nowadays many in eastern germany feel bad no one on the political stage who represents that injustice as the estimates from our cloud as admission for a start it wasn't a reunification team one system simply imposed itself on the other as i'm west germany didn't bother to even consider if there was anything in the east german system they could have been useful to fix the problem boosted cohesion they didn't think what aspects of east germany should we take a closer look at maybe keep they only cared about things that related to reckoning to a market economy and that was a mistake but the. head of land often spoke to her children about the fall of the wall about the joy every unification and the mistakes made in itself to mass. going to make you free in just a downward. talk . keep going stop where's the man in the moon. trance and antonio go back on the red this time they're on their way to saxony the part of the country where the shift to the farm. right is mystic street they want to find out why. dresden is famous for its cultural landmarks but also as the cradle of the notorious pi

with sending them on a journey across eastern germany to find out is it in places where people are venting their dissatisfaction and disappointment. come on let's have a song. to fish. and fish. caught. fish. all right. no network there's not exactly reliable internet around here but. much of the film at least gemini is struggling in the communist era the country was rundown and on the verge of bankruptcy since 1909 nearly 25 percent of the population has moved away. wow. there's little industry left here. antonia and funds are critical of coal mining like many young people today they're worried about the environment but in eastern germany coal is still important lignite brown coal mining is a major employer and an integrity part of the region's identity zucker but slough has spent her entire working life in a coal mine. as i'm about to start up the excavator 1st i'll give a warning and then i'll set the excavator in motion. i can dig all that up you see the cable is connected to the mast and the mast lifts the arm it's perfectly safe which is wobbles a bit all right so i'll sit down. wow.

colleges universities and centers of higher education in eastern germany of which there are dozens maybe i think 80 plus how many have got directors who are from the east we're talking about is german colleges of higher education the answer is 00000. that cannot be right so you are still active to discover action against each germans in a glass ceiling and then for the you know there are lots of very ambitious young each are former east germans people from lisa in germany who have got great skills and have you know made great strides in recent years but nobody from eastern germany or very very few people that's too categorical to say nobody knew very very few people are getting to the top either in new west germany or in these germany i suppose with the example is always going to be the chancellor who i suppose people are going to look at her and say well what what she's been in power for for all the years so a decade and a half has what what has what have her the government's done about addressing those divisions between east and west 20 extremely large amounts of money and i mean the m

that i saw you were the co-founder of off the new form civil rights movement in eastern germany which played a key role in the events which led to the fall of the berlin wall there you are a scientist a molecule a biologist 1st of all tell me what was it like living in eastern germany as a scientist and what hurdles did you face you know scientists we were all dissatisfied because of the isolation from the from what was going on in the great of new developments we learned or these things have a year or a year later best. you know. when did you 1st become critical of the east german government and what consequences did you face as a result. critical we were all over that time but in private and more openly and gathering people to discuss matters that came up. in the late seventy's. when when we realised and i realised for instance that. the east bloc. would come down economically and ecological the end and the political situation burst and you said it started in the seventy's that the wall actually fell in 1909 so how did you channel this discontent in eastern germany in the zia. by re

with dismay many in eastern germany say they've been left behind and feel like 2nd class citizens well when the wall came down on the 9th of november 1989 the euphoria was boundless on the scene was the word of the hour named kred deeble people kept saying to each other a miracle it seemed to come to pass in the morning which it appeared so in the bible was pierced the town it was then and now he's now so we are just 30 years since the fall of the girl in wool what happens to the euphoria. thanks very much for joining us and with me in the studio today i have got linda fear eka who grew up in the former g.d.r. and was 7 years old when the wall came down today she works as a reporter here d.w. and just completed a documentary about the full of the war and linda says it's only now free decades after the wall came down that we realize how radical the change was for people in the east also with us is anglo-french catherine nicholson she's european affairs editor with the broadcast of france 20. and believes that permanent euphoria is realistic it's boring porton to learn lessons from the p

half was part of democratic west germany the eastern half belong to communist east germany and it guarded its borders zealously anyone who tried to escape was arrested or shot but in spite of all the restrictions imposed by the state many east germans were able to find fulfillment both professionally and personally like graphic artist that left him by design movie posters for east germany stayed on film distributors. until the wall fell he worked for us for the only film distributor in the communist east his book more art than advertisement contains reproductions of old east german film posters showing how graphic artists could find creative freedom within an oppressive system as an addict a tool for me it was a dictatorship and i was constantly exasperated by it out of a need alternately it didn't affect my work so strongly that i felt uncomfortable in my work. there i was frantic. but the berlin wall and forced tight restrictions on east germans freedom of movement freedom of expression was also limited by the state with its censors and spies. that all changed on november 9th 1909 penfo

to some a many in eastern germany says they've been left behind and feel like 2nd class citizens so what's going wrong find out going to the point. 30 minutes on. d.w. . it looks like he wrote it. to keep mastodons. and he read it to the world. ever 9989. the story behind one of the most remarkable days in recent german history the boss case notes the night the wall came down to him 75 misplaced. in a way discovered the bauhaus code to house world starts now the 40 on w. . welcome to the book is the game here for discussion. place to talk about a. country that's the only. clue you want. to see. the moon to. earth home to millions of species a home worth saving. google ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas that protect the climate boost green energy solutions and reforestation. using interactive content to inspire people to take action global audience the series of global 3000 on t.w. and online. their health isn't calculable. their egos and since. their rivalry template. 3 princes. who. dream of the in the arab world. there are 4 power

then in 1987 she was offered the opportunity to return to eastern germany in a small town as a contract worker but the attitude towards foreigners had changed him of envy i don't call for war become and. so. whenever we went shopping the cashiers look look down at us as though we had just walked out of the jungle well as. this is the building that home to 2 used to work in. former garment factory she quickly realized that people like her were only there to make up for the lack of skilled workers in east germany they were encouraged not to have contact with east germans . then in 1989 the war failed germans were overjoyed but it was a precarious time for contract workers. over the following years the government tried to depart the former contract workers on top to was allowed to stay because she was married to a german. but she ran into opposition including her doctor he had been in charge of contract workers in her small town. he asked me what are you still doing here i answered i live here he replied but you don't mode you anymore there is no east germany anymore and the. hatred of for

germany was not only due to germans but it was something that went well beyond germany and where eastern european countries like the one that i just mentioned played a very important role in the fall of the berlin wall so the main political commemoration will take place here at the band i washed it off towards later on the following quote commemorations will take place in the brandenburg gate all right thomas thanks for now i'm john over to you give us a sense of the significance of this anniversary significances such a difficult thing isn't it when you talk about historical events because we all have our own narratives of historical events and they're always partial and subjective and i think particularly today where the mainstream media are so often criticised for i think unfairly my personal view unfairly for fake news and so on i think one has to be very careful about simply buying into one particular narrative one has to see the whole process is being a very complicated one but the significance of today is of course it mucks does historically the end of the the beginning of the end

germany and it was a production placed for the top on the most iconic car in eastern germany but it's also a big deal for germany in general because they haven't really been the pioneers in electric cars and in producing them and v.w. is trying to change that with the cold and they're basically trying to make a pilot project here to make it work and then exported all over india other plants internationally q are there are there reporting for us live from speak out with us launches electric fully electric productions thank you so much. now fox of arms move comes as electric pioneer tesla prepares to start building cars in the key chinese market production and trials of its model 3 are underway at its giant new factory in shanghai the electric a 4 door sedan is intended for a broader market in tesla's previous models the plant opened ahead of schedule and as part of the company's business investments drive in china which accounts for more than half of the world's electric vehicle sales. all right move over apple soon the world's most valuable publicly traded company may not be from the

germany say they feel like 2nd class citizens. but as we saw the east is catching up well. g.d.p. growth last year was 1.4 percent in the west and 1.6 percent in the east. wages grew over the same period 3 percent in the west and 3.6 percent in the east. eventually economic output in the east is set to catch up. but at the current rate it's likely to take quite a long time. so it's still set to take a long time and it's already been the year is surprising then that many east germans have run out of patience and left to seek a better life in western germany the resulting brain drain and loss of young people is having a dramatic effect in some areas entire regions in the east are on the verge of dying out and that the fact that the population is aging in both parts of the country the future does not look good so what's urgently needed is a fresh influx of people communities in eastern germany or working hard to attract new residents like our reporter to do milan who wondered whether she could be one of those people can she be one of

eastern germany where we're hearing the latest reports now of a explosion there at a mine as i say is about 30 people reportedly still stuck underground but at the moment as far as we know it is on the ground and that rescue operation is underway kate brady our correspondent in berlin bringing us the latest on what appears to be an explosion at a mine with 2 people injured around 30 other people trapped thank you so much for those details so far kate. well here are some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of bush fires are raging in eastern australia forcing the closure of a highway linking at sydney and brisbane and the blazes have tool through tens of thousands of hectares in queensland and new south wales strong winds and high temperatures are finding the flames in some areas. beating them michael bloomberg is considering entering the 2020 presidential race warning that the current field of candidates ill equipped to defeat donald trump the former new york mayor has not formally announced his bid but he is expected to run in the democratic primary in the state

in eastern germany that people are porters has been injured. and pro-democracy activists in hong kong according for event just a student died of injuries sustained during an anti government demonstration earlier this week a student fell from a building off to police fired tear gas to disperse a rally. up next to the point to debate what happened to the euphoria that everyone felt when the buddies who fell 30 years ago don't forget you can always get the latest on the web site d w dot com and i don't. you see. to the point of strong opinions clear positions international perspectives it's 30 years since the fall of the bowling balls germany is celebrating but the mood is tainted with dismay many in eastern germany say they've been left behind and feel like 2nd class citizens so what's going wrong find out onto the point shortly. next on d w. what keeps us in shape what makes us see and how do we stand up to. my name is dr constantly can i talk to medical experts. watch them at work. and then discuss what you can do to improve your health. stay t

colleges universities and centers of higher education in eastern germany of which there are dozens maybe i think 80 plus how many have got directors who are from the east we're talking about east german colleges of higher education the answer is 00000. that cannot be right so you can live by still active to discover action against each germans in atlanta sealing none for though you know there are lots of very ambitious young former east germans people from lisa in germany who have got great skills one of you know made great strides in recent years but nobody from eastern germany or very very few people that's too categorical to say nobody no very very few people are getting to the top either in new west germany or in east germany i suppose with the example is always going to be the chancellor who i suppose people are going to look at her and say well what what she's been in power for for all the years it was a decade and a half has what what has what have her the government's done about addressing those divisions between east and west 20 extremely large amounts of money and i mean the me

hundreds of environmental activists in eastern germany have occupied coal mines calling for an immediate end to the use of fossil fuel much of the rust belt region depends on the mines for jobs campaigners say the government's plans to phase out cold by 2038 don't go far enough. in germany the far right alternative for germany party is holding a conference to choose its next set of leaders in the city of bond charge there's friction within the party right now between the current leadership and a wing of the party that is even further to the right tensions became clear during the opening speech is outside the conference hall large crowds protested against the party. germany's biggest opposition party in terms of parliamentary seats and its main focus now is to gain control of local governments. earlier today due to political correspondent michela spoke with the. now you were the figurehead of the party's far right wing of a german court ruling allows people to call you a fascist in the end this proved too much for the party. i could also call you a fascist that's freedom of expression i'm

germany. we have to be honest and also have a look at what didn't work so well and how to address this so yes it was a man with task it's still a big task in to a large extent but it's obviously was an unprecedented situation hasn't happened before all of it in moscow i mean with the collapse of the berlin wall and the reunification of germany many russians actually blame mikhail gorbachev you mentioned him earlier and glasnost and perestroika for the collapse of the old soviet union but was he really to blame do you think. well the. hopes of the soviet leadership over that time i certainly did not materialize in the way that. they were looking for the soviet leadership under gorbachev and the staff around him were certainly hoping for to integrate the soviet union was the main or the it into a more western style alliance of states and they were looking to for moscow to become a junior partner to the united states in the new world war there now of course throughout the $990.00 s. 3 as russia b

part belonged to democratic west germany the eastern part to communist east germany and it guarded its borders selous like anyone who tried to escape was arrested or shot that meant east germans freedom of movement was severely restricted and largely limited to other eastern bloc countries so after the wall fell come steve i bush travelled the world and made his hobby his profession the train physicist became a photographer and published books of his photos. doesn't disappear my as i was saying then i never believed i'd see all of that but i was convinced that something would happen at some point and i always said i can't pen a scene forever and that even. last . my niece tammany from my childhood on woods it was self-evident that there was a wall and that but wherever you went north south east west or even to the coast at some point you could go no further the idea of leaving and going to the west was not an unusual one for east germans but doing so had serious consequences. at this point i would have thought that my mother wouldn't be able to visit me regularly was so painful that i

in the former east such as for trucking wages in eastern germany a much lower in western states the average hourly wages around $34.00 euros on the other side of the country it's 6 euros less per hour productivity is lower in the eastern states as well. this lady has been spinning in the dudek machine building factory for 30 years the company is located in the eastern part of berlin c.e.o. your one dudek has 35 employees. he founded his company in former east germany in 1986 the government back then tolerated private companies because the economy needed so much help back then you 100 it did lots of jobs for the east german government but he soon realized that east germany was broke. they had reached their limit and it couldn't go on like that or. i think that at one point in the stars he saw. no matter what they tried the situation couldn't be helped his office was full of souvenirs spanning 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall the east german businessman inexperienced in the way of capitalism was ripped off a few times in the beginning when he looks at this picture he remembe

she'd annoys company or also wanted to show solidarity with jews living in germany in the eastern city of hull or together with mass he visited the side of of recent anti semitic attack and they are not see gunmen had shot that 2 people last month after he was unable to enter a synagogue and carry out a mass shooting i could thank you for coming here with me today thank you for being here to say honor to those individuals who were killed here to the people who want simply to come here and worship in their own faith in the way they desire in the in my computer will meet german chancellor i'm going to america to discuss current issues in foreign policy. and there are quite some issues between the u.s. and germany at the moment economically and politically told us can this symbolic visit by the u.s. secretary of state do anything to patch up what is currently a very strained relationship. well the fact that mr pompeo has a personal history here in germany could certainly help improve things but you mentioned terry the key word of this visit namely the fact that it was symbolic it was prec

hopes to soon bring manifesto to eastern germany. some of the city 7 a remarkable history a very complex contemporary but maybe a remarkable future so i'm looking in 2 days the prize for the european trend brand of the year went to the sheikh live orchestra of berlin the international including horn player ury demarco needs no conductor they improvise contemporary music with classical instruments. v.z. we'd like to see how that approach affects us and how we can play the material in an associative and playful manner a result has an incredible authenticity and a readiness to change things because we are totally behind the work and can perform it with total passion. the new prize winners can be sure that their. cultural brands will now attract even more attention than before. and with that our time is up so until we meet again all the best from us here in berlin go well at it if it. environmentally conscious livin. with maximum comfort. from tanzania is helping make it possible he started with sustainable ideas in his own home. kitchen

germany history children forcibly removed from parents considered disloyal to the regime to reveal one found these personal stories every unification. and firefighters in australia are battling what authorities are calling an unprecedented number of bushfires called in 90 places are raging in the east of the country. i had a home free thanks for joining me police in hong kong say that they will fully investigate the death of a university student who reportedly fell from a building during clashes between police and protesters demonstrators have made a memorial and have been holding a vigil near the site where the student was found the events leading up to the instant are unclear but it is believed that this student fell from a multistory car park off to police fired tear gas during a protest last weekend the student was taken to the hospital later died. and protests leader joshua wong has responded to the death of the student here's what he had to say. good morning together and we urge hall of people wear black issue to get our today and tomorrow we show our side darkie and unity and no

away a people when everything changes that's our focus today on mate we start in the eastern german city of the one thing that hasn't changed there is the construction of cars a tradition dating back to 9904 it's where the iconic truck was produced in the days of communist east germany. took over the company in 1900 modernize the plant now it's really engineering the business one small to make electric cars joining a revolution of a different type the green push towards a mobility something good for the planet this time as opposed to the trouble which is germans waited years to get their hands on and despite conjuring up feelings of nostalgia really did stick. this 2 stroke engine belongs to a church and it's a car you would have seen all over the east german roads 30 years ago and said trickles that it's a very practical vehicle when so good you could repair pretty much everything yourself from the belts and the commission coils to spark plugs you could access everything and fix it fast this was the 1st car i had as a student. these days you can find the so-called troubles in a mus

germany and some people embrace the opportunities others said it was quite hard so tell us what this anniversary means for them well i think a lot of people will find it hard to join in the celebrations you know there's no doubt saying that germany today will democratic place than come. honest east germany ever was but 989 thought he changes for many people for many people in the east it meant the end of the country that they'd grown up in where they understood the system where they knew how to get on and suddenly they found themselves struggling to come to terms with the capitalist system in some cases you had west germans and other foreigners turning up and telling people how to live their lives and making big decisions about for instance the future of businesses and of course not everybody thrived and indeed in line with that there's a survey out just this week saying that around hearth of eastern germans believe that they're less free now to express their opinions than they would in communist east germany and that's along with the impression that many east germans have or eastern