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germany's postal history. it's part of germany's never again mentality. the idea that the policies in the german calling that would never cooperate with the far right policy. and that is being the case in germany's entire post will history. but of course this is kind of come to the full for a lot more since the i f d. um, ended parliament for the 1st time in 2017. and this has been a, this was a huge to figure that was, that was broken last week. and whether or not, you know, maybe we can get it into whether or not this firewall is, it's a nose is really still standing, all the cracks. it isn't crumbling, every metaphor under the sun is being used in the last week, but it's certainly on shaky ground. yeah, we certainly will be getting further into that. in today's episode. i wanna ask ralph or so about merits pushing for these tough anti immigration policies. what do you think he hopes to gain from this? yeah, i think it was influenced by the last the tech of, as of it's happened in the bavarian tone of shopping book a 2 weeks ago. and the day after he presented a tough migration plan which was quite successful in german public and was very much a claimed. and that's uh, and he had the impressio

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germany year. it would kick germany into recession in this year year. it would kick germanythis year year. it would kick germany into recesr it would s year year. it would kick germany into recesr it would probably definitely. it would probably lead to stagnation or again below zero growth, in the range of 0-1% below zero growth, in the range of 0—1% in below zero growth, in the range of 0-1% in 2026. below zero growth, in the range of 0—1% in 2026. so this is a matter. " nastier] ' " nastier] iiép'é' ' " moi. hép'é it ' " moi. iiép'é it can serious matter. i hope it can be avoided. what do you expect germany's place in the world will look like? what will germany stand for in the years ahead? well, i think germany will stand for the issue, whether you can achieve the transformation and digital ai—enforced environment, yes or no? and i think that's true for all europeans. a bit, but the services part attached to that if we don't do that, if we fail on innovation become increasingly irrelevant. dr klaus deutsch, really good to have you on the programme this week. thank you for

germany has germany has been, it has not been firm. it's not had a large presence. it hasn't been usually. europe depends upon german leadership. germany is the 3rd largest economy in the world, is the largest economy in europe and, and it basically is the largest democracy in europe. and then when you have a weak germany with no firm leadership that impacts all of europe and are also impacts global stability as a result width merch, it's clear all along with the result would be that he would be the next chance. so the question is, the coalition, the composition of his coalition, if it winds up being a grand a coalition with 2 parties with marks and she the you sent the right and the send the left. and that, that puts them in a stronger position. if it has to go into a 3 party coalition, it gets in a week of position and then that week of is ition. it's the previous government. it was a 3 party coalition. so the main thing is the main question is, where we form that correlation with one of the party or 2 other parties with the after he's already said that he's not going to have any truck with the correlation as far as the f. c. the alt

from the board to tariff on imports from the european union are from germany, the european union are from germany, the direct from germanyfrom germany would be in the order of roughly 0.5% of the lower growth in the 1st year and a full percentage in year and a full percentage point in the 2nd 3rd year. this would the 2nd and 3rd year. this would kick into recession in kick germany into recession in this year definitely and lead year definitely and probably lead to stagnation or below 0, and stagnation or growth below 0, and the range of 0 or 1% in 2026, so isa is a serious matter and hope this is a serious matter and i hope be avoided. what will germany stand for in the years ahead? well, i think germany will stand for the issue, whether you can achieve the transformation of manufacturing into an environmentally—conscious and digital ai—enforced environment, yes or no? and i think that's true for all europeans. maybe the pure share of manufacturing decreases a bit, and so, you would see a successful transformation. or on integrating into innovation, into european production systems, europe will lose out in competitivenes

germany. it's already set is no time to lose. a coalition needs to be built fairly quickly. germany needs to show that there's going to be a strong euro of again, and europe is waiting for germany. germany is the largest economy in europe. and in the last couple of years, there's been a cause a since that the leader, all of souls was not strong enough to leave. europe will say this mass wants to do that completely differently. he is sad, but now he needs to be able to coalition, and that's going to be a tough task because we are waiting still for small parties to see if they manage to get into to them and call them and. and if they come get in, then it would be easier to form a 2 parties coalition. that's definitely something that they can, maxwell, i prefer because that's going to be a much more stable government. and that's something that he wants to offer a to, to well and to europe in a fairly difficult time. now we're looking at the relationship with the united states. a germany cons rely on protections from the united states any longer. and also the relationship with ross and also looking at you crate and family support for your brain. so we're expecting a more conservati

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um to germany in particular will a real estate by our side. you know, let's talk about germany, germany just hand and actions in utah. it's not to be finished, man, it's one so stronger your open is in favor of continued support for your brain does keep see germany as a stable partner of the feeling about this. a collection, 1st of all are here in key. it is very positive. one we, we are incredibly grateful to jo, money for all the health and all the refrain. kimball, slow foreign policy um, priorities. this happens over the last couple of years. but so we had a ceiling that so on the chancellor sauls know there are certain limitations to john leadership on the crane issue and to the whole that's a 3 to come out. so if he becomes the new chancellor, we'll expand the star. i sometimes we'll, we'll be of the leader was ready to make history in the time when history is made sense when, when you are a new charge of the us and russia kinda clean gauged in negotiation, sol, solved without ukraine and the you at the table. what are ukraine's options to get itself and the table? well, you princ

germany that decided it needed to take its security into its own hands? given that poland has been a victim of german aggression over the centuries? >> we are good allies with germany. germany is our biggest trading partner. and but remember, germany is banned from having nuclear weapons by its unification treaty and also has a ceiling of, i think 300,000 troops. but we need a partnership in europe to deter putin. uh, to do our bit. and and this is, uh, this is happening. >> youheory out what donald trump is doing is that he's trying to wean the russians off the chinese, off their tight alliance with, uh, with with china. do you think you've you've traveled extensively to both places. you've been foreign minister for two. this is your second time around. do you think it would work? >> well, trying to do a kissinger in reverse is, of course, a tempting intellectual construct. i think with the current solidarity of dictators between vladimir putin and and president xi jinping, it's is unlikely to succeed. uh, let us do what can be achieved, which is to support ukraine, to bring russia to her senses, withdraw from ukraine, and then we'll have a more peaceful world with a more

germany, it's about 10000 each year. many industrial companies are based here in the rural area and it's here that germany skilled labor shortage becomes especially apparent . germany has had 530000 skilled work has less than it needs. deep mckibbin to trains refugees and migrants to become trained dreyfus. he believes that without emigration, the problem can barely be solved, or as much as organs. uncertainly following behind and training skills was bringing enough into the workforce to revitalize our economy. hello, everyone. teach mode. cuba is a train up for a project of the education and craft foundation nelson, and it's going to integrate migraines into the workforce. well, funding gaps in the labor market today he's leading a senior recalls the father you. so you're in the 1st aid module. how's that material and keeping up too fast to cycle? hold on with me. it's not so long as i'm having is that for me sometimes the words are difficult, but i'm guessing by a creek assume you'll be okay. training to become a trained driver. takes the yeah, the project, click on in 2017 and educates about 300 participants annually before my name is oliver. today is a big day

germany. golden, the pinsky, the executive editor, germany for political news websites. and daniel golf thoughts, chief correspondent in europe, full vet shops of all the business weekly. here in germany are very welcome to all of you. let's start with we've had the results. and what does this result say about the current political move in germany? the current political mood is a mood of change. it's another window of change about the world of change. i think the people of germany was set up with the politics with the center. so center left politics, we saw the last 3 years and well they decided for change. but the center last yesterday. and the fall riots gained a lot of votes, so it will be very hard to, to, is in the coming years. but it's not a radical change. is it? is it sort of focus that correction to the right. but it's, it's not a radical change in terms of the possible coalition. i wouldn't say it's a radical change because now you have the opportunity to, to have a relatively stable government of the conservatives and the social democrats. but the that happened by chance we have to say also because one of the new populace parties, the b s. w. so the form of socialist leade

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germany, germany has not had a strong leader and quite some time. now with that election, hopefully providing more leadership in europe and some top lock the economy. without a strong germany, you don't have a stronger up and we're going to see more than likely a chance on march come in. we can provide greater direction. and at the same time, you also have, you know, in europe there's many elements, issues, the longer regulation the economy. it needs to be more dynamic in many ways, not just politically, but also we can all make all dish pulses within the context of the us with the new president or europe that's lacking the leadership at this time. and hopefully it's the values differences. your values are common sense, very common values are strong relationship with decades. this has been a time when it's been much most tested all the times that it's been tested as obviously single during the iraq war in 2003. but overall, at the end of the day, they realize they've, i realized in the past that in order to retain that strong global western presence against new emerging adversaries, particularly those that provision estates. this is china rushing north korea and iran they

there's so much focus on red tape within germany, high labor costs, high energy costs within germany, regulation within germany's important to remember, and you made this point earlier this morning that germany is still an export oriented economy. so to what extent is all is that all that's needed to restart the german economy? all these things that are domestically focused versus what's happening outside of germany? >> giuliani, you make an excellent point here. and obviously it's a combination of all of the above. we need stronger export. >> markets. >> but we know that chinese demand hasn't been as strong as in the past. and germany. >> very much has been. >> spoiled by that. >> there's overcapacity when it comes to, for example, the chinese car industry and the german companies. >> are very much. >> struggling with that. the us is a difficult one given the forthcoming tariffs. so i think they're fighting battles on many, many fronts here. but what is clear, coming back to the car industry, which has been the engine of growth, and of course that has been sputtering. it is very clear that the losses have bee

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social democrats in scandinavia, there are unrecognizable for social democrats in germany, germany, especially west germany, is very much the outlier in europe. and, and, and of course that's good. and then we want to preserve this. but at the same time, we also have to see how these trends are playing out. you know, on this, on the east eastern kind of issue that we have with in germany. there is an interesting thing that, you know, 56 years ago the interior ministry, 100 many, you know, they looked at a 110 or so associated economic indicators. and publish an atlas maps based on these data. and that was everything from educational levels to home, home ownership to you know, um you know, everything that you can imagine on every single map of these 110 items. eastern part the some parts of germany, the former dvr, was markedly different than the west. that is identity building. and if, if, if you have this profound sense of we are different, you start to build your own party system and that's happening. eastern germany now essentially has its own party system. almost none of the western parties play a role

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, the former east germany is where they have their strongest presence. and what was formerly western germany is predominantly the sent the right party. so we have to look at it. it's that i have a we strongly regional mark of thank you so much for breaking that down. first block of insincere. thank you very much. indeed. i am. 23 rebels are advancing a ne, in democratic republic of congo. but i wanted to invite the group of patients, they took the city of chicago and advancing towards the commercial have of little better modeling. what kind of reports from goldman? this police officers and because we used to work for the corporate is government put up to seem underwriting to him. can you to liberals noted training to work for them? no, no, no. so when we came to get an idea of the current.

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germany first theme tune — tough on migration, and old, they're tipped to become the second biggest translation: look i what's happened to our wonderful germany. we can't go on like this. parties doing well across europe. but germany but afd opponents don't believe her. the party is radical, they say, setting a dangerous example for the rest of europe too. they are a nazi party. it's like a racist party. the afd says it can solve all of germany's problems. germany will fall apart. focusing minds here, a string of attacks by migrants. young child was killed. very aware of that and afraid of losing votes to the afd, out of germany's next government. but the afd is crying foul. will boost their support even more next election, it says. katya adler, bbc news, berlin. "you can't take our country and you can't take our game," — canadian prime ministerjustin victorious against the united states at the 4 nations face—off final match in boston. canada scored in overtime. the stands. the �*soon—to—be 51st state'. celebrating thursday night. joining me live is senior nhl writer for the athletic mark lazerus. the game delivered of drama with that really fantastic in overtime. but 77: 'ust cannot 7 just cannot take the you jus

germany, in light of punched is the options that could be coming in such a key industry that would have major implications for the father and germany economy, the head of the general election date of this months. what economic implications and for, for the broader economy on germany of germany and what could be the political repercussions, as you say, elections that just around the corner. i mean, the cases are, 1st of all that germany in some ways is being squeezed on both sides. on the one hand, that kind of fits from the united states. on the other hand, by a massive import of chinese major electric vehicles. so the kindest piece trying to look how is it going to get out of that? the squeeze, it looks very difficult right now. if on top of the situation, you know, have tentative sense and the question whole was, then you have to react to that? are we going to face feet tell you, you're totally correct candidates? are we going to see extensive protectionism with some kind of alternative and reconciliation and politically then how, how is this going to play out? germany is, is going to the polls very soon. their elections around the corner. what could meet, what could it mean for the political parties competing in these elections? for so it could mean the spiral

immigration to germany, there's about 3.3 million people with various of refugee various forms of refugee- which is all—time status, which. is an all—time which puts germany high, which also puts germany welcomed a lot people...- -err*ec e -. people and it's time may achan-eto 7 achan-et that 7 7 a change to that policy7 7 a change to that policy 7at for a change to that policy at this point. for a change to that policy at this point- — this point. thank you so much for sharing — this point. thank you so much for sharing your _ this point. thank you so much for sharing your thoughts - this point. thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us. . ~' for sharing your thoughts with us. . ~ , ., on friday, prompting a major emergency response. city, according to the local fox29 channel. we'll bring you more updates when we have them. stay with us here on bbc news. thanks for your company, i'll have more for you at the top of j°.i.-n r- at. rre cor join us then. hello there. after a january that delivered more than its fair share of stormy, turbulent weather, the start of february does there will be some sunshine around this weekend — now on the satellite picture, you can see plenty o

germany. david: what do row make of that? >> argument of what free speech was responsible for natzi germany. the logic of that is we had the first amendment for more than 200 years and leading to gas chambers here in the united states and we have the freest of speech anywhere in the world. >> the approach of the rest of the world and going for them to accurately go for that and these models in germy and the model that the left wants to import and biden pressuring social media companies and they were adopting that approach on their own and the election through the switch where hopefully we've seen the end of the model in the united states and thousand there's a vice president of the united states going over to europe and telling that approach is wrong there too. david: of course, miranda, our economy is one of the wonders of the world and presenting the success of the economy example for decades and centuries to the rest of the world. then this crazy administration the last four years trying to import the european model. sort of semi-quasi socialist and leaders crying thinking about their future and et cetera. why import from europe a mete mediocre at best mod and he will at best people that keep the ball rolling with the exchange of getting donald trump. there's no contest? >> no, there isn't. trying to use europe for those social media regime and using here and we're not allowed and it's the first amendment and we saw that europe took that up. and hoping to suppress free speech in the elections for biden and european poo bear saying recently that jd vance mentioned in his speech that we cancelled the elections in romania and we can do the same thing in germanygermany is just about to have an election. there's a right wing populist anti-immigration group looking pretty like it's pretty competitive. david: and democracy be dammed. >> exactly, we'll cancel that. >> and migration is drive ago lot of this. what the european elite didn't want to have a debate over immigration and the europeans by in large don't support the open border policies from the elite and here is a much freer system and donald trump saying everything they don't want people to say in europe and public supports it. david: mollie, then we have zelensky and we've given him $200 billion more or less and can't find a lot of those billions that have seemingly disappeared and going for it not going to allow donald trump to negotiate some kind of understanding with russia unless he's a part of it. a million people were injured and the rigses lost about 400,000 and the ukrainians about 600,000. >> it's been horrific destruction in ukraine and nobody has talked about it as much as th

parties in germany and said there is no firewall and encouraged political parties hereto work with the far-right afd which is an absolute taboo in germany and that is all part of of course germany's history and part of its processing and atonement for the atrocities of the holocaust and the crimes committed by the nazi dictatorship. host: what is turnout expected to be like for today? guest: it is usually quite high, we can expect in the 70% range. but what's interesting is a lot of voters have said i think it was about 20% even up until the final days of the election campaign said they were still undecided. it seems there's been a boost of voters among the youth as well. being a particular difficult group to motivate. the question is who will they vote for. we've also seen a surge in the polls for the far left party. a lot of people want to vote for them and get them in -- get them to stay in parliament, there's a threshold of the crossover to get into german parliament which is 5% of the votes. and there's a hope a lot of their voters that they will then be able to ensure there is a voice in the german parliament that is more left than the current centerleft parties hurried it'

following his lecture, vance spent a half hour meeting with the leader of germany's germany's far right alternative for germanyarty, or afd, as it's known, a regional leader from that group has been convicted of spouting nazi rhetoric. the group has threatened to kick out german citizens who are not of german descent. in its 2017 election manifesto, afd asserted islam does not belong in germany, saying the mere presence of muslims in germany is a danger to the country. all right, panel, let's get into this. i guess the first question is to you, malik. should the united states vice president be lecturing u.s. allies? is this a good way to further diplomacy? >> maybe not as diplomatic as he could have been, but. >> this diplomatic answer. >> this sounds like, to be honest, it sounds like donald trump, donald trump in his first term when it came to our allies, really challenging them on paying more, because this thing has always been about americans paying a larger share, bearing a larger burden. but it sounds like jd vance is doing a riff off of that. um, whether or not it's effective, i don't know. and whether

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