shortage of skilled workers many young people abroad are desperate for work the program out of germany university brings budding graduates together with local companies. these high school graduates come from hungary bulgaria it's really croatia and spain on a spending four weeks of their vacation and most. they are here to boost their job opportunities whether here in germany or back home. the college combines academic studies with workplace training a unique concept. why you study a subject you also learn how to apply that knowledge in practice on the job this is think it's a big advantage because you already know the working environment when you've graduated thirty is going to how long it will gary you can only learn the theory. but you have no option for doing an internship. on the practical it's in my head. today the budding students can look forward to a meet and greet session with personal managers and training supervisors from local companies. those who make a good impression might be able to secure a work placement for their dual educational studies. as one didn't wonder for companies it'

heidelberg is the quintessential student town it's home to germany's oldest university it's over six hundred thirty years old. more than thirty thousand students are enrolled here. john b.j. yet i'm john is one of them he offered to show me around our first stop is the assembly hall it reminds me of a church. one of the long time it was used for teaching but today it's mostly reserved for concerts lectures and sermons and it's a place frequently shown off to tourists. like me exactly. the assembly hall is the showpiece of title back university's main building. next vino takes me to the library nearby it houses the priceless treasure codex monday said. hello and welcome to our historic round reading room once in a library and martin missing shows us the precious book well it's a copy but that means we can touch it and take a closer look. this is why it's a collection of german ballads and lyric poetry. and it's going to work for about one hundred forty singers are included here and the most famous his own daughter leave out of wonderful provider for vida that's a good thing to so it's

life as an author you know he studied architecture and actually when he was actually here in germany university and when he was studying he spent the time in the department of a collaboration with students then he went to. the american space agency and studied them and indeed for some time now he's been working with scientists on a project called arrowsmith which aims to separate flying from fossil fuels and in fact we see here this in twenty fifteen cents and it was involved in setting the record for the longest manned solar powered balloon flight this balloon home above the earth just. with one passenger nearly three hours now without any few whatsoever and are presume the the solar panels got heat in saw made the the air inside the balloon but i have to say i've been reading about this not said it's ever i'm not a physicist and i think it has to do with quantum physics which is even that far completely foreign language to me but it does it is very interesting i must say because we've got to get away from fossil fuels some time down the line and this is the work of lots of scientists i'm with

researches at the university of kaiser's loud turn in western germany have discovered that coffee can even affect your genes. were able to show that the regular consumption of coffee protects d.n.a. and that in turn could be associated with prevention of degenerative diseases like cancer or alzheimer's. in that study their research has looked at d.n.a. isolated from the blood of eighty four men half of the test subjects strength three large cups of black coffee a day the other half drank the same amount of water. in the end the team examined d.n.a. samples from both groups. that's listed in africa is the d.n.a. from two cells on the left hand side is the damage d.n.a. is pretty diffuse that's because these fine breaks in the molecules create this halo effect live on the right as a cell with little or no damage to the d.n.a. we were able to show that four weeks of coffee consumption in our test subjects reduced this minor damage. to. the way the coffee is prepared has an impact on this effect espresso beans a roasted longer than those for drip coffee that reduces the amount of acid in

developments for years helped by state aid from foreign companies and countries germany is not the exception and universality for entrepreneurs was just unveiled in the capital kigali to kick start out of top. their all around thirty thousand motorized taxi box on the streets of kigali that gave kind of movie the. business idea. on servicing station which he opened two years ago he now has around four pounds in regular customers so why thirty stuff the pipes are clean point hand here in the markets we we're entering it is one and this is just talked to. many challenges and we customer two point we're really happy with what we're getting into and very confident about the future brought up. and is now extra help and office and then you press the bell of low to provide start of his likeness with modern workplaces with computers three d. printers laser cutters i'm training. that's what these entrepreneurs are already their country's heroes they take chances are the payoff they want to create something and that's a big opportunity the more support they get in government the better the chances of the country's dev

a joint study with environmental medicine specialist cloudy a title hoffman from an oxford university in germany. there's a lot going on in the field of a talk that demi titus. the dermatologist takes skin swabs she wants to use the samples to measure what's called the skin microbiome by identifying every species of microbe that lives on the patient's inflamed skin with. our work current. the focus is on the micro biome we've discovered that it's not an equilibrium in patients with a topic damage titus and other chronic skin diseases they're one microbe called stuff like caucus oreo's predominates and other species a fewer and further between. the outer surface of the human body is a biosphere in its own right around one hundred billion bacteria viruses fungal and mites live on each and every one of us together with microbes that live and find us they make up the micro biome. a baby's first exposure to microbes occurs during birth when it comes into contact with his mother's vashon all flora that's why in individuals microbiome is similar to that of other family members. but similar does not mea

demand as the population ages the number of teens in germany finishing secondary schools is falling plus many more young people prefer going to university over working at a company like mike nars. there's unquestionably a great deal that's working well in germany's dual system in spite of the current problems people from abroad have noticed that giving young people a future perspective early on with a model that includes theory and practice seems to work. more and more countries are expressing an interest in the german system but introducing it is easier said than done. as most of the first similar companies have to sit down together and set uniform training standards that is what do they want what do they all have in common then they've got to give people time off to go to class and they have to pay for the program. or don't see mrs finance yet the lights in germany's dual vocational training system is supported by a high level of acceptance and it's rooted within the society when companies here are willing and eager to take part in training people that's what it takes time for that to develop. vocational training in germany is a model

voters in germany this is there's a growing sense of disillusionment i think with angela merkel's leadership why is that well i think she says she's failed she for so many people this is been universally expressed across germany she has failed to prevent her coalition government in berlin it's a time when germany needs domestic leadership and international leadership she has failed to stop coalition government from descending into abject quarreling and broke up with government and that led to a loss of a massive loss of respect for angela merkel and for the two main parties in the coalition so is she going to have to face consequences what is going to happen now for her and her government well this was talked about as a sheikh saad survive in germany as a day of destiny votes of destiny that looked as though it was going to point finally to the door the really be the beginning of the end that we talked about so often but i think my assessment i have to say is that angle american lives to fight another day after this election i don't think the coalition is going to crumble i think that the real danger for england marco does come from the social democrats the sense that they're in an ex

tom tikva is enjoying worldwide success flamboyant ecstatic and very true to germany's political history. where the universe doesn't get. the same city in the same era berlin of xander plots the iconic expressionist novel by alfred do clean sublimely film for television by fina they are now. it's the story of france bieber called freshly released from prison now he wants to do everything better but he stumbles again. is a sign of a dimension can't soak a sound of the rest of us should. just make sure the to tell us who can you count it's a consolation. a tragic downward spiral into the cesspools of berlin this story has lost nothing of its fascination and is now being filmed yet again. and then berlin had this wall. a divided city with a wall around its western half plenty of dramatic material the east german writer crystal balls described the tragedy of the city and the entire country. divided heaven filmed by. convolvulus tells the story of a couple in communist east germany says he flees to west berlin and freedom she stays in the east of her own free will. before they were separated lovers used to look

university. to pollution consultants from germany attended the inauguration of the device they work for germany's development agency g i c n n revising the vietnamese government . i think that's. that's what's special about this measuring device is that it's cheap it's been tested and it's easy to move from place to place. so you can. trust that. measure the quality of the various parts of the city at moderate cost. to missing the numbers so far have been truly awful last year air pollution was on average four times the maximum considered acceptable by the world health organization and the air was considered clean and only thirty eight days last year the countless building sites also generate a lot of dust high rise apartment blocks are going up all over the city the authorities ignored the problem of air pollution for a long time now it's a priority issue. a workshop about air quality was recently held for students at this school for the first time it was organized by the german air pollution consultants and a vietnamese ngo green id. the school uniform includes the. red scarf of the communist y

is as is development because germany is again child really advocate the role of women and girls we have a lot of education programs partnerships with schools and universities so also between egypt and germany and that will help women and girls in their educational efforts and. i want to also want to say what would happen today our discussions which we have done this special conference the many meetings with african countries have shown that germany doesn't play a major role in the development of african countries but with us in a spirit of partnership as it is and we will continue working along these lines so we can develop africa. the president comes a lot of people mr president the chancellor several times mentioning libya what are the opportunities that you can see for a quick calming down off the wall the situation in libya will you increase pressure then order to arrive at a more peaceful situation now a question to the chancellor after you announced yesterday to be done with not running for public position of chair of the c.d.u. party anymore do you expect that your position in international negotiations like here or with discussions of president and

university thank you. for. what is in germany'sbiggest state is set to let the next government to morrow's sunday the right wing alternative for germany party is expected to enter bavaria as parliament for the first time according to polls next tonight in the south the tells us how the political landscape could be shaping up. time is ticking away in the key german states of various states election campaigns come to a close even the polls say it's time for a change system partita and a miracle c.d.u. c.s.u. looks set to lose the dominance it's held in bavaria since the second world war even taste and tradition is apparently losing its appeal. now the c.s. use launched major rallies in a desperate and final attempt to attract those. votes a swing there that angela merkel's compassionate micra stance is expected as the various took in the second time as number of asylum seekers house and sixteen regions in the country at the height of the migrant crisis twenty five thousand arrived at munich station. everyone was happy about. it. now

in many areas of trade can't just be traced back to china but also to germany says professor heritage dieter. he teaches his universitystudents in free to soften that being an export giant also has a dark side to. german products sell well internationally not just because they're high quality but also because wages in the country have only climbed moderately in recent years well the euro has remained relatively weak. trump is angry about the trade imbalance and dieter says he has a point. to some places in germany mean deficits in other countries germany expects the rest of the world to go into debt with germany but also likes to criticize the rest of the world for being too deeply in debt it wants to have its cake and eat it this post of the info in the. germany really does profit immensely from global trade. in two thousand and seventeen it exported goods worth over one point two trillion euros like china that makes the e.u. a big net exporter germany has a whopping two hundred fifty billion euros trade surplus. the us has a deficit of around five hundred billion with many more goods and services flowing in than flo

university. now to some of the stories making news around the world staying here in germany in fact police say three people including a child are dead after a small plane crashed through a barrier and into a crowd non-local media say the pilot lost control of the aircraft when trying to land in near the town of fulda several people were injured. e.u. officials say brakes and negotiators have not get sealed a deal on britain's divorced him this despite alias speculation field by a surprise visit to brussels. by britain's breaks that secretary dominic rob and a meeting of ambassadors from the twenty seven other member states officials say talks will resume at wednesday's e.u. summit. now two of the most contentious figures within the roman catholic church have been made staines by pope francis both pope paul the sixth and the murdered salvadoran archbishop oscar romero canonized at a ceremony in the vatican among the crowd with thousands of pilgrims from el salvador. is a national hero. to syria now where the a deadline is fast approaching to create a demilitarized zone in the northern edge of the pro

germany. and the south pole. is that possible that scientists on the university are researching the future of agriculture strips of wild flowers which could replace pesticides useful as plans for. the fertilizers and a balance between high yields on a diversity be found. today thirty minutes. we make up over a week watch as of office and at budget five we are the civil service and. they want to shape the continent's future if they. want to enjoy everything youngsters have as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges. the seventy seven percent of the platform for shark. it was a human made. the first global disaster of the twentieth century. war to end all wars costing millions of lives. world war one. number marks the hundredth anniversary of. what is humankind learned from the great war. as it learned anything at all. is really an impossibility. nineteen eighteen. forgotten the w.c. member focus of. u.s. president donald trump says he is not yet satisfied with saudi arabia's account of what happened to exile john is just. saudi state t.v. is reporting that the crown prince has met with the u.s. t

has to work they both dropped out of university for this food that they cut the tiny house bug in the us but parking sites for many homes are still rare in germany although the demand is rising so they're making space for themselves and other pioneers. they have to be pretty brave to do this i gotta say and probably a little crazy too they're completely focused and they're only in their mid twenty's to the start of a lot of people say oh at your age all i did was polity. about tell them well we know how to have fun to the. next morning it's cold and wet and i feel a bit like i'm camping outside it's pouring obviously not everyone mind so half of the twenty five homes have already been sold so just how easy is it to downsize either range to talk to alina she has an entire blog about minimalism. morning alina. i only want things around me that i need that serve a purpose or that i love i think most people are surrounded by things they never really deliberately chose they just accumulated them. i'm really interested in what you had to say in your blog about how to lead a more minimalistic lifestyle so. i don't think you need to push yourself too fr

looking at the late '20s and early '30s in germany, the jews said we're in great positions in government, in universitiess. there were lawyers, musicians and somehow they were motivated against. right? hitler created an otherness about jews. is this about ignorance or hatred? >> my grandfather was one of those jews. my grandfather's a survivor from germany. my great grandfather served in the first world war and if you asked my grandfather as a young man to ever imagine that his grandsons, me, and my brothers and cousins, would be born in this country, he would have scoffed at you. they were german. that was all they knew. >> right. >> and so, what we need to know is scapegoating and stereotyping is consequences and rhetoric creates the unseen or unimaginable consequences. so i think we need to take this kind of rhetoric very sereiousl and not stand silent in the face of hate. >> why is it on the rise? we were talking about college campuses and in my mind that's where the leaders of tomorrow are. >> all the information in the world exists there. >> the faces of optimism, facts are a-plenty on a college ca

germany. from the fall of the early. two german reunification. and the end of the cold. war much office from the brink university of the twentieth century. gorbachev to the last leader of the soviet union was an agent of change. quickly miss downfall. i had decided to resign my duties as president of the soviet union. last fall but she was historical but for some sort of one because of course. he continues to fight for world peace with the reminder but yet we have to comprehend when he says taken our search today there is a new arms race. our time gorbachev and the opportunity for peace wasted starts october third on t.w. . authorities in indonesia say more than eight hundred thirty people have been killed by a powerful earthquake and tsunami that devastated the arlon of pseudo ac on friday rescuers are struggling to reach victims in several large coastal towns damaged roads and down communication lines are hampering rescue efforts. typhoon trami has killed at least two people and injured scores in japan fierce winds and torrential rains have triggered the evacuation of.

institute for public policy at florida international university sir thank you for taking out the time to speak to us. thank you. this weekend all eyes in germany will be on the state of has a home to germany's financial hub frankfurt and a conservative stronghold for the past two decades while this regional election is critical to german chancellor angela merkel future the governing coalition led by the chancellor barely had time to brush themselves off after suffering bruising losses in bavaria and now they're bracing for another setback big losses are forecast for both merkel c.d.u. and the opposition social democrats with a shifting political landscape and a lot of votes up for grabs as a state election could have huge repercussions for chancellor merkel. frankfurt germany's financial hope an economic powerhouse and the biggest city in has the southwest and german state governed by angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. and the green party after twenty years in power the conservatives are bracing for huge losses as has heads to the polls. but this time around the state election isn't only about local politics how hesse's four million voters ca

germany for example to me i'm more according to opinion polls half of all russians think positively about stalin soviet victories in the second world war are on the curriculum in schools and universities but fewer and fewer russians are aware that millions of their countrymen were executed imprisoned or deported under stalinist regime eighty three year old victim was held for years in a gulag was ninety you see a google program today one out. watch russian television i see crime shows entertainment and business shows and excuse my frankness pornography is easy is a crazy on this. but i don't see many programs of real substance. mala said you write to him for a month see what you have such as one reason why today only a minority of russians consider stalin's crimes to be inexcusable. the second round of the german cup tonight features a classic david versus goliath match up mighty byron munich play against fourth division leading hausen it might not be a walk in the park for byron though the amateur club has already knocked out second division dumas dresden to get to where they are and they are eager to put up a bit of a fight against the club. to the korean peninsula now where sports

germany for example to me i'm more according to opinion polls half of all russians think positively about stalin soviet victories in the second world war are on the curriculum in schools and universities but fewer and fewer russians are aware that millions of their countrymen were executed imprisoned or deported under stalinist regime eighty three year old victim was held for years in a gulag was ninety you see or do. when i watch russian television i see crime shows entertainment and business shows and excuse my frankness pornography. but i don't see many programs of real substance. mollison do write to inform not see why we have such one reason why today only a minority of russians consider stalin's crimes to be inexcusable. to sports now and football's german cup is known for matching powerhouse clubs from the bundesliga with lower division teams that dream of making it big and we have one such match coming up tonight mighty byron munich play against fourth division leading hows and it may not be a total walkover for biron though the amateur club has already knocked out a second division team to get to where they are and they are eager to put up a fight against the big club. moving

he holds a degree in computer science with highest distinction from the university of hanover in germany and an mba from harvard business school. our second speaker is hill ferguson, the ceo of doctor on demand. he has nearly two decades of experience in mobile technology. mr. hill led companies at all stages of growth from being a founder to being senior executive at paypal before joining doctor on demand, mr. ferguson helped transform paypal into a more customer. >> focused technology company and eventually serving as the company's chief product officer. he's got a lot of experience in the tech world in a number of different venues. he holds a b.a. and an mba from vanderbilt university. dr. clint flanagan is a board certified family medicine practitioner with over 14 years experience as an emergency room physician and certified -- and maintains certificates in advanced cardiac and advanced trauma life support. he kbragraduated from the univey of nebraska medical center and then completed his residency at st. mary's medical program in grand junction, colorado. he is serving on the steer

germany's music scene. the world of pop music on one facebook page d w music check out your favorite styles and the latest from missing. with us into the top universe and follow as some facebook will see you then d w music. one of the german bands with the most facebook fans by the way longstanding with almost nine million next year the shock caucus set to release a new album for those who can't wait that long a trip to berlin might ease their impatience the very first i'm stunned pop up store just opened in the city and as you can imagine it's a veritable cabinet of curiosities. never wanted to get hold of your very own star or you can now in miniature form. bicycle or a door mat. there's even merchandise for younger fans too like this pacifier. the very first i'm fine store recently opened its doors and a former factory building in ballarat. is bizarre none of them sense. makes this place so special is that in addition to providing a store for fans we wanted to incorporate elements on the live shows stuff for the fans will recognize and videos life can be different so the result is the same shopping experience. it's called visitors can browse thr

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