06:00 News
06:02 News in Review
06:30 Confronting the Powerful
07:00 News
07:02 News
07:15 Street Food – Tales of Lamb Kebabs, Scorpions & Ramen Noodles
08:00 News
08:30 Confronting the Powerful
09:00 News
09:30 The Science Magazine
10:00 News
10:30 Confronting the Powerful
11:00 News
11:15 Female Power in Saudi Arabia
12:00 News
12:30 Lifestyle Europe
13:00 News
13:15 News
13:30 Spotlight on People
14:00 News
14:30 Confronting the Powerful
15:00 News
15:15 News
15:30 Lifestyle Europe
16:00 News
17:00 News
17:15 Secrets of the Stone Age – Part 2: Witnesses for Eternity
18:00 News
18:30 The Health Show
19:00 News
19:15 News
19:30 International Debate from Berlin
20:00 News
21:00 News
21:15 Testifying against Assad – Seeking Justice for Syria
Thousands of prisoners have been tortured and killed in Bashar al-Assad's jails. Now survivors of these horrors are trying to bring the systematic human...
Thousands of prisoners have been tortured and killed in Bashar al-Assad's jails. Now survivors of these horrors are trying to bring the systematic human rights violations carried out in Syrian prisons before the courts in Germany. The international legal principle of 'universal jurisdiction' could allow the Assad regime’s crimes against humanity in Syria to be prosecuted in foreign courts.
Khaled was tortured in Syrian government prisons. The worst ordeal for him was being forced to watch the torture of other detainees: young people from Damascus who, like himself, had taken to the streets during the "Arab Spring" of 2011 to demonstrate peacefully against the government. Khaled's wife Abeer was also imprisoned and subjected to humiliation for months in one of the notorious prisons run by Syria's military intelligence. Today the two live in Germany. They are part of a small group of witnesses who, together with lawyers Mazen Darwish and Anwar al-Bunni, have filed a criminal complaint for war crimes and crimes against humanity with the German Federal Public Prosecutor in Karlsruhe. "No peace without justice," say the two Syrian human rights lawyers. They are convinced that if the perpetrators are not seen to be brought to justice, the spiral of violence will continue to escalate. Since escaping to Germany three years ago, they have been pursuing one goal: to bring the systematic human rights violations committed in Syrian military prisons to trial. They cannot appeal to the International Criminal Court in The Hague because Syria has not ratified the Rome Statute that established it. In addition, Russia has blocked the UN Security Council from initiating a tribunal to try war crimes in Syria. The lawyers and witnesses are placing their hopes in the international legal principle of 'universal jurisdiction'. Following the example of the Nuremberg trials, it would enable crimes against humanity committed in Syria to be prosecuted in Germany.
22:00 News
22:30 News in Review
23:00 News
23:15 The Movie Magazine
23:30 International Debate from Berlin
00:00 News
01:00 News
01:30 Battle of the Museums – Artistic Patronage in the Gulf
02:00 News
02:02 News in Review
02:30 Lifestyle Europe
03:00 News
03:02 News
03:15 Ira May and Leona Lewis
04:00 News
04:02 News in Review
04:30 Battle of the Museums – Artistic Patronage in the Gulf
Architecture has always been a way to impress, a way of expressing greatness. Rulers used it in the past - and they continue to do so today. Nowadays,...
Architecture has always been a way to impress, a way of expressing greatness. Rulers used it in the past - and they continue to do so today. Nowadays, museums have become the new cultural prestige objects; the challenge of producing the world's best, biggest and most beautiful art venue has taken on a new dimension - especially in the United Arab Emirates.
Like Florence during the Renaissance, the wealthy Gulf States today are investing in art and imposing buildings with no heed to the cost. Today it is no longer about castles, cathedrals, mosques or skyscrapers. The new prestige objects are museums: the opening in November 2017 of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, built by French star architect Jean Nouvel, marked a high point in the contest. Another spectacular museum, also designed by Nouvel, is due to open in neighboring Qatar at the end of 2018. The woman responsible for the culture boom in Doha is Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Khalifa al Thani, a sister of the ruling Emir of Qatar. She is viewed by some as the most powerful figure on the international art scene. Every year, she invests hundreds of millions of Euros in new museums, in artworks for Qatar's collections and in promoting the local art scene. But Abu Dhabi has also been planning new museums too, including a Guggenheim museum designed by Frank Gehry and a National Museum by Norman Foster. It remains to be seen whether these projects will ever be realized. Construction has yet to begin on the buildings although they have been planned for years. Making the contest for great art venues all the more explosive is that fact that Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are currently experiencing a diplomatic crisis, with mutual accusations of support for terrorism. Relations between Qatar and its neighbors were severed in the summer of 2017. The great art patrons in the Gulf may be building bridges to the world with their museums, but they are no longer talking to each other.
05:00 News
05:02 News
05:15 Metal Battle 2016
06:00 News
06:02 News in Review
06:30 International Debate from Berlin
07:00 News
07:02 News
07:15 Secrets of the Stone Age – Part 2: Witnesses for Eternity
08:00 News
08:30 International Debate from Berlin
09:00 News
10:00 News
10:30 International Debate from Berlin
11:00 News
11:15 Germany '68 - A Year Like No Other
In Germany, 1968 is remembered as a year of student demonstrations, police crackdowns, sit-ins and communes. These pictures are branded in Germany’s...
In Germany, 1968 is remembered as a year of student demonstrations, police crackdowns, sit-ins and communes. These pictures are branded in Germany’s collective memory. But was that the sole truth of 1968? There was another reality too: women in the kitchen, serving breakfast to their working husbands. And in the pop charts, child star Heintje stormed past the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
12:00 News
12:30 Lifestyle Europe
13:00 News
13:15 News
14:00 News
14:30 International Debate from Berlin
15:00 News
15:15 News
15:30 Lifestyle Europe
16:00 News
17:00 News
17:15 Testifying against Assad – Seeking Justice for Syria
18:00 News
19:00 News
19:15 News
19:30 Spotlight on People
20:00 News
21:00 News
21:15 Ira May and Leona Lewis
22:00 News
22:30 News in Review
23:00 News
23:15 Living in the Digital Age
23:30 Spotlight on People
00:00 News
00:30 The Travel Guide
01:00 News
01:30 Confronting the Powerful
02:00 News
03:00 News
03:02 News
03:15 White Waves – Surfers Fighting Against Unseen Pollution in the Sea
04:00 News
04:15 Old Rauma – Town of Wood by the Sea, Finland
04:30 Bands, Trends and Events - the Best Music from Germany
05:00 News
05:02 News
05:15 Secrets of the Stone Age – Part 1: From Hunters to Farmers
06:00 News
06:02 News in Review
06:30 The Globalization Program
07:00 News
07:02 News
07:15 Testifying against Assad – Seeking Justice for Syria
08:00 News
08:02 The Travel Guide
09:00 News
09:02 On Location
09:15 Street Food – Tales of Lamb Kebabs, Scorpions & Ramen Noodles
10:00 News
10:15 Contemporary Classical
"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah...
"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah Willis gets up close and personal with the stars of the classical music world.
10:30 Spotlight on People
11:00 News
11:15 Madness
12:00 News
12:15 On Location
12:30 Lifestyle Europe
13:00 News
13:15 News
13:30 The Motor Magazine
14:00 News
14:15 On Location
14:30 The Globalization Program
15:00 News
15:15 News
15:30 Lifestyle Europe
16:00 News
16:15 The Week in Reports
17:00 News
17:15 Ira May and Leona Lewis
18:00 News
18:15 On Location
18:30 Bands, Trends and Events - the Best Music from Germany
19:00 News
19:15 News
19:30 The Health Show
20:00 News
20:15 Secrets of the Stone Age – Part 1: From Hunters to Farmers
21:00 News
21:15 White Waves – Surfers Fighting Against Unseen Pollution in the Sea
Spectacular surfing footage and an important message: The documentary "White Waves" looks at surfers who are fighting the pollution of the oceans. The...
Spectacular surfing footage and an important message: The documentary "White Waves" looks at surfers who are fighting the pollution of the oceans. The authors join the surfers to identify largely unnoticed cases of marine pollution. Some the surfers are even taking the fight for clean seas into the law courts.
The surfer's love for the sea is turning into an effective weapon in the fight against marine pollution. Surfing superhero Kelly Slater once said: "I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time." But commitment to environmental protection cannot be taken for granted. Even surfing itself can even be a threat to the oceans. Material such as surfboards and wetsuits can pollute the environment; flights to surfing locations lead to high CO2 emissions that adversely affect the climate; and surfers leave rubbish on the beaches. The documentary tells the story of a group of surfers fighting for clean seas and also highlights things anyone can do to protect the oceans. Marine pollution occurs worldwide, and the surfers go to great lengths to identify its sources. But the film doesn’t just send out an important message about global ecology, it also features some breathtaking surfing footage.
22:00 News
22:15 On Location
23:00 News
23:30 The Cultural Magazine
00:00 News
00:02 News in Review
00:30 Lifestyle Europe
01:00 News
01:02 News
01:15 Living in the Digital Age
02:00 News
02:30 The Health Show
03:00 News
03:02 On Location
03:15 The Sputnik Shock
04:00 News
04:15 Contemporary Classical
"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah...
"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah Willis gets up close and personal with the stars of the classical music world.
04:30 The Travel Guide
05:00 News
05:02 News
05:15 Truth Detectives, Part 1
More and more war crimes and human rights violations are brought to indictment. In almost all conflict and crisis regions in the world, people are now...
More and more war crimes and human rights violations are brought to indictment. In almost all conflict and crisis regions in the world, people are now using their smartphones to document events. And older crimes can be reconstructed using satellite imagery. The documentary shows how state-of-the-art technology helps uncover these crimes worldwide.
06:00 News
06:02 Background and Analysis
06:30 Spotlight on People
07:00 News
07:02 News
07:15 Ira May and Leona Lewis
08:00 News
08:02 Battle of the Museums – Artistic Patronage in the Gulf
09:00 News
09:02 Background and Analysis
09:15 White Waves – Surfers Fighting Against Unseen Pollution in the Sea
10:00 News
10:30 The Cultural Magazine
11:00 News
11:15 Venice - La Serenissima as Theme Park
12:00 News
12:15 Background and Analysis
13:00 News
13:30 Battle of the Museums – Artistic Patronage in the Gulf
14:00 News
14:15 Background and Analysis
14:30 The Health Show
15:00 News
16:00 News
16:15 Secret Animal Transports – When the Law Fails to Protect
17:00 News
17:15 White Waves – Surfers Fighting Against Unseen Pollution in the Sea
18:00 News
18:15 The Movie Magazine
18:30 Battle of the Museums – Artistic Patronage in the Gulf
19:00 News
19:15 The Week in Reports
19:30 The Cultural Magazine
20:00 News
20:15 Metal Battle 2016
21:00 News
21:15 The Sputnik Shock
When the Soviet Union succeeded in launching a satellite into orbit in 1957, the world reacted with fear and fascination in equal measure. Western scientists...
When the Soviet Union succeeded in launching a satellite into orbit in 1957, the world reacted with fear and fascination in equal measure. Western scientists were stunned. In the Eastern Bloc, the Sputnik launch was celebrated as proof of Soviet technological superiority. A documentary about the Space Race, and the myths and realities of the first manmade Earth satellite.
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union opened the door to a new era: Sputnik 1, a metal sphere 58 cm in diameter and weighing 83 kg hurtled around the globe at cosmic speed. It was a sensation. US President Eisenhower struggled to project calm, continuing to play golf and stating that he was not frightened in the least by the little metal ball in space. But the Sputnik hype had already got out of hand. How were nations to deal with the historic event? For years the Soviet Union had developed its rocket science in secret and let the Americans believe that they were leading in the race into the cosmos. Before Sputnik, many in the West had viewed the Soviet Union as a developing country, economically and scientifically backward. And now it was soaring into space? Inconceivable! The Soviets suddenly seemed to be taking the technological lead. In the West, the mood fluctuated between panic, fascination and disillusionment. The Sputnik Shock is a film about winners and losers, about the background to and secrets of the first expedition into space. And it tells the story of the man who made Sputnik possible: Chief Designer Sergei Korolev. The world only learned his name after his death, when his ashes were interred with state honors in the Kremlin wall in 1965. Attempts to nominate him for a Nobel Prize had been blocked by the secretive leaders in the Kremlin
22:00 News
22:15 Background and Analysis
23:00 News
23:30 The Science Magazine
00:00 News
00:02 News in Review
00:30 Lifestyle Europe
01:00 News
01:02 News
01:15 The Movie Magazine
01:30 The Motor Magazine
02:00 News
02:02 News in Review
02:30 Lifestyle Europe
03:00 News
03:02 News
03:15 The Current Affairs Documentary
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
03:45 Living in the Digital Age
04:00 News
04:02 News in Review
05:00 News
05:02 The Movie Magazine
05:15 Street Food – Tales of Lamb Kebabs, Scorpions & Ramen Noodles
