The briefcase, the Porsche and the collapse of the German government
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.1 | Today, why the German government collapsed and what it means for the rest of Europe and the world. |
| 0:28.5 | The British Red Cross helps to reunite families who've been separated by conflict or persecution. |
| 0:32.4 | Families like Abiyas, who fled Saddam to seek safety. |
| 0:40.3 | The day the family were reunited in Heathrow, Abir and her younger daughter just ran straight for the boys, |
| 0:43.1 | and they just embraced in this massive hug. |
| 0:48.8 | The British Red Cross is here for humanity in 191 countries around the world. |
| 1:00.0 | Search British Red Cross to find out more. It was almost the evening. I was a bit sleepy and around 9 in the evening my sister texted me, wake up, check the news, come to Berlin. |
| 1:09.0 | This is Regina Stephens, a German journalist from Der Spiegel, |
| 1:12.6 | who has been spending the last few weeks with us on Today in Focus. |
| 1:15.6 | She'd stayed up all night with us last week to make our US election episode |
| 1:19.6 | and woke up from a nap last Wednesday to a flurry of texts and push notifications. |
| 1:25.6 | Germans were just digesting Donald Trump's victory, |
| 1:29.3 | when there was huge news much closer to home. |
| 1:32.3 | Germany's coalition government was about to collapse. |
| 1:35.3 | It was fascinating to see how quickly the US election, |
| 1:38.3 | which dominated German media landscape for moms, |
| 1:42.3 | seemed to disappear from the top stories. |
| 1:44.8 | And maybe to give you a sense what it means, Helen, the last time a German government coalition |
| 1:49.6 | collapsed was in 1982, so before East and West Germany were even reunited. |
| 1:58.4 | The double whammy of the US result, coupled with political turmoil back home, hit Regina where it hurt. |
| 2:04.6 | There's this German word called Welchmerz. |
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