A while if you start too 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. 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 youre 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 would have immediately fired shots. At the force of. Dozens of people died in this way along the berlin wall its still not clear just how many the regime ruthlessly punished anyone who tried to flee. Nevertheless mr continued to help more than 30 people escape by smuggling them into west germany in the trunk of his car he was caught again and spent 5 years in prison before being bought out by the western governments he now gives tours in his former prison often for schoolchildren he thinks young people should learn that east germany was a tele tarion a state. Secret. Mentioned if you can see that young people are aware and interested thats why i do this its good to see you out of a sense of conviction by kman you will always be like that before. That stealing is how tartlet reached your overcome the brutality of the stasi the east German Secret Police now hes able to tell the story as one of those who paid a price for wanting freedom. Of choice. Is force there isnt any murray has played his 1st singles match after having career saving surgery in january but he has since decided he will not compete in the u. S. Singles open later this month the former world number one based france is in cincinnati losing in straight sets 6464 murray had been asked to make a decision on accepting a wild card for the u. S. Open prior to that match the brits and says he will he still in his play doubles and mixed doubles at the grand slam in new york which starts on the 26th the. Well today is International Left handers day to day is designed to raise awareness of the difficulties left handed people face in a right handed world but for athletes like tennis star rafael nadal playing left handed may be an advantage the doll is one of the greatest tennis players of all time a lot of his dominance put down to the fact that hes a left hander but this is the twist in the donalds case he does Everything Else with this writes him from signing autographs to brushing his teeth its on play left handed as a child. Well as the howard from the every sport say lefty himself is here to talk about left handers good to see i think so tell us do left handed athletes really have an advantage statistically yes research is went looking for the 1st of whatever i has told us sports fans for many years that lefties seem to be. Overrepresented in sport generally speaking but also at the very top level and you can reel off some of the greatest names of all time the legends whether by bruce monica seles wang great ski from moscow he never had a lover in tennis Nadal Mcenroe the list goes on and on and on in terms of the research and person all started to point towards tennis by School Baseball in particular just the one off 10 percent of the population a left hand has been in baseball its 30 percent of both sides program and so its very very prevalent and its pretty profitable so statistically left handers do we know why lefties have an advantage so luckily someone did look into this for us a study published in the among the biology letters on the Royal Society website pointed to tennis and by spall the common how would he bring that theyd sports and that the secret here is that the lefties the forcing the right hand is to make a quick decision on the time pressure of this thing Something Different in the brain has to tell them as quickly as possible to deal with that play a shot do what you can in a short amount of time so its a its a timeshare jule thing its a different angle and its really showing them something unfamiliar and forcing them to make a quick decision and thats where theyve got the advantage in baseball and. Special training them for a left handed players in these sports where they might excel just keep it cool and let the magic happens very little time to some of the opposite ends of the world thats up to the broth and is trying as to how to deal with a left hand before Roger Federer applied rafa nadal he had to search out a left handed tennis upon a just so he can familiarize himself really quickly with the different look its really important i can get in the vantage even of the greats like federer i have to deal with it so tennis and baseball very important i suppose doesnt make much difference though in soccer. To use your hands and i think our food over sports thanks so much. Youre watching the news from berlin and business is next one of the main stories there argentinas currency and Financial Markets are plummeting because of cover ill be here to tell you all about but much more course ill be back at the top of the next hour i mean all of us thanks for. Come off to the mile runs out. Of the gulf states around declaring a profound economic transformation. That Energy Research and education meant to be the new sources of prosperity but such changes will inevitably also bring new ways of thinking living life after coming. In 45 minutes. I believe. That. I think is everything challenging 1st and im big on the slim. Saw much different culture between here and there challenging