resulting from the second third generation of immigrants who feel that they are given no place in belgium of today and are therefore stigmatized just as i am stigmatized and despised well join me and so rise a belgians is today truly a dissident movement that brings together people who have difficulties in everyday life in society who perhaps do not find their place because society does not want to give them one and who are especially stigmatized. right so let's talk about your political stances for a moment you're against any money being sent to syria what does it mean he just won here of to stand back and see how the work plays out in syria like gayle all cities . no i think that europe should not finance the war in syria and it is exactly what europe is doing today. europe with the united nations well obviously today we see european states shamefully financing terrorist organizations that are there for the sole purpose of overthrowing a power in place the legitimate power of bashar al assad which is a legitimate power in a country where everything was going well before the foreign inva

as far as the belgium invasion, incursion, became an invasion once belgium decided to resist, britain did that for two reasons, they explained it or excuse it if you will on this treaty but they didn't want anybody that close, napoleon stood and looked across the channel, during and hitler did and this was in absentia, but kaiser, so they felt they had to fight to preserve the security at the home islands. i don't know whether that enters your question, but i think britain could have stayed out and perhaps would have despite its understanding. it wasn't the treaty but it's understanding with france if the germans had invaded belgium, a don't know that and that is another thing. >> what you said, why they didn't stop in 1940 or 1950. the french for instance recognized consequences, they have already seen germany standing when he was a young man standing and watching, they couldn't have tolerated that. >> the trouble was when one side felt like stopping the other business, they send victory and what also happened is you get those hideous lawsuits and the worst losses were taken to battl

a belgium brewer is tapping into the american craft market. the flemish beer mogul has been brewing beer since grant. the world's 12th largest micro brewer. it was the del upbeer that he sipped in paris that moved him to open his own brewery in kansas city, missouri, in 1989. boulevard is known for novel and favorableful american interpretations of belgium beer styles. the two company heads called the merger a natural fit. but american craft purists think the new owners will dilute the brand. this is not the first time big beer has swallow up a small craft company. two years ago budweiser bought goose island brewing. miller coor's owns a wisconsin line. so what does make craft beer flow? we he met with craig engert, a being sommelier. >> i can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it. i feel with craft beer profi profitability, efficiency are always secondary to the flavor impact. non-craft beer is first departmented by business acumen. >> reporter: there is a world of difference between craft beer and the big brewers like anheuser-bu

contributor is france there as many as seven hundred of its nationals could be in syria right now belgium and the u.k. are also in the top three they worry is that what happens when they return home. caught up with one british citizen who lost his brother to war thousands of miles from home. young british traveling to syria and nine hundred people. and according to one experts the now part of the largest european islamist foreign fighting contingent in recent times to at least eleven hundred. two. hundred it was from this picturesque seaside town in portsmouth this a group of young men recently left to go and join the fight in syria about a month ago when news reached a community that twenty three year old man was killed last fighting on the syrian front line this is the local mosque that if the current a number of his friends attended before they left syria where they join one of the most radical opposition groups operating in the country isis the islamic state of iraq and sham now before he died if it was active on social media pasting videos an update of the group's activities now in t

once the germans went over the frontiers into belgium, luxembourg and france, then i think it was too late. that was one of the great flaws in the suspect of the plan, the short term, short name for the german plan, was that it was sort of seamless. you call that the soldiers, got them onto the trains, got the moving and they just moved seamlessly across the borders and into the attack. what the german plans did not build a more proper stopping points. once they were on foreign soil, once the fighting had started it was impossible to stop. but they could have stopped any point up until the second of august. >> excuse me. do you think the british were expected those troops to move across the border into belgium at that point? >> i think once the germans started rolling, they feared it and they gave germany and ultimatum, very short ultimatum and said if we don't have by 11 p.m. on august the fourth that you've stopped, and they also wanted the germans to promise they would then switch all the troops from the west to the east against russia, where fighting had already started. i think a

originally from belgium garrett who's lived here for ten years was the first person we met in petra probably. he married here and as he puts it himself found peace of mind i was travelling before i was always looking for a person because they want to stay in belgium because i wanted the family and i want to clean things i want to clean air clean. water earth. at first garrett worked as a carpenter but two years ago he contracted and sinful lighters from a tick bite. his hands were partially paralyzed and he lost flexibility in his wrist garrett had to give up woodworking he and his wife have three children who all live in the village. talking is going to st petersburg to visit the grandchildren from her daughter's first marriage they stayed with their father after thirty on the left for siberia she also wants to see the man who helped her through the psychological effects of her life with the sari on community we went to a blue cloth to learn more of her inside story about the sect and what motivated her to join the new religion. at first i had no idea it was a sect i went to work and when i

he wants to talk to the president of belgium's senate. the police officer at the entrance does not send him away but extend -- instead politely explains how to get to the visitors entrance. and then, he once again has to do what so many in hotel mozart have to -- wait or an answer from the senate and hope that something in his life will finally improve. waiting, he says, is what is hardest. >> that report wraps up this christmas edition of "european journal" in brussels. from all of us here, happy holidays. see you in 2014. until then, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- a7guc [captioning made possible by democracy now!] ♪ >> from pacifica this is "democracy now!" >> when i said i would take dead cities, i tail of two meant it. [applause] in asl de blasio is sworn mayor of new york city, vowing to fight inequality. we will play highlights

. >> do you think the british really expected those troops to move across belgium? >> well i think once the germans started rolling they feared it and gave germany the ultimatum, short ultimatum saying if you were not here by 11:00 p.m. on august the fourth that you have stopped. they also one of the germans to promise that they wouldn't then switch their troops from the west to the east against russia or where the fighting had already started. i think at that point it was impossible. the german said they weren't afraid of the british army. they called it the contemptible little army and said we will deal with it one hand tied behind our backs. >> yes. >> jeff llorente. the one empire whose aftershocks are still being felt with new tremors every day as the ottomans and i wonder if you could explore for us what it was but led the ottomans to decide to enter the war shortly after in 1914? what was their stake? you had on the central power cited several countries that have been their adversaries before. they themselves had been noble the way out it by bit. what did the

that was especially true when we visited prisons in belgium.ngs, we learned that when an inmate escapes from a belgian prison, authorities will try to catch him, but not charge him with an additional crime. >> the law that says the effect of escaping is not a crime. but they can do another crime. for example, if they escape with their prison clothes, keeping the prison clothes is a crime. unless they send the clothes back. and in the past we have someone who escaped, jumping out of the window. after two, three days, we get the clothes back washed and cleaned. so he didn't make any crime. >> and even though belgium has one of the world's lowest crime rates, we met our share of murderers there as well. but shawn schaeffer's interview was one of the more unusual ones we conducted. we met him in the segregation unit of prison haselt, a maximum security facility. >> on 30 december, i killed my wife. >> okay. why and how? >> i killed her with a big knife. >> why? >> because i had no gun with me. >> okay. but why did you kill her? >> oh, why? i was ve

it's harder to understand that the very top of this table is belgium.ivalent to nearly 92% of its gdp, this is a country with enormous bank collapses, they haven't had a government, yet here they are making a huge amount of money compared to their size. how are they doing that? >> belgium has had an enormous tax advantage in relation to other special european countries for decades. and they have unique tax structures that attract companies -- it's actually discontinuing some things, but right now they are supporting equity investment in france. >> does it help in belgium you have the eu and the european commission? >> of course it has. belgium is really the hub for european commission as opposed to the european parliament that is the decision makers for europe. so it's quite an important thing, but i think the taxes are -- >> okay. they don't want fundamentalism or just have rules and things to do. >> i think it's a combination of bureaucra bureaucracy, high tax levels and the general willingness to address the need for direct investment. >> the other t

by your hands on economic aspect from belgium's new flemish alliance poncy thank you very much indeed for your time. this is also international and coming up later this hour the right swing voices in japan. looks at how national is calling for me to regain self-respect and break japan's presence out of the break. you cannot preemptively restrict your freedoms because of the fear of what something or how something might be used everything that has ever been developed has been used for bad purpose baseball bats which are fun for you know for. or baseball players to hit balls you know they've also been used to beat people today i mean we just cannot restrict ourselves because something might be you know in the wrong way. but if you will the moment like. the face it's like you know. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm role researcher. this is also international welcome back the host city of the twenty fourth haven winter games sochi has launched the largest security operation in and pick his tree tens of thousands of police officers have been drafted in with the sole aim a

the new one from europe france germany the uk belgium and the netherlands are seeing a particularly high accidents. because the switch comes into serious to me during turkey. european governments now see syria as the number one breeding ground for anti western pundits who has returned to europe and the insight new security threats. neil been disillusioned guys because they are being faced with an anti war and the need to take a victory total to thirty four. some of them it would be character in each piece into a court because they will pay you back if he knew we had a cagey have joined a group we have evidence of these some of them. it's the duty of care so you try to discreetly year of money to what they do but you can tell. that money to a twenty four seven the hundreds of feet is just beyond the reach souls lost a good piece of news. the eu believes increased data gathering and airline passenger information like . the station station proposed for the commission to set up the european union passenger name record system it is indeed in the skull takes the most perfect accord with the mi

using stanley as administrator, king leopold of belgium claimed the congo as his personal property.en, women, and children were tagged with numbers, separated into groups, given production quotas. if they fell short, they were whipped, their hands cut off, hanged. an estimated 10 million congolese were either starved, worked to death, executed or just killed where they stood, all in just over 20 years. by the end, half the population of the country was gone. have you ever thought about all those years ago that if your people had just killed stanley? >> translator: somebody else would have come. >> somebody else would have come. >> ordinarily, a large tiger fish like this one, it's going to the market, considered way too valuable to eat. but today -- guests. >> it's a mean-looking fish. >> she used to sell fish in the market. >> the congolese standard, liboke. it can be pretty much anything wrapped in a banana leaf and steamed. >> typical tradition. >> excellent meal. a lot of work. though it doesn't look like they are having an entirely miserable time of it, the water looks good. on

the country's proposed new constitution the seven hundred and fifty egyptian nationals living in belgium and luxembourg lesson with us to take off in the referendum in total some six hundred ninety thousand expatriates who will be eligible to participate. however the referendum which is being held in egypt and generate fourteen and fifteen has been tarnished by a top sheet by tv cleric business he says no current always do as a puppet show and will now consider a president who seems not to participate in the because doing so they would be a sin the party's constitution is a simple majority to come into force and would replace the previous prayer is that destroyed a force to rwanda for president graham and more sea foaming referendum new presidential and parliamentary elections expected to be held shortly business rules he was forced out by minute or two in july last year of producing a discredited regime which many believe was the critique and the intentions of twenty eleven or permission will see is now in prison facing criminal charges on his muslim brotherhood. he has been classified

france as more than history you know you couldn't hold all timo talk too much more together with belgium that france's tax grab is the highest in the eurozone you don't want to do but see it was way ahead of. the last two hours french i had to fill her top says more than two thirds of the country's population is clear cut so i don't write eighty per cent look the president's economic policy is misguided i don't inefficient gianluca is among those eighty percent and entrepreneur he was foolish to close his business down after taxes became too big to bear to sell second if you're sick this is a vicious circle with my business has stopped working and which means i can to provide jobs for others and i can pay taxes to my country to help its development it is like everything falls apart right up to the current taxation policy was part of the finance strategy chosen by the french government to fight economic crisis but almost two years later critics say it simply hasn't worked the country's credit rating has been caught the unemployment level all those table recently is at its highest in almos

thousands of men lost their lives on the battlefields of northern france and belgium. operation war diary is underway. thomas waterhouse explains. more --not explain the a more ghastly 48 hours than the last. i'veored in one of these thousand 500 boxes, diary entry for the vast collection of documents from tight, drawn or illustrated, most handwritten. >> i can find lots of stories about lots of individual people. what they did, where they went. what they were training in. >> the diaries have been housed in the vaults of the national archives building for nearly five decades. the originals are getting a little frayed at the edges. a half million people are named in there, but how do you find them in these pages that are hand written? >> the diaries will be preserved online in a five-year cataloging and digitizing process. a very 21st century way to make accessing wendy of sensory -- 20th century memoirs a whole lot easier. they are listing the help of a whole new type of army. under the banner of operation war diary. it is hoped the citizen historians will be able to s

the belgium people from starvation as well as in other countries. one of the things he noticed during all that time in europe was it was giving way to praise forms of totalitarianism, socialism, communism, eventually not season, fascism. and decay back to this country and he was shocked because in the 1930s he felt roosevelt was uncertainly turning us into forms of european totalitarianism. in fact, if you look at to sort of cartoon icons of the 1930s, if you will, herbert hoover like to talk about the rugged individual, and -- site, franklin roosevelt said no, actually about the forgotten man. these are two great cartoon icons of the 1930s. hoover argued america is about equality of opportunity, and it's about individuals having the freedom to decide that they want to live their life and to pursue that. and so america is about equality of opportunity. franklin roosevelt said, and this is actually a little shocking to me, he said straight out in the 1930s, equality of opportunity is dead in america. you can't get anymore. what we have to be about in

look out for belgium. more than 10,000 lovers braved to launchemperatures their city stint as european capital of culture. they did so by forming a human chain. they demonstrated for independence from the soviet union back in 1989. they transferred books from the old national library to the new structure the locals call the castle of light. news coming up. >> the farmer is unable to work. she has been confined to bed for years. every time i drink i get a rash in the water leaves a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. i have the spots everywhere. the doctors cannot find out what was wrong with her. analysis of the water showed iron levels three times higher than normal. she takes us to meet another neighbor. my whole body hurts, she says. you don't look well at all, he says. he collected money when they fell sick eight years ago. the family cannot afford the difficult operation she needed. he even considered selling their daughter to pay for his wife's treatment. he managed to prevent that. lost most of her large

if you travel in belgium herbert hoover is a hero for essentially saving the belgium people from starvation as well as in other countries. one of the things we noticed during all that time in europe was that it was giving way to various forms of totalitarianis, communism and eventually nazism, fascism and then he came back to this country and he was shocked. in the 1930s he thought roosevelt was voluntarily turning to forms of totalitarianism. in fact if you look it to cartoon icons of the 1930s if you will herbert hoover like to talk about the rugged individual and franklin roosevelt said it's really about the forgotten man. these are really two great cartoon icons of the 1930s. hoover argued america is about equality of opportunity and it's about individuals having the freedom to decide how they want to live their lives and to pursue that. so america is about equality of opportunity. franklin roosevelt said in this is shocking to me. he said straight out in the 1930s it qualities of opportunity is dead in america. you can't get it anymore. what we have to be about in this country is equal

it was not a treaty, but it's understanding with france if the germans had not invaded belgium. i don't know that. and that is another thing. >> what you said. stopped in 1914-15. part of it may have been that the french forces recognize the consequences. they have already seen germany defeat. not standing under the man. they could not have tolerated that evil. >> and i think -- and the trouble was when one side fog, the other didn't. the scent of victory. i think what also happened is you get this hideous lawsuit. some of the worst losses were taken in the opening battles of 1914. very difficult then to say to the people, this is a mistake and we stop now it will all remain the same. we all know what happens. becomes very difficult. >> i want to ask one question. i want to butt end. was there, were there any during the war from either side? >> there were. they had been born secretary. and then there was this same through the pope six this -- been experience thank you very much. says i don't follow. and so i think there were some, i think, through free men, but how seriously. it

i can tell you if you compare the white population to belgium, we have less crime gun crime than belgium't think the prevalence of guns themselves has any impact? >> it's a very diverse country. >> should the culture try and be changed? away from a reliance and dependence on guns and glorifying of guns? >> no. obviously i think guns reduce gun crimes. but the idea that when one spree killing after another is committed by a crazy person that you think taking the guns away is going to do something. it's like draining an ocean to find a ring you lost. that isn't going to help. the crazy people go out and kill people with swords. the murder of school children during school time that took more lives than any other in this country's history was committed with a bomb. by a crazy person. >> so your answer to what happened at newtown would be, unless i'm misreading your logic -- >> lock up the nuts, yes. >> other than that. what about guns themselves? >> start issuing concealed carry permits to people who do not have mental health issues or criminal records. >> you would have more guns? >> yeah.

belgium is occupied, magritte lives out the war in occupied belgium. he doesn't make a lot of pictures. >> he was kind of worried about being -- there was a moment that he's afraid to be put in the mental asylum because the nazis obviously didn't like his art and so there's that. >> rose: when he did this lecture what was it called? >> it was called "lifeline." so hi in wonderful surrealist fashion narrate it had development of his life and art as a surrealist painter and talked about influences and inspirations and childhood moments. >> did he go back to commercial start >> after paris he did, he was forced to. it was in -- in 1929 at the end of '29 the wall street crash happened and the whole economy collapsed and no one sold and he went back to brussels because he couldn't make a living anymore. >> he was supposed to have a one person show in march of 1930 two weeks before his gallery went bankrupt and the girlfriend of his dealer ran off with another man and marguerite and his wife george jet were left in paris without a means of sport. jor jet. >>

it's only six cases in belgium a couple of years ago and now six cases in the u.s.his product as you mentioned used to be combined with a different one, now they've raised it so the chances of having an allergy are greater. but for the millions out there, six is not a lot of cases, but here's the message i think, which is your doctor's got to be thinking outside the box. you go ahead and you're treating with an antibiotic ointment, it ain't getting better. by the time it -- it's not dangerous, but the doctors who figured it out did so because they rethought the case. and they went back and said where else here? an allergy is always a possibility. >> what about using water like witch hazel? >> that's actually a very good point, the doctors recommend just a dry towel and water going back. and just to answer what jamie asked is that they tested all six with the same wipe and every one of them came back positive and that's how they found out it's as a result of this wipe. if you see some abnormal rash or itchiness in your children, we want you to stop and see if it reco

originally from belgium guert who's lived here for ten years was the first person we met in petra published. he married here and as he puts it himself found peace of mind. i was traveling before i was always looking for a person because he wants things because i want the family and i want to clean things in my are i want to clean air clean. nature green water earth. at first garrett worked as a carpenter but two years ago he contracted and so full light as from a tick bite. his hands were partially paralyzed and he lost flexibility in his wrist. garrett had to give up woodworking he and his wife have three children who all live in the village. talking is going to st petersburg to visit the grandchildren from her daughter's first marriage they stayed with their father after thirty on the left for siberia she also wants to see the man who helped her through the psychological effects of her life with the sari on community we went to a blue cloth to learn more of her inside story about the sect and what motivated her to join the new religion. at first i had no idea it was a sect i went to work

it's believed to have offered a few dozens force, poland, the chubb lick, belgium and spain could be contributing. it's thought the mission would ask four to six months, west african peace-keeping forces, giving them an opportunity to reinforce their numbers. the real idea it to reenable the french. their efforts have been focussed on securing the airport and the flow of humanitarian goods. it will allow them to do work outside the capital, leaving the airport in the care of the e.u. force. >> you wonder who would be leading the e.u. mission considering the french experience in africa, particularly in mali, and success there. >> it's understood the french will take part. it's believed that there will be a french element within the e.u. peace-keeping force. >> the europe peens - it's difficult for the governments of european countries to sell to the citizens of their country, the idea of taking part in a peace-keeping force, in a country many have not heard of. they have heard of other countries, it will be difficult for them to think "why are we getting involved in this." the argumen

in belgium, however, it is legal. soon even children could get the right to ask to choose death here under certain conditions. >> imagine your own child wants to die. this was stephanie with her mother in 2008. after battling cancer, the 16- year-old seems to have gone into remission. she had already lost her little brother to cancer. he died at the age of four. and she had just witnessed how a friend had died of the disease after enduring terrible pain. >> one i visited her in intensive care, she said she did not want to go on and that she would be happy if there were another way -- to go home and say goodbye to her friends and family. >> if stephanie said to me, "mama, i don't want to live. i cannot go on. i am burned out. it's enough." i would respect that, absolutely . >> many parents are confronted with such desperate calls from parents and children when they can't even articulate their pain. this pediatrician says once medicine has reached its limits, he wants to be able to perform euthanasia. >> if a young pers

belgium has seen many roads flooded. >> doctors caring for retired formula one driver michael schumacher say his condition is still critical. it is the first update from the hospital since wednesday. his family are at his bedside. he has been in a medically induced coma since he fell while skiing last week. police investigating the accident are examining a camera attached to his helmet at the time of the fall. vladimir putinnt has lifted a total ban on demonstrations during the winter olympics and paralympics at the blocks he -- at the black sea resort of sochi. he said protesters may seek permission from local authorities for demonstrations and marches from january 7 until march 21. the ban on rallies in sochi was criticized by human rights groups. winter athletes continue to search for form as the games approach, including ski jumpers at the four hills tournament. 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 fin

it's only six cases in belgium a couple years ago and now six cases in the u.s.curred because this product that david mentioned, mi, used to be combined with a different one at much lower amounts. now they've raced it at 3.7 parts per million to 100 parts per million so the chances of having an allergy are greater. but for the millions out there, six is not a lot of cases. here is the message, i think. your doctor has to think outside the box. you go ahead and treat with an antibiotic ointment, it ain't getting better. you have to re-evaluate the case all over again. it's how david and i practice medicine, as a matter of fact. it's not dangerous, but the doctors who figured it out did so because they rethought the case. they went back and said what else here? an allergy is always a possibility. >> what about going back and using soap and water or witch hazel? >> that is a very good point. the doctors recommend just a dry towel or water going back. and just to answer what jamie asked is that they tested all six with the same wipe and everyone of them came back pos