where i am the prophetess legend has it that i am the mother of prague i saw this all her long. and he was bill. would you like to accompany me on a brief journey through time. in the beginning was the river the latter of course everything began with her here my city of prague was born a thousand years ago. thanks to be honest she was only a little tassel at first a backwater of history until the fourteenth century there came a ruler who made her the center of europe charles the fourth king of bohemia and holy roman emperor a visionary who planned everything in style with him progs golden age began he summoned the best architects. prague castle rock county became his residence the hub of the holy roman empire three courtyards the cathedral the royal palace forty thousand square meters of power and imposing labyrinth to which each succeeding century made its additions saint vitus cathedral the consummate union of the power of church and state and we owe it to charles the fourth for me the cathedral is a holy place the place where our kings were crowned the stone seemed to defy gr

prague castle rock county became his residence the hub of the holy roman empire. three courtyards the cathedral the royal palace forty thousand square metres of power an imposing labyrinth to which each succeeding century made its additions saint vitus cathedral the consummate union of the power of church and state and we owe it to charles the fourth for me the cathedral is a holy place the place where our kings were crowned the stone seemed to defy gravity. the gallery above the choir ambulatory charles the fourth the emperor found an emperor among architects to carry out his work was summoned to prague page apollo is just twenty three years old a genius he was to take the gothic and develop it was. this room of the cathedral is a really great in itself. chapel apollo dedicated it to our patron saint good king wenceslas the first christian to occupy the throne of bohemia. the saint was murdered by his brother one of many victims in the history of my city. this is no route a street which leads from the broward county down to charles bridge with its renaissance and

downtown prague is a minefield and. the best ice cream in prague is definitely not for today we're going to show you great ice creams and prague that we want their video clips are shown on a check on ninety the channel and on you tube. more than two million people watch our videos every month we notice the effect because we're often recognized in approached on the street. a. little you tube is almost does this norwegian for example thanks them for their tip about affordable beer. i've seen all of their videos and when they showed me this place it just seemed like a really cool place to go because it's the middle of the city center and all the other places where there are really expensive and tourist traps. sixteen seven million people visited prague and the numbers are still growing for local residents that means overcrowding rent increases and gentrification. but yannick and honey don't see tourism as a curse they try to make the best. but also what's a bit about some of the hunter out of prague i love this city it's f

and let me take you back to prague, 1938, the end of 1938.earth did it come to be that a young man from london, who was a successful stockbroker, had a rather glamorous life, how did it come to be that he found himself in prague in 1938? how long have you got? tell me the short version. well, the short version is that my circle of friends were all those people who were very, very left—wing. i mean, my friends were those people from the stafford groups, all those people i was with daily. and coupled with that, of course, my parents, being jewish, we were in direct communication with the jewish population in germany. and some of them, of course, were relations. and we had people staying with us who had lost theirjobs, lost their professions, or were in danger for family reasons. and so i, together with my political connections, felt that we knew much more than most of the politicians about what was happening there. and the more i think back on it, the more i think how right we were to have thought more than the others did. i think history tells

in prague, he continues to paint portraits.e snaps black-and-white photos of them and puts them in albums, which somehow survive. >> i would go and look in the albums, and this one really spoke to me. >> but he doesn't tell her the stories behind those pictures. >> he knew that i was looking at the pictures in the book. i was really quite fascinated with them. he just would watch me, but he wouldn't really say much. >> young miriam knows her father was in a concentration camp but not how he got there or how in the world he survived. how did your parents meet? >> they met in a small town about one hour from prague. it was a place where the survivors went for healing. >> nor does miriam know about her father's disappointing attempt in israel to use his talent to express the horrors of the holocaust. he'd only write about that years later. >> "i had a one-man show in tel aviv with paintings of the concentration camps. i'm sorry to say, the interest was only small, and learned people do not want to talk about concentration camps. >

populist billionaire dubbed the czech donald trump a far right party is in second place we will go to prague for the latest duties being good in there. and good german rap make it in america he will follow the berry and band i'm told as acts as they take their foreign language flow to the home of hip hop. i'm at home and welcome. this week spain gave catalonia an ultimatum withdraw your jhalak declaration of independence or face the consequences today prime minister mariano rajoy made good on that warning said he was triggering article one fifty five of the constitution to bring it rebellious region back under central control the catalog parliament has said it will declare independence if its powers are reduced now demonstrations are planned in the regional capital barcelona starting in the next couple of hours. let's take a look at exactly what the prime minister is aiming to do roy is asking the senate to dismiss the parliament of catalonia which is expected to do next week the plan also sees new elections in the region as soon as possible and third cataloged leader called his push to moun

though perhaps he was in prague. i don't think what's their name, steele supporters have abandoned that. certainly it's possible to get to prague from over land in the european union without using a passport across a bunch of country lines. so i don't think anything in the dossier's been conclusively disproven. certainly bits of it has been challenged. it's pretty clear that at least some bits of it have been confirmed. this character carter paige, who is suing everyone in sight, was in moscow at the time steele said he was there. whether he met the people steele says he met is unclear. denied some of it but at the same time it has been established he was under investigation with the fbi i believe because he was in contact with russian undercover spy, officer of a bank based in the united states or bank office -- russian bank office based in the united states. some of this is certainly true. and there are a lot of people in the intelligence community that believe the basic point of the dossier and from what i can tel

not the strongest in the past year repave the director of new york university's academic center in prague thank you so much for your analysis some soccer news now and shall have made a move up to fourth in the bundesliga with the win over minds on friday. finish this attack with a knife like touch getting the best of minds goalkeeper rene ardler carets goes fourth goal this season gave shelter an early lead in the second hand for tito burke stronger added another in front of goal with fast footwork shall be mindful to know. the bavarian band whole sex has made a big impact here in germany with its fusion of rap with classical music well now as part of a d.-w. back initiative is taking its unique brand of hip hop on the road to the place where it all started the united states. doodoo doodoo doodoo. doodoo. real hip hop straight out of germany and into the hearts of. these rappers from munich a touring the united states. they'll be on the road for a month. was. the step. every band's dream to go into in the usa. come to believe how amazing this is. they're not only bringing german hip hop t

and joining me now is usually paid the director of new york university's academic center in prague. under bobbish he used a lot of establishment rhetoric in the election campaign he earned himself a reputation as the czech trump what was it that he said or did that convince voters that he's the right man to lead the czech republic. well i think that he still successfully using his anti-corruption message he actually got into the parliament already in two thousand and thirteen with this and by corruption message and he is has been quite successful with it again i think he also uses the fact that there is so really a lot of show or a high degree of sentiment among the population i'm sure public. attention all parties which are blamed for a lot of core option for being slow on unable to introduce a set of modernization. projects and bob issues this very skillfully portray himself as someone who is not a flexible has been very successful in business and why couldn't he do for the chip republic one he will stable to do as the owner of the second largest company in the czech republic so i

and joining me now is you repay he's the director of new york university's academic center in prague thank you so much for joining us now under a bomb it is often called the czech donald trump is this a fair comparison just how much do they have in common. well they have something some common because they are good billionaires they both came into politics from the outside which promises to do crean the politics before the the situation they are. and i. would have an indictment gratian agenda and certainly mr publisher would also like if he quits a two to isolate the czech republic slightly more and this now from from the outside world but i would say that mr publishes at the same time more similar to. syria over risk only because when he went into politics he bought said two major dailies in the czech republic plus the radio station so he's got the. media machinery behind the suit to promote his interests well what we do know also about andre bobbish is that he's quite critical of the e.u. if he is elected prime minister what will this mean for relations with brussels. well it we don

director of the university's academic center in prague thank you very much for that analysis. you're watching the d.m.v. is coming up ahead confidant cash majoris a form of protest to banks are moving their headquarters to other regions of spain . then visiting from a business says will have that story and other news from the want of business to stay with you dump their. national lists are on the rise when required and you know what i am taking almost straight to highlights different shades of nationalism and to find out what does nation me to you.

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the prague charter, signed by champions of liberty vaclav havel, natan sharansky, jose maria aznar, called for the isolation and ostracism of regimes that suppress peaceful opponents by threats or violence. little did we know that, a decade later, a crisis of confidence would be developing within the core democracies, making the message of freedom more inhibited and wavering. little did we know that repressive governments would be undertaking a major effort to encourage division in western societies and to undermine the legitimacy of elections. repressive rivals, along with skeptics here at home, misunderstand something important. it is the great advantage of free societies that we creatively adapt to challenges, without the direction of some central authority. self-correction is the secret strength of freedom. we are a nation with a history of resilience and a genius for renewal. right now, one of our worst national problems is a deficit of confidence. but the cause of freedom justifies all our faith and effort. it still inspires men and women in the darkest corners of the world, and it w

ten years ago, i attended a conference on democracy and security in prague. the goal was to put human rights and human freedom at the center of our relationships with repressive governments. the prague charter, signed by champions of liberty vaclav havel, natan sharansky, jose maria aznar, called for the isolation and ostracism of regimes that suppress peaceful opponents by threats or violence. little did we know that, a decade later, a crisis of confidence would be developing within the core democracies, making the message of freedom more inhibited and wavering. little did we know that repressive governments would be undertaking a major effort to encourage division in western societies and to undermine the legitimacy of elections. repressive rivals, along with skeptics here at home, misunderstand something important. it is the great advantage of free societies that we creatively adapt to challenges, without the direction of some central authority. self-correction is the secret strength of freedom. we are a nation with a history of resilience and a genius for

and joining me now is usually paid the director of new york university's academic center in prague. under bobbish he has a lot of establishment rhetoric in the election campaign he earned himself a reputation as the czech trump what was it that he said or did that convince voters that he's the right man to lead the czech republic. well i think that he still successfully using his anti-corruption message he actually got into the parliament already in two thousand and thirteen with this and by corruption message and he is has been quite successful with it so again i think he also uses fact that there is so really a large show or a high degree of sentiment among the population i'm sure public. attention all parties which are blamed for a lot of core option for being slow on unable to introduce a certain modernization. projects and bob issues this very skillfully portray himself as someone who is not a flexible has been very successful in business and why couldn't he do for the chip republic one he will stable to do as the owner of the second largest company in the czech republic so i t

. ♪ steves: prague's old town square, once just another farmers market, is now the heart of the city,oday, the commerce is clearly tourism. the fanciful gothic tyn church soars over everything as if to remind tourists lots of religious history took place right here. back in the 15th century, when some christians were beginning to struggle against roman catholic dominance, this was prague's leading hussite church. hussites were followers of jan hus, whose statue graces the square. he was a local preacher who got in trouble with the vatican a hundred years before martin luther and the reformation. the chalice is a symbol of hus and his followers, who believed everyone, not just priests, should be able to partake in the eucharist, or holy communion. these days, huge crowds gather at the 15th-century astronomical clock back on the old town square. the dials seem to tell you everything you could possibly want to know. it tells the phases of the moon, sunset, current sign of the zodiac, each day's special saint, and, somehow, it even tells the time. and of course, 500 years ago, everything

german invasion of poland when the game the qualifying game for the world cup was taking place in prague and german fans some of which bought tickets illegally walked into the stadium set off flares started chanting during the minute of silence for the two check officials. and then chanted not to slogans so this made a lot of noise in germany because as we know germany is trying to raise its past when it comes to not isn't all that and even the manager of the national team your human love spoke about this in very fiery terms. this is what happened that some so-called friends used to stage an international football match to bring shame on our country with their disgraceful appearance and behavior indeed as i've said in germany this is a very sensitive issue but it's not even the first time that german fans doing something like that they were printing t. shirts getting ready for the twenty thousand world cup in russia with a nazi slogan and also words that russia this time we're coming in this summer which is you know making quite clear references to that so what all this tells us it tells

film small yannick gives us the honest goods on prague.if we want to show places that we like ourselves for example we tell people where to go to drink beer ok because cup of coffee comes to mind is made out of because of this because downtown prague is a minefield and. the best ice cream in prague is definitely not that but today we're going to show you the great ice creams in prague that we were there video clips are shown on the check online t.v. channel and on you tube. more than two million people watch our videos every month we notice the effect because we're often recognized in approached on the street. a . little you tube is almost does this norwegian for example thanks them for their tip about affordable beer. i've seen all of their videos and when they showed me this place it just seemed like a really cool place to go because then middle of the city center and all the other places where there are really expensive and tourist traps. sixteen seven million people visited prague and the numbers are still growing for local residents t

director of the yorks are universities academic center in prague thank you very much for that analysis. let's all take a look at some other stories making news around the world more than half the rohingya muslims who have fled violence in myanmar are children that's according to the latest u.n. estimates a unicef report says nearly three hundred and forty thousand children are living in squalid conditions in camps in bangladesh and up to twelve thousand more arrive every week unicef says many are malnourished and traumatized by the atrocities they've witnessed. iraqi forces have retaken control of the elite last goodish held area of kirkuk province this comes after bogarde rejected a referendum on kurdish independence losing the region in northern iraq has got oil production in kurdish controlled territory in half and making independence even less likely. in a speech delivered in new york former u.s. president george w. bush's warns that politics in the u.s. seemed more vulnerable to conspiracy and what he called outcry fabrication bush's comments have been seen as an attack on preside

academic center there in prague thank you very much for joining us this evening if you would even now we know that she has been described as the czech version of donald trump over in the united states would you say that that's a fair comparison. well in some ways it is because mr publish is also a billionaire just like mr drum he also came into politics from the outside with so the attention of. creating to check quality causes them and he expresses some of the views that we can hear from mr trump very strong and by immigration sentiments. tendencies to isolate the czech republic and so on but i would also argue that mr bobbish is similar to mr bennett was connie who was the prime minister of italy for many years because unlike mr trump he managed to buy some important media outlets he owns to. weave through actual data east into chick republic plus a radio station and that helps him to promote his use in a quiet. way and with that powerful machine behind him you know media business in all of those areas one of his main pledges has been to tackle corruption how widespread would you sa

let's talk to our correspondent in prague rob cameron. how is it looking? of the votes. mr babis is still well ahead. if the votes confirmed that he will emerge from the election with 30% of the vote, that is 80 seats in the 200 seat lower house, that was a big victory for him. he has been plagued by scandals, corruption scandals, over the past few months that have dented his popularity in the polls, and it seems these elections have confounded those polls, but the real story is the party that has come second. the very nationalistic and xenophobic stb party led by a half czech and half japanese xenophobic stb party led by a half czech and halfjapanese bid but, believe it or not —— stp party. that would be a sign of the success of populist anti—eu parties in the czech republic as well. what does that mean for a potential coalition in the coming days? it could be very difficult. mr babis will be in a strong position if he ends on 30%, but he will still need coalition partners to form a majority government. a viable government. where he will go over those coal

so did the sight of salvia tanks in prague.cialism and revolution with the fight against humiliation and debasement. he dedicated a poem to his son eric hourglass fills up with silk we stand. as a trace yeah. i was very proud when my father walked with me along the same in. my bed and saying revolutionary songs to me in every possible language. here. that was also the period when he was sort of giving me my political education . for money because. he told me about the russian revolution but the seizure of power by the authoritarian communists. well. that was probably the time when he spoke to me about his political views his proximity to the and our guests of course victories and ashes and i she said the individual list and marcus. a few he made me read kropotkin biography. and he gave me a small volume with excerpts of texts by but when he wanted me to read that kind of literature. i had to go. he again moved to another apartment. salon wrote what remains is solitude. in a last attempt to find a place to call home salon travel

rob cameron, bbc news, prague.to help the victims of the hurricanes which have hit the united states this year. they didn't even all mated to donald trump's inauguration, so quite a sight. —— make it. barack 0bama, george w bush, his father, george hw bush, bill clinton and jimmy carter came together to support the one america appeal, following the hurricanes harvey, irma and maria. the appeal has so far raised more than $30 million. bill clinton had this message for americans. there is still work to be done in texas and florida, and ourfriends in puerto rico and the us virgin islands have already begun to dig their way out of what can still be a calamitous disaster but can be a new beginning — if we just do what we ought to do and prove that the heart of america, without regard to race or religion or political party, is greater than our problems. bill clinton, quite an exclusive clu b to bill clinton, quite an exclusive club to belong to. one never made it, john f kennedy. president trump says he plans to release

he'd found the evening described a stroll through a cemetery in prague the memory of the dead wisp isthe way only silence can tell the truth. to stand. up in the. need to stand for no one and nothing. recognized for you. with all that has room for in that. without language. but there was an orderly appeasing force in salons life every day life as a family his pleasure in his first proper apartment the prospect of a job as a lecturer for translation and in one thousand nine hundred fifty five his son eric was born. in one nine hundred fifty eight in the box batman burst in on the situation she suffered over saying on but she pulled back saying you mustn't abandon your wife and child ceylon later said she expected much from me and i disappointed her only friendship was possible but love remained and found expression in an intimate exchange of letters. ceylon had always had women who encouraged him like nelly sachs a poet a jew a kindred spirit you all pull the pure human so the world cannot be old outness. she visited him in paris in one nine hundred sixty to pull him out of his delusio

rob cameron, bbc news, prague. assassination of former us presidentjohn f kennedy. the final batch of government documents are scheduled to be made public on thursday 25 years after congress classified them in a bid to quash conspiracies — only the president is entitled to extend their secret status. earlier, i spoke to the author and broadcaster, and asked him what to expect from the files. they seem to be focused on a trip that lee harvey oswald took to new mexico, just before he shot the president. this has always been a question that people who are, not just conspiracy theorists, but historians, want to know more about. it is reported that he met with cuban and russian officials there. he was under surveillance by the fbi and the cia. these files contain some of the details about this, which may fill in our knowledge about what he was doing, just in the weeks before he actually committed deed. so, the idea that he did not work alone, even that's what he says, how much you mean about that. frankly, this is what

all right pay a political scientist and the director of new york university's academic center in prague thank you so much. you're watching d.w. news coming to you live from berlin we'll be back again with an update at the top of the hour from all of us here in berlin thanks for watching. and. money can't buy you name it. or can it i'm german online dating websites turned over two hundred fourteen million euros a year. and. thirty percent of germans now find their partner on line in. the dating business our special focus on made in germany starting october twenty fourth on d w. we take it personally are you ready with all the wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. for all true fans for my i'm going to. take on more than football online. elba carl's life has changed forever hurricane maria swept away practically everything she had her house is a ruin. her fellow residents in salinas have likewise been left largely to their own devices it's here in the south of puerto rico that the hurricane hit hardest but hell but has determined to keep her spirits up and she's alread

would treat it like a business we asked years you pay the new york university academic center in prague what we should expect if bobbish and the eno do form the new government. you know certainly try to run the whole country like a business like firm this is something he has said many times i don't think he realizes forty two. states a country is not a family firm so he will still have to look for compromises for political compromises and. really much will depend on which party will be with him in the next government to be india and stop him. in the government with the durational parties den of course they will they will keep him in check and it will not be so easy for him to go ahead with some some of his more radical. ideas. the far right s.p.d. of tommy or going to more is in second spot and i asked you how big the fear was that the far right party could push an anti e.u. an anti migrant policy into the mainstream certainly have always enjoyed politics now but i wouldn't say a decisive voice simply because it is it is an extreme right party and even mr bump issue him so has been quit

and language in prague for the rookie holes of nationalism. the soviet union's heritage where does russia stand today and moscow's empire our series starting november fifth on g.w. . this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight iraqi and kurdish forces clashing amid predictions of a new civil war there were celebrations in kirkuk as iraqi forces seized control of key sites in and around the kurdish held city today the military move comes just two weeks after kurds voted to declare independence from baghdad a move that has been rejected by kurdish neighbors and kurdish alums also coming up in a v.w. exclusive we meet a man he was helping the authorities in germany to hunt down fighters for a so-called islamic state. and scores of people are still missing after saturday's powerful truck bomb in the somali capital mogadishu the explosion killed hundreds of people and the death toll is expected to rise even further. plus the dawn of a new era in astronomy is at hand and that's what physicists tell us scientists have been discussing the existence of

ten years ago, i attended a conference on democracy and security in prague. the goal was to put human rights and human freedom at the center of our relationships with repressive governments. that ale did we know decade later a crisis of confidence would be developing within the core democracies. making the message of freedom more inhibited and laboring. little did we know that the repressive governments would be undertaking a major effort to encourage division in western societies and undermine legitimacy of elections. along withrivals skeptics at home misunderstand something important. the great advantage of free society, we creatively adapted challenges, without the direction of central authority. self correction is the secret strength of freedom. we are a nation with a history of resilience and a genius for renewal. right now one of our worst national problems is a deficit of confidence. the cause of freedom justifies all of our faith and effort. it still inspires men and women in the darkest corners of the world. it will inspire a rising generation. the a

brussels that's what we asked you to pay the director of new york university's academic center in prague well we don't know at this point because we still publish this businessman is that he's a pretty modest to really assess certain things now during the electoral campaign. to impress his electorate which consists mainly of older less educated people and those people are not happy with the european union but at the same time he's going to its own interests which are your stretch room your public to germany and france aren't and lance us companies in all of those countries and so it is not in his personal interest to create any kind of deep divide between the czech republic and the european union i personally expect that if you becomes the prime minister you would modify the entire european rhetoric and would become much more. not maybe pro european but certainly a much less combative with regard to the european union. to the bundestag where shaka have made a move up to fourth in the league table with a win over might on friday leon gretzky opened up the scoring chipping over meit's goal

likely to need going to some partners if he wants to lead the next government and joining me now from prague is again a g.p.a. he's the director of new york university's academic center that is you bob it is being described as a check version of the donald trump is that effect combat is a give us an idea about who is bobbish well publish is. a very rich man he's the second richest person in the czech republic and oligarch. decided a few years ago to go into politics he succeeded this movement and are finished second in two thousand and thirteen and ever since been trying to actually improve his political standing sense he's now of course to take all were the czech republic as its prime minister but at the same time i would while he certainly expresses so you are similar to donald trump he is also quite similar to syria but also economy because he is not just a businessman a billionaire but also own half of the czech media scene he wants to daily center radio station and. and his influence in the media is something that makes him quite similar to show your risk only now both are indicating th

and he is never been to prague and so forth.lot of it -- fusion so they stand by it. and again, we really don't understand russia's role way would like to know who paid for this. tit looks like at one point, t christopher steele had a relationship with the fbi to pay for some things and then they didn't pay. but we need to know that the fbi is being uncooperative and of course al franken would like to keep us stuck back in november 2016 and focusing on jeff sessions. there has been no o other information showing jeff sessions did anything improper and he recused himself. we need a lot of answers on the other side and what's mystifying for jeff sessions is that the donald trump department of justice is stonewalling congressional efforts to find out about this damaging dossier on donald trump. >> but jeff sessions has recused himself so that responsibility would fall to rod rosenstein. >> yes. >> why don't they turn it over? i don't stand. >> i don't either except that these are the security intelligence services, the fbi. and usu

we've been wanting to have this piece in our home for about fifteen years and when we first saw it in prague in early two thousand we couldn't afford it so we had our parents buy it for themselves and and about thirteen fourteen years later we managed to afford one for our own home. shares the one hundred square metre apartment with his girlfriend he admits he's happy to let her make decisions when it comes to the decor. please make kasha my partner she's the zines of the whole apartment and she began with this moroccan door this door was made in morocco and a friend of us had actually an extra one here in berlin that we were lucky enough to have and. this was a kind of first stone that was set in this apartment and what's special about the door is it really gives you a different impression of being transported to a different realm or to a different space when you walk through it come with a. breathable tiles lend the bedroom a mediterranean feel. what happens as it creates a microclimate everybody knows it's healthier to sleep and colder climate temperatures. and instead of having to open t