that was due in part to some fine goalkeeping from dresden. in the second half, they got involved in an ill-advised scuffle. he could have been sent off for this and was lucky to escape with a warning. that ratcheted up the intensity of an already hard-fought encounter. dresden fought back. then the goalkeeper had a lapse in judgment with 12 minutes remaining. dresden were rewarded with a deserved equalizer. >> at the women's european soccer championship in sweden, germany have taken another step in their campaign to win a six title in a row -- win a sixth title in a row. they beat italy, 1-0. germany will now play host to sweden in the semifinals on wednesday. you are watching dw. you will find more online at dw.de. keep watching. >> at the start of the week, officials at the panama canal seized a north korean flight -- freighter after it was found to have -- to be carrying undeclared weapons. government claimed it was sending the weapons to north korea for repairs. later in the week, panama asked the united nations to investigate whether the

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virtually inside city limits of berlin and so he changed his mind and directed his armies towards dresden, to the southeast in order to cut germany in half. in retrospect i think it was entirely the right decision, the british were not happy with it, churchill in particular believed there should have been an effort to push to berlin, but 70 years later, that decision holds on really well. >> host: walking piper speaking of the battle of the bulge. >> guest: he was a lieutenant colonel. he was the point of the experience the attack that began in december 16th, 1944. his task was to lead an armored column through the american defense and get to the news river and help capture bridges across the news and proceed on to m 4, cute important belgian port, piper was quite sophisticated, spoke english, spoke french, had two brothers who had been killed in the war, very intelligent, utterly ruthless and so what we find with piper's column, they're finding difficulties right from the get go on december 16th, the timetable is disrupted, things are moving slower than they're supposed to be moving, he

parts of it look like dresden from motown to let down in 50 years you have got to blame the democratsing to try to tell you kwame kilpatrick is an old irish politician on the republican side. but the fact is the dems ran that into the ground. >> bill: yes, they drvettle they sucked it dry like gordon gecko, wanted to suck blue star airlines dry before he got busted. and now they are going to try to get out of it it's a heart break. i have got detroit comedian friends like dave coule, mike binder, tim allen, they speak so highly of it. it yields a cat like kid rock it must have good stuff in it. but the dems ran it into the ground. >> bill: at one time it was a working class town as everybody knows because of the auto industry. the unions came in. and the democratic machine came. in then the drugs came. in and the drugs really wiped out the minority community, working class community, the crime went through the roof. but they stole, miller, the politicians stole and stole and stole and stole and then people started moving out and there was no tax base left and now it's collapsed. and t