wall in total more than 600 people were killed trying to flee east germany the berlin wall its did for 28 years until 1989 that famous day when a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the frontier and the end of communism in central and eastern europe during that time dissidents activists in east and west germany that helps local thousands of people across the in and german border our reporter christina custer caught up with one of them the best thing about jail which to says was being left out of a so once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in a detention center run by the east german secret police the stasi for trying to flee the country and for aiding others in their attempts to escape. they didn't abuse us physically they called it a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind through hyper control isolation this information on the cusp of the worst 11 months of my life here after a while as you start to long to be sentenced pledged to never accepted life on to the east germa

wall axel klaus meyer director of the berlin wall while we appreciate you very much for. we had to italy now where the senate is to convene in the coming hours to set a date for a no confidence vote in the government deputy prime minister met me through the coalition government into chaos when he demanded snap elections southie me is the leader of the far right league party and he said the differences between the league and its coalition partners were too great. for. joining us now here in the studio to discuss more we have i mean she is a journalist living here in berlin welcome to the program. you know how did things get to this point right how could i mean we have 14 months just 14 months into the current administration where that that is not very unusual for in tallinn know the bridge was going on and didn't last much longer than that so this is not a big surprise for italy the thing is that this gone on and when it started was a really very awkward. to get the 2 forces together 2 parties together which actually are completely different and have have a completely diff

wall but some $5000.00 did make it out the berlin wall stood for 28 years and a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that also met lee led to the opening of the frontier in 1989 which also marked the end of communism in central and eastern europe now while the berlin wall stood firm escape attempts were often met with live gunfire but the desperation for some was so great the need to try was overpowering a reporter christian a christian or brings this one man's harrowing tale. the best thing about jail which to says was being left out of a cell once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in a detention center run by the east german secret police the stasi for trying to flee the country and for aiding others in their attempts to escape. the embassy of his dismissal nudie home and so they didn't abuse us physically they called it a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind just through hyper control isolation this information because in the worst 11 months of my life here after a while if you start too long to be sentenc

the man behind this virtual journey through time as you want us all to born just before the berlin wall came down his company has discovered a nice market. as in kind of we're not a museum and we don't try to be we want to touch people through history to see it and think about it where's the wall millions of tourists asked the city answers it's gone this mission and you can tell so clearly unfortunately not whereas the wall here. i don't see it i'll probably would expect especially here where it's somewhat busy you probably expect to see more of it. maybe not partly. when the city was reunited the wall was removed as fast as possible now 30 years later v.a.r. technology fills the gaps in memory. oh you see. peter called ski has made his own time warp a free app for small. phones and tablets wherever the wall once stood he's built it back up the devices camera blends the world of today with the virtual berlin wall all things to the technology of augmented reality that's not all we know was it's you can see where the wall stood reborn as it were the history concealed in these places argum

dozens of people died in this way along the berlin wall it's still not clear just how many the regime ruthlessly punished anyone who tried to flee. nevertheless wish to continue to help more than 30 people escape by smuggling them into west germany in the boot of his car he was caught again and spent 5 years in prison before he was pushed out by the west german government the 71 year old now gives tours in his former prison he thinks young people should learn that east germany was a totalitarian state. as you will mention if you can see that young people are aware and interested that's why i do this so it was you out of a sense of the conviction will be back when it will always be like that before. that stealing us help overcome the brutality of the stasi now he's able to tell a story as one of those who paid a price for wanting freedom. and we say in berlin or because unlike most other european capitals berlin has never been a domestic footballing powerhouse but this season for the 1st time in over 40 years their german capital will be represented by 2 different teams in the top flig

straits we revisit the berlin wall through the eyes of a west german author of the way and see how german the business sector both sides east and west record. and speaking of walls the berlin based artist collective inner fields use them as their canvas for some of the most sought after street art around. well anyone who's a fan of the sound of music will remember julie andrews yodeling her heart out in the song the lonely goatherd and indeed long before the advent of smartphones cow and go herds used yodeling in the alps as a way to call from one mountain to another but what began as a melodic language in switzerland and austria has evolved into a sophisticated musical form in itself and it's one that has remarkable staying power. but be totally meaningless and loudly. we don't know when the 1st alpine dairy farmer let rip with the 1st. warning. perhaps the most plausible explanation courting the scattered herd of cows in for milking but with so much artistic creativity be invested into such a monday in toss. time oh are you know 2 you are on my thesis is that the 2nd variation is much m

this is all that's left of the infamous berlin wall some graffiti and neglected grass. these 2 men born in what was then east germany helped bring it down. well and yon on the left was extradited to west germany he helped get footage of the east german protests onto west german television and protested when doing so was still extremely dangerous but this can destroy the fall of the berlin wall was not a gift it was something people achievement big top of the ship and can be proud of that the small challenges we face today are nothing compared to this. victory. but disagrees fundamentally the legacy photographer documented the radical transformation of east germany his pictures show the effects of germany's rapid reunification and what was effectively east germany submission to the west. germany insisted on its own way of doing things most east germans lost their jobs and the country they had lived in vanished. the work we lost all faith and everything to do with the east we thought west german milk and sugar was better than our own even their people were superior. many

well august 13th marks the 58th anniversary of the day the berlin wall went up practically overnight here in the city itself it proceeded to divide into communist east and capitalist west and for 28 years it was the most tangible symbol of the cold war and during that time author and journalist. was one of the 1st west germans to write a novel about it 30 years ago i could have been shot to death just for standing here the space on the east side of the berlin wall was called the street. people risk their lives trying to escape from the communist east so the west but who would have been crazy enough to try to jump over the wall from the west to the east. the wall is about germans from both sides trying to overcome the border. mr cobb who was in his mid forty's and welfare 1st came to the attention of the police when with a running start from the west he jumped the wall heading east the guards of the other german state arrested as a border violator he wore out his interrogators who wanted to know why he hadn't used a border crossing by pointing out time and again that he lived right ac

this is all that's left of the infamous berlin wall some graffiti and neglected grass. these 2 men born in what was then east germany helped bring it down. well and yon on the left was extradited to west germany he helped get footage of the east german protests on to west german television and protested when doing so was still extremely dangerous it's going to take the fall of the berlin wall was not a gift it was something people achievement the top of the ship and can be proud of that the small challenges we face today are nothing compared to this. act of free. but disagrees fundamentally the legacy photographer documented the radical transformation of east germany his pictures show the effects of germany's rapid reunification and what was effectively east germany submission to the west. germany insisted on its own way of doing things most east germans lost their jobs and the country they had lived in vanished. the work we lost all faith and everything to do with the east we thought west german milk and sugar was better than our own even their people were superior. ma

of today with the virtual berlin wall all thanks to the technology of augmented reality despite all we know was it you can see where the wall stood reborn as or the history concealed in these places are granted reality is perfect for that to make something visible that's no longer there fortunately our longer look as. the few original sections of the wall still standing can only tell part of the story technology takes care of the rest. seeing what a terrible time in our history that was with germany divided by the wall and so many people killed trying to escape using today's media to get a sense of those times is a good thing is to find them travelling through time with an app than seeing how good it is that the real wall is long gone. now to a new record over the weekend the mexican city of the last had a host of the biggest folk dance in the world a total of $882.00 men and women in traditional costumes braved intense heat to dance and stamp their feet to money actually music they nearly double the previous record which was set in the same city 8 years ago. we just have time for a

now an anniversary of sorts 58 years ago today work began on the construction of the berlin wall the barrier was intended to stem the population drain from communist east germany to west berlin and west germany the wall formalized west berlin situation as an island in otherwise communist territory the enclave was now surrounded by more than 150 kilometers of massive fortifications yet west berlin remained a magnet for those wanting to escape east germany at least 136 people were tried were killed trying to cross that wall in total more than 600 people were killed trying to flee east germany the berlin wall stood for 28 years until 1909 when a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the front tier and the end of communism in central and eastern europe. during that time dissidents and activists in east and west germany helped smuggle thousands of people across the inner german border sometimes through tunnels a reporter christina caught up with one of. the best thing about jail hartmut says was being let out of his cell.

when building began on the berlin wall on the 1st of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on dissenters. as a young person at some point you have to ask yourself how long am i going to play this raid have how long can i take it or do i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little nation who is a long as you're still studying you have to get all of this crap that in every essay there had to be a commitment to socialism and if you needed good marks you just wrote that rubbish down. a short time later richter attempted to escape again he swam across a border river on the edge of berlin and made it to freedom he was in the water for 4 hours before he finally managed to get through a barbed wire fence and onto the shore on the western side on the eastern side he would have been shot. at the cauldron is off the food supply had a guardian angel that lied or knew there were alarms at the bridge he was in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post a bridge post if i had touched it he would have gone off and they w

during the 28 years in which berlin was divided by the wall more than 130 people were killed or died trying to flee to the worst. possible richter also risk his life to excrete from east germany . the best thing about jail hartmut richter says was being let out of his cell once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in a detention center run by the east german ministry of state security for trying to flee the country and for aiding others in their attempts to escape. and so they didn't abuse us physically they called it corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind to stand through hyper control isolation this information has been the worst 11 months of my life here after a while you start to long to be sentenced. mr never accepted life under the east german regime and tried to flee for the 1st time by train when he was just 18 he was arrested and put behind bars. when building began on the berlin wall on the 1st of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on dissenters it was the other w

still to come on the show with the fall of the berlin wall now almost 30 years in the past who knows where east and west once worked well technology has. but 1st 2 states in eastern germany are gearing up for elections this weekend that could see a far right party make big gains the alternative for germany or if he is leading opinion polls in the state of brand bergner berlin and is running a close 2nd in the bring saxony w. traveled to the city of chemist's in saxony is the scene of a far right rioting following the killing of a german man by an asylum seeker there last year. election campaigns are in full swing encampments there his party's are hoping to win over undecided voters people like nick kids hirschi he's 28 years old a sports trainer and a martial arts enthusiastic. moment haven't decided yet which party will vote for in the regional elections. with their anti immigrant slogans the right wing populist party is gaining popularity. nick wants to hear what candidates have to say. when a nuke in my name is nick i was born here and was raised here what are the 3 main things th

berlin wall that divided the city during the cold war with even less clears whereas the wall actually stood and now technology is helping give new generations a glimpse of the past. but 1st the business league is mass a 2 is history and here to talk about that is tom get away from the sports desk tom good morning to you big game was sunday was our beat leipzig facing frankfurt how'd that go down yeah absolutely right there was lots of 1st home game of the season that the big 4 knew victory away here in berlin. against bundesliga newcomers on your own now there's been quite a bit of uncertainty and lots to go over the past few months over the future of their star striker he put a small in the fans' faces before kick off yesterday by signing a brand new deal and that man's name is of course team or van. he's old contract was set to run out at the end of the season the new one will keep him at the club until 2023. it seems he's why just get a healthy boost and he now has a 30000000 euros by which company good luck to me if i never said i wouldn't want to stay here it was always clear to

this is all that's left of the infamous berlin wall some graffiti and neglected grass. these 2 men born in what was then east germany helped bring it down. well and yon on the left was extradited to west germany he helped get footage of the east german protests onto west german television and protested when doing so was still extremely dangerous but the screen destroyed the fall of the berlin wall was not a gift it was something people achievement big top of the ship and can be proud of that the small challenges we face today are nothing compared to this. back to free . but disagrees fundamentally the let's say photographer documented the radical transformation of east germany his pictures show the effects of germany's rapid reunification and what was effectively east germany's submission to the west. germany insisted on its own way of doing things most east germans lost their jobs and the country they had lived in vanished. you know the work we lost all faith and everything to do with the east we thought west german milk and sugar was better than our own even their peo

the berlin wall stood for 28 years until 1989 when a series of protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the front here and the end of communism in central and eastern europe during that time dissidents and activists in east and west germany helped smuggle thousands of people across the inner german border sometimes through tunnels a reporter christina caught up with one of. the best thing about jail heart says was being let out of his cell once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in a detention center run by the east german ministry of state security for trying to flee the country and for others in their attempts to escape. they didn't abuse us physically they called it a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind down through hyper control isolation this information has been the worst 11 months of my life here after you start to long to be sentenced. rishta never accepted life under the east german regime and tried to flee for the 1st time by train when he was just 18 he was arrested and put behi

wall was called the street. and. people risk their lives trying to escape from the communist east to the west but who would have been crazy enough to try to jump over the wall from the west to the east. the wall is about germans from both sides trying to overcome the border. mr who was in his mid forty's and on welfare 1st came to the attention of the police when with a running start from the west he jumped the wall heading east the guards of the other german states arrested as a border violator he wore out his interrogators who wanted to know why he hadn't used a border crossing by pointing out time and again that he lived right across the way and had taken the only direct path over the wall when the book came out in 1902 the wall was already part of people's d.n.a. hardly anyone here believed that east and west germany would agree unified and most people didn't even want them to win the war. weaves together political analysis and reports with his own youthful adventures and his complicated friendships with ger

when building began on the berlin wall in the 1st of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on dissenters. as a young person at some point you have to ask yourself how long am i going to play this raid have how long can i take it and where do i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little nation who is a long as you're still studying you had to get all of this crap that in every essay there had to be a commitment to socialism and if you needed good marks you just wrote that rubbish down. a short time later richter attempted to escape again he swam across a border river on the edge of berlin and made it to freedom he was in the water for 4 hours before he finally managed to get through a barbed wire fence and onto the shore on the western side on the eastern side he would have been shot. at the governor's office that's why i had a guardian angel that night i knew there were alarms at the bridge in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post a bridge post if i touched it he would have gone off and they would h

still to come: they were schoolfriends until the berlin wall divided them. now, nearly 60 years later, they meet again for the first time. the big crowds became bigger as the time of the funeral approached. as the lines of fans became longer, the police prepared for a hugejob of crowd control. idi amin, uganda's brutalformer dictator has died at the age of 80. he's been buried in saudi arabia where he lived in exile since being overthrown in 1979. 2 billion people around the world have seen the last total eclipse of the sun to take place in this millennium. it began itsjourney off the coast of canada, ending three hours later when the sun set over the bay of bengal. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the tenth consecutive weekend of pro—democracy protests in hong kong has come to an end with accusations of increased police violence. donald trump has been accused of promoting unfounded conspiracy theories about the apparent suicide ofjeffrey epstein. polls have closed in guatemala's presidential run—off election, where voters have been choosing betwe

the teenage friends divided by the berlin wall. on the tenth weekend of unrest, there have been further clashes between pro—democracy protesters and riot police, in hong kong. tear gas was fired after petrol bombs exploded near the main police headquarters. earlier, beijing warned britain not to interfere in hong kong's affairs, after the foreign secretary, dominic raab, suggested there should be an investigation, into ongoing violence against pro—democracy protestors. from hong kong, here's jonathan head. this is how it starts every weekend now in hong kong. they've turned improvising barricades into an art form. they work with impressive speed and coordination. there is never much time before the police arrive. these confrontations are now a familiar routine in hong kong's streets. generally, the protesters retreat, avoiding direct contact. but, by nightfall, the clashes were happening in multiple locations across the city, and getting worse. the police are stressed, and acting at times with little restraint. this was tai koo

in total more than $600.00 people were killed trying to flee east germany the berlin wall stood for 28 years until $989.00 when a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the front tier and the end of communism in central and eastern europe during that time dissidents and activists in east and west germany helped smuggle thousands of people a crawl sore under the inner german border our reporter christina cook caught up with one of. the best thing about jail hartmut says it was.

november 9th 1989 the berlin wall comes down and the iron curtain current. barely 11 months later germany is reunified. but to flourish in landscapes the leaders promised haven't materialized instead eastern german industry has been languishing more than a 1000000 eastern germans are out of work. western germany still dominates the economy not a single tax listed corporation is based in the east. germany 15 the refugee crisis brings feelings of discontent in the east to critical matters. increasingly migrants are seen as competitors for both jobs and social benefits. 2000000000 euros of investment are helping the east to catch up with the west but at around 70 percent unemployment is still above the average in the west are eastern germans 2nd class citizens. without question to michelle or are eastern german 2nd class citizens the question that ma says when individuals go into a polling booth is whether they feel they are 2nd class citizens and saxony is the economically most successful eastern state and bats with the a if t. is likely to come out potentiall

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november 9th 1989 the berlin wall comes down and the iron curtain current. barely 11 months later germany is reunified. but the christian landscapes the leaders promised haven't materialized instead eastern german industry has been languishing more than a 1000000 eastern germans are out of work. western germany still dominates the economy not a single tax listed corporation is based in the east. in 2015 the refugee crisis brings feelings of discontent in the east to critical mass. increasingly migrants are seen as competitors for both jobs and social benefits. 2000000000 euros of investment are helping the east to catch up with the rest but at around 70 percent unemployment still look out of the average in the west are eastern germans 2nd class citizens. let me put that question to michelle there are eastern german 2nd class citizens the question that masses when individuals go into a polling booth is whether they feel that they are 2nd class citizens and saxony is the economically most successful eastern state and that's where the a if t. is likely to come

of today with the virtual berlin wall all thanks to the technology of augmented reality. you can see where the wall stood reborn as or the history concealed in these places are granted reality is perfect for that to make something visible that's no longer there fortunately long. as. the few original sections of the wall still standing can only tell part of the story technology takes care of the rest. seeing what a terrible time in our history that was with germany divided by the wall and so many people killed trying to escape using today's media to get a sense of those times is a good thing. travelling through time with an app than seeing how good it is that the real wall is long gone. thanks for watching news back with more news at the top of the hour but we'll leave you with images of a new record here over the weekend to the mexican city of weather had a host of the biggest folk dance in the world a total of $882.00 men and women in traditional costumes braving intense heat to dance and stamp their feet to mariachi music and. thank. he spent his whole working lives toi

in total more than $600.00 people were killed trying to flee east germany the berlin wall stood for 28 years until $989.00 when a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the frontier and the end of communism in central and eastern europe.

who was a young man when the berlin wall came down. >> they have cheated people for years. the only thing that has alws improved by their service -- you could put it into scols. >> it all feels very twinkle -- very tranquil. there is real division here. it's about more than tha what's happenin here represents a nationwide struggle. >> grilling for victory, misses michael's eastern conservatives. when they asked the regional primen minister how they p beat, afdhe seemed reluctant tu engage. for mostermans afdpa remains an table choice. c news. >> our next guest has his sights set a lot higher. held travels the w writing about it and is sharing his experiences in a new podcast. it encourages peopleo explore the world and shed some of those fears holding them ba he joined be a short while ago. thanks for joining us. what areome of the lessons you try to impart on listeners? >> in my show i informant wi these commandments. thou shalt be generous, thou shall ave your smart phone at home, thou shall seek happiness. that's really the lessons over 35 years of traveling, because i w

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months later, the berlin wall started to crumble. they commemorated that historical opening of the border today. seeing angela merkel marking the day struck some as off. these two leaders have rarely seen eye to eye. >> a solemn ceremony to commemorate a moment that changed the course of history. angela merkel and victor came here. a picnic in this hunt giving city and it led to the terror and down of the cold war barrier in europe. >> the picnic became the scene of thehe biggest breakout of people in east germany sincecehe construcuction of the wall. >> dubbed the pan-european picnic, it was organized on t te austrian border. eastermans c crossed the border and escaped frereedom in the we. an estimated 70,000 had fled via hungary. this was seen as a keyey factorn the e fall of ththe berlin wall. >> i would like totohank the people of huhungary from the bottom o of my heartrt on n thef hungngary's natitional day. germany will not forget this. >> as merkel and her counterpart celebrated this moment, it was clear that the relationship