in germany. >> why free? >> in germany, health care is paid for, you have to pay an insurance premium, but it's paid for by health insurance and traditionally in germany nobody paid a co-pay. there wasn't any you paid your insurance but in germany you don't get a bill. in 2006, all countries are having problems with the cost of health care. like we are. so germany came up with this shocking change, that is, once a quarter, every three months, you have to pay a co-pay to go to the doctor. 10 euro, 14 bucks. once you pay that in january, all health care is covered for three months. if you have to come back on april 2, they make you pay another 10 ewe roes. this doctor in -- euros. this doctor in germany, he said there was an american ex-pat living in her town he came in with a hangnail in early january, she said, i'm so sorry, you now have to pay 10 euros. then he came back in late february, with some other problem, she said, he tried to pay me again. he'd already paid for that quarter. she said to me, do ameri

they had all of new germany state park as their backyard to begin with. it was always home. >> narrator: new germany state park, named for its early settlers, lies in northeast garrett county. it's surrounded by 54,000 acres of savage river state forest, which protects some of maryland's last official wildlands. >> gregory: in the mountains of western maryland, in this area of the appalachians, there is a scenery, there is a sense of culture that i will continue to cherish for the rest of my life. >> narrator: new germany state park is a gateway to the big mountain country of western maryland and its world-class rugged adventure. >> gregory: new germany state park is what i will term a classic state park. once you have settled in, either to your cabin or to one of our campsites here at new germany, then you can enjoy the day use area and swimming at the beach. also, fishing, hiking trails, and a host of other programs that are offered by our seasonal staff during the summer months. and from there, the park can serve as a base camp for you to be able to en

and germany. health care is paid for through an insurance premium. traditionally, in germany, you never pay co-p0aay. germany came up with a shocking change. once a quarter, every three months, you have to pay co-pay, $14, every three months, and want to pay that all health care is covered for the next three months. if you have to come back on april 2, you can pay another 10 euros. there was an expatriate living in her town and he can end in january -- he cavemen and said he had to pay and he came back in late february with another problem. he tried to pay me again. he had order paper that corporate -- he did not have to pay. in germany, i would have had to pay the co-pay. host: if i worked in germany and did not have insurance, what would happen to me? guest: it is taken out of your pay. there is no choice. if you have no job and the government takes the role of your employer. the government pays the employer's part of the premier bird if you do not have enough money to pay your half, the governm

turks that came to germany.i -- it there were 18 million turks -- the there were 18 million turks that came to germany. >> how many are algerians and moroccans? >> france is very difficult for statistics. france has had a very radical idea of citizen equality. there is no such thing, in the eyes of the state, there is no such thing as an algerian frenchman or a muslim frenchman. there is only frenchman. the best demographers in france, the very best of my bursdemograe up with a number that is lower of the number of muslims in france. i think those are fairly evenly distributed about 1 million a piece of the three north african countries, with a smattering of people from elsewhere. these numbers are extremely in precise. >> in great britain, is that the majority of the muslims? >> in northern india, i would say that the largest group is pakistan is that live primarily in the north and then those that live in the south where the london population are bengali. >> the way that your looks at immigrants and the way un

barnaby phillips of al jazeera english looks where germany stands. >> reporter: germany's factories are the manufacturing heartbeat of europe, and they're starting to move again. six months ago, this car spare parts factory near frankfurt was quiet. now, it's humming. but recovery has come at a cost. one of many germans, who has had to accept what they call reduced hours and reduced pay as?l alternative to being laid off. he fears there may be worse to come. >> translator: i, personally, don't think it will get better next year. we depend on the automobile industry, which is in a global crisis. i hope i'm wrong but i don't think so. the measures may not be enough. i worry that after the elections, my colleagues and i could lose our jobs. >> reporter: the frankfurt motor show is the biggest in the world. this year, as ever, there's a buzz around new german cars. the buyout of opal should save many german jobs. there are hybrids and electric cars, but it's a difficult year for the industry. germany's carmakers will have to carry on innovating to stay on topnth(n this is hamburg, germany's

he was a lion who gave the british nation its roar of defiance in the teeth of nazi germany. for that, he will be honored for ever, and by peoples everywhere. if we judged him on that year alone, there would be no debate here. there would be unanimity, for churchill's career did not last a single year. it lasted for half a century. over that have sentry, i submit, no other career of a western statesman was more calamitous for his country and civilization than that of winston spencer churchill's. more than any other british leader in 1914 and 1939, churchill lusted for war and pushed his country to turn to european wars in two world wars so germany might be destroyed. both times, churchill succeeded , and history records that those wars that together took the lives of perhaps 100 million europeans were the moral blows that advanced the death of the west. it was winston churchill who led the west in its advance to barbarism. as first lord on the first days, he instituted a starvation blockade that violated all the rules of warfare, including those advocated by lord salisbury th

if things go very bad there, i think it will be difficult to sell the war in germany.tory, germany's a very pacifist country and therefore, the war is extremely unpopular. we even don't call it a war. we call it a humanitarian intervention. what's only part of the story. the other part of the story, it's a war. so there are some open questions. >> nikolaunk you very much for joining us today. >> thanks for having me. >>> in switzerland, the lawyer for film director roman polanski said today that he will fight american attempts to extradite him to the united states in the sex case that goes back more than 30 years. the 76-year-old director was arrested saturday on arrival in zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award from a film festival. polanski pleaded guilty in california to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 but then fled to france before his sentencing. french officials have expressed astonishment over the arrest, one calling it a bit sinister. we'd like to know what you think of this case. our question tonight, should roman polanski be extradited to t

. >> 4 million in germany. >> germany, there has been dramatic revision in statistics over the summer since this book was published. there are about 7.5 million foreign-born foreigners as they are called in germany. germany has a funny way of counting these things. it counts certain people born in germany as foreigners. that is if they do not have german citizenship. there are 7.5 million foreigners in germany. >> out of 80 million? >> it is a shrinking population. out of about 70 million. there was a radical revision in the number of muslims in germany. it had been thought that there were 3 million, but the interior ministry did another cow earlier -- another account earlier -- another account earlier -- another count earlier this year and can up with a figure of 4.5. >> of the 60 million people in britain, are the 2 million foreign-born? >> i believe the foreign-born number is higher than that. britain is very in precise about counting these things. they have changed their ways in the past few years. >> what kind of immigrant is there that is a muslim in germany? >> it has evolved o

germany's social democrats nets to make sense of election morning. there were flowers and a few brave smiles. the spd had net is worse results off since the war and had been -- had met its worst result since the war and had been ejected from power. in times i new coalition. angela merkel remains chancellor. but what kind of chancellor will she be? for the last several years, she has always dreaded the middle path. i new coalition partner has -- her new coalition partner will be pushing hards psyche. -- into the nation's psyche. back in her home, on the black sea, and she spoke of a special relationship to the medium of her art. >> for me, sand is not a material. i am not a mistake. to an extent, yes soya a physicist. sand is a to separate him from the mother after she showed aggression. now the female keepers are caring for the calf around the clock. it is always in need of physical contact. thank you for being with us on "bbc world news." anything -- much more news all day on bbc.com. >> funding was made possible by york, stowe, vermont, and honolul

bret: so you don't see a major shift in germany or elsewhere?>> i'm on a wait and see. >> i don't think it is a shift, but it is a gradual shift. being a center right government in europe is a lot different than being a center right government in the united states. in france, a center right government in france is in power right now, and yet 70% of people in france support president obama or approve of the job that he is doing, so it's a very different -- it's a very different thing. i don't think free market types should go popping champagne corks quite yet. the far left in germany also gained in this recent election, so i think what you are seeing more than anything is a more dramatic polarization of the electorate, which is something that is familiar to those of us here. >> i would just open a beer on this one. when in germany, the free democrats, the social democrats, merkel declined, in part because of her tie to socialism. the improvement from 4% to 14% of free democrats is astonishing and it will result in less regulation and taxes. look,

the war unleashed by germany brought immeasurable suffering over many people.of deprivation of rights, of humiliation and destruction. no other country sufferein its history as poland. and particularly during those dark times about which we talk here today, the country was devastated, cities and villages were destroyed. and the capital after the uprising had been crushed in 1944, it was hardly any building left that was not in ruins. the lawlessness and violence earthrise daily lives and hardly any polish family was spared this experience. here i as german chancellor remember the fate of all polls on whom untold suffering was inflicted under the criminal german occupation. the horrors of the 20th century culminated in the holocaust, a systematic persecution and murder of the jews of europe. i remember the 6 million jews and all those who died a cruel death in german concentration and extermination camps. and i remember that many millions who lost their lives in fighting and resisting germany. i remember all those innocent people who died of hunger, cold, and di

germany has apologized many times for the war. angela merkel did so today. >> i mourn the loss of lives. there are no words to describe the suffering of this war and the holocaust. >> from the russian prime minister, a confession that the secret pact between stalin and hitler to carve up poland had been wrong. he said the blame should be shared. >> all attempts since 1934 until 1939, all attempts to pacify the german aggression's with all sorts of agreements were morally unacceptable and practically were senseless. they were harmful and dangerous. that is why all of these actions have led to the tragedy of the beginning of world war ii. one must confess these mistakes, our country did it. >> 70 years after, there are still different opinions about the start of world war ii. the one thing that unites europe is a determination that such a devastating conflict will never be repeated. >> more of the main news, iran has announced it is ready to resume talks over its nuclear program. their top nuclear negotiator says that they have new

i remember the 60 million people who lost their lives in a war unleashed by germany.ords cannot adequately describe the suffering inflicted through this war and the holocaust. i bowed my head before the victims. we all know the horrors of the second world war cannot be made undone. the scars of remain forever visible. but to shape the future in the awareness of our everlasting responsibility is available. it is an experience that europe has changed from a continent of terror and violence into a continent of freedom and peace. that this was possible is nothing short of a miracle. we germans shall never forget and have never forgotten germany's partners in east and west pave the way for reconciliation. you reached out to us germans, stretching us at hand in the spirit of reconciliation, and we grasped it with gratitude. indeed it is truly a miracle that this year we not only remember the dark chapters, the bis said unit -- of european history that we need to remind ourselves of, but the miracle that we can remember those happy days 20 years ago which brought us the fall

is is hburg, germany's biggest por and the city that thrivuring geany's export boom. during this recession, the rst of the world h run ou of moneyo payor german goods. an a a result, ts cityhas been hit very hd. in the fir half of ts year, trade fl by one quarter in the hamburg port. now, things look a little bit beer here. a covery fueled by therowing power of asian economies >> tradesick up a ltle bit, es especially china, a sharp rise in india. we believe there is aupward trend, not remarkable b acknowledgeable. >> reporter: many germans feel they've come out of theeconomic crisis relatively well. perhaps that's why the election has been low y. but they've also learned that, when global dand for german goods fal, their country pays aheavy price. barnaby phillips, al jeera, germany. >>> we turn to africa for a ory that is not gtting much attention heren th united states. seve drought in east africa tff0 million peopletowards severe hunger, according to the aid ganization. the hardest hit counies are keny ethiopia, somal, uganda some people are survivg on as little a

germany goes to the polls in just under a week's time. the votes would decide parliament and ultimately to lead to the country. opinion polls suggest chancellor angela merkel will keep the top job. we will get more from our correspondent, steve rosenberg. >> thanks very much. i am sitting outside the rathaus, the old town hall. a very ornate. i am told it has more runs even then buckingham palace. angela merkel was born in hamburg. she will be in the city later today for an election rally she is hoping after the elections the issue will be in position to stay on as chancellor. it certainly appears that in the german political game, it is mrs. angela merkel who holds the best cards. they often say that politics is like poker. if you want to be a winner, you need luck, you need skill, and you got to know how to bluff. and our round of political poker table in germany, there is one player who is hard to beat. angela merkel is the pokermeister of german politics. in her four years as chancellor she has outmaneuvered her opponents and has beco

i believe that germany is governable quickly. you can see me in a very content to be area that is because of my contentment from last night. i do not think that everyone was able to see this. we have a lot of momentum now. bell, overview mr. premiere -- now, over to you, mr. premiere. >> to everyone in the whole of germany, to everyone in the country and the federal state, we have achieved our objective. we were able to have sustainable majorities. this is something that angela merkel has obtained at the top of the campaign. of course, we know what wind means in maritime terms. we know what this tailwind that she gave to was meant. -- that she gave to us men tmen. we will organize and we will prepare carefully. cain the new federal-state government we have a majority that is solid. i am looking forward to cooperating with the fdp. i would prefer a government with a small majority rather than a rather shaky majority. we are faced with a huge responsibility. of course, i would have preferred a few votes more for the cdu and we will

belong to east germany's communist party.hile the bigger parties have kept their election slogans vague like confidence and our country can do more. the left is more specific. it's the only parliamentary party calling for german troops to pull out immediately from afghanistan. it wants to raise taxes on the rich, more money for education, less for the banks. simple messages which could help the left win more than 10% of the vote. the rise of the left party has transformed germany's political landscape and made it more fragmented and more uncertain, and the party which is suffering most as a result is the s.p.d., the social democrats. >> the left party won't win this election, but it already claims to have become what the social democrats have traditionally been in germany, the voice of the workers. steve rosenberg, bbc news, western germany. >> this is bbc world news, the latest headlines for you this hour, the biggest ever trial of a new vaccine against h.i.v. has shown encouraging results. scientists say it can reduce the r

and germany is near starvation. that led to hitler. in the n-1920, a secretary for war, churchill enraged by iraqi existence -- resistance to british rule proclaimed, i'm strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes. he spread terror. years later, saddam hussein and chemical ali were hanged in baghdad for doing what churchill urged and what britain did. the day he became prime minister in 1940, as the army was breaking through, churchill directed his bombers not against ramal's panzers but against rynland cities. that was what your own historian ball johnson called a critical stage in the moral de-- te tense of humanity in our time. coveantry and the blitz were war crimes but they were also raids for terror bombing begun by churchill. the climax came in 1945, with thunder clouds. the fire bombing of dresden, and the florence of the el be, a defenseless city of a te feeted nation, packed with refugees, fleeing the serial rapist of the red army. estimates of the dresden dead rargee range from 35,000 to 250,000. but

>> the whole question of the bombing of germany has two sides. one is the military side and one is the moral side. and the military side, one has to acknowledge the fact that it was a second of front. it does not justify the bombing of hamburger or dressed in or anything like that. -- hamburg or dresden. they would not have had to withdraw the bulk of the fighting units from the eastern front to defend the right. that allowed the major breakthroughs of the eastern front. as was pointed out, the creation of the bombing force was almost a monster. once it had been created, it is very hard to stop it, and that is one of the terrible effects of the industrial and the manpower investment which had been made in bomber command, and why it was so difficult to stop it toward the end. there, churchill was certainly at all. he should have reined in harris well before, and he certainly should have stopped those bombings in 1945. the bombing of dresden was deliberately and directly requested by the red army to prevent the transfer divisions from the western f

one wrote, can i help with planning for your postwar germany? that is the sort of thinking that was going on about germany. another extraordinary case, you'll have seen this film in which tom cruise is made to play a german aristocrat. what are they going to do next? elton john as an actor renna? -- as anna karenina? it seems to me to argue something is going bury badly wrong. it is understandable, but what if we are going to been array churchill, he should have seen much further ahead. as things were, what he did see was in england in close alliance with the united states. it is true to say that he got out of it what for us was a privileged existence. the england in which i grew up was remarkably prosperous. it seemed to be doing very, very well. suddenly, in comparison with the rest of europe, it went down. you'll remember in the 1970's when you looked at to passport and felt dread traveling to somewhere in continental europe. obviously i am not blaming churchill for that, but i think there was a mood of national complacency which developed, w

and 4 million in germany. >> germany there has been a dramatic revision of statistics over the summer. there are about 7.54 unborn -- foreigners in germany. germany has a funny way of counting these things. it cancer in people born in germany s so-called foreigners. if they do not have german citizenship. it is a shrinking population. it is sent to about 75 million. -- it is down to about 75 million. it had been thought that there were 3 million, but the interior ministry did another cao earlier this summer and came up with a figure of 4.5. >> what is the 2 million figure in britain? >> the 2 million -- i believe the foreigner number is higher than that. and 2 million is the rough number of muslims in britain, although britain is very in precise about counting these things. they have carried -- change their way of accounting leasing's in the last couple of years. the beginning of the immigration to europe had to do with europe's extreme need for reconstruction after world war two. iyou had cities entirely destroyed. you had much of the labor force killed. there was a lot to build. whe

and new questions in germany about its mission to afghanistan. >>> we will take you to china to see how scientists are doing in their race to produce an h1n1 vaccine. today there was some good news about the virus. >>> and 16 months after a cyclone killed as many as 100,000 people in myanmar, international aid is still not getting to the people who need it most. we will tell you why. >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, here's what's happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." made possible in part by the following funders -- major support has also been provided by the peter g. peterson foundation, dedicated to promoting fiscal responsibility and addressing key economic challenges facing america's future. >>> good evening. i'm daljit dhaliwal. we are going to take an in depth look tonight at the war in afghanistan from several different perspectives that americans don't often get to see with views from britain, germany and italy, which are also heavily involved in this conflict. as the war intensifies, the death toll mounts and public opinion turns negative. w

. >>> germany raised the threat level because of a new threat from al qaeda. germany is increasing security measures, especially at airports and train stations. it says a new video released by al qaeda yesterday suggests the group will hit germany if upcoming elections don't go the way it wants. some want to pull german troops out of afghanistan. the video didn't say which political party should win, but, the video says, quote, if the german people decide to continue this war, they seal their fate. >>> authorities searching the property of phillip and nancy garrido today found another bone, but right now they can't say whether or not it's human. investigators are searching the back yard for the possible clues in the disappearance of two other girls who vanish in the late '80s. they had no evidence tieing the garridos to the other disappearances but they say the garridos can't be eliminated as suspects. the couple is charged with kidnapping jacee dugard 18 years ago. >>> some people have been very vocal in their criticism of president obama's plan to reform the

as germany and others.his did not -- they did not live only by a defense a pact. they also founded what is today known as the european union. this may be an interesting experiment in the history of mankind that has so been -- so far been tremendously successful. within this community, the balance of power has been superseded by cooperation. what were the prerequisites of that success? first and foremost, a commonality of values, such as freedom, democracy, and pluralism. the next requisite -- the next prerequisite was the rescinding of into real dreams. -- of imperial dreams. without this, the united europe would also be unthinkable. and here come up with 27 member states, in future possibly more member states, we have a new quality. this inequality should also be accessible to others -- this new quality should also be accessible to others come up with the one condition, that they accept this system, by use, a system of values which does not allow the going back to what once was, where equality is the main

the election in germany should be a wakeup call for president obama. larry sabato now has to come after jack lalanne, but i think he can do it. thank you for coming. >> thank you, neil. i also eat egg whites an raw vegetables, just so you know, and i also don't know richard simmons in any way. neil: the egg whites are the only things i don't eat. i got it in reverse. let me ask you this -- if these races are closely watched, there is always that in between election or two that gets a lot of scrutiny. do they deserve the scrutiny they're getting? >> probably not, but of course, as a citizen of virginia, i'm delighted we do we don't necessarily earn it, but we only have two races the year after the presidential election, and all of us political junkies, neil and you're one, even though you're also in business, but you're a junkie, we're desperate and we like to look at the races we have got as clues for the future, as clues to the upcoming midterm election in november 2010. neil: how accurate are throws clues? >> well, here's what is interesting, after t

britain and france declared war on germany two days later.'s alliance with germany brought the war to the pacific and the u.s. entered the conflict after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. before it was over, an estimated 60 million people were dead. >>> cbs news correspondent cami mccormick is coming home after being wounded in afghanistan. mccormick is flying back to the u.s. from germany to the walter reed army medical center in washington. she was seriously injured by a roadside bomb last week. >>> and three people are being held in afghanistan in connection with that bombing. but one of those suspects appears to have links it to the afghan government which may be trying to get him freed. david martin has more from eastern afghanistan. >> reporter: what american soldiers call a security bubble. these shopkeepers and their children, a chance for a normal life. in a string ofville argues south of kabul, u.s. troops are providing security in return for help in hunting the taliban. it's a small scale model of what general stanley mcchrystal

that they could work discussion that would allow germany to take its place, should germany require it, alongside combat troops from my country and many other countries? thank you. >> thank you very much. of course, a very tough question, and you know that. many give you a general answer. -- let me give you a general answer. for our commanders in the fields, it nations allowed a more flexible use of troops -- if nations allowed and more flexible use of troops. we have spoken of the so-called caveats, and i would urge allies to allow as much flexibility as possible in the use of their troop contributions in afghanistan. that is my general remarks. more specifically, you referred to germany. and i know this question as very often been up for discussion. i think it is fair to say the we should take into consideration germany's history. and also take into consideration that it was really a huge step forward when germany actually decided to contribute to our mission in afghanistan. you should not underestimate the importance and significance in that step in domestic german politics, so i th

it looks like good news. 20,000 car workers in germany. in europe, car workers are worrying about jobs that their plans. general motors has agreed to sell a majority stake of its european subsidiary opel to ma gna. we have more from berlin. >> angela merkel had not -- could not wait to announce the deal. this was our chance to take all the glory. >> good day, ladies and gentlemen. i inform you a short time ago the chancellor's office was informed that gm's governing board voted to sell opel to magna. i am very happy about this decision which is along the lines of what the government and the employees of opel had hoped for. >> by the time general motors made its announcement, it was already old news. thank you to agne -- angela. >> we're confident this represents the best solution. as many of you know, under the magna proposed law, the companies will split a 55% share in opel. employees will draw a 10% stake, which i think it's a great idea. >> after months of uncertainty and difficult negotiations, general motors has voted to sell off opel

it seems to think it has found the way to shake up germany. on the campaign trail they claim to be the party that is the voice of german workers. left, social democrats, at this weekend's parliamentary election. >> the market square is a small stage. they are using it to call for big change. the message to the voters? it is not capitalism that germany needs, but a new kind of socialism. her party is the left. an increasingly popular branch of german politics. they include disillusioned democrats from western germany and people who used to belong to the car -- communist party. bigger parties have left their election slogans vauge, the left is more specific. it is the only parliamentary party calling for troops to pull out immediately from afghanistan. less for the banks. simple messages. it could help the left with more than 10% of the boat. the rise of the left party has transformed the political landscape. it has made it more fragmented and uncertain. the party that is suffering the most as a result are the social democrats. >> the left party

i think the market has a positive bid off merkel's victory in germany because germany looks like theyx environment and that's good for markets. >> it's not good for us. >> well, i mean it is good for us. >> not when we're headed the other way and we have to compete with them? >> yeah, but senator gregg and his cohorts in congress are going to pay attention, i think. i don't think you can run a high-tech environment in the united states while the rest of the world is more competitive. >> senator gregg and his party have nothing to do with this. >> yeah, i know, but you're short a few votes but i agree with senator gregg. i wrote an article last week about the reregulation of wall street. you know, we don't need necessarily more regulations, but the correct regulation would be something that we probably need. >> congress always overreacts. it always overreacts and addresses last year's offense, stifls enpresent your ship. that's the political body, populist by nature. you have to be careful with reregulation. the only thing standing between us and socialism is barney frank. think about

and new qestions in germany out its mission to afghanistan. we wl take you to cina to see w scientists are doing in their race toroduce an h1 vaccin today there wa some good news abouthe vis. >> and 16 months after a cyclone killeds many as 100,000 people in anmar, international aiis still not gettinto the people who need it most. we will tell you why. >>> from the world's leang reporters and analysts, here what'sappening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." madeossible in part by the following funder-- major suppt has also been provided by thpeter g. terson foundation, dedicated to promoting fisca responsibility and addressg key economic challges facing america's future. >>> good ening. i'm dalj dhaliwal. are going takeann depth look tonight at the warn afghanistan fr several diffent perspectives that americanson't oftenget to see with views from britn, gerny and italy, which are also heavily involved i this confct. as the war tensifies,he death toll mounts andpublic opinio turns negative. we'll hear how the united states and its alli

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how's it going in germany? >> volatile. we are up 7% right at the beginning of the trading session, then, of course, went into negative territory. and also volumes are looking quite okay 37.3 million shares have traded so far and it is about the energy stocks that are helping the dax at the moment, up about 3.1%, on up 2.8% and reacting to one of brokers' calls upgrading that stock as well as giving it quite a nice progress. getting an upgrade there up 2.3% as we seek. m.a.n., though, the truck maker, down 1.5%, and s.a.p. under pressure. interesting to see in terms of direct reaction from the german election is the energy sector doing rather well in terms of the main utilities. and e. on, those renewable energy stocks and renewable stocks, now down 3.7%, solar world down about 3%. over to adam now. >> thank you, patricia. >>> well, we saw sizable declines in asia's top three markets by market capitalization being japan, and, the hang seng. in japan, it was really the yen strength that really was fanning the losses across t

and you have tonotice thatin germany, t welfare state is much stronger than in the united ates. the welfare state is in itself isstabilizing the business cycle. right. it helping to sort of ease the economic impact. >> exacy. >> how do you thinkthis new government -- or will the relatiship withhe unite states chae? both inow we enact, workwith one another and alsoin afghanistan where there' a rge military commitment? >> i would say in the shor term it's just more ofhe sameou will get. there's no distance among demoats and freedoms with regardto the united states. when it comes to ghanistan, the situation isunpredictable if things goery bad there, i think it wl be difficult to sell the war in germany.due to very pacifist countrynd therefore, the war extremely unpolar. we even don'call it a war. we call it a humanirian interventi. what's only part of e story. e other part of the story, it's a war. so there are some open questions. >>ikolaus piper, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thanks for having me. >>> in switzerland the laer for film director roman polanski said to

before war ever go to the germany, to hitler germany, each second male person in the street will be in the uniform. maybe in the soviet union there will be many people in the uniform. there's no people in uniform in americ streets. >> is that something that surprised him? >> he never talk about this, but, of course, it was important, maybe not surprise but it show the atmosphere, it show the atmosphere that they remember this when it was in by travel by train from los angeles to san francisco and it was men with big sign freedom to kazakhstan. and i remember this because i was surprised that america knows something about kazakhstan. >> very few did. >> and there was sign, welcome, khrushchev. and he smiled it was very -- but also it was the discussion in the camp david that creating the different atmosphereecause it was two leaders, last leaders in united states and soviet union who were in the war and w knew the war. and my father even could not watch the movie about the war because he couldn't sleep after that because everything in this movie untrue because war is much more dirty, cr

germany has a dget deficit that is boomg and unemploynt is rising. if she fails to sbilize the economy, she will strugglto persuade the jump -- the german publicor further reform. bbc news, berlin. >> 51-year-old father is the 24th memr of staff to take his wn lifeince february of last year. he left a note before jumping to his deh from a viaduct. tradenions have blamed stress, job losses, and have ofred to esblish a hot line for workers to break an infern spiral. he has pled n guilty to crimes against humanity. the internaonal forwanda has charged hiwith responsibility for the deaths of 2000 tutsis. the south korean governme says north koa has reviv its constution, dropping all references to cmunism. at the sa time, it has bolstered the power of i leaderfor the fir time describing him as "the preme leader." the biggt dgs haul in britain. the warship maybe disvery of the cot o coloma where the coine was found buried i concrete in secret compartmes on a fishing boat. whave this report. >> blasted out of the water by royanavy gun power. the crew had be

they already cut corporate taxes in germany. on the other hand, you've got england, okay, gordon brown, prime minister of england is a dead man walking. cameron going to win. and you've got this absolute dope darling, who is the chancellor of the ex-czech republic who says no more bonuses for bankers, period, end of sentence, jimmy p. you have to be a dope for that. that sees london as a financial center. is there a shift to the right? he brown, dead man walking. sarkozy looks strong. merkel looks strong. is the shift to the right handwriting on the wall for the usa -- and that's where i'm going with this? >> i think it should be the handwriting on the wall. in the united states you see on a state level where the push for higher taxes has gone absolutely nowhere. anyone who thinks -- remember a few months ago on election day, we thought that the taft issue is dead. people want higher taxes. chrp there were exit polls saying americans were okay with higher taxes. that's ridiculous. the tax issue is as relevant as it always was. >

germany to find what he left behind. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. a sea of people as far as the eye could see stretched from the capitol to the white house today. tens of thousands frustrated and angry over what they feel is too much big government in their lives and a president they don't trust in the white house. at the same time president obama was on the road far from those protests trying to sell his message on health care in minnesota. we have it all covered, and we begin on capitol hill with nbc's tom costello and today's massive rally. good evening, tom. >> reporter: good evening to you. park police estimate the crowd at tens of thousands. our own people think hundreds of thousands of people were here to have a voice or to express their voice to capitol hill. so many people d.c. police had to close down pennsylvania avenue for a time to accommodate everybody making their way to the national mall. their message, no to runaway government and no to government health care. they came

injured at on spock, germany. -- ansbach, germany. violce in the classroo these the scenes after a studt went on a rampage. 700 children we inside the school atthe time. some students said the attack me right out othe blue. >> w heard the alarm and had to leave thechool immediately. we thered in the yard. that's where we saw a teacr whose arm was coved in blood. >> once insidthe school complex, the aacker threw petr bombs and trd to get teachers and fellow students with an ax. police were ft with no optn but to on fire. >> becausee threatened to us his weapons against the police, fficers onedire. they iured him and then arrested h. > thi is now the send attack on a germ school in the last six months. in march, tim kretschmer shot people at s former school in when it did. he fed the building, shot three more people,nd then killed hself. for the authorits now, the task is to fd out what made a student with no crinal rord attackellow students and teachers. >> see t news unld. good to bbc.com to experience the expert reportg of bbc rld ne

it is about the bombing of germany when these men were going into germany to bomb the industries. he lost 40 bombers in the raid on the first raid in germany. the bombers got through. he believed in the bomber. he was opposed to the program. schriever knew this would destroy the idea of the aircraft. they had major opposition against this. >> , firepower is there on the tip of one of those icbms today? >> the minuteman has a -- has enough to destroy several cities. >> compared to hiroshima or nagasaki? >> a vastly more. two or 3 megatons. >> let me go back to benin schriever. he died in 2005 at 94 years old. you did 52 interviews with this man. what words the environment and how long did you talk to him? >> we would meet -- he was in between marriages when i met him. he would meet at saturday -- on saturday mornings at his house that was before he went to lunch at his golf club. i would pick up where i left off the last time and that would take him through the story. he was a very thoughtful man. he wanted to make sure that you were the person to tell his story. at first, he was a

if the united states, germany, and france join together in sanctions. we already have sanctions on the place. we put them in place in the 1970s. bill: is israel going to wait around that long because israel is, you know, obviously the wild card here. >> we shouldn't be making our judgments on whether or not they will wait around. even more important is get germany aboard that may require german elections to be in the rear view mirror and not coming up. it might be rather than looking for the perfect where the world community joins together through the united nations on sanctions. we say we are willing to have the major economic powers join together. germany, united states, britain, and france and we will impose sanctions unified on it and recognize that it's not going to be perfect. the russians and chinese may still try to do business with iran, but a significant power like that would be better than nothing at all. blockade is a problem. you start putting -- we have got warships in the persian gulf. we start blockading iran and iran will treat that as

security council-- the so- called p-5-- plus germany. but in washington, state department spokesman ian kelly said there's been nothing official from iran. >> we're prepared to respond to a... some kind of meaningful response but not going to respond to something that is made through the media. the offer of the p-5-plus-1 remains on the table. >> lehrer: iran has been offered economic incentives to give up its nuclear effort. the u.s. has given iran until the end of september to agree to new talks or risk tougher sanctions. thousands of people on mexico's west coast were ordered to evacuate today ahead of hurricane jimena. the storm was set to hit the tip of the baja california peninsula as early as this evening. it had winds of 125 miles an hour. wind and rain picked up across baja as people moved to evacuation centers. police and military vehicles drove through shantytowns trying to persuade some 10,000 people to leave, but many stayed to guard against looting. this was the day world war ii erupted in europe, when germany invaded polan

. >> reporter: t last time bern nard harng was i germany it was a ver difrent place. it w july 1944, fit lieunant harng from new hampshire was leading nine other b-24s on a dangerous daylht bombing mission of a germa aircraft factory. just 25 years old he was already a veteranilot having flown 13 missio. his 14th was his last. >> we were attacked by a group of german fighte, and iless