president christian wulff called on germany's turkish community to actively engage in society. he reiterated that are a welcome part of germany. this comes amid an ongoing debate in germany about the integration of immigrants into german society, especially turks, who make up the largest ethnic minority. >> the turkish president gave his german counterpart a warm welcome. prior to the trip, wulff had made headlines for his comment that islam is part of germany. in turkey, the german president continued his call for mutual respect. in a speech on tuesday, he appealed to his host to protect the religious freedom of minorities. >> we expect that christians in muslim countries have the same rights to live their fate publicly, educe new clergy, and build churches. >> it is hard to gauge what the turkish property in -- turkish parliament made of the appeal, but in germany his words resonated with politicians. >> religious freedom is enshrined in our constitution. we hope this can become possible in turkey as well. >> we made it clear that religious freedom is the world's future. >> w

with a unique opportunity and the centre of gravity of turkish trade appears to be shifting. while arcelik'sexports to western europe grew by just 3% this year, exports to the middle east and asia grew by 15to 20%. >>hakura: turkey's very close to middle eastern, arab markets, to iran, to russia, to central asia, and to thecaucuses and to the black sea regions. so turkey is blessed with such a geography and for that reason, with the relative political stability compared to its neighbours, turkeys' able to really dominate many of the markets in its neighbourhood. >>reporter: markets like iraq, where turkish companies are dominating reconstruction efforts in the north. iraq's risen from number 10 to number 5 among turkey's export partners. israel is another growth area. despite political tensions, turkey has increased its exports by almost 40% this year. overall, turkish exports grew by 18% in the first seven months of 2010 ahead of the governments target. >>mente: our target for 2010 is 111 billion annual export. we are expecting 15% increase in our export this year. we are op

it is of course turkish restaurant week. chuck bell, in case you didn't know. >> i was eating off the other end. nice. >> looks like they beat the rain. >> we were advertising the rain coming in thsecond half of the day today. boy, it's out there now. getting wet out there once again. just what we didn'tecessarily want was more rain. it was going to add up to a half an inch, but this is n going the heavy events like last week. unfortunately, they may interfere with your monday morning commute. we waited for the rain and as a result, people got the chance to geoutside and find different ways to get out. running and jogging, soccer playing, baseball playing, everything you wanted to do. little golf. that's where i usually am right there by the water tr on a beautiful sunday afternoon. usually, i have to bring out the galoshes. the clouds have really rolled in. our high made it up to 67 degrees. think overcast outside with the rain coming down. today was our second day in a row. tomorrow will be our third. last time, we had thr

it will boost our german-turkish friendship. >> turkey is banking on christian wulff. they hope that they will be supportive of the drive for european union membership. >> wayne rooney has signed a new five-year contract with manchester uned. it is an abrupt u-turn. he just said he wanted to quit. he might have been swayed by a deal that is believed to double his salary to more than 200,000 euros per week. alex ferguson says he is delighted at the change of heart and urged the club to get behind him. more on the g-20 summit and the currency wars. stay with us >> welcome back. g-20 finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in south korea. there are increasing concerns that a growing number of government are involved in currency war, by giving their nation's money to make domestically-per most -- domestically-produced goods cheaper q5 hom3. -- at home. the yuan has been accused of being articially lo to promote -- to avoid higher employment among chinese citizens. >> president barack obama is reported to have put pressure on chinese premier wen jiabao over the cu

wars of the seventeenth century where the cossacks brought back turkish habits along with the new turkish wives and it's been a big social occasion ever since. you could see was not simply a means. to a chill get together over coffee sit to discuss matters of interest because x. never drank on their own they're always invited to. other friendship. and you don't just drink plain coffee it's always served with whipped milk it's called kind mark . extreme. things to come around town obama's delicious pancakes i was ready to see what else was going on in the village and i didn't have to look phone. and his friends of dr who perform around russia but they're all so happy to train new students providing they are wearing the proper gear of course. right i don't like a ready hole i'm missing now is the beard so we don't have time for that but i had a few riding lessons by now and i was confident that nothing could possibly go wrong assuming that's all he wasn't going to make me copy his proteges i'm told he was once in the presidential guard and he's following in the footsteps of a proud line of

german president christian vault is to speak before the turkish parliament he's the first german president to visit the country in over ten years this follows 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. caught journalist and author from berlin says the problems of integration stems 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 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 would 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 and for their culture and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i don't believe that. they will live peacefully together. and you can cat

an unbeliever you should obey to islam and to the muslims so we have saudi percent of muslims of turkish muslims and. many leaving schools with long and they say that they don't have a diploma or anything because their religion tells them the pope have to obey to what the unbelievers tell you this is going to cost conflicts this is going to cause big problems so what i believe is 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. you can catch that full interview in about fifteen minutes time right here on r.t. . well getting behind the wheel in russia means you could be taking your life into your own hands each year around twenty five thousand people are killed on the roads in a country renowned for drivers with a distinct disregard for safety but getting a license in russia does not necessarily guarantee driving skills it may just mean the right person has been paid off sean thomas reports. welcome to russia where the roads are notoriously bad dr

this is this is nice so everybody can read that but if it is only only in turkish people they feel strange when they think where am i living this is an arabian city much of the ensuing to beit has focused on muslim immigrants with migrant families reluctant to integrate into a society that they feel is prejudiced against them but i have my own personality in my own believe things on my own. the way i've been brought up don't think that changing my personality or the way i look the way i talk or my even my mother tongue would change. when i would. have an effect on the german culture projects like this local community center and aiding integration and teaching children the german language from an early age but with few bilingual arabic or take if schools families likenesses sending their children to private school where they do not yet learn german despite the tough rhetoric from the top germany acknowledges that immigration is desirable for its economy that migrants have to be willing to integrate we need people in all of the industrial countries because we have not so many kids anymore i

dominating world news this sunday more than twenty injured explosion in established manger square turkish police suspect it was a suicide bomb blast happened near a spot where white police were stationed in case of demonstrations among the wounded at least two are in serious condition bomb squads have to cover more devices at the scene and working to. yemeni authorities have arrested a woman suspected of sending explosive parcels to u.s. synagogues bombs were found on u.s. bound planes in the u.k. and dubai officials in yemen have also seized over twenty suspect parcels with suspicion falling on the country's active cell last year it attempted to blow up a detroit bound airliner. and gunmen have massacred at least fourteen people during a football match in the northern one door in city of san pedro sula the group armed with assault rifles pulled up in a car and opened fire at point blank range the motive is unclear but police believe the shooting may be linked to the drug trade it comes almost two months after a gunman stormed a shoe factory in the same city and killed eighteen people. br

bath i'm thinking and turkish food. this year's theme, explore wonders of turkey in the heart of d.c. i suppose you could say they took a turkish bath when that rain started coming down because things took a turn for the worse. >> definitely. we did have the showers that moved into the course of this meaning, but we've gone through a couple days of record rainfall and got a little bit of a break. needless to say, it's back on our doorstep again. let's begin with a radar and show you what's happening. here's our fox 5 live doppler radar. we've got light to moderate rainfall from areas of southern maryland through central virginia and then north through the d.c. metro area heading towards baltimore and as we go back to our map then, temperatures still on the cooler side as well, only in the 50s. we had a cool day tonight. tonight 51 degrees with that rain continuing. we'll have a look at the five- day forecast a little later, back to you. >>> new tonight d.c. detectives investigating a deadly shooting near howard universi

you should not learn in unbelievers schools so we are going we have so the percent of muslims of turkish muslims in germany leaving schools without learning anything there they don't have a diploma or anything because their religion in serous three first one hundred ten tells them you have to obey to what the unbelievers tell you because you are natural born muslim you are your more worse than an unbeliever why do you listen to what they tell you forget that so this this is going to cost conflicts this is going to cause big problems you could never never publicly and especially not in the mass media you could never talk about incest in the islamic culture that. people who are relatives cousins if they marry and that is common in pakistan come on and. if they marry and if they do the incest that it will not be good because they have shits a friend. they have. diseases we have to talk about their families used to practice incest and in some valleys. the alps you had incest but now. you're not allowed to marry your first great cousin in germany because we don't want to have shit sophronia a

nine people were killed in the may 31 attack, including 19- year-old turkish american firkin dogan. on thursday, his fher urged the obama administration to back the call for an icc probe. >> the rights of my son are not being protected. i urge the usa to defend the rights of my son because he is an american citizen. i want the minister of foreign affairs to contact me. even animal rights are protected in the u.s.a., but not my son's rights. >> neither the u.s. nor israel are signatories to the international criminal court. the petition comes one month after a un human rights council probe accused israeli forces of willful killing and torture in the attack and said israel officials should face international prosecution. iranian president ahmadinejad continued his first state visit to lebanon thursday in the southern region bordering israel. speaking before crowd of thousands, ahmadinejad said israel would one day disappear. >> that everyone know the zionists will cease to exist. you have been able to let the enemy taste defeat and introduce despair into the hearts of the devil. and t

citizen from the turkish government in july passed it on to the department of justice and the department of justice was in theory responsible for making a judgment as to whether it should be carrying out an independent investigation we've heard absolutely nothing of course and you tried to contact when i asked the problem of justice they refused to comment. they it's really just an aberration now tell me this too because the media when the actual attack occurred in may the media coverage was all over this that there was a lot of it we kept seeing those videos that we later found out had been edited and they were handed over by israeli forces we saw them played over and over again of them descending on to these ships and so this time around now that the report has come out why is the media silent why do we not you know this is a very interesting question and i've been thinking about this a lot and i have a couple of observations about this one is that you know i have seen a very strong tendency of the corporate media in the united states to decide what is news and what is not news in larg

i put that question to someone from the turkish associion in berlin and brdenburg. >> of course islampart of germany with over 4 million moslems. -- muslims. what angela merkel said it does not make sense -- multiculturalism has failed. multiculturalism 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 imgrants musdo mor 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 t government do to improve integratn for tks? >> 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 sh

. >> a turkish-german also supports wulff, calling on him to keep the presence business- like. >> the integration of turks in germany will be on the agenda. they will be trying to seek a resolution, rather than making headlines. they could be disrupted by the noise from horst seehofer. >> they recognize the need for immigration. the debate is how best to attract an immigrant -- attract immigrants who can make a voluble contributions. >> the german contribution -- who can make valuable contributions. >> the german government announced they would try to attract workers by adopting a point system. >> germany needs skilled foreign workers like i.t. specialist from india. they work for i.s.p. -- an i.s.p. in berlin. it would like to hire more foreign workers, but it is even hard -- it has been hard to attract staff. the german government is proposing legislation to make it easier for skilled foreigners to work in germany. >> we want to make sure that foreign degrees are recognized within three months of the original application, or that applicants are told which documents they still have t

with turkish immigrants and the arabic immigrants has been happening for decades why has. because. again they are saying. on the one hundred has to do with a big number of immigrants in germany we have four million muslims not only a book mostly of turkish origin their origin and beliefs are becoming more and more visible for instance through the construction of huge representative mosques which could as well be seen as a political symbol to have to have two classes lately along flags are over the construction of a huge mosque to replace a smaller mosque it means islam is getting more visible and the other hand it has to do with the difference in the progress of integration between muslims and. it isn't necessarily to do with our origins or social street one example of the children of vietnamese contract workers in the former g.d.r. or the children of the so-called new people into a very successfully by the proportion of those children attending the best high school kids in germany is fifty percent higher than the number of german kids and consequently it must have something to do

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eighth annual turkish festival included lots of food. were live performances featuring the rich culture of the middest east and central asia. they also had a chance to build the world's longest meal. >>> still coming up, the cold and wet start for the week ahead, devon? >> reporter: yeah, that rain has moved in here tonight. it's only going to continue. but as i thought, we see a healthy dose of sunshine. going up to 67 degrees today at reagan national. we'll let you know about the winds picking up. very cold temperatures going along with the rain. >>> and also an unwanted surprise for some homeowners. hi. i'm jim perdue. in case of everyday emergencies... guys, go get changed! ...or soccer practice, it's important to be prepared for dinner. that's why i've prepared my perdue perfect portions fresh chicken breasts. they're individually wrapped, so you can cook what you need and store what you don't. we're not playing helicopter now. ready when you are, they're trimmed of fat and consistently sized to cook in just 10 minutes. life's not p

was of turkish descent. some action i'm sorry to say the three passed around in a friendly maybe darby the five time world champions taking the lead with dani alves free kick after fifteen minutes and he stayed like that until half an hour to go alexander pass getting brazil second. the third kind many time getting it his ninth in twenty two appearances brazil will play ukraine another friendly on monday. as a new number one in women's tennis caroline wozniacki has claimed top spot there from serena williams after reaching the quarter finals of the china open in beijing the twenty year old danger facing czech petrak a bit of a six three six two becomes the third. player in the last two years to climb to the top that winning a grand slam serina williams losing her crown after being out of action since foot surgery in the summer wozniacki meanwhile is loving the new state so. there is incomes for a train about this person for us little kids so so that for amber proud of what i've achieved and to call myself wo

ballon lympics stadium on thursday that venue should have an electric atmosphere with thousands of turkish germans living in the city and there's also plenty linking the two teams on the pitch turkey squad includes germany based brothers how much and how well out in top and curry side and while germany based the super message is of turkish descent. on some action now and on thursday night results snatched three goals past iran and friendly in abu dhabi the five time world champions took the lead off the fifteen minutes to a danny alva's free kick and the score stayed at one nil until half an hour to go and examine the results second then the third came in injury time no ma getting it his ninth goal in twenty two parents is brazil will play ukraine another friendly in england on monday. to tennis now and there's a new number one in the women's game caroline wozniacki has claimed top spot from serena williams after reaching the quarter finals of the china open in beijing the twenty year old dane defeated czech at track kryten off six three. two she becomes the third player in the last two ye

will use of turkish descent however to make me feel sebastian's wind is injured and while many of europe's footballers are turning their attention to the upcoming euro twenty twelve qualifiers barcelona star legal messi and his argentina team mates have trained at the national stadium in tokyo ahead of their friendly with japan on friday following victories over ireland and spain the visitors are seeking a third straight win under temporary betances who replaced the egg donor following therefore no thrashing by germany at the world cup i'm fearful world proud of the yearly messi will be the main attraction for the local fans he recently recovered from an ankle injury scoring on his return from in their one one draw with reality yorker. last night. it's all stuff three passed around in a friend in abu dhabi the five time world champions taking the lead with it danielle is free to take the fifteen minutes and it stayed like that with half an hour to go alexander potter getting brazil second. time in injury time getting it was his ninth in twenty two appearances of brazil will play you crying

turkish germans living in the city and there's also plenty linking the two teams on the pitch to take his squad includes germany based brothers how meds and how they are out in top and who resigned while germany boasts the super messages all because of text dissent. to tennis now caroline wozniacki says her dreams have come true after she leapt from serina williams to go top of the world rankings by reaching the quarter finals of the china open in beijing the twenty year old dane defeated czech petra critter that six three six two to claim her new status she becomes the third player in the last two years to climb to the top that winning a grand slam williams lost her crown after being out of action since undergoing foot surgery in the summer however is loving a new status. i'm sure about with very few of us little care so so that's why i'm very proud of what i've achieved and to come i thought world number one of the. formula one and red bull have dominated friday's practice session for the japanese grown prius's zuker with sebastian vettel topping the time sheets ahead of teammate an

it include a lot of food, coffee and a turkish market along pennsylvania avenue.s were live performances featuring the rich culture of central asia and the middle east. >>> good morning. welcome back to 9 news now. i'm andrea roane. >>> angie goff is here. she's going to have the traffic for you. things improving on river road. >> yes, they are and with the turkish festival, i know they were attempting to make the world's biggest baobab for the world record. >> no word on that. >> we are starting the morning off on a soggy note but the rest of the week, the second half of the week we will be paid back in a big way. that's the good news there. it is wet. live doppler 9000 hd showing rain moving in from the southeast to the knot northwest. just about everywhere here in the immediate metro. some breaks. more breaks in the lower eastern shore and northeastern neck. this is not an all day even. go to the weather computer and you are will see the area of rain moving to the north northwest. the rain develops close to us. we will have it around at least for the next five

in germany should actively integrate into society the german president said in an address to the turkish parliament christian wolf. is the first german president to visit the country in over ten years his statement and reiterate chancellor angela merkel's comments last week that multiculturalism had totally failed and as it grapples with integrating its three and a half million mostly turkish muslims german identity is in the spotlight for now i'm joined in london by keith best and he's a former british m.p. and chief executive of the foundation for care of victims of torture thank you very much indeed mr best for joining us here on r.t. . 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 t