what angela merkel said it does not make sense -- multiculturalism has failed.ticulturalism was the way of living in germany. it is the ideology. i do not think she understood what multiculturalism is. as does not make any sense. >> chancellor merkel said that immigrants must do more to immigrate -- integrate and learn german. what is your response? >> you can always do more. i do not like the discussion that has such a tendency, as if people do not want to integrate or people do not want to learn german. it is not true. of course it depends on what you are doing, what is your education. how long have you been in germany? the younger germinate -- the younger generations speak good german. >> which the government do to improve integration for turks? >> they should stop discussion about turks. this is the first thing. the second thing is they should accept that german is an integration country. we should stay here. we will stay here. they should motivate us more. they should take us more into the society. people will then be motivated to do more for integration an

conservative government leaders, including chancellor angela merkel, say the project should go ahead as planned. >> thousands showed up on friday to voice their opposition to the expansion projects. observers say a police crackdown on a similar protest on thursday has prompted more people than ever to join the protests in the city's park. add working under police protection, crews worked on friday. >> we do not want this work to be done behind the backs of the citizens. >> we have to show we want to stay at terminal station. >> images from thursday's protest shocked many people across germany. police ordered protestors to clear the area. when protesters refused, officers used teargas and water cannons to drive them back. at least 130 were injured, including schoolchildren and senior citizens. there are photos of people bleeding from the eyes after being hit by the water can spray. >> anyone who throws bottles at police officers or use of pepper spray or ignores the instructions of the police, acting outside the law, in such situations, the officers are compelled to react. >> the coun

conservative government leaders, including chancellor angela merkel, say the project should go ahead as planned. >> thousands showed up on friday to voice their opposition to the expansion projects. observers say a police crackdown on a similar protest on thursday has prompted more people than ever to join the protests in the city's park. add working under police protection, crews worked on friday. >> we do not want this work to be done behind the backs of the citizens. >> we have to show we want to stay at terminal station. >> images from thursday's protest shocked many people across germany. police ordered protestors to clear the area. when protesters refused, officers used teargas and water cannons to drive them back. at least 130 were injured, including schoolchildren and senior citizens. there are photos of people bleeding from the eyes after being hit by the water can spray. >> anyone who throws bottles at police officers or use of pepper spray or ignores the instructions of the police, acting outside the law, in such situations, the officers are compelled to react. >> the coun

merkel are untarnished and warm, but this time we did not embrace as much as usual.that has nothing to do with the news from deville. it is more about my sense of christian altruism, which forbids me from kissing anyone when i am suffering a bad cold. >> they resisted a german proposal to suspend voting rights of member nations that break eurozone rules, but leaders endorsed a rewrite of the treaty to create a permanent debt crisis mechanism in which private creditors shoulder part of the losses. >> some leaders were not particularly interested in this, but i understood the argument, which i repeatedly put forward. that is to ensure the legality of a debt t isis mechanism, we need to amend the eu treaty. >> the best way to solve the problem is to tackle the issues and not sweep them under the carpet. >> the details of how a permanent crisis mechanism should work must be thrashed out in time for the next summit in september. >> we will have much more on that summit coming up later in this half hour. u.s. authorities are investigating what they're calling a potential t

has led to the top of the agenda throughout europe and the united states german chancellor angela merkel says attempts to build a multicultural society in germany have utterly failed is multiculturalism evolution or is it merely the stuff of cheap populist politics and elections coming . to. discuss multiculturalism today i'm joined by an ability dani in london she's a french journalist and commentator and in stockholm we we go to kent echoed off he's a member of parliament for sweden's democrat party and another member of our team on the hunger alright i think it's really important discuss our terms what multiculturalism is and i'd like to go to well now be infamous comments from the german chancellor let's listen what chancellor merkel had to say about multiculturalism in germany. of course the multicultural approach living side by side and being happy with each other this approach has failed. right now bill if i go to you is that how you understand the concepts the policy of multiculturalism the way it is expressed by the german chancellor and the german example. well i think if i may

. >> chancellor merkel appeared confident of winning as she arrived to the negotiations.ogether with her ally in the matter, french president nicolas sarkozy, she hopes to persuade the other leaders to agree to changes to the lisbon treaty. to protect the euro in times of financial crisis. >> i want to emphasize here that in my view, policy which endangers the bureau as a whole is policy which shakes the foundations of the european union. so we will discuss this very controversial topic, and i will keep it on the agenda. >> most eu member states the advantages in introducing such a permanent crisis mechanism, which would also force private creditors to help out. but the franco-german call for deficit offenders to lose voting ghts has proved to be widely controversial. >> those are not saying that germany and france will fail. suggesting that despite all the agreements to the suggestion that we need a permanent crisis mechanism, there is no consensus for the idea of the voting rights for deficit countries could be withdrawn. >> angela merkel and nicholas sarkozy are workin

merkel are untarnished and warm, but this time we did not embrace as much as usual. that has nothing to do with the news from deville. it is more about my sense of christian altruism, which forbids me from kissing anyone when i am suffering a bad cold. >> they resisted a german proposal to suspend voting rights of member nations that break eurozone rules, but leaders endorsed a rewrite of the treaty to create a permanent debt crisis mechanism in which private creditors shoulder part of the losses. >> some leaders were not particularly interested in this, but i understood the argument, which i repeatedly put forward. that is to ensure the legality of a debt crisis mechanism, we need to amend the eu treaty. >> the best way to solve the problem is to tackle the issues and not sweep them under the carpet. >> the details of how a permanent crisis mechanism should work must be thrashed out in time for the next summit in september. >> we will have much more on that summit coming up later in this half hour. u.s. authorities are investigating what they're calling a potential

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what the german president has told the turkish parliament his statement and reiterate chancellor merkel's comments last week that multiculturalism had totally failed it comes amid a rise of immigration issues in europe including a clamp down on migrants in france and a swedish anti immigration party taking seats in the country's parliament former british m.p. keith best says that it's the germans who set the trend for movement of labor around europe. i do not think people mean by integration that everybody should look the same they should all wear the same clothes they should all eat the same cuisine but they do mean that people should live in harmony with one another one of the problems that one faces in most countries now have very mixed populations that some results of global much greater ease for people to migrate from one country to another not necessarily permanently just for temporary reasons but you've got to remember of course germany really set the trend a long time ago by bringing in the gas star biter from turkey i mean these were people who were invited in by the german state

in germany experts are divided over chancellor angela merkel's comments that immigrants there need to do more to integrate she said that attempts to create a multicultural society had quote utterly failed but critics have dubbed her speech as a way to score cheap political points a survey found that a third of people of germany believe that foreigners are taking over and that a kahane from the amadou antonio foundation that works to combat racism in germany says immigration policy has to be addressed across europe. we have specially east germany a lot of neo nazi groups this is these are hard core new nazis who killed a lot of people and we have also a big the rise of anti immigrant to the feelings in the population of west germany so now with this discussion we have in this small. woman things are rising and i fear that there would be more victims of rape or violence immigration is the future you cannot work and live in a globalized world in the middle of the world in europe without immigration and of moving population so you have to really make a good policy of immigration all over

to germany now where experts are divided over chancellor angela merkel's comments that immigrants there need to do more to integrate she said attempts to create a multicultural society had utterly failed but critics have dumped her speech as a way to score cheap political points a survey found a third of people in germany believe foreigners are taking over and the founder. foundation which works to combat racism in germany says immigration policy has to be addressed across europe gratian is the future you cannot work and live in a globalized world in the middle of the world in europe without immigration and moving populations so you have to really make a good policy of immigration all over europe and we see this there the history of g. europe with this long history of nationalism and small countries is now . is now getting into a crisis so we'll need a long time to to make it better but you have to in front of us you have to really change the policy of immigration inside europe. that was a net gain the founder of the antonio foundation talked a bit earlier from berlin. leaders of france

pig economies and one can understand why the german people are upset one can understand why angela merkel wants to renegotiate the lisbon treaty but hold on a minute my friend they took ten years to negotiate that and we were told if there are any more changes cameron said it only three weeks ago and so did william hague our foreign secretary that there be a so-called e.u. locked up and we in the e.u. referendum campaign dot com we said that was pathetic we said that it was just a shop we've been proved right we need a full referendum should we stated well should we go and out of the europeans all over the block to have the same referendum put. a tag on this political elite now out of church who are the people on the street the people who are really suffering in this age of austerity or let me just ask you one thing in the turbulent times we've seen this in the greek crisis in fact the eurozone survived they're now saying this the euro will strengthen this latest summit they've had to introduce the new crisis mechanism there's a lot of positive thought that's exactly what a unit should be

how do you read the situation how has chancellor merkel actually concluded that multiculturalism has failed and and who's to blame for all of this well i think first of all you have to try to define what people mean by integration and it means different things to different people which is unfortunate i do not think people mean by integration that everybody should look the same they should all wear the same clothes they should all the same cuisine but they do mean that people should live in harmony with one another one of the problems that one faces and most countries now have very mixed populations that's the result of globalisation of much greater ease for people to migrate from one country to another not necessarily permanently just for temporary reasons but you've got to remember of course germany really set the trend a long time ago by bringing in the gas star biter from turkey i mean these were people who were invited in by the german state just as indeed britain invited many people in from the caribbean in order to help rebuild britain and to do some of the jobs which british p

germany's chancellor angela merkel coming under fire for being too soft. earlier this week, germany agreed to a french plan that called for penalties, but only after a grace period of six months. many say that she should have stuck to her plan for immediate and automatic punishment. >> members of the european parliament are up in arms over the sudden change of direction on sanctions for countries that breached deficit rules. they were especially disappointed that chancellor merkel succeeded to france. >> the self determined directive is an attack on the institutions of the eu. >> there is a parts from the beach and some beautiful hotels, there is a casino. maybe we should [unintelligible] >> on monday and tuesday, the german chancellor agreed with the french president on significant changes to deficit sanctioned procedures. germany had wanted the european commission to impose immediate and automatic sanctions on countries that agree to the deficit limits. now sanctions will require a six-month grace period and a qualified majority of euro zone government.

. >>> and debates in germany is heating up after the chance letter, angela merkel, said her country's attempts to build a multicultural society has "utterly failed." merkel called on immigrants who live in germany to do more to integrate, including learning german and adopting christian values. >>> a super typhoon made landfall in northern philippines today, becoming the strongest cyclone to hit the country in years. thousands of people have fled the storm as it makes its way towards china and vietnam. >>> and a new ranking shows charitable donations in the united states dropped by 11% last year. the worst decline in the 20 years the rankings have been tallied. in all the 400 institutions in the survey raised a total of $68.6 billion last year. >>> and now here is an early look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com. new guidelines being issued today by the american heart association switching the steps for cpr telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth to mouth. in 2008 the group recommended the untrained or those unwilling to do rescue brea

german chancellor merkel says that there will be joining a summit in lisbon, but have dismissed rumors that ato wold seek -- next month's summit will map out a future strategy for nato. >> little members probably agree the new strategic direction should seek -- nato members agree that the strategic direction should seek cooperation with russia. the german chancellor does not envision a formal role for russia within nato itself. rick that it is a partnership. when we reach concrete agreements -- >> it is a partnership. when we reach concrete agreements, we should use common -- concrete projects to show we're working together. russia should take place -- take part in the muscle it -- russia should take part in the missile defense program for europe. regret we're faced with the real threat. we -- >> we are faced with a real threat. we need real defense to protect our pocket -- populations effectively. >> he attended a security conference with germany's opposition green party. in contrt to e chancellor, they're in favor of russia joining the alliance. >> i nato should offer russia talks on

has led to the top of the gender throughout europe and the united states german chancellor angela merkel says attempts to build a multicultural society in germany have utterly failed is multiculturalism lucian or is it merely the stuff of cheap populist politics and elections coming. and you can watch the full program at four thirty g.m.t. right here on now let's get to some other news full this. election. nearly a quarter of the ballots from september's election but accounts for almost one point three million votes the decision follows numerous fraud reports although officials still insist that the election was a success. in pakistan parts of corrupt you have been locked down. at least twenty five people dead in the spate of killings was in response to a contentious election which some say was rigged a spike in violence in the economic center of pakistan has killed more than fifty people over the last three days. well i led today our special report on compass of fraud epidemic time we get the real story of plunder on wall street where a financial system allowed investment pyramids to pr

politicians who accuse an evergreen in the country of failing to integrate after chancellor angela merkel says multiculturalism has failed we've got a special court system on this divisive debate. saddam hussein's a deputy to root out seeds and sentenced to death for what some say the verdict is to distract from the wiki leaks exposé of secret american files showing the widespread killing by the us backed regime which replaced the dictator. the russian security services cut off an international ash supplying the funding of terrorism in the northern caucasus which of a say has been behind a slew of recent terror attacks in the region. and a good morning it is six o'clock on your. morning here in moscow with a look at your news headlines integration of immigrants into german society for a long taboo subject has burst onto the political center stage with chancellor angela merkel's remarks that multiculturalism has failed failure to learn the german language and sure is a big social problems say some politicians others accuse immigrants of milking social welfare while refusing to respect the

and no i give the floor to ms merkel or to dmitry mitri ok. ladies and gentlemen of the press they must mean yes i don't use that issue. at the. would that he would. be going to. live in love with you. at the weekend when this is always very important because this holds dialogue we haven't had such a meeting for five years and i fully agree with what mr president has just said that such events are very very useful in the this is a frank open who in the quiet and friendly format for discussing all sorts of issues yesterday from them during was not a dinner and we discussed mostly international issues we discussed some regional issues we talked about. the middle east we talked about iran. we talked about europe. and this discussion has really demonstrated that we view of most of the many prophecies in same way and compete in this helps us coordinate our positions and achieve some practical results like or one that mr president has just mentioned our work on iran and by the way we have agreed on around that we will follow the green means that we

in germany experts are divided over chancellor angela merkel's comments that immigrants there need to do more to integrate she said attempts to create a multicultural society had utterly failed critics of doctors reach as a way to score cheap political points a survey found a third of people in germany believe taking over one hundred so go live to another kahane who joins us from berlin she's the founder of the immature and tonio foundation which works to combat racism in germany thanks very much indeed for joining us what do you make of the chancellor's comments isn't she just voicing what many people in germany are actually thinking. i think even more people who are thinking this way and the chancellor has a big problem because on one hand she has to deal with a globalized world and leading industry in a country with immigration and every all the problems and on the other hand she's the had of the conservative party so this conservative party is more or less based on national and ethnic issues well this is corresponds to an atmosphere in the german population that is not very nice w

he's the first german president to visit the country in over ten years as far as chancellor angela merkel saying last week that multiculturalism had totally failed in germany and as the country grapples with integrating its three and a half million muslims the majority of whom are turkish you do of course journalist and author from but then says the problem of integration stems from religion. as a believer as a muslim you should not. believe you should go. to the muslims so we have. in germany leaving schools without learning and if they don't have a diploma or because of their religion have to obey to what the unbelievers tell you this is going to cause conflicts this is going to cause big problems so what i believe is that there is a place for muslims in this world for their culture and there is a place for european and western culture. i don't believe. they will live peacefully together. and there you can watch that interview in fifteen minutes from now here on t.v. . well getting behind the wheel in russia means you could be taking a knife into your hands around twenty five thousand p

reporting there on the russian nato should face their common challenges together german chancellor angela merkel praised president got a decision to tan a key nato summit next month in lisbon artie's because he knows arwa has been following talks between the russian french and german leaders in the french resort of divel. singing from the same hymn sheet and all smiles at a summit in the french seaside town of. the leaders of germany france and russia were so keen to emphasize their newfound similarities they even spoke alike dialogue and cooperation verne ship they were not after concrete results rather the aim was to shape future relations and central to this was medium invade of accepting an invitation to attend the nato summit in lisbon next month and. we're happy dmitry medvedev will be taking part in the russian nato summit in the us but that's because nato has a new strategic concept is aimed at cooperation with other countries including russia i think russia has confirmed that we have to fight against terrorism and nuclear weapons and i think we should tackle these issues together and no

by multiculturalism and get america out because angela merkel stated that multicultural failed because in germany we have too much coexistence of them togetherness and there are only a few examples of successful integration there are millions of examples of successful integration but there are too many examples of refusals and failures integration a song for the improvement of life perspectives of immigrants in germany that's why we should not live separately next to each other so to speak not equal to put together. a lot of debate. muslim immigrants polish. population here in the country is that fair to highlight that as part of the problem and we've always had immigration in our history we've immigrants today i'm always have them in the future three hundred years ago every third milliner brandenburger was a french protestant one hundred years ago polish immigrants came to work in mining and steel industries in the rural area but i'm recent years and decades people from other cultural backgrounds came for instance from turkey and northern africa are big countries and a long time ago w

while back home the immigration debate is raging his visit comes just days after chancellor angela merkel admitted multiculturalism has failed in germany and in about twenty minutes we'll bring you an interview with journalist and author from berlin is the problem of integration stamps from religion. as a believer as a muslim you should not learn from an unbeliever you should obey to islam and to the muslims so we have saudi percent of muslims of turkish muslims in germany leaving schools without learning anything they don't have a diploma or anything because their religion tells them to pull to obey to what the unbelievers tell you this is going to cause conflicts this is going to cause big problems so what i believe that there is a place for muslims in this world and for their culture and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i don't believe. they will live peacefully together. israel is facing criticism over a bill that requires non jew or citizens to swear allegiance to the state governments as a loyalty oath is a necessary step for peace but arabs are refu

earlier this year it was a move that was opposed by more than half of all german chancellor angela merkel now says she couldn't do that again without risking action from the constitutional court in germany in theory changes to the lisbon treaty would mean individual countries would be able to hold a referendum on whether to stay in the e.u. but there's increasing your a skepticism relating to the cost of being in the e.u. and the benefits involved if countries did hold a vote it's not a tool clear what would remain of the union. more and that that will go into his head of the e.u. referendum campaign in the u.k. and he believes being part of the e.u. club has had a devastating impact on the british economy. it's costing us forty eight million pounds a day in the u.k. and our prime ministers today who had the backbone just spine of a blown moan and gave away another four hundred million pounds of our money out of figures do all got a democratic mandate to do that we need a referendum on the football and david cameron some would say was strong and he saved the u.k. taxpayer even. in some wa

some politicians who are immigrants in the country of failing to integrate for chancellor angela merkelsays multiculturalism has failed its board and intervened on this divisive. deputy. is sentenced to death but some say the verdict is to distract from the wiki leaks exposé of secret american files showing the widespread killing and torture by the us backed regime which replaced the dictator. the russian security services and cut off an international cash supply funding terrorism in the north caucuses which they say had been behind a surge of recent terror attacks in the region. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our team into gratian of immigrants into german society for a long and taboo subject has burst onto the political center stage with chancellor angela merkel's remarks that multiculturalism has failed failure to learn the german language ensures a big social problems say some politicians others accuse immigrants of milking social welfare while refusing to respect the country's a values despite the positive contribution many newcomers make to the econom

and that is yet another issue that media data for certain to raise with nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel and of course many russians are keeping their fingers crossed that something definitive will come out of those talks as soon as our reporting there now thomas clough from the european council on foreign relations told r.t. that it's improved ties between moscow and poland which is paving the way to a new era in russia relations. there have been indeed great evidence within the e.u. about how to manage the relationship with russia what we've seen over the last few weeks and months is a narrowing of these divisions and in particular the the very important fact of the polish russian rapprochement has really engineered a whole new dynamic and i think the u. today is much less divided than it was two or three years ago and this is the background against which this meeting has taken place and i would almost argue that it couldn't take place without the background being what it is now i think that's an absolutely crucial fact there was a big split between berlin and also especially about how

. >> staying in germany, chancellor angela merkel has upheld the growth of the jewish community in berlinince the country's unification 20 years ago. she made the comment of a special ceremony held by the jewish community in the capital. some two hundred thousand jews, most from the former soviet union and eastern europe, have emigrated to germany since the fall of the wall. this is germany's largest population of jews. we will live more on jewish identity in today's germany. that is coming up later on this program. indonesian health officials say least 113 people have been killed and hundreds are missing after a powerful tsunami. it was triggered by an undersea earthquake of the country's coast. the 7.5 magnitude c earthquake struck late monday off to the western coast of sumatra. tune villages on remote islands were swept away by waves up to 3 meters high. many fled to higher ground immediately after that earthquake. on indonesia's's main island, a volcano has erupted several times after it spewed ash and rock for a number of days. thousands fled for safety, seeking refuge in emergency

relatively good health is little short of -- the men's relatively good health is little short of an merkel and two are expected to be released from hospital. today the 33 miners enjoyed the first day of freedom. he was the group's leader before and after the catastrophe. he and forced tight rations of the limited food and supplies, and insisted on being the last one to go up. the chilean president said, but " you are the last one out, like ."good president dou the rest of the was a was to take place around christmas took less than 24 hours. each miner had his own story. this one that his baby daughter for the first time yesterday. this man, married 28 years, was greeted only by his mistress. his wife refused to be there after finding out about the mistress while her husband was trapped. the adjustmen -- now it is time for adjustment back to reality above ground. physically, most are in good health. at least one was treated for pneumonia, and some need eye and dental treatment. once all the miners are released from hospital, it is unlikely they will return to their old lives. they have been

. >> headlines described her birth as a merkel. speaking to years ago, the professor describe the media frenzy at the time. >> the press were chasing us all over england secretly. he drove around to his mother's house. >> tonight, les brown said she was delighted with professor edward. >> his first place family, like a granddad. i was very pleased. he is not well at the moment. >> this is where professor edwards used to work. the laboratories were different in his days. it seemed revolutionary. it took 20 years to turn this simple idea into reality. >> it was tremendously important. before the test tube baby was created, there was no real treatment for infertile couples. this was a subject that people did not talk about. >> the journey has not been straightforward. in 1983, the walton sextuplets were born at a time when achieving pregnancy was difficult. over the years, it has been a safe and reliable technique. tonight the vatican, which has always objected to the creation and discarding of embryos was criticized -- criticized the

. >> i have three speaker cards, elizabeth sweet, merkel, gilbert. >> some people may have left. is there any further public comment on this item? if not, public comment is closed. i would just like to say that i missed the opportunity to be a guest at the house, once, and i have regretted this ever since. this is the kind of artist to only lives in san francisco, who has worked it is respected internationally, and the concept, as to what you are planning to do in the artist in residence -- in residence, is totally in keeping with the art history of san francisco. >> commissioner olague? commissioner moore qlogicolaguet in the northeast mission, killing to the arts communities, and this was fascinating, the things that are going on. all of the treated and artistic work that is going on in the communities. i really appreciate this project. and those grammar schools, they would probably appreciate having some access to the opportunities that may be provided through this. and i believe that this is a wonderful project. i say that we should approve this. >> i just wanted to repeat wh

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