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stay with us here on dw. >> 24,000 people are dead. 18,000 of them children. of hunger. 800 million live on the thin edge of starvation. while they are slipping away, others in the world have the good fortune not to see them. we need to stop the hunger and start the hoping. >> 20 years have passed since the signing of the master treaty. it was designed to create a more integrated union. the promise was one of more freedom, more prosperity, and a guarantee of peace. >> after two decades, those dreams are now in danger with millions of europeans seeing their financial gains wiped out as the year remains very much under threat. >> the champagne corks may have been seven back in 1992, but it was the beginning of a new era for europe. the treaty called for a european union with increasingly closer ties, political and economic. the euro was to become a symbol of that integration, but the project was flawed from the start according to the former president of the european commission. >> the currency union functioned well for 10 years but only stored on one leg. there

we report on the search for hostages in the remote borderlands between ethiopia and eritrea. >> all right. we will be right back. stay with us. dw on the internet with a new address and a completely revamped online presence. journalistic quality in 30 languages -- insightful, diverse, and in multimedia format. visit us at dw.de. >> welcome back, everyone. last month, a german working on a construction site in nigeria was kidnapped. days before that, there were separate reports that two german tourists had been kidnapped in ethiopia. >> but germany is prepared to deal with these kinds of incidents. the country has a specially trained crisis team standing by to handle negotiations and any rescue operations. the team is part of the german foreign office. we have a behind-the-scenes look now at how they operate. >> whether it is a ship wreck like the costa concordia off the italian coast or hostage situation, the government's crisis response center team gathers in the basement of the foreign ministry to coordinate efforts to help. but the experts and diplomats do during an emergency is kept strictly confidential. especially when it

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on the rampage. >> stay with us. >> you decide what you want to watch. all the images, all the programs, the whole package. dw on the internet. the media center on www.dw.de. >> alright, welcome back, everyone. it is game over for the confessed killer originally from coastal. he says he shot dead two u.s. airmen at frankfurt airport after seeing a video apparently showing american soldiers raping muslim women. >> the judge in the case said this is the first islamic motivated terrorist strike to have happened here in germany. >> relatives of the victims were in the frankfurt court room for the sentencing. closure of a kind for loved ones of the men who died. the court sentenced him to life in prison. he will spend at least 15 years behind bars. he showed no remorse during the trial. the prosecution demanded a stiff penalty for the defendant, who was radicalized through the internet. >> the accusedt stared at the table in front of him and showed no remorse for what he had done. his defense counsel tried to focus on his youth, his immaturity, his lack of communication skills. he was only 21, in fact, when he com

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us. >> you decide what you want to watch. all the images, all the programs, the whole package. dw on the internet. the media center on dw.de. >> she is a woman with a vision. she introduces high-quality seeds for farmers. she began small, convinced the bank would give her alone -- a loan. bank that a woman can be equally competitive. >> give women opportunity. >> welcome back, everyone. the french president, nicolas sarkozy, is set to real -- we launch his campaign today. >> as part of the campaign, sarkozy just launched his personal twitter account and is expected to announce his bid on french television. >> sarkozy has been eyeing campaign mode for months, but has waited until now, less than 10 weeks to polling day, to officially confirm his candidacy. >> recent opinion polls showed the conservative sarkozy trailing socialist rivals by a big margin. a presidential rival contest takes place in two rounds in late april and early may. >> we are on the line now with clay, who was in paris for us. why has sarkozy waited so long to declare his candidacy? >> he has a weighted very long, and he -- initi

the higher -- >> dw on the internet, with a new address and a revamped online presence. insightful, diverse, in a multimedia format. visit us at dw.de. >> thank you for staying with us. going back to our top story, the german parliament has approved the next bailout package for herb greece -- a lot package for greece. it was a reflection of the deep sense of unease in germany about the amount of money being used to save greece from bankruptcy. >> one of the key tasks is to get the task of privatization rolling. >> the island is the site of the biggest gas storage tanks in greece. year, it is due to be sold. it is hoped the sale will generate several hundred million euros. the agency has come under fierce criticism after selling virtually nothing at all last year. that has given rise to accusations that greece has no intention of privatizing any of its economy. >> in this phase, there's only one clear response to that, the state has no choice at. there are very clear plans. the government cannot reverse that. >> even the state-run lottery is coming up for sale. even optimistic observers doubt that can be accomplished. the pr

dw on the internet with a new address and a completely revamped online presence. the journalistic quality in 30 languages. an insightful, diverse, and in multi-media format. visit use. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome back. another maker of brake meeting in greece. eurozone finance ministers have convened in brussels to hammer out the details of the second bailout package for athens. >> the finance ministers are discussing how to save greece from the fault and an exit from the eurozone. for many in greece, it is not about politics. it is about putting food on the table. >> the greeks and not lost their appetite for pork, the cannot afford it. butchers at athens' central market say turnover is down as much as 70%. he says people are not even by eating meat on special days, such as public holidays. >> people have been mainly asking what they can get for a euro. now they're buying for themselves the stuff that they used to buy for their dogs. let's be honest, is it really worth cooking that and using expensive electricity in the process? >> and fewer and fewer people are coming here, even though things are cheaper and many of the shops. many greeks simply cannot afford it. what will

us. we will be right back after a short break with more news here at in dw. ♪ ♪ >> you decide what you want to watch. all the images, all the programs, the whole package. dw onernet. the media center on www.dw- world.de. >> what is so powerful that it can make you overcome your greatest fear, turn your brother into an enemy, and leave wounds that scar long after the fighting is over? >> what is so potent it passes effortlessly from mother to child, generation to generation? what clouds brilliant minds? >> makes you confuse right from wrong? >> it is hunger. >> it kills 25,000 people a day. >> help us fight hunger. >> the world food program. >> welcome back. news first of some reconciliation and the middle east conflict. >> it looks like that way. my view -- mahmoud abbas astana in the palestinian unity government for the west bank and the gaza strip. the move was agreed in a meeting in qatar of your years of bitter rivalry between fatah and hamas, which control the two territories separately. the unity government will prepare for general elections. tensions between the two factions has been high since elections in the gaza strip back in 2007 when hamas won e

dw-- it's ver shocking. you never know what goes on in other people's minds, but it really broke us out of our sense. >> jonathan, thank you very much for your time and for your insight this morning. just to recap, five students injured there this morning after 730 a.m. when a student opened fire inside the school building at chardon high school. we're going to work to bring more details of this shooting this morning. i want to take you to washington, d.c., though, right now, president obama is addressing the nation's governors, the group holding their winter meeting. let's listen in. >> manufacturers are hiring for the first time since the 1990s. the autoindustry is back. our recovery is gaining speed and the economy is getting stronger. we've got to do everything we can to make sure that with we sustain this progress. we have to strengthen american manufacturing. it means that we've got to develop new sources of american energy so that we're less dependent on foreign oil. and it means that we've got to mike sure that every american is equipped with the skills, the education that they need to compete for the jo