, germans give a blank check to austria and hungary but still not inevitable. i would ig russian mobilization which triggered german mobilization would have been possible to stop. they had done this before and wait it is brinkmanship over the brink. in previous crises they use mobilization to put pressure on the other side so they couldn't sit down again. i think probably, once the germans went over the frontiers into belgium, luxembourg and france it was too late and that was one of the great flaws in retrospect, the plan, the short-term name for the german plan, it was that it was seamless the you call the soldiers and got a monotremes and got them moving and they move seamlessly across the borders. so the germans were the stopping point. once they were on foreign soil, a probable start but it could have been any point until the second of august. >> do you think the british really expected those in belgium at that point? >> once the germans started rolling, they feared it, and gave an ultimatum and says if we don't hear by 11:00 on august 4th that you had sto

to destroy austria-hungary. you are germany and italy. they had a sort of combination of very dangerous local rivalries with outside powers being dragged him. >> robert, i'd be interested, because you have a perspective, a little bit longer perspective in terms of research over the last quarter century. do you have any sense that anything we've learned since then through the archives, and market, since you've recently been archived you could probably respond to this as well, whether our thinking about this era has changed anyway since you first wrote "dreadnought" nearly a quarter-century ago. i mean, still very relevant. >> david, i've got five or six books to read that i know of, beginning with margaret, to learn what later, fresher research has taught us. i've never felt -- i've never been asked this kind of a conference or panel on the subject, so i've not thought about it much. i've been going back to russia. but i will be very interested to read what you and max hastings and the fellow who thinks the russi

makes a stunning comeback, winning the women's world cup in austria. former israeli prime minister ariel sharon has died. the 85-year-old passed away at a tel aviv hospital, where he had been in a coma following a stroke eight years ago. sharon held various government posts and was despised by many palestinians as a hardliner. shortly before his illness he withdrew israeli forces and settlers from the gaza strip and returned the territory to the palestinians. >> sharon passed away in this hospital near tel aviv. after years in a coma, his death was not a surprise but israelis were still saddened by the news. >> he was an extraordinary person. he got along well with people. he was a fighter, a man with no ego. defendingt his life israel. many israelis view sharon as a national hero. he was a brilliant military strategist to quickly rose to the rank of army general. he served as defense minister before becoming prime minister. for decades he staunchly supported the expansion of jewish settlements in the palestinian territories. he was a man of great dete

norwegian teenager henry kristofferson upset the chemist with the lights all of which live in austria for his first world cup victory of his fledgling career. but my two year old finished the final slalom before the live games in sochi next month with a pudding time of one minute forty seven point four three seconds to type rating ever want to jump the apostle had to austria was second round ago. even though the job the second story read to. new york is reaching fever pitch as the city gears up for something suitable for the very first time the nfl showpiece much ceased the denver broncos place the cfc hoped the season's best offense against the season's best effects what is the question we played our best football the last one this season including last two weeks though. aren't as important the same could be said for seattle's while so i can use it comes to excuse what is the best wins game regardless so. i think the formula will improve fox's camp out pete carroll told reporters his memorable ready for their first super bowl appearance. don't plan to clear the new mentality that we

the kaiser was aware and the journal staff was aware that austria was only ally in europe that austria was crumbling added that said he should into the imperial administration in vienna and they really needed to do something. they decided we are going to make this ultimatum as they did and they bombarded belgrade and occupy it and so forth. the emperors tried various ways to stop the progression of the war. letters and so forth. i have always seen that not as just a pretext but i think as margaret said a culmination of this very dangerous balkans situation. everybody knows the german general staff had it planned for a war against france if it happened. as a part of the war against russia to strike russia down first, six weeks to perish but it didn't turn out that way. >> the -- do you want to? >> no, i am disagreeing with him. >> since the council is known for its great thinking about today's world as well i would like to reflect on some lessons we might draw an margaret i want to read another passage from your marvelous book. our world is facing so many challenges some revolutiorevolu

mashes nazi adheres it's a closing bridge between our right to extremists who are in austria a. little of the society it's a crying to me to be human to stick movement today the crowd gathered here is dying you have left wing groups representatives she didn't organize ations members of the jewish community holocaust survivors on to africa to justice it is just simply don't like the fact that the gathering is taking place in the city's main palace where people with perhaps extremist and anti semitic views are gathering but the reality is that these right wing groups all gaining popularity across europe it's very very scary just that these parties are growing so much more to the crisis in europe but the socialist or the social democratic parties they did not have to ride on susanto christ's land along comes the right wing extremist parties and they have very easy on this is a protest organizers say it's far right political leaders said to be holding secret meetings planning on how to build will not surge in popular support but they haven't uniting ahead of the. european parliament

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on saturday, the third leg in in his brook, austria, came to an abrupt end because of high wind austria,ird leg in came to an abrupt end because of high wind. at lead to a surprise finish. led to a surprise finish. >> the finn secured his first win. facing a dangerous and unpredictable conditions. that left only the first-round scores on the board, enough for simon ament to keep his hopes -- simon ammann to keep his hopes of an overall win alive. now 10 points behind the overall leader, thomas d tart -- thomas diethart from austria. richard was down in 11. the prestigious tournament now moves on for its fourth and final leg. >> getting back to the sochi olympics. the german team is hoping for a big haul of medals across the sledding events. we drop in on their preparations. >> they are ready to conquer the bnends. the are gearing up for olympic games. despite disappointing results in the lead up to sochi, they hope to repeat their success of four years ago. >> we have agreed with the german federation that our goal will be nine to 12 medals. that is a very ambitious goal. >> months of p

it was owned this is disappointing and frustrating austria has content of the european countries could rules regarding national socialist activities that often we get the impression that the prosecution which is down by instruction to the news over the way at its disposal when it comes to initiating proceedings that the present proceedings and dropped before it comes to trial the commando for us officials say it's up to the gravestone of benjamin man they refuse to identify to voluntarily remove the aluminum. that's something they say he refuses to do. according to a catholic priest from crops taking care of me in a system up to the editor of the great made a very sympathetic impression on me in on conversations that this was not fully understood that this causes a loss of vegetation due to distance itself strongly and these insignia on talking to me and i trust he wanted to remain then as historical evidence of a man that is the historic truth. meanwhile for the time being is false that remains to the aggravation all his critics especially to austria's jewish community the new. the co

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stricken europe as more cash strapped citizens turn away from traditional parties and governments in austria the freedom party made a strong showing in september's general election with over twenty percent of the vote the popularity of the dutch party for freedom is currently at the same level while the movement for a better hungry polls at thirteen percent and in greece the golden dawn party has become the country's third political fools. back to our top story now the opposition leaders in ukraine have rejected a series of proposals by president and a coach they did not specifically address his offer of top government posts for opposition leaders but reiterated their demands they want the president to step down and hold new elections this year and that's despite you know because it's making a series of concessions over the past couple of days including saturday's bombshell decision to revise the constitution which could limit his powers and which is also promised amnesty to antigovernment russia's on the condition that they leave occupied regional administration building grounds remain come

stricken europe as more cash strapped citizens turn away from traditional parties and governments in austria the freedom party made a strong showing in september general election with over twenty percent of the vote the popularity of the dutch party for freedom is currently at the same level while the movement for better hungary polls at thirteen percent and in greece the golden dawn party has become the country's third political force. stay with our t.v. because in just a few minutes we try our luck with the puck. then you can see the lake and it's already blocking a limpy game as for me. i think i need a little bit more practice in the ring to. get your skates on as we hit the ice to see what awaits the hockey swats hoping for a gold and a couple of weeks at sochi twenty fourteen. on the money with the business over russia. area. how do you operate dylan but i'm going to the most could lead sports and such experts to. i'm not an olympic hockey mom what's. the big. fire. dramas that challenge be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. the food system changing the world lights never. grow.

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you can certainly see the steps when austria issues the ultimatum to serbia germans give the blank check is the second step but it is still not inevitable even rationalization in triggering german mobilization they had done this before but went over the brink so they could have stood down but once the german went over it was too late and that was one of the great flaws which was a short name for the german plan it was seamless so you called up the soldiers to get them moving, they would move across the borders into the attack so the germans did not have built-in proper stopping points. i think they could have at any point until august. >> do think the british really expected them at that point across bill jump? >> they think was a german started rolling they gave them the ultimatum that was very short if we don't year by 11:00 p.m. that you have stopped, and they also wanted them to promise they would not switch troops from the west to the east where it had already started rising get the point. the german said they called it the contemptible little army and said we will deal with it with

you know, you can certainly see when austria decides to it issued its population to serbia tea. the germans give a blank check. still not inevitable. even i would argue russian mobilization which triggered german mobilization the mayor would have been possible to stop. i think you examine this before. in a way i think it is brinksmanship and this time it's just went over the brink. in previous crises they used mobilization as a way of putting pressure on the other side. i think probably the final -- once the germans went over the frontiers into belgium, luxembourg, and france, i think it was too late which was really one of the great flaws in retrospective of this leasing plan, the plan with the short term -- that german plan, it was kind of seamless. you called up the soldiers, got them on to the trains, got them moving. they just move seamlessly across the board. and so the german plan did not have built in a proper stopping point. at one. it was impossible to stop, but it could have stopped any point really until the second of august. >> do you think that the british expected

holocaust survivors are among the strongest critics of the conover szell event playboy reports from austria. beginner's academic a ball courts protest and courts of a sea everywhere because of the names on its guest list it's become a gathering of far right political leaders from across europe it's hosted by our serious freedom policy and for my guests include marine le pen francaise national front leader as well as far right wing politicians from belgium germany and italy several thousand protesters hit the city streets tomorrow i'm doing that the ball is once and for all not acceptable right when people are in the cause of your non dancing celebrating reproducing the match is not going to be yours it's a closing bridge between a right to extrude mission in austria a. little off to society it's a crying shame to me to be you be a mystic movement today the crowd gathered here is dying to have left wing groups representatives she didn't organize ations most of the jewish community holocaust survivors ontopic she says it is simply just like the fact that it was the gathering is taking place i

crisis stricken europe more kastrup citizens turn away from traditional parties and governments in austria the freedom party made a strong showing in september's general election with over twenty percent of the vote the popularity of the dutch party for freedom is coming at the same level while the movement for a better hungry polls at thirteen percent and in greece the golden dawn party has become the country's third political force. dot com right now some long awaited good news for anti fracking campaign is in the u.k. gas firm is scrapping plans to tap into shale deposits in picturesque southern england but not because of public protests against the project you can find out what made the corporation give up on fracking at that site. plus the u.s. has developed so-called space cop satellites to patrol but it's not people will be policing as we explain. the. syrian government officials and their main political rivals have met face to face for the first time the talks at the ongoing geneva two conference were brokered and led by international envoy lakhdar brahimi opposing delegations did

austria's thomas the top ten selling the night. he's in the strength of the second stage of the four hills tournament in gemini with two hundred and ninety six point one four. albrecht eat eat eat on the possible ms michaels with his second jump hundred and fourteen on me says and all singing the highest goal for execution. the twenty one year old is now comfortably ahead in the petition that went back to the content of the way that the siege of jumping world cup. that was created from a small finish then went straight to congratulate the top done his best victory. he finished this eighteen seconds at a stand on two hundred and eighteen point three one planes opted to jump seven hundred and thirty nine to says. all content is also the club's second in the april drop kicking meanwhile switzerland's i'm a non i'm still a two hundred and seventy eight with only points to end this age in that position. the full time and be comfy and felt from the top of the needed votes finishing thirteen points behind the tops after a disappointing cl

. >> a big win for austria in ski jumping. >> with the world solidly into the new year, many people are reviewing their plans for 2013 and hoping it will be filled with plenty of health matters. >> and they have been marking the first day observing traditions that range from special meals to perilous plunges. >> we will have a look at some of that after this round up of the nights more famous parties. >> 2014 arrived to confetti in new york. party fever took over. around a million revelers packed iconic times square defying the frosty temperatures. >> peace in the world. >> happy and joy to everyone. >> have fun, everybody. >> in rio de janeiro, summer rhythms filled the streets. fireworks lit up the sky. millions hailed brazil's big year ahead from the copacabana beach. it's not long now until the soccer kicks off in the summer. the german capital welcomed the new year with a bang. 6000 fireworks shot into the sky above the brandenburg date. -- the brandenburg gate. hundreds of thousands of partygoers from all over the world turned up to watch the spectacle. just a few hours later, tho

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president joe biden former uk prime minister ten you that and the foreign ministers from germany and austria. sharon will be laid to rest next to his wife lily . the i knew the routine. she and more i love. it would. stg the door to mention allowed to go should watch this. we see the damage. knowledge of it i the news. one day and one i've ordered two invites the vice president of the united states of america we all know who mrs joe biden. a trial. the israelis to leave their homes in gaza in order from his perspective. to strengthen israel. i can take a much more controversial. as a student. of the jewish day. i can think of a much more difficult and controversial decision in may. he believed it. danny did to secure a stable was always arch hardaway remission breakable commitment to the future of . whether thirty years. for three hundred years from now but there were times. when he acted. those actions heard him. controversy given condemnation. that is certain is this sense. american layers. american presidents prof rao different than them the rare shy about stating them. nor was he ever sh

he won the world cup downhill event to her home country austria. it's a first victory in the tournament in two years. the thirty two year old produced an almost perfect growing conditions were difficult of the course insolvency. but durable was more than a match within the clock the time of one minute forty seven to secure a fifth korea world cup with the sole australian rising star on the footing that even seconds. jeremy smelly and this movie. the overall standings the third place finish. once again why she's a strong men compared to the upcoming session with juventus. but you have to fight off competition from the experience good and clean goal. germany has kept up its winning streak in the luge doubles third to last race of the season informal poll tony baguette and some show bennett and wears tights to song but a promise that the contract to sell the germans to be a spindle and phobias on into second in the women's singles olympic champion touchdown of the intended teammate not for the guys and bag a season long winning streak guys and i to ha

next month's olympics like sheep of the road from swan a world cup super combined event in his field austria on sunday for his sixth career victory drew was twelve loss to stop the cbd was bred holes in the slalom. combine pudding time to mix the two point seven nine seconds. twenty two year old's win follows quickly on the heels of his slalom victory in the good last weekend. this book in the textbook life of the upfront but critical job given that the spread of the content they could see was second with a bit but even that good. i i i i give a young lebanese living in a clean sweep the podium and said lord you can see some to protect his first day job while cup victory. thirty year old betty and had jumped to one hundred and thirty eight one hundred and thirty four reaches for a total points tally of two hundred and fifty five. it was his first win in over twelve years on the circuit of intuitive gift of a morale boost ahead of the portrait of pics next month. overall won't tell me that the democrat which was second to extend his lead in the top ranked private school a total of two hundred

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far right groups are indeed gaining ground across europe and austria the freedom party made a strong showing in september general election with over twenty percent of the vote the popularity of the dutch party for freedom also is currently at the same level while the movement for a better hungary polls up at thirteen percent and the golden dawn in greece is the country's third most popular party. the syrian government and the opposition are having another try at holding their first joint meeting in geneva that's after friday's negotiations almost collapsed amid mutual condemnation before the even began the delegates are reportedly still not prepared to talk to one another directly instead communicating through the u.n. mediator lakhdar brahimi with a broad political solution now looking to be too far off the sides will spend the next two days focusing on humanitarian issues the syrian civil war has killed over one hundred thirty thousand people in nearly three years political analyst phyllis bennis is skeptical the meeting will resolve major issues and some of the key players absent

in austria. and it's the middle of the society is trying to use that name. cpf in a statement today. time passed the half benson said. caden will tonight face the series silver. both the writer to be the hearing is taking place in the ccs named names black people with extremists and those amazing views on gathering but every i see is that these right wing rants on dating from the taxi across yet. it's been interesting read. the sad part is growing so much with the crises in europe. this notion is started. i participate in. this is. and along comes the bride the right wing extremist parties in the review its credit the still denies it's a far cry from the dead. this is the main thing. running on hats and tails on the sides and the discipline that they happen. not saying that if the european comments and actions in a while back inside the comments as the saying is that we tend to be waltzing to the grindstone and excite us proud presenting a this evening is it time and to say that it's not happy about that when a boy can all see the end. fire under it are inde

eighteen marks four years since a massive earthquake devastated country austria's must of hit show storms to victory in switzerland to get off the overall standings although he was the hero for openers war criminal ariel sharon was a controversial figure. and today israel is hanging on to the former prime minister sharon died saturday in a hospital near term of the praline the illness he was eighty four a state memorial is planned for monday. to be ariel sharon's final journey began on sunday morning when his coffin a riot engine reason. thousands of people attend on to pay their respects to the former prime minister. yet that weekly cabinet meeting minutes to suggest a minute silence in memory of that lately guess the new. i believe he is really the cool weather remember him in the hawks as one of the most outstanding leaders and daring come on this. mauresmo has a bum. but other israelis described his legacy in less favorable terms. what a sad sad so to those of time instead of the style of the broadband abdomen. because we don't mend. with a non while we do and some budget. iran was fo

president joe biden former uk prime minister ten you that and the foreign ministers from gemini in austria sharon will be laid to rest next to his wife lily the eye i know. the scoop one minister real sharon's body lay in state outside parliament in jerusalem is brady's who wanted his leadership were evacuated from their wounds in gaza in two thousand and five said they preferred to remember the positive sides of the warrior statesman and reshape the middle east about four miles of walking like he knew it i read sharon's unless the day despite the fact that edd evacuation. he also was sensitive and have a call and halt the people's sorrow and pain and in my opinion and i hope others would agree he would have taken care of all the appropriate to people he wouldn't neglect us in all the state of israel. toll tunnel. ill admit to not do so. the device is to give it a nice trail to run left his mark on the region not least through his shock decision to pull all its rating treats and said to his house of the gaza strip. the focal remember the audience are on the feast of these thousands of comm

my late partner fled hitler from austria and fought in the u.s. army.e became the deepest of friends during our long association and imaginet me "never the unimaginable can't become real." withs never comfortable extreme political current and america and never took our freedom for granted. i believe that he would have understood my letter and would have agreed with the warning. and then i apologize for using kristallnacht, as i said before. and i had a pleasant discussion man before a came here and i hope that part is put to rest. >> so more than 90 jews were killed in kristallnacht. what were you going for? analogy? only one percent of the german population. most germans have never met a jew. and yet hitler was able to demonize the jews and was one of the earlier manifestations. there had been others before it and of course we know about the evil of the holocaust. that when point was you start to use hatred against a minority, it can get out of control. that was my thought. messenger, i have been thoroughly killed by everybody. at least read the messag

my late partner was from austria and fought in the u.s. army. we became the deepest of friends during our long association, and he taught me "never imagine that the unimaginable cannot become real." he was never comfortable with the extreme political currents in america. he never took our demonization for granted. he would have understand my letter and would have agreed. and then i apologized for using that reference, as i said before. and i had a discussion with abe before he came here. i hope that, at least that part, is put to rest. >> 30,000 people put in concentration camps. what were you going for with that analogy? >> the jewish people were only one percent of the german population. most germans had never met a jewish person. and yet, hitler was able to demonize the jews. and that was one of the earlier manifestations. and there'd been many before. and of course, we know about the evil of the holocaust. i guess my point was that when you start using hatred against the minority, it can get out of control. i think that that was my thought.

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. >> the bishops are in austria. gliding into the record books on the hills tournament, taking the title in the first. the first ever world cup and 70 years, she made the best jump in round one. the quadruple champion sets overall before the event, losing points on style in the landing. mortgage leases his bank club with this scenario. had it not been for the wobble. taking from slovenia, eight and half meters. originally 21st before they found the leak from the leaker. moving away from the biggest in his career, there was one final meters aeclaring 140 with competition in 28 years. all seven hit the national on , with the phalanx coming in second after the lack of snow. germans were hoping to build one second,ver there looking even more determined in the second round. controled him to take from the second block in the world cup circuit. the final stretch of the run crossed the line in four seconds to victory. it was his special life discipline. >> it was not an easy end of the year for me, last year, so. i am really

out why, when we've seen evidence that minnesota solar is beating fossil fuel or price, in usa -- austria -- this is benefit for these departments and not liabilities. it doesn't make sense when we are in a budget crunch to be cutting things. we need to find out from the sfpuc what the heck is going on. that is the key number, that $20 million a year that's digging in. they have a big water project that they say is a surprise and we have to look at that because it's half a billion dollars. those energy things are something we should really dig into. >>supervisor john avalos: perhaps, sfpuc staff are not here but they can comment. we have a joint meeting in the inter connect agreement. i think there is a discussion that they are -- appealing that 20-minute price tag. >> jason freed. lafco staff. what i remember and what they are planning is now is they don't have the agreement. when they are projecting farther out. i will double check on it and i think they are projecting all the stuff may not be there so they have a higher price down the road. it's better to do it that way because the cur

i now live in austria and since i heard it was a board of supervisors meeting and i thought i would come and say hi instead of taking your individual time. there is nothing more than i want to say. it's good to see you all. glad to see you still running the city as you should and thank you again. >> good evening supervisors. i know i only have 2 minutes. you have the screen ready to roll. i want to commend my supervisor in the fifth district i call her queen b for doing a tremendous job in our black community to putting together in the marcus bookstore. i just want to commend you supervisor for doing that. i'm also here in speaking on who i am. i'm 60 years old next month. i have been around city hall for 25 years. let me switch it over right quick. as you may read here the black chamber calls the boycott. that is one of the most serious allegations. acting as a conduit with my black community with all black communities. that we need to put together a coalition together to come here to find out what is the mayor going to do. i would like to commend my supervisor that she really spoke on

large differences remain between different eurozone countries, germany and austria. the picture is completely different in more southern countries. in italy, unemployment is still rising. in greece, it is above 27%. the hope is that the unemployment rate will start heading lower as it has plateaued. the head of the european commission says europe is dealing with its problems one by one. josÉ manuel barroso spoke in athens as greece assumed their rotating eu presidency. >> while we cannot say that the [indiscernible] is behind us because we have an a high level of unemployment, and we still have problems with financing the economy, there is still a proble financialence, coherence in the euro area. the reality is we are solving, one by one, the different problems. >> the private sector in the united states added 238,000 jobs in december according to the report from adp. this is fueling hopes that american unemployment will head lower as we get the official data on friday. that is not doing a lot of wonders for the american stock markets. they are mixed this session. th

the countries that lost out are austria and south korea. both have infrastructure in place to stage a winter olympics and instead they chose a place with no infrastructure. >> this olympics and the whole security question comes down to putin's conceit. we are having the olympics in a subtropical village or city of sochi. that itself is this incredible conceit that he can effectively change or control the climate for the purposes of these olympics. and the idea you will have an olympics not far from chechnya and dagestan, places of terrorism, and you will have a secure olympics for thousands of visitors. >> one of the reasons putin wanted the games in russia, matt, was he wanted it to be a showcase for putin's russia, the new, modern russia. forget the soviet union. are the games htving the effect on the games? the one he wanted? >> not the one he wanted, but it is a showcase for modern russia. >> not in a good way. >> all of the construction projects are plagued with construction. there is a phrase now in russia it is the korrumpiad instead

. >> he has coached at home in germany, austria and china and working with the bella runalen women's team for five years now. he's happy about her achievements but wants to create other athletes to create an unbeatable team. >> it's the most impressive trainer we've ever had. he does a great job. and he's a good person, a good psychologist, and a good friend. he coaches have gone from strength. still, fellow germans take it in sporting spirit. clause is a great guy, a fantastic person and someone is good for the sport. it would not be so exciting if germans always won. >> he will soon be off to the olympics with every chance of success. >> rio's christ the redeemer statue is in need of repair work after it was struck by lightning. it chipped the right thumb despite a conductor. the middle finger was damaged in a storm last month. luckily there's still a stock of the stone that was used to build the statue in 1931. repairs should be completed before they host the world cup in jun. and that does it for us here on the journal. please join us again at the top of the hour. >> he has been

. >> it's very popular with tourists from germany and austria. not everyone is crazy about the typical cold red wine soup, but most are thrilled by the town's medieval charm. >> these piles of stone are still authentic, and that's what's so fascinating. we don't have anything like it act home. >> it is taking croatia's eu of session in stride. in the last century, the town first belonged to italy, then yugoslavia. some people here have bad memories of the communist era. now, the worries are a bit effort. some are afraid the town could lose its unique character. >> if we are in the process of attracting more people with more money, to build structures which are not in harmony with the situation, which is in the first place attracting people, it will destroy the same resource which we are living form. >> the tourists would no longer find the things which have always attracted them. in a referendum in 2012, 2/3 of croatians said yes to join the european union. >> back then, i voted to join, too, because i thought it would be best for croatia, but no

on to sports and the ski jumping tournament today in austria.he home team are hoping for a good date. here is how they did in qualifying on friday. >> these to deb -- two austrians are favorites. out the qualification jump. he is already qualified. the other showed his ambition to maintain the lead in overall points. he reached 120 3.5 meters putting him in second place behind the norwegian who jumped 127 meters. contingent, the 22-year-old was the best among them getting fourth place. he may even have a chance of making it to the winter podium even that the fellow tournament favorite landed with a disappointing 120 meters. it looks as if the fans may be disappointed on saturday. the weather forecast predicts downslope winds of up to 100 kilometers per hour, meaning any spectacular jumps are highly unlikely. >> looking ahead to the winter olympics and the german team is hoping for a big haul of medals across the sledding events. we take a look at their preparations. >> they ready to conquer. the german team is gearing up for the olympic games. d