i traveled to berlin. went from west berlin to east berlin. had a chance to meet with the people in east berlin who was so desperate for their human rights to be respected, that they would be able to travel and leave east berlin if they wanted to. i saw machine guns facing me to prevent people from leaving the east to go to the west. i returned two years later with hammer in hand, helping knock down the berlin wall, and today berlin is a great unified city. my lesson here is of hope. our actions, our words, our deeds can bring about change, and i saw that in what we have done in europe. i see that today in so many meetings i have with foreign leaders. they're coming to us, asking for america's leadership and help in order to develop the type of country that we enjoy here in the united states. >> and as you exit, what parts of the world are you most concerned about? >> i am concerned that the world seems to be dividing. the autocratic regimes seem to have this alliance, and may not be formal, but whether you look at russia and russia's aggressi

this example, 1987, i traveled to berlin, westmoreland, had a chance to meet with people in east berlin who were desperate for their human rights to be respected, that they be able to travel and leave east berlin if they wanted to. i saw machine guns used for preventing people from leaving. i returned to help knock down the berlin wall. today it is a great unified city. our actions, words and deeds can bring about change. i saw that with what we've done in europe and i see that today where foreign leaders come to american leadership and help to develop the type of country we enjoy here. host: as you exit, what parts of the world are you most concerned about? sen. cardin: i'm concerned that the world seems to be dividing. the autocratic regimes seem to have an alliance. russia's aggression in ukraine, trying to change borders by force and the help from iran and china and north korea, you worry there is an aligning of the autocratic regimes. a lot of countries want to follow the west and be our friends. i hope we are strong enough and patient enough to work with these countries and we cou

this is dw news live from berlin, firefighters in los angeles. say they cannot contain multiple wildfires. tens of thousands have in order to flee different neighborhoods across the la area. as hundreds of homes are engulfed by the flames. also coming up the deadly as russian attack on ukraine and weeks at the time missiles fly kits. the city is f r e shop. police 13 civilians their report to killed the i'm aaron tilton. berlin, thanks for joining us. firefighters in los angeles are unable to contain wild fires raging in several parts of the city. the official desk told has no reason to 5, with many more injured, more than a 1000 buildings have already been destroyed and the largest blaze, making it one of the most destructive fires ever in california. the sky has changed its color in the los angeles area. a series of wild fines that started on the outskirts of the city has spread to several sub urban communities. the places have already destroyed or damaged thousands of homes. tens of thousands of precedents if in order to evacuate as the infern

the business dw news line from berlin. donald trump, the steps of his threats to take control of greenland and the panama canal. the president elect refuses to love using military force to get his wayne samuel securities at stake. also coming up on the program, social networking join meta is ending it's fact checking program on facebook and instagram. instead, implants to rely on it to users to moderate is content and united states sanctions, the leader of sedans are as f militia of accusing him of directions as forces to commit genocide. the i'm aaron tilden in berlin, thank you very much for joining us. us president elect donald trump, has refused to rule out military force to gain control of both the panama canal and greenwood. since when in the election from has repeatedly expressed his desire to take over the strategical, important waterway and the island during his 1st term in the office, trump expressed an interest in buying greenland, which is an autonomy his territory of denmark. a long time us allied in need of a number, but the governments of greenland and denmark have repeatedl

this is indeed the news line from berlin, firefighters and los angeles, say they cannot contain multiple wild fires. tens of thousands up in order to flee different neighborhoods across the l. a. area as hundreds of homes are and go find the flames. the, i'm in dolton berlin, welcome to the program firefighters in los angeles are unable to contain wildfires raging in several parts of the city. the official desk toll has no reason to 5, with many more injured, more than a 1000 buildings have already been destroyed and the largest blaze, making it one of the most destructive fires ever in california history. home after home, consumed by flames. fierce winds up and propelling the inferno here and all to dina, controlling the places has been near impossible. i've lived in this area for over 20 years and we've seen fires in the mountains in the hills, but never anything like this. whole neighborhoods are being incinerated. some residents have been returning to the chart ruins of their former homes a year with our home, with my sister, and we've lost practically everything, but the flames have

this is dw news line from berlin, firefighters in los angeles. say they cannot contain multiple wild fires. tens of thousands of in order to flee different neighborhoods across the la area, because hundreds of homes are engulfed by the flames. also coming up the deadly as russian to attack on ukraine in the weeks. a day time missiles for our kids, the city is that patricia, at least 13 civilians are reported, killed the, i'm there until them. thanks for joining us. the los angeles fire chief says at least 2 people have been killed and many more injured by wild fires. he called a widespread disaster fires are raging out of control in at least 3 areas of l. a authority say more than a 1000 buildings are destroyed and that the blaze continue to grow with quote, 0 percent containment. the sky has changed its color in the los angeles area. a series of wild fines that started on the outskirts of the city has spread to several sub urban communities. the places have already destroyed or damaged thousands of homes. tens of thousands of residents have been

if you're watching the w news from berlin up next, we've got a documentary for you. the cocaine war is looking at germany's point against drug games on terry martin for me and all of us here. dw, thanks for watching. the name is the calls back, said loud. thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it's loud. you guys, would it be nosy bay? like good everyone to king. check out the award winning called comment to hold back the bombings on the streets of germany. for if someone felt each copies of goods copy minded in dolton cannot hide it exclusively. and then ask for them to let me finish this, be appreciated. the mafia, kind of the kind of guns and the spelling gift gig. now i'm just going to then i'm so she's done from black male to kidnappings and torture. criminal gangs have unleashed an unprecedented wave of drug related violence. due to this class of criminals is so violent that human lives ultimately don't matter. we should see the conflict over the highly lucrative cocaine business is escalating

and suggesting berlin take rapid action to avoid losing the war against the drug producers. the level of danger involved is already clear to see in ecuador, the visitors are escorted everywhere by dozens of heavily armed police. an overnight stay has to be cancelled due to security concerns. as the cocaine cartels terrorized the country ecuador finds itself on the brink of becoming a norco state. the deadly violence has become the norm here. and it st. battles between heavily armed gangs and as well as fighting each other. they openly challenge the states authority in january 2024th, an ecuadorian prosecutor was shot dead in his car. he'd been investigating norco gangs, classifying 20 of them as terrorist organizations. just a few days earlier, one of the gangs had taken hostages at a university and broadcast their desperate cries for help. the all part of a wave of open intimidation and tear. in another shocking demonstration of their power. the gang even stormed a tv studio during a live broadcast, taking hostages. as state order continues to a road further, even more coca

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us say of the also rise starts january 18th on dw, the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. a powerful earthquake strikes to batch along the ton and a pole border. china says the 7 point one magnitude quite killed at least 95 people is left many others trump while after shop. shake the region also coming out of south korean court has re issued an arrest warrant for impeach president you and so you'll, fussy, remains, hold up in his residence, surrounded by his loyal presidential golf work. and on a farewell trip to japan, us secretary of state anthony, blinking said ties between the 2 countries were strong despite the decision by present joe biden, to block a multi $1000000000.00 to take over of us deal by a japanese company, the little m terry martin. thanks for joining us. a powerful earthquake has killed at least 95 people into that many others are trapped as dozens of aftershocks show the region in the west of china and across the border in the poll. officials in the regions said a 130 people have been injured and rescue workers are searching for people in the rubble. t

the visitor dw news live from berlin. donald trump steps up his threats to take control of greenland and the panama canal. the president elect refused to house using military force to get his way, saying your security is at stake. also, coming up around 30000 residents are told to flee a rapidly growing wildfire in los angeles authorities. when the police force in the coming hours, a strong winds fanned the flames the other and told him thanks for joining us. he was president elect donald trump has refused to rule of military force to gain control of both the panama canal in greenland. since winning the election from has repeatedly expressed his desire to take over the strategically important waterway and the island. during his 1st terminal office, trump expressed an interest in buying greenland, which is in the town of his territory of denmark, a long time us ally and natal member. but the governments of greenland and denmark have repeatedly rebuffed his offers. from has once again set his eyes on greenland posting on his side to the social on monday. he said, greenland is an incred

this is dw news line from berlin. dudley wild fires burned out of control in los angeles, consuming vast stretches of property. a new fire has broken out in the hollywood hills, triggering fresh evacuation orders and threatening iconic landmarks. the fast moving fires are spreading across multiple neighborhoods. also coming up deadly violence falling mozambique disputed election forces, many families to flee into a neighboring malawi, dw, talk to most of the deacons who have found refuge, the a, a mariana evans, dean, welcome. a new fire has broken out in the hollywood hills in los angeles threatening landmarks like the adobe theater, where the oscar ceremony is to be held in just a few weeks. firefighters are so far on able to contain several blazes raging across the los angeles area, burning homes and forcing residents to sleep. at least 5 people have died and more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed. home after home, consumed by flames. fierce winds up and propelling the inferno here and all to dina, controlling the places has been near impossible. i've lived in this area for ov

to the life of the shutter by trauma, ice as life starts january 24th oh, d w w . news line from berlin. donald trump, the steps of his threats, if they control agreement and the panama canal, the president elect refuses to laws using the attorney for us to get his weight. seeing us security is at stake, also coming up around $30000.00 residents are told to flee a rapidly growing wildfire in los angeles authorities. one conditions are extremely dangerous. a strong winds fanned the flames and social networking joined that it is indeed it's fact checking program on things back in facebook and instagram instead of plans to rely on the users to monterey this content the i'm aaron tilton in berlin. thank you for joining us. us president elect donald trump has refused to release the military force to gain control of both the panama canal in greenland. since winning the election, trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to take over the strategically important water. wayne island during his 1st term and office trump expressed an interest in buying greenland, which is in autonomy his territory

what that means, if you can oppose, and we did, whether in west berlin, or in vietnam, whether it wash korea, south korea, we opposed military elite soviet expansion. at the same time, we sought out areas where we could deal with productively, deal with the soviet union, whether the culture, education, values, arguments, whatever the case is , you could do both if you wished, at the same time. that prevented the relationship from deteriorating and god for bid a cold war, starting not a cold war but a hot war started. what we are missing today, very much, as we face a very dangerous, i would argue as dangerous a world today as we faced at the end of world war ii when the soviet union imposed upon the united states a cold war. i spent quite a bit of time reading declassified documents, u.s. documents from the 1940s, 1947 in particular, 1948. you can see in those documents, how american diplomats, eisenhower's chief of staff, how they kept saying the soviet union are our allies, we thought nazi germany together, why are they turning against us and imposing communist rule? in a sense, you

if you lived in west berlin, you might know of a radio station called radio in the american sector. and rias was the earlier version of radio free europe. it was for east germany, it was for berlin, it was a german language radio station that broadcast news, broadcast what we would expect to be known, and was the model for radio free europe, radio liberty. i'm old enough to have been in west berlin during the soviet times, so i remember what that demarcated city looked like, which was -- there was your communist world on one side and your free world on the other. but i think you're absolutely right. and this brings us to today's problem. the soviets were crude and simple and out of touch in terms of how they presented their materials. as part of my job, and one gets paid for doing strange things, but i got paid for watching a certain amount of soviet news back in those days, and it was predictable. you knew exactly what they were going to say. there was nothing very excited. they didn't know how to appeal. that's not the case now. russian propaganda today, russian media is totally s

. >>> germans rang in the new year with spectacular fireworks at berlin's brandenburg gate.ument marked the border between east and west berlin until the fall of the wall in 1989. and over in the southern hemisphere where it's summer. more than 2 million brazilians partied it up at rio de janeiro's copacabana beach. many of us make new year's resolutions to better ourselves, but often those resolutions are abandoned after a few short weeks. jeff wagner of cbs minnesota has more on how to tackle the resolution of improving your mental health. >> reporter: dave johnson is on his way to ease his mind. inside his home is a calming space to meditate. johnson has anxiety, a disorder that intensified during the covid-19 pandemic. he works in public health. >> being completely overwhelmed by work and family and just feeling like there wasn't any way out. >> reporter: molly peterson, the director of adult programs for minnesota's national alliance on mental illness. >> i don't think enough people are saying i really want to improve they mental well-being in the new year. they want to

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i'm going to richardson in berlin. you are watching the day the, what we need to in for national security check. i mean, in the north percentage, i'm talking about protecting the very world for the soul, for any of those states has to be respected. the principle of in viability of food is applies to every country. the panama canal was built for a military or so at any of our canals. the sovereignty is not negotiable and it's appropriate. it's appropriate. also a head on the day, the man leading the race to be germany's next chancellor. the conservative features match gets his campaign underway and his leadership plans come with a warning about trumps. the 2nd term we must expect to see disruptive political decisions in the us and the week off the next. when donald trump becomes president, trump, you've all seen and heard examples of this in recent days. to our viewers on cbs and around the world. welcome to the show. we begin with us president elect donald trump, now less than 2 weeks away from his and on duration, but

that very vocal criticism, including maybe to a point that it was uncomfortable from berlin. i mean, remember berlin does. germany doesn't have a very special relationship with isabel. right. well, his business started for reasons do you, particularly of the, the 7th of october came out very publicly like politicians came out very publicly saying that they would side with israel. which of course, that's a lot of criticism of, of politicians here. but it was very clear, at least right at the start of the war that not jem and the german government who's citing with as well. what's his royal sense about you, your findings? well, they know most of our questions, they know what the critical question is and just answer the questions about the palestinian n g o's. they did all of us say that they provided some information to the agenda for it offers them to the intelligence services. but the critical questions they've just never got back to. you mentioned that the palestinian and yours at 6 pa, the city and and use the german government says defended. we heard about a couple of his

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oh d w the this is the w and it was coming to live from berlin. a powerful earthquake strikes too bad to long the china into poll border. china says the 7 point one, magnitude, quake killed, at least 95 people was left many others trap. 12 after shots shake the reach of also coming up a south korean cortes reissued interest for it for impeached, present you and so fuel. but he remains hold up in his residence surrounded by his oil presidential guard. and russians are celebrating orthodox christmas, but in the country suffering from a war economy and remnants inflation. the mood for many is more somber, then fest.

i'm here until berlin. welcome to the program firefighters and los angeles are unable to contain wildfires. region.

but what if we were to a, with nature, you know, building rather than against an exhibition in berlin. they showed casing projects that seek to do just that. how do trees grow together to form a structure? this question has fascinated architect. imagine and looked big for 20 years. he wants to connect buildings with trees and is constructing a kind of tree house in the city across the corporate. so you have to work a lot with other associates, interdisciplinary will tell you what his botanists, forestry scientists, civil engineers, ecologists, we'll work together to pull on knowledge from different disciplines. so it can be used in the design in process. i'm going about some project in southern germany shows what the building made of trees could look like up to 12 years. the plane tree team is i've been telling me to sign a tour to then the neighboring tend to go. the children use the shady space inside to play. otherwise, it's home to insects and that the, the trunks of the young plane trees have branched out in grinding together. the architects check the gross regularly plain trays

they're about never getting up every weekend on d w, the you're watching t w now is coming to live from berlin firefighters in los angeles. say they cannot contain multiple wild fires. authorities say their focus is now not on saving homes, but on saving people's lives. tens of thousands has an order to flee different neighborhoods across the la area. also ahead on the program, the social media company that a is ending. it's a 3rd party, fast check in on facebook and instagram. i moved many c as meant to appease donald trump. we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico and incoming us president donald trump threatens to change the map. after all, ready, setting his sites on canada and of greenland, the clare richards, and thank you so much for joining us. at los angeles fire chief says at least 2 people have been killed and many more injured by wildfire. as he called a wide spread disaster fires are raging out of control across at least 3 parts of the la area authority say more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed and that the blazes continue to grow with quote, 0 percent co

now germany is fighting a, so far, localised outbreak on the outskirts of berlin.alo. more than 30,000 litres of milk, the amount this nearby farmer says he's had to discard as a precaution. foot and mouth is highly contagious amongst goats, pigs, sheep and cattle. experts say it doesn't pose a risk to people and the outbreak in germany is currently not widespread, but it sparked anxiety, as import bans by south korea, mexico and now britain show. how big a problem is the uk import ban for germany? it's actually a serious problem because last year it has been 7% of the whole exports when it comes to pork, which we delivered to uk. 7% isn't nothing. it's a lot. and now they have to change the delivery to other eu countries. signs like this are warning of the outbreak. germany hasn't seen cases of foot and mouth disease for more than 35 years. they're really hoping to contain the situation, but for now, a nervous wait to see if more cases emerge. jessica parker, bbc news in brandenburg. victoria derbyshire is on newsnight on bbc two shortly. last night, we spoke to b

how is this not all this to berlin to, to, to power as to why is this the oldest to the european union? but 2 things. first, i don't know whether this is indeed not of us. busy or if these people, these functionaries invalid and brussels, uh, more tied to your american net. busy so an american introduces then to the european or the german people. so. busy maybe there is some deliberate blindness in these functionaries and they try but this doesn't come out, but it is even more hideous because we already faced in germany sanctions from the us. so making us dependent on somebody who already proved that he has no problems acting hostile against us, is just ridiculous. whereas in russia, we have never faced any disruptions of the of the contracts. we have never faced any shortages of supply from russia, even though there were like tensions, even not in the cold war area. i mean, this is, this is astonishing where us in the us, they shut off our supply and a break of a night when they can break my loss with, with this. and making us dependent on such a partner is just, it's just just, it ca

it's on the investigation for extremism in berlin. and it's supposed to dismissal it this they say, but we're me friday really poses is to the glue blessed ideology on things like well, well the policy has perhaps that if it comes to power, it will stop on shipments to pray for example. and this message is gaining traction among significance waves of the german public with poles, placing them at around 20 percent. and dave is kept with the front runners of the race. which card ending a thought to one side is closing the skip button. and it says that his statement was misunderstood. is there anything they could do to actually notify the election? well, if the last 2, yes, have shown us anything. it is that in this rules based on the rules are constantly change and not even bad. we know that not everyone has to play by the so this landscape of what time and time won't be done as well. so constantly evolving. so i don't think that it's an exaggeration say that anything and everything is on the cards, especially when mistakes office. hi,

this fund meeting with his leadership, which berlin has designated to the terrorist policy reviews the find disturbing actions all the way up to where all sorts of went on for this. all of health care workers in gauze, i suppose, is $1000.00 sense of what will be gone across according to a united nation is restored with the un publish city and on fossil. they're breaking down it to reach out to a message from us named the other stays until the end of the story the we did them. but the in very good morning to you. it's 8 am here in most go in your watching on see international with the latest world news. i think starting with this be foreign minister as a friends in germany have arrived in syria one month. softer is the mrs. flores is these power that the top diplomat so on admission to bill bridges with the countries, new leadership. germany is annalynne available, cause that should be traveling to damascus with an outstretched hand, which the h t s chief politely declined. it would seem because of the cultural impropriety to a code as well as your presence in the countries and all of

it would take 12 to 15 minutes for the missile to reach of warsaw or berlin and just 20 minutes to reach london or paris for many in the west. this was a wake up call. this was a new type of leave full capability that was employed on the battlefield. so that's certainly a concern to us. this was a hypersonic missile and it was one with multiple warheads, no nuclear in dates, betterment pollutants suggested that it can potentially get through western ad defenses. this ups, the stakes, significantly for nato doesn't. it certainly does. but russia has many other capable systems of which we know that i'm very well capable of targeting terrace and berlin. on the 30th of december 20, it's funny for us treasury secretary jen. it's getting said us authorities are transferring $3400000000.00 to ukraine. she explained that this is the last payment to key from the funds allocated by congress in 2024. from now on that, as you must negotiate any new subsidies or assistance within you wide half administration. now all along the campaign trail, trump, i made a promise to and so you create in conflict i