Dresden for centuries a world renowned center of art and culture destroyed in a single line it was on february the 13th 1945 just 3 months before the end of world war 2 and while every year groups continue to commemorate the event facts surrounding those dark days a still being debated just how many lives were lost that night was it several thousands or hundreds of thousands to the Anglo American allies consider the city a strategically significant target if not what was the purpose of carrying out such a devastating attack. The citys old town dressed in council this spring a palace the found. The church of our lady of potential treasures that were reduced to rubble in a matter of balance. This American News reel described one of the 2 british raids on tristen. Big 100 lancasters march the 22 people in 3 bombs on transportation lands in germany stop obviously. But the german side reported things differently saying that the attack targeted a Cultural Center that had no military value. T
Where writer oscar wilde was locked up. Mcqueen often takes a closer look then as comfortable in his works at the tate moderns new retrospective. Of course these days mcqueen is best known as one of the worlds top film directors whose movies are as unflinching as his art. Is acclaimed debut film hunger tells the true story of an ira member and prisoner bobby sands who died on Hunger Strike 1st. With the british government. Is 2010 movie shame also starred Michael Fassbender this time as an executive struggling with sex addiction. 12 years a slave mcqueen tells a gut wrenching true story of a free man kidnapped and then slaved if you want to see the film made mcqueen the 1st black director ever to win an oscar for best picture. I did a cape this award to all the people who have enjoyed slavery. 21000000 people. Slavery today thank you very much. The queens most recent film. About a group of women forced into crime was ranked by critics as one of the best movies of 2800 years. And see wh
A new term west coast thats. Also coming up chinas coronavirus epidemic sees yet another rise in new infections and the death of several Health Care Workers exposes the risk to those on the front lines of the epidemic. Plus temperatures reach a record high in antarctica lets talk about the far reaching affects of warmer weather on the icy continent. Im sumi someones gonna thank you for joining us and we start in syria where ongoing fighting in the rebel stronghold of it live has led to what the u. N. Calls a humanitarian catastrophe now people are trying to get out of it and theyre heading for the nearby Turkish Border and the United Nations says 140000 have fled their homes in just the last 3 days bringing the total there up 2800000 now germany is already home to hundreds of thousands of syrians who have fled the conflict those with family members left behind feel powerless to protect them. Deep checks the news from syria on social media all the time where did the latest bomb fall who
A longstanding taboo on cooperation with right wing populist and provoked massive protest within and beyond the c. D. U. Medicals designated successor and party leader on the grid from convo a step down the power struggle to succeed or is now in full swing our topic today fiasco in thuringia will the a. F. D. Destroyed narcos legacy. On the. Island. Thanks for joining us on to the point and welcome to our guests Matthew Carney is chief correspondent for the us magazine politico he believes the f. T. Hasnt destroyed americas legacy the f. T. Is americas legacy what happened in the regio offers a glimpse of the chaos that lies ahead for germanys political system and great to have derek scally with us he is correspondent for the irish times and he says german politics has finally entered the 21st century but its been hala titians are too naive or scared to notice. And of a welcome to vent alina fun to plato she writes for the economist and she believes fragmenting politics and strong extr
So we woke up this morning and in part because were in the headlines that weve seen the record temperatures the satellite images showing cracks in the tiny island took place here in antarctica that theyve been praying rapidly what are these particular chinstrap rooms telling us about. This part of the antarctic were dramatically than anywhere else we were already tied around america what i would say were its a great award because we just really want to show exactly how much more to cover the collapse of the whole right because you know it is a completely different thread that was. Also coming up today on valentines day we speak with children around the world to show once and for all that love is in fact childs play hundreds hadnt seen by chill i. Get up then was to move. The bunny. Boards a film of them. So our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all over the globe welcome we begin. In the day with a record that no one wanted to see broken after the hottest january ever scient