the cologne police head is out of a job. do you think that this will be enough to restore confidence? >> well, i think it's one step. i think it would be wrong to say if the people are happy in the city of cologne but you can feel actually some relief. i think - it's a step people were waiting for that something happens because it's really an emotional debate people are doing about this issue, especially for the victims, for the women who were just in the train station on that night, they were really, really disappointed about the way the police were treating the whole issue because they were saying how can you say that nothing happened on that night, how could you deal with this issue in that way, so it was a step people are waiting for, it's some kind of relief but i think for more confidence, the police, i think has to, well, get more success, present more results than they did in the last days. sarah: this is a very emotionally charged situation. what do you think people do want to see, then? jens: i think they want to s

the munich station in september and cologne later. they need a third train station to come up with a middle ground. about the political leaders? we are seeing the pressure within the chancellor's office. what about her junior partner? how much support are they willing to give her? politically, they have left already. they are demanding a limit to refugees. csu, they are already. they are not going to do away with her for one simple reason. no one wants to take the rap. they want her to take the flak and soul the difficulties. you don't want to be chancellor of germany at this moment, none of us would like it. host: back to the title of our program. german anxiety, plan b. she is planning on getting the numbers down, some form of european cooperation. let's say that does not happen. what might another plan b look like? the austrians are calling a decision a plan b. with that be an alternative? judy: no. the alternative is syria. orders will not solve the problem. solving the problem is getting the iranians and saudis and neighbors in t

new year's eve saw a spate of sexual assaults at the main cologne station. police have so far received 90 complaints, including theft and violent attacks. there were others from hamburg. >> we cannot tolerate the kind of behavior we have seen at cologne central station and elsewhere in germany. this cannot happen again, and the perpetrators must be punished. at the same time, it needs to be determined if this is a new form of organized criminality that we will now have to take legal steps against. authorities are now keen to make sure they are better prepared for the imminent carnival season. phil: our political correspondent, thomas, is at the studio. we heard the justice minister talking about a new kind of organized criminality. what does that mean? thomas: that is exactly what they want to find out, if this is a new form of organized crime, and that is why authorities want to find out first and foremost who these perpetrators are, if they have this north african origin, and also how they were organized. using social media platforms to organize, or whethe

thomas: the head of police in cologne said he was not planning to step down. he said he was needed now more than before, not only in light of the recent events but also because cologne is preparing for its carnival in a few weeks. what police have also said is that they are going to step up their presence when there are major events like carnival, for example, they're also going to use video surveillance in order to know exactly what is happening in major public places like, for example, around the train station where the events unfolded nearly a week ago. ben: interesting stuff. as we know, about a million people come to cologne for carnival so another huge event. tell me, are there details emerging yet about the alleged suspects? there have been no arrests. thomas: there have been a lot of pieces of information. we heard from regional authorities, westphalia, where cologne is located, they have been able to identify three suspects. they did not give any information on who the suspects were because they did not want to interfere with the investigation. we hea

maissun we heard you say that the atmosphere in germany is not toxic after cologne. tell me more. >> i have been there in cologne a couple of days after the new year's eve and i was -- in the arab neighborhood. i felt the fear they are feeling now. they feel like they are potential victims -- that they are -- society is blaming them as a whole for that which happened at the new year's eve. and the other side, you have the german society which came to munich central station received all of these migrants with flowers and teddy bears and look what has happened. we have two groups of people with, let's say very few information or understanding of each other. >> disgusting, discussing events . what we lack right now is the lack of self reflection, the lack of soul-searching within our communities. there is no soul-searching, and that is disgusting. afghans here have to step up and say, what happened? who are the culprits? >> if they are not responsible for what happened. >> can i just -- >> we cannot say that germans are responsible for -- >> here is the music, you bette

on the latestaltz from cologne. the mexican president has written a jubilant tweet announcing the news that the fugitive drug kingpin of known by his nickname el chapo has been recaptured. this comes six months after he managed to escape from prison via an elaborate network of tunnels. reporter: this is about as big a victory as the mexican government could possibly hope for. when you state six month ago, it was a major knockout blow, the recapture will help gain some procedure for the mexican government and president henrique pena and yet -- enrique pena nieto. tom: humiliating for the authorities that he even escaped in the first place. reporter: absolute humiliation. you cannot keep somebody inside mexico is not a banana republic. it is a huge economy with millions of people and if you cannot keep a man in prison, that shows the weakness of the state that he could go out in a crazy fashion. a real blow to the mexican government, and this restores something of hope in the mexican government, can deal, taking a a l

whereas this mosque in cologne likes to show a more liberal and open face of islam.that's often the case here in germany, that muslim communities are more liberal, because most muslims here come from turkey wher islam is often more moderate than in other regions of the world. and that's particularly the case for the sufi dervishes who delight tourists with their whirling dances -- but also want to show that islam is about more than fundamentalism extremism. >> istanbul, the city on the bosphorus, offers a host of attractions. everything from its old palaces and mosques to its whirling dervishes enthrall visitors to this thriving metropolis. these dancers are muslims who strive to get closer to god through their movements. carine gug from france came to istanbul to find out more about the whirling dervishes. they're adherents of sufism, often called the mystical dimension of islam. their religion is more about searching for meaning and spiritual development than dogma and interdictions. >> it's about forgetting yourself, leaving your ego behind while you're whirling,

the attacks in cologne on new year's eve. catherine: first, he was the a music, the duke, legend who constantly reinvented himself and expired -- inspired successive generations, david bowie. he has died at the age of 69. fans have been gathering at his new york home and near his birthplace in london. ♪ reporter: he counted some of the world's biggest names among his fans. tributes to david bowie flooded social media following news of his death. pop called his friend the light of his life. he worked with bowie on several collaborations. messages from madonna and kanye west shed light on the rock star's impact across the musical spectrum, but his influence spread beyond the music world. the british prime minister hailed the master of reinvention. fromickname derives bowie's "space odyssey." ♪ david bowie's latest album was released just last friday. his lifelong producer, who first work with the singer in 1969, star" wouldw "black be bowie's parting gift. a music journalist and former popstar spoke with us about david bowie's

. >> police in the german city of cologne has dispersed an ant anti anti-migrants protest. germany's chancellor has called for stricter laws on those who commit crimes making it easier for them to be deported. >> there are poe fend whose offend women must feel the full force of the law. i believe that must become clear not only through words. otherwise people will ask us to back them up with actions. of course we will be discussing what needs to be changed with our coalition partners in the government. >> well, dominic kane is in cologne for us. >> it was a day of two demonstrations in cologne's city center at the main station. on the one side were supporters of the far right movement pegida. 300 to 400 of them have come to demonstrate against what they consider the problems, the refugee policy of the german government. on the other side were perhaps four to five times as many people who are "v" come t who have come to demonstrate against the commendation. it was calm. no sign of violence, but then the violence began to happen. bottles were thrown and at one point the polic

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bbc news, cologne.her news, gun men in egypt opened fire on a hotel used by foreign tourists in the resort city of hurghada on the red sea. egyptian security forces reportedly killed at least one of the attackers. it is also being said that the assailants may have arrived by sea. despite subzero temperatures in the balkans, large numbers of refugees are continuing to make the overland journey to europe. around 20,000 people cross into the eu in the past week alone. medics working at refugee points say that their health is at increasing risk in the freezing weather. our european correspondent has spent the last few days on the border between serbia and croatia. he sent this report. reporter: along europe's refugee trail, temperatures have plummeted. still, they keep coming, 2000 to 3000 a day. children without shoes. and growing numbers of families. it had been thought that winter would slow the arrival, but here at the gates of the european union they are still lining up to get in. a few days ago. this

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. >> police in the german city of cologne have dispersed an anti-immigration protest. water canon was fired at the demonstrators who turned out after claims that arab and north african men were behind the wave of sexual assault on new year's eve. just ahead of that demonstration around the thousand les left-leaning protesters some shout slogans. in response to the violence on new year's eve, german's chancellor has called for stricter laws, making it easier for them to be deported. >> serial offenders must feel the full force of the law. otherwise people will ask us to back them up with actions and so of course we will be discussing what needs to be changed request our coalition partners in the government. >> fire broke out at kosovo's headquarters earlier after opposition protesters threw petrol bombs at the building. the fire, which has now been put out started several thousand demonstrators gathered to denounce a deal brokered by the european union. that deal gives kosovo ethnic minority greater possibility of financing from belgrade. they were declared independence

"the independent" reports from cologne and says refugees are living in a climate of fear. they fear that i can be -- that there can be backlash. the have already been reports of vigilante groups attacking refugees, leaving at least two people in the hospital. scandal for what her curd -- that rivals what occurred in cologne. >> there are reports that police covered up a sexual harassment of young women at a possible festival in stockholm. the incident reportedly happened in 2014. you can read about it in "the guardian. this was months before -- one month before the general election. you can see the quote in the title. that is the prime minister, who says women in sweden have been a betrayal.a double no one was convicted of the crimes and police did not make them public until now. police have promised an in-depth investigation. note,'s end on a lighter coming after a whirlwind relationship, the announcement today that media mogul rupert murdoch is marrying supermodel jerry hall. flo:awúwóóóóó announcer: this is a production of china central television america. mike: leaders

> new year's eve revelry's in cologne.the fray, hundreds of women were being attacked. local authorities say the number has jumped from 379 reports on saturday to 516. 40% of the cases related to sexual assault. over 100 similar incidents were reported in hamburg. both the justice and interior ministry said on sunday that the attacks were probably planned in advance. least, runningt the gauntlet and then disappearing and doing the same thing somewhere else suggests it was organized. >> police say the majority of the suspects are asylum-seekers and illegal migrants, a development which sparked angry protests by the far right. authorities used water cannons and tear gas to quell violent protesters. the incident has sparked debate about refugees. including fast tracking the deportation of refugees for crimes in germany have been announced. can be taken away if somebody is convicted on probation or if they are jailed. over oney took in million refugees in 2015, the most of any european country. but the new year's violence has

citizens of germany but also in the interest of the great majority of refugees who are here. >> colognes police chief was fired friday it over criticism the violence, they said they received nearly 400 complaints new year's eve with 40% being investigated for sex crimes. >>> still to come, frank martin in the gamecocks looking to remain unbeaten in the season. usc hosting vanderbilt on home saturday, those highlights plus media day coverage from phoenix coming up leader in sports. first a look at the forecast. 10:13 pm right now. 48 in aiken, comfortable night, little rainy, will look at how much will stay in the area right after the break. >>> people think budgets are punishments are we to make is not what it is about. is a way to take the money you make and put it towards the things that are most important to. that is the point. use it to help you meet your financial goals. but the what you spend every months he can see where your money is going. that will be eye-opening, when you see how much you spend on >>> welcome back, we will call the elephant in the room, a lot of dry air, drive

german police break up a far right protest over new year's eve attacks in cologne.pposition protesters broke over a deal with serbia. back behind bars, mexico's top drug lord is returned to the prison he escaped from six months ago. >>> aid agencies are in a race against time to get vital food and medicine to besieged towns in syria where tens of thousands of people are starving. as winter sets in, families have been burning furniture for warmth and resorting to eating leaves and cats and dogs. the situation is bad in madiat sources say an agreement has been reached with the government for aid to be delivered there on monday. in return, aid will be allowed in to two opposition held villages in the north. the crisis has caused an outcry after pictures of hungry children emerged. >> what's your name? >> noah. >> noah, how long have you been without food? >> four days. >> what have you taken from the hospital to survive? >> this packet. >> this packet of salt? the international committee of the red cross was last allowed in last october and is hoping to be let in again

cologne's police chief has been relieved of his duties just days after a wave of violence against womennew year's eve. >>> as north korean's celebrate reports of their country's nuclear tests, the south resumes propaganda broadcasts over the border. >>> and israelis and palestinians embrace an unusual form of protest. ♪ >>> thank you for joining us. the u.n. says that eat least 400,000 syrians are living under siege, completely cut off with no access to food or medicine. it says the government and opposition are stopping vital supplies from reaching people who desperately need them in different areas of the country. some are so desperate for food and shelter that they are resorting to drastic action just to stay alive. >> reporter: the protests on the border between syria and lebanon less than 10 kilometers away from towns under siege. there are syrians and lebanese marching in solidarity with people nearby. >> translator: we came here because of the regime air strikes. they destroyed our homes. they burned our fields. there is nothing left. the people fled with their families to madaya

cologne's police chief already had to go. but germany's sexual assault laws have also come under criticism. many believe that attackers come off too lightly. jamin oh used to feel safe walking around cologne. now she no longer does. michelle: for all of this talk, what will make women safer in our cities? will a change in policy affect a change in attitude? let us know what you think about that or any of today's stories by getting in touch on facebook, email or twitter. an entire generation has passed since the berlin wall here in germany and indeed the iron curtain in the whole of europe came down. many in the former communist countries of central and eastern europe now take for granted life in a free democratic society. among the older generation there are worries that the young may never truly understand some of the horrors they faced living under communism. in our next report, our correspondent speaks to two men who were forced to work under horrific conditions in a uranium mine in former czechoslovakia. their crime? dari

as anti-refugee protests in cologne turned ugly. germans are furious about the mass attacks that took place here on new year's eve. hundreds of young men, most described by victims and police as appearing to be of arab or women, assaulting andd brobbing them. >> they directly surrounded us and we couldn't move. >> michelle spoke to us in the square where it happened. >> everywhere they could touch. >> reporter: more than 500 victims filed criminal complaints in cologne. what happened here put chancellor angela merkel under tremendous pressure. many people are asking, after this country let in more than a million migrants and refugees lastee, are germans still safe? merkel said she will now consider toughening deportation laws on refugees who commit crimes. so far, police in cologne have detained 34 suspects. at least 21 of them are refugees seeking asylum in germany. terry moran, abc news, cologne, germany. >>> to south korea now, an american show of force. a b-2 bomber flying low over south rea, along with south the flights aiming

how they're trying to contain what is happening in cologne. >> well, felicity. we understand that angela merkel will be speaking for a in a short time to a group of industrialists but it seems likely she'll touch on this issue given the mood music, as it were from the government over the weekend, how can they toughen measures against asylum seekers who are found guilty of serious crimes. it is worth pointing out that we have heard the federal interior minister, but the state interior minister where cologne is has spoken he's certain that almost all of the attackers of the community were, indeed, of migration origins to use the jargon. that chimes with what we heard over the weekend and prior to that the nationalities of the people concerned, north african and from the middle east region. and certainly there is a sense that the government is talking about what can be done to toughen, and reducing the sting of time in sentence asylum seekers can receive before being deported back to country of origin. if the country of origin is safe, they can be sent back. if the

terry moran, abc news, cologne, germany. a b-52 bomber flying low over south korea along with south korean fighter jets. the flights aiming to send a message to north korea after they detonated a nuclear bomb last week. >>> and from florence, italy tonight, a murder mystery. police investigating the death of an american woman there. popular in her neighborhood and active on social media, we have more tonight with the clues. >> reporter: tonight, a mystery in the heart of tuscany. the state department confirming the death of american ashley olsen, found in her studio apartment. investigators say she had bruises and scratches on her neck. police, scouring the building in this upscale florence neighborhood. italian media reported she had a fight with her boyfriend a few days ago. after not hearing from her, he asked the landlord to let him in and found the body. he and several of olsen's friends have been questioned. so far, authorities say they have no suspects. >> i can't imagine a person who she's a gentle, a kind, a beautif

thousands of protesting in germany after mass sexual assaults in new year's eve in cologne. plus island calls on its best and brightest to return and help rebuild the economy. >> reporter: i'm with the sport. another busy day of cup games. there has been a big surprise in this competition. a billion dollar replay with liverpool. those details later in the program >>> aid agencies are trying to get food and medicine into besieged towns in syria where tens of thousands of people are starving to death. images of emaciated bodies and starving children. in the former mountain holiday resort of madaya around 42,000 people have been cut off from aid since july. volunteers hand out the few supplies they have left. >> translation: are we not arabs as well? i swear to god we are arabs. these children, what wrong have they done. what child what wrong did he commit? >>> aid agencies have supplies of food and medicine ready to leave damascus. they hope that the first druks will arrive-- trucks will arrive on sunday. supplies will also see delivered in kefraya and foua. they have been blo

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also coming up, outrage grows over cologne's njew year's sex attacks.y are looking for more penalties for asylum-seekers who commit crimes, and is it barcelona or real madrid? we have the answer, coming up. ♪ i am sarah kelly. welcome to the show. the stardust has faded, and the world of music and art are p oorer after losing one of their icons, the embodiment of youth and rebellion. the legacy left by david bowie. in more ways than one, he was late out of this world. ♪ reap: david boy adopted many -- reporter: david bowie adopted many personas, from the 1960's, his first number one hit in 1969. ♪ x ♪ >> this is ground control to major tom ♪ >> a rational decision to keep on doing that. creating character after character. reporter: in 1976, he moved to west berlin, where he produced three albums. ♪ >> it really became a home for me, berlin, at that time. i enjoyed it because there was so much happening in berlin at that time. reporter: the peak of his success was in the 1980's, selling over 140 million records. ♪ >> ♪ the song playing on the radio ♪ rep

but the atmosphere in cologne really has been, has become very unpleasant. these people were demanding angela merkel should go and calling her a traitor for what she had done to both germany and europe in inviting so many refugees into the continent. >> sreenivasan: and what about the average citizens you have spoken to in the last few days? >> well, i think people are extremely shocked by what happened, not just in cologne but other german cities. it is real scale of the violence against women, and i have to say that over the past day, the german police are saying that the number of complaints that have been made by women who were approached, have approached nearly 300, nearly 400, and many of those are of a sexual nature this is really surprised people, and some people think that, you know, they have been, misled about the nature of the people that hav they have been acceptin and others who say that the people who committed these crimes are just a small minority of ordinary decent people who want to have a better life. but what is being discussed here is b

a lot of people there at dusk now in cologne. explain what is at issue and what is taking place ever since. >> at issue is how germany should react to these massive assaults that police say now appear to have been carried out at least in part or in large part by those coming in from outside of the country, particularly asylum seekers. month are than half of the suspects identified so far were asylum seekers or refugees. so you have competing groups out on the streets today, angry, protesters from both the left and the right side of the political spectrum. there were quite a few tense moments earlier. today, now, earlier, it is much more calm as you can see. riot police have taken off their helme helmets. this is the train station entrance. they have pushed a lot of protesters on waiting trains. you have had your say. cool off at home. you can continue with your protest another day. for now, try and think this over. what's happened is right wing protests have mostly departed. the left wing are now dispersing. it does seem to have

everything must come out in the open. >>> cologne is home to a large muslim community. many are ethnic turk who is have lived in the city for decades. they're worried about people who are pointing the finger at must similars when the facts are not clear. >> lack of respect for a woman is not a religious problem. >> everyone says that this is something to do with muslims. i've been here for 30 years myself, and i've never seen anything like this. >> the german chancellor has warned any foreigner who is were involved in the crimes could now face depore pacing. pacingtation--deportation. . >> sinjar still sits deserted with the displaced feeling they just don't want to go back. >> for this family, the displaced yazidis, returning home would not even begin to help. >> if my people isn't there, i don't have the heart to return to sinjar. because my heart is broken. it's like an open wound. that salt was poured into. his daughter, daughter-in-law and grandson were taken. written on every face inside this tent are stores of u unrelenting pain, unbearable loss. his sister-in-la

it has been a big shock for local police in cologne and other cities where these attacks happened, to a lesser extent, such as stuttgart. police have many questions to answer to why they covered up these attacks for so long. we did not hear about them for a couple of days. police tweeted out on new year's day that they had had a quiet night. many questions for local authorities. it's a magazine you might not have heard of just one year ago, but today one million copies of a special edition of charlie hebdo has hit newsstands. it will be one year tomorrow since the islamist gunmen killed 17 people. thomas waterhouse reports. thomas: when you're on and charlie is still alive and kicking -- one year on and charlie is still alive and kicking. while the center and -- the satire and mockery might still be there, it is. the things have changed -- it is clear that things have changed. >> we had to create a new team and motivate them. thomas: charlie hebdo has had to type --ices, fight financial woes. it is a far cry from the buoyancy of the #jesuischarlie movement. the first issue printed aft