andreas joran says that if you want to stop right wing attitudes you need citizens to be active and vocal he's done just that in his parish. that. the u.s. secretary of state mike has canceled just have to but in actual notice he was expected here later today the u.s. embassy in burton said the visit had to be postponed due to. a news agency report gives quote international sick. charity issues as the reason u.s. president donald trump's chief diplomat was in finland earlier in the day to take part in a meeting of foreign ministers of the arctic council. joining me now from the bottom of the students is up a little car is one of the hans brand welcome hans you've also said to welcome mike by any idea why he canceled his visit frank you know none whatsoever has been no word on this from the driven government there's been no word on this from the americans i actually spoke to the u.s. embassy and they were not prepared or willing to tell me anything all pos possibly that didn't know either one big question also is that was meant to go on from burden to london he was meant to spend the day i

andreas joran says that if you want to stop right wing attitudes you need citizens to be active and vocal he has done just that in his parish. and now to jordan and the fight for greater gender equality they won the battle over the issue of citizenship rights and in jordan are not allowed to pass citizenship on to their children and that means babies born to jordanian mothers and fathers are classified as far as putting major restrictions on their lives and this is an estimated three hundred fifty thousand of these families pushing before the citizenship but not everyone welcomes the courts for change as we hear and this report. when see him married an egyptian man almost four decades ago she never expected her choice of life partner would cause her seven children so much suffering down the line. when they grew up they had problems with work. unless they got a work permit they could get a job. if they worked on officially they would have problems getting paid fairly. if they went and complained to officials they had no personal id to file a complaint with. according to jordanian law only

andreas joran says that if you want to stop right wing attitudes you need citizens to be active and vocal he's done just that in his parish. let's bring in our political correspondent hans frank for more on the story hi hans good morning to you in two thousand and fifteen we saw nearly a million refugees come to germany and it's often been referred to as the refugee or migration crisis is that the right word to use. i think you have to say that at the time it was a crisis there were as you said almost a million people arriving in germany suddenly really without anybody being particularly prepared for that to happen although one could have been prepared there were indications that this was going to happen but in fact the society and the government the administration were not prepared for that many people so in that sense it was a crisis of having to handle that the months of people arriving in germany finding accommodation for them finding food for them finding medical care for them and so on in that sense it was a crisis that was. a challenge to the german society but as we stressed seen