it less and that they would not stand in court and they would be rejected by the court now still dortch it bank unfortunately has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons lately and this isn't a nice headline either is this yet another disaster in the making well i've seen on this leave most of it most of the bad news and banks the shady dealings have been factored in by the markets and the bank the bank is trading at just a quarter of its book value to clearly investors are not very optimistic about the bank as of now having said that this is definitely an irritant for a bank which is actually trying to get its act together it's a blow to the reputation there are bound to be question as to why a bank of bankrolling businessmen that is donald trump out of bankruptcy when other banks including prominent u.s. banks would not even touch him so there are also questions about was there any money laundering that was involved and so there are many who even believe that donald trump wouldn't have been the president had it not been for the money or the loans given by virtue of bank ok i s

germans are split on the issue of high rents that's one of the main findings of the new dortch lunde. survey by german public broadcaster a r d the pollsters asked how big a problem is it to find an affordable. thirty three percent said it was a big or very big problem but thirty seven percent consider it a small problem or no problem when all the answers depend heavily on the size of the cities people live and in cities where fewer than one hundred thousand inhabitants only twenty nine percent think that finding an affordable flat is a big or very big problem but in cities with more than one hundred thousand inhabitants a solid forty eight percent think so among the protesters who came out today were members of a citizens' initiative who say the answer lies in reclaiming apartments from private investors and bringing back social housing. berliners are scrambling for affordable apartments in the capital and experienced this firsthand he shared a two room apartment with a housemate for six years but then the landlord announced he was planning to renovate the building after which the re

next stop a merger talks between germany's two biggest lenders dortch a bank of former aspiring calf been called off potential risks and restructuring costs were cited as the reasons well the deal was backed by germany's finance minister who wanted to create a so-called national banking champion but the idea was met with opposition critics fear the loss of some thirty thousand jobs. and here with me in the studio steven pressley from do you have even a set to where joining joins me now to dive a little deeper into this subject was this announcement a surprise i don't think so you know there is so much hesitancy on the part of so many stakeholders in this including the two banks themselves they really seem to drag their feet to sort of join their hands together at least for the talks there's so much political pressure around this and that's because it wasn't really a strategic merger that was being talked about these two banks didn't really need. each other didn't offer something one did offer something to the other that they didn't have it was more about a merger of survival it was r

unique european and transatlantic cooperation between four international public broadcasters alongside dortch about a voice of america in france media mullens the b.b.c. wants to see what could we build that where we'd be better and stronger together and you cheap is the kind of platform that rewards a bigger wider deep offer and audiences will come soon congregate around that so it really made sense to do this project together rather than separately. those launching the channel say they don't just want to tell younger turks about the world around them but hope plus ninety will become a home for debate. i hope that older young people here in turkey will watch us that it's very important to us that we're hitting a note in the turkish society and this of course we want to do with all what is needed for digital platforms for you to you tube and we want to do that with constructive journalism and every opinion minute matters to. few would disagree the world needs more safe places for different ideas and constructive journalism. you're watching t.w. news after a short break i'll be back to take yo

merger talks between germany's two biggest lenders dortch a bank and commits bank have been called off potential risks and restructuring costs was cited as reasons the deal was backed by jim hughes finance minister who wants to create a software nashton banking champion but the idea was met with opposition with critics fearing the loss of some thirty thousand jobs. a financial correspondent. is tracking that story he joins us now from frankfurt what gets more about why these talks collapse and what this means for deutsche and commits buying. well one group spokesman the group spokesman for the bank addressed journalists just a little bit of a while ago and he said that they had good talks and fair talks in a partnership kind of atmosphere but they both concluded that there was not enough added value considering also the risks involved risks like the capital base the deutsche bank probably would have had to raise capital in order to take over the coming out spunk or for example restructuring costs before you save costs by cutting jobs and cutting down the number of branches you need to

merger talks between germany's top to lend us are expected to face a possible tie up of dortch a bank and was met with stiff resistance from some major investors we go live to frankfurt for the natives. also coming up the second fails and rosy dish of foreign kicks off in beijing china wants to boost foreign investments in its project of the century but critics warn of beijing's debt trap diplomacy.

much for your reporting to some breaking news the largest talks between these two biggest lenders dortch a bank and commits bank have been called off potential risks and restructuring costs but cited as the deal it was backed by jim the finance minister who wanted to create a national banking champion but the idea was met with opposition with critics fearing the loss of some thirty pounds and jobs. now for more on the story our financial correspondent joins us from outside the door to bonn headquarters in franklin welcome only how much of a surprise was this last minute collapse of these large atoll. well the group spokesman of the deutsche bank just addressed journalists me included outside but dutch a bank tower here which were standing in front and he said that they had had six weeks of talks that were in a partner kind of atmosphere fair a good atmosphere and they'd taken a long time to look at the ups and downs the positives and negatives of this merger and it came to the conclusion that it wasn't in the interests of either bank and he stressed that there were all sorts of risks inv

the despair as a mirror of society that's what a nonprofit organization called dortch a soul dot org german soldier would like to see its chairwoman now the man who lives in hanover. she recently received her officers commission in the german navy the daughter of moroccan immigrants has served in the buddhist fair for fourteen years now. she refuses to tolerate discrimination in society and especially in the border spare. claggett the theme don't cost the rest you could remarks remarks about women and my background and about my religion. unfortunately there are some comrades like that but there are also others if you have to report those remarks and write a complaint and then you'll get a response. but you can't just swallow it and say that's the way it is. or if you do that you are accepting racism within the armed forces. just like outside the armed forces will be also crafter. more than nine million germans have immigrant roots. and in the fullness vary. of all is fair study shows that the proportion of soldiers with an immigrant background is actually higher than in the populatio