Speak to the Playwright David Pair about his film on holocaust denial. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. President trump has signed an Executive Order to build a wall along the us border with mexico. It was one of his key pledges during the election campaign. Mr trump said he expected construction to start within months and that planning will begin immediately. He insisted that while american taxpayers would have to pay for the initial work, he would expect mexico to reimburse the cost. Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto is reportedly considering cancelling next weeks visit to washington following Donald Trumps order. Our correspondent james cook reports from the us mexico border. Donald trumps Signature Pledge is now one step closer to reality. With a stroke of his pen, the new president ordered the construction of a great wall on the Mexican Border. It would begin, he said, within months. A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of america ge
The main news alice. She gets. A call. Not to do the same thing. But. People have put big dreams on the big story. In movie magazine on d w. Hello and welcome to arts twenty one today will be focusing on books. New books are out again reading has not gone out of style and book fairs prove it the light tick book fair in germany offers a stage for important themes interesting authors its a mecca for book lovers healthy drug which i can use to be myself into completely
different worlds. But i wish i had room for all the books that id like to have. Visions trends discussions such as how much Freedom Of Expression should be allowed the presence of right wing publishers at the trade fair is again a hotly debated topic books should be open to discussion and open up new perspectives news reading can help you put yourself in someone elses shoes come with us on our International Literary journey as we travel to romania the honorary guest at this years Leipsic Book Fair in bucharest we discovered
A lot really right after everything that had happened in the previous ten days you know roughly ten thousand people show up Five Thousand to protest the nazi attacks doesnt really suggest to me that theres any sort of wave of nazi sentiment in the country at the moment to the point that people are going to go out onto street the. Thats why i thought it was fascinating that when they had the concert which i think was on a monday you had sixty Five Thousand people there as you said and yet for this other protest which was really much more political which was on a sunday you only had a smattering of people show up valor their final these calls since the riots. For people to take a stand to stand up is it naive to think that a concert can make a difference i think that for the people who live there who are on the left wing spectrum is actually important to see that they have support within the German Society. However of course this is one concert one day as matthew
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A prominent groups the Concerts Motto was we are more it began with a Moment Of Silence for the victim of the attack the prompted the initial protests a young man who was stabbed allegedly by migrants now in detention. The far right can germany defeat its demons thats our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests its a pleasure to welcome Matthew Carney jake back to the program hes chief europe correspondent for politico and he says germanys demons are necessary and will never be overcome the question is whether germanys political elite is drawing the bright lessons from history the events of the past week suggest theyre not and its a pleasure to have valerie who theyre with us shes Political Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of spiegel online and shes been reporting on cam thats the f. T. Community is gradually merging with right wing extreme the. Groups in germany she
says if the moderates in the party fail to take a stand against this development they will inevitably be d
Two oclock in the morning and papers and just coming off the press. Three hours later at five am angle of a but is already on her paper rich in the laos its region in Eastern Germany but the number of papers she has to deliver is dwindling. Then. We lose subscribers either when somebody dies because no new subscribers take their place or when the price goes up and. There may soon come a dawn when there are no more newspapers in mailboxes. Robert dallek has just opened his News Agency Store but he already knows that most of his newspaper buying customers that day will be senior citizens. Because our customer
base you see that mostly older people buy these papers which sort of lost our young the Customer Base and thats also due to the internet richard was a sheep but. Since the advent of the internet the circulation of daily newspapers in germany has fallen off by nearly fifty percent. Even though germany is a press can trade with over Three Hundred daily newspapers most of which are loc