these origami swans were inspired by the fairy tales of danish writer comes under. lasers create the impression of northern lights in the sky. usually the park is closed between new year easter but since last year it's open in winter too especially for the like asked. the audience really react to this we have some. show where we can see that more and more people come during the evening and we can see this is the biggest growth of audience that we have is the evening the people say that they had a very good spirit and they talk about the lighting. the works of art can be admired in copenhagen until the end of february some of them like the installation or will even become a permanent fixture in the city. fabulous especially the origami. the royal opera house in london and by rights fresh field house have got a bit of a shock in store tobias' kurtz is on his why of course they know what to expect as a young german director is shaking up the offer same with his inability of and with productions and he's getting a new audience interested in what is sometimes perceived a

in northern europe the days ashore the nights are long and it's dark further north you go so the danish capital copenhagen has come up with a bright idea of an annual light festival to chase away the winter blues modern technology and talented light designers transformed the city at night into a kaleidoscope of light and color. lighting up the darkest weeks of the year in winter copenhagen turns into an open air gallery for light art installations by artists from denmark and many other parts of the world turn the danish capital into a tourist attraction in the cult isn't to. give them or shows more job at the theory. that they see in the book they're like and i really like it this time of year it's good to get out out see the lights and see the city and you know anything like this just a wonderful. danish night artist muds vegas hopes to beat the winter blues with eternal sun down the installation shines from sundown to sunrise in the port of copenhagen it's made up of more than one hundred forty neon strip lights it's this warm. in light for the for the city for the citizens of cold ma

inspired by the fairy tales of danish riser hunts christian andersen. blazes create the impression of northern lights of the sky. usually the park is closed between new year and easter but since last year it's open in winter too especially for the life festival. the audience really react to this we have some. survey we can see that more and more people come during the evening and we can see this is the biggest growth of audience that we have is that people say that they had a very good period and they talk about the lighting. the works of others can be admired in copenhagen until the end of february. some of them like the installation all families will even become a permanent fixture in this city. the passion house of dior is regarded as yes and so parisian chic and french designer christian dior became famous well wide for his optional and celts pitching no she had a great passion for all things british that's why the victoria and albert museum in london is honoring do your the lavish exhibition. christiane to your designer of dreams is the name of the

first to denmark in winter and there the sun only comes out every once in a while that's why the danish capital brings a little light into the darkness with a cup in the hague and like this dozens of installations are currently in human nature in the city my absolute favorite is an artwork consisting of over cans and bicycle parts hard to imagine take a look. lighting up the darkest weeks of the year in winter copenhagen turns into an open air gallery for light. installations by artists from denmark and many other parts of the world to turn the danish capital into a tourist attraction in the cold season two. is this there more shows more nothing in theory. a fantasy in the cup there heidi and i really like it this time of year it's good to get out see the lights through the city and you know anything like this just one of. the danish lined artists mess vegas hopes to beat the winter blues with eternal sundown the installation shines from sundown to sunrise in the port of copenhagen it's made up of more than one hundred forty neon strip lights. it's this warm. in light for the for the ci

more and more international people to denmark so you're an english language newspaper very much a danish paper in terms of your political social commentary on the state of denmark how would you assess the state of denmark at the present moment still in the way of life it's a very prosperous society a highly contented society according to surveys as there are things in the undergrowth that data should be worried about if you see what should we be worried about you can take the whole world has changed as i told you i've been working for the red cross and a few months after i started into it cause in the ninety's the wall for fell in germany and then we think now we have peace on earth and everybody was happy but i have never seen the world more full of board and terrible things than it had been for the last two tree is from the. denmark has an ideal society has a high standard of living high standard of public services but the other side with the danes are increasingly worried a bit high taxation or for that matter immigration into denmark that they know they know what they get for the tax

still to come this hour a danish national has been given a six year sentence for his affiliation to a banned group in russia. after this break. when almost sold something seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to say power just it becomes to educate and in gauge it equals betrayal. when some many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present. something. that you want to be this is what the korean people are. interested in milwaukee. they should. welcome back to the program in new york times opinion piece earlier this week has claimed controversially that corruption is hardwired into russian society and its very nature corruption is in russia's d.n.a. sharing is not the russian way. the pieces accompanied by a menacing photo of the mayor putin number of russian words are thrown in for dramatic effect to including those meaning lies and disinformation one however has been mistranslated as it means compromising material and not compromise the article and some of

banned in russia in twenty seventeen and has since been treated as an extremist organization the danish foreign minister has expressed his concern. deeply concerned by the sentencing of dennis christensen again calling on russia to respect freedom of religion the danish m.f.a. will continue to follow closely and assisted in its christensen should he decide to appeal this forty six year old jehovah's witness dennis christensen was arrested back in may two thousand and seventeen in the russian city of aureole and it was just a month after the russian law determined this us based jehovah's witness religion to be an extremist organization now the new law was tied to a number of incidences in which the religions followers for beta blood transfusions to their children ultimately leading to the death of several terminally ill children so the supreme court ordered the group to disband and confiscation of its property although christensen continued to use it to raise funds and to distribute literature so he was there for the first to be arrested under this new law and today his six year sentence

of an english speaking newspaper the copenhagen post a former creative communications of the danish red cross says he's been fighting for human rights for years on some of your chief executive officer of the copenhagen post a very unusual paper in the sense that publishes in english really to the ex-pat cleared population of denmark how did that come about. well it started twenty years ago when some. students came to denmark to study and they found out there was nothing in english here so they said they would release an english newspaper and they did that for about one year spend on the own money spent their parents' money and they were bankrupt and then they need to consult a lawyer to make them bankrupt this lawyer he had been the c.e.o. of one of the biggest paper in copenhagen for ten years so he thought this was a brilliant idea and he poured the paper for one krone and hired them again as directors and then he run it until two years ago when i together with some colleagues to go and the idea is danish news in english because it's very important when people live in denmark they hea

northern europe the days a short the nights are long and it's dark the further north you go so the danish capital copenhagen has come up with the bright idea of an annual light festival to chase away the winter blues modern technology and talented light designers transformed the city at night into a kaleidoscope of light and color. lighting up the darkest weeks of the year in winter copenhagen turns into an open air gallery for light art installations by artists from denmark and many other parts of the world turn a danish capital into a tourist attraction in the cult into. the more shows more government the theory. that they see in the book then i guess i'd really like it this time.

northern europe the days a short the nights are long and it's dark the further north you go so the danish capital copenhagen has come up with the bright idea of an annual light festival to chase away the winter blues modern technology and talented light designers transformed the city at night into a kaleidoscope of color. lighting up the darkest weeks of the year in winter copenhagen turns into an open air gallery for light art installations by artists from denmark and many other parts of the world turn a danish capital into a tourist attraction in the cult.

still to come this hour a danish national has been given a six year sentence for his affiliation to a bond investor. after this break. but holds his hands to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be. to the right to be press this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. they sit. as a presidential candidate donald trump lambasted america's endless and wasteful wars but as president he has surrounded himself with a division who have made defending and advancing american empire a full time career why did trump cave and what could be the consequences for him and his president. welcome back to the program a new york times opinion piece earlier this week has claimed controversially that the corruption is hard wired into russian society and its very nature. corruption is in russia's d.n.a. sharing is not the russian wait. the piece is accompanied by a menacing photo of la tamir putin a number of russian words thrown in for dramatic effect including those meaning li

of the opening film the kindness of strangers well i really like the director she's alone she's a danish director but she's best known for english language movies and education one day and what i find interesting about her is she sort of took quite disparaged the romantic comedy and she's given it real sort of intellectual and emotional have to be just sort of filler this film is interesting because it's a set in new york it's a first film set in america all the other films of europe and its stars because. andrea risperdal and it's basically the sort of romantic melodrama about people sort of falling out of the system so it's a bit of a social commentary but i know it's also got to be really really funny she always is able to meet makes the the sweet with the sour and give sort of pope sort of social commentary but still allow you to have a guitar while you're watching his she's a female director of gender representation you mentioned it's a really hot topic this year not surprisingly you know of course but you have to say berlin's the only of the big film festivals to really put its mon

more and more international people to denmark so you're an english language newspaper very much a danish paper in terms of your political social commentary on the state of denmark how would you assess the state of denmark at the present moment still in the way of life very prosperous society a highly contented society according to surveys as there are thing in the undergrowth the data should be worried about if you see what should we be worried about you can take the whole world has changed as i told you i've been working for the red cross and a few months after i started into it cause in the ninety's the wall for fell in germany and then we think now we have peace on earth and everybody was happy but i have never seen the world more full of a board and terrible things than it had been for us to a tree is from the. denmark is an ideal society has a high standard of living high standard of public services but the other side with the danes are increasingly worried the high taxation or for that matter immigration into denmark that they no know what they get for the tax the only the only peo

of delivery of public services some people say that that tension is going to come to the fore in danish politics and then this is what sure analysis of that island the problem is that. in these most primitive form is anybody's closer to himself and therefore they want to keep everything for themselves but history has learned us that if you pay for it advantage by taxations then when you needed to there even though you don't have any money so therefore. it has been a long fight from the one nine hundred twenty s. up to now to build up a system where you're sure if you're getting sick if you want to indication of things like that the money are there you can go to it you don't have to pay extra to get any of those services that society normally should provide. them a society of denise politics seems to be moving to the right senior members of the people's party it was seen the social democrats attacking the rate to try and make sure the breakthrough by the people's party and the government would that be unanimous there's a a trend to the right from this traditionally social democratic cons

when you think the nordic country of denmark you might think a vikings or danish american actor of hugo mortensen but now you will know it as a country who built a wall to keep out those dirty disease ridden belgian pigs thankfully they're talking about actual pigs here not belgian people say the country of denmark is constructing a twelve million dollar five foot high forty mile electric fence not called a wall along its border with belgium in an effort to keep the very large and valuable danish ping population safe from african swine flu which some wild boars in belgium have tested positive for how valuable are these danish pigs while not only does the country make about five billion dollars a year in egg exports to the e.u. and pigs outnumber danes by about two to one their national day is so easy keys to think is a special kind of roast pork and while some say the wall is hogwash since most white and flu spread by humans many feel that hamstringing farmers with that risk. isn't it worth the risk and i'm stringing farmers hard while you're on fire you're all fire about as a result ri

it sees 2019 net income at 14 billion to 16 billion danish krone.quarter comes in 5.9 billion danish krone. a slight beat on the estimate. quarter netth income or fourth-quarter net income comes in at 2.4 2 billion danish krone. that is a beat. the things in focus going into this were aside from danske bank's efforts to cope with the money laundering scandal, margin pressure and guidance regarding and higherconomy short-term rates. it has lost half its value in the last year and missed out on the recovery in bancshares. danske bank saying the estonia case impacted customer numbers, but the top lines here, no buyback program initiated in 2019. fourth-quarter net income comes in at a beat. the full-year net income comes in at a beat as well. let's check on the markets in asia. juliette saly has more. we are starting the month with a little bit of a mixed picture here. it certainly is. january was the best month for asian stocks since march 2016. china closing out ahead of the lunar new year holiday. on a positive note, not surprising you are seeing mo

a russian quarter sentence a danish jehovah's witness to six years in jail dennis christiansen it was found guilty of organizing the activities of a banned extremist group after the religion was banned in russia he denies the allegations the danish government escort on russia to respect freedom of religion. tire parties have said that a refugee footballer fighting extradition to the could remain in jail until august while his case is decided. was arrested in thailand in november by visiting from australia where he has refugee status he could face a long jail term if extradited to behaving. the catholic church has been hit by yet another abuse scandal for the first time pope francis has the knowledge the thai ranking members of the clergy have sexually abused and raped nuns francis admitted suspending priests and bishops for abusing women and promised to do more to get the problem up to now the vatican has done almost nothing to address the crimes campaigners say the reports are protected by a culture of silence and secrecy. nuns throughout the world abused and even held as sexual slav

of a banned extremist group after the religion was banned in russia he denies the allegations the danish government has called on russia to respect freedom of religion. human rights group amnesty international has accused the united arab emirates of providing western arms to yemeni. militias in a report the group says amorality forces received billions of dollars worth of arms from western states and siphoned them off to militias in yemen that have been committing war crimes amnesty also says countries like australia france germany and the us were involved in the trade and urges them to stop supplying arms to the conflict. all right with me now is patrick wilkinson the arms control and human rights researcher at amnesty international a very warm welcome sir now amnesty accuses the u.a.e. of diverting arms to militia in yemen arms supplied by western states like germany so are germany's arms sales and directly fueling the conflict there. well i think we've long argued that all states including germany to this line almost to the coalition including the last arab emirates are complicit. in

of american and european actors but suddenly you had like this cop from buffalo new york he had a danish accent i mean being a little bit harsh i know i found it quite funny thing while i liked it brian i would still recommend that you go check it out i wanted i wanted to like the characters they were sweet but i just couldn't bring myself to print i know it's tough it's tough david i feel for you i know well we know that every barrel a dollar every year you know we hear that the berlin wall is special. and it is but here is different what's special about this year's bailing out. was it special and this year particularly because it's the last year that the path was directed to cut slick everyone it's very sad to see him go he's a huge figure here on the red carpet beyond that more serious stuff you could argue is the fact that they were really trying to deal with the issue of representation here at this festival and they have decided to choose seven films for competition all of the seventeen that are competing to have female directors that's a huge deal that's costly it's parting gift so

and it's a woman who's picking off the movie marathon danish director alone will open the festival with a film the kindness of strangers in it she tells the story of a group of people who meet during a cold york winter. and the anyone since for years now. this year's been out a set of brits women festival director due to a costly excess it's a reaction to the gender equality paint. that julie. of course this is partially a result of the ongoing debate departed the our views have expanded and we're learning to question things. but i have to stress that we didn't include any films where we weren't convinced of the quality from the. german films are also well represented at. one powerful entry is by prize winning director. in the golden glow if you profiles a notorious serial killer. this man will be lending the festival some hollywood christian base playing former u.s. vice president dick cheney the biographical finn presents him as a poet hungry politician really intelligence brief for the president gets a sense of the decision proof. understanding that banty not his main venue the red c

with a lot in what out of cools it is the female director opening up the festival this year she's danish name is known as shafi she is stream the critically acclaimed she's been nominated for three oscars in her career and has won one of ballad not is very coveted silver bad as well you know i have to say given that and i loved her movie and education which was nominated for best picture at the oscars back in two thousand and ten i was really prepared to love this movie i have to say i did not i found it pretty contrived it was a little bit like if you took love actually i mean it really threw in some homelessness and still night and some. respect and some spousal abuse and beyond that what was what could have been really cool about this film for me was there was a good mixture of american and european actors but suddenly you had like this cop from buffalo new york he had a danish accent i mean being a little bit harsh i know i found it quite believing while i liked it right i would still recommend that you go check it out i want to i wanted to like the characters they were sweet but i j

when you think of the nordic country of denmark you might think of vikings or danish american actor vigo mortons then but now you will know it as a country who built a wall to keep out those dirty disease ridden belgian pigs thankfully they're talking about actual pigs here not belgian people so the country of denmark is constructing a twelve million dollars five foot high forty mile electric fence not called a wall along its border with belgium in an effort to keep the very large and valuable danish pin population safe from african swine flu which some wild boar as the country make about five billion dollars a year and worth to the e.u. and pigs outnumber danes by about two to one their national dish so i use key is a special of roast pork and while some say the wall is hogwash since most wind flu is spread by humans many feel that hamstringing farmers with that risk. isn't it worth the risk am stringing farmers hard was no fire your old fire about as a result river better when the red one in this world would not hold the real love love so i tell you all i love you i am tired and up hav

a russian court a sentence a danish victims to six years in jail dennis christiansen was found guilty of organizing the activities of a banned extremist group after the religion was banned in russia he denies the allegations the danish government has called and russia to respect freedom of religion. not a controversy over european merger the european commission has just blocked a plan to tie up between german engineering giant siemens and france's storm the two companies were set to merge their real b. of businesses to enable them to take on bigger foreign rivals in a rare move the e.u. antitrust office rejected the plan what it calls serious competition concerns. these two companies had. planned to share a single track on the left is the i.c.e. from zeman and on the right the french t.g.v. train from our stop the german and french corporations as well as their governments are on board with the merger together they want to stand up to the chinese industry leader and that c r r c with an estimated annual turnover of twenty four billion euros togethers evens and oust them would have ach

the estimate was stronger, 7.4 2 billion danish krone. are seeing a beat on some of and is going to buy back its own shares up to 2.2 billion danish krone. i will be speaking to the pandora cfo later in the show. looking forward to that interview. earnings season for the banking sector in europe, the lenders say the painful cocktail of margin pressure, revenue slippage, and bad debt cleanup. they expect a bumpy ride. here is dani burger with what to expect. dani: we will kick into high gear on wednesday. they are expecting double-digit declines in fixed income trading. we also get ing. despite settlements they had over money laundering. banks getting their say. it is normally a haven, we can see four cells on here, will he be immune to the difficult fourth-quarter. that is in question at this moment. soc-gen has some of the worst analyst ratings this week. it has already warned of a 20% slide in global markets revenue, so potentially tumultuous trading once that stock opens on thursday. finally, unicredit getting high marks, will be close

method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more and one mentor your friend and we visit a danish community and you have taken sustainability to new heights just over there on the horizon is some so i do it there are officially one hundred percent renewable and. we get back so this is it that's the energy right here it's a. check on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories this hour says he is a no rush for a nuclear deal with north korea as he meets kim jong un on the second and final day of the vietnam summit and pledged to make every effort for a positive outcome. from a lawyer has told a congressional hearing he believes the u.s. president is racist con man and a cheat. and made several accusations against the president including that he personally ordered hush money payments republicans say cohen's testimony lacked credibility and pakistan's prime minister munk on is calling for a dialogue after both india and pakistan say they shot down each other's fighter jets as ahmed says it's downed two indian planes and captured a pilot and d.s.s. it shot down one pa

of the extra capacity and an event of no deal is pervaded by it to foreign countries, french and danish provided, they were always going to be the two companies to try and relieve the pressure on dover, so any sense, the c—1 freight may partly be there because it's badged as a british company even though there's an irish company behind and it looks as though there was capacity in the country to help out as well and that no longer is the case now, but it doesn't leave much time to put something as a place, because as you know there is expressed either as to whether ramsgate will be ready in time and the dredging has to take place and also recently, doesn't charge at the point and other areas were saying they may not have capacity by that march of 29 for extra service as well so i think we see of course more emphasis on trying to get a dl rather than ending up with no deal andi rather than ending up with no deal and i think they'll will be frantic event activity next week to try and bring it about. many thanks. the owner of topshop paid a female employee more than £1 million to keep quiet

reopening of a religious school could help and a bit to dispute between greece and turkey plus a danish man has just been sentenced to six years in a russian prison his crime being a jehovah's witness i'm richelle is in moscow and keep watching to find out more on the crackdown on a religious organization that in russia is classed as extremist. once again that disturbed wintry weather set to continue across the middle east a bit more cloud and rain rolling in the sort of the main pushing into the levant syria lebanon jordan right down across israel saying some rather wet weather is a go on through the next couple of days that thickening cloud will bring some downpours and the possibility of some localized flooding in parts of the mountains says seeing some snow that's the on the cars could see some snow to some right over towards see the hindu kush sprite disguise coming back into kabul the day four degrees celsius and that states will miss you going into friday into the low twenty's for karate meanwhile by friday thickening cloud will make its way across iraq into iran and it's bringin

a danish man has just been sentenced to six years in a russian prison his crime being a drivers witness are breach islands in moscow and keep watching to find out more on the crackdown on a religious organization that in russia is classed as extremist. summit with north korea more promises to build a border war with mexico and a celebration of diversity in the u.s. congress has given his second state of the union address calling for more unity while at the same time warning democrats against investigating his administration mike hanna reports from washington. that the state. that the president of the united states. might just change in the stream since president trump a month spoke here sitting next to the vice president a new speaker nancy pelosi has been locked in a power struggle with the president since the democratic party took over the house and acknowledging this the president called for political i together we can break decades of political stalemate. we can bridge all divisions. heal old wounds build new coalitions but on the issue that led to the partial shutdown most sign of

what's call your art the opening film for a start the kindness of strangers that's called by danish director lone a share. it's a modern day fairy tale about outsiders who cross paths in a new york restaurant ok and mr jones enough to choose another film by star polish director agnieszka holland it's about a journalist who travels to moscow in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and discovers the myth behind the communist utopia ok for the moment thank you let's have a look at. from the ok so you. see. i'm on my way to marco now that i've been trying to reach you so we're coming here . again this time arranging an interview with please tell me you know way go through what we do around here you see a secret. prison on. the phone i read. something. like. paul. paul. you know what i ate oh. ok that cup of films accomplished what about other ones in the panorama section there is a film called flatland by jennifer cobe asked which tells the story of three very different women in south africa who embark on a journey of self discovery. the images here. and we've talked about being female directo

of 4.5g a share buyback billion danish rona. the 40 a dividend per share, 18 danish krone. 17.08.et's talk about the organic growth. mid-single-digit percentage in operating profit and for your organic volume growth. the estimate was a drop of 2.2%. is that a significant feat? up 6.5%. i could bring you the net income number as well for carlsberg at 5.3 one billion damage to. let's recap the softbank headlines just before we got to the air. numbers coming through as soft take is to buy back up to 10.3% of shares. that is the key lines of focus on. the red headline on the bloomberg and it is the by that with proceeds of the mobile unit. another unit coming through. atrd quarter operating ¥438.29 billion. 237.stimate was that is a significant beat on third quarter appraising income for softbank, to buy back up to 10.3% of the shares. funding that would proceeds of the mobile unit on apo. if we take a look at soft take at the moment, it is not moving a huge amount. not a huge impact. we also bring you ing. thick and fast on the early morning in daybreak. ing, i am looking that for yo

a danish man has just been sentenced to six years in a russian prison his crime being over his witness on the rich islands of moscow and keep watching to find out more on the crackdown on a religious organization that in russia is classed as extremist. and i don't trump says he expects a formal announcement as early as next week but the coalition fighting are still has reclaimed all of the territory previously held by the group the u.s. president was speaking at a summit of the global coalition set up to battle the group in iraq and syria. the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate. in the summit yes extra state might pump a insisted that the united states would play a leading role in the fight against us so despite the planned withdrawal of troops from syria just a few weeks ago in cairo i reiterated america's commitment to stepping out isis an