those two points or germany's military spending and germany's trade surplus. any chance of any improvement from germany on either of those seventy was certainly trying to get some facts and figures across and they actually look very different from the german side where germany has invested far more in the u.s. than the u.s. has invested in germany it's responsible for more than six hundred thousand jobs in the auto industry particularly in the u.s. so those are facts and figures the chance of will be trying to get across a certain her stuff who will be there during that to crusoe lunt also we already saw germany give a bit of ground today with foreign minister saying that germany will step by step work towards fulfilling its commitments meaning that two percent target on nato and again might compare was asked about this at the nato meeting and he was asked whether germany is doing enough and he said no he expects don't need to fulfill its own commitments we understand that the americans that are pushing very hard to get a very detailed and concrete plan how de

u.s., germany is an enemy like china regarding -- peter: germany is an enemy like china?erstin: kind of, i said. up andis always showing talking about trade and economy and stuff like that. if it comes to things like foreign policy, germany often addressed to it and good luck, but we are not involved. that is also a big problem and what they see in washington and it makes it more difficult for merkel to get along with trump. matthew: it didn't help her case when she arrived in washington, that germany didn't participate in the air strike on syria. against this backdrop, what about the european project that many commentators say is in danger of falling apart? that's why emmanuel macroron believes france and germany must work together to come up with fundamental reforms. will it happen? when they met in berlin, the message was mixed. the rendezvous was anything but romantic. in mid-april, chancellor merkel took emmanuel macron to the construction site in berlin. deliberately to stand for europe in the strike. macron presented his architectural vision months before. now he i

was for me germany is. germany is the country i grew up in the cologne dialect is my mother tongue but i also see germany as a difficult home yes. i feel that puts me in here i have to use an expression from the field of psychology in a double blind. and i can't leave but i can't necessarily stay. there are times when i just have to leave it there are times when a certain type of discourse certain exclusion mechanisms simply drive me to distraction so forth survive. but then there are other times when i'm really heartened by the investment that people here make in democracy. invest so yes indeed they will cut deals. like me they're willing to defend and promote democracy diversity and acceptance even and not just tolerance and it's not following so far tied even with four months of time. i don't encounter many facts for my pleasure. the dangerous battle for images. five women. five exceptional stories of a center i want to look in a. way that may be nothing more easy one calling more photography dramatic pi

was from a germany is. germany is the country i grew up in the cologne dialect is my mother tongue but i also see germany as a difficult home yes. i feel that puts me in here i have to use an expression from the field of psychology in a double blind. and i can't leave but i can't necessarily stay. there are times when i just have to leave it there are times when a certain type of discourse certain exclusion mechanisms simply drive me to distraction so far. so vile but then there are other times when i'm really heartened by the investment that people here make in democracy. invest but do the. like me they're willing to defend and promote democracy diversity and acceptance even and not just tolerance. many thanks my pleasure. miramax highlight some pretty. extraordinary a russian artist conjures images of paper. extravagant visiting milan and the world's most important furniture in design to. make sure tourists discover madrid in twenty four hours. during. dortmund like to see the biggest favor teams we've go

yeah i agree with that germany has we've the french have waited six seven months now but germany to. take the take the real and and and and now it's time now for the time to i don't think it really is a ten and i think that that michael is sitting there trying to pull along in america this is dragging your feet and then this is this is the huge this is the huge problem and it's probably not going to change but it thanks so much will through these opinions and a great debater i hope the tomtom doesn't get a flat tire on that note thanks very much for joining us sir come back next week to quadriga just by by . the be. a movie premier made for architecture fans. the story of one of the world's most famous art scores about. a journey to its origins and its most important location just. how much of our house remains in our modern world. powerhouse spirit building the future. thirty. w. . ten year olds mancino has caught on to official lady she's a refugee from the civil war in syria now she and her family i'm eating into. she's also getting help in un succumbing to invisible. children. be

looking forward to germany could go its mark all along but right doesn't come germany out of his own proposals so speech is difficult for merkel am i sure if i am in the ranji crisis you have this formula of the shots and those will manage it but the speech is difficult you can do that and that's ok it's another style but you could but i would imagine for posey any fact and the insights that's true if you want is not an icing on the issue really european i mean she didn't she was great as you are here i think she is but she grew up in the europe she grew up in east germany she grew up she didn't she didn't grow up like my kong who as a child you know was fourteen. so he's never known anything else than europe and you know traveling this is something that i mean it's a very it's an emotional thing but it sits in the in the bones something like thirty years ago. or two years ok i want to time for speeches probably passed at this point and that's i think the challenge yes it is ok the question we have been addressing today most america who's leading in europe who who is sitting on the f

people in germany and europe. america is a great country and even though we may have differences, we have to talk about this. this land of freedom and this great country still remains very attractive. so i continue to say that. and yes, germany and europe have to take their destiny in their own hands and during the cold war when germany was divided and relying on america helping us. we will have to increase our contributions to america. and america has been very much engaged and broadly engaged in parts of the world that are far away from america and they have said, well, what's in it for us. the president saying you ought to have some more sharing. so in a way, we are maturing and growing after the second world war, people were happy for germany not becoming engaged because during the period, we created incredible interest. but this period is more than the period. so we as germans have to learn a few months and proud to be the second largest member of nato. and from the president's perspective not fast enough. bu

administration germany is a kind of an enemy like china boycotting economic germany that is an enemy like try and off i set kind off course testes as up last india and detroit badlands and as always showing up and talking about trade an economy stuff like that and if it comes to two things like foreign policies and germany's often say ok just do it and good luck but not involved in it and that's also a big problem and what they see in washington and what makes it more difficult for america to get. along this this trial so it didn't help her case i think when when she arrives in washington that germany didn't participate in the air strike on syria. well against this backdrop what about the european project which many commentators say is in danger of falling apart that's why in one arm across servant lee believes that france and germany must work closely together to come up with fundamental reforms will it happen though well when the french and german leaders met here in berlin recently the messages were distinctly mixed. the want to do is anything but romantic in mid april chancellor

they simply do not see that there's a lot of internal pressure here in germany for germany not to be too loose with german taxpayers' money which still is the underlying fear here that countries that are heading for trouble that particularly it's really could be having an eye on solving its own domestic issues particularly its teetering banks that on the back of german taxpayers' money there simply is no appetite for that and this is been the national debate here certainly in germany so the macro is under pressure to look very stern on that particular issue at the same time it's notable that mano a markhor prefers to also talk about the larger issue when he spoke before the european parliament on to say he spoke about european values that this really is high time to stop countries looking inward now this is something that german chancellor merkel herself is also very aware of but we can't really expect any big announcement to come out of this meeting today a lot of this is symbolism and showing common intent to simply make europe work because that's one thing both sides definitely ag

in may of 1949, west germany was created. in september of 1949, conrad is elected chancellor of the new federal republic of germany. in october stalin creates his own new east german state and now the geographic borders of the cold war conflict are effectively frozen for 40 years. let me talk briefly about the marshall plan itself. what did it actually achieve in western europe, and how did it do that? what was it, everyone likes to focus on the money. it was 13-point to billion dollars spread over four years. to put that in a contemporary context, if we were to do a marshall plan of equivalent size in terms of percentage of our annual output, that would be $800 billion. this was a significant amount of money. what did it do? the participants of the 16 marshall recipient countries did recover very dramatically over the years from 1947 to 1952, output increased by over 60% in the early accounts of the marshall plan tend to just describe that all to the marshall plan and leave it at that. eventually, my fellow economist started

and the female future for germany's social democrats the s.p.d. is electing a new leader today it's likely to be rising star andrea now this she'll be the first woman to take charge of germany's over this particular can she still years of decline. hello and welcome my name is chris to the spring a good to have you with this. is facing a deepening political crisis after its new prime minister seven shots can see on walked out of talks with the opposition earlier today the country has seen ten consecutive days of protest since because john became prime minister after serving ten years as president under a revised constitution the prime minister now has the most executive power in armenia while the presidency has become largely ceremonial second sounds critics. he wants to rule a meaningful life protest is a calling for him to step down. on the line now not a safe area an independent research yet of on the armenian capital there are conflicting reports on whether the opposition leader nico posh union has been arrested or not what are you hearing. ind

was for me germany is. so most us la germany is the country i grew up in the cologne dialect is my mother tongue but i also see germany as a difficult home and yes. i feel that puts me in here i have to use an expression from the field of psychology in a double blind. and i can't leave but i can't necessarily stay. there are times when i just have to leave it there are times when a certain type of discourse certain exclusion mechanisms simply drive me to distraction so far. but then there are other times when i'm really heartened by the investment that people here make and democracy. is if he invests yes indeed they will cut a deal like me they're willing to defend and promote democracy diversity and acceptance. and not just tolerance and it's not followed on so far tidying will fall on so. many facts my pleasure. you're a max highlights of the. extraordinary russian artist conjures images of paper. extravagant visiting milan and the world's most important furniture in design. extra choice discover madrid i

it is a middle eastern discussion in germany so i find both halfs and i just wanted to struggling with each other. well first of all i think israel was founded not only because of the holocaust there would have been a state of israel or a kind of a as an institution entity in palestine with or without the holocaust this is important i think the lesson is much more to think we have to remember from the holocaust especially now that we are moving from remembering the holocaust as having the holocaust as a part of the human history because the last victims and the last perpetrators are dying. is the university stick lessons it gives us. and i must say you know when you speak of the israelis only seventy years old and we have to let to give you time we have a basic construction full in the in the in the heart of this beautiful house called the state of israel and this is a failed partnership with palestinians. course among the great writers said a few days ago in the israel palestinian commemoration day he said israel will not be home by date in arabic without us to be able without the pal

ambassador to germany why was there such a delay. well for once that was not on the trumps fault he nominated the new ambassador richard grinnell in september of last year but has met a lot of opposition from the democrats in the senate because as mr trump mr going out as very outspoken on twitter has made a number of very controversial statements among other things targeting a number of women and so the democrats the opposition in the senate has tried to drag out the confirmation process as much as possible but now he has been confirmed and he's a diplomat a former diplomat at least and now will be a diplomat again he already has some contacts to some members of the german government the new health minister again spawn for instance who has congratulated mr via twitter on so so this might be a useful channel of communication for the future what is form one of the specifically german issues that dr merkel wants to take up with mr trump well i think she's very much in line with mccall and to two items were on the top of the agenda one

remains behind the walls of this detention center in northern germany. and that's likely to remain the case after prosecutors in the state of schleswig found spain's extradition request to be legally admissible. we protect the statutory offenses listed in the european arrest warrant namely rebellion and best use of public funds correspond to the offenses under german law and high treason of misappropriation. we came to the conclusion that there is a correspondent. just over a week ago travel to finland from his self-imposed exile in belgium to attend a conference and meet makers. facing arrest by finnish or thora he tried to return to belgium. but police detained him shortly after he crossed the danish german border ever since handfuls of his supporters have been demonstrating outside the northern german detention center where he's now being held. but we got him there if. i see extradition is a betrayal of the european union's values. as a politician with ideals that oppose those of the spanish government but differences are the basis of our coexistence

-- and we too here in germany. at 70, what does it mean to you? lots of trouble, lots of challenges, but i want to break the gloom and doom factor we are about to launch here. it has been 70 years for what was an incredible act of statehood. this in the context of nation building 70 years is not a long time, and these challenges israel is facing, some of them are pressing and need to be solved sooner rather than later. they cannot overshadow everything. we need to still keep in mind -- offer bank -- ofer was talking about his parents' memory. if you put this in context, it brings us back to 1948 to the survivors of the holocaust, one of the biggest tragedies, most atrocious parts of human history . coming together and managing to .uild this state , when youthing that think about it, it is hard not to be touched. >> when you talk about these achievements, what are you the most out of? -- most proud of? shani: the culture. these are the thinkers and writers and poets. they bring us hope. these are the things that kee

mexico is in the same world cup group as germany in twenty fourteen germany won the tournament for a fourth time and mccambridge has a theory on why it's going to happen again this year. this video aside england are going to win the world. one of the draw with spain and i want to speak to brazil not exactly what you'd call peak form going into a world cup. i don't hear it but germany is a very friendly i should note england beat them in berlin before euro twenty sixth we all know how about to. start on a day so forget friendly germany's ability to turn it on when it really matters it's one of the reasons they're so feared on the international stage since going out in the first round of euro two thousand and four germany have made at least the semifinals in every major tournament since. including being crowned world champions in twenty fourteen and this tournament will be no different why because you'll be loeb is a man with a plan. other nations are still trying to figure out their best eleven year he looks at a pretty good idea of his since the start of qualifying so much so that he

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germany could. facilitate could be an honest broker just as the united states could be an honest broker the problem is that they when they say it has to be the two sides who come up with a solution we are not neutral as western countries in this equation we the western countries the united states germany have given close to unconditional support militarily economically and politically to israel while denying this to the palestinians so they're not honest brokers they are not neutral in this equation if they were then i think that there could be progress over. it's interesting when high cost and u.f.o. minister of germany and to the office in his fist speech he said the reason they went into politics is auschwitz. and it was coulter's all over and it was it was. given as an example that he's going to have no different israel politic than his and precise or is it my goblet but the government as well said i am in politics because of my father who was a national socialist all the way until he died so gr

by dividing germany. they called it a fresh perspective on the marshall plan and the washington plan described the agencies and policies that oversaw and executed the marshall plan. he wrote elegantly on economics, explaining complicated mechanisms that were used to fuel the western european recovery. is a senior fellow and director of international economics at the council on foreign relations. please help me welcome him to politics and prose. >> thank you very much. it is great to be back at politics and prose, this is such a wonderful washington institution. thank you for coming out on a windy weekend afternoon. when i decided that i wanted to write my own book on the marshall plan, it had been done a few times before but the thing that intrigued me most about it was the endless desire to repeated and the patpast five years we have had calls for marshall plans in ukraine and greece in southern europe and north africa and gaza and most recently in syria, but the old original one has never been replicate

most of the muslims that were born in germany are turkish they came to germany even turkish was still a lysis country so what i told us look at look at the turkish. tradition if you fire back to them and you want to integrate i didn't see any problem but if you want to radicalize your lifestyle if you want to become. styled or islamic fanatic i. think that your players as better outside germany don't inside. member of the party germany thank you for your time. thanks karen. football now the relations between the u.k. and russia might be at an all time low indeed but that doesn't stop british football fans from travelling to moscow for the europa league head of the sayers car moscow arsenal game on thursday that media outlets run threatening articles of her blood and death for english supporters potentially. met with one arsenal fan it didn't turn out there were instantly to see if the headlines were true or not. just on my way to consider you a very prominent hostile fan going to be all seeing him when he travels from moscow does he have any fear is regarding the political tension bet

was from a germany is. so most of germany is the country i grew up in the cologne dialect is my mother tongue but i also see germany as a difficult home and yes. i feel that puts me in here i have to use an expression from the field of psychology in a double blind this is kind of i can't leave but i can't necessarily stay with us there are times when i just have to leave but there are times when a certain type of discourse certain exclusion mechanisms simply drive me to destruction so far. so but then there are other times when i'm really heartened by the investment that people here make in democracy. if you invest in india they will cut you they're like me they're willing to defend and promote democracy diversity and acceptance. and not just tolerance and it's not followed on so far tied. down across many facts my pleasure. in good shape in good shape is having celebration of the tenth anniversary and for celebration this together with you we asked you to send us your most favorite home remedies and to do.

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we enter torah on the roof overlooking france and germany. home that's over then you can see the black forest of their of the mountains though the hardest to see and that is the cathedral. every year the e.u. names two cities as the european capitals of culture with the aim to and i quote highlight the richness and diversity of cultures in europe this year the baton was handed to lou martin and the netherlands as well as by letter on the island of malta and that's where we're headed right now to europe's smallest capital. the letter may be a capital but it has just six thousand residents of the island state of malta has a total population of less than four hundred fifty thousand people here spend lots of time outdoors the streets of a letter generally bustling thanks to the mild mediterranean climate locals are happy the city has been named twenty eighteen european capital of culture. is a magical place it's. you know it has so much history on this financier it's the sixteenth century so many people from the night so forth to have come by and

but germany is a key ally of israel and we can talk to our political correspondent thomas sparrow to talk about those ties between the two countries hi thomas tell us more about israel and germany's relationship and what sets it apart well what sets it up pops so me is essentially its history and that's something that. additions have stressed on on various occasions are something that i'm going to go also mentioned as a pot of germany's reason of state the right of existence through to israel that's something that germany's foreign minister heikal mas also stressed in his inaugural speech saying that he entered politics because of auschwitz he then also went to israel a few days later even if you look at the coalition agreement the new coalition agreement of the german government there's a chapter on israel where the israel and relationships with israel i described is a pillar of german politics so you can certainly say that the relationship between germany and israel is very important some even describe it as unique it has been important historically thomas how would you describe ti

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charm offensive in germany a manual now called arrives in berlin for talks with the chancellor angela merkel he's got a big ideas for reforms for the european union but will germany be on board for change that comes with a hefty price tag we'll go live to have coverage and analysis also coming up israel turns seventy after memorial day for israel's fall and now comes the festivities lasting until saturday night in jerusalem prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcome to the real seeds of peace and from some of israel's arab neighbors and a twist in an apparent anti semitic attack that has stoked outrage in germany a young man tells to w. that he and his friends were beaten up for wearing the kick but in burlesque and they weren't even jewish plus for almost six decades cuba has been cashed country he dealt with power in the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution and handed it on to his brother raul ten years ago now this man may get d.s. come out of his taking the hounds but will he be looking down a different path. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program french president among you i'm u

and journalist tom segev talking with me a short while ago from jerusalem meantime in other news in germany an attack on tuesday evening has raised concerns for the safety of jews in the capital city berlin two young men say that they were beaten up for wearing a traditional head covering for jewish men in a twist it turns out that the pair aren't jewish but were they kept to show a friend that it wasn't dangerous german chancellor angela merkel has condemned the alleged incident and promised to take action. the victim recorded the incident with his smartphone but that didn't stop his attacker. the attacker repeatedly shouted. which means do and of his victims a twenty one year old israeli and his twenty four year old german moroccan friend. and the attacker was led away by his companion for the attacks. the two victims spoke with d.w. and explained that they are not even jewish that the yarmulke was a bit of a game an experiment to find out how dangerous it would be to walk around berlin as a jew the result a shotgun and let's not. i could not sleep at all last night. my body in various pl

and a female future for germany's social democrats the s.p.d. is electing a new leader today it's likely to be rising star and trillion dollars she'll be the first woman to take charge of germany's oldest party but can she stop years of decline. and. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us armenia is facing a deepening political crisis today after its new prime minister said a shot at sea on walked out of talks with the opposition earlier today the country has seen ten consecutive days of protests and socks young became prime minister after serving ten years as president under a revised constitution the prime minister now has most of the power in. i mean here the executive power that is while the presidency has become launched the ceremonial start sounds critics say he wants to do all media for life protesters are calling for him to step down. on the line now not a safe area and independent research instead of on the armenian capital there are conflicting reports on whether the opposition leader nicole posh ini

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bush money is in germany is a strong country. gums that we have achieved so much we can do this and if something him to resign we must overcome it india. going where it's uncomfortable global news that matters w made for mines. the relationship between german israelis well it's rational because something about it is like we're based on and mutual trauma it's most of the time very very complex . sometimes the trauma makes you love each other more times it makes you. feel afraid of each other. there were no cost to the holocaust just down the fates of base two nations more closely than one could have imagined. that it was. really just the past is always there in the background but that creates a very special bond and sometimes horrific events bring people closer together than happy ones. amidst the snow mollified by i don't think the relationship can ever be normal but that's ok that may not be so bad things are definitely better than seventy years ago no one's being gassed that's an improvement for their civil. the song. or a walk

but as for what has germany been doing with regard to north korea. well that we don't know i was actually surprised that he was mentioning this point the journal hey let's just say that that's also so interesting that he was talking about a maximum pressure campaign as though there was any kind of a foreign policy agenda that's not something we've seen in the first one and a half years of donald trump's administration and this is also something we probably should forget that the foreign policy vision doesn't really exist many of the things are contradictory many of the things that trump did on one day are the opposite of what he did a couple of weeks later so i think this is what merkel brit recognizes that ok he wants to be perceived at home as somebody who is in church as somebody who knows how to lead and so you know grant him that but at the same time try to negotiate behind closed doors a final brief word to you claire richards in which is that in washington. they this veterans affair saga just round it up for us who went and and why has donald

we take a look at religious musicians and germany's christian pop scene. and really the wrap up filled eloquent. most religious service have music the band printed on priest the show it can rock to the christian pop band got together through debased youth church services which of brothers and founding members you were not on and still must have been organizing for the past ten years topics father went to check out one of the events. outside cologne cathedral to use a church service with a difference is in full swing the organizer and headline act is currently going to piece down german for kings and priests the band members in three brothers thomas and your new time in. wasilla kids who want to music is what the church be without music is the best music in the church centuries ago with composers like bach. the church was for the best of the best. where are they now we want to be the generation to bring new creativity because god has created the problem isn't it fun celebrating god here in . the city center. this is concept meets prayer and it has the bless