Across france official mourning following last weeks attack in nice. In paris, president Francois Hollande paid tribute and the Prime Minister was booed by the crowd as approval of the government crumbles. And evidence that russia operated a doping program for the athlete and manipulated test result to cover it up. The World Antidoping Agency for this is a bad report. It is good to have you with us. After the coup comes the crackdown. Tonight turkish government has arrested more than 7000 gold in connection with last weekends military takeover. Thousands of judges have been fired and police have been spend it. The government is also pushing for a prominent usbased cleric to be extradited to turkey. That cleric says he is to do with the coup attempt. We begin tonight with turkeys perch. Purge. An earlymorning raid in istanbul. Turkeys biggest city is full of Police Special forces, nearly 2000 to support the socalled pcleansing operations. Generals across turkey have been interrogated an
Authorities routinely took orphans and children from socially deprived families and forced them into physical labor in the countryside. Now, swiss politicians have passed a law to compensate the victims. But for some like walter steck, no amount of money could ease the suffering he continues to endure. Reporter walter steck values good food. He loves cooking for himself, and for others. But when he was a child, he was never sure if there would be enough food. I wouldnt get breakfast if i had wet the bed. I wet my bed for a long, long time. So i was hungry for a long time. Reporter the swiss authorities deemed walter stecks parents social outcasts. They took him, and placed him in a foster family. There, he had no other choice than work on the fields to earn his living. At the tender age of 5, he had become one of thousands of socalled contract children. The house that stood here where walter grew up has been torn down. But it never felt like home to him anyway. We werent allowed to sit
Authorities routinely took orphans and children from socially deprived families and forced them into physical labor in the countryside. Now, swiss politicians have passed a law to compensate the victims. But for some like walter steck, no amount of money could ease the suffering he continues to endure. Reporter walter steck values good food. He loves cooking for himself, and for others. But when he was a child, he was never sure if there would be enough food. I wouldnt get breakfast if i had wet the bed. I wet my bed for a long, long time. So i was hungry for a long time. Reporter the swiss authorities deemed walter stecks parents social outcasts. They took him, and placed him in a foster family. There, he had no other choice than work on the fields to earn his living. At the tender age of 5, he had become one of thousands of socalled contract children. The house that stood here where walter grew up has been torn down. But it never felt like home to him anyway. We werent allowed to sit
Investigators refused to rule out human error as caused. And then International Tribunal dismisses chinas territorial claim of the south china sea, saying it has no legal basis. Beijing calls the ruling a f fae anand said it will not not doing what it is doing in the sea. Good to have you with us. We begin in dallas where u. S. President barack obama has paid tribute to the five Police Officers killed at an antiracism protests last week. The president was joined at the interfaith memorial by Vice President joe biden and number president george w. Bush. The officers were killed on duty just days after two unarmed black men were shot dead by police. During his speech, he spoke of the violence exposing the divide in american democracy. President obama faced with this , we wonder if the divide in america can ever be wrote. We wonder if an Africanamerican Community that feels unfairly targeted by police and Police Departments that feel unfairly maligned for doing their jobs can ever underst
Sniper fired shots at police, killing five officers and wounding nine others. President obama played his nowfamiliar role of mourner in chief this week, calling on americans of all races to come together, as the people of dallas have done. How deep are americas divisions, and how can they be repaired . That is what we want to talk about this week, on quadriga, with three guests who are following the events there very closely. It is a pleasure to welcome erik kirschbaum. He is a new york native and longtime germany correspondent, currently working with the l. A. Times. He says, the United States feels like a powder keg, with deep political, economic, social, and racial divisions, threatening to erupt into a bigger explosion. And it is a pleasure to welcome Rieke Havertz. She is a Senior Editor at zeitonline, and she has also reported from the u. S. For a daily newspaper. She says, American Society has failed to address the issue of racism for years. President obama has to ask himself if