of the nation's first democratic constitution at a ceremony in weimar it was in the eastern city that a national assembly founded a republic after imperial germany's calamitous defeat in war one lawmakers including german chancellor angela merkel attended a church service to commemorate be a cage. gemini's first democratic constitution was drawn up in weimar's national theatre. it was one of the most liberal and progressive ever penned at the time. german president trying to steinmeyer have pointed to me lasting importance. in that site india we live in a time when historical achievements including the separation of powers the parliamentary system and the rule of law are being challenged and questioned even here in europe. after the first free elections in january one thousand nine hundred nineteen the national assembly met environment and created germany's first democratic legal points to chief in the so-called weimar constitution. it formalized the principles of sovereignty separation of powers and women's suffrage but the constitution also contained faith to fuse. the nation's president had considerable power and could

the representatives of the weimar republic had no choice they were forced to acknowledge germany's soleguilt for the war and accept harsh peace terms . the new republic was forced to take on the legacy of the old empire. here to strays them and oppose the government. because in we may be lost if we do not sign the peace treaty of using such will certainly be lost if we don't. stray ziman was unwilling to accept the consequences of a war he had welcomed under the terms of the verse i treaty french belgian and british troops occupied the german rhineland as a guarantee of security germany was forced to pay reparations and lost one seventh of its territory in the west alsace and lorraine was ceded to france in the east posen west prussia and part of up asylum easier to the newly constituted poland literally gulbis of course there were a whole lot of stipulations in this treaty one might criticize but these problems could have been overcome with patients and skillful diplomacy among tea however that was difficult in view of the nationalist undercurrent is easier not to notice different quan

in munich the opponents of the weimar republic were mobilizing. the eighth of november of aryan states commissioner gustaf own car held a rally in the borgo bro hela a be a hole. in his speech he sought to whip up opposition to berlin he spoke of shameful treaties. but one man there was tired of words he wanted action hitler saw his chance to strike he demanded that the hesitant variant government. should join him the host and all those presents were taken off guard. but his words were lost in the hubbub witnesses later reported they regarded the whole thing is a pantomime. peanut's your knowledge of the show just. yesod just for you my sex rehab the boston visits. but the hot head from the national socialist german workers party was serious. stuff i did not i only did find some comments. such as clicks to give me the feeling to tell. the truth i think. you just. shortly before midnight the news reached berlin strays and immediately called a crisis meeting president a but was present both were aware that if it came to the crunch only one man could

in parliament that that would help heal these divisions and we forget to help progressive the weimar republic was protect particularly in the first half of the night to twenty years but then the democracy failed what lessons are there to be learned well in part it failed because of birth defects in that original constitution just two of them worth mentioning because they are still relevant today one is that proportional representation it helped a lot of very small splinter parties get elected they had just a few seats in parliament basically very hard to govern with this very fragmented structure in parliament even more important article forty eight it was an emergency powers article it allowed the president to override the legislature when he deemed there to be a national emergency does that sound familiar sounds of article forty eight is getting mentioned a lot these days in connection with president trump's announcement that there's a national emergency on the border there are a big risks in calling an emergency president tended bar did that in the result was . that there was a lot of talk

birdland the bustling burgeoning capital of germany at the dawn of the weimar republic. some residents were warm winter coats and clean white shirts and could afford a christmas tree but all too many of their fellow berliners were left starving and destitute after the first world war. after increasing hardship during the war people now faced a desperate struggle to get back on their feet for untold thousands it was a fight for survival food was scarce hunger part of everyday life. a series of attempted coups posed a major challenge to the fledgling democracy as it came under attack from both left and right wing extremists and the chief battleground for domestic political conflict was berlin that's callus set in the chaos after the first world war ended only rules redundant and left behind a moral vacuum in viet. yeah they were no rules anymore and no principles kind of yet to me and following the defeat in collapse of the german empire there was a lack of practical experience of anything other than a monarchy. as mind going of in this case there was a general feeling of

welcome to the show become the music you specialize in music from between the two was from the weimar republic the twenty's the te's long before you were bold and so what sparked your interest it was the human elegance of the compositions and the humor of the. i mean even the . especially the german songs of course but if you're feeling like this song by called puerto betty it's a speech you move from time to time on very funny and simple and this elegant castrations and that was the reason why i was interested since i was a voice say to me was you were in this things pop music as well as of course. we don't have my mom my brother had everything and i was completely familiar with just what gamma ray off. the cuff that cuff. i do you mentioned the underlying human now there's lots of humor when you perform as well does that also is that old taken from the twenty's or is not invented by you in the opus rose wow so when we play in germany of course we have the old these german songs and a few english songs but when we go out. in other countries for example in the united states we have half and ha

even to the underbelly of the weimar republic in our latest installment of one hundred german must reads. and we visit an exhibition of christiane dior's iconic fashion in london. but we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera and your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director there for over forty five years so is this an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is celebrated for. with his tragic opera ofis and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john knew maya continues this revolution with his production in. the version is done as a synergy of music and dance a good sound. all synthesis of the arts. this is all right it was funny shit damn good music that was the original idea behind this opera in and i think the sing is if they're good or musical and the dance if they're good are also musical and if you put them together you might see two contrast in types of mu

condom on during the weimar republic era friends eggs and now also covered fabric tests that he said of pain and anger which were crucial with counterfeiting. us if your facial wounds of a lot of us they also analyzed gun barrel profiles bullet casings and what have you thought was a car so materials testing was already fairly advanced in the weimar republic should i not see five troikas. the police also found his handkerchief in august to koenig his apartment which belong to neither her nor her family and must therefore it belong to the killer or killers it was blood stained and it evidently been used to gag the victim who had been screaming loudly killers suffocated her with a pillow until she died. and then she says were also being made in forensic medicine at the shop hospital speed hit the human two when can i shocked are there conducted experiments with x. rays on it so it was now also possible to make broken bones and skull fractures visible plus objects that had been swallowed which were also important progress had definitely been made on the forensics front push on super hot

your stuff stays a month on the weimar republic. christ's against humanity. civilians become a success. their record ridges travel around the globe just social media. is for a number of fiction what is fact. digital investigators combing through the flood of images and they combine sources trying to reconstruct what happened to them to substantiate claims of crimes. thanks to this video. a recording of a surgeon who shot the young man is on trial now. forensics between bits and bytes yeah i did the. same thing again. evidence. says the chances are that because justice is about the truth. truth detectives starts in february fifteenth on t.w. . some more good five keys to safer food. clean to prevent contamination. for a draw and cook foods to avoid cross contamination. cook thirty two kill microorganisms. keep food safe temperatures cold to prevent bacteria broken up. use safe water and safe raw materials to avoid kentucky. food producers are the ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food. but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases a

real love but then he loses it he also loses his job and his best friend to suicide germany's weimar republic was also just about to come crashing down but no one knew it yet. it's astounding to see how castro describes berlin just before the rise of hitler the fights between communists and nazis the gradual decay of morals and good manners. going to the dogs was one of the books burned by the nazis but there was criticism from other camps as well but the main character fabio. resigns himself to fate rather than fighting back in real life when the nazis took over because himself was by no means a resistance fighter. now christian dior is the name of one of the world's top fashion houses the man himself started the brand just off the wall and almost immediately revolutionized fashion with his new look he paid no attention to the gloom and austerity of post-war europe and desired fabulous clothes that went and laughed now there's currently a retrospective of his work in. london's victoria and albert museum has a good eye for fashion it's curatorial staff acquired one of dior's iconic bastards b

we take a literary dive into the underbelly of the weimar republic in our latest installment of one hundred german must reads. and we visit an exhibition of christiane dior's iconic fashion in london. but we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera in your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director there for over forty five years so is this an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is celebrated for. with his tragic opera ofis and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john new in my it continues this revolution with his production in. the version is done as a scene of music and dance a good sound.

we take a literary dive into the underbelly of the weimar republic in our latest installment of one hundred german must reads. and we visit an exhibition of christiane of yours iconic fashion in london. bots we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera and your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director there for over forty five years so is this an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is celebrated for. his tragic opera ofis and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john knew maya continues this revolution with his production in. the version is done as a synergy of music and it's a good sound. well synthesis of the arts. is all right it was pretty she couldn't get into.

berlin metropolis of crime and uses criminal cases to paint a picture of the lead during the weimar republic that's all from us for now but joost keep it here at the w for all that and mark i'm sorry kelly is berlin thank you so much for joining us have a great day. any time.

and all of this disorder was blamed on the weimar republic. and hitler came along and said he can restore order. and, of course, he did, you must say that, he restored order as far as he was concerned. so the democracy had no chance in germany and it could have easily gone as a communist government or as a nazi government but it needed a dictatorship at that point because it had all fallen apart, unfortunately. >> well, in venezuela what happened is nothing happened. there the very beginning -- well, at the very beginning, chavez was seen even by the middle-class and people with more resources, he was seen as a leader and -- but at the same time the powerful groups thought that he could be easily manipulated. so they underestimated hugo chavez during his whole life, basically. that's from the point of view of the powerful. but they didn't take into account the popular support that he had. and that's undeniable. they thought okay, we have money, we have power, we have the public opinion and he's just another candidate so we will be able to hand

gustaf straight a man on the weimar republic in seventy five minutes on a double. yellow into an official estimates more than one point two million venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. already eckel all wide return to vast whaler i visit friends is that i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. bearing witness global news that matters. made for mines once upon a time there was a young girl. with a burning ambition. to become a conductor. i was a very curious child and very excited and in love with music and i would go to concerts with my parents and i always. yearned for being on stage with the musicians and being part of that magic it was a difficult trip to the first one. really. world famous conductor thanks. for the love thank you love my. start feb eighteenth on d w. this is d w news live from berlin worries grow as the possibility of a superpower standoff moves a step closer russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington's lead in suspending a landmark n

killed no less than three hundred fifty six members of the government over the course of the weimar republic again making it ungovernable in some respects all of that i think hustle has two lessons to teach us first of all economic instability economic inequality which was very high environment despite that progressive constitution they really are. matter hate speech really matters these splinter parties they demonized their opponents anti-semitic rhetoric was absolutely rampant all of that matters if you want to keep a democracy stable right wise words said andrew with a mill in the current thank you so much always a pleasure listening to you thank you. all right and to something altogether different how football in johnny in france you know is almost guaranteed to serve a second term as president with nobody else standing in june selectional in front dinos has been in charge of world football's governing body since two thousand and sixteen taking over in the wake of the sport's worst ever corruption scandal the forty eight year old will be unopposed after his only potential challenger form

gustaf strays a month on the weimar republic in seventy five minutes on g.w. .with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press . given freedom of choice global news that matters w made for minds. with him had a big gun because ugly as well lions if i had known that the boat would be that small i never would have gone on a trip to cuba i would not have put myself in my paris some adventure to move out of the theme of the to give a flavor would. love one spunky the other one that will give them i have serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live their lives i'm going to. want to know their story and for my great stir find employable information for margaret's. crimes first against humanity. civilians become witnesses for. their recorders which is travel around the globe just social media. but what is propaganda fiction and what is fact digital investigators combed through the flood of images they combine sources to try to reconstruct what happened and to subst

weimar. it was in the eastern city that the national summary founder the rerepublic -- national assembly founded the republicfter imperial germany's calamitous defeat in world war i. lawmakers including german chancellor angela merkel attended a church service to commemorate the occasion. reporter: germany's first democratic constitution was drawn up in weimar's national theater. it was one of the most liberal and progressive ever penned at the time. german president frank-walter steinmeier pointed to its lasting importance. >> we live in a time when historical achievements, including the separation of powers, the parliamentary system, and the rule of law, are being challenged and questioned, even here in europe. reporter: after the first free elections in january 1919, the national assembly met in weimar and created germany's first ever legal constitution, the so-called weimar constitution. it formalized the principles of sovereignty, separation of powewers, and women's suffrage. but the constitution also contained fatal flaws. the nation's president had considerable power and could even dissolve parliament