Chancellor Angela Merkel takes your questions on new German government YouTube channel

From the Philippines to Israel, Mexico to Iraq, governments from around the world have created YouTube channels and are using the site to communicate with their constituents. Today, the German government launched their YouTube channel to provide regular updates to German citizenry.

Better still, they want to hear from you. Chancellor Angela Merkel will be taking questions from citizens through YouTube. You can vote on the questions you'd like to see asked and she'll answer the top ten questions in a three-part video series on the new channel.



What questions do you have for the Chancellor? Upload them now.

Videos Show Deadly Chaos at Love Parade

New videos posted to YouTube show the panic leading to a stampede that killed 21 people and injured 500 others at the Love Parade music festival in Germany on Saturday. Concert organizers said today Love Parade would be permanently canceled because of the tragedy.



User name: smokingsucker
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,151
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User name: IslandSuperMonkey
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,470
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User name: vriend1
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Date uploaded: July 25
Event date: July 24
Views: 1,974
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Germany's Love Parade Turns Into Fatal Stampede

A stampede killed as many as 15 and injured nearly 100 injured today in Duisburg, Germany, at Love Parade, an annual techno-music festival, according to The Guardian. The article states panic set in when a crowd attempted to take a shortcut through a narrow tunnel.

Several YouTube users witnessed the event:

• Love Parade 2010 Duisburg - im Tunnel
• Loveparade 2010 Duisburg im Tunnel Panik
• Love parade 2010 in Duisburg 24.07.2010
• Loveparade Duisburg 2010 Chaos beim Ein-/Ausgang
  [Love Parade 2010 - Duisburg] Angry crowd

Singer Pink Falls During Stunt at Nuremberg Concert

Pop singer Pink fell into a barricade during a stunt involving a harness in Nuremberg, Germany today. Pink ended the concert early as a result of the incident and was later rushed to the hospital, but has since reported to her followers on Twitter that all is well. "Nothing's broken, no fluid in the lungs, just seriously sore," she posted a few hours ago.

This video captured at the concert shows the fall at mark 0:44:

User name: Mike12oo

Location: Nuremberg, Germany

Date uploaded: July 15

Views: 302

User notes: What a shocking moment. At the beginning of the last song So What Pink had an accident. After a while she came back on stage but had to end the concert. Looks like she wasn't injured much but she must have been under shock as we all have been. Get well soon Pink!

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In this video, Pink apologizes to her fans that she will not be able to continue her performance:

User name: LittleTear

Location: Nuremberg, Germany

Date uploaded: July 15

Views: 302

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Explosion Injures 15 German Police Officers

A "homemade shrapnel grenade" exploded at a demonstration in Berlin, Germany on Saturday, injuring 15 police officers, two of them seriously. Thousands of people were gathered to protest the German government's plan to cut millions of dollars from federal programs, a move they said would increase the gap between the rich and the poor.

Police told reporters that officers were pelted with stones, bottles and then the explosive, which contained shards of glass or metal. They said it was thrown from the direction of a group of anti-capitalist protesters.

In this video, you can see the explosion at 0:33.



User name: funkstrahl
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date uploaded: June 13
Event date: June 12
Views: 52,241
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This video was show closer to the explosion, which happens around 0:49.



User name: groooveman85
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date uploaded: June 13
Event date: June 12
Views: 859
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Promoting tolerance from every angle

Starting today, young people across Germany are invited to take part in a special film contest designed to fight discrimination and promote racial tolerance in Germany. YouTube, in partnership with the the Laut gegen Nazis ("Racism Can Hit Anyone") campaign, and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, is launching "361 Grad Toleranz" ("361-degree tolerance"), a video competition open to German 13 to 18-year-olds.

Students have between now and October 16 to create short videos about the importance of treating others with tolerance and respect. Each submission should reflect on what it means to be open-minded in today's world and communicate the dangers of racism in original and creative ways.

The grand prize recipient will receive a special visit from the German rock band Silbermond, who will perform a private concert at his or her own school. Additionally, the winning student will get a "class trip" to Berlin and Toshiba camcorders for his or her classmates.

A long list of German celebrities, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are publicly demonstrating their support for this program. The star-studded cast of this video illustrates the unified resolve within German society to actively fight any and all types of discrimination.

To learn more and submit your video, visit the 361 Grad Toleranz YouTube channel here: www.youtube.de/361grad and watch Chancellor Merkel's call-out video: