is the fundamental question americans are considering. what role should the united states play in the world going forward? the great debate that takes place over the

i gave a speech today in which he stressed germany's guilty germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it is a. thomas sparrow there in auschwitz well we can talk more about this now with g.w. political correspondent emmanuel shaz good to see your money where you know many people are asking why it took medical so long to visit in an official capacity i mean she's been transferred for 14 years and this was her 1st visit to auschwitz and in fact it has been even 24 years seems chancellor a german chancellor visited. it so it was long and a long overdue visit thank america is no stranger to such ceremonies though she visited a concentration camp in germany of how. i haven't spoke so federer a president of germany a fine by the time i was in poland for to come immigrations of the beginning of world war 2 earlier on. in september but is sure that this visit was long overdue it comes at a time w

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today another setback in germany germany courts have banned over in germany arguing that it does not have the necessary license to offer passenger transport service using rental cars this is a big setback as it's currently active in 7 cities in germany and in 2015 germany courts for bait over from matching up drivers using their own cars to pick up customers well that's why we were found another way around that by having drivers rent out cars to pick up customers but now it seems like that's coming to an end as well as germany has buttoned up its ruling over responded saying that it will assess and determine the next steps in order to ensure that services in germany will continue over is still down in trading below its i.p.o. price today. and with more on the state of markets around the world reacting to this week's slew of news news we bring in. somebody trading so we currently we have the s. and p. today rising get again reaching over 3200 for the 1st time so what's driving this rally on the economic data front manufacturing has experienced a huge downturn transportation sector is g

germany has a lot of plus marks minus. a friend is there anything that you suggest the government should do. well we've continually asked for a strong a signal recognizing that germany realizes that the transatlantic relationship is actually the fundament of the economy here if you consider that germany is by a percentage the largest export or in the world and what an important market the united states is for germany we would like to see more conversations about that and more reflection and then activities devoted to strengthening that relationship and making it even even more important for us thanks both thank you very much thank you berlin last week was paralyzed by 15000 trucks as farmers said enough is enough farmers and friends have also taken to the streets in recent weeks and protest against what they say is excessive environmental and animal welfare regulation they say city dwellers who have no idea about the realities of the farms dream up new rules and they end up having to pay to build new infrastructure to keep up with evidence james in law's many family run businesses are facing bankruptcy. meet philip close at 29 year old dairy farmer in the northern german state of. his land cover some 170 heck tears and he works together with his father and an employee and an apprenti

gave a speech today in which she stressed germany's guilt, germany's historic responsive building, and how that response building is an important part of germany'sdentity as a nation. she also stressed the nest lessons that can be drawn from the past, in particular the lessons for today's context. the context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in anti-semitism. helena: thomas sparrow in auschwitz. we can talk about this now with the demo political correspondent. good to seo. many people are asking why it took merkel so long to visit in an official capacity. she has been chancellor for 14 years and this was her first visit to auschwitz. >> in fact it has been 24 years since a german chancellor visited auschwitz. so it was long overdue. angela merkel is no stranger to such ceremonies. she visited concentration camps in germany of dachau, buchenwald, also the federal presidents of germany was in poland for the commemoration of the beginning of world war ii earlier this year, in september. but it is true that this visit was long overdue. it comes at a time where the auschwitz memorial foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary. and

positions of germany and that is becoming a far more active and far more visible presence and i don't necessarily think that is surely going to be an issue or germany becoming irrelevant germany losing its power it's what's we're likely to see is france and germany will switch places compared to where they were 5 or 10 years ago for example with france was seen as the problem child in europe the sort of the not very helpful partner who always made grandiose claims and graduate promises and never really delivered in german these case right now is the one to most awful economies in europe if not the most powerful so that's won't go away unless germany somehow fulls into a recession in the coming year will to all the pending on how he becomes next chance for example if it because if it's aka it's likely that germany is going to lose suck even more presence and primarily for the fact that a cut tends to have lots of bits of agreements of president michel and may end up following in supporting his plans how ever i just want to go back to the point on the green party becoming more powerful it's true that i think that the green party is the single highest polling party in germany ri

gave a speech today in which she stressed germany's guilt germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it is a. wus thomas barry there now to some of the other stories making news around the world and at least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded in a gun attack in iraq eak iraqi capital baghdad witnesses reported men in an organized moshe carried firing at anti-government protest is more than 400 people have died in unrest in iraq over the past 2 months british opposition leader jeremy coleman and prime minister boris johnson have gone head to head in their final pre-election televised debate colburn argued that democratic socialism had worked well in britain in the past and it would again bring prosperity to the poor johnson said only a dynamic market economy would improve public services free. swedish activists gratitude joined climate protesters on the streets of madrid

gave a speech today in which he stressed germany's guilt germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in knotty semitism. thomas now to some of the other stories making news around the world tesla co-founder has been found not guilty of defamation by a court in los angeles a british cave explorer had brought the lawsuit against moscow after he had branded him a court. the plaintiff vernon unsworth was seeking $190000000.00 in damages from mosque. british opposition leader jeremy cool been and prime minister boris johnson have gone head to head in a final pre-election televised debate koeppen argued that democratic socialism had worked well in britain in the past and it would again bring prosperity to the poor johnson said only a dynamic market economy would improve public services. crowds in india have praised the police off today shot dead 4 men accused of raping and killing a 27 year old woma

. >> i believe it was germany. >> germany?. >> unbelievable. >> do you say merry christmas or happy holidays? >> merry christmas. >> wrong, happy holidays, be inclusive. >> it's artificial. >> the gift that keeps on giving the whole year. >> you know how many fossil fuels are burned to make that tree? >> i love it though. >> the environment won't. what are you asking for for christmas? >> jewelry. >> with all the artwork and devastation in the world? >> not anything big. >> batteries. >> what you need batteries for? >> toys. >> what kind of toys are you buying? >> xbox 360. >> xbox 360? how about a book instead? >> what? >> shopping at the donald trump store? >> cufflinks and a shirt. >> for my sister. >> ever heard of a previous? >> no. >> mileage? or what you get trump for christmas? >> nothing. >> maybe he should get me something for christmas. >> that's all real. >> what would you get me for christmas? >> a nice suit. >> the name is james bond. >> your tie is beautiful. >> thank you. you didn't kill any animals for this fo

germany's economy. family made germany venue home. music played for several local clubs but suny in prescott's from going this league aside shaka. and in 2006 he even caught the eye of germany national team coach you are going to live in a youth one of. the type it is right now i want to play for germany turkey later many people in the war will be turkey and germany were competing for it if. it wasn't easy for him to give up his turkish and citizenship at the consulate they were not accepting his desire to become german look if they have to shop twice to the gym and if i did their part of because he was one of the most talented players of youth age group in europe we don't know. which shock is youth team who's a well the german under 19 championship and he quickly made a name for himself among the pros through his performances he soon made his way into the 1st team that shocked. when the music came from the used squad you could already see what a great football he is even in training it was scoring goals for fun you could tell this kid is going places. and that's just what he did at 17 made his debut in the bundesliga for shelter alongside manuel neuer and even rocketed but

to gave a speech today in which she stressed germany's guilt germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it isn't. well hans christian yosh joins me now and he is the director of the house of the vans a conference that's a memorial site for the prosecution of european and jews welcome thank you very much for coming in to discuss this important issue we are dealing with iraq as of anti-semitism in germany as well as in europe has something going to rai with the cult show off remembrance here in germany. i think the question of and to semitones need somehow has to be detached from the question of memory of culture because there has been and to semitism in germany society well almost almost all the time at a certain level even after the war even after the holocaust became known we know from research that there's a certain percentage of the population continue to embrace and to semitic just even

one country in the european union at all which is on the top 10 which is in germany which is germany but in. if you look to germany and the other european country which is also in the top 10 list russia those are the 2 countries for review c o 2 emissions by roughly 30 percent since 1990 while all the other countries on a top 10 list china us increase it significantly so it doesn't really have a really big effect the situation is that even even europe the european union to reduce c o 2 emissions significantly by 50 percent by 80 percent. on the worldwide scale it does not have an effect it does not know effect 3000000000000 euro for no effect that's the that's the reason i went to the f.d.a. stands on the proposal. you have it's really ridiculous to use all that money to destroy environment to destroy 100000 millions of drops in the european union and. in danger energy security because the situation which we are facing due to more and more wind energy in the system means that we have will have a very in stable electricity supply in germany and in europe and what we already seen i mean if you look in the years 2004

about being carbon neutral by 2050 the pressures on countries like germany to do that what would a carbon neutral germany look like well germany said lee isn't winning the race right now to become carbon neutral by 20 or 50 that's for sure but it is still possible but that would be germany all 2050 would heavily rely on renewable energy of course that's something that we're already seeing develop here in germany and already solar and wind power for example accounts for about 45 percent of germany's energy that said the half a some huge setback in recent years particularly when it comes to wind power have been a lot of legal cases opened by normal members of the public who are opposing more wind farms some of them saying that they want to know in my backyard exactly the same as nimbys they were known as and they want to know what the potential health hazards office and of course germany as well at the same time right now is trying to offset that decision after the fukushima disaster to close down its nuclear power plant so at the moment it is certainly possible and germany is still continuing to invest in renewable energy and t

an answer to china definitely and let's just run focus on what germany could potentially do you said germany has not stood up why has germany not stood up. well at 1st i think we need to think about the chronology of these camps also we are just things to great journalists and we know about these scams for certain now and china has lied so far about the existence now they cannot do that anymore and since then i i suppose that germany wanted to wait until their certainty now that we have certainty and now we need to also talk to. well to the companies in the province of change around to you think maybe they have values if there is any linkage between the profit and of economic profit and the. being detained there in the camps and this point in time where germany can only wait and say well we're waiting for the certainty that is over and i hope that miss machall will step up and we have an upcoming session week in parliament next week and maybe the parliament will also be able to to focus on that because we have the human rights international human rights day coming right so i hope that the parliament will step up there there

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in eastern germany and of course the danger in a 30 years on west and a huge democratic shift and we saw that as well in some of the states elections in germany particularly eastern germany at the back end of the shia where the f.t. the far f.t. did particularly well in polls and so what we also heard from steinmeyer is that he is calling on germans to get embrace democratic change and if you are not satisfied with the current proceedings of things then yes we can change it but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to feed into this the hate and particularly the far right populism that we've seen growing in recent years ok kate thank you that's political correspondent kate brady. and you can watch president stand by as christmas address in full later today on. a wildfire in the city off valparaiso has damaged or destroyed more than say a 100 homes several districts in the western part of the city had to be evacuated it's not known what triggered the blaze but hot temperatures and strong winds helped the flames to spread. fleeing the flames with pets. and household possessions. the fire started in the woody hilly area on valspar esau's outskirts and quickly spread. t

germany takes 6 its next step particularly if prosecutors do find yet more indications at least that russia might be behind this killing so the fact that germany has already expelled 2 russian diplomats say something about the stance that germany is taking towards russia which as i mentioned germany has always been relatively close to russia but they're hot and have been coals within the government particularly from conservative policies to make these these connections closer between germany and russia as well but as you mentioned we currently stay in the construction of the north. to gas pipeline which is being built into the baltics which would see germany realign extremely heavily even the now russia for gas now until now i'm glad merkel has tried to make sure that this project is being very much an economic process. despite some of the concerns in the baltic states about which how that could be instrumental ised by russia so of course that could still potentially being used as a geopolitical instrument depending on how this investigation develops but of course germany is still also a mediator in the talks which are set to take place next week in paris between russia ukraine and france and germany and those will be focusing

and germany and of course the danger in a 30 years on west and a huge democratic shift and we saw that as well in some of the states elections in germany particularly eastern germany at the back end of the shia where the f.t. the far right f.t. did particularly well in polls and so what we also heard from steinmeyer is that he is calling on germans to get embrace democratic change and if you are not satisfied with the current proceedings of things then yes we can change it but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to feed into this the hate and particularly the far right populism that we've seen growing in recent years ok thank you that's political correspondent kate brady and you can watch the president christmas address in full later today on. now 30 years ago today romania's revolution drew to a close with the execution off dictator. it was the final and bloodiest chapter in the series of revolutions in the 1989 that overthrew communism in europe that then voice is a retired military prosecutor who played a role in ending the tyranny and he shares his perspectives on that to moshe's time when the revolution broke out in december 1909 was in the sick of it

in eastern germany and of course the danger in a 30 years on wednesday and a huge democratic shift and we saw that as well in some of the states elections in germany particularly eastern germany at the back end of the shia where the f.d.a. the far f.d.a. did particularly well in polls and so what we also heard from steinmeyer is that he is calling on germans to yes embrace democratic change and if you are not satisfied with the current. and proceedings of things then yes we can change it but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to feed into this the hate and particularly the far right populism that we've seen growing in recent years ok kate thank you that's political correspondent kate brady and you can watch president imus christmas address in full later today on. now to some of the other stories making news around the world long lines have formed at the syrian turkish border as tens of thousands flee in the wake of russian airstrikes government forces backed by moscow have stepped up their assault on it in a province in recent weeks despite a cease fire agreement and calls for deescalation in hong kong demonstrators are continuing a standoff with police following chri

don't any news live from but made no germany hits out at the us this also president trump signs off on sanctions against a pipeline that would bring a russian gas to germany look at what washington doesn't want the projects completed it's also coming up at least 23 people die in violent protests like at.

in continental europe, i'm not sure it is looking very likely in germany. germanykicking and screaming into fiscal stimulus, probably where it is most required. it does not look likely at the moment. matt: we sit here in continental europe, but in our hearts, we are north american neighbors. richard, thanks for joining us. check out his work and the work of his team globally. mliv go. stay with bloomberg television. up next, it is "surveillance." this is bloomberg. ♪ >> in search of consensus. biggest gains after the month. a deal. one week to go ahead of the u.k. elections. boosting education. can he hold onto his lead in the polls? good morning, everyone. good evening depending on where you

germany in communist east germany and where there was in fact a great deal of emphasis in schools about the nazi past and the east german state was presented as the the good alternative to the bad nazi past so inevitably the focus in schools in east germany was on the communist heroes of east germany who resisted the nazi regime and the communists were shown to be the real the focus was on the calmness as the real victims of the nazis that's not entirely untrue of course a large number of communists did suffer and die in concentration camps but it tended to obscure the fact that the main purpose of the extermination camps certainly was to destroy the jewish population of europe and until a merkel said it was although she had as a young child interestingly enough she had nightmares about the concentration camps after hearing about them in school and she woke up at night and tears about it fergus was this was something of the fascists the nazis against communists when she went to the junior minister to israel to yad vashem the holocaust memorial she was shown around by the then education minister. and. it was a shattering experience she said herself she really only realised for the 1st time fully emotionally what this actually amends in th

germany an easing of travel restrictions and free elections then joint government committees european and german unity as a common process and be defiant because no one knows today whatever unified germany will look like but i am confident that unification will happen if that's what the german people want to see i. can't his prime top secret until the very last minute sharing it neither with his own coalition partners nor his international allies other than the americans he was shown it in german just before it was published the british and the french at that bone was forging ahead with the plan without consulting them. certainly our national court was far too fast for the side in many many other people it was very talking loudly about that but i think the reasons for the acceleration. first that the idea of unification was legitimized in close to 10 points speech it was accepted as the goal of germany west germany in this development but. president gorbachev reacted very negatively to the 10. in planned speech. when the west german foreign minister hans de twit kensho was in moscow gorbachev said very clearly that he opposed it he started to include that it was a dictate he couldn't accept it's important to see what if you look at the plan there was no timeframe it was basically just an attempt to create a road map not against the others but with them. if kohl had 1st gone around trying to shore up support for what he had in mind both on the domestic and the international stage nothing would have ever happened nothing i think it was very brave of him to show that the responsibility by himself. on the 11th of december the ambassadors of before and i powers came together in berlin for the 1st time in 18 years they made it abundantly clear that german reunification could only happen with their approval. of the blues this alarmed the west german government they couldn't believe that th