german morale is starting to break. the german armies being defeated. its own offensive has contributed to this breakdown of german morale, just as the french offensive had led to a breakdown of the french army's morale. way, has what the amounts to a collapse from a nervous breakdown, because he realizes that the war is now lost. foch, recognizing that the tables are now turned, doesn't want to just take the offensive back to the front lines where started,n offensive but wants to continue the offensive, pushing the germans back to germany. he begins what he calls the greatest of all battles in the world. american, british, french armies attack all along the lines, from the channel all the way down to alsace-lorraine. and it enough american troops are trained and ready to go. the allies are supported by a great ill of manufactured munitions. this is a grayish munitions plant. -- this is a british editions itish -- this is a br munitions plant. producing weapons needed, the firepower needed to break the german army on the offensive. the germans are facin

the unified german empire.and the german unification has been a change and we have an emperor on deck kaiser. but there's still one man whom he has to convince. all. rusting watches look big think of my ancestors were satisfied with king of prussia island your majesty surely doesn't wish to remain a mere cypher in the new german empire to be just a sort of chairman. fishback if i declare myself willing to become empress i wish to have the title and author of germany definitely not german and comes from star trek i said. i am i use your majesty the princes will never accept an emperor of germany they would fear that your majesty might want to rule and without them seem. so sure what am i just to be a figurehead the title of german emperor is an exceptional doctor kaiser. is enough to stop. the smuggling in bismarck was always of the opinion that you have to use gentle formulations to push through tough policies it wasn't about the title german emperor there were german is an adjective in this sense that emperor

learn german with w anytime anyplace. and interact. german to. learn german. w. oh and a warm welcome to a new edition of kino from the beautiful last cinema in downtown belgrade coming up on the show german intellectuals as terrorist sympathizers a new documentary on the shadow of political terror in the one nine hundred seventy s. and face to face with german films a new generation of german directors take a pill and history make it into a memorable movie. fifty years ago in one hundred sixty eight student protests heralded a social revolution in its wake some radicalized young germans took up arms against the state the red army faction's terrorist campaign shook germany to its core a new documentary shows how the authorities blanket suspicion of left wing intellectuals led to deep rifts in german society director felix muller also gets his own mother and stepfather both famous political filmmakers themselves to open up about their actions at the time. you'll hear us. mother and son on their journey into their hearts back to the years of terror and then nine hu

and face to face with german film a new generation of german directors take the good and history and make it into a memorable movie. fifty years ago in one hundred sixty eight student protests heralded a social revolution in its wake some radicalized young germans took up arms against the state the red army faction's terrorist campaign shook germany to its core a new documentary shows how the authorities blanket suspicion of left wing intellectuals led to deep rifts in german society director felix muller also gets his own mother and stepfather both famous political filmmakers themselves to open up about their actions at the time. and through. mother and son on a journey into the past back to the years of tara in the one nine hundred seventy s. i don't want to mention for other photos of her and all of. the run simulation i've done in the new dr. millikan francis mother with her past actions and views and poses difficult questions. yet mean by trauma but he wouldn't have done this for other filmmakers. that type of but this was a very emotional time with many painful memories. from o

the arrival of the german knights creates a sense of unity in italy but in light of german superiority most northern italian city has opened their gates sensibly it only the people of man are resolute in standing up to the german and proud will. my hands and i have easier from a land was a huge city of god say my land had a population of a hundred thousand at the time an enormous city fog bigger than anything in germany once i lined these einsatz dimiter that if you're new to clara and that was precisely why bother also had to have this total victory under his belt in order to prove his imperial position of the tide of four eggs on an album there for advice and condoms and impairing our deposits your own advice or. this siege of man goes on for months after heavy fighting the city and non-body is finally forced to surrender unconditionally. one of the most flourishing said his of the west is burned to the ground the citizens of man can save only their lives and whatever they can carry at the height of his power frederick shows no less a. piece of my land the mule because these people o

ruler made his position on luthor clear since the king of the germans didn't speak german he composed it in french. how many fish do you understand what he's saying. you don't need to understand french to know he has it in for lou those are built on the top and the lick in those boys to sign if you concerned about him he dated thirty feet soma. whatever the empress ponders can only end one way off. with me. you know he wants to see luther burns. to do that he has to get in photoshop he studied this up. in the edict of forms charles the fifth declared luther and me of the church and state he held a previously issued guarantee of safe conduct but as soon as it expired loose it was to be arrested and punished would it come to that. set off to return to that and back but the journey was interrupted. what was dot com says he got. yes and i know who they're hunting too. deep in the woods foresman ambush luther's carriage. monkey goads they don't want you. luthor had been briefed on the plan what looked like a kidnapping was in fact a rescue operation. to prevent the implementation of the ed

how do they view the german film. parts of the german film scene is more exciting than ever perhaps because we are slowly moving towards a gender balance in terms of men and women making films in germany but there are also more and more people with a migrant background making films the diversity of german society is increasingly reflected in german film would be in towards the fear of the toilets mechanics and the great thing is that you can't say german film as this or german film is that that's not exciting there are different german voices and this is now being recognised abroad. the german filmmakers are upbeat but one of the themes women directors have been coming more to the fore. about for example the latest film and critical acclaim it was set in a man's world and follows german construction workers in bulgaria. it's over the. family out half is a german french iranian filmmaker from berlin she often places have female figures in extreme situations he's here. recently stopped at. dozens of officers too many do

i am not fluent in german by any means i took german in high school but i. i just forgot it over the years and you know german beer i love german beer so that's that's all i learned to ask i just said but the. the hub of your new album is called pray for wickets why is it called franklin week and that's how i felt i was feeling a little defeated politically i feel there's a lot of wickedness going around and the only cure is not just prayer but physical action so my prayer is my meditation i'm not praying to any specific god i'm praying to myself that how can i make a change let's meditate on this i hurt you have paper rolling tick so i do like you're old timey piece of paper i do would you like to see in your pocket right you have to show me this is a receipt from last night you can see it's perfectly rolled up like a little scroll on e yeah i just sit there and roll paper it's like a it's like a meditative process as i'm having a conversation or i'm having a beer or something i i tend to just roll pieces of paper i see many things there is a writer i didn'

the chief executive of german.

and face to face with german film a new generation of german directors take popular and history i would make it into a memorable movie. fifty years ago in one hundred sixty eight student protests heralded a social revolution in its wake some radicalized young germans took up arms against the state the red army faction's terrorist campaign shook germany to its core a new documentary shows how the authorities blanket suspicion of left wing intellectuals led to deep rifts in german society director felix muller also gets his own mother and stepfather both famous political filmmakers themselves to open up about their actions at the time. mother and son into the past back to the years of tara in the one nine hundred seventy s. . and also. the run. in the new dr. confronts his mother with her past actions and. difficult questions. you have seen probably wouldn't have done this for other filmmakers. that type of it this was a very emotional time with and painful memories. from outliving other no woman. left when tara police clampdowns assassinations and simplify since the seventy's were divisi

from now on empire was part of german history sometimes as a unifying force between the german nobility pushing for autonomy sometimes as a trigger for war and division but the notion of empire united the germans across borders and religion after the end of the holy roman empire of the german nation in the early nineteenth century. mythical notion of empire was revived in eight hundred seventy one in the second empire of the kaiser's. hitler's third highest tried to appropriate the regalia for itself but in the end germany faced the mockery of the victorious allies. the ruler from the saxon nobility was now king of the germans king of italy and holy roman emperor. he was called the darling of the world and the head of the whole globe. i am. his challenges grew with his empire. otto felt drawn to italy the saxon and his warriors like the south. otto and his entourage spent ten years in italy where they had to assert themselves against powerful opponents against italian princes byzantines and arabs. are and the long absence from the land of his birth was seen as the king since. it was sai

of german society.and between new immigrants will find more than a refuge. but for those of us who wish to remain. will one day become a. welcome back we'll look at the americas this time we have a very active cold front stretching away down across canada and through into the mid atlantic region of the united states is active all the way down so some severe storms particular across more northern areas and see the change in wind direction the southerly ahead of it the northerly behind it and the frontal system itself will head towards the eastern seaboard as we head on through into monday and you see a big drop in temperatures for new york highs of just fifteen degrees or quite a change that compare with recent days largely fine across the florida potential maxima thirty one in miami and it should be fine across much of the west coast with eighteen the high in san francisco down into central parts of america we still have this massive cloud extending all the way from the isthmus through towards our weste

the german national team is coming to russia as defending champs the german economy also has a title to defend we are still the leading foreign economic presence here with five thousand companies and that number includes re how much has installed pipes under the pitches and almost every world cup stadium in russia. has lots of experience playing turf heaters drains and runoff systems and stadium sink looting in europe in munich and in doesn't offer equally important as our service without which it would be impossible to provide for the russian market. on site service gives german firm bosch an important competitive advantage it operates a facility on the edge of moscow with its security climate and heating technology is integrated in all of russia's world cup stadiums most of its machinery is imported. everyone here trusts technology from germany and german engineering. but it's put together here in russia according to standards. it apply here in russia german exports to russian twenty seventeen rose by twenty percent approval thanks to the world cup this year could see another fifte

people want to buy german cars they should be able to buy german cars if not they want to buy american cars they should buy american cars and should buy whatever they want i think they're good quality cars. a little more expensive maybe an american course but probably. going to be better but maybe maybe a little bit because i think i may view of american cars that they fall apart pretty quickly and german cars don't they tend to be nicer than i because merican cars i think the engineering tends to be superior again impressions donald trump thinks there are too many of them in the u.s. even though german carmakers also run assembly operations that all together provide tens of thousands of jobs for american workers but the u.s. president still sees the business relationship as an unfair one way street in twenty seventeen german automakers exported more than six hundred fifty thousand cars to north america but many also have huge factories in the united states that employ more than one hundred thousand people in fact they build more than eight hundred thousand cars on u.s. soil last year

he killed 30 germans on d-day. heldesperate rearguard, he but he rocks aside, he really captured the feelings and company like no other ranger that i ever interviewed and that is a theme that runs through many of my books. it's sort of a hidden war that and theirfelt feelings and emotions, petty differently capture that. yes? >> what was the response from the family when they heard you were writing this? >> the response has been overwhelmingly positive. and that's for me the greatest thing that anybody could ever say. in some cases, they said the book provided closure. we were one for instance. was the greatest compliment that i could ever received, that somehow my small efforts provided a little bit of closure to the families of the veterans that died or that never talked about the war and it's one of the reasons that i've done things i've done. for the last 20 years, this day kind of marks 20 years that i've been gathering the histories of america's combat veterans all the way from world war i through the current

learning course because german meanings. learn german with. any time any place. whether with jo jo and her friends. colleagues discuss a good. night mr spitzer says it's where she juggles a war with friends all over the world. online and interactive. german to go. learn german for free with d w. you can tell a lot about a society by its garbage. the foods her clothes for the rich but for many poor people who don't first their only chance of survival. and i could lunch for today just like the. reporters travel to nairobi and gorge and meet people who know the true value of garbage. it has created us trying to encourage the economy. put us on this mean for economic inequality around the world and you guys are starting place was the response to that state mr b. yes we all start in class won't you claim the rich the poor and the truck of exclusive bricklayers starting journalists on t w.

aca as germans. ok to some forty kilometers northeast close to the border with poland is a small village with neat houses tidy streets and pavements and nice front gardens you could almost think you were in the black forest. founded in twelve forty eight by german immigrants today hope garden has around a thousand inhabitants most of them speak german but why. a craft she has written a history of the village her book is entitled they fled in order to remain. and i sent in that and that at about seven am on the thirteenth of december ten large trucks and several of the vehicles pulled up in the street next to the bridge and around two hundred soldiers spilled down that this and then they surrounded the whole village and began to fire their weapons to stop people fleeing forced evacuation of the inhabitants had begun because up until the second world war the germans he had lived in harmony with the other ethnic groups but after the war the czechs decided to expel them from czechoslovakia as it was then

and the german clubs. income from broadcast rights and marketing licenses in east asia would soar. as marketing department has already positioned itself for the opportunity. agreement with the academy and shown is that shocker gets first pick of the young talent with a long term collaboration like this it would have been foolish to do otherwise. shoka has also landed another coup super league club had a fortune once to launch a professional use division. more than twenty five coaches from back home in germany will take part in the work being done by marco flood rich and his fellow coaches is very lucrative our research has shown that after expenses chucker will be left with profits of some twenty million euros. and. thus know how chaka has a lot to offer we know how to scout train coach young talent on how to train coaches. in the chinese market or chinese football is willing to pay what that's worth golf is a scheme and. this building in beijing is chanon main square is where china's dreams of football gl

was killing germans. and americans alike. it became unbearable. on top of that, within a half an hour, 45 minutes, the germans, according to the doctrine, began the counterattack. they hit it with company strength or more. sometimes even a battalion. the 272nd, grenadier and later elite -- started storing the hill. this happened five times. one of the most poignant scenes corps in a fox hole of secured by a ro -- obs cured by a rock. as they charged up the hill, they were about to overrun the rangers on top near the pill box. there were several german bodies hole. c corp's fox it was like a scene out of the movie "where eagles dare." 42 machineup two mg- pistols and with both hands fired into the oncoming germans to stop the attack. and that's an anecdote that was given to me in an oral history. that was in the after action report and later confirmed by six or seven rangers. but that is the kind of courage these men had. things got so dicy that lamelle consided acting the hill. they were ordered to hold a

success and that comes through in the works of german artists from stein as much as it doesn't german development corporation or germany's international investment like its counterparts in the u.k. and france d.w. is publicly funded and has to face a rapidly changing media landscape with a tight budget. this is coming to you live from berlin. torcello reacts quickly to new crises all over the world and continually expand its network of correspondents after hostilities erupted in eastern ukraine between the government and russian backed forces was the first german language. public broadcaster to open its own studio in the ukrainian capital kiev. for decades deutsche of ela has maintained studios and correspondents in cities like moscow. twenty eighteen it will be a special here a lot of it through to washington. or brussels they're asking us now to treat the situation and to move away from that scene here ok the series we got a joke a deal to help your safe out there. and many studios abroad have joined in the last few years. in lagos nigeria this is what's hundreds of demonstrators se

on german t.v. this past week when people were reflecting on holding on there was a there was a turkish going on and on t.v. and it was a fascinating statement he made he said people expect me to accept german culture you know. but i'm not sure that i do it's not just the root it's not just going one way it's going back the other way the. turks are being put under pressure to accept german culture and maybe saying no i don't want to go that way i don't want to i i resist. he openly said it i mean that he. because i mean that's we're talking sometimes i'm to have the feeling that we're too much talking for example we started selling and now we're talking about integration these are two different issues for me because solving in and who and all those male nazi violence which has killed since one thousand nine hundred eight more than one hundred eighty four people this is huge this is something that germany has to handle it's i think there needs to be really serious discussion this is about murder this

german for free w. o and welcome to the this week that it's an off topic sparked with the best from the german music scene my name is let's show and here's what's coming up on today's program. what's turned pop song.

i'm sumi so much gondar good to have you with us german chancellor angela merkel has managed to fend off a potential government crisis by agreeing to a compromise with her bavarian coalition partners the c s u the agreement secures the coalition admirals job for the next two weeks in a press conference merkel stressed that the two parties share the common goal of reducing immigration and they would work on it together for his part interior minister who said he would wait for an upcoming e.u. summit before imposing communes with the order of controls with the purpose of the let's listen now to a what the chancellor sat. supports the initiative of the german minister of the interior see who first to present a master plan on migration and in everything we do is just from conviction as they seem to you we need to keep in mind germany and european interests in view which is why we do not want any lateral actions here we don't want to act this image. of others and as i said thursday already. in the future we will not allow those asylum seekers to come in to germany in accordance with the d

his daughter who is with roles in german film and television. landing the role that would be her international breakthrough. playing hitlist secretary travel you're in town for all the role lara noticed in hollywood. on her first english language film she measured future husband sam riley. whether it's u.s. or european films alexandra maria lara is in demand and on the way out. what do you think was a dog. that is private property owner from groups who abused her work franka potente as a business minded madam together with tom hardy in the mysteries series to do a gritty costume drama set in the nineteenth century. this return just career took off with time to it was run long brown lists this. overnight franka potente was a star and started playing in the big leagues. with johnny depp in blow. alongside matt damon in bourne supremacy. but then to also wants to step behind the camera her directorial debut was a silent movie. as comfortable in the art house world as in mainstream cinema franka potente has found her groove. kiss with angelina jolie

german made easy.

where the german comic giant we w. has been forced to pay out billions in dollars in compensation to customers. french president of my new a medical has taken a number of risks in his bid to reform the country's labor law but one at least now seems to have paid off its controversial rail overhaul has been adopted despite resistance from the unions it appears one of michael's key projects is still on track. for weeks workers and friends have been walking off the job to a post plans to restructure state rail operator s.n.c.f. but their efforts have been in vain in a victory for french president manuel mark on the reforms are going ahead as he sees that things need to change s.n.c.f. is after all fifty billion euros in debt up from twenty twenty french railways will open up to competition on top of that real workers will no longer enjoy the same privileges as before for example new hires won't be guaranteed early retirement at fifty eight marconi has succeeded in something that once cost a predecessor his job. and his gov

back to today in a german top ten charts nine out of ten albums are lead by german hip hop artists including adam. used to be a gangster rap the day he reps about self-discipline and the dark side of stardom on the single fame with his fellow rep. tom my time might sound can click trying to find it's kind of like trying to hide. from. the old joke make the joke. let me. go and move mountains or move. to a. job to. go to school to. get. me to a. clear. cut. expensive cars luxury hotels ok so that's what the dark side of fame looks like in our series berlin backstage we meet up with hot acts who are currently visiting berlin this time we've got jenna. from finland she's already featured as a singer on tracks by fix yen charlie x. the x. in martins i've asked and even her solo singles often go gold i had the pleasure of meeting her before her cake at the columbia theater. when often the biggest pop export even elton john declared himself a huge fan before a concert at columbia theater in berlin i have to chance to catch up with her backstage is she really the party i mean will she's really want

german companies wanting children are willing to invest lots of time. and money. to offer them enough to see that go along. with no guarantee of success playmaking sixty minutes w. . what does a football loving country need to reach its goals. we'll tell you how german soccer made it back to the top. in our web special. dot com. football made in germany. cooking for the white chocolate. brown is shaking up the folks who is your favorite. thing to bring to church because the entire country champion three can fill in for the last sixty years douglas for mines. hello and welcome to driver they need to be a motor magazine coming up from the arctic to the tropics forge test center as you know. another. lap of luxury a lexus l s. and the new v.w. touring. the base when.