we do have challenges in france, challenges in germany. i was in germany earlier this week. not sure the whole of europe is yet into recession. we are not yet there. let's talk about some of the optimism which is being sprinkled across the front pages of the japan times. japan and the eu, the free—trade pact between these two areas, coming into force. six years of negotiations to get us to this point in it covers something like a third of the world economy. that is good news in japan third of the world economy. that is good news injapan is of course the third largest economy in the world, still very important. this story is particularly interesting because in the context of the earlier story we we re the context of the earlier story we were talking about with brexit. those in favour of brexit have a lwa ys those in favour of brexit have always talked about easy trade deals. this is a classic example that these deals take a long time to negotiate. that is quite quick. frankly, this is the kind of trade the united kingdom might be looking to with the eu post brexit. it is not

i mean i was involved when for example do you know i really was in money land i was speaking with the with the embassy here in germany and i was calling the airport and. the end of the story was that family members came to the airport and took her back and specifically believe that i want to talk about this case though is there evidence of the of the saudi embassy being complicit red relatives in saudi arabia to try and influence these women to bring them back to saudi do you have evidence of that. i mean we had another case where somebody really went to the embassy and was talking with them a woman and but she didn't go back to saudi arabia but the saudi embassy definitely tries to make them come back all right stefan painter from atheist refugees a relief thank you so much for joining us and his annual state of the union stahl addressed russian president vladimir putin has made a thinly veiled threat directed at the united states putin used part of his address to say that moscow will respond to any u.s. deployment of a shorter intermediate range nuclear weapons in europe by targeting not just the countries where th

germany. the months no one wants to become unilaterally dependent on russia but during the cold war i was still living in east germany and we only got russian gas anyway but the former west germany also imported a lot of its gas from russia and i don't know why the times are supposed to be so much worse now that we don't say russia's still a partner. america also spoke out against threatened us tariffs on german cars trump claims that all too imports are a threat to national security but marital poing to doubt the german companies also produce cars in america. trumps daughter did not seem impressed. though continued with a passion of police for multilateralism and corporation at the end standing ovations risking communiqué. mike pence didn't even arrive in the auditorium until after american speech he responded to the issue of germany's business links with russia with the threat. we cannot ensure the defense of the west if our allies grow dependent on the east with that the us vice president also criticised over iran. applause for pence was more restrained than it had been for america. but desp

own future i find it tragic that we're not trusted to stand up for our own concerns it isn't just in germany that this is being suggested though in belgium a regional environment minister was forced to resign after she falsely claims that intelligence chiefs had told her there was a shadowy hand behind the protests i know he is behind this movement have also been told that from stay security climate demonstrations are more the spontaneous actions of solidarity with our climate we have not reported anything about this neither verbal nor in writing in australia the prime minister was fairly blunt in saying the protesters were little more than a bit of a nuisance kids should go to school we do not support our schools being turned into power or what we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools these young protesters aren't finding a receptive ear amongst the world's leaders as they try to save the planet but they will inherit centrist forces both in the u.s. and in europe have been trying to deflect attention to russia whenever there are key issues that are coming up from the streets and from communities in their countries these are the same issues that. bo

million britons live in other european union countries about one hundred fifty thousand of them in germany i was there is done it came reports from berlin of what breaks it will mean for british residents there . at home in pensacola barrack composer and musician richard scott experiments with mixing up sounds he performs right across the e.u. but now fears his british nationality could make that much harder so i guess what i would most like to be is not a playing card or a chess piece and we were told at the beginning that we weren't going to be you know we're not going to be trading with people's lives but that's exactly what is happening on both sides so yeah i feel like i'm a i'm a pawn in some game but i have no control over however britain does leave the e.u. its citizens will then find themselves having to register at places like this office for foreigners it's thought around one hundred fifty thousand british citizens are living and working in germany right now perhaps around sixty percent of them have lived here long enough to qualify to obtain german citizenship but that still leaves t

germany. and so what they did was a fudge. and it was really i think lord george's fund but it seemed to satisfy public opinion and the allied countries. what they did, they set a bill, they set in the treaty the responsibility for germany it pay. this was the infamous article 231 which says germany accepts responsibility, germany and its allies accepts responsibility for starting the war. and that came to be known as the war guilt clause. which the germans resented deeply. what they then said is how much germany will pay will depend on how much germany can pay, and how much the bill actually and so the figure was not to be set until commissions had met, to look at these issues. in the end, what they came up with was a real fudge. there was a certain amount that germany had to pay immediately in gold and kind. that was the a tranche. the b branch were bonds to be issued by the german government, that was a slightly bigger slice. the c tranche which is by the far the biggest would not be due until germany paid the first two, so can you imagine wha

the silver bearer for best director went to germany. for i was at home but. about the return of a prodigal teenager. best male lead and best female lead went away on and young made the stars of so long my son a chinese film that was also a favorite for the golden bear but controversy over another chinese film had threatened to overshadow the festival. we as members of the international jury at the betting that. regret that we were not able to consider one of the film selected to compete this here. that film is one second one second deals with the chinese cultural revolution it was pulled from competition officially due to technical difficulties but many suspected fell foul of chinese government censors charlotte shell some pill and scott roxboro have been following the festival the bell i know it's made its name as the most political of the festivals this year the jury went as far as to say they were looking for me these where the past will collide with the political and that was in evidence with all the films that won this year and i think it's a real tribut

troops coming out did not seem like it was met with a lot of happiness over in germany. >> i was thereot of issues. mainly angela merkel giving her final speech, and angry at the administration. but from a political perspective, i would love to know what the 2020 democratic candidates think about this, what do they want to do? and this is real world stuff that the guys need to start answering, and i think you know, not that we want the stuff to be political, but it is. and if the president is forcing 2020 democrats to defend these actions or defend what to do with the terrorists it is a winner for him every day. >> bret: panel, thank you, when we come back, little forecasts to vietnam. ♪ uh uh - i'm the one who delivers the news around here. ♪ liberty mutual has just announced that they can customize your car insurance . . i don't keep track of regrets. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on... is boost® delicious boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals. boost® high protein. be up for life. >> bret: fina

say shortly after arriving in germany they received threatening messages from their families. before i knew my family knew i was in germany in one city all of that info so they're threatened me with my location can animate or not i am sure that through their connections with the saudi embassy and through the saudi embassies connections and it's spies that are everywhere they can get information but i do not know the kind of information and what they know exactly in my heart of no way you talk to me a ten minute mark to loose. some activist claim that the cases of murder and russia l. are part of a wider pattern. people are followed we have people breaking into apartments and the families back home always know exactly what is happening these patterns are repeating themselves. we just ask ourselves does every family do this individual pay someone here in germany. that would take a huge effort or could someone else be behind us on the suspicion is of course that maybe the saudi embassy is the one starting all this. we spoke to several parties dealing with saudis seeking asylum abroad they suggested that the saudi

germany was ignoring certain provisions. territoryuld lose though most of that was inhabited by non-german speakers. it did lose population. but most of it was non-german. i don't think germany would've liked any treaty -- people who lose court cases do not usually say the judge was fair and reasonable. the germans had persuaded themselves that they would not be treated harshly. the real issue for the germans was reparations. that they should have to pay for the damage done to belgium and france and the other allied countries. from the belgium -- from the ofgian and french a point view, of course, germany should pay. from the british point of io, it ,- from the british point of io -- of view, they were pushed. they had had to lend money and borrow money from the u.s. for their own war effort. they needed funds from somewhere. the british wanted their fair share of reparations. they were also prepared to support the others in demanding reparations from the defeated nations, in particular germany. they knew they would not get that much out of germany. they fudged. it seemed to satisfy public opinion. treaty the the responsibility that germany should pay --

he's very much in favor of our products now here in germany where i was speaking to you from the still undecided but it's widely understood that the government here in berlin is against an outright ban at the moment. and there is another torrent of tech in cyber security news we told you about new zealand earlier well jumping over the sea to australia prime minister scott morrison says the major australian political parties have been a target of cyber attack and the evidence suggests a sophisticated state actor. is the culprit australia's scheduled to go to the polls for a federal election in may but mr morrison said there's no evidence of an attempt to produce any specific outcome sources told the sydney morning herald the attack was very specific aid which seems a narrow the list of possible suspects to the world's best cyber spies who are believed to operate on behalf of china israel russia and the united states. and finally there's been an electronic intrigue of float of foot in the united kingdom where legislators say regulators must step in because facebook is incapable of regula

was an ever present for germany's under twenty one's. eye today vote scouts in germany and austria fastenal. so there you have it more as the day i was discussing work here in germany in the bundesliga has quite a few young players from the english premier league coming in why do you think that is for the various reasons for it. at the moment is a generation of highly talented players in england that's one point. especially of the kind that we currently lek in german youth football and difference makers attacking players flair players we see the effect that jade and son show and rhys nelson just a name to have had this season. then with that comes the good experience of dalton and hoffenheim with the name too that will obviously made it make it an attraction to other clubs to follow the same route we know how easily a trend is established in football in general so we'll see that and then also i think a part of it is. the systematic approach of english clubs such as chelsea such as manchester city having a loan system in place where they try to tell and very early and then used clubs and various leaks to to get the sort of final p

germany was. good though was. i. hear. but politicians including those who've previously been outspoken on humanity's need to act when it comes to the climate aren't impressed the german chancellor going as far as to suggest that a third party may be at play here is if you believe the critics this hybrid warfare online is hard to detect because you suddenly have movements that you wouldn't have thought happened in germany children and all three settings of our client protection it's an important concerns but you can't imagine that all german children after years and without any outside influence come up with the idea that they have to take part in those protests all those comments came just after chancellor merkel had talked about russia as a potential threat well her spokesperson had to step in in the end and clear things up to say that mrs merkel did support the commitment of those protesters but ideas and talk of hybrid warfare doesn't wash with the protesters or their supporters. longside hybrid war for one except that

i didn't know what the holocaust was. and that i didn't understand that germany started world war ii. ose things percolated in need for a long time. was 15, my mother passed away suddenly. i never had the chance. in an adult way, -- i never had the chance, in an adult way, to have conversations with her on what kind of questions she put to her parents, and what they said. i had place, the person to turn to who could help me understand this was my grandmother. time whengood deal of i was in college for my undergraduate thesis interviewing my grandmother about her experience of world had been uphat she to, how she had gotten to where , and those stories spent a lot of time turning over in my mind. sit downecame time to and write in the book i knew i wanted to write at some point, they came back to the surface. don: when did you learn that your parents were not just not seized but that they ran a youth camp? theyca: i had always known were ordinary germans, and like many germans of my generation, i said if people would say, what does that mean? we're grandparents nazis? i would say no, th

i was in germany now i chancellor angela merkel has sparked outrage among environmental activists by implying recent student protests against climate change were triggered by an outside influence influences that ati's europe correspondent peter all of our reports protests demanding on climate change of scene of young people on the streets of cities across the world including here in germany. i yet ah ah. the. boots politicians including those who have previously been outspoken on humanity's need to act when it comes to the climate to imprest the german chancellor going as far as to suggest that a food party may be at play here if you believe that kicks this hybrid online he is haunted attacked because you saw. only have movements that you wouldn't have thought would happen in germany children and all protesting over climate protection it's an important concern but you can't imagine that all german children after years and without any outside influence come up with the idea that they have to take part in those protests those comments came just after chancellor merkel had talked about

i didn't know what the holocaust was. and that i didn't understand that germany started world war ii. those things percolated in me for a long time. when i was 15, my mother passed away suddenly. i never had the chance in an adult way to have conversations toh her about what it meant grow up in her house on what kinds of conversations she had with her parents and what kinds of questions she put to them. what they had said. in her place, the person i had to turn to who could help me try to understand this was my grandmother. i spent a good deal of time when i was in college for my undergraduate thesis interviewing my grandmother about her experience of world war ii and what she had been up to, how she had gotten to where she got, and those stories spent a lot of time turning over in my mind. when it became time to sit down and write the book i knew i wanted to write at some point, they came back to the surface. donald: when did you learn that your grandparents were not just nazis, but that they ran a youth camp? jessica: i had always known they were ordinary germans, and like many germa

say shortly after arriving in germany they received threatening messages from their families. before i knew my family knew i was in germany in one city all of that info so they threatened me with my location can animate not i am sure that through their connections with the saudi embassy and through the saudi embassies connections and it spies that are everywhere they can get information but i do not know the kind of information and what they know exactly in my heart of no way you touch commuting model marty loose look. some activists claim that the cases of murder and russia l. are part of a wider patent. you have people are followed we have people breaking into apartments and the families back home always know exactly what is happening these patterns are repeating themselves. we just ask ourselves does every family do this individual you don't pay someone here in germany. that would take a huge effort or could someone else be behind us and the suspicion is of course that maybe the saudi embassy is the one starting all this. we spoke to several parties dealing with saudis seeking asylum abroad they suggested th

accept and i think that is really the point you let's talk about this meeting and that took place in in europe where it was a major meeting of this so-called international contact group germany was one of them if i understand correctly basically testing the waters for a democratic transition in venezuela but the u.s. interesting lee was not part of this contact group so i'm just wondering how effective can this group be but look we have we are trying to make a contribution as european countries and we are looking at when israel has a very important player in the region it's a rich country it's a big country and has an impact on regional stability and we endure up experience the political impact of taking more than men hundreds of thousands of refugees also in this country and missed them a duras way to run bankrupt the country has produced more than three million refugees so we made it clear that we are ready to support the democratically elected national assembly and that we are ready to support the people of an israel or by delivering humanitarian aid and we want to achieve this by peaceful means so there's enough on the table also to mr mudd duren tests his team to talk w

germany with a student visa. i just wanted a better future and the only country that accepted syrians at the time was germany . and a colleague told me that he knew a man who could obtain a visa for me who lived in germany in the city of lights so i contacted him and he said that he could get me papers proving i had a place at the university of life for fifteen hundred euros and. this was. the young man paid the one thousand five hundred euros and four months later he received disto comment it's confirmation of an application to study medicine and i think and that even though his grades do not meet the university's requirements for this cause. he says he's not the only one who received a document like that from the university of leipsic. it's going to be what saved or i know more than ten people who got to germany through that guy and there are probably more of them that i don't know. the whole thing works like this the syrians go with the documents from leipzig to the german consulate in lebanon and jordan or in turkey. dead they receive a so-called student application is a that allows them to enter germany. t

crisis in some twenty fourteen and national i don't was diagnosed with breast cancer at the time her husband was leader of the evangelical church in germany he made a radical decision. who had to veto when i heard that the treatment would involve twenty four chemotherapy surgery and then radiation and that it would take a year it was evident to me that i should resign. there are the chairman of the council of the evangelical church in germany nicholas snyder will resign to be with his wife who is suffering from cancer somewhat perplexed how can somebody give up the highest office in the evangelical church for personal reasons and the dogs it hears i want to have more time for my wife. and my family for me to be. no scandal no professional misjudgment a resignation from the highest post in the church to be available for his wife it was a remarkable decision and true admiration from the general public to schneider his life was more important than his career from this point on he accompanied his wife to every therapy appointment it was always there for her then schneider. sparked a hated public debate she spoke openly about her wish for an a

men's national team and also one of his best friends in germany i mean him he was my first ride on the national in whatever i think will be fourteen thirty. and i would sit next to each other on the bus and i used to have a square ball is a square in his ear and in our waterways this court in theory mean we have a lot of good memories he's a. inspiration for so many kids in america not just in america for around the world no one expects that to happen at such a young age but giving us the opportunity to show what we have at a young age is is you know the biggest thing and i'm lucky to have had that storm and yeah it's been it's been very very. pretty implicit is already out here on the local kids grown up american folk. helped put soccer on the map there's a lot more interest than there used to be. and christians help to hate bron james more christian polish in jersey so that should tell you everything you need to know . what will come and you know all the while going to myself i'm going to play the white. kilo. then yes on. the other. oh my god i'm. thameslink is finally back with so

exactly we've seen it we we've seen that was the money was going to germany i think that because he was not. going to be the voice specially outside the face in europe that is going to show. what they independently movement want to do about the want to do up to trial they want to show the world broadly a state stated it's not a birthright democracy it's trialling i'm not a right. ok i'm even asked us we'll have to leave it there journalist time even asked reporting outside of the supreme court there in madrid thank you so much. now to some other stories making news around the world at least seventeen people have died in a fire at a hotel in india's capital delhi most were sleeping when the blaze broke out early on tuesday morning rescue team saved thirty five people from the building of the disaster is race questions about safety standards and a lack of government regulation. anti-government protests in haiti are growing increasingly violent demonstrators took to the streets of the capital port au prince for a fifth day on monday clashing with police and vandalizing shops the protests a

some of the same i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. i got my license to work as a swimming instructor sure knowledge to children one hundred of us was one of the toughest decisions. what's your story take part cherish on info my greenstock missed. a couple of. play. this is e w news live from berlin is this the end of our control. the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the i.m.f. treaty effective february second. the united states says that it will pull out of a key nuclear disarmament pact in six months will be a lot.

. >> i was drafted in 1964, i was sent to germany rather than vietnam and i was thankful for that, but anyway, i was eligible for va healthcare and in 2012 i had successful: cancer surgery. i got excellent care there, i couldn't say anything better about the va than the des moines va. some of the va healthcare is private, what is your opinion on that? >> i was very concerned about that, right now we have a lot of agencies and government run by people who don't believe in government. there are real consequences so that the va to environmental protection. understand and sympathize with conservative impulses that want government to do a better job but if you don't believe in it then we have a problem and i'm worried that that is what is motivating the conversations about the va. we know there are challenges with the va, especially when it comes to access and making sure more people access the benefits they are entitled to and when it comes to weight times but i'm glad you had a good experience in most the people have been well looked after as well . >> i want to make sure the veterans com