Newslink Plus: News and Perspectives from the Heart of Europe
Newslink Plus: News and Current Affairs
Newslink Plus brings you 60 jammed-packed minutes of of breaking news, international current affairs and reports from Germany and around Europe. Join our regular hosts Rick Demarest, John Doyle and Steve Zwick for an inside view of what's happening around the world. Listen to Newslink Plus here on the Internet or sign up for the podcast.
As the US congress rejects an enormous bailout plan for Wall Street, the German government steps in to save a major mortgage bank. Also, the conservative party in Bavaria has suffered an historic defeat, creating new problems for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. And, as the world-famous Oktoberfest continues in Munich, one of our reporters tries on traditional Bavarian fashion – the dirndl. 
