give you some numbers from state level in one especially important federal state and that is north rhine-westphalia authorities say that the proliferation of these vigilante groups dates back to the new years eve 2015 when there was mass violence and molestation of women who were celebrating the new year near the cologne train station by people of migration background and apparently the vigilante groups began to proliferate after that now in that federal state of north rhine-westphalia the authorities say they now have a hardcore of right wing vigilantes of about 250 people but that 700 people could be mobilized statewide throughout north rhine-westphalia if if the vigilantes so desired melissa watching our report you know seeing the interaction between the police officers and this vigilante patrol here in berlin you know i was struck by how polite they approached their polite approach and and they seemed kind of helpless as to what to do with them. i don't know if i would call it helpless germany has a very strong system of rule of law with respect for individual rights and that does indeed limit

regular cleanup events 7 cities are taking part in this one like oberhausen on a tributary of the rhine. you have to look closely i pull out pieces of plastic all over the place to look just like the stones my boats already full up. he's joined by new volunteers at every new stretch. they have to tying resin hair ram 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers thought but also from the landscape around them. and i stop i think it's important to realize that this is not just happening in the caribbean or wherever be aware that it starts here with us and saying this. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephanie halasz needs as many fellow campaigners as he can get because that's plenty of work to do but he's happy to have come this much closer to his goal of clean water waste. while they were equal to the so much trosch amazing what people can achieve but now back to. offical weather best of contemporary attempts to combine innovation and age old knowledge to construct bu

currently holds around 8 percent of the seats in the parliament of north rhine-westphalia and this isthe 1st time being elected that we talked to their foreign policy spokesman in the punta stark boston he says that he's also experienced discrimination at work. well this is not nothing's surprising especially not i must find because not an us foreign a solution only led by by socialists and the left is very strong there. and we are a press position party everywhere and want to start there are plenty of the communist party and of the left but the they are also not giving me that but the now this is this is the next step if you think about that. you are the youngest and most successful party in the german history and this is connected to the losses of the all 'd the stablish partisan especially the social democrats are they they are really feeling fear and they defeat seeing everywhere where it is possible. the next hour the president of the russian then pick committee insists his country will keep preparing for the 2020 games in tokyo despite a looming possible for more on this on all

you can make up your own rhine. created by cable in 1979. c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of congress. >> fbi director christopher wray was on capitol hill to testify on security threats facing the u.s. aboutrs asked counterterrorism efforts, stopping foreign influence in elections, and cyber security measures. the senate homeland security hearing is two hours 15 minutes. >> good afternoon.

but as the waters in the city recede other parts of northern italy have been swamped by a tarantula rhine leaving whole villages cut off. the rains have stopped life is getting back to normal but in venice that means assessing the damage after 3 floods within a single week still the waters are receding from public squares and the taxis are working the canals. but it's a different story in land flooded fields as far as the eye can see in central italy . and there for you leave julia region reversed burst their banks flooding a key road and making access to cut off the ledge is difficult. we just cleaned up the lake and now this if it goes on this way we won't have any prospects for the future. the situation was even more dire in a coastal town. of fills up and overflows into drains. floodwaters making even the most basic tasks much more difficult but a pivotal day with very limited as you can see when things like this happen we're stuck at home like prisoners. romagna in central italy was hard hit firefighters rescued stranded residents in boats and helicopters forecasters warned that more

headstones we can decipher here for instance at the church of st peter indorsement a city in north rhine-westphalia as the name suggests this was originally a catholic church since the reformation in the 16th century it's been lutheran. nobody today knows on a 15 story but her grave stone has survived. they did used to be buried around the parish church but as land became more valuable in towns and villages cemeteries were moved outside the city limits. in these new cemeteries monumental buildings were sometimes erected or parks laid out. similar to reason graves had to make an impression. in the austin google in germany during the 19th century and what has been called the borzois era a tradition of splendid was cultivated in which the middle class individual was honored in the cemetery a list of his achievements and possibly a statue on which incredible sums of money were spent thus is this the land of the so called monument culture that we had my own older than cemeteries when your facts were admiring i achievements of the urban boys was evil and. not them fight and they click after the 2nd world

by land instead it went on a 9000 kilometer detour down the danube around europe by sea and up the rhine then came a tight squeeze the last few kilometers in karlsruhe or to the research center where it finally got down to work. a big effort for such tiny particles. considered by every getting big centimeter of the universe still has about 300 neutrinos left over from the big bad with the use other sources like the sun supernovas all those also produce huge amounts on the team a lot of new tracers arrive on earth and pass right through our bodies few of these are so weakly interactive if we don't even notice them not feel familiar there's gas through every square centimeter of our skin every 2nd of this and we don't even notice from those. weighing neutrinos it's very complicated and requires some clever tricks catchin measures some 70 meters long. at one end of the device the scientists put tritium a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. the base of decay of the radioactive tritium nuclei produces an electron and a neutrino the 2 particles share the decay energy which is a known quantity and

artist rembrandt harman's on fun rhine is a national hero in the netherlands using just a few color pigments made his canvases shine like almost nobody before him. now 350 years after his death his fame lives on. his most famous painting the night watch hangs in amsterdam's rights museum and is now undergoing restoration. a laser scan the painting and analyze the chemical elements and the layers of paint. but does that tell us anything about rembrandt's genius. to slow down so both the announcers to paint such a huge picture has to sketch the composition 1st out some other example of the 1st to position the end science flag on the left different to its ideal place to kind of indian caught up on the famous to go he goes as ink on. he developed this picture successively as he was painting it and this way exciting to see this development process because and it can you find out how rembrandt thought and which decisions he made and that's what i can cite on have. lied and rembrandts hometown lies about 40 kilometers south of amsterdam. he was born here in 1606 his parents' house no longer stands.

could become the next chancellor let's have a listen to our main last it is the state premier of north rhine-westphalia that's germany's most populous state we spoke with him earlier take a listen. deep in this party occupies a political center ground and anyone wanting to change that course will find no support from the delegates here. everybody here wants us to remain a broad church party which takes climate change seriously but also has an industrial policy that secures jobs for the future such as those in the car manufacturing industry it's a mammoth task. turning european unity is another important task if the brits leave the european union the e.u. needs to remain capable of acting mission. of nato needs to become stronger through greater involvement of all policies that will be dealing with a long after election day. kate the c.d.u. is been searching for political identity you for political message for a while now might he be someone who could maybe at least help shape that message in the coming election. well it was interesting then that that sounded remarkably like some of the foreign policy t

could become the next chancellor let's have a listen to our main last it is the state premier of north rhine-westphalia that's germany's most populous state we spoke with him earlier. this party occupies a political center ground and anyone wanting to change that course will find no support from the delegates here. everybody here wants us to remain a broad church party which takes climate change seriously but also has an industrial policy that secures jobs for the future such as those in the car manufacturing industry it's a mammoth task movies and of god and it's the maintaining european unity is another important task if the brits leave the european union the e.u. needs to remain capable of acting in europe nato needs to become stronger through greater involvement those are all policies that we'll be dealing with along after election day. the c.d.u. is been searching for political identity for political message for a while now might he be someone who could maybe at least help shape that message in the coming election. well it was interesting then that that sounded remarkably like some of the foreign

participation a member of the party was also denied the vice chair position in the parliament of north rhine westfalia however while the majority of parties that decided to cut all the contacts with f.t. some think that good manners should never be forgotten the only if to use a political opponent which we must contest while solving the country's problems this is what we do for example with our a 0 tolerance policy in internal security to turn a greeting is not a proof of political closeness just good manners. the f.t. cargo holds around 8 percent of seats in the parliament of north run for spadea and this is the 1st time actually being elected that now we talked to today of foreign policy speak in the national parliament by strand claims that he's also experienced discrimination out walk. this is not nothing's surprising especially in not over spying because not only us following this tradition of the lead to by by socialists and the left is very strong. and we are oppressed opposition party everywhere and want to start there are deployed tease of the communist party and of the left by the

. >> and one of the rhines that we wanted to bring it in front of you is we may have some contractors who may fail the prequalification, want to come to the commission and bring it up. but we just want to let you know the purpose that we are moving in this direction is we want to make sure that we provide all the workers, contractors have a really sound safety program, and so that's why we -- we're working with the risk manager, city attorney, all the other chapter 6 departments, the board of supervisors, to come up with a process so that if we do have another fatality, we have done some due diligence and make sure that safety was on the forefront of who we selected to perform the work. >> so this is a question either for harlan or the councsel because i read this very quickly because i wanted to hear what was being said. so this is strictly about making contractors get these jobs safer. this does not affect -- other than having a better contractor source, this is not going to affect extra rules on the work site or anything along those lines. this is scrutiny that -- >> this is strict

cloud around today and right away through this weekend, but the midlands missing the worst of the rhineher north, north—east england and eastern scotland. this is what has happened so far today. not a great deal of rain through the middle. a bit more rain coming back towards the south—east of england that will head its way northwards. drying off a little bit for the south—west of england and wales to stop temperature is about nine or ten. it stays wet for eastern scotland. nasty sting and for a while. it dries from the south—east. for many parts of england and wales and northern ireland and transpire overnight but there will be some mist and fog patches as the winds are dropping. temperatures six or seven. frost free again. we start with some rain in eastern scotland up with some rain in eastern scotland up towards the northern isles, that tends to be dropped steadily. maybe one 01’ tends to be dropped steadily. maybe one or two tends to be dropped steadily. maybe one 01’ two showers tends to be dropped steadily. maybe one or two showers tomorrow and the irish sea coast but on the whole

1st german city force to take action by an administrative court because a lot of the state of north rhine-westphalia was no take all necessary measures to ensure that a complies with the limits of nitrogen dioxide by september 1st 2019 of the scottish however the court has made it clear that it considers a bona diesel driving to be the only suitable measure to ensure compliance with the limits. so there's now a 98 percent likelihood that a burn and driving diesel cars will be imposed. 3 weeks later in late june 28th in an administrative court in stuttgart also ruled in favor of driving bans. the state government complied banning diesel cars from all roads in stuttgart from january the 1st 2019 and not just on selected roads like in hamburg or as planned in berlin. the ban applies to cars made to euro 4 standard and older. service and we wouldn't be discussing driving bans today have cars were as clean as they're supposed to be if manufacturers had used cheating software but installed suitable hardware would be complying with air quality standards for both nitrogen oxides and particular matter. if al

the ter rhine was too rough for the helicopters to land. so the soldiers jumped from 10 to 25 feet off the back of helicopters to start the mission. some landed on jagged rocks, others lanned waist deep in the river. none were detoured from the mission. after moving their way through fast moving water, they faced an onslaught of machine-gun fire, sniper fire, and grenades. they were forced to take cover. once williams learned members of his team were trapped and taking heavy fire, he quickly joined a small assault team to assist the wounded and the troops taking heavy fire. williams led the group up the mountain across 100 meter valley of boulders and difficult terrain towards american troops in training danger. quick-l they set up a human to bring the wounded down the mountain. as they were setting up the chain, one of his fellow soldiers was hit. without a moment's hesitation, he braved enemy fire to give the soldier first aid and get him out of the line of fire. after helping his fellow showed soldier, he immediately turned around and we

the president, president trump, tweet about the case last month writing on rhine, quote: if the supremert upholds daca, it gives the president extraordinary powers, far greater than ever thought. democratic presidential hopefuls have vowed, if elected, to keep daca in place. vermont senator bernie sanders says he plans to expand the program and overhaul the entire immigration system. >> on our first day in office, we will restore the legal status to have 1.8 million young people eligible for the daca program. >> reporter: while the oral arguments are happening on tuesday, a final decision is not expected until sometime in 2020, meaning this is an issue that will likely keep coming up on the campaign trail. the debate comes as the trump administration is also proposing to increase fees daca recipients pay e to renew their paperwork every two years. the administration says the money is needed to help cover benefit requests and costs associated with vetting applicants. eric? eric: mark, thanks so much. arthel: mormon families from two towns in mexico crossed into arizona saturday afternoon

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americans think that george washington crossed the rhine river during the revolution a war.ughter] more haskell sophomores can name the first three names of the three stooges than the first three names of any founding fathers. and amazingly, 10% of american college graduates now believe that judge judy is a member of the united states supreme court. [laughter] which is not yet the case, i would add. [laughter] think about this. -- and if you hear a naturalized citizen -- is anyone here in naturalized citizen? if you are a citizen, you have to take a citizenship test and you have to get 60 right of 100 questions. 91% of the people who take that test, after studying, passive. 91% pass. a survey was done by the woodrow wilson foundation, and discovered that if you give the same test to people who are native americans, only the citizens in one state were able to pass it, vermont. states, the average citizen without studying could not pass the basic citizenship status -- test. there is no one way to solve it. in a modest way, i'm trying to buy historic documents, the magna carta,

you can make up your own rhine. created by cable in 1979. c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of congress. >> fbi director christopher wray was on capitol hill to testify on security threats facing the u.s. aboutrs asked counterterrorism efforts, stopping foreign influence in elections, and cyber security measures. the senate homeland security hearing is two hours 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. this hearing will come to order. i want to thank our witnesses for your service to our country. >> 13 people lost their lives, 30 people were injured. it underscores what we are dealing with here in terms of a threat environment. this is my ninth annual threat hearing that i have either chaired or participated in. i often say i'm not the most uplifting character. those i could say that in nine years, i have seen tremendous progress being made and we have reduced these threats and all is well. unfortunately, we face the same threats. if anything, the threats are growing. nine years ago, we we

the battle of the bulge, jack fought for the remaining nine months of the war across the through the rhine land until he reached the gates of a concentration camp. first nazi camp to be liberated. it was a big, big event. it was number one. as jack has said about the battle of the bulge, when the chips were down and the situation was desperate, the american soldiers stood up to be counted. for a brief moment in history these men held our nation's destiny in their hands. we did not fail. thank you very much, jack. [applause] and corporal foye, we will forever be proud of what you and your fellow soldiers achieved for all of humanity. also here with us today is lauren matthews. the granddaughter of oh veteran who passed away. roddy never talked about the war, lauren never knew her grandfather's story until she did a school project 10 years ago. roddy was in the 422nd regiment which was overwhelmed when the nazis launched their surprise assault. he and his men fought for three treacherous days before being taken as prisoners of war. after they arrived at a prison camp, the german commander se

jack for remaining nine months of the war across the siegfried line, up the mosul river, through the rhinehed the gates of the concentration camp, the first nazi camp to be liberated. that was number one. that was a big, big event. as jack has said about the battle of the bulge, when the chips were down, and the situation was desperate, the american soldiers stood up to be counted, for a brief moment in history, these men held our nation's destiny in their hands. we did not fail. thanks very much, jack. [applause] and corporal foy, we will forever be proud of what you and your fellow soldiers achieved for all of humanity. also here with us today here with us, lauren matthews, the granddaughter of a battle of the bulge veteran who since passed away of his name was master sergeant, roddy edwards. like some veterans, he never talked about the war. lauren never knew her grandfather's story until she embarked on a school project 10 years ago. roddy was in the 422nd regiment which was overwhelmed when the nazis launched their surprise assault. he and his men fought for three treacherous days bef