even has its own ambassador the dresden stolen girl. i may offer you or the little ones a piece of stone and one of my friends. with the big one that. you like. so saying the beneath them. is thing is this thing something which only. it sure is stolen has the longest history of all german christmas treats it was first mentioned in a document in fourteen seventy four. and original dresden was stolen contains lots of butter and a variety of dried fruit like candide lemon and orange peel those last two ingredients are the subject of an anecdote related by tino geary an expert stolen baker who's making us an authentic dresden stolen. with a bit outside in east germany during the eighty s. there were supply shortages playing in this case the use of green tomatoes to substitute for candid lemon peel it wasn't bad but even they tasted like the real in this piece make it support. nowadays these kinds of substitution is are strictly prohibited. but the basic ingredients have been established for centuries. and the society for the protection of d

platform one and dresden central station is the starting point for the culture trying to progress on board some important players marion ackerman heads the dressed in state art collections and the poet. whose love for prague way back. i'm a passionate train writer because there's no need better place or time to read. told me how in a porton check literature and how important kafka and prague have been for him. and so kind by and gives a reading from his book the years at the zoo a memoir that also recounts a trip to prague. the site of the gravestone sunk obliquely into the earth and the thought of the legend of rabbi lerner who created the gollum and again up small stones have been placed on the graves according to jewish cemetery customs. in total the culture train is due to roll four times between dresden and the czech capital at times it will feature czech artists it's the start of a series of collaboration between the dresden state art collections and proulx national gallery and we plan to start exchanging the works from our collections like when the prague national galleries tr

will feature czech artists it's the start of a series of collaboration between the dresden state art collections and proulx national gallery and we plan to start exchanging the works from our collections like when the prague national galleries trade fair palace is renovated starting in two thousand and twenty our prague colleagues have generously offered to loan us these collections of important works while their galleries closed. the train takes two and a half hours to reach prague the listeners are won over by the culture express its release on you weren't usually on a train when you go to a reading the whole atmosphere is a wonderful. travel this way and a jump back and forth in a literary way between these two cities an inspiration that. caucus rug is a great city and all these people crossing the border should be done against. the culture train will be shuttling between the two sit is another three times they swear into. now when it comes to austrian cruising there is more to it than just schnitzel at least that's according to an austrian restaurant owner right here in berlin jo

my refugee solidarity meeting is in the technical school of the university of dresden.he first paper in germany it's for the arabic speakers here the newcomers and settled also but we have a lot of followers on facebook where fifty thousand people and. there is no r.c. translation right now for us i mean we are group of syrian and arabs so we don't speak first unfortunately. these activists are well intentioned but dealing with arab refugees is as new to them as dealing with german activists is for me on one side there was one of these stupid questions which came up always in the newspapers chain begin to discussions how much money does a refugee get already or if you're rich it gets more money. than a halt. to its person hurts for receivers our welfare recipients they give their claims that the german government spends more money on the refugees than on the poor german the fact is refugees and hurts for recipients both get four hundred euros per person per month. he still has no money and he still can't move you can. say the state says it needs no they called. it's mon

he is shoveling sensitive documents into a furnace in dresden.o him it was a moment, not just of state collapse, which is tragic for him. because he is such a status. but also of humiliation. profound personal humiliation. national humiliation. that is all tied up with the idea of state of preventing its collapse. you are right. see yourself as victims. countries as victims. all of it its to, to, kind of deflect that feeling. and to make people think that actually, they're stronger than they are. >> it's extraordinary, the two most strong countries in the world, including china. let me just take that a little further. i want to play devil's advocate here. obviously you talk, you have written something that we do know. that, putin is often said in 2007, a world order controlled by a single country has nothing in common with democracy. and he notes, the current order was both unacceptable and ineffective. he didn't like the fact that the u.s. was now the only -- super power. but, don't you think he is actually been very successful, in marshaling th

precisely what you did in dresden in germany.bed dresden back to the stone age. if lebanon shoots tens of thousands of missiles on my mother's home or where i live, definitely we will retaliate. i think anyone would common sense would do that and we do it it strong. hopefully we won't reach that because lebanon realises that it's not worth their while. i want to be clear. we are not looking for any conflict, we are happy as things the way they are. we are not owing to initiate any conflict. you said not so long ago, my approach is to hold iran itself more and more accountable for its actions. so what are we to expect in the coming weeks, months? are we to expect a direct military confrontation between israel and iran? no, that is not necessary. what i am saying is that we have a big bully in the region called iran. it's sending tentacles all around us, in gaza through hamas, in lebanon through hezbollah and in syria through its proxies. you know, khamenei is very tough, he is willing to kill others to fight israel. he is willing

everyone and now van are upon thoughts he is a professor of political science in dresden he's a leading researcher in the country when it comes to populism and populist trends in politics here it's good to have you on the day let's talk about the far right party they had a sharp strong showing in the national election they're now the third largest force in parliament are these talks tonight to possibly form a new government are they really aimed at ensuring that the far right doesn't become even more powerful well as a mentor effect a grand coalition with leave open free space for the a if it's the right wing of the political spectrum and see if laura a great coalition will be quite beneficial for the a.f.p. so if there's oh should democrats want to fight against the if the they should not enter a grand coalition but our top politicians are so concerned with a stable government that they are willing to pay the price for this grand coalition and form off giving kind of a life insurance through to a fifty i mean mr broad so that's quite a strong indictment that you're making there about w

he is shoveling sensitive documents into a furnace in dresden.o him it was a moment, not just of state collapse, which is tragic for him. because he is such a status. but also of humiliation. profound personal humiliation. national humiliation. that is all tied up with the idea of state of preventing its collapse. you are right. see yourself as victims. countries as victims. all of it its to, to, kind of deflect that feeling. and to make people think that actually, they're stronger than they are. >> it's extraordinary, the two most strong countries in the world, including china. let me just take that a little further. i want to play devil's advocate here. obviously you talk, you have written something that we do know. that, putin is often said in 2007, a world order controlled by a single country has nothing in common with democracy. and he notes, the current order was both unacceptable and ineffective. he didn't like the fact that the u.s. was now the only -- super power. but, don't you think he is actually been very successful, in marshaling th

we spoke with a professor at the dresden technical university who believes the e.u. will have to reconcile itself with a new coalition government in austria. west european governments take any significant actions against this new or strong government because on the one hand rajan populism has been growing in all these countries and the self-confidence of europe centrist and leftist governments has been shattered by this rise off rightwing populism and on the other hand the form a coalition between the p. and the. did not harm to europe north goes through nor were they any policy stake which are contradictions to humanitarian and rule of law standards in the european union to full european governments don't see any reason for harsher strictures and even sanctions right now. and saying in austria where a local has unexpectedly fallen foul of the infamous burqa ban in the country the man was pulled over by police in vienna as his white beard was covering most of his face. the law on concealing faces has been enforced in austria now since october but the santa in questio

proportionality you know in war there is no proportionality and would you please ask those who bombed to dresden at the second world war so this is one point to take into account the other thing is the habit of palestinians to use tel means including bumping kidnapping airplanes and then complain about the really knowledgeable person i sponsor this is. yes of course fox all what we see now in the territories is permanent incitement for people to come and convert israelis and even the last. we saw when they explain to their children children you know what i mean teenagers to to throw stones on the israeli passengers innocent people in cars and they say don't underestimate the stones it's a fossil damage please throw stones on the israelis and well there is really here there's an answer back lesson it's not it's not pope arsenal this is this is our are not right to govern are going to have a debate it has to be based on fact. i know i got i guess i haven't heard a thing what i said there's sort of i guess you have no right to say you don't know you know you know it's not in the study you have to.

missiles today the more killed in the fire bombing of dresden or during the second world war in the paddy fields of vietnam is that fair well certainly that's that's true although it depends on what the strategy is so for example then korea. in one nine hundred fifty fifty three we basically leveled the whole of north korea. with strategic bombing that was intentional act and it was called in fact in those days it was called terror bombing. so it depends on what the military is actually trying to do but it's true that the technology is better today but i think the results of bombing the actual consequences on the ground for strategy. has not measured up to this so-called precision that is the reason we even have an islamic state kind of phenomenon is because of the toll that was exacted in the iraq war beginning in two thousand and three that is this is a reaction to the remarkable devastation brought on by that invasion and occupation as your eighteen month investigation covered both the end of the obama presidency and the beginning of the trump presidency all things worse under trump in

. - [rodney] for 24 years now, this amazing pageantry has been coordinated by paula dresden.ing, actually in june. is it an outreach of the church or? no, it started as an independent and the first night we did this, 10,000 people came. so i said to my husband, "this works." - [jann] how would you describe how it has evolved from that first year to today? well, we were dressed that first year, bath robes and we had angels standing on top of a manger but there was no choreography. we were pretty motley crue, i have to say. you're just trying to really recreate that first christmas night. i wanna show the context with when the messiah was born. he was born into a jewish family, into a jewish community. we have a lot of jews who come to visit bethlehem and i'm very happy about that because i feel that judaism is the foundation of christianity. everything hits your senses at once. we have music and dancing and synagogue going, marketplace, census takers. kids are like, can't believe it. they roam around, look at everything. - [jann] we couldn't wait to be a real part of this nigh

cities burning would have lofted in firestorms not ordinary fires but as in hiroshima or tokyo or dresdenat would loft the smoke and soot by tens of millions of tons into the stratosphere where it wouldn't rain out. it would be for over a decade and it would lower the sun's temperatures on the earth, the sunshine, by about 70%. >> brangham: that's an agricultural holocaust. >> all the harvests would be killed for years basically and everyone nearly everyone would starve. >> brangham: in 1961, as a young consultant to the secretary of defense, ellsberg remembers being shocked after seeing a top secret document estimating how millions of people would be killed with a u.s. nuclear strike on the soviets. >> and when i held that piece of paper in my hand. the word in my mind was evil. evil. this should not exist. this was the operational plan annually for the joint chiefs of staff that had been approved by general eisenhower. and i thought: there shouldn't be anything in the world that corresponds to this. but there has been then and ever since. >> brangham: your book documents many of the mis

and that should, i think, remind us a little bit when we worry about dresden -- we should, it was a barbaric fire bombing or the bombing of japan, the dropping of atomic bombs -- it was still if you look at the 27 million killed in russia, the 16 million probably in china, the 8-9 million in eastern europe, it was still the story of people who said they were the greatest warriors in the world, and yet they killed 50 million people who couldn't defend themselves and took on three major powers that pretty much not just defeated, but annihilated them, humiliated them and ended their way of existence within two and a half years. final thoughts, when you look at the war of the people that participate, i had a little different take. the british, we always say, was the weak link because the british empire was in decline. united states would rise. britain, remember, was the only country to fight the first day of the war and the last day. no other belligerent or ally did that. the only country that went to war saving poland not just because it was a surprise attack or a surprise attack in another cou

i love adam driver as kylo dresden. i love kelly wawrn. the cinematography.cal effects and cgi masterfully. those are the positives for the last jedi. now we have to get to the negatives; unfortunately we have to get to the negatives here. in my opinion the first act of this movie is way too slow. did i not like the direction they took luke sky walker. in my opinion at the end of episode 7 we see this scene when ray walks up to leukemileukemia luke skywalk up. hes did not need to be a grumpy, unnecessarily comedic character. that was a really, really poor direction in my opinion to go with that particular scene. also, it just didn't feel at the end of the movie i wanted to see another episode. at the end of episode 7 i couldn't wait for 8. steve: how many stars. ainsley: you really like it. how many stars? >> i gave it a 3.5 out of 5. it's a stylish "star wars" film not a great "star wars" film. it's 2 and a half hours. you will enjoy yourself. i just didn't love it as much as the force awakens. i will say empire strikes back. new hope. return of the jedi, fo