that's a big question mark germany's very much adrift ever since the elections in 2017 germany has been extremely inward looking this called the so-called grand coalition was a very unhappy marriage from the get go only born out of the failure of the negotiations of the so-called jamaica coalition that then failed to come into existence its german is the current government doesn't show any path forward germans are divided still on issues of migration climate change and. we're wasting precious time actually to invest in a stronger europe a stronger europe that can defend itself also against an ever more aggressive china and we're investing we're failing to invest in our all in the strength of. our own industrial base germany had a fantastic economic development for the most part over the past 10 to 15 years we've had a good run but it's very unclear whether germany is well prepared for kind of ensuring prosperity of our economy in the future we should be investing and discussing this right now but rather we are in the kind of dealing with this kind of petty internal domestic political tu

when turkish migrant workers held we built germany's economy as your family made germany then new home. music played for several local clubs but sunni in prescott's from bundesliga side shaka. and in 2006 he even caught the eye of germany national team coach live at a youth. right now i want to play for germany turkey later maybe the world will be turkey and germany were competing for it. it wasn't easy for him to give up his turkish and citizenship at the consulate they were not accepting his desire to become german. look if they have to shop twice to the gym and if i did their part of because he was one of the most talented players of youth age group in europe you don't know which shock is youth team who's a well a german under 19 championship and he quickly made a name for himself among the pros through his performances he soon made his way into the 1st team that shocked. the supply when the music came from the youth squad you could already see what a great football of years even in training it was scoring goals for fun you could tell this kid is going places the incredible. and tha

and the end of the division of germany. look a state is still it has to answer the lin at the moment park this is the board of the to the east and west and once ran. in 989 it was transformed into a local day creation and. today i ride along the former border between east and west berlin on this bike following the line of the berlin wall i would like to see what remains of the history of the division of the europe germany and berlin so i'm starting here in moa park going through the brandenburg gate and then all the way to the east side gallery let's go. my 1st stop on the bergen war trail is the memorial site on burma washed ass and. it's the 1st stop for anybody wanting to learn more about the city's division rust colored poles and sections of the wall mark the location of the former border. 2 here a section of the wall has been reconstructed as it was during the division. the viewing platform provides the best view of the border fortifications true dimensions this is how that you peered up to 989 the main inner walls wit

germany has always been one of the forced ports of call for u.s. dollars but this new survey from k p m g suggests things are changing. less than a quarter of u.s. companies plan to invest at least 10000000 euros in germany over the next 3 years that's down from a figure of 47 percent just 2 years ago the u.s. business sector in germany says this news does not come as a surprise. in the signals have been out there for a few years by the way american companies have been talking about the problems with digital infrastructure energy costs bureaucracy and interesting only one of the positives they always mentioned was political stability and now we can't even really talk about that anymore so there certainly is work that needs to be done and there's too much at stake to not take these kind of surveys seriously. it's not all bad news for out of 5 u.s. companies remain positive about their current economic situation in germany but the hurdles to investment from poor digital infrastructure to an overly complicated tax system will continue to raise questio

network here in germany. is that decision in your opinion is that a decision that should raise national security concerns i think absolutely we should be more resilient in terms of what critical infrastructure. requirements are for the for the future we should not be naïve nephew isn't about that i'm not sure the last word is spoken on that and we may have to define potentially very different layers or different elements of systems. there who have a hand is in the german market which are not banned yet but when you come to the physical network infrastructure you make it to a different conclusion. but i am not. overly happy about the fact that this issue is seems to be used as a part of a campaign in germany which suggests that at the end we should divide the world into different spheres of interest and you either in the americans feel on the. i think that is not the way we as germans or europeans well look at the world and we're looking at the world going forward and this is therefore not necessarily a helpf

here and germany the curs are you your company's going down investments you. well we don't want to talk about unhedged eggs but absolutely not to be quite honest our intention is to continue growing globally and to continue growing strongly in europe and in germany and as i said previously for many companies germany's the 2nd important market and that is true for u.p.s. we have over 20000 employees here we're very happy with our success here and we view this as an absolutely essential market for a company that truly wants to be global germany is a big player. compared to the u.s. growth is so large is in germany of the money at the moment roughly half as much as in the u.s. are u.s. companies better off investing at home well interestingly the u.s. companies seem to be able to outgrow the german market and we saw that again in this survey where the u.s. economy of the world's largest is extremely vibrant and it's an extremely attractive market and you know don't forget a lot of our members are the german companies that invest in the u.s. and they're increasing

would a carbon neutral germany look like well germany said li isn't winning the race right now to become carbon neutral by 20 or 50 that's for sure but it is still possible but that would be germany of 2050 would heavily rely on renewable energy of course that's something that we're already seeing develop here in germany and already solar and wind power for example accounts for about 45 percent of germany's energy that said the have some huge setbacks in recent years particularly when it comes to wind power have been a lot of legal cases opened by normal members of the public who are opposing a wind farm some of them saying that they want to know in my backyard exactly the same as nimbys they was then known as and they want to know what the potential health hazards office and of course germany as well same time right now is trying to offset that decision after the fukushima disaster to close down its nuclear power plant so at the moment it is certainly possible and germany is still continuing to invest in renewable energy and that would be one of the one of the main factors in creating a

this is news coming to you live from berlin tensions flare between russia and germany as moscow expels 2 german diplomats to the move is linked to the apparent assassination of a former chechen commander in a berlin park last summer germany or 2 russian diplomats to leave the country last week. also coming up the controversial gas pipeline that's causing a rift between the united states and germany us says it's a tool of coercion political leverage for russia. and it's being called the u.k.'s most important election in a generation prime minister boris johnson has been pulling out all the stops to win over wavering voters but his lead over jeremy corbin's opposition labor party has been narrowed. following terry martin welcome to the program russia is expelling 2 german diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats by berlin last week it's also do with the killing of this man a former chechen commander in berlin last summer he was gunned down in a public park german prosecutors believe russia was behind the killing and russian diplomats were expelled because berlin

guilty germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it is a. thomas sparrow there in auschwitz well we can talk more about this now with g.w. political correspondent emmanuel shaz good to see your money where you know many people are asking why it took medical so long to visit in an official capacity i mean she's been transferred for 14 years and this was her 1st visit to auschwitz and in fact it has been even 24 years seems chancellor a german chancellor visited. it so it was long and a long overdue visit thank america is no stranger to such ceremonies though she visited a concentration camp in germany of how. i haven't spoke so federer a president of germany a fine by the time i was in poland for to come immigrations of the beginning of world war 2 earlier on. in september but is sure that this visit was long overdue it comes at a time w

west germany in this development buzz and. president gorbachev reacted very negatively to the 10 point plan speech. when the west german foreign minister hans de twit kensho was in moscow gorbachev said very clearly that he opposed it and he started to include that it was a dictate he couldn't accept. but if you look at the plan there was no timeframe it was basically just an attempt to create a roadmap not against the others but with them. call had 1st gone around trying to shore up support for what he had in mind based on the domestic and the international stage nothing would have ever happened nothing i think it was very brave of him to have shot at the responsibility by himself. on the 11th of december the ambassadors of before and i powers came together in berlin for the 1st time in 18 years they made it abundantly clear that german reunification could only happen with their approval. that they wouldn't this alarmed the west german government they couldn't believe that the allies were discussing germany without their invo

guilt germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it is a. well hans cosin yosh joins me now and he is the director of the house of the vans a conference that's a memorial site for the prosecution of european and jews welcome thank you very much for coming in to discuss this important issue we are dealing with iraq as a bounty semitism in germany as well as in europe has something gone a rai with the culture off remembrance here in germany. i think the question of and to semitism somehow has to be detached from the question of the moral culture because there has been and to semitism in germany society well almost almost all the time at a certain level after the war even after the holocaust became known we know from research that as a percentage of the population continued to embrace and to semitic i just even though there were hardly any

germany's history. but what about the future of the us nuclear program this is the facility in the nevada desert at which the pentagon develops and tests weapons. right now experts are working on the b. 61 mark 12 the latest version of a tactical and strategic nuclear weapon. it's an expensive project. divergent for 2019 a loan is estimated to be about $254000000.00. to be 61 can be deployed with a number of military aircraft including german tornado fighter bombers adaptation of those aircraft was scheduled for 2019 ph 200 integration refers to the trying to do a 200. and about 58 years there will be a new type of weapon more advanced that's going to be coming back to germany and be deployed here at google. but aircraft have to be configured for that type of aircraft for that type of weapon it's called the b. $6112.00. the tornado is right now undergoing flight test in the united states to be able to deliver this weapon. german tornadoes on a u.s. facility but you're a military aircraft being outfitted

here's the deal germany on the one hand home. of classical music scene on a list with cast cool music. over brahms. the list is endless and on the other hand you've got d w of. documentaries featuring all the classical stars and so this was a perfect match. a match made in heaven we're going to have plenty of stars we're going to have some familiar faces going to see willis of. music. power music a maestra a whole load of new content interviews concerts and behind the scenes features and you mentioned a lot of the power of one of the great up and coming family conductors i've actually seen there is already a load of new stuff being loaded on to the channel today that's fine and as an example of the kind of thing that you can see on the channel along has been out and about and at the music fest braman she met up with each will be percussion is the marching grouping and after finding out a bit about. musical methods and instrumentation alone drew was even brave enough to have a go herself so here is an exclusive musical. they'll ha

that germany faces a die earlier shortage and has to act quickly. among those countries that germany is actively targeting for recruitment of skilled workers are for example india and vietnam boss in singapore vietnam is experiencing a shortage of skilled workers as well and it's not the only economy in the region so how are these noises that are coming from berlin receive the round asia. so it's it's receiving a lot of mixed signals from the vietnamese people on the one hand yes these opportunities these jobs rather will open up more opportunities for the vietnamese people in terms of spending in terms of increased earning power and stability to bring back their families and the vietnamese economy as well but on the other hand there is a labor shortage in vietnam itself or sectors like i t digital media and finance and a lot of vietnamese people are complaining that the education system in vietnam is to blame for not having prepared them for these kinds of jobs that the country now needs well certainly in germany i believe but with this is so much

he was called in after germany expelled 2 russian diplomats last week. in august. a georgian citizen was shot dead in a park a suspected killer had entered germany from russia with a fake passport he appears to have had accomplices he's in custody in berlin awaiting trial and maintains his right to remain silent german prosecutors say there is evidence that russia was involved in the killing. during the chechen war congo shrilly fought for the separatists russia considered him a terrorist and enemy of the state the kremlin spokesman says that russia's response to germany's expulsion of 2 russian diplomats was unavoidable but that he hopes this will not impede the further development of constructive dialogue still russia's response can be seen as an escalation in this diplomatic spat. let's get you now the perspective from moscow emily russia expelling 2 german diplomats so how is this being received where you are. well the reaction from the kremlin has been of course negative to this whole scandal when it comes to the murder they have repeatedly denied kremlin invo

is business as are you update on asian and global business news on the w m d i have elf as well come germany is in desperate need to fill vacant positions in many of the economies most important sectors the government in berlin has called a special summits to see where they can be found and how to provide the necessary work visas in a more efficient way in the trades alone there are a quarter 1000000 job vacancies which are as already put a damper on the construction industry researchers say there is now a critical shortage of qualified personnel for $400.00 different careers that's on the heart of the job categories investigated underscoring the gravity of the problem it turns out that 79 percent of the jobs listed but germany's employment agency are in job categories where the shortage is. when done universe if searched for a new employee for his i.q. solutions business and he found a perfect candidate for the job in kosovo trying to get the appropriate documents he asked the labor department for help. they sent us to immigration and they told us to contact the german embassy in this the b

this is news live from but i live in germany's chancellor remembers the victims of one of the worst crimes against humanity and makes her 1st official visit to the auschwitz death count. being from a slogan work makes you free the nazis murdered more than a 1000000 people in the hospital most of them jews also on the program. celebrations after police in india shoot dead 4 men suspected of raping and killing a young woman the offices of being hailed as heroes but did they take the law into their own. desist the dynamic duo who could topple a chance of that much germany's social democratic party confirms its 2 new leaders not challenging that posses coalition deal with the chance of us conservatives. champions pirated music prepared to take on this season's league leaders bunch of back in a battle of the hopefuls i ploughed back of taken the lead by stole my roses side up 4 points ahead. with a view to extending. i'm still gal welcome to the program. germany's chancellor is on her 1st official visit to the former auschwitz the death count the site in poland was the nazis not just that come

germany's interior minister. told reporters the investigation was ongoing. in germany there was a criminal process that deals with this kind of thing and in the case of a crime of this magnitude and with this background i can only think of the attorney general that he has taken it all noise that say something about the significance of this crime including his political background with the. with moscow still refusing to cooperate in the investigation criticism of russia and the west is getting louder. i'm joined now by our correspondents political correspondents here in berlin and when the show when is the respondent in moscow. if you let me start with you kate a fair bit of information has emerged overnight tell us why does blooded believe that russia is involved in this assassination will this all comes of the back of the decision by the german prosecution federal prosecution to take on this case and these are often cases where the prosecution considered the crime to be a crime against the states and german prosecution so so far said that they have sufficie

providing now as we know here in germany as well build out of these renewables bring them into the grid to the regular grid can be a challenge if you do these william young taiwan quote correspondent here in the studio for us thank you very much for having. american companies are rapidly losing their appetite for major investments in germany and that's at least according to a recent survey of 100 top u.s. companies currently doing business here only 2 years ago a survey of senior managers by consultancy k p m g suggested that 47 percent of those companies would be making investments of over $10000000.00 in germany over the next 3 years this year over the same survey suggests that only 24 percent plan on investments of that magnitude of germany's high marks for its logistics infrastructure are also dropping 2 years ago as many as 72 percent of the companies rated germany's infrastructure as tops in europe and today that's fallen to only 60 percent of managers sharing their view a complicated tax system high labor costs and a scarcity of skilled workers in europe's biggest economy are add

while germany. was also present he explained his decision to join the photo on the other hand quite they were both booed and whistled by their own fans. at the 2800 world cup they crashed out with germany in the group stages i i i think i was to go home to. visit to zele became the scapegoat for many right wing politicians in germany attacked him for weeks some media outlets criticized him harshly even the german f.a. singled him out. i think i can understand a bit how he felt mistreated but everyone had really turned him into one of the scapegoats. and the new book about august. one week after the world cup. back with a statement on twitter. he quotes international football and that of a national team has cited racism as the reason for this he is very critical of the german media in particular he's also critical of the german football association and one person in particular of course that is the president of the german football association they released this one today because of recent events i wi

of east germany. the mideast turns around commerce for german unity journalist peter allen borg was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the time in dresden. storage december 19th d.w. . chinese stop celebrating upbeat data and a preliminary sign a u.s. trade agreement but experts warn there's still a long way to go until the trade dispute is fully results. also coming up german business and union representatives are meeting with chancellor angela merkel today to discuss the country's shortage of qualified workers. i'm monica jones and this is d.w. business life from berlin welcome i was starting with china where stocks rose to a 6 week closing high today boosted by upbeat data pointing to resilience in the world's 2nd largest economy now this is washington and beijing agreed to suspend a new round of tariffs this weekend signaling a thaw in relations experts however caution that an interim phase one trade deal is not going to end the trade dispute but it's a step in the right direction. is c

came to germany in the mid 1980 s. during the iran iraq war. it was a time when a lot of families were trying to get their kids out of the country. because war is only cool when you see it in the movies it's not fun. then if someday there's nothing left of it makes life worth living there's still enough music you can listen to to stay alive that's what i thought when i was 14. i made sure out he made it through his difficult period and went on to study electronic composition. i've always wanted to play an instrument really well that's why i built an instrument where i would stress the player in the world. what looks like a space a guitar is a kind of mixing console the control sounds and visual effects electronically doesn't screw this and this freak here you've got different ways to play with chord and mix sounds. then i can overlay that with effects. one indian movement and when i'm playing on stage and i think i've had a really good groove to that i can push this past. and record on a track. 3 small this piece here on the planet the biggest.

germany's was uncertain. after the wall fell everyone was on the phone to one another all the time whether it was mitterrand margaret thatcher president bush or president gorbachev. president bush but bottom line was always keep calm. don't let anything get out of hand don't let things get chaotic. the whole process had to be kept under control and supports this was going to call into. 3 weeks after the fall of the wall helmut kohl unveiled a 10 point plan for german unity including economic aid for east germany an easing of travel restrictions and free elections then joint government committees european and german unity as a common process and be defiant because no one knows today whatever unified germany will look like but i am confident that unification will happen if that's what the german people want to see i. can't his prime top secret until the very last minute sharing it neither with his own coalition partners nor his international allies other than the americans he was shown it in german just before

i've come to a rally sponsored by germany's automobile club the 80 ac. one part of the country dreams of car free cities here drivers hit the gas as much as possible. i'm going to accompany him he's been competing in rallies for 2 years now. and his converted b.m.w. either 36 tim drives over roads and fields. here in this rural part of central germany it's difficult to get by without your own transport but i do because what is your car mean to you is that close to your heart is it your baby or just a car. some of it meant as much to me as a baby and even ronnie driving would definitely be the wrong signal for me. to fight it's a style where you say you don't give a name to a pig you plan to slaughter. this while i'm sitting on the road if this 'd. tim just can't understand the whole debate over cars. ok if you live in a city you have a good network of public transport so you don't need a car but we don't live in the city. and there i think the whole debate is just silly to be honest. when i see people at the on a motor show jumping on cars and holding up

well germany has objected strongly to new u.s. sanctions against north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany but says it will not retaliate now the sanctions affects companies involved in the construction of the nearly completed undersea pipeline through the baltic sea once with dutch involved in the project has already said it will suspend its operations washington says that the pipeline will make germany and europe too dependent on russian energy . germany's vice chancellor had this to say about the u.s. sanctions. these sanctions constitute a serious interference in the internal affairs of germany and europe and therefore sovereignty we object to them in the strongest terms moreover this behavior is entirely in comprehensible and is not at all appropriate between friends of the nato allies who has their vice chancellor schultz will be w.'s chief political ad is i'm here to christiane joins me now in the studio to talk through all of this good to see me here so the construction of north stream to its ground to a halt for

that's a sure not for instance were to germany to be. the cause. because you're not in germany. all the patients in germany go north macedonia's naming dispute with greece may have been resolved but it resulted in years of stagnation nepotism flourishes like nowhere else in europe according to generalist sasha said casca recently she tells me a friend of the health minister was named hospital director despite his criminal background and lack of experience if you talk with some within the government they will say 'd oh but it's so difficult to change every day and overnight you can know this again of the bird actually it's not i mean why is it so difficult not to put the school you know. in charge in the hospital. like a wheel and nepotism is widespread doctors like nicola resign of a fed up the surgeon has founded and association in an attempt to keep young doctors in the country so that they can fight corruption together. a controversial. ottis collective head of the is apologized for its latest campaign it set up a symbolic memorial to victims of the holocaust outside the germ

germany's president. will urge germans to overcome their differences and respect each other as equals and he's christmas day interests on my own will also note the high points of 2019 most notably the 30th anniversary awful fall of a bird and wall points and anti semitic attack in october at a synagogue in the city. looking back on the events of the past year the german president says the anti-semitic attack at a synagogue in holland left a deep imprint the buildings locked or prevented even greater tragedy. bears the traces of some 20 bullets you see the splintered wood and the metal remains in the bullet holes. this door guards the entrance to the synagogue and. on it's a miracle that it held and that no more people fell victim to this brutal anti semitic attack in which 2 of our fellow citizens were murdered on the streets by the moderate for president steinmeyer visit that the location of the anti semitic attack as soon as he could. this christmas he asked germans to find hatred and defend democracy.

to germany. i have an employment with to find out. 'd how to. start moving toward. he's been guiding visitors through the book for many years 500 years ago protestant performer martin luther translated the bible into german here until then there were countless dialects only in the bible created the basis for a common german language. he tortured her to the language the german speak today was born in this room created by martin luther small itself which was good to start here 200 years later he said only through did we become one people one nation did we find a common language par. the nother milestone in the history of germany took place in the book. in 1917 students and fraternities from the many small states and principalities gathered in this chamber. they demanded a common german nation with civil democratic basic rights. under law for the un a fraternity invited people to the vote book festival the other and their colors are black red and gold the black here in. middle the red purple back th

declare war on germany. that is one thing. the debate is about, on the surface, how much aid should the united states give to the allies to help them defeat nazi germany? there a muchface, more important and fundamental debate going on. what role should the united states play in the world going forward? should it, as the anti-interventionists argued, maine a hemispheric power dominating north and south america as it had done for the last century? shouldn't try to do that in a world dominated by hostile dictatorships? as the interventionists argued, should it recognize that the united states was a global power and be willing to join the fight against those dictators to prevent them from dominating the world? that's a big question. details, we will talk about a fair amount of detailed arguments, that is the fundamental question americans are considering. what role should the united states play going forward? the great debate that takes place over the two years between the beginning of the war and pearl harbor

shortly after the fall of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the mideast tense the crowd clamors for german unity journalist peyton borg was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the most interesting. stories december 19th t w. 6 how much is saudi aramco i p o really was we're about to find out as the world's most profitable company goes public but expectations raising $100000000000.00 have been slashed cultural soft seems more realistic now. unions in france pulled down the shutters as they say no to a proposed pensions reform.

she gave a speech today in which she stressed germany's guilt, germany's historic responsive building, and how that response building is an important part of germany's identity as a nation. she also stressed the nest lessons that can be drawn from the past, in particular the lessons for today's context. the context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in anti-semitism. helena: thomas sparrow in auschwitz. we can talk about this now with the demo political correspondent. good to seo. many people are asking why it took merkel so long to visit in an official capacity. she has been chancellor for 14 years and this was her first visit to auschwitz. >> in fact it has been 24 years since a german chancellor visited auschwitz. so it was long overdue. angela merkel is no stranger to such ceremonies. she visited concentration camps in germany of dachau, buchenwald, also the federal presidents of germany was in poland for the commemoration of the beginning of world war ii earlier this year, in september. but it is true that this visit was long overdue. it comes at a time where the aus

is going to back that up i mean what did germany do if the u.s. indeed on slabs sink sions on companies that are building this pipeline well these companies are not only come from germany but also for example from italy and we've heard it so far for example one of those pipeline contributes to us coming from italy say that they don't think there will actually be his by their sanctions by the time the sanctions imposed so proposed by the united states the time they would come into place the work by a lot of those contributors to the north korean pipe and would already have been done so far 90 percent of or even finished and 110 kilometers of the north stream to tom piper have to be finished and that will be done in the next month before the proposed sanctions would even come into place all right thanks leon a concert from our problem introduce here in berlin thank you. well russia and germany are working together on the nord stream 2 projects but both countries are also mired in an escalating diplomatic row over the murder of a georgian citizen her